is facing a martial artist opponent, lands a couple of solid blows that knocks the martial artist down, then starts to walk out of the arena, hands held high in victory. A wordless non-lethal version happens during the Raitai tournament in Baki the Grappler.He has time to turn away and close his switchblade before the High-Pressure Blood kicks in. Shows up in Baccano!, when Ladd Russo slits the throat of an underling in his uncle's office.Fist of the Blue Sky's protagonist does much the same thing, only the Catchphrase he uses is Chinese (你已经死了 "Nǐ yǐ jīng sǐ le") instead of Japanese.At which point he reveals he's not only immune to Kenshiro's style (it turns out that Souther has dextrocardia situs inversus totalis, a medical condition in which all of the internal organs and blood vessels are reversed compared to normal humans, and thus his pressure points are on the opposite side of his body from where Kenshiro hit him) but used a delayed attack on Kenshiro, opening a series of wounds on Kenshiro's body. Souther responds by counting down himself. Kenshiro strikes one of Souther's fatal pressure points and tells him he's dead in three seconds. Also happens to Kenshiro in his first duel with Souther.Once Shin starts panicking, Ken tells him to relax, he had missed his vitals. Ken repays the favor in his rematch with Shin. Countering Shin's Nanto Gokuto Ken with his own Hokuto Hiei Ken in a memorable instance of Air Jousting, Ken lands, slowly rises, and turns around to face his rival, only to realize Shin's attack has incapacitated him by cutting the tendons in his limbs. A non-lethal version occurs during Ken's short-lived duel with Shin at the beginning of the series.And Bat claims to be able to do this to a mook, only he was lying so he could use the mook's horrified reaction to retreat. note Kenshiro hit a pressure point in his face a few moments before, making it a Time-Delayed Death. One time a mook attempts to do this to Kenshiro, only for his own head to explode. To elaborate, he uses pressure points in the opponent's body so that said pressure points communicate with the brain in such a way that over time, the body will be commanded to bend unnaturally, disable parts of itself, or most commonly, become so overtaxed that the head and everything else explodes.
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