The Perfect Combination of a Pure Yang Body and Ripple Breathing / On How Ripple Breathing Improves Skipping Stones

Simple. Extremely simple.

Six years old. Parents' information unavailable. First-year student at Teitan Elementary School. Temporarily living at detective Mouri Kogoro's home.

Mouri Kogoro's file, on the other hand, contained much more.

It recorded everything from his elementary school days to his graduation from the police academy, his marriage to Eri Kisaki—now a renowned lawyer—and the birth of their daughter before they separated. It also documented how he worked as a police officer for several years, suddenly resigned to open a detective agency, remained a third-rate detective until a few years ago, then abruptly seemed to figure things out and solved multiple murder cases in succession, earning himself the title of "Sleeping Kogoro."

"So, was this Edogawa Conan, who suddenly became a child, actually guiding him from behind the scenes to solve those cases?" Through the diary's records, Shinomiya Kaguya could naturally determine the truth. At the same time, APTX4869, which could restore one's youth, stirred a faint ripple in her heart.

Unfortunately, she soon saw You Know Who's warning further down.

With its 99% fatality rate, and that criminal organization bold enough to strafe Tokyo Tower with armed helicopters and even nearly kill the second daughter of the Suzuki Conglomerate in the story, Shinomiya Kaguya knew full well that it was not an existence she could provoke.

The Pandora Gem, which could grant immortality, was no different. She had no standing to consider such a matter right now.

After reading the rest of the diary, she fell into deep thought.

Hoshino Ai's children being reincarnators might have been shocking on its own, but compared to APTX4869, which could restore youth, the Pandora Gem, which could grant immortality, and the possibility of even more secrets in this world, it was hardly anything.

The effect on Shinomiya Kaguya's state of mind was nowhere near as great as You Know Who casually mentioning in the diary that Lady Kaguya's later plot had fallen apart and ended hastily.

"This Lady Kaguya should be my story, right?"

The diary had not mentioned a surname, but just as Kasumigaoka Utaha could tell at a glance that the Kasumigaoka, Senpai mentioned in the diary was herself, Shinomiya Kaguya was certain that the Lady Kaguya You Know Who mentioned was her.

"Because it got involved with politics and business wars later on, the author couldn't handle it, and the plot went wrong..."

Shinomiya Kaguya could not infer the exact details of her future from that one sentence alone, but from You Know Who's faintly teasing wording, she could tell it was not something good.

"Why couldn't he write a little more? Even one more sentence would have been enough..." Even though Shinomiya Kaguya had known since childhood that she would become a tool of the family in the future, she still longed for the right to freely decide her own life someday.

With that thought, Shinomiya Kaguya wrote a 3 in her Diary, representing the three paths before her.

Find a way to locate You Know Who, ask about her future, and make plans in advance—but aside from revealing the clue that he had a younger sister, You Know Who had provided no other information so far.

Accept her fate and follow her original path in life—this was the simplest route, and the one she was least willing to accept.

Seek out this world's secrets and gain the power to change her life—this appeared to be the most uncertain path, but...

Shinomiya Kaguya looked at the Diary in her hands. It was naturally part of the world's secrets as well, perhaps even the greatest secret of all.

"Once I accumulate another 5 Reading Points, I'll unlock the Diary's permissions. At that point, can I use this Diary's power to change my future?"

The Best Combination of a Pure Yang Body and Ripple Chi Kung

While Shinomiya Kaguya chose the direction of her future, Miyauchi Hiyage eagerly received today's reward.

You drew Ripple Chi Kung (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

The moment the notification sounded, Miyauchi Hiyage felt unfamiliar knowledge flood into his mind.

As he closed his eyes and focused on accepting those memories, his breathing rhythm unconsciously began to align with the rhythm in them.

And that change in his breathing rhythm was no small matter.

Ripple Chi Kung was developed by ancient humans. By using breathing rhythms to control the flow of the body and blood, it could awaken the human body's own life energy in the form of solar energy.

