son
Hearing this, Benjamin was not surprised but overjoyed.
Fortunately, the person he was looking for was indeed here.
But... that assassin with a strange mind is actually the carpenter's son? This surprised Benjamin quite a bit. You know, just looking at the appearance, there is nothing similar between the "bamboo pole" and the carpenter in front of you.
The "Pharaoh next door" from a fantasy world
No, it's better not to speculate on others with such malicious intent. Maybe it's just the genes on the mother's side that are stronger.
Pulling back his distracted thoughts, Benjamin smiled and shook his head and said, "It's okay, I just have a question to ask him. Can you tell me where he is?"
Hearing this, the carpenter showed a puzzled expression. However, Benjamin's gentle tone and his aristocratic appearance must have had an effect. After hesitating for a while, the carpenter nodded.
"Sir, he is in the backyard, just walk in through the side door."
With that said, the carpenter took Benjamin to a small door on the side of the shop.
He opened the door, and then shouted to the back of the door: "Sean, a noble man is looking for you. Have you gotten into trouble again?"
After a while, a response came from the other side of the door: "Dad, I have caused too many things. Which one are you talking about?"
“…”
The carpenter took a deep breath, turned his head, smiled awkwardly at Benjamin and said, "Sir, I'm making you laugh. If you walk through this door, you can see my son."
Benjamin nodded. Through the sounds coming from the backyard, he also came to his own conclusion—yes, it was the assassin that night.
Not everyone can achieve this kind of speechlessness that can make people unable to speak.
So he passed through the side door, then walked around a small corridor, and arrived at the backyard of the carpenter's house.
In the backyard, the young man named Sean, who stabbed Benjamin that night and served as Scar Man's subordinate, was in the small backyard, holding a dagger in his hand and seemed to be making some gestures.
it's him!
After searching for so long, I finally found him.
Benjamin took a deep breath, suppressed his slightly excited mood, and walked up to Sean.
"Long time no see, do you still remember who I am?"
Sean stopped what he was doing, glanced at Benjamin, and said, "I don't remember, I don't think I've seen you before." After saying that, he ignored Benjamin and then gestured with the dagger in his hand.
“…”
Benjamin took a deep breath and said, "Then do you still remember the name Benjamin Reese?"
This time, Sean's expression finally changed.
He was stunned, stopped, and put away the dagger in his hand. He just looked at Benjamin with a serious face. Suddenly, he moved and bowed deeply.
"I'm sorry." He said very sincerely.
Benjamin was confused.
What does it mean to apologize when you disagree
Could it be that he missed some plot again
Sure enough, he still couldn't keep up with the other party's thinking.
"People have said I'm sorry, so just forgive them and say nothing back to them. Don't be too stingy." The system spoke in his mind.
“…”
So, is the logic of the entire conversation really supposed to be like this
Why does Benjamin think something is weird
Fortunately, when he was hesitating about how to answer this sentence, Sean finished bowing and spoke again, resolving Benjamin's embarrassment of not knowing what to say.
"I did not complete the task of assassinating Benjamin Reese. I am very sorry, but I am not a qualified assassin." He said with a guilty expression, "You must be sent by the lady who commissioned me. Please. Please tell her that this is actually my first time assassinating and I have no experience. I am very sorry for deceiving her."
… oh
Benjamin suddenly recovered from his foggy state, and his heart skipped a beat.
The entrusted... lady
After thinking about it, he simply followed the other person's words, and his tone suddenly became stern: "Nonsense, you are not apologetic at all. I see, you have forgotten all about our young lady, and you are just pretending here. What's the use of apologizing? If you are really guilty, first tell me what our young lady looks like."
Now that it has been confirmed that the other party knows a lot, and the long-standing question can finally be answered, Benjamin will certainly not let it go easily.
He was going to induce Sean to reveal the identity of the "entrusted lady".
However, to his disappointment, Sean's answer was this:
"But... But I didn't see that lady, so how can I forget about it? Please believe that my apology is very sincere."
“…”
Damn it, I didn’t even see the client’s face.
It's a pity. If Sean could describe the appearance of the mastermind, Benjamin could find her as quickly as possible and eliminate this hidden threat.
But... there should be other clues.
After thinking about his words, Benjamin said with a fierce face: "In that case, please describe the scene when you accepted the commission to show your sincerity. Otherwise, our lady will not accept you. Sorry!"
