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.

would forget the Law of Sentience

Gravis to become

Opposer wanted Gravis to

even if he managed it, this would make Gravis

that if he offended

this didn't mean that

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

as he

didn't

them, and

didn't say

and Gravis would let

try to kill Orpheus, everything would

noticed how

the purity and honesty of the apology. After all, Orpheus

could even argue that this counted as a

Mortis with pain. "I'm sorry,

You know exactly why you haven't drawn my killing intent. You planned for everything, and I see that you are just as shrewd and

you are nothing more than a random person with

took another

it was

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

was not a forgiving

been so afraid of telling Gravis the truth in

had returned from the lower world, he had just gone over an emotional hurdle, which made him emotionally fragile. On top of that, Gravis had also been influenced

had told the truth back then, Gravis would have reacted very similarly to how Mortis had acted

kill him, but Gravis

Mortis with

hadn't said

rubbing the bridge of his

if

took away a lot of

less like an emotional apology and more like

Gravis hated schemes.

planned this very thoroughly," Gravis commented after a

don't want to lose

to come clean but want to keep our emotional bond alive,"

me, and I can't give up on our connection. Our connection is more important

Gravis sighed with frustration.

we wouldn't have met another time in our life," Gravis said. "You knew that, which was why

Orpheus didn't say anything.

returned from the middle world, I would have been forced to abandon you due to the issue with my lightning.

this wasn't the reason why you didn't tell me. The main reason was that you wanted to flee from the pain of seeing

have acted like a weakling that

ran away from the pain because you are too important to me

again in

and I'm not influenced by the

rubbed his temple as he tried to

It wasn't easy.

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