Dimensional Descent

Aina's chuckle pulled Leonel out of his thoughts, leaving him speechless. They had entered another world of darkness, and a gaseous blackness flew all around them. On top of that, their lives were being plucked along under some unknown symphony, controlled by composers that likely didn't have their best interest in mind.

What could this little vixen possibly have to chuckle about?

"Look at your face, so serious and so confused. You've spent the last almost three weeks doing nothing but thinking. What is that worth to someone else? A couple months? A couple years, maybe? You're still not tired?"

Leonel didn't even know how to respond to this. For a second, he thought that someone was trying to whisper doubts into his mind and that they were using Aina's voice as a convenient in. But soon, he realized that it really was this future wife of his that was teasing him.

Seeing Leonel's expression, Aina laughed harder.

"Aren't you having too good a time with this?" Leonel finally responded.

"What can I do but have a good time?"

Leonel felt a hand rub at his crotch and squeeze a few times.

"I know what it is," Aina said seriously. "You're too pent up, I haven't been doing my wifely duties."

Leonel blinked, then turned and cupped Aina's face. Seeing the serious look in his eyes, Aina almost stopped her joke completely... until he spoke.

"Who are you and what have you done with my Aina?"

Aina scoffed. "You become a completely new person every other day and I can't change just a little bit?"

Although Leonel could tell that Aina was joking again, his eyes dimmed somewhat.

"I'm sorry."

heart skipped a

in

if he changed so

thought a lot about how he would react to things, but not enough about how everyone else would. Just Joel's probes alone should have alerted him to this, but Aina actually had to make a joke about it before he registered that it might be a

his mouth to say more but

parents know what

"Huh?"

was completely in a daze. He didn't have the brain capacity remaining to even

"Not everything has to be logical. And don't give me some nonsense about evolution and protecting your offspring, you'll

couldn't help but laugh, looking at that pouting face, it seemed

different people before they had you, and as you grow, they would grow too. If we marry, and

you became unconditional a long time ago,

blinked, remaining silent for a long

to seduce me,

gave you that idea?" Aina tilted her head to the side. "Was it the heartfelt words? The fact we're

as she was swept up

horns, skin as

and walked around bare-chested, having nothing

didn't seem to be a leader among them, even down to their heights, they were all of perfectly equal height and build. If not for the slightly puffier chests and longer hair of the women, it wouldn't even be possible to

they all came to a stop

drifted to their ears and they looked toward one another. Their blood began to boil somewhat

to be

the Bull Demons was already pitching a tent, and his eyes had already stopped looking off into the distance and were entirely focused on