Dimensional Descent

Chapter 3292  A Weak Little Human

Leonel huffed out breaths, but he managed to catch his breath after just a few. He didn't feel stressed, nor too fatigued. Holding onto his wife's hand, maybe a little too tightly, he felt he had all the support he needed.
He slowly lowered his spear, his weapon vanishing into motes of sparkling light that peeled away into fluttering butterflies and soaring birds.
Looking to his side, he found his wife looking over at him at the same time. They didn't say a word, silently embracing one another.
"I'm sorry…" Aina said softly.
Leonel stroked the back of her head, feeling comfort in her touch.
"… It was always going to be impossible for us to make it this far without giving up something."
"I still feel like… we lost too much…"
Leonel didn't reply, his hold on her tightening just the slightest bit.
Too many people had died. To his shame, there were probably more than Leonel had had the bandwidth to pay attention to. So many people that deserved more fell in silence, falling in some corner of the battlefield never to rise up again.
It was a tragedy on a scale the likes of which had never happened before, and likely would never happen again.
Taking his wife into his arms,