While Leo brushed off the feeling that perhaps [Monarch's Indifference] might be failing him fairly quickly, what he did not understand yet was that training the [Sevenfold Revelation Codex] and being constantly on the lookout to feel and experience emotions, was slowly making him resistant to the technique.
Ideally, [Monarch's Indifference] was supposed to be a (passive) skill, that limited his range of emotions to about 10-20% of what he would usually feel, keeping him perpetually stoic and collected, however, using it while training the codex was leading to momentary lapses where the skill stopped working for a few seconds, before sputtering back to life again.
The early sign of this phenomenon was how his old cocky personality was surfacing again and how he was experiencing life as a joyful ride again, however, although the changes were not fully noticeable yet, the first cracks had finally begun to show.
