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 of

wanted Gravis to

Gravis to become

and even if he managed it, this would make Gravis

he offended Mortis, he

didn't mean that it

another brother, just like Gravis. In essence, Mortis was

grimaced as he heard

Opposer didn't say

them, and it

also didn't

and Gravis would

to kill

how

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

one could even argue that this counted as a form of

looked at Mortis with pain. "I'm

haven't drawn my killing intent. You planned for everything, and I see that

this day forth, you are nothing more than a random person with

took another shaky

it was

more to Mortis to regain their emotional bond, but

was not a forgiving

the reason why Orpheus had been so

had just gone over an emotional hurdle, which made him emotionally fragile. On top

Gravis would have reacted very similarly to how

to kill him, but Gravis would have hated

away from Mortis with regret and concentrated on

hadn't said anything

the bridge of

in forgiving Orpheus if he hadn't apologized in such

took away a lot of

less like an emotional apology and

Gravis hated schemes.

very thoroughly," Gravis

don't want

like you don't want to come clean but want to keep

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

Gravis sighed with frustration.

Gravis said. "You knew that, which was why you didn't

Orpheus didn't say anything.

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

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

a weakling that flees from any form of justified retribution," Gravis

because you are too important to me as a

again in

true adult now, and I'm not influenced by the temperament of lightning. This gives you the best shot

as he tried to make a

It wasn't easy.

but one shouldn't forget