The young man wore a thick down jacket, a warm hat, and a scarf as he trudged through the snow.
He was bundled up so heavily that even with Asaba Kotone's excellent eyesight, he could only tell that he was male, not make out his face clearly.
Asaba Kotone paid him little attention and continued thinking about his own affairs.
Suddenly, he faintly heard ice and snow cracking. He immediately turned to look and saw the ice and snow shifting on Snow Mountain beside him.
An avalanche was clearly about to happen!
Asaba Kotone reacted quickly, but he could not shout a warning to the young man ahead of him, since that might make the avalanche even worse.
He could only use his ability to teleport over and grab the young man. "An avalanche is coming. Don't run around," he said gravely.
Someone had suddenly appeared beside him, and the young man was slow to react, clearly somewhat frightened.
The strong wind accompanying the avalanche blew the hat off the young man's head and nearly took the scarf from his neck as well. Asaba Kotone finally saw his face clearly-a familiar-looking fellow with spiky hair.
The avalanche moved incredibly fast, almost tens of meters per second, and before long, it "engulfed" Asaba Kotone and the young man with overwhelming force.
In reality, however, Asaba Kotone and the young man still stood where they were, while the ferocious ice and snow, like an army bearing down on them, passed straight through their bodies.
Asaba Kotone's Intangibility kept both himself and the young man unaffected by the avalanche.
By now, Asaba Kotone had recognized him. He was the apprentice Master took in during the original story, the fellow named Torigar.
Ice and snow surrounded them, with nothing else in sight.
Despite being