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Honryō and the kit

Technique catalog

Five blades have printed technique lists. Two wartime swords still do not. Innate arts sit beside them so the book’s other weapons have a page.

An Enchanted Blade overfills. Spirit energy leaves the body as a shape that can be steered, seen through, and charged back into the steel so the bearer can spend techniques empty-handed. Most blades have three named techniques. Magatsumi refuses the three-count. The technique index is the same kit as a table. True Realm (Honryō) is not a transformation gauge. It is the brief, meant: the wielder’s intent locking with the steel until the kit grows an extension. Dark power (Kuroi chikara) is what happens when that lock happens at the edge of death, or when the blade itself is dying. The color goes black. The output jumps. Mei: Shred. Suzaku’s black flames. Magatsumi’s ordinary darkness, because Magatsumi eats vitality as a diet.

Unofficial names the fandom uses are marked with an asterisk where the pages themselves did not print a title. Full blade pages: Enchanted Blades. Contracts: Lifelong Contracts. The essay: True Realm.

Enten 淵天

Bearer: Chihiro Rokuhira. Seventh, post-war, goldfish and water. Made to end the other six, especially Magatsumi. True Realm: Magatsumi’s death.

Magatsumi bisects Enten at the end of Part 1. Black Suzaku stalls disintegration. Chihiro keeps the pieces and writes notes toward a new Enten.

Cloud Gouger 刳雲

Bearers: Ibuki Misaka → Sojo → Chihiro (dying contract). Clouds and cloud-dragons. Bisected by Enten. Residual charges spent at the Rakuzaichi, then gone.

Sojo’s True Realm is slaughter, because that was his brief. Chihiro’s last Cloud Gouger is a partner he wants to die well. Same steel. Different lock.

Magatsumi 勾罪 (Shinuchi 真打)

Bearer: Akemura Soga. Proxies: Kyora, then Yura, by overwriting, not by contract. Flowers, black weep, insects. No three-count. Master key of the wartime knot. Bypass: anyone who holds the sheathed blade starts becoming Akemura.

Yura spends Magatsumi at range through spirit left in the blade, then offers the body. The insect kit is the war. The possession path is the unique clause. After chapter 119, explainers argue Magatsumi copies Ariu Mikaboshi’s insect sorcery. The chapters have not confirmed that.

Kumeyuri 酌揺

Fifth forged. Bearers: Uruha → Hiruhiko → recovered by Ro of the Masumi. Faceless oiran. Hallucination and play. Natsuki was a candidate; Uruha was chosen.

Uruha’s Crimson Recital (Koen) is not a blade technique. It is the innate art that comes back when Samura cuts the contract and keeps the man. Physical boost. The banquet sword is the job. The recital is the person.

Tobimune 飛宗

Support blade. Bearers: Samura → Iori. Black feathers, wings, flight. Owl at national scale. Chihiro notes it was forged for support.

Unnamed wartime two

Two Enchanted Blades still have no printed names. Subaru Urita is a surviving bearer; one war-ensemble portrait is still unnamed. Ibuki is dead and his sword is Cloud Gouger, which is named. When Jump prints the titles, they belong here.

Major innate arts (not blades)

Longer portraits of the arts that stay in the body live on innate sorcery. This list is the short catalog.

Iai White Purity is a school, not an innate art. Eyes closed, speed as a religion. See Iai. Datenseki that is not a blade still overfills and pops the user unless Kunishige’s eyes (or a fake, which kills Tenri and Sojo) intervene. See Datenseki.