Love Breathing

**Love Breathing** (恋 (こい) の呼 (こ) 吸 (きゅう) , *Koi no kokyū*?) is a Breathing Style derived from Flame Breathing.

## Overview

Love Breathing is a Breathing Style that is based on the emotion of love, and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques inculcate a gymnastic and movement-oriented rhythm into the user's attacks, making use of their superhuman flexibility, dexterity, and agility to perform wide, winding and weaving slashes that have mid-to-long range applications. Users of Love Breathing also visualize themselves seemingly creating pink and green sparks as well as pink lines that follow the direction of their attacks.

This Breathing Style is the personal creation of Mitsuri, made by altering the Flame Breathing she learned from Kyōjurō to suit her special composition and physiology. It takes advantage of her body's unique muscle density, which grants her inhuman strength without making her physically bulky, to deliver fast and powerful blows while moving with incredible flexibility and agility. As it relies on her body's special composition, it is a stylte only she can use. It can also be assumed that this Breathing Style is most effective with a whip-like katana, however, a regular one can also be used as shown in the Gaiden.

## Known Techniques

Love Breathing has 6 forms at minimum, with 5 known forms.

* **First Form: Shivers of First Love** (壱 (いち) ノ型 (かた) 　初 (はつ) 恋 (こい) のわななき, *Ichi no kata: Hatsukoi no Wananaki*?) - The user dashes forward and performs a single slash that winds through the target, hitting multiple areas with one slice.

* **Second Form: Love Pangs** (弐 (に) ノ型 (かた) 　懊 (おう) 悩 (のう) 巡 (めぐ) る恋 (こい) , *Ni no kata: Ōnō Meguru Koi*?) - The user performs a singular, long-winding swing that cuts the target at multiple angles.

* **Third Form: Catlove Shower**  (参 (さん) ノ型 (かた) 　恋 (こい) 猫 (ねこ) しぐれ, *San no kata: Koi Neko Shigure*?) - The user leaps into the air and performs multiple arched slashes in quick succession.

* **Fifth Form: Swaying Love, Wildclaw** (伍 (ご) ノ型 (かた) 　揺 (ゆ) らめく恋 (れん) 情 (じょう) ・乱 (みだ) れ爪 (づめ) , *Go no kata: Yurameku Renjō - Midarezume*?) - The user leaps into the air before performing a somersault and releasing dozens of rapid, winding slashes from afar that essentially form a tornado of slashes.

* **Sixth Form: Cat-Legged Winds of Love** (陸 (ろく) ノ型 (かた) 　猫 (ねこ) 足 (あし) 恋 (こい) 風 (かぜ) , *Roku no kata: Neko Ashi Koi Kaze*?) - The user fully extends their sword to perform an arcing slash before retracting it and extending it once more, done in quick succession to form a layers of slashes.
* **Seventh Form: Heartbreak**- The user whips hard and breaks the sound barrier, launching a gust of air that sends the target back.
* **Seventh Form: Heartbreak, Breakup**- The user breaks the sound barrier and slices, easily beheading the target's neck.
* **Seventh Form: Heartbreak, Arrowstorm**- The user breaks the sound barrier while making a quick succession of slashes, making a gust of wind and arrow-shaped projectiles at the target.
* **Eighth Form: Dance of Loving Passions-**

## Demonstrations

* Anime
* Manga

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