Dimensional Descent

Leonel stood in silence for a long while. He tuned out the world, lost in a bit of a daze.

Whatever nonsense Gregwyn was talking about reaping what you sow wasn't even worth listening to. Goggles' actions had nothing to do with Gregwyn or his words. Just logically speaking, that was a foolish conclusion to draw.

If Goggles was stupid enough to believe the words of a scorned fool, then he wouldn't have been nearly as close to Leonel as he was. Originally, he was Leonel's trusted aid. Because of his Ability Index, he almost had no choice but to be intelligent.

The more information Goggles had on hand, the better he could predict the future.

Honestly speaking, Leonel could understand if someone drew the conclusion. Technically, Goggles would be able to grasp that Gregwyn was technically telling the truth with his Ability Index.

But the fact Goggles only chose to withdraw now was the final nail in the coffin.

He wasn't leaving because he felt that Leonel wasn't worth following due to Gregwyn's words, he was leaving because he had already made an assessment. In fact, he had likely already made the choice to betray Leonel before he even stepped foot into this place, and he had always known that he would be able to protect his life.

From the very beginning, this was what he wanted to do.

Nature versus Nurture.

It was a line of thought that Leonel had wanted to ignore, that he had forced himself to ignore, that he had stuffed away into the recesses of his mind.

He was too intelligent not to see it, he just didn't want to see it.

become one way or another? Or were they

it was a combination of both, it had to be both...

should want the ability to change if you forced it hard enough. Why should who you were meant to be end up being decided without your

no one would want to accept

in that case, how could he ever expect things to always be the same? To expect the same person to always make the same choice?

He couldn't.

what he didn't want

it. In fact, had he not purposely ignored all of the signs, dead set in

was rated at a much higher level than Leonel's own and he had

something from Leonel for

maybe if he had some great expert protecting him from the shadows it would have been possible. In fact, it was almost certain that the latter was true... the difference was that this "great expert" still wasn't

was certain that Goggles hadn't made this choice on his own. If he picked against Leonel, there was a reason

all signs seemed to point toward

happen. In fact, she had likely begun to lay out these plans long ago. She might have used

it still wasn't the reason Leonel had shed

he was dead to Leonel. Not only would he make him regret this choice he made today, but

first layer, but the festering wound he had ripped open

twisted fate and reversed reality, bringing his father

Velasco even be