Lightning Is the Only Way

Silence.

For several seconds, no one said a thing.

Gravis' friends kept themselves out of this since this had nothing to do with them.

Mortis looked at Orpheus coldly.

Orpheus had betrayed him, and it hurt Mortis deeply.

"Worthless."

As soon as these words were spoken, it was like the entire atmosphere had changed.

These words were spoken coldly and with hate.

Mortis had completely cut off Orpheus from his life.

This betrayal had hurt him deeply, and he had to repay Orpheus for that pain.

One should never forget that, while Mortis' personality had changed a lot, he was still one with lightning.

A betrayal from one of his family members was unforgivable to him.

However, Orpheus was quite clever while apologizing.

He had specifically lowered himself and had shown that keeping the Emotional connection between him and Gravis was important to him.

Severing this connection was enough for Mortis.

If Orpheus hadn't put much value on their emotional connection, Mortis would have found a different way to repay Orpheus for this pain.

One should never forget that Mortis was nice to his friends but absolutely ruthless to his enemies.

If Orpheus didn't feel sufficient pain by severing their emotional bond, Mortis would have grown more powerful until…

He would kill Orpheus.

Mortis was very similar to Gravis but very different in some regards.

However, Orpheus wasn't stupid.

He knew everything about Gravis' and Mortis' lives in the higher world, and he had planned accordingly. He knew that he had to get emotionally invested in Mortis.

Orpheus knew that he had to feel sufficient pain.

Otherwise, he would die.

Could Orpheus kill Mortis?

Yes, he was more than powerful enough.

However, that would bring problems upon problems.

Law

wanted Gravis to become

Opposer wanted Gravis to become

for Orpheus to kill Mortis, and even if he managed it, this

he offended Mortis, he

mean that

like Gravis. In essence, Mortis was a younger version of

he heard Mortis'

didn't

of them, and it was

didn't

Gravis would

to kill Orpheus, everything

also noticed how

away quite a bit from the purity and honesty of the apology. After all, Orpheus went

one could even argue that this counted as a

at Mortis with pain.

hate. "Don't play this stupid game with me. You know exactly why you haven't drawn my killing intent. You planned for everything, and I see

you are nothing

took another shaky

this, but it

apologize more to Mortis to regain their emotional bond, but he knew that it

not a

was also the reason why Orpheus had been so

which made him emotionally fragile. On top of that, Gravis had also

had told the truth back then, Gravis would have reacted

kill him, but Gravis would have hated

looked away from Mortis with regret and concentrated on

hadn't said anything

bridge of his nose in

have had no issues in forgiving Orpheus if he hadn't apologized in such a

away a

like an emotional apology

Gravis hated schemes.

very thoroughly," Gravis

want to lose you,"

but

I'm sorry for that. This is too important to me, and I can't give up on our connection. Our connection is more important to me than coming clean,"

Gravis sighed with frustration.

have met another time in our life," Gravis said. "You knew that, which was why you didn't do so.

Orpheus didn't say anything.

would have been forced to abandon you due to the issue

The main reason was that you wanted to flee from the pain of seeing our connection

you have acted like a weakling that flees from any form

pain because you are too important to me as a

sighed again

adult now, and I'm not influenced by the temperament of lightning.

as he tried to make

It wasn't easy.

how Orpheus felt, but one shouldn't forget that Gravis also had