Serpent Breathing

The Serpent Breathing (の) is a Breathing Style derived from the Water Breathing.

The Serpent Breathing combat and breathing style mimics serpents and snakes, specifically their movements and powerful bites, and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and swordsmanship. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms focuses on twisting and bending the sword like how a serpent slithers, the attacks are not direct and constantly meander which can ultimately strike anywhere. When used properly, the user visualizes white, reddish or purplish serpent(s) emanating from their weapon or parts of their body.

Since this technique is currently known to only be utilized by Obanai Iguro, it can only be used with a twisted blade that is similar in appearance to an Indonesian Kris Sword, with the sword's shape modeled into the bodily structure of a snake.

Techniques

 * 1) First Form: Winding Serpent Slash (ノ り) - Obanai moves like a slithering snake and releases several slashes in a winding pattern.
 * 2) Second Form: Venom Fangs of the Narrow Head  (ノ の) - Obanai dashes behind his opponent at blinding speed and lops off their head.
 * 3) Third Form: Coil Choke  (ノ め) - Obanai circles around his opponent while using his sword to slice them from all directions.
 * 4) Fourth Form: Twin-Headed Reptile (ノ) - Obanai leaps forward and performs a horizontal slash that slices through the target.
 * 5) Fifth Form: Slithering Serpent  (ノ) - Obanai curves his sword in multiple directions and slices his opponent, making it capable of decapitating multiple enemies at once.