Dimensional Descent

It didn't take a genius to understand what the problem was. Reputation was a woman's currency in worlds like this. Or, more accurately, this sort of reputation in specific.

The young woman might have thought that this was a funny joke to play on her elders, but clearly she hadn't thought of the fact that doing such a thing put Leonel in danger.

These women were all of high status and the pressure they gave Leonel was not small. They made the burly man and even Chef Lucca look like jokes. Leonel had no doubt that if they wanted to kill him, or at least someone in the Fifth Dimension like himself, it would be a simple matter.

These women had likely not even known what kind of establishment this was before they came, only deciding to dine here at the poking and prodding of the woman. And now Leonel was stuck in the middle of this mess.

In their eyes, the easiest thing to do would just be to kill Leonel and be done with it. As for the young woman, at worst she would get a light reprimand. The fact that she had dared to do this in the first place reeked of coddling. This young woman had definitely been doted on and spoiled all her life.

But, at the end of the day, Leonel wasn't a normal person. The hint of killing intent he had sensed was all it took to flush the embarrassment out of his system, his own gaze even flashing with its own coldness for a moment as he stood straight.

However, as quickly as the coldness had appeared, catching the oldest woman of them off guard, it vanished.

This older woman was the only one to have shown killing intent, but that didn't mean the others wouldn't have caught on quickly. It was just that this woman was the most experienced of them and understood the magnitude of the situation very quickly, so much so that she was ready to act almost instantly. Clearly, given her strength, Leonel's own thinking speed might actually be inferior to hers.

said, that didn't mean that Leonel's reaction

his eyes vanished, he revealed a bright smile. Taking a step toward the table, he did something that left

pitcher of water, raised it high, and poured

was a cup, but to the horror of the women, he poured the water toward the head of the mischievous young woman who had caused all of this

so caught off guard by the happenings that they, too, didn't know how to react. Was this young

deduced, this young woman had been coddled all her life. If even

ducked and covered her head with her hands, her speed actually fast enough for

In fact, he was sighing a breath of relief. So long as

But, to these

any intention of

when the water was about to hit the young woman's hand-covered head, Leonel's free hand rose and sparkled with a delicate

that, the flowing water became a sled of ice, the ice cubes that had once been in

down a mountain of snow, curving and often nearly falling time and time again as though

young woman's bodies, filling the room with a refreshing cool air

at the end of it all, the ice cubes fell from the end of the track and it seemed as though Leonel had finally made a mistake. But, to the astonished gazes of the women, one by one, the ice cubes neatly stacked