Dimensional Descent

To not care, to be carefree. He wanted it, but his mind wouldn't seem to allow him that sort of peace. It was all too easy for many to focus on the next step forward, to chase that next goal, to aspire toward something larger than themselves, but they rarely thought about what it meant to sit at that height.

If you really did have the power to wave a hand and make everything you want come true, to force it into being, would it all even be worth it?

'What a uselessly human thought,' Leonel thought, still laughing to himself.

He was laughing because he could already see himself taking it for granted, as though he would definitely reach that height, as though he would be proposed with this question one, inevitable day... and when that time came, what choice would he make?

The question was too complicated, too marred by his own biases, and maybe if not for the level of thought he had achieved, he might not have even considered the question in the first place.

'I really hate you demons,' Leonel thought to himself, shaking his head.

Demons had almost killed him more times than he cared to admit. A demon had eaten him alive. Demons were infiltrating his Morales family. A Demon was supposedly his grandmother, toying with his life since even before the day he was born.

If this was a novel, he'd feel that the author was far too on the nose with his motifs and literary themes. What a condescending wackjob.

His life truly looked as though it was the greatest joke. How many existential crises was he going to have?

feel like an existential crisis. He felt calm as he faced these questions, and it wasn't because he knew the answer, or because he felt that the answer wasn't as important,

allow his life to go by without trying to see his father again, he couldn't allow that silly girl who never listened to him to go to the grave without seeing those that had harmed her mother to be

out that their worth really had plummeted just by virtue of his actions... he was too selfish to

just thinking these thoughts, Leonel felt that he had finally understood something

that even if it required crossing the benefits of his own brothers,

there was something wrong with James. James himself had tried to bring it up earlier in the day,

what to do himself.

allowed James to tell him about his plight. Even up

it because he hated

was

selfish. He wanted it all. He wanted his brother by his side, and he wanted victory. He was

ask the woman out over 500 times? Even if you felt that she might be interested in you, wouldn't it be obvious

those around him ignore just how ridiculous what he was doing was too, they had even begun to cheer him on, looking forward to the day that he would finally receive his answer. He had manipulated them for his own goals

or worries that Aina had had, because all that mattered to him was her saying yes. He didn't care

something that was constant.

brothers behind on Earth, brothers that he had known since he was a toddler, all to chase a woman who hadn't even