Night Owl looked at the crow corpses scattered across the ground. Beneath his mask, his face tightened with a faint pang of loss.
As the audience understood it, Night Owl's Psychic Powers let him evade physical attacks. Whenever an enemy struck, he could turn into a flock of crows and escape.
But that was not the truth.
In fact, the higher a person stood, the more clearly they grasped one thing.
There was no such thing as true invincibility in this world.
Take Superalloy Darkshine, whose physical strength had nearly reached its peak. He looked invincible, but even his body had a limit to how much force it could withstand.
He remained unharmed because the vast majority of people could not strike hard enough to reach that limit.
The same was true of Espers.
No ability was truly unbeatable.
Night Owl's power to break himself apart into crows was not, as it appeared, a way to evade physical attacks.
The attacks were not nullified. Their impact was merely shifted onto other targets.
Those targets were, of course, the crows.
Night Owl could transfer a lethal blow about to hit him onto a crow. He could also command the crows within his body to attack others.
Once a crow suffered a fatal injury and died, he could no longer command it.
Thus, the limit of Night Owl's Psychic Powers depended on the number of crows he could control.
Only Night Owl himself knew the exact number.
In each battle, he could control a total of one thousand and one crows. That number never changed, because the crows did not regenerate during combat.
Each death reduced their number by one.
Night Owl could replenish his losses after a battle, but in any single fight, he had only one thousand and one crows.