Dimensional Descent

Leonel frowned, his gaze landing on Aina.

Seeing her odd reaction, his heart constricted. One would have thought that her reaction was his own. To Leonel, though, Aina's happiness was practically linked to himself.

"Aina?"

Aina shook out of her thoughts hearing Leonel's voice.

"What's wrong?"

Aina shook her head and fell into silence, her body returning to normal. The little mink nestled closer to her, his little face rubbing against Aina's.

In truth, Leonel almost didn't notice Aina's weird reactions. If it wasn't for his connection with the little mink, he likely would have missed it entirely. The irony of it all wasn't lost to him, especially when he said he would pay more attention to her.

Leonel's frowned deepened. His gaze shifted from Aina to the Variant Invalid and back again.

'Is it that thing? But, Aina shouldn't have met this thing before…'

It could be said that with the exception of the time he spent within the Mayan Zone, Leonel had spent practically all his time on Earth since Invalids had appeared with Aina. In addition, when he was in the Mayan Zone, Aina had either been unconscious or within her own Zone.

Since Invalids didn't appear within Zones, at least with Leonel's current comprehension, it was impossible that Aina had met this Variant Invalid.

Of course, this was all deduced under the speculation that Earth didn't have Invalids before the Metamorphosis descended. Leonel felt that this was a fine assumption to make, even when considering the fact Aina came from a hidden family of Earth.

who failed to awaken their abilities and thus lost their consciousness. Variant Invalids were just Invalids who managed to reawaken their consciousnesses. But, by then, they would no longer be the

Unless…

Aina know this Invalid from when

slightly, mostly because from what he could see, despite the odd coloration of its skin, this Variant Invalid was quite a handsome young

the time to

come back another time? From the flow of battle, I doubt that this Invalid horde will be able to breech the walls during this wave. They'll likely need two or three more

amiss about her reaction earlier and wanted to take some pressure off

"No."

fact, her demeanor somewhat shocked Leonel. She sounded as though he had said

looked away from Leonel's surprised gaze,

faced away,

'…'

at a loss this

**

Miles Leum.

to one of the few most powerful families of Earth. He was already given the Junior Governor Duke title by

of several months ago, everything had

father, he would gain control of the resources he needed to hunt Leonel down and end all of this.

the leader of the Province despite the fact she never seemed to be around. Despite this, she somehow managed to oversee everything and even the small tricks he tried to play to gain back power were snuffed out by her with

all. His father had actually chosen to abandon his heir in

all of this was that he was