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.

...

standing on a platform formed

did their business, but they couldn't seem

you see what

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

sentence by Eamon made Leonel look toward him with a flickering

to lack confidence or the ability to introspect at all. In

he had just found a problem to

but he's also had a bit of a change in demeanor. This could greatly

just now didn't have 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

get away with caging their citizens in like this for what was approaching two

if they didn't realize that they were caged in the first place. Meaning, the

both a defensive and illusion formation at the

very impressive," Eamon said, seemingly finished analyzing

blushed

is," Leonel nodded. "The last time I came here, this formation wasn't nearly as

checked over the formation as well in the past, but it still wasn't this good back then. Something changed in

ability to improve this formation by

matter much," Leonel said with

spear manifested

world trembled as Leonel's gaze sharpened. And he suddenly swung

CRACK.

CHIII.

The shards of formation fell from the skies, raining down and startling the citizens below. They all looked up at once to find Leonel and Eamon