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

uncomfortable for them to look

It wasn't that they disliked

was like Gravis

Senior now showed

supposed to

what

Heavenly Senior said with

welcome," Happy Springs said with a smile that didn't reach her eyes.

was looking with

SHING!

Happy Springs also vanished.

Light didn't even interact with

no point

were people of

looked at each other and left

were very interested in Gravis. Maybe

ones, and they felt that it was better

for the best to

Gravis with a

felt like he and Gravis were rather close. After all, Gravis had

that had been on the basis that Master Linus was

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

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

different person had taken on

was what Master

with Gravis, but he also felt like

probably too occupied with

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

words, Master Linus also

for Zero's Essence, her

always seen Gravis as a very distant brother. They were theoretically

was just like

that, Zero's Essence only talked with

simply didn't have much in common, which made a

Mortis' and Gravis'

to talk

felt what the other one

demotivated, and pressured, and

than enough qualities to put him in an

were overshadowed by one shared

Unimportance.

Irrelevance.

felt that all of these feelings were unimportant in the grander

of their future in mind, any current emotional problems