A jujutsu sorcerer's abilities are roughly eighty percent innate talent; acquired learning and effort account for only twenty percent.
This reality is determined by the essence of jujutsu.
Unlike simple shikigami or barriers—though there are cases where one becomes a vessel for a cursed spirit's incarnation and has that spirit's technique inscribed—the 'Innate Technique' that constitutes one's identity as a jujutsu sorcerer is overwhelmingly still inscribed in the brain from birth—the circuitry of jujutsu.
Thus, sorcerers are more like espers than onmyōji.
That old bastard Kenjaku, who possessed Geto Suguru's body, still retained part of his original body: his brain.
Thus he could use the Innate Technique in his original body, continually replacing vessels to survive while mastering the original owner's techniques.
Upon reincarnating into the Naruto world, losing his original body, Hii Kōri naturally couldn't retain his past techniques.
But in the Yin-Yang Cross state, to allow Yin and Yang Releases to fully reconcile within his body under cursed energy's influence, his physical state becomes vague by Yin Release's power—existing in a subtle state where, though visually identical, its interior is difficult to precisely describe.
Rather, others' perceptions help Hii Kōri maintain his appearance in this state.
This practice of incorporating others—even opponents—into the technique's operation was a means of jujutsu sorcerers took for granted.
'Technique Revelation'—explaining one's abilities to an enemy to enhance technique effects and gain cursed energy amplification through a Binding Vow—was a prime example.
Correspondingly, there existed techniques for eliminating one's own traces within the technique system, allowing it to form a loop—like Hii Kōri's Cursed Genjutsu: Demonic Descent.
Ino Takuma's Séance Technique also used similar means: covering his face to eliminate personal traces, transforming himself into a medium. Its essence was an 'nonexistent person' exercising the abilities of 'nonexistent imaginary spirit beasts.'
Similarly, the means Hii Kōri used this time to reclaim his technique were the same.
Riding the 'flow state' of Black Flash, he let that feeling of omnipotence drive his thoughts, using Yin Release's 'imagination made real' property to transform his own body.
Since his body's interior lacked exact form, he could further determine its shape himself.
Experienced in this realm of 'imagination,' Hii Kōri, in that instant, reimprints the technique's circuits in his brain, thus reclaiming his past Innate Technique.
[Palm Hatching]
An ability to reduce all things to their original state through physical contact.
Not returning a phenomenon from 'effect' to 'cause,' but transforming phenomenon from 'effect' to 'cause,' then to the unknown.
Reducing everything to the primitive, then to the exotic. A technique that could be said to embody the very essence of 'exhausting possibilities.'
Needless to say, the basic application of nullifying others' jujutsu effects with a touch. In the past, Hii Kōri had developed two extensions based on this technique: 'Ucchuṣma's Hundred Transformations' and 'Golden Crow Jade Rabbit Shaka Palm.'
Ucchuṣma is another name for the Wisdom King Ucchuṣma. 'Ucchuṣma's Hundred Transformations' is a Buddhist scripture summarizing mudras and talismans benefiting from Ucchuṣma to expel calamities, resentment, defilement, illness from ghosts and spirits—techniques to aid one's practice.
The jujutsu named thus possessed the heretical effect of stripping away an object's properties, rendering them 'blank.'
Toughness, hardness, length, color—any imaginable property—Hii Kōri could remove through the act of 'touch.'
Properties removed left a blank, onto which brand new properties could be added. The miscellaneous goods store he ran was filled with unusual items remodeled through this means.
And if even the object's 'name' was removed, one could create 'meaningless' masses.
Such masses, customizable to any requirement, piercing materials science logic, were undoubtedly the most excellent materials for a creator like Hii Kōri.
This was also the source of confidence allowing him to unhesitatingly treat his own brain, riding Black Flash's afterglow.
The second technique's name derived from 'The Golden Crow and Jade Rabbit Compendium'—an apocryphal text said to have been compiled by Abe no Seimei during his lifetime, but actually completed after his death and passed down to later generations.
This apocrypha, taking as its summary the Golden Crow dwelling in the sun and the Jade Rabbit living on the moon, was a secret text symbolizing onmyōji understanding the circulation of qi, divining based on the sun and moon's movements.
The jutsu named thus was a technique for turning talent and inspiration into embryos.
Like curse materialization techniques, the materialized 'talent' becomes a seed, nourished with cursed energy and spirit until it flourishes and blossoms.
Without careful care, the talent-seed naturally withers. And depending on the completion of those conceptions and inspirations, cultivation time could range from months to years.
Though troublesome to hear, in other words, it was a technique granting an absolute opportunity to 'undiscoverable talent' and 'unrealizable inspiration.'
Turning the 'impossible' into 'possible,' allowing impractical fantasies to sprout and bloom.
If Ucchuṣma's Hundred Transformations was the solution Hii Kōri sought in 'creating' things, then the Golden Crow Jade Rabbit Shaka Palm symbolized the romance he pursued.
Of course, techniques born of spirit, even able to ignore many reality theorems to some extent, were ultimately limited by cursed energy reserves and energy.
But compared to his previous life, his physical strength and mental state in this Naruto world reincarnation were more than several times stronger.
Having reclaimed his technique, redeveloping his signature jujutsu was hardly a challenge for Hii Kōri.
Just thinking that materials science problems that plagued him for years would soon vanish, and ideas previously difficult all pursued due to energy constraints could now be tried one by one—he couldn't help humming.
No, can't, mustn't laugh—hold it in—at least until leaving Amegakure...
Sprawled in sewage filled with rubble, Hii Kōri felt as if in paradise. If not for remembering he was still sparring with Hanzō, still in Amegakure's center under everyone's gaze, he'd burst into song.
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