Dimensional Descent

Leonel was shocked to the point of speechlessness. Did he really just hear what he thought he did?

"… You don't want to?"

Aina's soft voice shook Leonel to his core. She had never sounded so fragile to him before and a part of him thought that the only reason she managed to drum up the courage to say such a thing was because she was facing away from him.

"Yes, yes. I'll do it!" Leonel hurriedly replied.

Aina stood from Leonel's lap, still facing away from him. Most of her alluring back-view was obstructed by [Light Curtain] and her long hair. But, Leonel's imagination alone seemed to be capable of spinning him away into a land of fantasy.

Aina slowly waded into the deeper waters until her waist was submerged. Her body shifted slightly and Leonel's eyes almost popped out of their sockets when she bent over and stood again with a black fabric in her hand.

'… That's definitely… That's definitely her underwear…'

Leonel looked toward the ceiling and gulped.

"… Are you coming?"

Aina's voice sounded even weaker than before. If Leonel didn't know better, he would think that she was still wounded.

Shaking his head, Leonel also stood from his seated position. He had already taken off his upper garments, revealing a toned torso, even more toned than he seemed to remember, in fact. So, all he had to do now was take off his pants.

Leonel looked down toward a certain region.

'Behave.' He said sternly.

his pants to the side, slowly walking

she shuddered slightly, but she still grabbed at her long hair, pulling it into a ponytail and sweeping it to her

Touch] and grabbed a small towel at the edge of the pool. With the ability of the Cleansing Waters, soap was completely unnecessary. But,

didn't mean that they didn't

scent do you like more? This one?

Leonel was. She could feel his warm breath on her neck, it

a while, she finally paid attention

her and raised

purple color and dozens of tiny petals clumped together to form its figure. It had

three petals, but each was as large as Aina's

flower's scent was far more subtle. It reminded Aina somewhat of lavender, but also of freshly made apple juice. It

said softly, pointing to

Leonel nodded. "Watch this."

all were tailored toward battle. In fact, the vast majority weren't. They rather existed almost as

Arts Leonel learned built the foundation

'useless' Arts could do. There were many that existed

It was able to concentrate natural fragrances one found in the wild into a liquid, soapy form. It was a favorite of female water mages, especially when they were out on

hadn't exactly invented soap.

Waters spiraled up from the pool around the two, circling around the yellow flower and grinding it into a paste. That paste soon dissolved into the water and formed a thick white liquid

flower formed over a liter of this viscous

the air

Aina suddenly spoke

his heart filled

Aina's next words almost