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

wanted Gravis

even if he managed it, this

he offended

mean that it

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

he heard Mortis' cold

Opposer didn't say

them, and

didn't say

Gravis would let him make his

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

also noticed how deliberate Orpheus had

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

argue that this counted as a

with pain. "I'm

killing intent. You planned for everything, and I see that you are just as shrewd and scheming as all these

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

took another shaky

expected this, but it

to apologize more to Mortis to regain their emotional bond, but he

was not a forgiving

been so afraid of telling

Gravis 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 by

would have reacted very similarly to

probably wouldn't have wanted to kill

from Mortis with regret

said

the bridge of his nose

forgiving Orpheus if he hadn't apologized in such a

a lot of the

emotional apology

Gravis hated schemes.

very thoroughly," Gravis commented after a

I don't want

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

and I can't give up on our connection. Our connection is

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

Orpheus didn't say anything.

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

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

like a weakling that flees from any form of justified

pain because you are too

sighed again in

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

he

It wasn't easy.

felt, but one shouldn't forget that Gravis also