The two chains snapped outward the moment Grey's eyes glazed over, one curling around his left forearm while the other stretched into the distorted space surrounding Kronos.
Grey didn't try to force Center of Spirit any farther, leaving the Ability active only as a reference while he shifted most of his attention toward the Recursive and Branching portions of his Neural Frame. If reading Kronos wasn't enough, then Grey would stop trying to read him and start taking apart whatever the fuck he was doing instead.
The Recursive chain moved first, catching onto the temporal path left behind by the next sweep of Kronos' scythe and following it backward rather than attempting to predict where the attack would land.
