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Benjamin looked at Zach coming in with a 'clothes hanger' and raised his eyebrows because in Benjamin's understanding, the mannequin was just a clothes hanger, wearing his dirty coat.
"Benjamin, meet Zagel." Zach placed the model in front of Benjamin.
Benjamin's gaze crossed over to Zach, and then back to the model wearing his dirty coat. The corners of his eyes curled up, "This is the other you?!" He held Zagar's face, shook it from side to side, and moved the entire model base, "Ha! I didn't expect it!"
"Me too." Zagel spoke, his face wrapped in Benjamin's palm, "Although Zach has already filled in the details of how you two met on the battlefield. But, I still didn't expect that you Yes, yes, like this."
how? Benjamin rubbed Zagar's wooden cheeks, which had no effect except smearing Alpha's fingerprints on the painted cheeks. Can't make flowers. It is far different from the real encounter scene between Zach and Benjamin, in which two alien races who were hostile due to historical issues were weighing each other whether to start attacking among the stray bullets and explosions on the battlefield.
"Ha! It's nothing~" Benjamin already smiled and rolled his eyes, "I'm just helping Louise..." The unknown meaning was automatically silenced, and turned into, "Hehehe. Now I'm confirmed!" He patted Zage heavily. Er's shoulder, "Haha." Then, he patted Zach's shoulder inexplicably, "Haha!"
Zach completely misunderstood Benjamin's 'haha', and actually had a look of surprise on his face, "Louise asked about Zagel? Is she looking forward to seeing Zagel?" He raised an eyebrow at Zagel, making people speechless. Self-righteous, "I told you~ Louise will like you~"
If possible, Zagel would have rolled his eyes.
There was no need for him to come by himself. Benjamin smiled and clapped his hands, squinting at Zach. Benjamin rarely found something that Zach ignored. Please let Benjamin enjoy this secret joy, "They will like each other, hehe, you guys, hehe." , will like each other, hehehe."
Zach was still self-righteous, "Of course, we will like each other~"
"Yes! Like! Mutual!" Benjamin was still a little self-conscious, knowing that he would not collapse for long, so he clapped his hands, "That's the end of the topic of mutual liking! Why am I here?" Benjamin's face changed quickly, and he was slightly curious. Looking at this closed space, especially the four empty hatches in the innermost part, he asked, "How much silver is there? It makes me uncomfortable."
Zach responded with Oz's, "Kozier is rich," shrugging, "Just giving us a safe place to talk."
"Safe?" Benjamin continued to look at the room filled with silver, but he looked disapproving. "I don't think a silver room is very safe. There is no safe place in Barton now."
"How to say?"
"Last night." Benjamin started talking quickly. One reason was that they couldn't chat here for too long. They knew that the people they came up with, the eight Sabbat vampires, would be suspicious. Well, they would be suspicious no matter what, because Zach's attitude was too Obviously, 'I just want to talk to Benjamin alone. If I don't want to, it will be 8 to 1.'
It's quite rogue, isn't it? But enough preparation has been done. Those words at the meeting just now have already shattered the consensus that Zach would favor his 'brother' Alpha. The big pot has been taken over by Mokawi's more powerful one. Zach It doesn't matter if he is a bit rogue now, since the Sabbat can't get around this trap anyway. As Nenad said, Zach is still the Sabbat's most valuable resource in Barton, and Zach can only be tolerated to do as he pleases.
The second reason is that Benjamin really wants to go back to the South District and the nursing home as soon as possible. Someone is waiting for him on the bed... "Although only Eli Toredo appeared in front of me, the woods are filled with the smell of Bruch." , it’s everywhere. I can’t see it, but, it’s everywhere.”
Zach frowned, just because the good mood that everyone would like each other was gone, "So, he prepared an army for himself." Zach shook his head, "He is pushing his luck."
Benjamin looked at Zach quietly for a while, seeming to be thinking about something. After a moment, he spoke, "What do you mean now? Tell me, how much do we want to help Eli Tori?" The question was very direct.
