Panel 5: Fukiya being a Japanese blowgun, of course. Players of the PS2 stealth videogame series Tenchu will, of course, fondly recall the poison-dart fukiya as a stupendously helpful weapon for taking out unhelpfully placed opponents.
The translation and kanji for this latest goofy-ass jutsu subskill was provided by either my friend Tomoko Saito or the translator Marc Miyake, both of whom are credited in the book’s opening spread. I can’t recall which of ’em handled this particular jutsu, though.
Today’s Patreon update: We’re very likely continuing serialization of the Twitter-format prose experiment I Am Empowered, which tells heretofore untold tales of Emp’s earliest misadventures from her first-person POV.
-Adam Warren