User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 253: Tartaros arc: Silver Memories, Review/@comment-180.191.134.209-20151003160357/@comment-2214433-20151004143241

Silver wanted to die so he pretended to be Deliora, because then Gray would have a reason to kill him and at the same time, he would avenge his family and stuff. The only reasonable explanation that comes to me tbh