Only One Protagonist

Pi Gu Sa Si wanted to rebel.

After gathering intelligence from multiple channels, Zhou Ming reached this conclusion.

Why?

Why would Old Bones, who had always worked so diligently, want to rebel?

Had the guild treated him poorly or failed to value him?

No.

Captain Quake valued him greatly. Not only had he entrusted all intelligence-gathering work to him, Pi Gu Sa Si was also one of the two members left behind on the material plane. That alone showed the captain's trust and regard for him.

Since that was the case, why had Pi Gu Sa Si secretly begun making connections, preparing to rebel and deliberately create destruction and division?

The reason could only lie with Pi Gu Sa Si himself.

It showed that he was greedy and evil by nature, and that he had encountered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that had fully awakened and exposed that nature.

Secondly, he disliked Zhou Ming—disliked him intensely. He had originally thought the position of acting guild master would be given to someone as capable as himself. Yet unexpectedly, the captain had handed that burden to Noctis. This had greatly exceeded his expectations... He had thought the acting guild master's seat would be his.

Instead, it had been given to the low-key, ordinary Noctis. How could Pi Gu Sa Si possibly accept that?

On top of that, the power system he cultivated was of the negative-energy type, giving his personality many inherently dark and negative traits. He was rather cruel and selfish. Such negative traits were etched into his soul, difficult to change, and would never change.

It was only when Captain Quake and the others were around that Pi Gu Sa Si's rationality held the upper hand, suppressing the negative side of his personality.

Once the captain and the others left, and he