Miroku's Past Mistake
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| “Miroku's Past Mistake” | |
|---|---|
| InuYasha episode | |
| Episode no. | Season - Episode 161 |
| Written by | Ai Ota, Akinori Endo, Katsuhiko Chiba, Katsuyuki Sumisawa, Masashi Ikeda, Takashi Yamada, Tetsuko Takahashi |
| Production no. | IY128 |
| Original airdate | October 13, 2003 |
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Miroku's Past Mistake (Japanese: - 弥勒法師昔のあやま昔ち - Miroku-houshi Mukashi no Ayamachi) is the 161st episode of the anime series InuYasha and originally aired in Japan on September 2, 2004.
[edit] Summary
Inuyasha's group approach to where a plaguing cat-fish demon, to whom a man is praying, as he did previously to cure his former sickly daughter, Shima, at the shrine of the demon. He recognizes Miroku as the monk who helped Shima's cure and promised to take her as wife. This angers Sango, but she is reassured by Miroku as a reply to her inquest for honesty. Inside the home, Shima greets Miroku, who also greets back in a reminisced memory.
Shima has been in patient waiting for Miroku since his promise and help. She is again in desperate need of it; a cat-fish demon known as the Master of the Lake is decided on marrying her. He speaks reasonably with her family to resolve, but the only resolve they would accept is for him to marry her, for the demon will only take a pure virgin as his bride. Sango is by this time only outwardly assured. Soon, they are greeted by the cat-fish demon. He persists in the marriage despite Inuyasha's induce against it for the sake of Shima's reluctance.
Shima's father then remembers his vow for anything in return of Shima's cure for her former sickness, which ascertained of the demon's right. Shima then kneels before the demon, of her apology for her impurity in an affair with Miroku. Both of the unwanted side are shocked, displayed with a lightning. Sango however invariably does not reprimand Miroku.
The demon in contrary, is angered, and tranforms. When Miroku calls for Sango's partnership to subdue the demon, the silently seething Sango coldly refuse. She doubts Miroku's care, demonstrated as she tells him not to follow her in her running, that she has no interests to his words. The demon, subdued by Inuyasha, suddenly fetches Shima, stating that the marriage is to continue as she is forgiven. Sango, sighting at her position near the lake of Shima's danger, saves her just as Miroku calls out to Sango, who, convinced that Miroku only cares to save Shima ignores as the distraction spares for the demon to victimise her.
Miroku attempts to save Sango from the demon, who believes certainly of making Sango his bride and that Miroku will not be able to follow him in the water. Miroku solves this by releasing his Wind Tunnel, draining the water of the lake. As the demon is punished by Miroku angrily confronting it for attempting to thieve "his woman", the demon laments that it is unjust that Miroku possesses a number of mistresses unlike him. When Sango is of his attention, she walks away, seemingly angry. Yet as Miroku pleads to Sango to listen, a satisfactory happiness spreads across her face, which is confirmed more as Shima confesses later that everything was a lie, in hope to prevent the marriage with the demon.
But as Shippo later objects of why Miroku could not speak more quickly the truth, and if he had something that was in his guilty conscience, he fails to answer. Sango, immediately annoyed by his stupefaction, repeats the question. Miroku never answers, his face perspiring, hinting that the real answer lay only in concerns of the past.
