Things had not progressed as smoothly as Bai Zhi had imagined.
In his plan, with [Soul] and [Honest] vouching for him, gaining the trust of the other Glorys should have been easy. But the problem had arisen precisely there.
"It's not that simple. Does King think the eight of us had such a good relationship with each other? The others won't believe us."
Propping her head up with her hands on the table, Laura, dressed in green, curiously looked him up and down before giving a slight shrug.
"On the original Timeline, the eight of us didn't get along that well either. But because King was there, we could at least maintain surface-level peace. On this Timeline, though, we're merely familiar strangers to each other. We can barely be called comrades, and that's all."
"No... were your relationships really that flimsy?"
Looking at Laura in front of him, then at Can, who stood nearby with his arms folded and silently pretended to be an expert—as though tacitly agreeing with her words—Bai Zhi wore a rather complicated expression.
"Also, you don't need to call me—"
"What else would I call you? Why do you think I was the only one who came today? It's because Xin Yan couldn't find anyone else."
Laura rudely cut him off and curled her lips.
"With her icy attitude toward everyone, only I got along with her somewhat well. It was precisely because we all had our own hidden agendas that the Knight Disqualification incident happened."
"Knight Disqualification... right, what exactly happened in that incident?"
Bai Zhi frowned slightly and asked.
The consequences of that incident had directly caused the Eight Great Knights, once the strongest under the King, to fall apart. Not only had a certain can been affected, but Rain had even become a