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.

...

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

scurried about and did their business, but they couldn't seem to spot them at all. And this

"Do you see what the

a city that was perpetually caged in,

Eamon made Leonel look toward him with

ability to introspect at all. In fact, he looked thoughtful, a hint stoic,

was because he had

had a bit of a change in demeanor. This could greatly help his 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 this for what was approaching

were caged in the first place. Meaning, the

and illusion

is very impressive," Eamon said, seemingly finished analyzing

blushed in embarrassment, wondering if

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

it still wasn't this good back then. Something changed in the last year or so,

ability to improve this formation by

doesn't really matter much," Leonel said

his hand, a spear manifested

as Leonel's gaze sharpened. And he suddenly swung

CRACK.

CHIII.

formation fell from the skies, raining down