Lightning Is the Only Way

At this moment, it was like they had never been apart.

Gravis and Stella kissed for a long time.

However, when their lips parted, Stella still felt a bit uncertain about everything.

Yes, Gravis' words made logical sense, but feelings didn't always follow logic.

In a certain sense, Stella still felt useless to Gravis.

Gravis had known Stella for a long time, and he could take a good guess at what she was thinking right now.

"Stella," Gravis said quietly, looking into her eyes. "You're trying to take control over reality."

A skeptical look appeared on Stella's face.

"My power doesn't secure your survival," Gravis said. "Whenever you temper yourself, I have to go far away to make it impossible for me to interfere."

"Do you think I have any kind of control in that situation?"

Stella only looked into Gravis' eyes.

"I don't," Gravis continued as he embraced Stella. "Every time I see you fighting, I'm scared that this will be the last time I will ever see you. Every single time, I'm sickened with worry, and I want to do nothing more than to just help you."

"However, in a certain sense, this is a selfish feeling. I don't want to lose you, and that's why I'm feeling this way. If I followed this feeling, you wouldn't be able to grow. Additionally, I know that you would only be unhappy if you stopped cultivating."

"You're like me in that sense," Gravis said with a smile. "We both want happiness, but we also can't stop cultivating. It's simply who we are."

"Yet, to accomplish that, I have to give up any form of control I have over your life. I can give you a walking stick and some support, but you have to walk the path with your own two feet. I can't help you with that."

"I can only trust in you."

Stella looked into Gravis' eyes for a while and then looked away again.

'Is all of this only because I want to have control over Gravis' life?' Stella thought.

'That sounds bad, but is controlling someone necessarily bad? Not really. Dealing with something Gravis couldn't handle would be me taking control of the situation.'

Stella looked back at Gravis, and her heart warmed as she saw his eyes.

'Yet, even if I had the power to deal with his problems, it would only hurt him if I interfered.'

'Cultivation is a path that has to be walked alone.'

'I'm the only person that has control over my Cultivation, and Gravis is the only person that has control over his Cultivation.'

looked into each other's eyes

Then, Stella's face relaxed.

guess everything makes much more

Stella's eyes shot open in

Gravis only smiled happily.

Silence.

right answer," Stella

Gravis nodded.

disadvantages. Under certain circumstances, a seemingly wrong

all perspective, and control is

nodded again with

call it perceived reality, can't

"I can help you, but you also need to be powerful enough

I tried so hard

the Law of Control, and with the Law of Control, you now also

couldn't come to terms

had comprehended the

quickly went

Law of Freedom, and now he has taught me the

of Perceived Reality, and

Yet, Stella only smiled.

the right direction, but I have to

have granted me the Laws of Control and Freedom, but that only worked because I already had the ability to

Stella started to

again, and they wouldn't part from each other

Stella only stayed with each other, and after that, they traveled around Opposer

Gravis had realized

and father, and Stella talked a long time with Gravis' mother about reasons for cultivating and the complexities of life and

someone's mind in just a single day, and after

in

couldn't help the Opposer

Economistress had lived for far longer, and she had managed to make peace with her

his life, and he

and our other children wouldn't even exist, and without them, he would still be as cranky and angry as on the first day we

had to giggle at the way

"I'm actually helping him

Stella

Opposer supposed to be on an unimaginable level of

the Economistress help

show you," the Economistress

SHING!