Dimensional Descent

"No relationship can work one-sidedly. You can follow your heart, but not to your detriment or to the detriment of the person willing to give you theirs," Leonel said with a solemn tone, his words hanging in the air.

Eamon fell into silence and nodded slowly.

The two just sat there in silence, and at some point tears began to flow from Eamon's eyes, but Leonel didn't leave.

The two sat there for a long while until Eamon's tears dried.

He wiped his cheeks and took a shuddering breath.

"... I know that I shouldn't like Cindra, or at least that's what she's told me. She said that she was forced to do a great many things to survive and get to where she is today, she's also much older than me, much wiser as well. In some ways she even raised me even though she was never my mother in a real sense.

"I knew that it was uncomfortable for her to see someone she had known as a little boy suddenly begin to pursue her like I did, and it was selfish on my part, I know that.

"... I will apologize to her and close this chapter. Maybe in another life."

Leonel smiled and patted Eamon's shoulder.

"Come with me, we're going somewhere cool."

Eamon blinked in surprise, not quite understanding what cool thing they were going to see. But when he finally laid eyes on it, he was truly speechless this time. It could be said that Leonel was one of a kind in the worst and best of senses.

To think his idea of somewhere cool was strolling into Godlen territory.

...

high above Godlen City, both standing on a platform formed by Leonel's Emulation

couldn't seem to spot them at all. And this wasn't because

"Do you see

living in a city that was perpetually caged in, I wouldn't be

sentence by Eamon made Leonel look toward him with a flickering light

current Eamon didn't seem to lack confidence or the ability to introspect at all. In

was because he had just found a problem to focus

a problem to focus on now, but he's also had

much detail, but between Dream Force experts, not many words needed to be exchanged to begin with. In fact, even if they spoke in intelligible syllables, so long as they still had their Dream Force, people around them would understand

away with caging their citizens in like

if they didn't realize that they were caged in the first place. Meaning, the reason they couldn't see Leonel and Eamon

was both a defensive and illusion formation at the same

said, seemingly finished analyzing and looking toward

staring at him, Eamon blushed in embarrassment, wondering if he had said something

"The last time I came here, this formation wasn't nearly as good. It seems that they had other cards up

checked over the formation as well in the past, but it still wasn't this good

to improve this formation by this much in such

doesn't really matter much,"

spear manifested from Emulation Spatial Force

as Leonel's gaze sharpened. And

CRACK.

CHIII.

wine and fragmented glass. The shards of formation fell from the skies, raining down