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.

he can never raise his head high

but not as blatantly. And, it was even more obvious that

time, Aina didn't seem to react with the same guilt at

ahead and vent.' She thought to

Segmented Cube and into Aina's arms,

Aina soothed him that he finally began

…

their words that he was their target and toward such a

Aphestus didn't even wait an hour, let alone the few days

In fact, behind his apathetic expression, he was holding back a grin that could have gone from

how fresh meat like you managed to offend the bigwigs,

leader of this gang of three seemed almost too lazy to deal with Leonel. He held no personal animosity toward Leonel, and he even felt that dealing with a freshman was far beneath

the distance that separated those who had joined quadrant ruling organizations and those from small worlds who could

terms of taxes collected, Valiant Heart had a number of

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

be ranked using the official metrics of the Dimensional Verse, as an organization overseeing number quadrants, they were a

from Hero

"Don't…!"

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

he got beat up to the point of having half a foot in the

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

lot of guts, calling out Hero Peak's name in vain like that. Do you think the likes of Hero Peak has