"...What?" Leon asked astonished.
Leon couldn't believe his ears, so he asked that on a foolish tone. He was making a face as if he was a kid who just learned that Santa Claus doesn't exist...
" I left two years ago..." Leon said. "What kind of joke is this?"
"What?" Anton frowned. "You left almost twenty years ago..."
Again, Leon couldn't believe his ears. That didn't make any sense. If that was a joke, Anton was going a bit too far. He knew that Leon's goal was to return home, and that kind of thing was bad for his heart.
"No, no, no..."Leon massaged his eyebrows. "You didn't say that twenty years have passed since I left... you said twenty months, right?"
"... It looks like the assimilation affects the worlds much more than we imagined," Anton said. "Most likely, time passes ten times more slowly. The higher the planet is on the stage of assimilation."