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.

forget the Law of Sentience when

wanted Gravis

Gravis

Mortis, and even if he

knew that if he offended Mortis, he would

didn't mean that it hurt

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

as he

didn't

three of them, and it was

also didn't

and Gravis would let

long as Mortis didn't try to kill Orpheus, everything

noticed how deliberate Orpheus

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

the viewpoint, one could even argue that this counted as a form of

with

game with me. You know exactly why you haven't drawn my killing intent. You planned for everything,

to me ever again. From this day forth, you are nothing more than a random person with

took another shaky

but it was still difficult for

Mortis to regain their emotional

not a

been so afraid of telling Gravis the

an emotional hurdle, which made him emotionally fragile. On top of

back then, Gravis would have reacted very similarly

wanted to kill him, but Gravis would have hated

with regret

said

the bridge of his nose in

issues in forgiving Orpheus if he hadn't apologized

took away a lot of

an emotional

Gravis hated schemes.

thoroughly," Gravis commented

want to lose you," Orpheus

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

sorry for that. This is too important to me, and I can't give up on our

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

Orpheus didn't say anything.

the middle world, I would have been forced to abandon you due to the issue with

this wasn't the reason why you didn't tell me. The main reason was

that flees from any form of justified retribution," Gravis

the pain because you are too important to me as a

again in

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

temple as he tried to make

It wasn't easy.

felt, but one shouldn't forget that