Dimensional Descent

Morality

Even on Earth, where there was relative peace, no one could come to a perfect conclusion on it. Was there an objective morality? Was it relative, based on the situation or maybe the opinion of the majority? Was it based on religion or was it anti-religion? Were there some cases where the opinion of the majority should be overruled by a more well-informed minority?

Each discipline had their own fancy name, written by people who spent their entire lives studying philosophy, and yet none of them could come to a consensus.

There were too many variables, too many different cultures, too many differing life experiences.

Sometimes Leonel wondered how their views on morality might change in a world like this one. Would it scale up with the strengths individuals held and not change much at all? Or would their thoughts have to be overhauled for the sake of aligning with a new truth?

Leonel didn't know.

For quite a long while, he had been tugged around by those questions of morality, torn between what would satisfy his mind versus what would do him the most good.

He had come to feel in the end that most of it was bullshit. In a world like this one, created just to end one day, what good was there in some objective morality? Trying to find one had ended up causing him more heartache than anything else, and for what, exactly?

He could remember the feelings of his future self quite well. That endless void of loneliness, that gut sinking guilt, it was endless and vast.

If that was what chasing morality got him, he truly didn't want it.

But at the same time, that didn't mean that they would do nothing. The trouble was whether he was doing it for the right reasons or not.

His morality was originally based on logic. He couldn't understand what could objectively decide the worth of a life, so he didn't. Instead, he treated everyone equally and even believed that since he was granted talent, it was his duty to help to elevate everyone else.

he understood himself a bit better than

was a selfish person, while he did rush out to seek cheap thrills or maybe even quite expensive ones that might

was able to read people's emotions like they were an open book. It was a quirk

in a given situation, why they were showing weakness when they should have some backbone, why

he was always fielding in these emotions and the loneliness and guilt of his future self made him want to fix it,

to help people, that was the fourth thing he had learned about

character changed by the hour, let alone by the

as such, that fourth principle of his lost out to

He was selfish.

made his wife cry to pay, he wanted to see

sure to

rubbed Aina's back as she sniffled, seemingly feeling much better than

Leonel wasn't lying to her. What she maybe feared the most was Leonel thinking less of her for

an ounce of him that

enveloped in his embrace. And after a long while,

does the Gathering of

Leonel chuckled. "So eager?"

faces in. Who are they to try and seduce my

picking Aina up in