"Replaced" - Luck Voltia fanfic // Black Clover

Chapter 7: Replaced

It's been a few days, I was having so many feelings at once. None of them are good ones.

Not even pride for Magna.

This is selfish. I shouldn't be feeling this way. I really shouldn't. But my heart doesn't want to listen. It's like it defriended my brain, ignoring it with every plea.

Since it has been a while, I wasn't physically sick anymore. I felt better in terms of physical health. But my mental health isn't doing so well. I decided to finally leave my room after a while.

I walked towards the living room. Everyone was doing everything as usual. Vanessa drinking booze, Charmy eating like it was her last meal, Finral and Yami were having some kind of... chat, Asta was doing situps with Noelle watching him, bird Nero was sitting on Asta's chest as he was doing that, Gauche was nose-bleeding and sobbing over Marie's photo, Gordon was making a voodoo doll, Grey was hiding her face shyly, Zora was reading his grimoire as he rolled his eyes at the crew of misfits, and then there was Clovis and Magna...

They were sparring.

And no one in the squad seemed to notice that I walked in.

I feel...

...replaced.

Magna having fun sparring with someone else? I never thought this would happen...

Then again, I should've expected it. Not going to lie, but Clovis's ice magic looks so awesome. It's making me feel sick to my stomach.

I waited a few seconds to see if anyone noticed my presence, but everyone was still doing their thing. No one noticed me. "Hey, Finral! Can you be kind and give me another round of booze?" Vanessa hiccuped.

"Can you get it yourself...?" Finral asked.

"But I don't feel like getting off the couch. C'mon, please, Finral?"

"Fine," He sighed and went to go get her another bottle.

"Can you shut up already, you idiots?! You'll wake up Marie!" Gauche complained to Magna and Clovis.

"Ooh, sure, I'll wake up a damn photo." Magna teased.

"I'm going to demolish you–" Gauche angered.

"Yummy~" Charmy commented as she bit into some meat. "Sheep Cooks! Make more food!" Her Sheep Cooks did exactly as they were told.

"AHH MORE SITUPS!!! 984... 985...!" Asta chanted as he kept doing situps.

"You idiot. Get to a thousand and put your shirt back on." Noelle said in an annoyed tone.

Asta stopped and then raised his arm to flex his muscles. "Look at these! I'll be so strong and buff one day if I keep it up!"

Noelle's face turned red with a blush from ear to ear, and pointed her wand at Asta. "AHGH!" She screamed as she shot her water magic at him.

"WHY NOELLE?!" Asta asked as he was shot across the room and hit a wall.

"That was your fault. Hmph!" She crossed her arms and looked away with a faint blush on her cheeks.

"D-don't look a-at me–!" Grey freaked out.

"No one's looking at you, alright?!" Gauche snapped, still mad about how much noise they were making in the base.

"All of you have mental issues." Zora said, not looking away from his grimoire.

"Oh, and look who's talking? I recall catching you writing a cute little diary about your life problems." Vanessa laughed.

"HUH?! HOW DO YOU– WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT!" Zora snapped.

"Hey, Clovis! I want to show you something real quick!" Gordon's voice was raised since his voice sometimes gets high and then low again.

"Oh?" Clovis turned to him.

Gordon held his finished creepy voodoo doll for Clovis to see. "Here. I finished your doll. It'll make a great asset to my collection."

Clovis gave a soft laugh. "Yeah... right."

So Gordon made a doll for him. I know his dolls are creepy... but I couldn't help but envy Clovis.

How do I stop having these feelings? How do I stop these awful feelings of jealousy? I wish I could talk to someone about it, but I don't think anyone's willing to listen. Usually, everyone would notice whenever I walked in from my room, but now, they all forgot. I'm being replaced by this "cool" newcomer. He's probably so much more interesting than I am, which is why Magna quickly lost interest in me when he joined. I haven't talked to Magna in what feels like forever, and if I tried, I wouldn't know where to start. Like what to say, or how I should start a conversation. It'll feel more out of place than usual.

What if we never talk again?

Tears formed in my eyes at the thought. I decided to leave the living room so no one could see my tears. Maybe leaving that room was a good idea. No one wanted me to stay anyways. And seeing those two have fun together was making me feel more awful. I decided to just roam the base unnoticed, not knowing what to do.

~*~

It was the middle of the night, and I decided to take a stroll outside. I couldn't sleep since there were thunderstorms swirling around in my head. I stepped outside and began to walk. I heard voices from the side of the Black Bulls Base. I know eavesdropping is wrong, but they were the voices of Clovis and Magna. I thought their conversation would be important.

"Isn't the sky beautiful tonight?" Clovis asked.

"So you dragged me outside to look at the damn stars?" Magna responded.

"Back in my village, we used to love looking at the night sky. I just thought you'd like it too."

"But it doesn't interest me. I'm not really a liker of nature."

They both stared at the sky for a few more minutes. I was about to leave until Clovis spoke again.

"Hey, Magna?"

"Yeah?"

"What do you think about... Luck?"

I froze when I heard my name. Is Clovis really asking about me? Why? He still remembers I exist? That's... strange. But Magna's reply hit me harder than a large pine needle stabbing straight through my heart.

"Who?"