Seikai, Kikyo and others in “Unfinished Business”

Are you unable to cross over? You are dead, young priestess. You must now pass to the Netherworld.

Kikyo

Will you not overlook my presence here? I merely wish to live in peace in this small village.

If you wish to live in peace, then why must you gather souls of the dead?

Kikyo

...I have reasons.

You require those souls in order to sustain that body of yours! [He lifts a seal shaped like a coiled dragon]

Kikyo

What action will you take? I take it you won't leave.

I shall return you to where you belong!! I shall do it for your sake! [A burst of exorcising energy fires from the seal, striking Kikyo and coiling around her in the form of a dragon] You cannot escape this demon-binding spell of mine!! I shall extinguish your light and save your soul from eternal misery!!

Kikyo

"Save me!?" A wretch such as you attempts to save my soul!?

Kikyo

You would've done better to leave me be, and not end your life.

[weakly] Priestess... tell me what your purpose is. Time continues for the living; they carve their futures with each passing moment. However, for the dead such as yourself, time stands still. Thus, the dead and the living cannot reside together. And yet... you insist on trying... How tragic.

Kikyo

[thinking] Tragic, you say? I am tragic?! [she hears someone behind her and spins around] Who goes?!

Kikyo

[softly] Sayo. Were you... did you witness that? [she approaches her and kneels in front of her] Sayo? [she reaches out to touch her face, but Sayo flinches away]... Forgive me. I did not mean for you to see such a sight.

...Wait, Kikyo!

Kikyo

Farewell, Sayo. Please forgive me.