Goshinki
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Goshinki (悟心鬼) is a character in the anime and manga series InuYasha.
The third detachment of Naraku, Goshinki was a large horned ogre yōkai with the ability to read minds. He was extremely agile, very powerful, and had teeth so strong they ultimately broke the Tessaiga, which ended up being his own undoing.
Goshinki's task was to slaughter an entire village to lure the badly wounded InuYasha there. Using his ability to read minds, he countered InuYasha's every attack, eventually seizing the Tessaiga in his fangs and shattering it into pieces. Though InuYasha was near death, the absence of the Tessaiga allowed InuYasha's yōkai blood to take over, making it so Goshinki was unable to read InuYasha's mind and allowing him to be easily slaughtered.
In a later chapter, InuYasha's half-brother Sesshomaru (Sesshōmaru) has an evil sword named Tōkijin crafted by Kaijinbo (Kaijinbō) (or Kijin-bo in some romanizations) from Goshinki's fangs.