User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 395: Tartarus Arc - Part 5: Extreme Pain, Review./@comment-24744891-20140801144930/@comment-25111584-20140801233134

/me agrees with the anon.

Considering how OP Silver seemed to be, I'd say that was the only way to have him defeated logically, pit him against the guy he definitely won't kill. The battle was a farce in which Silver would never have allowed Gray to be defeated. So obviously it was anticlimatic, we didn't see Silver go all out, after all.