However Takeru and Ryouma watched as the commoner crossed the blue flames rather easily without looking even a bit disoriented and his suit was still complete with not even a scorch mark on it.
His legs trembled as he tightened his grip on the dagger.
'I only have three more steps until the cooldown comes in so I can't afford to waste any of them…' He thought, watching Koya's approach and trying to read the trajectory. 'I can counter hi…'
Koya sped up.
The boost in speed was not gradual but rather it was instantly, the distance between them collapsing in a single acceleration and before Takeru's brain had finished processing the change in speed the strange blade was already in front of his forehead.
It was close enough that he could feel the displaced air from it.
'I'm going to die.'
His body moved before he decided to move it and the frame state activated on pure instinct with the world breaking into still images while the gap between frames opened up around him…
