Dimensional Descent

"No!"

Leonel shook himself awake, dragging up what reserve strength he had managed to regain while allowing Aina to lead to swoop her into his arms. He tried to cover Aina completely, hoping that her ax could block the rest of the attack.

BOOM!

Pain like nothing Leonel had ever felt in his life before assaulted his body. Without suspense, he was sent flying. He couldn't even tell up from down anymore, let alone telling just how far it was he had flown.

The Quasi Bronze chain necklace on his neck splintered. It was just a tiny crack, but it came with a sound almost as loud as the bomb itself. Or, maybe Leonel's sense of sound had just been completely thrown off as well. He really couldn't tell.

"Aina? Aina!"

Leonel roared, barely able to hear his own voice. Only after shouting with all he had did he faintly hear himself.

Aina's state was far more sorry than his own. He had tried his best to cover her back while her ax had covered much of her front, but her legs and some of her arms had been completely exposed.

Leonel's blurry vision teared up when he saw her, a lump quickly swelling in his throat.

Her legs had been charred beyond recognition. What was once delicate, fair skin was blackened beyond recognition. It was so bad that she didn't even bleed, even her blood itself seemed to have burnt to ash.

Her arms were in a slightly better situation, but this somehow made it more gruesome. Severe burns of the fourth degree almost exposed her bones. Her flesh bubbled almost like water, producing a scene that made one's stomach upturn.

Leonel's knees and palms surrounded her almost like a mother protecting her cubs. He wanted to scream and roar, but his inner organs didn't seem to want to allow that.

Blood leaked from his orifices, partially obscured by the soot and grime that coated his body.

Leonel quickly shuffled around in his pockets. When he found the bracelet he was looking for, he slipped it onto Aina's wrist as gently as he could.

Regret filled his heart.

'I'm so stupid, I'm so stupid. I should have given it to her earlier. Why didn't I give it to her earlier?'

He felt as though something was clawing at his chest and eating his flesh.

but since it was one time use, it was countless times more powerful than other treasures of

he began to question everything. Even after he learned that she had killed Conrad for the sake

remained restrained, a part of him

Regret was seeping through

the pain of his inner organs. He could hardly hear

"Fire."

such a good

more sadistic. He remembered Leonel's voice when he shot that bullet toward

said. As though the interaction had been meaningless to him. Watching Leonel suffer like this after humiliating him like that made him the itch in his heart

bad the child of that whore will die without repaying the family for the genes

maddened roar was drowned out

BOOM!

his body fracture and crack as he slammed into something heavy. His vision was too blurred to see where he was, he

"Li..."

The gem of the bracelet he had just slipped onto Aina's hand fractured and

the voice was trying to say his

"Little fool... Take it."

was only after his senses were barely half recovered that he realized it was Aina talking and she was pushing something

and his chest. No, it looked too much like a piece of fabric to be called paper. However, all Leonel could see was Aina's hand. How she managed to continue holding

it and... it will ta... ke you to... an... other... world. I've

his throat

once

Junior Governor Duke, we can't do that. They've been blown too close to the walls. If we shoot again, we'll compromise the safety of the

of the post hesitated but still clenched his teeth to explain. He was already horrified by Miles' actions. Now that he had found such a good excuse,

build another wall." Miles

had built such a great wall in such a short period of time. They could easily do it again. Not to

time, another official

Governor Duke, the alloys we used to build the wall were all from emergency stores in case of a Class 9: Red event like

their breaths, waiting for the Junior Governor

Send all

all sighed breaths

heard the Junior Governor Duke! Send down the