Lightning Is the Only Way

Silence.

Deafening silence.

Gravis had gone through intense emotional turmoil, and he felt like he had reached the absolute bottom. He felt like he had lost control over his entire life, and the worst thing was that he accepted it.

If Heaven weren't powerful enough to kill him right now, would he have still done this? Would he have handed over his children?

Gravis wasn't sure.

He wasn't sure about anything anymore.

Gravis' human form began to regress more in age until he only looked to be about twelve years old. He felt like a child under the control of adults. When adults talked, children were supposed to be quiet and follow what the adults said.

"Don't overdo it," Heaven said. "Look at yourself. You feel like a child now? Stop feeling sorry for yourself. This situation all stems from your decision to fight me. Don't escape into your childhood to dodge responsibility."

Gravis gritted his teeth.

'How pathetic am I?' he thought with frustration.

In a matter of seconds, Gravis returned to the body of a young adult.

'So what!?' Gravis thought with gritted teeth. 'I'm not dead! My family isn't dead! Heaven is right! Everything stems from my arrogance! I have made this choice, and I need to bear the consequences!'

'I have already reached rock-bottom! It can only go up from here!' Gravis thought.

'Yes, I have taken a huge setback, but only when I give up will I truly lose! I might have failed in having a pure path to power. I might have failed in reaching supreme power without the highest Heaven's help, but I still have my dream of freedom! Isn't freedom my most important goal!?'

this true freedom?' Gravis thought as uncertainty returned to his being. 'Is it truly my choice to forgive

violently shook

I must trust in my future self! I believe my past self to be an arrogant idiot, and my future self will think of me as an idiot! Yet, to

matter how much Gravis tried to motivate himself, he still felt uncertainty

onto these feelings of uncertainty right now,' Gravis thought with

was risky and that it may endanger his eventual future, but if he couldn't access his full power right now, he

managed to suppress them

eyes became cold and emotionless as he glanced at

didn't care about

care about

didn't care

care

all the pain

only a temporary state of mind, but the longer he remained inside it, the harder it was to

Gravis accepted that. Right now, this was a price he needed

BOOOOM!

Law, but instead of being happy, he

just comprehended the

But so what!? If he had to

first Law that not even I

at Heaven.

run from my emotions and my love for this

admit

when you slowly killed my child, I didn't run away," Heaven said. "Would you also become apathetic if I

already accepted that you are more powerful than me right now. You don't need to act all high and

time, Gravis saw some