[Sesshomaru angry, even just a little, is a slightly terrifying sight. He was a daiyoukai, he could become a beastly canine apparently so large he'd dwarf a forest clearing...

But though jinba had certain instincts that were even now making her coat hairs stand on end, sending a shiver down the line of tufty mane connecting the blend of upper and lower spine... they also had human brains to regulate things like fight or flight, and Konoha doesn't budge, shaking her head stubbornly.]

I'm already involved. I told them about you as a demon who doesn't eat humans... and I told you about them as demon slayers now... so if they don't listen to me and it comes to fighting, that's my responsibility.

[She... thinks? But that's what she's going with, spine ramrod straight as she tightens her shoulders and stiffens her upper lip.]

I'm not smart about a lot of things... but you haven't tricked me.

[Had he?]

I don't want to lie and say you did. I have Gonta... and I have myself, and that's if it comes to that. If.

[And Konoha might be naive, she might be too trusting... but she doesn't see Sesshomaru's current conclusions and hypotheticals as realistically as she does. Not now.]