The filament expanded—not outward, but inward.
A small circular region of air collapsed silently into a perfectly black disc the size of a coin.
No energy release.
No explosion.
Just subtraction.
Kaito reacted instantly, projecting a compression field around it.
The black disc resisted.
Not pushing.
Not pulling.
Just refusing structure.
The Boundary Stars flickered violently.
Silver Eyes screamed as equilibrium equations failed to apply.
"This is not imbalance," she gasped. "It is exemption."
The coin-sized void vanished a second later.
But the message was clear.
Something could remove reality without consuming it.
And it was testing scale.