User blog comment:B214/Chapter 500: Fire and Ice/@comment-2214433-20160905163259/@comment-7418318-20160905201108

If Gray was driven to "pure hatred" he wouldn't have given Invel the chance to speak, but would have kept on pounding him until he was either dead or at the very least unconscious. He certainly wouldn't have stood there to have a full page of casual conversation with him.