Insect Breathing

Insect Breathing (の) is a Breathing Style derived from Flower Breathing.

Description
Insect Breathing is a Breathing Style that mimics insects, specifically their lethal stings and movements, and replicates it with user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms include stabbing, thrusting, and making shallow cuts with a specially coated/made sword to inflict multiple wounds onto the intended target in order to inject various lethal Wisteria-based poisons into them. Users that have mastered Insect Breathing visualize themselves seemingly creating magical insects when unleashing its techniques.

This Breathing Style is the personal creation of Shinobu Kocho, who designed it to compensate for her lack of physical strength to behead a Demon. Hence, this sword style can only be utilized by her and only using a unique katana with a needle-like tip, resembling an insect's stinger in appearance and function. The "stinger" is designed for injection of Wisteria poisons into Demons.

Known Techniques
Insect Breathing has 4 known techniques and forms at minimum.


 * Butterfly Dance: Caprice (ノ れ) - The user leaps into the air and charges towards the opponent and stings them multiple times with her blade to inject poison.


 * Dance of the Bee Sting: True Flutter (ノ き) - The user dashes at their target at blinding speeds and uses the momentum of their speed to then strengthen a single thrust into their opponent and inject poison into them.


 * Dance of the Dragonfly: Compound Eye Hexagon (ノ) - A six strike attack with which the user aims to strike and inject their target with multiple doses of poison at the target's weak spots (such as the neck, heart, torso, etc.) in order to kill them with a large dose of poison.


 * Dance of the Centipede: Hundred-Legged Zigzag (ノ) - An attack with which the user uses their full speed to run a zigzag pattern that confuses their opponent in order to create an opening for them to directly stab their opponent's neck and inject poison to kill them, with the stab's force and power being further enhanced by the momentum of their speed. Doma noted that the sheer speed of this technique is strong enough to destroy an entire wooden bridge.

Game Exclusive Techniques

 * Butterfly Dance: Caprice, Illusory Light (ノ れ・) - The user unleashes a barrage of straight short thrusts with their sword and leaps into the air while transforming into a gigantic butterfly before slamming their blade straight into the ground, cracking the surrounding terrain and creating a massive crater in its wake.

Demonstrations

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