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 head high

not as blatantly. And, it was

to react with the same guilt at all. Rather, her face, hidden beneath her mask,

vent.' She thought

out from the Segmented Cube and into Aina's arms,

Aina soothed him that

…

stood in opposition to a group of three, his eyes lazily scanning them. It was obvious by their words that he was their target and

the few days someone else

truly didn't mind. In fact, behind his apathetic expression, he was holding back a

offend the bigwigs, but how do you plan on

He held no personal animosity toward Leonel, and he even

joined quadrant ruling organizations and those from small worlds who could at best call

terms of taxes collected, Valiant Heart had a number of resources that could drown out any world in their

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

Heart Mountain were to be ranked using the official metrics of the Dimensional Verse, as an organization overseeing number quadrants, they were a Bronze Grade Organization at worst. If Earth was put on this same scale, they wouldn't even

you from Hero

"Don't…!"

to speak out before Leonel could finish his sentence, but it was already too late. She took a sharp

slow? Even if he got beat up to the point of having half a foot in the coffin, that's the one question he should have

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

you think the likes of Hero Peak has