Absolutes
The incident on the ship was resolved after Lex regained her sanity, but it told Nikolai of another reason he was walking a lonely path. For him, the darkness felt like a home, but that wasn't the case for others.
The dark energy invaded their hearts and pulled out their darkest fears and flaws, rooting them in their mind. A touch with the explosion of his darkness made Lex's mind grow unstable.
Nikolai knew this wasn't a typical event but one induced by the Abyssal Art awakening. However, it made him more contaminating to the people around him, and he could see the fear in Yuxi's eyes as she helped the Gunmaster stand.
"There are more and more reasons for us to separate, huh?" Sergio stood beside him and sighed. Then, against Nikolai's wishes, the alchemist grabbed his shoulder in reassurance. "Don't worry, boss! If it's only this issue, then there must be a potion to solve it!"