Simply put, Ripple Chi Kung was a Breathing Technique that allowed people to wield solar energy.

And Miyauchi Hiyage, who possessed a Pure Yang Body, was undoubtedly the person most compatible with Ripple Chi Kung.

Even when he merely adjusted his breathing to Ripple Chi Kung's rhythm subconsciously, the Ripple Energy welling up within him had already far exceeded an ordinary person's limits. The skin on the surface of his body even gave off a dazzling golden glow from the overflow of Ripple Energy!

Fortunately, he was trying it in his own bedroom with the door shut, so nobody saw it. Otherwise, the villagers would probably have worshipped him as a god on the spot.

Miyauchi Hiyage hurriedly used the memories in his mind to control the Ripple Energy.

"This is insane. I never expected the Pure Yang Body to boost Ripple Chi Kung this much. I wonder how it compares to Kars after he became the Ultimate Life Form in the manga?"

When Kars became the Ultimate Life Form in the manga, his first use of Ripple could melt a human body outright. His own first use of Ripple, meanwhile, had turned him into... uh, a lightbulb.

Of course, that was merely because they used Ripple differently.

According to his memories, the technique capable of producing high temperatures should be Scarlet Overdrive. Tomorrow, he planned to find a chicken and head to the riverbank to test whether Ripple Chi Kung would let him make a roast chicken bare-handed.

That said, aside from granting its user physical abilities and combat power far beyond ordinary humans, Ripple Chi Kung had many other uses depending on the breathing rhythm.

Awakening human potential, slowing aging, healing external wounds, accelerating plant growth, controlling living creatures, and more—these were all abilities that had appeared in the manga.

"Still, Ripple Chi Kung is clearly a technique that uses solar energy, yet just now I didn't seem to show any signs of getting worked up. I even felt much better. Could Ripple Chi Kung control the side effects of the Pure Yang Body?"

Realizing this, Miyauchi Hiyage's eyes lit up.

The Pure Yang Body originally only had a passive evil-repelling effect, but Ripple Chi Kung possessed endless possibilities. If Ripple Chi Kung could truly control the power of the Pure Yang Body, then he would genuinely have the means to protect himself in this world.

And from what he could see so far, his guess was highly likely to be correct.

Those with a Pure Yang Body had extremely abundant yang energy within them. Chongyun in Genshin Impact could not find a way to channel the yang energy in his body, so he could only rely on his Cryo Vision to suppress it while carefully avoiding anything that might cause it to run rampant.

But the principle behind Ripple Chi Kung was not suppression. It was using the rhythm of breathing to awaken the body's life energy.

Yang energy itself was life energy close to solar energy, so it was hardly strange that Ripple Chi Kung could awaken it.

With that in mind, Miyauchi Hiyage cautiously tried again and confirmed that Ripple Chi Kung could indeed regulate and channel the yang Aura within the Pure Yang Body to a certain degree.

The only problem was that the process of channeling it would inevitably produce the glow of Ripple.

"In other words, as long as I can find a way to hide the Ripple glow and keep up Ripple Breathing, I shouldn't need to worry about my yang energy going out of control ever again."

It sounded quite easy, but it would be troublesome in practice.

Ordinary people probably would not have this problem. After all, they did not have such enormous amounts of life energy in their bodies, so even if they maintained Ripple Breathing continuously, nothing unusual would happen.

But the yang Aura within Miyauchi Hiyage was too abundant and too pure.

If life energy were quantified, a normal Ripple user might convert 1 to 2 units of life energy into 1 unit of Ripple Energy. The yang Aura in his body, however, could turn 1 unit into 1.5 units of Ripple Energy, or even more.

His original yang Aura was already excessive, so naturally, he could not store much of the Ripple Energy it converted into.

"At least I've found somewhere to vent it. After I test Ripple Chi Kung's combat power tomorrow, I can go to the orchard on the hill behind the house and accelerate the plants' growth. That should bring the yang Aura in my body down to normal levels. I just wonder what kind of fruit trees accelerated by Ripple Energy will produce."

