Chapter Two: The One-Euro Squad

【A-He, 18. Dormant gift: moving blind spot—instinctively recognizes routes outside a moving target's vision. Fatal flaw: cannot process complex graphic instructions. Peak window: five years, nine months.】 Gu stopped the guards. “Did you train here?” “Until I was twelve,” the boy said. “The academy closed. I unload ships now.” Old records showed A-He had been registered for three years and qualified as club-trained. In the trial, an assistant showed him a tactics diagram and received a blank stare. Gu replaced every arrow with three calls: lighthouse, tide line, come home. Lighthouse meant hold the width. Tide line meant run diagonally. Come home meant recover.