Fanged Snake Style

**Fanged Snake Style** (蛇組手(へびぐみしゅ), *lit. "Snake Fist"*?) Is the fighting style created by Orochi Yamata, when he acquired a human body with Living Corpse Reincarnation, and needed a way to get stronger. It was an amalgamation of the martial arts such as Baguazhang, Kyushojitsu, and Defendu.

## Usage

Orochi uses this fighting style for the basis of his means of defense, keeping him without a weapon so as to allow him an easier chance at defending and taking action. It is a fighting style that aims at vital weak points like the forehead, throat, heart and spine, each strike launched with extreme precision and quick speed to the point where he can deliver three fatal strikes in a single breath. He has a policy of always attempting to deliver deathblows to the opponent, so those that can move even without heed of things like destroyed heads or spines require him to change his tactics to disabling their limbs.

Orochi takes full advantage of his flexibility as a snake and having his arms act like whips while quickly moving at unexpected right angles in order to keep it from having a concrete shape. He keeps his arms and stance steady like a rock while waiting to strike, and he is able quickly close in without revealing any hints as to how he advanced. His arms quickly extend, and his forearms move even more quickly from that point to strike with his fingers. The strikes come from the outside to the inside, the swinging arms changing direction using the elbow as the fulcrum to strike from impossible directions. He can easily strike the back of the head from a very close distance completely unbeknownst to the target. Even if that strike is seen through, he can easily alter the circular orbit of the path into a straight line directed from above to smash down on their head. He can quickly reach through an opponent's guard to strike them with the "serpent's fangs", and then use the "body of the snake", an elbow, to deal an additional blow.

Each strike is accurately aimed at the target's vital points and weak spots, and under Bismuth's reinforcement, they can damage Grigori bluntly through his natural body armor to directly target the core of his body. They are heavy and rapid in their intensity, rendering them almost invisible to an unexpecting fighter, but they are not an instant kill to someone like Rimuru. They are dull and sharp, and contain a poison that will lead to death, allowing him to go for the kill if the opponent even drops their guard for a second. Dodging the attacks does little, as his fists are "live snakes" capable of changing path to come back to the target. Renard Jester was damaged badly because he has the reflexes to dodge the strikes, thus he got repeatedly "bitten", differing from someone like Rokuro who cannot see the fists and does not posses the reflexes to dodge them. He can only desperately parry and receive glazing blows.

Orochi |Hassan]] and catch an invisible sword horizontally slashing at him with only his elbow and knee.

The main idea of the style is to give away the idea of him being a Majin. While the blows are strong, they are too odd and easily seen through if the opponent is not confused, showing the difference between a "technique" that is trained to an art and an "action" that is trained to the utmost limits. Catching Renard's blade and striking him in the back of the head unsettles him greatly due to his belief that Orochi was just a normal majin and his inability to understand the nature of such techniques.

It can also inflict internal damage through attacking the body's organ network, subsequently injuring organs which are closely intertwined with the area of the network which has been struck. To do this, Orochi surgically injects a certain amount of aura into the opponent's body, and manipulating it in a manner similar to Aura Slash, causing damage to surrounding organs. Even the slightest tap can caue severe internal damage, muscle paralysis, and knocking out a target in a single strike.