"Don't look at me," Perfect Baldhead said at once. "I made it clear to Old Dog from the start: never tell me who Zhu Meili really is.
"Not just me. Nobody in our guild needs to know."
When it came to grudges against Doomsday, Black Rose's cut the deepest.
That included what had happened after they entered this game... Although Perfect Baldhead felt entirely innocent, Doomsday Romance, whose house had been kicked over and who had been thoroughly disgusted in the process, acted as though he would hate him for life.
Back in Black-and-White Road's territory, this former owner of Doomsday had ignored Eunuch Lu and the others' frantic efforts to stop him and ordered Zhu Meili to drag the Alliance down by finding some way to kill Hill. He had known perfectly well that, within the Heaven-Defying Alliance, Black Rose had the closest relationship with Hill.
How could someone so bitter and spiteful accept seeing the people he hated most basking in glory?
Once his anger faded, Hill had actually figured out where he had gone wrong... After he befriended them in Sarral Royal City, Black Rose's members had taken his ship to Alliance City to watch the excitement. When he went traveling, he had only visited Black Rose's city.
Most of the Undead whose names he remembered belonged to Black Rose, too, and he would greet them when he saw them along the way.
Hill had indeed been a little headstrong back then. Even though he understood how unrestrained the Undead were, he had still acted entirely according to his own preferences.
Perhaps, deep down, he had never really believed the Undead could cause him any trouble.
Then there was the fact that Black-and-White Road's territory had only been established because Black Rose's members had called him down