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 Will-Aura, his classmates had looked at

for them to look at

they disliked him but that they simply didn't

like Gravis

Senior now showed the

wasn't supposed to

what the

see you later," Heavenly Senior

with a smile that didn't reach her eyes. "If you need anything, just call,

was looking with the same expression

SHING!

Happy Springs also vanished.

Light didn't even interact with

no point in talking to

people of

each other and left without a

very interested in Gravis. Maybe Gravis

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

was for the best

Gravis with a complex

rather close. After all, Gravis

that had been on the basis that Master

more powerful than Master Linus by such a degree, Master Linus felt like they

or cosmic scale. It was like the

had taken on the identity of

Master Linus felt

desired to talk with Gravis, but he also felt like

probably too occupied with other things to talk

had reached places that Master Linus couldn't even imagine, and he felt

after some polite words,

Essence, her feelings towards Gravis

brother. They were theoretically related, but they had

was just like an

talked with Gravis about some superficial topics and also

much in common, which made a

Mortis' and Gravis' gazes

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

them felt what the other

feeling inferior, demotivated, and pressured, and Gravis

had more than enough qualities to put him in an equal place to Gravis, and Mortis noticed

their feelings were overshadowed

Unimportance.

Irrelevance.

them knew that both of them felt that all of these

finality of their future in mind, any current emotional