Prove its layered mind manip, and I am not disregarding consistently, using consistent calcs with both will have blade as just barely faster. Is it really an outlier, if it happens several times it might not be, he’s dodged Hyperion cosmic ghost rider etc, and while they may be faster she has not faced one who can attack and defend at the same time, her scythe isint even multiverse as the dimension cutting spell feat required a spell she dosent know and Silas was getting hit around by ordinary weapons, so justicar or the adamantium odatcchi would just break the scythe lmao. As for the book I don’t see what’s stopping him from shooting it, and has that ever been Buffy’s first move in character. You’d also have to ignore all the times he’s fought ghost rider lmao