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

eyes at these words. What did she mean, 'is he that angry'? Setting aside the truth for a moment, so what if

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

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

a gross exaggeration. The current Joel and Allan were just as enraged as any one of

three men before her, Yuri's own flickered, making her

your fault. You're just the friend

jaw clenched. Just the same way Raj was willing to go overboard in protecting Leonel, even saying many things he shouldn't have said, Yuri was much the same way with Aina. In fact, compared to the time Leonel's

temper flare like it had before

… You all have to understand that this

he chose to continue

matter was that if Joel had told Leonel that Yuri wanted to talk, Leonel probably would have come. And, even if Leonel chose not to come, it wouldn't be because

right now wasn't rage, it was indifference. If he felt that his time was better spent training and meditating, he wouldn't come. If he was curious

there was a very lowly, maybe 0% probability, that Leonel would change his mind purely on

been booted from the second day of competition, they

sake of a position to enter the Void Palace Selection? But this was