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.

his classmates had looked at him

for them to

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

was like Gravis was a

now showed

supposed to be

was what

later," Heavenly Senior said with

didn't reach her eyes. "If you need anything,

looking with

SHING!

Happy Springs also vanished.

Light didn't even interact with

no point

people

each other

in Gravis. Maybe

the same feeling of estrangement as the other ones, and they felt that

best to

Gravis with a

Gravis were rather close. After all, Gravis had helped him

Master Linus was the one with

than Master Linus by such a degree, Master

success on a global or cosmic scale. It was like the person they had always been

like a different person had taken on the identity

was what Master Linus felt right

with Gravis, but he also felt

with other things to

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

after some polite words,

for Zero's Essence, her feelings towards

distant brother. They were theoretically related,

just

Zero's Essence only talked with Gravis about some superficial topics and also

in

and Gravis'

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

them felt what the

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 equal place

were overshadowed

Unimportance.

Irrelevance.

that both of them felt that all of these

any current emotional problems lost