Miyauchi Hiyage had even begun thinking that if Ripple's growth-acceleration effect worked well, he could get some ginseng seeds to cultivate in secret later.

"Drawing the perfect combination of a Pure Yang Body and Ripple Chi Kung right at the start... Looks like my luck is pretty good after all," Miyauchi Hiyage said, having completely changed his attitude from yesterday, when he had been complaining about the diary's rewards.

"Come to think of it, the requirements for practicing Ripple Chi Kung aren't that harsh. You just need to maintain a fixed breathing rhythm. That's much more reliable than the 'Aura' in Dragon Ball, which requires you to focus and feel it."

Compared to other supernatural power systems, Ripple Chi Kung had a few more tricks, but its combat performance could only be called passable.

Forget comparing it to Aura, which could destroy heaven and earth. Even compared to Sun Breathing from Demon Slayer, the Breathing Technique closest in nature to Ripple Chi Kung, the two were worlds apart in terms of sheer power.

But the Breathing Techniques in Demon Slayer seemed to drain one's life force, and there was even the debuff of not living past twenty-five after awakening a Demon Slayer Mark.

Ripple Chi Kung, at least in the manga, had never shown any negative effects. Even Joseph Joestar, who had crazily pushed his potential in his youth and later neglected his Ripple training, lived into his nineties. It was a remarkably safe method of staying healthy.

"Even ordinary people with no particular talent could improve their physiques and slow their aging through training. For women, this should be the ability of their dreams, right?"

Thinking of how Lisa Lisa had still maintained the appearance of someone in her twenties or thirties despite being fifty in the manga, Miyauchi Hiyage stroked his chin and felt that he already knew what to write in tomorrow's diary.

He would directly write down the method of practicing Ripple Chi Kung and a few training insights. What girl reading the diary could resist that kind of temptation?

Miyauchi Hiyage did not know whether those girls could successfully cultivate Ripple through written instructions alone without anyone guiding them.

He knew even less how far they could cultivate Ripple Chi Kung with their aptitude.

In any case, it would be good if even one of them succeeded. Besides preserving their health and looks, it would also serve as a final means of self-protection when they encountered danger.

As for whether it would affect this world?

Miyauchi Hiyage curled his lips.

What a joke. They already had diaries—did they really need to worry about a little Ripple Chi Kung?

On How Ripple Chi Kung Improved Stone Skipping

The next morning, refreshed and full of energy, Miyauchi Hiyage ran alone to the hill behind his home to test Ripple Aura Chi Kung's abilities.

When Miyauchi Hiyage watched anime in his previous life, he knew the Miyauchi Family had mountains. Only after transmigrating did he learn that they not only had mountains, but more than one. However, a rural place like this simply lacked the energy and manpower to develop those barren hills.

Back then, Miyauchi Hiyage had felt it was a waste to leave the hill behind his home unattended, so he came up with the idea of filming rural videos to earn money and develop the barren land.

Three years had now passed, and the once-abandoned hill was covered with a large orchard of pear trees.

Those pear trees were part of a cooperative project negotiated with the agricultural cooperative. From initial seed selection to later pest control, the agricultural cooperative handled everything. Once the fruit ripened, they only needed to sell it under the Asahigaoka Pear name and wait to collect their share of the profits.

The newly established livestock farm and fishery in Asahigaoka were similar. The agricultural cooperative provided the money and personnel for all of them. In any case, with Asahigaoka's reputation as an internet-famous village, those products would certainly not lack buyers for at least the next few years.

Although Miyauchi Hiyage knew that the agricultural cooperative would take at least seventy percent of the profits from the Asahigaoka he had built up himself, it was a massive organization that essentially monopolized Japan's agricultural market. The fact that it was willing to leave him thirty percent was already doing him a favor—across all of Japan, countless people were probably jealous of that thirty percent.

