NOVEL NEXT Chapter 29: Hi no Kokyu
As if having an epiphany, suddenly El's movements looked completely different from before. This time, El performed every movement when dodging, swinging his sword and jumping so gracefully, that he looked more like a spirit.
Currently, El was beginning to understand Hinokami Kagura's every move. "Is that so? I'm starting to understand now, the meaning of each move that varies and connects with each other. Before, I just modified the Hinokami kagura with Yoriichi's 108 moves that I understood."
As soon as the hand demon's attack came from the underground direction, El was blown away deliberately. The hand demon seemed to be smiling from behind the hands, which covered the area of its face.
"Hihi, you're going to die!" said Demon hand.
Compacting its hands at one point, it formed a cannon shell. With a strong pressure, the hand demon threw a strike at El who was still floating in the air.
Utilizing the ability of the eye of insight, El could see that the attack of the hand demon that was about to attack seemed to slow down.
El could have avoided it easily, or countered the attack.
But, El deliberately did not do so. Right now, El imagined his self combining Hinokami kagura moves at the same time.
Ding!
[Beyonder with serial number 120,000 successfully obtained the ability -Hi no Kokyu-]
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Name: El Ira Adrian
Race : Human
Title : Sacrifice leader
Profession : do not have
Authority Level: 5
STR : 28 (25+)
VIT : 27 (25+)
AGI : 26 (15+)
INT : 11 (10+)
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Abilities:
> Six Tomoe Rinnegan (Special)
> Swordsman (Lv, 1)
> Total Concentration Breathing (Lv, 1)
> Hi no Kokyu (Lv, 1)
Skill type: Passive
Description:
Hi no Kokyu is a breathing style that mimics the sun, through 13 movements and techniques. All the forms are highly varied, connected to each other, having no set pattern. Visualize yourself, as if manipulating the fire of the sun when releasing the technique.
Hand strength: 50%
Attack speed: 50%
Attack power: 50%
(This ability level can be increased)
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When the notification sound came to El's ears, informing his of the changes made to his status menu, suddenly all of Yoriichi Tsugukuni's memories of Hi no Kokyu entered his mind.
In this way, El's ability in Hinokami kagura or Hi no Kokyu is commensurate with its creator, Yoriichi Tsugukuni.
Still suspended in midair, El immediately positioned Nichirin with both hands at the center of the body, inhaling as much air as possible until it blew into a burning heat.
El then made a circular slash around the upper body, releasing a 360-degree vertical slash downward in a curved motion.
"Enbu, Heki-ra no Ten!" Nichirin's blade rubbing against the space burned the air around his, as if creating a fire around El in a 360-degree rotating angle, as he performed the move.
El's graceful movements, coupled with his good looks, transformed his into a god who descended from the night sky and seemed to be dancing in the midst of a firestorm.
The darkness of the night sky seemed to be eliminated into a bright, cloudless day around El for a few moments, due to the shockwave of the slash and beautifully wrapped in the flames around his.
Instantly, the hand demon's attack was instantly destroyed. The gust of wind along with the shockwave cut down several nearby trees, even the body of the hand demon was cut and shredded in the process.
The hands around his body collapsed, along with his newly acquired giant body of hate and rage.
At that moment, the hand demon saw El's figure seemingly overlapping with an unfamiliar memory permeating the cells throughout his body.
For a moment, the hand demon was confused by the memory that suddenly appeared in his mind. 'Who is that person, is this a memory? But this isn't mine.' thought the Hand Demon.
The figure was a tall man with a slender body, maroon clothes, fair skin, maroon eyes, and long spiky hair with red tips tied in a ponytail and wearing a pair of hanafuda earrings, giving a slash just like El did.
"Argh!" No doubt, suddenly the hand demon felt an extreme pain.
The slash that was comparable to being dried directly under the hot sunlight, damaged the cells in his body, making the hand demon as weak as before.
El gracefully twisted his body several times in the air, then landed on the ground smoothly, like he had just flown in the night sky. As soon as he landed, El did one foot stomp, instantly El shot out like a bullet in a gunshot.
Distorted shadows were created for a moment as El moved. "Gen'nichi Kō." With a speed that seemed to distort space, El went in the direction where the hand demon was.
Arriving there, El saw the hand demon in a terrible condition. Half of its body was missing, but that was not all.
All the hands that surrounded the body like flesh armor had been stripped off. Now, the hand demon was in a very weak state, though it could still kill some ordinary people.
Without hesitation, much ado or preamble, El kicked the hand demon as far as possible. I don't know if El his self was curious about which direction he kicked the hand demon.
But, what was clear was that El estimated that the fall of the hand demon was still within this mountain.
El sighed. "The demon that was quite weak suddenly became very strong, maybe just my presence caused some butterfly effect."
Then, El sighed. "If I encounter a sun-immune demon other than Nezuko in the future, I'll try not to be surprised."
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The morning lantern had dawned, signaling another day passed in the final selection test. With the morning, the demons in the selection test forest began to hide, allowing the participants to rest a bit.
At this moment, El was sitting under a tree. Right next to his, the woman who had been rescued earlier was looking at El curiously.
El's stamina had fully recovered, the 6 tomoe on her left eye that were like ripples in still water had reappeared. It looked like the orbits of planets in the solar system.
El glanced at the woman briefly and ignored her, choosing to look at the tree opposite.
"Don't look at me like that. If you have something to say, speak up. Don't stay silent." El said that flatly without looking at all.
The woman sighed. "I'm just a little curious, how can you be that strong? Are you still a human?"
"I'm still a human. If you want to be as strong as me, train to death." El replied, with his eyes only looking at the trees opposite him.
El wasn't lying about that. While in the training house, El had died more than 1000 times. If it weren't for the insightful eye ability, El would have had a very hard time obtaining Hi no Kokyu and Total Concentration Breathing so quickly.
"I've also been training to the point of near death to catch up to my brother's strength!" Suddenly, the woman's expression became grim. "But, still! My brother, especially the elder one, always prevents me from following in his footsteps."
Feeling a little interested in the woman's words, El glanced over to see the woman bowing his head. Then, El turned his attention back to the tree opposite.
"What are your names and your two brother?" asked El without turning his head.
The woman still bowed her head and answered, "Shinazugawa Sumi. My two older brothers are Shinazugawa Genya and the oldest is Shinazugawa Sanemi."
His brow furrowed, El was a little surprised when he heard the surname of the woman and her two brothers. 'No wonder, I didn't recognize her. It turns out that this woman is a side character who died before the beginning of Kimetsu no yaiba.'
'But, why is this woman still alive? Is it because the world of Kimetsu no yaiba is one of the alternate timelines?' El said in a little pensive thought.