Moon Breathing

The **Moon Breathing** (月の呼吸 *Tsuki no kokyū*) is a Breathing Style derived from Sun Breathing.

## Description

Moon Breathing is a Breathing Style that mimics the moon and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms are standard yet varied swordsmanship techniques that focus on swift and powerful strikes that always follow the shape and pattern of a crescent moon. Due to this Breathing Styles' great variation in techniques, this swordsmanship form as a great blend of offense and defense, most similar to Sun Breathing.And He invented the Fourth, Eleventh and Fifteenth Forms for himself.

## Techniques

* **First Form: Dark Moon, Evening Palace** (闇月・宵の宮 *Yamidzuki - Yoi no Miya*) - Mizuteru quickly draws his sword and slashes swiftly in a singular horizontal motion in a crescent shape, creating numerous chaotic crescent blades. This technique is extremely reminiscent of Iaijutsu.
* **Second Form: Pearl Flower Moongazing** (珠華ノ弄月 *Shuka no Rōgetsu*) - Mizuteru performs several crescent-shaped slashes that defend him from incoming attacks, sending a barrage of crescent blades.
* **Third Form: Loathsome Moon, Chains** (厭忌月・銷り *Enkidzuki - Tsugari*) - Mizuteru swings his sword rapidly in two gigantic crescent slashes, from which a storm of smaller crescents spread, causing huge destruction in a small area.
* **Fourth Form: Evening Moon, Reversal** (夕方の月・逆転 *Yūgata no tsuki - Gyakuten*) - Mizuteru sends several simultaneous attacks that curve behind him from the front in the shapes of crescent moons. The initial crescent slashes would be used to deflect an incoming attack, and redirect it behind himself.
* **Sixth Form: Perpetual Night, Lonely Moon - Incessant** (常夜孤月・無間 *Tokoyo Kogetsu - Muken*) - Mizuteru releases a wild barrage of crescent-shaped slashes several meters in front of him. This technique was powerful enough to overwhelm Ryoga Shindai and so long-ranged that it slices up the surrounding pillars.
* **Eighth Form: Moon-Dragon Ringtail** (月龍輪尾 *Getsuryū Rinbi*) - Mizuteru uses the gigantic version of his sword and creates a singular gigantic crescent-shaped slash that slowly decreases in size, creating dozens of crescent moon blades.
* **Eleventh Form: Eclipse - Augmenting Moon** (日食・月の増強 *Nisshoku - tsuki no zōkyō*) - Mizuteru produces a long ranged slash wave horizontally to cut down foes from a distance, and then brings his sword back and forth at blinding speed to generate an extending barrage of long ranged crescent slashes straight ahead. This attack would mow down multiple enemies at once with multiple layered slashes from a huge range.
* **Fourteenth Form: Catastrophe, Tenman Crescent Moon** (型兇変・天満繊月 *Kyōhen - Tenman Sengetsu*) - Mizuteru uses the gigantic version of his sword and creates a chaotic vortex of powerful extremely long-ranged omni-directional slashes that destroys whatever is caught up within its attack radius
* **Fifteenth Form: Solemn Peel, Distant Moon** (厳粛な皮、遠い月 *Genshukuna kawa, tōi tsuki*) - Mizuteru slashes several times into the air to generate a series of huge moon shaped slashes that curve upward so the fork of the crescent shapes pointed down. The motions of his blade would send these crescent slashes barreling toward opponents at nearly any distance in such a way that they would be stabbed, and slashed by the crescent moons prongs.
* **Sixteenth Form: Moonbow, Half Moon** (型月虹・片割れ月 *Katawaredzuki*) - Possibly **Moon Breathing**'s most powerful technique. Mizuteru creates a barrage of downward crescent slashes from an extremely long and wide range, resulting in a powerful six-fold slash crashing down on his opponents; the attack itself is powerful enough to create several miniature craters where the slashes have landed.