Both release threads severed.
The two stored echoes sat in the armor—present, stored, imprinted—with no thread connecting them to release. Naxra could feel them in the suit but couldn't summon them. The mechanism that called them forward was gone.
The thread reformation completed.
Naxra's momentum returned.
She drove forward—the two echoes present in her armor and inaccessible, the release threads cut, the arsenal she had built across the fight sitting in the suit with no way out.
She struck with her body—no echoes, no armor ability, just physical force. Her right fist drove toward Oidin's chest.
Oidin had no reserves remaining.
He took the hit.
The force pushed him back two steps—real impact, no thread cut to redirect it, the physical hit landing clean.
The armor absorbed the impact of her own punch's recoil.
A third echo stored.
Still inaccessible. The release thread still cut.
She hit him again.
He took it.
Fourth echo stored.
Inaccessible.
