Chapter Three: Class Zero Takes the First Floor

Another ten minutes entered him: a family trial, a steel arrow fired at the boy's younger brother. Deflect it and inherit a tutor; fail and both would be injured. The boy turned the arrow into his own shoulder. His gift was not reflection. It rewrote the direction of moving things. New echo: Vector Deflection, 10:00. Su Mi's warning sounded in his ear. “Don't run them together. Unfamiliar echoes could tear your nerves apart.” “Could?” “The academy has never seen anything like you.” “Then we give it data.” Lin ignited Blinkstep and Vector Deflection at once. Two borrowed fears collided in his skull. One eye saw smoke; the other saw an arrow. Through the pain he found their shared rule: Blinkstep turned his body into a moment of motion.