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.

very same state... as though the present was a rubber band fixed at two

He had thought of many useless abilities of the Ability

breath, steadying his beating heart and going back to his original thoughts. He made himself calm down and

again. It seems that I don't need Cleansing Waters after all; from the very beginning, [Dimensional Cleanse] was capable of doing it for me. Not just this, but it should even

Leonel didn't understand the man was implying that he was himself.

one reason alone. If even that version of him couldn't bring his father back to life, he didn't want to be him. He would

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

his feet rumbled, and the star before him quaked and then suddenly split right down the middle as though it

flickered, and he danced out of

never thought that tentacles could be beautiful, but that was precisely what was before him, a gorgeous sight. The movement of this enormous tentacle beast was like watching streams of golden light descend from the sun, peeking through the misty beauty of

was just as gorgeous as it

figure out, both of which

this was Little Tolly, 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 mutation failed and was his Little Metal Spirit still rampaging? Or was it something

entity had done it with a simple shout, but Leonel obviously wasn't at that level,

just thought of the question when he had thought of an answer, for the second,

tips of his toes gliding along the starry road until he