[As time slipped quietly by and calendar pages turned silently, 2011 arrived in the blink of an eye.]
[The new year's "draw" arrived as scheduled, accompanied by the system's cold, mechanical yet profoundly reassuring notification echoing deep within your mind.]
[Draw complete.] [Talent Card acquired: Deep Anoxia [N]] [Effect description: forcibly cuts off the body's oxygen requirements. Even in the extreme condition of the heart and lungs completely ceasing respiration, maintains 100% peak combat function for up to 5 minutes. During this period, the body will experience absolutely no muscle soreness or fatigue caused by lactic acid buildup.]
[You sat upright in your dormitory at Jujutsu High, carefully reviewing the effects of the faintly white-glowing card with your mind.]
[Your absolutely rational mind immediately began constructing combat applications for it. This was clearly a perfect countermeasure card specifically designed for environments and Jujutsu effects involving "poison gas" or "suffocation."]
[If an enemy released a vast cloud of lethal poison in some future battle, or you were forced into a fight to the death deep underwater, or even inside a sealed barrier drained of air, these precious five minutes of oxygen-free combat, completely unbound by physiological limitations, would be your absolute means of turning the tables in a desperate situation.]
[At the same time, this ability also seemed capable of working perfectly with your control over your heartbeat, allowing you to disguise yourself as a lifeless corpse and "play dead" to escape or carry out an assassination.]
[For an ordinary card of merely [N] rank, it already offered very respectable tactical depth.]
[But that was as far as your investigation went. With a slight movement of your fingertips, you put it directly into the system's equipment slots for emergencies.]
[Because this year's schedule still held an extremely important matter