Hill was a sensible man.
At first, he had not understood why his luck had sent him into Oaisis, a world filled with nothing but melodrama. In the end, he suddenly understood.
No wonder he had been overly concerned with the Ster Family... That family always reminded him of the one he had belonged to in the past.
Because there was always some unwillingness in his heart.
Perhaps that was a common failing among children who had once lived happily. They could never let go of unpleasant memories, always wondering why anyone could possibly hate them.
Hill had never truly resented that period of his life, but whenever he woke from a dream at midnight, he still found himself wondering why, imagining what might have been.
What would he have become if his parents had been a little more normal and treated him a little better?
Linde and Ellie's ending instantly cleared his mind.
Considering the tangled karma surrounding a Mage of Telashir, if his parents had been like Earl Ster, he probably could never have repaid his family's kindness. His fate would likely have been even worse than Adrian's.
Things had to be thoroughly bad before good people could survive.
He never wanted to wonder why again!
Telashir had indeed given him the most perfect family. Otherwise, with his personality, even if he had managed to escape in the end, he would have suffered greatly.
As for love, it was nothing special. Warmth mixed with shards of glass was even harder to accept.
Comparing that to the love of the family he had once possessed was an insult.
So, when William discovered that the Undead—or rather, those people from the Heaven-Defying Alliance—had too many fantasies about his territory and even planned to build a hive in this valley... That