Wilson left out many details. It wasn't that he refused to talk about them, or that he didn't want to reopen old wounds. He simply couldn't remember how he had lived through those days in a daze.
He had lost the person he cared about most twice. The fact that he hadn't fallen apart was perhaps thanks to all the stories he had heard from his customers.
Wilson shut himself inside the empty tavern for a long time before he finally began to recover.
The Black Reef Tavern reopened, but after so many days with its doors shut, nearby taverns had already taken its business. Wilson couldn't be bothered to run it. He spent his days behind the counter, where the light couldn't reach, letting himself rot.
Then a man claiming to be Adele's trusted aide appeared at the tavern door.
He said Adele had known in advance that her subordinates would betray her. She had told him, "If I die, take the people you can trust to the Black Reef Tavern in Golden City and find Wilson. You can rely on him as you relied on me, trust him as you trusted me, and just as you would have died for me... die for him."
Wilson broke down crying until he passed out. When he woke, he decided to honor Adele's trust and bring all her remaining people to him.
They wanted to avenge their boss Adele, even if it meant dying alongside the Grand Lord.
Wilson, who had pulled himself together, told them that storming the Golden Palace would only make more work for the cleaners scrubbing the floor tiles. He urged them to be patient.
Wilson rented a warehouse next door and settled them there. As a precaution, he secretly hired several Rangers to gather information near