Dimensional Descent

Chapter 3294  A Budding Legend

Aina frowned. "This is a bit cruel for children."
"… Maybe," Leonel said after a while.
All things considered, he didn't enter this world until he was 17, right on the very edge of his 18th birthday. He was legally considered an adult by Earth's standards when his journey began.
Here, these kids were certainly not that. More so for Alienor.
His grandmother's last child had taken the name of his mother, and was affectionately known as Little Two by most of them as her full name was Alienor Fawkes II. But because she was so pampered, her state of mind was nowhere near that of the other children in this competition.
She was easily poked and prodded at, and she very easily lost her cool. The reason she had been hounding Diego for so long was precisely because Lina had planned it all out.
Of course, Leonel knew this; he had been paying attention. It was just that he had no intention of interfering in a child's game. As much as they used his status to degrade Little Two, it was because he didn't interfere that they could do so in the first place.
Otherwise, would they even dare to say such words so boldly?
But, unfortunately, Alienor wasn't mature enough to understand and take this in stride.
And just as unfortunately, that was precisely why he couldn't interfere even as she suffered like this.
His grip on his wife's waist tightened just the slightest bit, but then he exhaled.
This was just a rite of passage. If they waited too late to help Little Two change her ways, she never would. Now was the best time.
There was a fork in the road, and it would be up to her.
Even though these were his thoughts, though… Leonel's gaze seemed far more