Lightning Is the Only Way

A long period of silence passed in the air.

A new Heaven's Magnate had been born, but this occasion wasn't as joyous as it always had been.

It was a frustrating and sad occasion.

Everyone had believed that they would receive a new colleague.

Yet, they had turned out to be someone that wasn't a part of them.

He wasn't like them.

He didn't share the same problems as them.

He didn't fight like them.

He didn't use the same powers as them.

He was different.

He didn't belong.

They had looked forward to Gravis joining them. After all, most of them had watched Gravis after he had caused the Heaven Clash. They had known that he was different in a way, but they had believed that he would eventually join them.

Yet, in their minds, he didn't.

"Wow, eh," Heavenly Senior said through an awkward laugh. "I wanted to welcome you, but you don't seem like you need my welcome. You look like you're doing very well on your own."

At the Heaven's Magnate Realm, Gravis couldn't see the Law fragments of the other Heaven's Magnates. Because of that, he couldn't completely be certain of what Heavenly Senior was thinking.

Gravis only turned his gaze to Heavenly Senior.

When Heavenly Senior saw Gravis looking at him, he felt a cold shiver run down his spine.

It was like that time the Opposer had looked at him.

He didn't like that sensation.

"So, anyway, welcome," Heavenly Senior said awkwardly. "If you need anything, just call me, okay?"

Gravis nodded. "Thank you."

Gravis didn't fully know what Heavenly Senior was thinking, but Gravis recognized that expression.

He had seen very similar expressions a very long time ago.

Back when Gravis had joined the Research Institute to become a Research Apprentice, he had become part of a class.

had created his Will-Aura, his classmates had looked at him

them

It wasn't that they disliked him

like Gravis was

now showed the

wasn't supposed to be

was what

Heavenly Senior said

said with a smile that didn't reach

was looking with the same expression

SHING!

Happy Springs also vanished.

Light didn't even

point in

were people of

foggies looked at each other and

interested in Gravis. Maybe Gravis could

feeling of estrangement as the other ones, and

was for the best to let things

at Gravis with a

he and Gravis were rather close. After all, Gravis

on the basis that Master Linus was

powerful than Master Linus by such a degree, Master Linus felt like they weren't in the same world

feeling of estrangement when their friend suddenly managed to find success on a global or cosmic scale. It was like the person they had always been friends

different person had taken on the identity of that

Master Linus

desired to talk with Gravis, but he also

was probably too occupied with other things to talk to

Linus couldn't even imagine, and he felt

after some polite words,

for Zero's Essence, her feelings towards

very distant brother. They were theoretically related, but they had nothing that

just

talked with Gravis about some

have much in common, which made a

Mortis' and Gravis'

other perfectly, and they didn't need to talk to know what the other one

what the other one was

was feeling inferior, demotivated, and

an irrelevant place and that Mortis had more than enough qualities to put him in an equal

feelings were overshadowed by one shared

Unimportance.

Irrelevance.

that all of these feelings were unimportant in the

future in mind, any current emotional problems