User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Sorcerer Magazine, Issue 45: September 2015/@comment-2214433-20151003184054

I actually agree that the whole Silver thing makes a bit more sense in the anime, or maybe i just misunderstood the manga counterpart? But from what I gather, Silver pretended to be Deliora so that Gray kills him while having the sense of avenging his family. Still wish he'd have stayed Deliora but w/e