Dimensional Descent

Leonel didn't react immediately to this news. On the inside, he was quite excited to see his mother. But, on the other hand, he had several questions he wanted to know the answer of first.

The first and most obvious was why his mother had left him in the first place. There were too many things about his family dynamics that he couldn't quite grasp.

First there was the oddity of the fact he hadn't even known Emperor Fawkes was his grandfather until just a few years ago. Of course, Leonel knew that that was somewhat related to his status as someone who should have been imprisoned in Dark Cloud Prison, but that only made things more confusing to him.

Was he really such a menace to society? Just how accurate was that test if it could only possibly read a fraction of his real DNA?

But then there was the question of just how Earth's Empire had become tied to one of the three leading families of this Sector. How had his grandfather even met his grandmother to begin with? How had their relationship even taken root?

His grandfather was maybe the greatest mystery of all of this.

On first inspection, he seemed to be weak. After all, he had gotten old.

From what Leonel knew, there had only ever been one Emperor of the Ascension Empire, and that was this man before him. Thanks to Earth's technology, or what seemed like it, he had been able to live for more than 200 years, making it to the 25th century.

However, things didn't really add up. He had enough strength to slap a Fifth Dimensional existence like Scithe to death years ago, yet he couldn't maintain his youth?

Several small inconsistencies like these made Leonel shake his head. Practically, a weak man would never be able to win over a woman from a Sixth Dimensional family. Unless…

his grandfather up

you a drafted

choked on air. He

instead of a wife marrying into her husband's family and sharing his family name, the vice versa occurred. In this case, the man would take on the wife's family name and become a part of

duty to birth the lineage of the

a drafted son-in-law was an insult probably only short of saying the Ascension Empire would fall. Even the guards hidden in the surroundings, tasked with protecting Emperor

felt that it was

to various reasons. This could have been a compromise between them and Emperor Fawkes. Who knows, maybe it's

to enter the Fifth Dimension, they would likely speed run into the Sixth as well. In that sort of situation, without the backing of

the harder it was for 'talent' to bridge the gap. If his grandfather made such a 'sacrifice', it would seem

Leonel as though trying to gauge something, but in the end he just

would start nagging me again." Emperor Fawkes continued to shake his head. "I planned

expression spread into a

where are my

his immaculately sculpted beard. "For

to be speechless. Did one have to be thick skinned

Are you hearing

still choking on his own air, coughed lightly, straightening out his back. His eyes flickered as he remembered Leonel's teasing words from