Silver reveals he is a corpse brought to life by Keyes' necromancy curse, driven by vengeance against Zeref's demons. He requests Gray to finish him off, but Gray is unable to bring himself to kill his father. As the two embrace, Silver telepathically contacts Juvia and instructs her to destroy Keyes and stop him from activating the Face bombs using Crawford's corpse. Juvia hesitates to do so, however, realizing that doing so would separate Gray from his father forever. As Keyes taunts Juvia, she enters his body in the form of water and reluctantly destroys him from within. Before fading away, Silver bestows his demon slayer magic onto Gray, who vows to destroy E.N.D.