Dimensional Descent

Leonel woke up with Aina on his chest.

After finishing his training, he didn't hurry to do things with the Tentacle Womb or other faction building things because after a while, he suddenly felt the need to just spend time with Aina.

When his Spear Force perfected its fusion with the final stage of his grandfather's path of the spear, Leonel mind entered an odd state of relaxation where he suddenly understood that understanding himself was even more important than understanding individual Forces.

Anastasia's words, when taken to the logical extreme, precisely meant these things.

Ultimately, just like with his Spear Force, the "life" of his Forces didn't come from them, but rather himself. While they all had their own preferences and leanings, they were ultimately in his control.

Running was always designed to be faster than running. By the same token, throwing was always designed to move things from your hand into a further distance. The same assignments could be made for walking, swimming, talking…

Any one of these activities were things everyone and almost everything did naturally. They all also had the same exact purposes, regardless of who was executing them. However, did any two individuals do them the exact same way?

Leonel had come to understand that he should treat Force in this way as well.

When he used Force, he actively did something that was the equivalent of running, or walking, or swimming, or even talking. However, he had always treated it as an external thing, not putting enough time and attention into them, much the same way that anyone could run, walk, swim or talk, but not everyone could do these things as effectively as another.

in these facets was to

and error as a child. When it came to running, you

of these things were forgotten by most as they happened so early on in life, but Leonel could remember those memories clearly. He could remember every failed attempt and reattempt. He could remember how he had to learn

he wanted to understand these Forces, he would have to learn about himself as he learned

came to that

the Segmented Cube. Aina was confused at first and didn't quite understand what the point of this was, but she realized it was rare for her

that she didn't understand what was going on and why Leonel did this and simply smiled, enjoying her time

They danced between life and

was nothing to see in the Segmented Cube aside from the beautiful ambience of nature, and yet it was so novel to

ran out of things to talk about, they simply felt silent. They didn't feel the need to fill the quiet

since the Metamorphosis descended. It was hard to fathom but since that last day of high school, the two of them had

always battle after battle, war after

such a life, but at least for now, they felt

from Aina's waist and pinched

Leonel's hand away and adjusted herself on his chest before falling

himself. Alright, one more day wasn't too

final step yet, he had definitely