Dimensional Descent

Lionel didn't say a thing for a long while. He continued to look at the ground, his arms strapped around his body beneath his straitjacket. For a moment, it seemed as though he hadn't heard a single word that was spoken.

However, a blood thirsty aura was slowly forming around him.

Lionel's head tilted upward. Through the strands of his hair, one could finally just barely make out one of his eyes. It was a vacant pale green that seemed to stare at nothing and everything at the same time.

The faint illusion of blood red wings spread to Lionel's back, the distorted image of a demon hanging around him.

In just a few moments, those red wings formed into the image of a female angel. Her red wings wrapped around Lionel, her arms holding onto him tightly.

It was just an illusion, but it seemed oh so real.

Tears of blood began to uncontrollably fall from the eyes of those around Lionel. With the exception of Escobar, they all seemed to be affected by the change.

"I see… Since she's dead, what reason do you have to keep living?"

Under the astonished gazes of many, thousands of Dark Cloud Prison guards suddenly turned their weapons onto themselves.

BANG!

The sounds of several gunshots rang at once. But, from afar, it sounded like just a single gun had been fired. The actions were so smooth and in sync that even the pulling of so many triggers seemed to come from a single point…

Escobar's gaze widened before gaining a tinge of red. In that moment, just as Lionel's words descended, he suddenly felt an overwhelming will to spear his skull through. If he hadn't bit his tongue, he really might have gone through with it.

kind of

around Lionel only seemed to grow more corporeal as though being fed by the deaths of those

seemed like she was a proud mother… Or rather, she would have been had it not been for the fact her eye sockets were

collapsing bodies filled the quiet air. In an instant, over half of a ten thousand man army fell into a pool of their own blood, their weapons painted with

absolutely horrid and a metallic stench

him curiously as though he was wondering why it was he hadn't died when he told him to. As for the other, it seemed to stay hidden

chance and spoke the truth. However, he had never expected for

his sympathy. This was no longer the baby in those photos, this was a monster. A monster

"Die!"

spear seemed to encompass the world. Its point became the origin and its shaft

blink of an eye, the spear tip appeared before Lionel's brow. With just a half a foot more,

would things really be so

mirror suddenly manifested before Lionel. Escobar's spear tip hardly touched its surface before it was reflected

a forearm being split in half down its length etched itself into the

bled. But, even then, she didn't seem intent on stopping. She looked toward Escobar warily as though she was the one who should fear him rather than the other way around.

in place indifferently. It was as though he couldn't tell that his life had

deathly pale. He looked toward his arm incredulously, unable to

awakening. However, he had never cared much because his spear arts could more than make up for this. With the time he had spent with Leonel's father, it was doubtful that there was anyone on Earth who could match his comprehension of the

how had he suffered

that there was a sudden

finally cleared out all the scouts and carved a path here. And, luckily, they had managed to avoid any

they saw after they reached

attempt to climb its walls, and… over