Dimensional Descent

Aphestus continued on in a good mood, leading Aina toward Hero Peak.

Aina suddenly looked back, as though she could sense that something was wrong, but she continued to move forward as though nothing had happened.

Aphestus seemed to sense this small action, causing his lip to curl. But, it was then that Aina said something that made his eyes narrow.

"Next time, send stronger lackies." She said, seemingly to no one.

"Hoho, didn't you say your little boyfriend was injured? But now I should be worried?"

In truth, with how arrogant Aphestus was, something like sending lackies to deal with a junior was beneath him. However, what was even more beneath him was personally taking action. So, he chose the path that would best soothe his currently seething rage.

If not for getting caught red-handed, he would have never even bothered to respond to Aina at all especially considering the entire reason this began was due to his authority being questioned.

"He could be ten times more injured and you would have still needed to send someone stronger." Aina replied blandly.

At the moment, Aina was feeling quite guilty. She knew Leonel well. If it wasn't for her telling him to stay put because he was injured, he wouldn't have even cared about his body's state in order to climb the mountain pass. This wasn't because he felt the need to prove something to Valiant Heart, an organization he put not stock in, but rather because that was just the kind of person that he was.

But now, there was already no taking the things that happened back.

Hearing such words, Aphestus suddenly began to laugh uproariously.

"They say love is blind, but this must be a worse case of foolish love. That's fine though, I'd really like to see how long you can continue to love a weakling after I'm done with him.

you want to be smart, I'll make certain he can never raise his

no doubt that Aphestus was repeating the same words Radlis had spoken but not as blatantly. And, it was even more

seem to react with the same guilt at

vent.'

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after Aina soothed him that he finally began

…

scanning them. It was obvious by their words that he was their target and toward such a thing, he could only say that the vice leader of Hero Peak was maybe even more petty than

didn't even wait an hour, let alone the few days someone else might

holding back a grin that could have gone from

offend the bigwigs, but how do you plan on settling

held no personal animosity toward Leonel, and he even felt that dealing

one entered Valiant Heart that they truly understood the distance that separated those who had joined quadrant ruling organizations and those from small worlds who

taxes collected, Valiant Heart had a number of resources that could

millennia of foundation building, an endless store of knowledge and techniques beyond anything someone from a smaller world could possibly

they were a Bronze Grade Organization at worst. If Earth was put on this

from

"Don't…!"

finish his sentence, but it was already too late. She took a sharp intake of

beat up to the point of having half a foot in

of lackies heard this, he froze for a moment before a sinister

Peak's name in vain like that. Do you think the likes of Hero Peak has the time to deal with bottom feeders like