Dimensional Descent

An odd silence reigned over the atmosphere in a forest just on the outskirts of a Luxnix city.

Joel, Franco and Allan stood across from Yuri and Savahn, the latter two wearing nervous, fidgeting expressions.

In truth, Joel was quite surprised that Yuri had managed to contact them from so far away. It had taken several hours just to get here. If not for Joel being pretty level headed, he wouldn't' have even deemed to come. But, for matters related to Leonel, he was still willing to go so far.

That said, it made sense. This was Planet Luxnix, not Planet Viola. Plus, the status of these two was ties to Miel and Aina, so even if it was Planet Viola, it wasn't like they could move about as freely as they wanted. Due to these reasons, they had no choice but to contact Joel and the others from so far away.

The surprising part, though, was that Yuri was actually able to accomplish such a thing. It made Joel take her just that bit more seriously.

"Where is Leonel?" Yuri finally asked, somewhat unwilling to meet their gazes. In fact, much of her fidgeting was because she was trying to see if Leonel was coming or not.

Yuri had left a small tag on Joel's Soul Force the last time they met, but she had never been able to do the same with Leonel. So, she had contacted Joel, hoping to contact Leonel through him. But, Joel didn't seem to have come with Leonel at all.

This was a problem. If Leonel was truly angry, this would make things even more difficult.

Of course… this only showed how little Yuri understood about Leonel.

Is he

'is he that angry'? Setting aside the truth for a moment, so what if he was? Did he not have the right to be? The fact he hadn't exploded onto the arena stage was a proof of his

out a hand and put it on Franco's chest,

not to take Raj along with them because he would only exacerbate any situation they ended up getting into, but the more rowdy of their group had insisted that at least one of them go because they didn't trust Joel and Allan to say the harsh things when

The current Joel and Allan were just as enraged

Yuri's own flickered, making her feel that maybe she

you understand about Leonel, but that isn't your fault. You're just the friend of the woman

said, Yuri was

her temper flare like it had before would only be detrimental to

You all have to understand that this matter isn't what it looks

brow furrowed, but he chose to continue to listen instead

even if Leonel chose not to come,

time was better spent training and meditating, he wouldn't come. If he was curious enough to

was a very lowly, maybe 0% probability,

had been booted from the second day of competition, they had nothing to lose wasting time like this. So, he listened to Yuri's story from

that Aina's father agreed to this marriage for the sake of a position to enter the Void Palace Selection? But this was a lie because anyone could participate anyway?"