The Gyōja (行者, "Ascetic") are the orphans raised by Goryōmaru trained to be demon hunters after the parents of the children were killed by demons. They killed demons and took their bodies to their master. Despite how they want to help people, by slaying demons, they apparently attack any random demon, indiscrimantly as they killed both innocent and evil, they can find and would go as far as to attack humans in order to achieve their goal; this was shown as they had nearly tried to kill Kagome, when their target was Inuyasha, and threaten to kill Kagome if she stood in their way.