Dimensional Descent

Leonel was speechless. This girl was really an airhead. If it was so easy to 'cheat' in this place, why didn't everyone do it?

"Okay, okay. I cheated. But you still lost."

Kira glared at Leonel and began muttering to herself. Clearly, she was feeling conflicted. After all, their competition hadn't said that no such 'cheating' was allowed. So, Leonel hadn't done anything wrong.

Leonel laughed to himself as he could practically see the gears turning in her little head through her radiant blue eyes. He was caught between believing that this young woman was quite attractive and thinking that she was an adorable little girl.

Of course, Kira was at most a year or two younger than he was. But, that was neither here nor there.

"Fine. Fine. Fine. FINE!" Kira stomped her foot.

Before Leonel could react, he found a delicately sculpted vial being pushed into his chest in thanks to Kira's palm. He felt a slight cold sweat mat his brow because that airhead was actually still holding her saber at the same time. If she was just a little careless, she might have cut him in half.

"This…?" Leonel blinked in confusion, tilting his head.

The vial was filled with a dense red liquid. But, what shocked Leonel was that when he caught it, his hand almost crashed to the ground.

By the time he picked himself up, Kira was already at the edge of the light road, glaring back at him.

"Consider that as compensation. Oh, and remember that you only get to step off the road like this on your first attempt. During your second attempt, you're only allowed to quit after gaining a fragment of [Dimensional Cleanse]. Quitting at any other moment means death.

"Humph, I don't know why I'm explaining these things to you. You're clearly a cheater."

With that, Kira stepped off the road as though there wasn't an endless abyss below. Even Leonel couldn't help but slightly panic for her. But, before he could do anything, she had vanished.

He found himself hoping that she was okay. Even though she was an airhead, she had clearly helped him more than he could put into

And this thing…

deepened as he struggled to pick up the vial. Even his fingers themselves struggled to keep their grip around it. If not for him still being

it. She had pressed her palm against his chest, then took it out of

wanted to get one more

what the hell is this

[ *Ping* ]

to seed, this is an Ocean Drop

liquid within, but he had almost forgotten how specific he needed to be with the dictionary. Now, though, he was curious about

does an Ocean Drop

[ *Ping* ]

worth of liquid into a single drop. It is especially good at preserving the vitality of blood. It can

constricted. Ten thousand?! And it

if it could hold an ocean's worth of liquid… Even

what is within it?"

[ *Ping* ]

pupils constricted once again, his expression

and response was about a millisecond off. The only time this happened was when a recorded message was about to play.

expected, Leonel's ability never failed him. Soon, a shimmering hologram of his father appeared for the first time in

blinked, looked around, and finally

brat. What's up? Been a while,

expect him to fall for this same prank call bit again?

Fool me twice, shame on me. Leonel was no fool, he would just let his father's practical joke play itself out. He