Insect Breathing

**Insect Breathing** (蟲 (むし) の呼 (こ) 吸 (きゅう) , *Mushi no kokyū*?) is a Breathing Style derived from Flower Breathing.

## Overview

Insect Breathing is a Breathing Style that mimics insects, specifically their lethal stings and movements, and replicates it with user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms include stabbing, thrusting, and making shallow cuts with a specially coated/made sword to inflict multiple wounds onto the intended target in order to inject various lethal wisteria-based poisons into them. Users of Insect Breathing also visualize themselves seemingly manifesting insects (mainly butterflies) when unleashing its techniques.

This Breathing Style is the personal creation of Shinobu, who designed it to compensate for her lack of physical strength to behead a demon. Hence, this sword style can only be utilized by her and only using a unique katana with a needle-like tip, resembling an insect's stinger in appearance and function. The "stinger" is designed for injection of wisteria poison into demons. As noted by Dōma, the blade sheath was also designed as a portable poison mixer, allowing Shinobu to change the poison that coats her blade at a moment's notice.

## Known Techniques

Insect Breathing has 4 known techniques and forms at minimum.

* **Butterfly Dance: Caprice** (蝶 (ちょう) ノ舞 (まい) 　戯 (たわむ) れ, *Chō no mai: Tawamure*?) - The user leaps into the air and charges towards the opponent, stinging them multiple times with their blade to inject poison in just seemingly one strike.

* **Dance of the Bee Sting: True Flutter** (蜂 (ほう) 牙 (が) ノ舞 (まい) 　真 (ま) 靡 (なび) き, *Hōga no mai: Manabiki*?) - The user dashes at their target at blinding speeds and uses the momentum of their speed to then strengthen a single thrust into their opponent and inject poison into them.

* **Dance of the Dragonfly: Compound Eye Hexagon** (蜻 (せい) 蛉 (れい) ノ舞 (まい) 　複 (ふく) 眼 (がん) 六 (ろっ) 角 (かく) , *Seirei no mai: Fukugan Rokkaku*?) - A six strike attack with which the user aims to strike and inject their target with multiple doses of poison at the target's weak spots (such as the neck, heart, torso, etc.) in order to kill them with a large dose of poison.

* **Dance of the Centipede: Hundred-Legged Zigzag** (蜈 (ご) 蚣 (こう) ノ舞 (まい) 　百 (ひゃく) 足 (そく) 蛇 (じゃ) 腹 (ばら) , *Gokō no mai: Hyakusoku Jabara*?) - An attack with which the user uses their full speed to run a zigzag pattern that confuses their opponent in order to create an opening for them to directly stab their opponent's neck and inject poison to kill them, with the stab's force and power being further enhanced by the momentum of their speed. Dōma noted that the sheer speed of this technique is strong enough to destroy an entire wooden bridge.
* **Dance of the Wasp, Revenge of the Sting-** An attack which the user uses their full speed to deliver lots of stabs towards the opponent and inflicts all stabs and cuts onto the opponent using the blade and then performs a final, stronger thrust.
* **GET STICKBUGGED LOL**: (Target gets stickbugged) https://imgflip.com/i/7ynwxm

## Demonstrations

* Anime
* Manga

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## Trivia

* Insect Breathing is the only known Breathing Style that derived from another Breathing Style who itself, derived from one of the five fundamental Breathing Styles.