Dimensional Descent

'That's right...' Leonel suddenly thought back, trying to remember his exact state of mind back then. For some reason, it felt a bit foggy, something that he wasn't used to. It was as though two separate memories of the same thing were overlapping, but both just slightly different from each other.

But then those two memories became three, then four, then eventually they weren't memories of anything, but rather probabilities and deductions. His mind went blank, and he felt a heavy overflow of fatigue and dizziness that didn't stop until he forcefully stopped himself from thinking about it anymore.

'What was that?'

Leonel frowned. He had never experienced something like that before. It was like he was trying to deduce his own memories, but that was ridiculous.

'No, it's like I was trying to think of other possibilities that might fit with that timeline, but that's...'

Leonel was taken aback. He understood. He was making an attempt to find a perfect string of events that could have occurred in that moment, leading him right back to where he was now. But the number of possibilities was truly infinite. No one in existence should have a mind that powerful, let alone his current self.

Though he understood the what, what he couldn't understand was the why. And even if he had succeeded, what would have been the purpose?

He had a dark thought, but he didn't even want to go down that road. It threatened to make him frustrated once more and it almost brought him right back to that broken state. The words that El'Rion had spoken echoed in his mind, and the supposed uselessness of The Hourglass was put on full display.

as though the present was

fists. He had thought of many useless abilities of the Ability Index in the past, but this one was

his beating heart and going back to his original thoughts. He made himself calm down and focus. Then, he finally completed the

Waters after all; from the very beginning, [Dimensional Cleanse] was capable of doing it for me.

that he was himself. Only

If even that version of him couldn't bring his father back to life, he didn't want to

and now that he had understood how [Dimensional Cleanse] truly worked, he didn't have the time to think

star path beneath his feet rumbled, and the star before him quaked and then suddenly split right down the middle as though it was hiding a ship within. But out from within, tendrils of white

he danced out

him, a gorgeous sight. The movement of this enormous tentacle beast was like watching streams of golden

just as gorgeous as it was

needed to figure out, both of which were probably

why was he attacking him? While he was in El'Rion's body, he had had full autonomy, and that was a Pluto. Why didn't Little Tolly? Or did that mean that Little Tolly did have autonomy and simply chose to attack him anyway? Had the

second problem was, obviously, how to separate Little Tolly from this... beautiful creature? The Void Race entity had done it with a simple shout, but Leonel obviously wasn't at that level, so what could he

of an answer, for the second, anyway. As for the first. Well... he would

of his toes gliding along the starry road until