The wheel clicked once.
Then again.
[Selected Combatant: Echo]
The name flared across the sky-bound screen in white.
Jin exhaled sharply, his fingers briefly tightening on the edge of his glass cell. Yujin leaned closer beside him.
"That's him, right?" she said.
Jin nodded once. "Yeah. That's Echo."
There was no time for relief.
The wheel clicked again.
[Opponent: Nadara]
A low pulse moved through the arena as the lights shifted. Two new platforms slid open, far apart—each figure rising slowly into place.
Echo appeared first. His posture was loose, but his presence wasn't. There was a sharpness in his eyes, a rhythm already forming in the way he tapped one hand against his wrist like a metronome.
