Riku reveals that eighteen years before, he had the demon jeweler Hösenki the Second to create a second Black Pearl using the late Lady Izayoi's reassembled rouge, which contain her tears of grief for Töga's death, and can create a path to his graveside. Hösenki then gives the Pearl and the rouge to Inuyasha and Kagome respectively, with Inuyasha placing the Pearl inside his right eye for safekeeping. In Kaede's hut, a teenage Rin gives birth to Towa and Setsuna...