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!?'

is this true freedom?' Gravis thought as uncertainty returned to his being.

shook his

is a problem for the future!' he thought with narrowed eyes. 'Just because I can't see a way out now doesn't mean that I won't see a way out in the future. I must trust in my future self! I believe my past self to be an arrogant idiot, and

much Gravis tried to motivate himself,

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

that it may endanger his eventual future,

came naturally. Unlocking emotions was hard, but if one managed to suppress them once, it

became cold and emotionless as he glanced at

about this dead

care about

didn't care about his

even didn't care about his

knew that all the pain would return in

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

now, this

BOOOOM!

to understand a new Law, but instead of being happy, he only despised

had just comprehended the

and Gravis knew that. But

comprehended your first Law that

looked evenly at Heaven. "How come?" he

I don't run from my emotions and my

want to admit it, but

run away," Heaven said. "Would you also become apathetic if I were to slowly kill your

to act all high and mighty, or is this your way of hurting me because your ancestor suppresses

Gravis saw