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

was uncomfortable for them to

him. It wasn't that they disliked him but that they simply didn't feel

Gravis was

now showed

supposed to

what

Heavenly Senior said with an awkward

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

nodded. Happy Springs was looking with

SHING!

Happy Springs also vanished.

even interact with Gravis before

point in

were people of

each

Gravis. Maybe Gravis

and they felt

for the best to let things

looked at Gravis

Gravis were rather close. After all, Gravis

on the basis that Master

such a degree, Master Linus felt like

their friend suddenly managed to find success on a global or cosmic scale. It was like the person they had always been friends with was no longer

person had taken on the identity of that

was what Master Linus felt

with Gravis, but he also felt like he

probably too occupied with other things to talk to

imagine, and he

some polite words, Master Linus also

Essence, her

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

just like

of that, Zero's Essence only talked with Gravis about some

didn't have much in common, which

Mortis' and Gravis'

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

them felt what the other one was

was feeling inferior, demotivated, and pressured, and Gravis

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

overshadowed

Unimportance.

Irrelevance.

them knew that both of them felt that all

the finality of their future in mind, any current emotional problems lost all impact