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.

tossed his pants to the side,

into a ponytail and sweeping it to her front. The action should have completely exposed her back to Leonel, but

the edge of the pool. With the ability of the Cleansing Waters, soap was completely unnecessary. But, Leonel still brought out a few

uses for these herbs, however that didn't mean that they didn't have special abilities of

"Which scent do you like more? This one? Or, this

feel his warm breath on

while, she finally paid attention to

her and raised two different budding flowers

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

petals, but each was as large as Aina's palm and flopped about

Aina somewhat of lavender, but also of freshly made apple juice. It

softly, pointing to the yellow

Leonel nodded. "Watch this."

all were tailored toward

Apprentice Arts Leonel learned built the foundation for

was all the 'useless' Arts could do. There were many that existed not for the sake of

fragrances one found in the wild into a liquid, soapy form. It was a favorite of female water mages, especially when

hadn't exactly invented soap.

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

single flower formed over a

the air before dabbing it the towel. Steeling his will, he approached

suddenly spoke

heart filled with half relief and half

Aina's next words almost made his