The expressions of the six people were obviously very confused. Suddenly they were caught in jail and poisoned by an unknown person. At this moment, they woke up in a completely unfamiliar mountainous area. It probably felt as if they had traveled through time.
Benjamin, standing not far away, was probably the only person they were familiar with at the moment.
"... Young Master?"
Benjamin has lost his disguise and revealed his true colors. Several servants sat up from the ground and stared at him for a long time. In the end, it was Jeremy who recognized him and shrank in fear.
Benjamin smiled and nodded.
Several other servants were also shocked and looked at each other with hesitant expressions.
"Yes, which young master is he?"
Benjamin walked up to them, knelt down and comforted: "It's me, Benjamin, the young man who was almost burned to death in the square. Grant is the one who became the pope now, and it was him who had sex with the man, not me. I don't know You don’t know the inside story, but... you are already safe."
Hearing this, everyone's eyes widened and they froze on the spot, unable to speak for a long time.
Jeremy stared blankly at Benjamin's face. After coming back to his senses, he looked left and right, and after a while he showed a surprised expression.
"Strange, no wonder..." His whole body started to tremble, "I, after I said that thing, the young master never gave me a good look or talked to me again. It turned out to be... It turned out to be... "
As he spoke, he wiped away his tears and couldn't speak any more, which made Benjamin very embarrassed.
These people didn't realize that Grant and his identities had been swapped? That's so insensitive, is Grant really so successful at pretending
"Don't cry, I'm fine, and you guys survived too." Benjamin shook his head, pushed Jeremy's shoulder, and comforted him awkwardly.
Probably due to the strong feelings of the aftermath of the disaster, several other servants not only did not help him clean up the situation, but instead hugged Jeremy and started crying. Seeing this, Benjamin could only stand up and shook his head helplessly.
"... Young Master, Master, he is dead... everyone is dead..."
Benjamin sighed.
Well, it wasn't just the aftermath, the Reese family died tragically and suddenly. They had no time to grieve before being imprisoned and then poisoned. Now that they have finally arrived in a safe environment, they really need to vent their emotions.
In fact, thinking of what happened to Claude, Benjamin felt heavy again at the moment.
—The servants said so, and his death was absolutely certain.
Despite being mentally prepared along the way, Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath. Claude may not be a good father. He is overbearing, stubborn and rigid, and he is unwilling to listen to other people's opinions. But no matter what, he really wanted his two sons to be well.
He always felt that Claude deserved a better ending.
Benjamin waited aside, waiting for the servants to recover from their grief, and he also dealt with his somewhat heavy heart. He wanted to find out the reason why the Rise family was destroyed, which was also the purpose of coming all the way here.
"Do you know who is behind this?"
He looked at the servants and asked.
When the servants heard this, they looked at him hesitantly.
"Master Benjamin... have you really become a mage?"
Benjamin nodded and said: "I will tell you these things slowly later. Now you only need to tell me, what exactly did Duke Claude die for?"
When the servants heard this, they looked at each other for a while, apparently knowing the situation. But for some unknown reason, they looked extremely hesitant and some did not dare to speak.
Like Jeremy, he seemed to have thought of something and was trembling with fear, obviously unable to answer the question.
"It's safe here. You can say whatever you want." Benjamin could only continue to comfort him, "I rescued you from prison, and you almost died in there. What else do you have to worry about?"
Finally, the nearly fifty-year-old cook closed her eyes and said unbearably: "Yes... it's His Majesty the Pope."
"Pope? You mean Grant?"
"...Yes." The cook nodded and said in a sad voice, "That night, for some reason, His Majesty the Pope came back home and was still talking to the master in the study. He hadn't been back for a long time, and we were all surprised. . But I didn’t expect that while they were talking... there was a conflict."
Benjamin's face darkened.
"Grant and Claude had a conflict?"
"Yes, the master's roar came from the study room, and everyone was startled. Then, there were some strange sounds coming from the study room. When we were all thinking about whether to go in to smooth things over, suddenly All of a sudden, the whole room fell silent."
"… Then what?"
"Then, His Majesty the Pope walked out. He... He looked very excited, his face was red, and he called all of us to the hall. As a result, the door was locked, and we were all locked on the ground. Wait. When we thought something might be bad, groups of paladins rushed over..."
Just like that, after listening to the whole story, Benjamin was silent for a long time, then suddenly stood up and shook his head.
"Master?"
Jeremy looked at Benjamin and suddenly felt fear, and asked hesitantly.
"...It's okay." Benjamin turned around and shook his head, "I just didn't expect that it was Grant who did this. He...actually killed his father."
In the end what happened
With a long sigh, Benjamin took six people and started flying towards the border. No matter what, he had to settle these six people first, and the Kingdom of Hori was obviously no longer a place for them.
Flying in the air, Benjamin tried his best to let the servants understand why the mage was not a demon, and the servants also relayed to him the changes that had occurred in the Se family bit by bit.
It turned out that after Grant inherited his identity, he became taciturn and hardly had any contact with anyone. Therefore, even Jeremy could only meet during meal times without recognizing that he was no longer the real "Benjamin".
And the atmosphere of the entire family plummeted. Claude directly drove his wife to the countryside and never saw her again. The old lady disappeared again, leaving the two of them alone. Every family meal was like a silent torment. So gradually, Grant no longer lived in the Reese family.
Afterwards, the church made up an excuse, saying that "Grant" had betrayed God's blessing, and this blessing was transferred to "Benjamin". The originally useless "Benjamin" suddenly showed amazing magical talents. As a result, Grant once again legitimately entered the church as "Benjamin".
Although the servants felt a little strange, how could they dare to doubt what the church said
In this way, as time went by, Grant became increasingly estranged from the Reese family. The servant also said that Grant sometimes came back to have dinner together, but every time there was either no communication or quarrels over some inexplicable things. In short, the Reese family seemed to have walked into a quagmire, without any life at all.
But... Even so, why did Grant kill people
Benjamin never understood.
Therefore, the idea that they might be able to cooperate in the past was completely extinguished at this moment.
He didn't want to use words like fate to describe it, but he understood that whether it was out of personal emotions or for the thousands of mages standing behind him, there was bound to be a battle between him and Grant. This may not be their fate, but it has become the ultimate choice in this era.