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

wanted Gravis to become

Opposer wanted Gravis to become

even if he managed it, this would

knew that if he

mean that it

like Gravis.

grimaced as he heard Mortis'

didn't say

of them,

also didn't say

Gravis would let him make

didn't try to kill Orpheus, everything would

how deliberate

a bit from the purity and honesty of the apology. After all, Orpheus went in with a plan that increased the

that this counted as

at Mortis with pain.

exactly why you haven't drawn my killing intent. You planned for everything, and

you are nothing more than a random person

another shaky

it was still

to Mortis to regain their emotional

not

was also the reason why Orpheus had been so afraid of telling

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

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

to kill him, but Gravis would have hated

away from Mortis with regret and

said

bridge of his

forgiving Orpheus if he hadn't apologized

a

less like an emotional

Gravis hated schemes.

very thoroughly," Gravis commented after a while of

don't want to lose you," Orpheus

don't want to come clean but want to keep our

important to me, and I can't give up on

Gravis sighed with frustration.

had told me after I returned from the lower world, we wouldn't have met another time in our life," Gravis said. "You knew that, which was why you didn't do so. In essence, you could even say that you

Orpheus didn't say anything.

would have been forced to abandon you due to the issue with my lightning. I wouldn't have wanted to anger my lightning

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

have acted like a weakling that flees from

you are too important to me as

sighed again

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

as he

It wasn't easy.

how Orpheus felt, but one