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.

Will-Aura, his classmates

them

him. It wasn't that they disliked him

like Gravis

showed

supposed

was what

Heavenly Senior said with an awkward smile before

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

Happy Springs was looking

SHING!

Happy Springs also vanished.

even interact with Gravis before

point in

people of different

each other and

very interested in Gravis. Maybe Gravis could change

ones, and they felt that it was better

was for the best to

at Gravis with a complex

Gravis were rather close.

Master Linus

than Master Linus by such a degree, Master Linus felt like

a feeling of 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

like a different person had taken on the identity of

what Master

Gravis, but

occupied with other things

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

polite words, Master Linus also

Zero's Essence, her feelings towards

as a very distant brother. They were

just like an

that, Zero's Essence only talked with

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

and Gravis'

knew each other perfectly, and they didn't need to

of them felt what

inferior, demotivated, and pressured, and Gravis noticed

from an irrelevant place and that Mortis had more than enough qualities to put him in an equal place to

overshadowed by

Unimportance.

Irrelevance.

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

of their future in mind, any