Chapter Two: The Error Enters Reality

The ability list contained one entry. 【Fault Vision: See the failure condition most likely to affect a target. Note: Observation may alter the condition.】 It was no choice at all. Lin accepted, and scarlet letters burned themselves into the back of his sight. The classroom collapsed toward a needlepoint of white light. The faceless boy waited at the door, his pale crow cocking its head. “Who are you?” Lin asked. “An answer they deleted.” “What happens if you come out with me?” “The correct thing will not happen.” Before Lin could ask more, an immense force tore him upward. He woke in a neural pod at Ascension headquarters, with Gu Wanqing pressing defibrillator paddles toward his chest. “Don't shock me,” he croaked. “I'm alive.”