The [Ripple] is an energy used in the ancient form of martial arts, Sendō.
Through self-controlled respiration, a trained person can produce an energy manifesting as ripples throughout their body and that is identical to the energy of the Sun, in polar opposition to the energy exerted by Vampires, Zombies, and the Pillar Men.
The [Ripple] is an energy identical to the Sun's rays, which the human body can produce through controlled breathing, having the effect of producing ripples of energy propagating from the bloodstream to the rest of the body and other objects in contact with it. The [Ripple] manifests itself as electricity-like sparks, and it can be seen by ordinary humans.
The [Ripple] can also affect non-living things. An object charged with [Ripple] energy will have one or several attributes enhanced by the energy, making it a more effective tool, or weapon. [Ripple] also conducts very well on liquids, the most common seeing it when just by breathing Zepeli created a lot of ripples in the water.
Living organisms can be affected by [Ripple] attacks, but are not automatically hurt by it. as it can be seen in the scene where Zepeli hits the frog without damaging it.
Producing the [Ripple] also preserves the user's vitality, making them look more youthful and be more energetic even during old age although this method has limits. As it can be seen by old man joseph even being relatively old could accompany the relatively younger Stardust Crusaders.
The [Ripple's] primary uses are to heal various wounds or ailments due to the Sun's positive energy it generates. Also, a [Ripple] User can become dangerously powerful and turn the most mundane of objects into lethal weapons.
But as good as the [Ripple] is, there is also some very glaring weakness. A [Ripple] user must be able to constantly breathe to maintain his strength, So wounds that target the neck and respiratory system are extremely deadly to [Ripple] users.
As strong as [Ripple] is, you won't be destroying iron and steel any time soon, but bricks and some rocks are well under your range.
Bloodloss can also severely weaken a [Ripple] user, as the bloodstream is an integral part of the technique.
This is basically everything I could remember regarding the [Ripple], it's sound pretty good and powerful, but I still don't know how it would fare against these martial artists, they aren't vampires after all. Well, at least I know what I must focus my training on right now, my breathing. [Ripple] is very dependent on the way I breathe, so breathing correctly in even the most disadvantageous situations is a must, I need to be able to use it as second nature, only when I can use the [Ripple] subconsciously will it truly shine.
But first, let get something to it. After that, I will try to search for some tool that can help me in training [Ripple] sadly I don't have the personalized masks Joseph used, but I can easily buy different masks and make the action fo breathing more difficult, like breathing close to smoke, or fog, breathing with different things in my mouth, etc. It a good start as any.
Another extremely useful things about [Ripple] is on my physical training, as the [Ripple] is good at healing wounds and aliments, I can likely destroy myself in body training take some deep breath and heal all the damage my muscles went through.
And things went like this for a month, I focused on physical training, [Ripple], and my now fully matured [Sharingan], it wasn't easy as I basically trained 14 hours a day. and during the physical mindless repetitions, I would use the time to read some more things engraved into my mind.
Everything went great for a month. But then I encountered a problem, a huge one at that. Money. My mother being a single mother isn't exactly wealthy, but we always get by without too many problems, I even have a personal bank account where my mother sometimes puts a little bit of money for me to buy food.
Sadly I was getting very low on money, have a week at most if I use it sparingly. So I went thinking in some form of making money, the usual reincarnation strategy of publishing works of my old word went immediately out of the window, first I am a minor, second this world is very close to my previous one and a lot of works exist in both simultaneously. Wait, there is Yue's offer.
The girl offered me to fight in some underground fights, and I can gain a pretty good amount of money there, it could also be some good way to gain fighting experience. Picking up my phone I dialed Yue's number.
"Hello Yue, it's Jin."(Jin).
"Jin who it's going? Finally, decided to accept my offer?"(Yue).
"That's is exactly why I called."(Jin).
"I knew you couldn't resist for more time. I can definitely feel the violence inside of you."(Yue).
"...ok... if you say so. Any rules I should be aware of?"(Jin).
"Yeah, you like to use those sunglasses right?"(Yue).
"Yeah, why?"(Jin)
"They don't allow any kind of accessories there."(Yue).
"Are you serious?"(Jin).
"Deadly Serious. As you are a man you will even have to fight without a shirt. No shoes either, you have to fight barefoot."(Yue).
"Really?"(Jin).
"Yup, something about don't giving unfair advantages to the fighters... Ah, I almost forgot, you should put on some face painting."(Yue).
"Why?"(Jin).
"You don't want for people to know your identity, do you? there is a lot of publicity on these fights, and even if a face painting doesn't protect you much it's good to ward off the masses that are watching."(Yue).
"Personal experience?"(Jin).
"Yep. At first, I fought without any kind of face paint, but then a weirdo started talking to me, after that, a colleague fo mien suggested I try using face paint."(Yue).
"You are not fucking with me are you?"(Jin).
"No fo course not, it is good honest advice."(Yue).
"If this is some kind of joke I swear that I will punch you."(Jin).
"But I am just a delicate girl, who could you possibly punch me?"(Yue).
"I would like you to know that I am in favor of True Gender Equality. Meaning that I will punch you as strongly as anyone else."(Jin).
"Shit, I forgot this doesn't work with you. Anyway, what kind of face painting you will make."(Yue).
"I dunno, can't I use a mask or something?"(Jin).
"No accessories remember, it means no masks too."(Yue).
"Maybe something mixing yellow and blue, like a blue skull with some yellow detail. Like Bleach's hollow masks."(Jin).
"Wait. Your head Bleach too, no way."(Yue).
"Wait you too?"(Jin).
"Of course I do, what's your favorite character?"(Yue).
"Aizen no doubt."(Jin).
"Mine is Ulquiorra. I don't like Aizen very much, I didn't like that he basically tossed out his Zampakuto instead of aiming for a Bankai first."(Yue).
"You don't like Aizen... Sacrilege."(Jin).
"Now, let's go back to the serious things. I will arrange a fight for you tomorrow, are you free?"(Yue).
"Yeah, I don't have much to do tomorrow."(Jin).
"Okay consider it done. Do you want anything more?"(Yue).
"Yeah, where you bought your face painting. A reference would be good."(Jin).
"Sure I will send the place with your fight specifications, don't be late. They hate late people."(Yue).
"Sure. See you tomorrow?"(Jin).
"See you tomorrow. Bye."(Yue).
"Bye."(Jin).
Great, now I have a fight tomorrow and I can't even use the [Sharingan] much less the eye-catchy [Ripple]. At least I couldn't be more prepared than I am right now, I know some good amount of normal martial arts and I have trained my body a lot, and trying to not be overly dependent on the [Sharingan] can only be a good thing, overdependence on anything is extremely bad.
Guess I should buy my face painting right now, don't want to do things with little time. Buying the painting was pretty easy and cheap, the shop Yue recommended was pretty good, it was a costume shop, they sold a multitude of things, I even brought a cloth mask we never know when these things can be useful.
I am kind of anxious about my fight tomorrow as I never fought seriously, most of my fights were children squabbles that can be won with just a punch. I am not counting my encounter with that guy, I still have some nightmares about it, who fragile is human life for a simple fall kill someone... I... no don't think about it, a great part of fighting is maintaining the correct mentality, so don't falter even a day before fighting, i will probably need to psyche me up again tomorrow but it never hurt to be positive right?