#ginkotsu

Meanwhile, Inuyasha and company are still hanging in there, with some help from a herbal antidote supplied by Shippou. Kirara looks to be recovering faster than the humans. However, they're going to need proper medical attention fast. Inuyasha decides they'd better look for a safe place to rest.

As Shippou points out, all this moving around is only speeding up the poison's circulation. To make matters even worse, Inuyasha realises that the Shichinintai have caught up with them. He tells Shippou to go on ahead with Kagome and the others. They're attacked by some frisbees of doom flying saw blades before they can get away.

The saw blades just happen to belong to Ginkotsu. Ginkotsu is... kind of a lot to take in. 😅 He's basically a clockwork-powered Sengoku Jidai cyborg, of sorts. If this is proving a bit too much for your suspension of disbelief, this essay has a pretty good overview of how all this might work. Alternatively, there's always the good old MST3K mantra:

If you're wondering how he eats or breathes

Or other science facts

You should tell yourself:

"it's just a show manga I really should relax"

Inuyasha blocks the blades just in time, only for them to return to Ginkotsu's backpack (they're attached to it with wires, as we'll see later). Shippou's pretty freaked out by Ginkotsu's appearance, whereas Inuyasha just adds to the Infamous Line count (we're currently on a solid 5). He's most definitely not in the mood for this shit.

Ginkotsu has a rather distinctive laugh: "gishi", which the fan translation translates as "gesh". He's also fairly chatty. The Viz translation makes his speech very slow and drawn-out, which is honestly harder to read than the near-constant laughing, imho. No gesh. 0/10 :p No, we're not doing a gesh count.

Inuyasha decides to fight first and ask questions later. Now that his companions are in serious trouble, his usual reluctance to use lethal force against humans is gone. He tells Kirara to get the others out of there.

Ginkotsu brings Kirara down with his metal arm's grappling hook before she can get away. Inuyasha tries to counter him with the Kaze no Kizu but Ginkotsu manages to stop his swing by tangling him up in his saw blades' wires. His aniki/brother (presumably Renkotsu) took care to warn him about Tessaiga in advance.

Ginkotsu shoots his cannon at Inuyasha to finish him off. Interestingly, Shippou recognises that he's using gunpowder, despite the Shichinintai being the only characters who use cannons and guns in the original manga. Gunpowder weapons, such as Chinese hand cannons, existed long before the Western arquebus and some of them were even imported to Japan, so it's not too farfetched for him to know about this. We'll see Renkotsu using a hand cannon later on in the manga.