Dimensional Descent

The atmosphere was quite somber, and maybe the location didn't help very much. Leonel's brothers sat in silence around a table, bottles of alcohol sitting half finished as they reclined, lost in their own worlds. The smell was so strong that it felt as though a mixture of 99% rubbing alcohol and a field of roses were smashed and mashed into one, releasing a peculiar scent that made one's nose red.

They had been stuck like that for quite a long time. It was as though they could feel the heaviness of Leonel's mood, and it had been transferred over to them. This couldn't be helped. After being resurrected under Leonel's power, they felt the influence of his soul. Once they regained their own bodies, they no longer felt that sort of fanaticism that his soul constructs did, but they could still feel Leonel more clearly than they could in the past. This was only more exaggerated since some of them had experienced that feeling not just once, but twice.

Leonel hadn't come to see them since his father had died. He didn't even have much patience for Aina and his own mother, let alone others. But that didn't mean that they weren't very worried about him.

James suddenly sighed. "That guy..."

"What do you think, James? Is he finished?" Raj asked somewhat absentmindedly.

James laughed. "Why are you asking me? Do I look introspective to you?"

"Dumbass. We're asking you about someone else, what would you need to be introspective for?" Milan mumbled.

"Smart ass, don't you know you're supposed to be a dumb jock?"

"Then what's your excuse?" Milan snorted.

you trying

in the championship game? You can't even call yourself a jock, so

he sighed, just leaning back and pretending as though he

the memo that they were trying to move on, but truthfully they felt it was about time they talked about this matter. James had been gone for so long, he couldn't just come back after betraying them not just once, but twice, and

matter in the grand scheme. They already had three trophies and they didn't really care all that much about winning again, especially when the Metamorphosis came afterward. But the reason

with Joel back then, and he opened up about a lot, including the matter that separated him and James. If not for this, who knows if they would even be aware of what

sighed again. "Fine, fine. I guess I should be an adult and own up

a pair,

was Conrad Siegfried? The Siegfried

that supposed to

Conrad is also a bit of a dumbass. He would be an easy pawn to use so long as

bad, is it?"

still can't be bothered to care about football. It was just a means to an end to me, and it was also

have the cheek

him the best.

"What about your flaws?"

"I didn't say I didn't have any... But

do have an answer? Then what're you tiptoeing around