Madame Exorcist

was an admittedly mediocre exorcist who first appears exorcising a demon in a field. She helps Inuyasha and his group in cleansing a castle of an evil demon head which plagues its residents. She later runs into Inuyasha and his friends again and they work together to confront an "invisible" demon who is stealing from wealthy townspeople. Although Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Kagome and Shippō all believe the female exorcist to be a fraud, apparently, with the fallout from the destruction of Mount Hakurei, demons flooded out to wreak havoc on the people of Japan. This created a sizable demand for Madame Exorcist's services, and she tells them that she was forced to come out of retirement and has been kept quite busy by the large work load.

Personality
Madame Exorcist is a very vivacious old woman, who is highly aggressive towards demons and engages in every job she takes on with boundless energy. As an elderly person, she considers it her duty to criticize young people like Inuyasha and his friends, who she views as being inexperienced and naive. However, they view her as naive in turn, due to her inability to sense demonic auras and being an altogether questionably effective exorcist. Nevertheless, Madame Exorcist gets along very well with them, and is very social, though she has a bad habit of spraying Inuyasha with her salt whenever he does something she finds disagreeable. She also teases Sango and Miroku about their relationship.

Despite the view by Inuyasha's group that she is a fraud, Madame Exorcist apparently is unaware of her relative mediocrity, and genuinely believes that she is a legitimate and effective exorcist. Normal humans also are unaware that she is not a very capable exorcist, and one way or another she always earns her fee. Madame Exorcist has a genuine interest in helping people, and she believes that it is her duty and destiny to travel the country exorcising demons. Nevertheless, she also enjoys making money, and her apparent sincerity in helping people is buttressed by her robust profit-seeking tendencies. In light of her inability to use her spiritual powers effectively, her remarkable financial success as an exorcist leaves Inuyasha and his friends continually baffled.

Powers & Abilities
Despite her negligible spiritual powers, not even being able to sense evil auras, Madame Exorcist has a certain level of competency that inadvertently makes her a useful exorcist.


 * Spiritual powers: Despite the fact that Madame Exorcist has shown almost no skill in using her powers, she was immune to the paralyzing spell of the Oni's head, even though both Miroku and Sango were. If Madame Exorcist was truly a fraud, this would not be possible. The likely explanation is that though Madame Exorcist lacks spiritual perception, she herself is able to thwart demonic energy, rendering herself "blind" to it, which has equally positive and negative effects on her efficiency as an exorcist. While her spiritual "blindness" means she cannot sense demonic auras or sense where demons might be hiding, she is remarkably unaffected by them. When Inuyasha and company arrive at Demon's Head Castle, the aura is so thick that it actually affects the mood of the group; Madame Exorcist, by contrast, remains in good spirits and says she senses nothing, baffling Inuyasha and his friends. Demonic powers also therefore do not affect her. In someways, it could be considered that Madame Exorcist's spiritual powers create a sort "barrier" around herself that prevents demonic energy from affecting her, but as a consequence, her powers remain locked inside, and her offensive capabilities as an exorcist are muted, though her resistance is impeccable.
 * Weapons: Madame Exorcist carries around a staff with many bells on top of it. Like Miroku's it could do significant damage to demons if it makes contact. However, despite her being in vigorous health for her age, she seems to have little proficiency in combat. She also carried around salt ash that could stun weak demons temporarily; if infused with greater spiritual power, such as by Miroku, it can be as powerful as a sacred sutra.

江湖术士 Exorcista