Dimensional Descent

Leonel was quite speechless for a long while.

Aina looked down at the ring in her hand before looking toward Leonel's side profile. Though she could sense how surprised Leonel was as well, she also felt that this had to do more with him than her. It left her feeling quite curious.

But, when she suddenly remembered Leonel's words from earlier, she blushed and looked away as though unwilling to acknowledge the fact that she had been curious in the first place.

"Oh right, I also forgot to mention the last thing. The ring also asks as a life saving treasure, but it won't be activated quite yet. The first time it will activate is when the recruitment process is over. When that happens, the ring will glow.

"Once it begins to glow, you have a day to prepare. Within that day, you can activate the ring at any time and be transported directly to our Core World. That's the place you will register.

"After the registration process is over, the ring will be able to function normally. As long as it's charged, or depending on the level to which is has been charged, it can teleport its wearer to either a random location within range or to a set location."

Leonel was still quite absentminded during this explanation, but he understood the gist of it.

Regardless, for now, the abilities of the ring were useless to him until the registration process ended. Only then would it activate and begin to work normally.

"Is there no set date for the registration process to be over?" Aina asked.

"Ah, about this..." Sael sounded somewhat embarrassed. "... I will be honest. Normally, a place like Terrain wouldn't even be worthy of gaining one of our recruitment stations. But, we've been forced to widen our net recently due to various circumstances. It's much easier on us if we bring everyone in at once... the cost is much less.

"So, until we meet a certain number of new recruits, we won't activate the formation. It will probably take between one to three years before the next mass teleportation."

Sael coughed slightly and looked toward Leonel. It was only after seeing that Leonel didn't react much to this that she sighed a breath of relief.

'It seems that he cares more about this Aina's opinion than anything else. I should tell the higher ups to focus on pleasing her, then...'

"Oh!" Leonel's eyes suddenly brightened. "Can you help me get rid of this thing? There must be certain privileges in being one of your members, right?"

stunned for a moment. When she focused on Leonel's forehead, she finally

talking about, her expression

too much, didn't they...? If one of those behemoths became enraged, who would take responsibility for

a bit of trouble. But, it makes sense he couldn't get rid of the brand, he's still a

right. Even members of the organization behind Brave City couldn't be so casually

away, likely to appear 'humble' before Aina and not try to flaunt his

a problem. Since they only monitored Leonel to begin with, it shouldn't be a matter

Sael's strength.

eye, Leonel felt invisible shackles that had been around him shatter. Leonel suddenly felt much lighter and better than

the Force in the surroundings

"Thank you."

looming darkness over Leonel for a long

sure what the monitoring brand

of cities and hadn't ended up with such

one more request, can you

...

that no one would notice until the preliminaries

plans until the ring activates?" Leonel

shook her head lightly. Her main goal had been to join this organization. Now that she had, she planned to just wait patiently. Even if she did so on Terrain, it

to Earth

bit hesitant. Not only did she not like Earth very much, she also didn't know how she felt about getting so close to Leonel again after she had just resolved

that maybe his background wasn't so simple, this had never been the reason she tried to build a wall between them in the first

a logical progression, she still found her head involuntarily

broke into the Fourth Dimension. I can't return to Earth by

sighed a breath of relief. Yes, this was a very

Blue Fort. He couldn't allow things to just continue like that without