IB weakness- punch is deflected

A fist flew straight toward the man.
In the brief moment that the contrast between the dark night and the bright flames had
confused Mathers’s vision, the spiky-haired high school boy named Kamijou Touma ran
straight toward him and aimed his right fist dead center on Mathers’s face.
“Cold and wet. Water, reveal thy nature before me.”
Mathers actively used magic against Imagine Breaker as it approached.
The sound was like shattering glass.
But the magic in the way diverted the fist slightly off path. Much like firing a bullet
through a water tank.
Was this thanks to the man’s experience losing his life to a different form of Imagine
Breaker in the past?

- New Testament Volume 21 Chapter 1 Part 1