User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 253: Tartaros arc: Silver Memories, Review/@comment-180.191.134.209-20151003160357/@comment-7418318-20151004143823

But if he just wanted to die, why did he make it so hard for Gray?

Why block and absorb so many of his attacks and screw with his mind like crazy, almost driving Gray into quasi-suicide via Iced Shell?

Why beat him to a bloody pulp, thus risking that the next best Demon might finish Gray off for good if the circumstance are unlucky?

Besides it wasn't Gray who killed him. To really kill Silver Keith has to die, so what was the whole point of Gray defeating Silver in the first place?

Now if Silver had been ordered by Keith to deal with Gray in the most painful manner the whole thing would have made sense, but Keith never gave that order and Silver never even hinted at this being the case.