"I..." Zach actually hesitated, glanced at Zagel, shook his head, and did not hand over the conversation to his other self. This is a good thing. I think everyone has begun to get tired of Zagel being Zach. What Geer thought was what Zach thought. Now, let them separate. Zach stopped letting Zagar finish his own thoughts, good thing, "I don't know. I thought a lot about what Louise said when I came back, she told you. This was my last chance, and I took it, Or, forever missed.”
"You missed it once." Benjamin continued directly, a little impatiently, "Four centuries is a long time. Do you really want to go back? Why? To confirm something that should have been put aside long ago?"
"I really don't want to." Zach actually said simply, "I don't want to at all. You have heard me tell that story. In that distant era, I couldn't live anymore, and then someone protected me and helped me, until my life finally Started to change, became Toledo, and finally, I scared him away." Zach's point of view is very, very realistic, "This is a story. My story. From the beginning of this story, to here, to now, is My life, my Toledo life. So you ask me, do I want to go back? No! I don't want to. I have been doing Toledo for four centuries, and I don't know what I can do when I go back? I won't Standing in front of him, I returned to the inarticulate person I used to be and said I was sorry for scaring him. I would not say to him, "Hey, it's been four centuries and you're not dead yet" as if I knew him very well, because I don't remember him. It's impossible for me to remember him..." Zach waved his hands a little irritably, "I don't expect you to understand, but this is what I really think. I don't want to. But." The corner of his eye twitched, "He, coming."
The atmosphere was weird for a moment.
Zach shook his head, "He didn't need to come." His thoughts seemed to drift away, "He can stay in his original continent and do what he should do, killing vampires." Remember, this is how John once described this kind of thing. He from Sabbat Toledo said that Papa Midnight believed that Sabbat Toledo was a cleanser created by the Holy Lord Faith to clean up the overflowing vampire inheritance. “But he didn’t stay where he should be, he came here, My continent, my federation, my city.”
Benjamin looked at Zach for a while, "He doesn't like you."
"What?" Zach frowned.
"He told me that he doesn't like you." Benjamin glanced at Zagel, because it was strange. He was clearly a stiff wooden product, but he still had that clear feeling of looking over him. "He said he never liked you. But you, you don’t work, you don’t contribute labor, you have no desire to survive, in that era.”
"What?" Zach's face rarely showed such repeated questioning expressions.
"Four centuries ago." Benjamin continued, hugging his shoulders to show his seriousness, "famine caused by overpopulation, right? The empire either watched its people starve, or opened up new colonies, right? ." The story across the sea, "And you, you are the kind of guy who has no idea of the situation you are in. You wait for food to be delivered to you, you wait for the people around you to take care of your life, and you never care about your situation. Do something for yourself.”
Zach opened his mouth, "What he said? No! I'm not like that! I may have been clumsy when I was human, but I was not lazy. I worked hard for my life..."
"You worked hard." Benjamin looked at Zach, "So you were sold. Sold to Toledo."
"What?!"
"Yes, you were not selected by Toledo, you were sold to Toledo, and the person who sold you was him, Eli."
What? ? !
All right. There is no better way to unfold this matter. Believe me, no matter how you lay it out or how to inoculate it, it will be useless. When it's revealed, that's it, does it hurt? No, it’s hard to look at!
"In your story, he was the benefactor who took care of you and fed you until you met Toledo, right. Sorry, Zach, he wasn't. He just took a fancy to your face, and it happened to be until one The nobleman named Toledo likes to adopt good-looking and low-class citizens with clean backgrounds as his godson." Benjamin hugged his shoulders, and his arched muscles told Zach, "Don't come close to me, deal with your own emotions, and don't touch anything. people'.
Zach didn't touch anyone, tilted his head, and just stood there.
"And the sequel to this story is even more exciting." Benjamin looked at Zach. Hey, how to describe it, Zach asked for it. Did Benjamin just ask Zach if he was sure he wanted to go back? How did Zach respond? Letting your thoughts float to the sky, it seems to express the greatest helplessness of people's hearts. Then, it is time for Grande's brother combination to play its role. It is time for Benjamin to pull Zach back from the sky.
