Mist Breathing

**Mist Breathing** (霞の呼吸, *Kasumi no Kokyū*?) is a Breathing Style derived from Wind Breathing.

## Overview

Mist Breathing is a Breathing Style that mimics mist, specifically the obscurity of mist, and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve swift strikes and movements performed in a unique pattern that obscures the opponent's senses and surroundings as if the battlefield were enveloped in mist. Users of Mist Breathing also visualize themselves seemingly creating and manipulating mist when unleashing its techniques.

Mist Breathing was created by Mokaro Kuze who attempted to learn Sun Breathing from Yoriichi Tsugikuni. However, Mokaro was unable to master it, so Yoriichi taught him and Takeshi Hayate a modified style that focused on rotating offensive movements (it became Wind Breathing later). Mokaro modified it further into a style that focused on swift strikes and movements performed in a unique pattern that obscures the opponent's senses and surroundings as if the battlefield were enveloped in mist. He named this style after this feature. Thus, Mist Breathing was born.

Based on Mist Breathing's known and recorded user, Muichiro Tokito, who wears baggy clothing that covers his arms and legs in order to obscure his movements, it can be assumed that most other users would also have to don clothing that hide their limbs from their enemy in order to fully maximize the potential of this Breathing Style.

After the death of Muzan Kibutsuji, Mist Breathing, like Sun Breathing and the other Breathing Styles, became a ritual dance known as the **Kirinokami Kagura** (霧の神 神楽, *Kirinokami Kagura*?, lit. "Dance of the Mist God"). It was done by an individual in the Demon Slayer Corps.

## Weaponry used with this Breathing Style

Most known users of the Mist Breathing have wielded Nichirin swords whose blade is white in color (#beebeb color code).

## Techniques

Mist Breathing originally has 6 known forms and techniques, and a seventh one created and only utilized by the current Mist Hashira, Muichiro Tokito.

* **First Form: Low Clouds, Distant Haze** (壱ノ型: 垂天遠霞, *Ichi no kata: Suiten Tōgasumi*?) - The user performs a singular and powerful frontal thrust.
* **Second Form: Eight-Layered Mist** (弐ノ型: 八重霞, *Ni no kata: Yaekasumi*?) - The user performs eight slashes in quick succession.
* **Third Form: Scattering Mist Splash** (参ノ型: 霞散の飛沫, *San no kata: Kasan no Shibuki*?) - The user performs a powerful and swift circular slash that can blow away incoming projectiles.
* **Fourth Form: Shifting Flow Slash** (肆ノ型: 移流斬り, *Shi no kata: Iryūgiri*?) - The user takes a low stance before dashing toward the target and slashing them.
* **Fifth Form: Sea of Clouds and Haze** (伍ノ型: 霞雲の海, *Go no kata: Kaun no Umi*?) - The user charges at their target at blistering speeds while performing dozens of slashes in front and/or around them.
* **Sixth Form: Lunar Dispersing Mist** (陸ノ型: 月の霞消, *Roku no kata: Tsuki no Kashō*?) - The user leaps into the air and performs a multitude of slashes in a somersaulting motion, decimating dozens of targets at once.
* **Seventh Form: Obscuring Clouds** (漆ノ型: 朧, *Shichi no kata: Oboro*?) - The personal creation of Muichiro Tokito. A movement-based technique designed to heavily disorientate the target, which is done so by fluctuating the user's tempo. When the user appears before the target, they move incredibly slow, but then accelerate to blistering speeds before getting hit, making it seem like they disappeared into a cloud of mist. When done repeatedly, it can disorientate the target to the point of making them think they are being covered in a thick layer of mist.