Dimensional Descent

Rychard stood almost frozen…

Had he just lost 20% of his Sixth Dimensional experts… For no reason?

Aina's mind wandered. This time, she didn't need to hide how she was feeling. It was surprisingly easy for her to separate out emotion and logic when it came to her father. Of course, she lacked the emotional maturity to truly understand why that was.

It could have been because her father had always encouraged her to do so. It could be because her father simply didn't mean as much to her as he should have. It could have even been because the weight Leonel held for her was even heavier than that of the man she shared so much blood with.

The truth was that with her personality gone, many of the baggage and emotional scarring that came with it had vanished as well. The good news was that this had allowed Aina to heal from many things. Of course, the bad news was how these series of events was playing out.

To Aina, she had always attached a lot of this baggage to her father, but most of it wasn't love. It was duty, it was respect, it was an unwillingness to let him down… But on the list of emotions she attached to her father, love was very, very far down the list.

When Aina lost her personality, she essentially lost the ability to contextualize her memories. The things that weighed of heavy importance were often things she had the most and fondest memories of. But, with how long it had been since her father left her side, how could she have many of him to begin with?

The result was this.

Aina didn't feel worry, sadness or anger… She hadn't even asked how her father was doing or if he would survive the beating they had likely given him.

his daughter's mind, he would realize that he had faltered somewhere along their path.

this at this moment. As they walked through the Viola estate, following flowery reefs and paths of delicate rose petals, her mind seemed to be somewhere else

No one else…

like Savahn had for a very long time. In fact, she had felt it for longer. There was a period in her life before her father returned with Yuri

very good. No children were starved or abused, at least not in the normal way. There was no yelling from their overseers and there was always food on their plates. There were even plenty of opportunities to have

adopted was something

medicine, sterilization or impotency was practically non-existent. Even in the people that it did, the treatments were fast, affordable and easily administered, as was most health

couples, who had it within them to help or start families for themselves.

anyway. Surrogacy didn't even need a living human anymore

were the kind hearted couples, heterosexual or otherwise, who thought

the foster care system of the Empire was so good, that often the treatment of the children

the issue of class disparity. Those on the surface of Earth were often too busy trying to maintain their status into the future generations to worry about adopting while

Analysis Exam varied wildly. The more talented the child, the more expensive it was to the point where even many nobles couldn't or refused to afford

wouldn't understand the underlying system, all they would understand is that their government cared for them since they were children when their parents couldn't and even when no

with a family. Every time she made connections with a new friend, they might be adopted the next day, leaving her alone

closed herself off and focused entirely on her training. She