User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 392: I Must Not Forget, Review./@comment-3424593-20140711214534/@comment-7418318-20140715205943

But with Itachi the plan might have worked (making himself out as the villain, make Sasuka a hero by having him kill him and giving him the mangekyou in the process) if it wasn't for Sasuke going way over the top... but then that's also to blame on Itachi in a way due to the "you are too weak because you have too little hate". He should have just told Sasuke "You can't beat me on your own."

But what possible benefit is there from Silver mentally tormenting Gray? Gray won't become stronger from it, he won't evolve any visual jutsu and nobody will consider him a hero for killing Silver, so where's the possible benefit for Gray?

Gray got damn close to effectively killing himself via Iced Shell for crying out loud and the only reason why he didn't was something that Silver couldn't possibly have known about!

Now if Silver wanted to die at Gray's hands for selfish reasons or if he was controlled I could understand it, but the whole "I want to make my son stronger" thing just doesn't make sense for me here.

And if he wanted to make Gray believe that he killed Deliora, he wouldn't have outright said that he was Gray's father.