Leonel sat in silence as he watched his friends lose one after another, realizing that he was quite helpless to do anything about it.
In truth, he blamed himself. He spent so long away from all of them that he never truly helped them to grow like he should have. He buried his head away, chasing a woman he couldn't even explain his attraction to and leaving them to fend against the Dimensional Verse on their own.
He spoke of helping people, but he couldn't even properly help those closest to him. In fact, he had only made things harder on them.
The mountain they would have had to climb to earn a spot to enter the Void Palace was tall to begin with, but now with this target painted onto their backs, and their number disparity, an improbable cause had instantly become an impossible one.
