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- “Kyotoryu – Tampopo.”
- Before any sound could leave his lips, Nanami’s spear hand pierced his beating heart. In a single instantaneous motion, coming without warning – she’d drawn in the hand gripping his ninja garb to facilitate her spear hand’s rending encounter with the left side of his chest.
- She could do without a wind-up or any other prefatory movements.
- She was freeform, this was Form Zero – the Ichijiku.
- The two of them fell together to the ground.
- Harlequin Butterfly thusly interrupted, they made a violent landing. The impact made Nanami wince –
- "N-No way..."
- Hacking up phlegmatic blood, Chocho regarded Nanami with utter disbelief.
- Shocked at her ability to emulate his Harlequin Butterfly? Nos so.
- No, quite simply – her spear hand stunned him cold.
- "No way a hand – can pierce through someone's heart... Bullshit, unbelievable. Not only that, my chains..."
- Nanami had speared through the chains wrapped around his body as protection – especially for his heart. Even the shard of the Blood Crystal, a remnant of his late friend Kamakiri, which Chocho had slipped into his costume as a last line of defense – was shattered.
- Swordless kenpo.
- A spear hand driven like a true katana, only more menacing and destructive.
- This was the Kyotoryu!
- As if reading what was on his mind from his face, Nanami withdrew her spear hand from his ribcage – and let him see her gory fingers.
- "The Tampopo is a grappling move, a normal spear hand unleashed while you are pulling in the opponent. And when I say normal, I mean normal. It might be able to break flesh, but common sense dictates that it could never go all the way through – unless maybe you're as strong as Shichika. What you just witnessed, I learned from your friend Kamakiri."
- If you looked closely.
- Nanami's fingertips – were sharp and pointy.
- Nay, not her fingers, but her fingernails.
- They had grown into talons.
- Katanagatari Omnibus 2, Page 61
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