How to get Flame Breathing in Slayers 2

Flame is taught by Rengu (Rengoku in the anime), who waits on the roof of a house at the far end of a long bridge out of Mistfall. A boss with the same name stands a few steps away. You pay the first for the style and farm the second for its gear, so this page covers both.

On a tiled roof at dusk. The nameplate over the NPC reads Flame Trainer Rengu.

What Rengu asks for

Level: 25, the same bar as every other style.
Demon Horns: 10 Treat ten Demon Horns as a guide rather than a fixed price; Rengu may ask for Beast Cores instead. Bring a few spare, and read Rengu’s dialogue before you hand anything over.
Skill tree: Double Jump helps. The route hops over two obstacles on the way out of the village; nothing on it needs Wall Climb.

Short on horns? The Demon Horns page has the farming spots.

Getting to the roof

Leave the starting village. The area label changes to Wilderness; double jump over the two obstacles in your way.
Look for the bridge. It shows up from a distance, and the label turns to Mistfall Harbor as you get close.
Cross the long wooden bridge. Rengu’s marker is already on your minimap.
Walk past the boss. Rengu the boss stands on the far side. His health bar pops up as you pass, shortly before the trainer’s nameplate.
Climb onto the house. The trainer waits on the tiled roof, as in the picture at the top of this page.

A player running along a long wooden bridge over water at dusk — A long wooden bridge with rope rails over water, at dusk. The area label under the player reads `Mistfall Harbor`; the minimap shows a marker labelled `Rengu`.

A player among tall stone spikes in front of a wooden house on orange ground — A wooden house on orange-tinted ground, with tall stone spikes in front of it. The minimap shows the `Rengu` marker close by.

The whole route works on foot. If you have a horse, the same path is quicker.

After the payment

Flame is not yours the moment Rengu takes the horns. A training quest follows, ending in a fight with a trainee. Flame’s steps, and how to clear each minigame, are on the training quest page; Stone’s tracker on the breathing styles page shows what one looks like.

A mini boss called Flame Trainee does exist: it is one of five targets on Muzan’s hunt list for demons, next to the Thunder, Wind, Water and Insect trainees.

Rengu the boss: every drop on his bar

The Flame Hashira has 3,000 health, drops a World Events Chest, and gives 1,000 experience and 450 Wen per kill. Like other world bosses, he reportedly gains health for each extra player hitting him. Here is his full loot list, with the launch rates; the walk over the river and the fight are on the Rengu boss page.

Item	Chance	Worth knowing
Flame Haori Style 2	3%	The only 3% line on the bar, the rate every boss haori shares.
Flame Katana	5%	Reportedly the best katana in the game. Through the dungeons it upgrades at the forge into the `Volcanic Katana`.
Flame Slayer Uniform	5%	An outfit piece. Tengai and Saneri also drop a style uniform at 5%.
Purgatory	5% at launch, raised since	The move scroll. It is struck through with `Missing Flame` until you know the style, so learn Flame from the trainer first. The v.09 patch raised boss skill drops by 5%, so it drops more often now than this launch rate.

Rengu's health bar with the drop list printed under it — `The Flame Hashira` `Rengu`: the health bar, and under it every drop with its chance.

Each line rolls on its own chance. To see how many kills a 5% katana or a 3% haori really takes, put your count into the drop calculator on the bosses page.

Has Flame changed since launch?

The v.09 patch left Flame alone. It changed Water, Thunder, Tamari and Arrow, plus the boss skill drops that affect Purgatory.

The later V0.145 round reportedly made Flame more consistent, with no single move change named. It plays as the broader counter-and-burst option among the top styles.

At launch, Flame was rated mainly for its burn damage in group farming and not much else.

Three lists, three verdicts

Two lists put Flame in S and one in B. Only Wind splits them wider.

SBeebom
BDestructoid
SPro Game Guides

If you rolled the Rengoku clan, its mode is Heart Ablaze Mode, which includes a burn damage bonus. See the clans page for the clan itself. The tier list comparison puts Flame next to the other seven styles.

Flame as the developer showed it

The developer, Ouw Productions, put out this Flame showcase ahead of launch: every move as designed, before any balance patch touched the game.