"Would you have trusted him if he had said who he was? Up front?" Diethard asked. "No, of course not. This very conversation is proof of why he had to keep his identity secret. What's more, consider this: Painted Black has been at the front of every confrontation the Black Knights have had to date. If all he was interested in was his own advancement, if he did not truly believe in the cause..."

"Then why would he put himself out front like that in the first place?" Tohdoh finished for him. "Taking the same risks as every soldier on the battlefield, when he didn’t need to. You can't even say it was just a trick to prove he was loyal to the cause, because it was still an extreme risk. As a leader it would have been perfectly reasonable to stay out of our battles entirely."

-Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion Chapter 40