Miyauchi Hiyage went around the pear trees managed by the agricultural cooperative. Naturally, he would not accelerate their growth. That would be far too conspicuous.

He walked to the other side of the hill, where there were more than ten crookedly planted fruit trees of different varieties.

There were not many of them, but they were all four or five years old. Miyauchi Hiyage had planted them with the students of Asahigaoka Branch School at the time when he was ten, after egging them on out of boredom.

Though it had only been for fun, every child in the village had been fired up by the grand promise Miyauchi Hiyage had made back then: "As long as we can grow them, we'll have endless fruit to eat in the future."

For several days, every household with children in the village had frantically eaten all kinds of fruit, gathering seeds from over a dozen varieties. Then they dug more than a hundred holes and spent days planting them all.

Naturally, such a farcical tree-planting activity had an impressively low germination rate. Only the dozen or so trees before him had stubbornly survived to this day.

The fruit they produced was equally hard to describe—modern agricultural rejects so bad that even the neighbor's dog would shake its head after eating them.

When the first batch of fruit ripened, the village children had even held a celebration. After that, there was no after that.

By now, other than the battered wooden plaques hanging from the trees that showed who had planted them, there was no longer any sign that these fruit trees had been planted by people.

But this neglected place was exactly to Miyauchi Hiyage's liking.

He found the peach tree and plum tree he had planted. The small peach tree was now in its blooming season, while the plum tree's season came later, and only a few flower buds could currently be seen.

Miyauchi Hiyage looked around, and after confirming that nobody was nearby, he pressed his hand against the plum tree's trunk.

As Ripple Energy carefully traveled from his palm into the plum tree's trunk, then flowed into its branches, a miraculous sight appeared before Miyauchi Hiyage.

The plum tree, which would not have entered blooming season for another half month, blossomed with beautiful white plum flowers in a short time.

Ripple Energy's effect on accelerating plant growth appeared quite obvious. If Miyauchi Hiyage could awaken one unit of Ripple Energy with a single breath, then he only needed 0.5 units of Ripple Energy to make this underdeveloped plum tree bloom early.

After sending another unit of Ripple Energy into it, the plum tree's congenital deficiencies were mostly made up for. Now, anyone passing by could tell at a glance that the tree was brimming with vitality.

However, after blooming, it still needed pollination before it could bear fruit.

Ripple Aura Chi Kung had many functions, but helping flowers pollinate was truly beyond its scope.

Plum trees had a low self-fruiting rate. Miyauchi Hiyage tried again and discovered that after replenishing the plum tree's nutrients, continuing to send in Ripple Energy would not make it bear fruit. Instead, the energy gathered at the roots before overflowing into the soil and being wasted.

"Once the fruit trees finish pollinating, I should still be able to use Ripple to accelerate the fruit's growth. Hopefully, Ripple Energy can make the fruit taste better."

After noticing that, Miyauchi Hiyage's test of Ripple Energy's plant-growth acceleration effect was complete.

He sent one unit of Ripple Energy into each of the other fruit trees in turn, then prepared to return during summer vacation and taste the flavor of Ripple fruit.

After that, he briefly tested several of Ripple Energy's other uses.

Because of the Pure Yang Body's amplification of Ripple Aura Chi Kung, he could easily ignite branches with Scarlet Overdrive;

Turquoise Blue Overdrive could form an extremely tense Ripple net beneath his feet, allowing him to run across the surface of water with ease. With more research, running along walls and rooftops like in Naruto should not be a problem;

The highly conductive Hermit Purple Overdrive had been shown in the original work as striking through a barrier to hit the target behind it. In his hands, it simply skipped the "barrier" in the middle, allowing powerful Ripple to travel through the air and attack targets two meters away;

As for the most powerful Yellow Ochre Overdrive, Miyauchi Hiyage had yet to find its upper limit. In any case, when he punched a stone the size of a human head, it felt no different from tofu. He would probably need to find a thick steel plate to test it properly.