Vermithor Style/Two Sword Style

**❝** *That’s right. I practice the Vermithor Style. For the record, I won’t use the Vermithor Style unless I have to. I’ve been trying to develop my own.. I just want to create the ultimate fighting style. With the basis of the Vermithor Style.* **❞** *— Vhagar introduces the fighting style.*

## Statistics

### Fighting Style Focus:

Swords; Stances

**Two Sword Style** is a unique fighting style that Vermithor D. Vhagar developed over the course of his journey out of a desire to accomplish his goals. Vhagar prefers to use this fighting style first to try and develop it and switch to the typical Vermithor Style only as required. Instead of one sword, this fighting style as the name suggests, incorporates two. Similarly, it prioritizes strength to supplement using three stances. Despite having only a single instance of experience with this style, Vhagar has incredible mastery over it. Similarly, Vhagar incorporates all three stances into his attacks in unison with one another for more flexible and overall greater attacks. Because Ace is heavily involved with this Swordsmanship Style, Vhagar consistently uses elemental-based attacks.

## Techniques

The following are the attacks Vhagar uses with Two Swords, as he incorporates the very basics of his original Vermithor Style to use them. Often, each technique will in some variety use the **Dragon's Wing Stance**, **Phoenix's Flight Stance**, and **Serpent's Coil Stance**. However unlike the original, Vhagar is not losing strength while using the techniques and instead retains his full capacity of strength. This allows him to augment the power of his techniques by only taking the necessary aspects of the stances.

* **Minakami Jōshō** (水上上昇, *Minakami Jōshō*, literally meaning "Rise on the Water"): First Vhagar flips into the air by backflipping, typically as a way to avoid incoming attacks. Then, while upside down and using Ace to absorb water if it doesn't have enough, he delivers two downward slashes. This causes Ace to fire off a large wave of water toward his target, which is then sent down faster and with more force thanks to also swinging Snow Flower, resulting in a small shockwave to propel it forward. This was first used by Vhagar to counter Whisper's Mūnken attack. This is considered a **Stage 2** technique.

* **Roku no Kata** (６の方, *Roku no Kata*, literally meaning "Six Ways/Forms"): First Vhagar dashes toward his opponent while rotating his body in an uppercut motion. Holding onto his swords, he lets Snow Flower charge him with hatred and has Ace release both water and lightning at the same time, delivering an arcing slash toward his target. The lightning makes the attack slightly faster, with the water increasing its power and the hatred increasing every other attribute along with those. Roku no Kata can also be translated as "Six Persons", making it the first reference of people in a technique's name. This was first used by Vhagar to send Whisper skidding back and slightly breaking through his natural defenses. This is considered a **Stage 2** technique.

* **Ten no Mai** (天 の 米, *Ten no Mai*, literally meaning "Dance of Heaven"): First Vhagar dashes toward his target before releasing lightning from Ace in order to increase his swinging speed and efficiency. He then delivers a vertical slash toward his target. Just before the attack concludes, he finishes it with a horizontal slash toward his target as well. This technique was first used by Vhagar to attack Whisper, forcing Whisper to use Haki to defend against it. Ten no Mai can also be translated to "Heaven's Rice/Rice of Heaven", making it the first food-pun originated technique. This is considered a **Stage 2** technique.

## History

### Past

Vhagar spoke of developing his own style while taking on Snow Flower's trials as a child.

### Clockship Island Arc

Vhagar stated that he would defeat Golatzar with his own version of the Vermithor Style, showing he still had the intention of eventually developing his own.

### Shadows of the North Blue Event

Vhagar fully revealed his commitment to developing his own version of the Vermithor Style by using Two Swords for the first time, developing several techniques during his battle against Whisper and getting used to Two Sword Style in the process. While he did not defeat Whisper with this style, he was pretty close to doing so.

## Trivia

* This is one of the few advancements and fighting style developments that occured during an event instead of over the course of a Story Saga.
* The functions of this Fighting Style is similar to, though drastically different from, Zoro's Two Sword Style, and is a tribute to that through this.
* The usage of the elements is not fully required for this style, instead only augmenting the effects of the attacks and increasing them. Though using the elements is the only way the techniques have been shown thus far, implying that the techniques are far more powerful with the elements than without.