Autumn Breathing

The **Autumn Breathing** (秋の呼吸, *Aki no kokyū*?) is a Breathing Styles derived from the Wind Breathing.

The Autumn Breathing Style mimics fall nature and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques, and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve quick, calm multiple slashes initiated from various stances. Users that have mastered Autumn Breathing visualize themselves seemingly creating a beautiful scenery of the fall season when unleashing its techniques.

This Breathing Style is the personal creation of Ember Shimotsuki (霜月 アンバー), who designed it since she couldn’t learn any breathing style, so she created her own. Hence, these breathing forms can only be performed if the user has calm, gentle and quick movements.

## Techniques

**First Form: Maple Slash:** (壱ノ型: カエデのスラッシュ)- Ichi no kata: Kaede no surasshu - The user leaps upwards and will prepare to land at bird sky view of the demon and make a slash to behead it.

**Second Form: Flowing Autumn:** (弐ノ型: 流れる秋)- Ni no kata: Nagareru aki - The user leaps and does a quick 360 degrees turn and swings its katana which is a quick attack that creates powerful single concentrated slash.

**Third Form: Fallen Tear:** (参ノ型: 倒れた涙)- San no kata: Taoreta namida - The user will do a circular slash that will cut very deeply the demon’s limbs first than with the final blow going directly to behead the demon.

**Fourth Form: Null Life:** (​​肆ノ型: 空白生活)- Shi no kata: Kūhaku seikatsu - The user makes two accurate and rapid consecutive stabs.

**Fifth Form: Pure Sundry:** (伍ノ型: 純粋諸)- Go no kata: Junsui moro - The user makes multiple incredibly quick slashes with the mimics of autumn leaves from different angles and pressure points.

**Sixth Form: Bloomed Dahlias:** (陸ノ型: 咲いたダリア)- Roku no kata: Saita daria - The user dashes to approach the demon and pull out it’s katana to make a zig-zag katana slash.

**Seventh Form: Golden Twirl:** (漆ノ型: 黄金色捻くる)- Shinchi no kata: Kogane hine kuru - The user makes multiple – usually around 10 – consecutive attacks while moving in circles around the target. The opponent will feel as if a storm of blade-sharp leaves is surrounding the demon.

**Eighth Form: Blank Mind:** (捌ノ型: 空ろ精神)- Hachi no kata: Utsuro seishin - The user will look like they disappeared (but is actually moving really fast) and will at that every moment the user will make a incredibly strong slash that beheads the demon.

**Ninth Form: Perish from Existence:** (玖ノ型: 存在から滅びる)- Ku no kata: Sonzai kara horobiru - The user will leap from one side to another and behead the demon without them knowing when they are at the other side of the demon.

**Tenth Form: Zenith of Climax:** (​​拾ノ型: 天頂の絶頂)- Jū no kata: Tenchō no zetchō - The user will make uppercut slices when leaping from left to right.

**Eleventh Form: Merry Change:** (拾壱ノ型: 楽しげ変化)- Jū ichi no kata: Tanoshi-ge henka - The user will do a direct stab and later swing it to the side left to right which will behead the demon effortlessly.

**Final Form- Saigo Momiji: \*** (終ノ型: 最後紅葉)- Tsui no kata: Saigo Momiji - The user will fully concentrate, standing very still and does a very swift slash that beheads the demon.

***\*Saigo Momiji (最後紅葉) means Last Autumn Leaf***