He didn't know why, but at this moment, he felt like he was following the other person's train of thought. He was following the other person's train of thought and getting words out of Sean's mouth.
He has never felt that his acting skills were so exaggerated.
Maybe this kind of brain circuit is too magical and is easily contagious.
He couldn't help but think about it.
At the same time, thanks to his cooperative performance, Sean was finally convinced.
He nodded and began to recount his experience at that time:
"One day, I determined to become a great assassin, but my friends all laughed at me, saying that if it were me, no one would be willing to commission it. In order to prove myself, I made up a story that I was a great assassin. He said that I was very powerful and that I was now willing to accept commissions. So I wrote it down on paper, made hundreds of copies, and pasted everything I thought of."
Hearing this, Benjamin couldn't help but think: These days, do you have to post small advertisements to be an assassin
However, this style of conduct... really seems like something he can do.
Therefore, although Benjamin had a lingering feeling of being cheated, he still accepted the setting inexplicably, endured it, and continued to listen.
"I wrote the address of my secret base on a piece of paper and asked people in need to come to me, but after several days, no one came." Sean continued, "But, during the assassination operation On the afternoon of the same day, I found a note in a wooden barrel in the secret base. The note said that I was asked to assassinate Benjamin Reese. It also marked the structure and detailed location of the house. . In this way, I accepted this task and went to carry out the assassination that night. Unexpectedly, I got the wrong room, which led to the final assassination failure. I am really sorry."
“…”
So, that's the whole story
Benjamin couldn't complain.
You can actually instruct others to carry out assassinations with just a piece of paper. What happened to this world
Also, what was the person who instructed Sean to assassinate Benjamin think? Can an "assassin" who can post small advertisements all over the street really be a trustworthy assassin? He actually asked him to assassinate Benjamin. This must be a show of his wits.
At this moment, Benjamin suddenly felt that the assassination was just a prank.
Maybe some people who usually don't like him saw this advertisement accidentally one day and thought it was funny, so they wrote Benjamin's name and threw it into the "secret base" that Sean mentioned.
So Sean believed it and actually came to assassinate him.
What else could he say
What a shame.
Just when Benjamin felt that he had wasted a lot of time and was about to turn around and leave, suddenly, Sean made another move that surprised him.
This unqualified assassin took out a pearl necklace from his pocket.
He handed the necklace to Benjamin and said: "This is the commission reward that was put together with the note. That lady must hate Benjamin Reese to give such an expensive reward. But my assassination also failed. I am not qualified to accept it, please return it to the lady."
As he spoke, he tilted his head and thought for a while, then added: "I hope I'm not rude. I saw this necklace, so I called the person who entrusted it to me a lady. I shouldn't have used the wrong title, right?"
Benjamin was stunned.
He looked at the pearl necklace in Sean's hand and stood still, motionless and said nothing.
It looked like he had been frightened so much that his entire soul had left his body. What was left here was just an empty shell, unable to react to anything in front of him.
"My lord? My lord?" Seeing this, Sean held up the necklace and waved it in front of Benjamin's eyes.
Benjamin still showed no reaction.
After a long time, he gradually came back to his senses. However, his normal state after recovery was no longer normal in the ordinary sense. His face became extremely ugly, as if he knew something very difficult to accept.
He lowered his head, as if thinking about something.
"Sir? What's wrong? Did I really use the wrong title? Please don't be angry." Sean said apologetically.
"No..." Suddenly, Benjamin took a deep breath and finally moved. He shook his head, took the necklace, and then said, "You are not wrong, it is indeed... a 'lady'."
However, his words sounded a bit gritted.
He looked at the necklace that Sean handed over and took another long breath, as if he was trying to expel the emotions in his chest and calm down as quickly as possible.
He put the necklace away and nodded to Sean, as if he was told there was a fire at home, turned around and left in a hurry.
And in his mind.
"Yes, when you took the necklace, I confirmed it again. My judgment just now was correct." The system said in an unusually positive tone, "After comparing Benjamin's memory from the past, this necklace is Mary's favorite. A piece of jewelry that Mary would wear every day in the past. Believe me, this necklace definitely belongs to Mary. It’s just that this necklace has mysteriously disappeared from Mary’s neck since you traveled through time, so you have no impression at all. "