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

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

he offended Mortis,

this didn't mean that it hurt any

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

as he heard

didn't say

of them, and it was their decision to

didn't say

being, and Gravis would let him

long as Mortis didn't try to kill Orpheus,

noticed how deliberate Orpheus

essence, this took away quite a bit from the purity and honesty of the apology. After all, Orpheus went in with a

viewpoint, one could even argue that this counted as a

Mortis with pain. "I'm sorry,

my killing intent. You planned for everything, and I see that you are just as

ever again. From this day forth, you are nothing more

another shaky

expected this, but it was still difficult

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

was not

Orpheus had been so afraid of

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

truth back then, Gravis would have reacted very similarly to

to kill him,

from Mortis with regret and concentrated on

said anything

rubbing the bridge of his nose in

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

a lot of the

felt less like an emotional

Gravis hated schemes.

Gravis commented after a while

I don't want to lose you," Orpheus

don't want to come clean but want

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

Gravis sighed with frustration.

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 took advantage

Orpheus didn't say anything.

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

reason why you didn't tell me. The main reason was that you wanted to flee from

have acted like a weakling that flees from any

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

again in

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

as he tried

It wasn't easy.

felt, but one shouldn't forget that Gravis