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

for them to

had avoided talking to him. It wasn't that they disliked him but that they simply didn't feel any

Gravis was a

showed the

wasn't supposed

was what

see you later," Heavenly Senior

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

nodded. Happy Springs was looking

SHING!

Happy Springs also vanished.

didn't even interact with Gravis before

was no point in

were people of

looked at each other

Gravis. Maybe Gravis

ones, and

best to

Gravis

were rather close. After

on the basis that Master Linus was the

had become more powerful than Master Linus by such a degree, Master Linus

estrangement when 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 the same

was like a different person had taken on the identity of that

what Master Linus felt right

with Gravis, but he also felt

probably too occupied with other things to talk to

that Master Linus couldn't even imagine, and he felt like he

some polite words, Master

her feelings

as a very distant brother. They were theoretically related,

just

only talked with Gravis

have much in

and

to talk

what the other

and

and that Mortis had more than enough qualities

their feelings were overshadowed

Unimportance.

Irrelevance.

of them knew that both of them felt that all of these feelings were unimportant in the grander

future in mind, any current emotional