Shopkeeper Zhao felt a headache coming on. "Black-Faced Fiend? What kind of name is that? Anyone hearing it would know it's nothing respectable..."
Mo Hua looked surprised. "That's not respectable?"
He had thought that since they were robbing graves, they would at least have some self-awareness.
Not that grave robbers were necessarily bad people, but most had one foot in the shadows.
In that case, "Black-Faced Fiend" seemed to suit the trade rather well...
Shopkeeper Zhao sighed. "Pick another. It sounds frightening..."
His reputation in the underworld was already poor. If he brought in a Grave Leader called "Black-Faced Fiend," people would be even more convinced he meant to rob and murder them.
"It really won't do?" Mo Hua asked.
"Pick another," Shopkeeper Zhao said.
Mo Hua sighed in disappointment, then tried again. "How about 'Ghost Dread'?"
Shopkeeper Zhao was speechless.
Everyone going into the tomb with you would become ghosts. Of course ghosts would dread you...
"That... sounds a little unlucky. Try another."
"Then there's only 'Heavenly Disaster Star'," Mo Hua said.
Shopkeeper Zhao let out a long sigh. "Can't you choose something plainer? More discreet?"
Mo Hua shook his head. "If it's plainer, it won't sound as good."
This was his title, after all.
Those were his three favorite names. If none of them would do...
"I can't call myself 'Mo Yama,' can I?" Mo Hua asked.
"Mo Yama..."
Shopkeeper Zhao's gaze went hollow. You might as well be the death of me.
Mo Hua went on to suggest a few more, including Wuchang and Ox-Head and Horse-Face.
After a long deliberation, Shopkeeper Zhao finally gave in. "Then 'Black-Faced Fiend' it is..."
At least that name still sounded like a person.
Ghost Dread, Heavenly Disaster Star, Mo Yama... those weren't even human anymore.
Mo Hua sighed.
People could