Jaken recalls how fourteen years ago, an eighteen-year-old Rin had been approached by Lady Zero who had fatally cursed the wife of Sesshömaru via her binding spell coupled with a very rare thread of fate. Now that Kirinmaru's elder sister had had Rin as leverage over Sesshömaru, she demanded the know the whereabouts of their newborn twin daughters; without such information, her silver-scale curse would further spread throughout Rin's entire body to the point that she would be encased in silver scales and ultimately perish permanently...