Miroku is a low-ranking, itinerant monk; Miroku traveled the countryside performing services such as exorcisms and demon exterminations to earn his living. He suffers from a hereditary curse originally inflicted upon his grandfather Miyatsu (also a Buddhist monk) by Naraku. The curse created a hole in his hand that became wind tunnel which sucks in anything not nailed down, regardless of mass. However, absorbing poisons harms him, a fact Naraku takes advantage of by creating highly poisonous insects whose presence prevents Miroku from using his wind tunnel on Naraku or his allies. Miroku uses the wind tunnel as a powerful weapon against demon but if the curse is not broken (by defeating Naraku), it will grow too large to control and consume Miroku himself. Miroku is a talented con artist who does not hesitate to invent fictitious supernatural menaces which he can then offer to combat in return for food and shelter, and he has a distinct weakness for pretty single women. He makes a point of asking every attractive woman he meets if she will bear his child, and he habitually strokes the buttocks of attractive women. He also eventually proposes to Sango, though this does little to curb his flirtations with other women.
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When Miroku’s friends need his help he wont hesitate to step in