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

Gravis to become

wanted Gravis to become

for Orpheus to kill Mortis, and even if he managed

knew that if he offended Mortis,

this didn't mean that it hurt

like Gravis. In essence, Mortis

as he heard Mortis'

didn't

between the three of them, and it was their

didn't say

own being, and Gravis

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

noticed how deliberate Orpheus

quite a bit from the purity and honesty of the apology.

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

at Mortis with pain. "I'm

intent.

are nothing more than a random person with a personality

took another

this, but it was still difficult

their emotional bond, but he knew that it was

was not

had been so afraid of telling Gravis

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

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

have wanted to kill him, but Gravis would have hated

with

hadn't said

the bridge of

if he hadn't apologized in such a planned and

took away a lot of the

less like an emotional apology and

Gravis hated schemes.

this very thoroughly," Gravis

because I don't want to lose

clean but want to

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

Gravis sighed with frustration.

you 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,

Orpheus didn't say anything.

me after I returned 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 my lightning even

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

you have acted like a weakling that flees from

ran away from the pain because you are too important

sighed again

I'm not influenced by the temperament of lightning. This gives you the

as he tried

It wasn't easy.

how Orpheus felt, but one shouldn't forget that