Fire Release: Lingering Heat

is a highly advanced technique, developed by Kazuhide, that allows the practitioner to remotely convert - into raw heat. While this technique effectively extinguishes the targeted flames in question, the near instantaneous transition of all of the energy of the chakra-based fire into natural heat can provide a surprising additional effect to any fire technique. This is primarily due to the rapid conversion to heat forces the surrounding air to forcefully expand, generating a secondary searing wave of explosive force. The destructive potential of this technique is determined by both the quality and volume of the flames being converted. Kazuhide, in particular, has demonstrated that converting even a single small concentration of fire can release an explosive force that easily dwarfs an explosive tag several times over. Furthermore, this technique relies nearly completely on the chakra concentrated in the targeted fire. Therefore, this maneuver's performance necessitates only negligible amounts of chakra, and instead requires masterful chakra control.

When this technique is triggered in a chakra rich environment, the conversion process into heat can inadvertently be transferred to non-elemental chakra. While the release of heat isn't quite as intense as the transition of flame to heat, the effect is still extremely potent. This additional effect was discovered when Kazuhide attempted to interrupt an opponent one of his fiery skills, which resulted in a surge of heat tearing through the opponent's, searing the victim's forearm beyond repair and permanently damaging the aforementioned pathway. Kazuhide also possesses the unique ability to apply this skill to manifestations of, whose black flames contain enough energy to burn for a week without additional fuel. As such, he has no problem baiting an opponent into attempting to absorb even a seemingly innocuous amount of his black flames, before proceeding to wreck their body internally by converting the partially absorbed chakra into a far beyond lethal amount of raw heat. More specifically, such a performance would simultaneously flash boil the victim's bodily liquids and scorch their flesh from the inside. Luckily, such an effect cannot spread through an entire chakra network unless the victim was channeling fire-chakra throughout their entire body, instead being limited to the flesh closely adjacent to the technique's initial activation.