"You didn't scare him away. You, the deer who hunted at night, brought him food, and admitted that you are no longer human." Benjamin actually leaned towards Zager, because unexpectedly, his wooden face changed at this moment The calmest, as if this is the only guy here who can calmly accept these things, "He was not scared away at all, he was driven away by his own stupidity. He missed eternal life. He, with a few gold coins, and a lifetime Work, give it to you, give you this guy he never liked, who just has a good skin, in exchange for eternal life."
There was a long silence, "Wow~" Zach smiled, at least his face looked like a smile and his voice sounded like it, "And Louise actually used Russell and Charlie's things to persuade me..." Well, I'll explain this right away.
"I haven't said this story is over yet." Benjamin stood behind Zagel and slowly took off his coat. "According to what he said, you were on the original continent before the thirteen clans gathered to go to the Federation. You have met at least half a hundred times."
Zach was stunned for a moment, "What?" The smile disappeared again.
"Why are you surprised? You have also told these stories. Your job before coming to the Federation was to clean up the foreign vampires who corrupted the vampire tribe for the sake of the reputation of vampires. And he is a foreign vampire."
Zach held his head.
"Yes, he, Eli, found his own immortality. But he was not lucky. He failed to find the Thirteen Clan. What he found was probably the lowest bloodline among you vampires at that time. But he got what he wanted. Now, he has eternal life. Moreover, he has met you."
Benjamin put on his coat, "You are already Toledo's favorite son, you are a noble. He is, uh-huh." He said, "When you met, you didn't even look at him, because you didn't remember He, he just used your Toledo posture to tell a bunch of inferior vampires, 'Don't insult the reputation of vampires', like a real nobleman, and occasionally used a few vampires as examples to kill and show respect to these inferior vampires. The Eternals show what true nobility is.”
Zach had noticed Benjamin moving towards the door secretly, but he seemed to have no intention of stopping him.
Benjamin at least faced Zach's retreat and pointed at Zach, "He saw you once, saw you twice, saw you three times..." Please don't guess the direction of the words at will, "He still doesn't like you. ,but."
Benjamin had retreated to the door and fumbled to open the door. "He discovered that this is your life. You are a very good Toledo. Your life was so bad that you could only wait for the fate of being sold, because , you are that kind of person, you don’t know what it is like to work hard at the bottom, you are the guy who was born in the wrong life, you should be a Toledo, a noble, whatever, from top to bottom. You Your life should be Toledo. You did it perfectly and this is how your life should be."
The sound of the door lock has appeared. Zach needed a summary, "And then."
"One thing, Eli said himself, he was so stupid that he gave up on selling the gold coins you got and working hard to collect the goods right now. In his life, he finally did the right thing and turned you into Toledo. You." The door has been opened a crack, and Benjamin is slowly shrinking into the crack, "I was stupid once, and it got worse after that. He himself admitted that he no longer remembers that he regretted missing out on the Toledo bloodline, and How many inexplicable vampire bloods have been swallowed in his body, and he has become what he is now. In his own continent, the vampires began not to think of him as a vampire, thinking that he was something else, maybe created by the Holy Lord. The thing that comes out to punish vampires for breeding, I don't know, he doesn't know. He's a mess."
Benjamin was already only a little tall and was still looking at Zach in the door, "And you are the only thing he is sure of in his chaotic life, a good thing. He wants to see you. To confirm, you are still a perfect person." Toledo has a perfect life because of him. He still doesn’t like you. What he likes is you, the concept. The only good thing he did right is the concept.”
Benjamin's head has disappeared, and before the crack in the door disappears, the last words float in, "I know you need to think, think slowly. You should rest assured that I only agreed to his coexistence agreement yesterday, even if he comes up with something, Grande will also be safe. His other proposals are temporarily rejected by me. You still have time, think about it slowly." He left.