[Leon cranes his neck back at the shouting, blinking rapidly. It's... Has it really only been a few months since he's been exposed to this kind of reprimanding? He's so weirded out for a moment that he doesn't answer promptly; the fact that he had to test his own teleportation crests and other parameters escapes him.]
It's-- it's something I had to do. [But behind that fact was another: He'd been bored. Ridiculously bored. More bored than he had been in the entirety of his time in Luceti. He wasn't learning anything, wasn't being entertained by the Brigade, wasn't being exasperated by Haruki's antics, wasn't getting the steps done to do his projects... He had done something mind-numbingly stupid. Packed a bag, dragged himself halfway down the mountain, hated himself through a cold night, then headed back to the teleporter.]
[action]
It's-- it's something I had to do. [But behind that fact was another: He'd been bored. Ridiculously bored. More bored than he had been in the entirety of his time in Luceti. He wasn't learning anything, wasn't being entertained by the Brigade, wasn't being exasperated by Haruki's antics, wasn't getting the steps done to do his projects... He had done something mind-numbingly stupid. Packed a bag, dragged himself halfway down the mountain, hated himself through a cold night, then headed back to the teleporter.]
I'm fine.