Brothers (1)

"Cap? You're alright?"

Leonel blinked. "Why wouldn't I be?"

Joel was speechless. He knew that Leonel's EQ wasn't this low. Was he just pretending? Or did that brain of his finally short circuit? He didn't even know how to respond to all of this. 

Leonel smiled knowingly but didn't say anything else. The way his own logic worked wasn't something that he wanted to take the time to explain. The number of calculations—one part rigorous, and another part arbitrary—that went into his final decision was so large that he would have to be here all day if these guys insisted on him explaining it all. 

To make matters worse, they might not even understand and assume that he was simply forgiving Aina because he was lovesick… When he was probably the only person in this world who wouldn't be guilty of such a thing. 

Did Aina's actions hurt? Of course they did. Did Leonel understand why she had done so? He understood that as well.