Dimensional Descent

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"Unacceptable."

These were the first words Miel said in regard to Leonel's proposed plan. The idea of trusting Leonel to carry everyone out of here was grating on his nerves. It might be in one part due to the fact it was Leonel, but it was mostly due to the fact that he was the one who was tasked with protecting these people in the first place. The fact that he was now being asked to rely on a young man a fraction of his age to do what he should have been able to do was more of a blow to his ego than he was willing to take.

Of course, Miel, much like anyone else, had an ego, but it was deeper than just that as well. His admission that his ego played a role was him trying to check himself and truly come to understand where all the root of this was coming from. But the main truth was that...

He simply didn't trust Leonel.

It wasn't just about Leonel's incompetence. He just didn't like Leonel's character, and he didn't believe that this was a young man good enough for his daughter, let alone to lead them all out of here and take on the weight of thousands of lives.

Leonel claimed to love his daughter, but he had also dared to say those cruel words to her back then. He had seen Leonel's gaze back then, a gaze so cold and detached from everything in the world, a gaze that looked as though it was gazing upon not a woman pouring out his heart to him, but rather an annoying fly he wanted to swat out of his way.

He didn't care about what reasons Leonel might have had. He didn't believe that any man should act like that toward a woman he had even a modicum of respect toward. It shouldn't have been within the fiber of his being to even think of doing such a thing.

No matter how he looked at it, he felt that Leonel wasn't worthy of his respect, his trust or his daughter.

yet there was Aina, sitting silently by his

be angry on his behalf, or at the very least, try to mediate the situation. But she did neither. It was as though she had already picked a side, and that side wasn't the side of

grow up. He knew that they were meant to leave the side of their parents and grow on their own. He even agreed that a husband and wife's greatest reliance should be on one another, if parents were too

just didn't want it to be Leonel. And Leonel's

be leaving then. Any deaths that happen will be

as though he didn't care

he try harder? Shouldn't he do more? But he thought that they should believe him

already had it not been for his daughter sitting right there. He felt so much rage

infuriated he

was going to ignore the laughter entirely,

have the heart of a demon. You supposedly believe you're the only chance for these people to live, and yet your aren't even willing to say more than a sentence. One day my daughter will realize the kind of person you really are

words to convince his

had begged, they had pleaded, they had warned and advised, but had it

something you could force someone to change. You could only hope to give them the tools to