In the instant that Cold Zero was activated, Koya used Overdrive.
His body blurred backward, clearing the distance from that point to the far end of the arena… away from Reito and from the spreading wave of absolute zero that threatened to freeze everything it touched.
Reito had sprung outward to punch the air where Koya had been standing just a fraction of a second ago.
His fist connected with nothing but empty space, and white frost exploded from the point of impact. It spread around the field in a perfect circle, expanding outward like a shockwave made of crystallized death.
Since Koya wasn't there, the frost flowed outward toward the stands.
The crowd screamed, scrambling backward as the white wave approached but the frost hit the barrier first, freezing that section solid. The ice spread along the protective barrier's surface, creeping across like frost on a window and within seconds, it had frozen the barriers between arena and stands completely.
