After returning to the real world, Leon took out a Spiritual Replenishment Pill and ingested it. Then, he recovered his meditative position and thoroughly absorbed the pill's efficacy.
A few minutes later, Leon felt a bit better but still exhausted, nonetheless.
'I haven't seen Maya show such expressions before… It's almost as if the expressions I've seen from our past interactions were all fake…' Leon silently mused.
Rather than fake, it's just that Maya's expressions in the spiritual world seemed more genuine.
Leon rested for a bit longer before he glanced around at the ruin, which had become much tidier.
It appeared that while he was busy with Maya in the spiritual world, Aria and Darlene had nearly collected all the relics in the ruin by themselves.
A full incense worth of time must have passed in the real world.