Dimensional Descent

2046 Are You?

Aina didn't have the words to describe what she was thinking about or how she was feeling. Any other person would have probably thought that their boyfriend had entirely lost his mind. He spoke about himself practically in the third person just now, as though the him she was looking at wasn't him at all.

But also, just now, Leonel's mind had been connected with her own. And yet, despite that connection, he had never felt farther away from her than he had in that moment. It was as though she was a small water spout and he was a vast, endless ocean. Although she was feeding into him, she was hardly helping or changing anything at all, and what he had to offer was far too vast for him to be able to share anything without risking her destruction.

Aina trembled.

Something similar had happened before, although not exactly in this way. Maybe, in fact, it had happened two times before, once when Leonel suddenly cleared more than 70 floors of the Void Tower when he should have had no capability of doing so, and second when his father had appeared suddenly in the Rapax Nest and undid some kind of seal.

But how were those two things related at all?

This sort of unfathomable feeling… Aina hadn't sensed it when she met Leonel's father. In her opinion, Leonel's father wasn't even half as strong as the Leonel who just spoke with her, and maybe even that wasn't anywhere near exaggerated enough.

So how could Velasco be the one who had sealed Leonel? It had seemed as though, back then, that he had done something for Leonel's own good, but the Leonel that she had seen just now was beyond the capability of anyone to seal.

from a far off land? Why did

was why was it that he was so happy about his failure… It felt like she was looking through a mirror… On one side, there was the Leonel who was still looking for his answers, and on the other side, it seemed that there was another Leonel who

fathom just how much hardship this elder Leonel had to go through to finally find the answer, but she had never heard Leonel laugh so heartily

still a light smile on her lips. She felt that even this older Leonel was an idiot too.

snapped opened minutes later. He sat up so quickly that his head almost smashed into Aina's, but he

was something odd. The situation wasn't exactly the same. He couldn't remember anything that had happened in the Void Tower,

down at his hands, his pupils

tenfold increase wasn't enough to describe it. Although his Force Manipulation remained the same, his Ethereal Glabella had become like its own Innate Node, so large that it had basically replaced the entirety of his frontal lobe, and it even looked as though

one unit before, it was over a thousand now. It had gone from a drop of water, to an

affinity had changed much, it was still outstanding. Or maybe it had grown

his number of split minds had gone from a factor of

observing his hands at all, rather it felt like he was looking at the