Dimensional Descent

Leonel knew that it wasn't his ice control that had gotten Mistress Oliidark's attention. It might have caused her to perk up a bit, but it wasn't until he displayed his Spear Force that she decided against killing him and took him in.

For all Leonel knew, if he hadn't learned this way of the spear, he would have been killed on the spot, never to see the next day.

It was quite a sobering thought.

A part of Leonel still believed that he would have found a way to escape. But as a person who claimed to be so rational, these thoughts of his were wholly irrational. He didn't even realize that he had had such inner thoughts until Aina pointed them out to him, but now it felt so obvious.

It was no wonder his dad laughed at him when he talked about being a King.

A King, of course, needed confidence. But didn't that confidence need to be built on something?

Leonel thought that he was. After all, his mind was his most powerful asset. He believed that he could think and smart his way out of any situation even if he lacked the raw strength. Even his Dream Class Ratings were based on this.

But wasn't that all theoretical?

Leonel opened his eyes and looked out of the window. There was no sky, no clouds, hardly any sunlight… It was just a wall, a wall to what was probably another big house or mansion in the estate, an estate that was essentially nothing more than a cage to him.

Leonel suddenly remembered that day on the battlefield.

Heavy rain fell from the skies. One by one, friends that he had held so dear for two years fell, their blood mixing into the mud and returning to the earth. Every death was like an added weight on his shoulder, a deeper sort of promise that he swore to keep.

But what if that was the real world?

would be too

His mother was out there. The woman he loved was out there. His brothers were out there. And he was here because he was too weak to

that the human mind was good at forgetting and glossing over tragedy. It was also pretty good at forgetting that one day we'd all die, something that quite a scary proposition, entering an unknown abyss

kept dear to him as though he was blessing the world with his kindness. He couldn't find a reason to place the

like a prick when you put it like that. And

he wasn't much different from anyone

his thinking, all his planning, all his

have just casually forgotten

could just revive them with a

thought about it. He couldn't find a reason to place one life above another, but didn't this Tablet that could revive the dead do so easily? Wasn't there a

more than theirs and these High Class Demons

about the secrets of

why had he

closed his eyes once more. He took deep and steady

to give worth

parent or child they loved more, and yet Leonel

loved was married off to another man, and yet he

try to logically understand things that were clearly beyond their means, and

didn't fit, stubbornly and arrogantly jamming them in again and again, yet still being

the answer? Where had he gone wrong?

have an

was all too complicated, even for him. He didn't even know

his mother, his uncle, his