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.

created his Will-Aura, his classmates had looked

for them to look at

Gravis' classmates had avoided talking to him. It wasn't that they disliked him but that they simply

Gravis was

Senior now showed the

supposed

was what

So, see you later," Heavenly Senior said with an

Springs said with a smile that didn't reach her eyes. "If

Springs was looking with the same

SHING!

Happy Springs also vanished.

didn't even interact with Gravis before

was no point in talking to

people of

at each other and left without

interested in Gravis. Maybe Gravis could

estrangement as the other ones, and they felt that it was better not to

was for the best

at Gravis with a

and Gravis were rather close. After

on the basis that Master Linus was the one with

Gravis had become more powerful than Master Linus by such a degree, Master Linus felt like they weren't in

cosmic scale. It was like the person they had always

different person had taken on the

Master

with Gravis, but

with other things to talk to

had reached places that Master Linus couldn't even imagine, and he felt like he should leave Gravis

some polite words, Master Linus

Essence, her

Gravis as a very distant brother. They were theoretically related, but they had nothing

was just like an

Zero's Essence only talked with

in common, which made a

Mortis' and Gravis'

to talk

of them felt what the other one

demotivated, and pressured, and Gravis

Mortis' feelings came from an irrelevant place and that Mortis had more than enough qualities to put him in an

overshadowed by one

Unimportance.

Irrelevance.

them felt that all of these

their future in mind, any current