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Moryomaru is one of Naraku's enemies. At first, he is merely a haku (life force) puppet, the more refined of various such creations made from yokai by Hakudoshi. As such, he had no true personality, soul or will. After a couple brief altercations alongside Hakudoshi against Koga and InuYasha's group, he is given to Kan'na, who places Akago inside of him (giving the puppet a soul, Naraku's). He is able to absorb the yoki (yokai "aura/smell") that all yokai possess and exert (making attacks based solely on yoki energy useless) and convert it into a powerful blast of energy which he releases from his arms (a technique he "lent" to Goryomaru while he was attached to him, chapters #356-366).
As far as personal essences go, he is actually Akago, the physical embodiment of Naraku's heart, and his yoki cannot be detected due to the Fuyoheki, a stone which completely masks the presence of any yoki near it. He has given a bit of trouble to InuYasha and Sesshomaru, since their attacks (the Kaze no Kizu and blasts from the Tokijin respectively) are based on yoki, and therefore far from harming him, result in making Moryomaru even stronger.
Kohaku eventually attempts to kill Moryomaru after Kagura tells him Moryomaru is after the shard of the Shikon no Tama in his back since his goal is Naraku's destruction, but fails, enabling Moryomaru to nearly steal the shard until Sango comes to his rescue. This in turn enables Moryomaru to flee from InuYasha and company.
As the story progresses, Moryomaru begins to increase more and more in power as he absorbs different kinds of yokai to gain their abilities. Here the main focus of the story begins to shift from finding and defeating Naraku, to stopping and destroying the growing Moryomaru. Moryomaru rarely appears before the group, instead he uses other powerful yokai (whom he plans to devour later) he influences to fight them. But after he revives the corpse of a Meioj�� (a turtle-like yokai) and it regains its armored shell, Moryomaru manipulates the creature into battling InuYasha and letting him strike it with his Kongosoha (Diamond Spear Blast) attack. He then absorbs the Meioj�� and the diamond shards, incorporating them into his body and thus gaining a powerful armored shell of his own: a defensive weapon. During the following battle, he nearly defeats an onslaught of most of Naraku's enemies which included Kikyo, Kohaku, Kagome, InuYasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo and even Sesshomaru. During this battle he broke Sesshomaru's sword Tokijin in the process. He only flees after nearly losing one of his shard of the Shikon no Tama. One might speculate that at this time Moryomaru had become even more powerful than Naraku as he was able to put up a fair fight against so many of his enemies which Naraku wasn't able to do even with the greatest portion of the Shikon Jewel in his possession. This difference in strength was also noted by Naraku himself in his conversation with Byakuya.
Later, after InuYasha gained the Senki from a Nikosen (for his Dragon-Scaled Tessaiga), Naraku sent Kanna to aid Moryomaru. He tried to absorb Ginka and Kinka, a pair of conjoined yokai brothers, as their blood would bond his armored shell together and prevent InuYasha's sword from damaging it. Though he succeeds in devouring Ginka, Kinka allowed InuYasha to absorb him with the Dragon-Scaled Tessaiga. The result is that when InuYasha used Kinka's power against Moryomaru, Ginka's power struck back from within the shell. This greatly weakened Moryomaru, and he flees. Soon after, Miroku suggested that Moryomaru will discard Ginka's body (since it's become a weakness), though whether this actually happens is never confirmed.
Some time later, Moryomaru became involved in a plot by Naraku, and tried to steal Koga's jewel shards for himself. However, he found himself at a disadvantage when InuYasha and Koga teamed up, with InuYasha using the Dragon-Scaled Tessaiga's new technique to weaken Moryomaru, then Koga using his Goraishi to break the surface of the armored shell. Even rearranging himself wasn't enough to save him: InuYasha broke through into Moryomaru's core and saw Akago. Before he could defeat the infant, InuYasha was flung out when Moryomaru grabbed an extra jewel shard from Kai, a younger yokai-wolf who was also caught up in Naraku's plan. With the shard in hand, Moryomaru escaped again, and reaffirmed his plan: to prove that he is superior to Naraku, just as Hakudoshi had intended to do until his death.
A few days later, Moryomaru was seen to have regenerated, and escaped both Koga and Kikyo, this time without fighting.
Later in InuYasha chapter 441, Naraku ends up absorbing the power of the Yomeiju, a yokai-tree whose power has yet to be actually revealed. Later he ends up running right into Moryomaru, who finished recovering from his fight with InuYasha and Koga. The jyaki or evil energy emanating from these two god like beings was so strong that when they met the forest below them and all life in it was annihilated by a huge amount of miasma even though they were only headed for each other. Both exchange banter with Naraku saying that Moryomaru can't kill him as long as his heart is within Moryomaru, while Moryomaru says that Naraku can't kill him either due to the same reason.
Chapter 442 continues with Moryomaru continuously destroying Naraku's body with the Kongosoha that he absorbed from InuYasha, while Naraku tries to absorb Moryomaru back into his flesh and reclaim his heart. Since Naraku can break through Moryomaru's armored shell, he continues to cover Moryomaru's body. When it all seemed finished, Moryomaru's tentacles pierced the flesh and instead Naraku's (surprised) face and his flesh are seen absorbed into Moryomaru instead. The chapter ends with Moryomaru, unharmed, saying "Naraku, I am the victor!", while the members of InuYasha's group look on in shock.
Chapter 445 shows that Naraku is still intact within Moryomaru, much to Akago's shock. In chapter 446 he absorbs Moryomaru from the inside, thus leading to Moryomaru's eventual death.
Physical Attacks
- Attacks using tentacles (later on uses tentacles covered in Kongosoha spears for protection)
- Has a right hand that acts as a giantic tentacle made of Kongosoha spears usually used to impale his opponents
- He seems to be able make spear-like formations on almost any part of his body
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