Reidoken

Power should just be the icing on the cake. If you utilize your opponent's power, even a little kid should be able to send a two-meter-tall wrestler flying. It's not easy, but it can be done... It's not power, nor is it speed.

--Kunitoshi

Reidoken
Translation	Zero Fist

A variety of techniques that use ki to perform certain effects. Amazonian training/techniques such as the Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken and the Bakusai Tenketsu both utilize ki of course and significant mastery is required in order to use either of them, but neither of them truly project ki itself into an actual attack. That is precisely what this special technique does.

Overview[]

There are ways to project ki and different effects you can get but schools of ki mastery, such as Amazonian, reason that since ki is a mostly mental energy, it must therefore be closely tied to our state of mind as well as our strength of will. Your emotions, your personality, your mental conditioning, they all affect the ebb and flow of ki, inside your body and out. And for these ki techniques to be used, a certain emotional state must be reached. In order to use the hiryuu shouten ha, the soul of ice must be maintained long enough for an opponent to complete a spiral around you, and for you to launch a single uppercut. That's a window of about fifteen, maybe twenty seconds. And since everyone’s seen the technique so much. That's not NEARLY long enough to use these attacks effectively in battle, never mind learn them in the first place. This is why these techniques are extremely difficult to master as they are the complete antithesis of Amazonian training.

In order to overcome this weakness Ranma went to Happosai for advice. He didn’t ask him personally that would be idiotic. Luckily he didn’t have to. Anything Goes Female Martial Arts is based on the principles of the Hiryu Shoten Ha which was used on Happosai when he was a child. It is divided into two substyles that work in tangent with each other. The styles keep each other in physical and spiritual balance, kind of a yin-yang equation.

Reidoken is an attempt to mimic this process in order create a new system based on the principles of the Hiryu Shoten Ha. The problem with attempting this is that Happosai often displays a soft touch for the plight of children, but his remedy for their conditions is often a cure just as bad as the disease as he can twist their energy patterns into forms that make them living weapons but deny them any chance of a “normal” lifestyle. By manipulating Kurumi Tendo’s chi-centers he sped up her metabolism to the point where she became perkier than a ferret. A side effect of this caused her to become a literal bottomless pit, her stomach literally vaporizes whatever food she consumes and converts it to raw elements, giving her an explosive energy level that makes her many times faster even than the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken training would produce. Another benefit of this is that it allows Kurumi to manifest “Hot” Chi.

The manipulation of Natsume’s Chi-centers however affects her chi in that it takes away nearly all of her bodies warmth, allowing her to manifest “cold” Chi. This constant aura of coldness is utilized within the style itself and Natsume’s body adapts to the coldness it feels making her indifferent to the cold of whatever environment is around her.

This subconsciously causes Natsume to abandon her passionate and loving feelings; her “warm” emotions instilling an emotionless ki void. A side effect of this is that it permanently alters her personality.

Natsume is almost always serene and apathetic towards other people, even when she is actually deeply conflicted. She is also extremely calm, even in battle. She generally acts indifferent, bordering on arrogance, to most situations that she is faced with.

Notes[]

In Yagami ½ this is considered the lost art of the Soul of Ice and is a combines the soul of ice and the Hissatsu Shiatsuken.

This was proposed as a technique by a reviewer for either Ranma or Natsume. Using the meditation techniques given to him by Raven Ranma creates the Kousei technique.