Stars and the moon hung high, pinpricks of light in the black sky.
"As the saying goes, train through the first nine days of winter and the hottest days of summer. It's exactly nineteen below right now-the perfect time to train, Killua."
On Kukuroo Mountain, more than three thousand feet above sea level, a strange downpour lashed a massive rock.
Dio continued developing his new ability while spouting nonsense.
Whoosh!
Wearing nothing but shorts, Kikyo gritted her teeth and threw punches in the freezing rain at nineteen below.
The wind from her punches tore through the curtain of rain, sending up great sprays of water.
Hearing Dio's words, she couldn't help shouting, "What are you talking about? How come I've never heard that saying before? I really am going to die if this keeps up!"
Kikyo had undergone extensive resistance training since childhood, which naturally included resistance to freezing temperatures.
But the problem was that the current temperature, combined with the relentless freezing rain, had already made this an environment no normal person could survive in!
In conditions like these, an ordinary person would develop hypothermia in just fifteen minutes, be near death in thirty, and be beyond saving within an hour.
Even someone with a constitution as strong as Kikyo's couldn't keep training indefinitely in this environment.
"Don't worry. You won't die."
Dio paid no attention to Kikyo's spineless barking.
The Ripple he had left inside her would keep her body temperature right at the limit, preventing any possibility of hypothermia and, naturally, any risk of death.
Aside from being a little torturous, it was guaranteed to be safe.
"Are you sure this can teach me that [Nen] thing? Maha Zoldyck told me he never trained like this!"
Kikyo loudly voiced her doubts again and threw a punch toward