Chapter 48: The Choice
Arnold ignored Kelsey and walked over to Blundon and crouched down to check his injuries: "Let me see, um......"
Brenden looked at Arnold, who was wearing a hawksbill hood, crouched beside him, and gently lifted his injured leg, although his movements were gentle enough, Brendon still felt a pain in his ankle.
Arno looked at Kelse, whose face was wrinkled, and distracted him with a loud voice: "What's your name, kid?"
"I... My name is Brenden. ”
Arno tried to keep his voice as soft as he could, "So, Brendon, can you tell me why you're preventing us from harming that Mr. Overseer?"
"Because Mr. Kelsey is a good guy and he always helps us secretly. ”
Arno gently placed Brendon's leg on the ground, stood up and looked at Seville: "This kid is very badly injured, I think even if he is cured later, he will not be able to become an assassin..."
Sevilla looked at Brendon lying on the ground, and his expression was a little complicated: "Then what should we do?
Arno didn't answer Seville's question, but drew his revolver and aimed it at Kelse, who was slumped on the ground, shivering: "And this gentleman, maybe he is a good man, but he has seen the assassin, I think you should dispose of him." ”
Sevilla hesitantly raised his wrist and looked at the Hidden Blade that flicked out under the bracer: "Even if he is a good person...... Do we have to kill him too?"
Hidden under the hood, Sevilla couldn't see Arno's expression: "If you don't kill him, you're violating one of the rules of the Brotherhood: hide your tracks in full view and be part of the crowd." ”
Kelsey glared at the two assassins in front of him with wide eyes: "No, please don't hurt me!"
Sevilla slowly walked up to Kelce, raising his arm, but the Hidden Blade was slow to stab.
"What are you hesitating about?"
Arno held his gun. Walked up behind Seville and looked at the rookie assassin with his hands raised and his arms trembling slightly.
Sevilla turned his head slightly to look at Arno, and then without saying a word, he slowly approached Kelse.
Kelsedi lost control of his face completely, and the mixture of tears and snot fused into his mouth.
Kelsey looked at the approaching Hidden Blade, the short legs in the fat pants, and kicked the ground in a panic, moving backwards like a maggot, and he didn't even know that the iron on the ground had cut his thigh.
"No...... Don't kill me...... Please......" Kelsey struggled last.
Just as the Hidden Blade was about to touch Kelse's skin, Sevilla suddenly raised his wrist and retracted the Hidden Blade under the bracer.
She looked back at Arnold, "I'm sorry, Mentor, I can't do anything to him. ”
"The first rule of the Brotherhood: Don't kill innocents!" Sevilla continued before Arno could speak, "and I think he should be innocent!"
Arno looked at Seville in a firm tone in front of him: "Between two conflicting rules, do you choose to enforce the rule of not killing innocents? What if I ask you to kill the overseer in front of you?
Sevilla's face hidden under the hood is full of determination: "I insist!"
Arno's right index finger tapped rhythmically on the eagle's head cane: "Is it......"
There was only the sound of Arno tapping his cane in the room, and even Brenden subconsciously stopped moaning in his mouth, and Kelsey didn't dare to take a breath, for fear that Arno would pull the trigger because of his actions.
"Click!"
Arnold turned the revolver back into his waist and looked at Sevilla with a smile: "Well, if that's your decision." ”
Sevilla paused for a moment: "Guide, mentor?"
Arno looked at Sevilla appreciatively: "Remember what I said when you joined the Brotherhood?"
"What did you say?"
"Well, it seems that I said so much that you don't know what it is. Arno shrugged helplessly: "We are an organization that advocates free will, we allow the development of new ideas and the growth of independent personalities, so, I want you to have your own ideas and considerations, instead of blindly carrying out tasks, I want you to grow in the execution of tasks, so...... As long as you complete the mission without violating the rules, then I support all the decisions you make in the mission!"
Sevilla pinched his eyebrows with a headache: "If I really carry out your orders and plan to kill this overseer, will you stop me?"
Arno looked at Sevilla playfully: "Maybe, who knows?"
With a string of snot hanging from his nostrils, Kelce looked at the two assassins blankly, "So, so I don't have to be killed by you?"
Arno looked at the sloppy Kelse, and leaned back in disgust: "It's hard to say, it depends on this gentleman, whether you are willing to cooperate with us." ”
When Kelsey heard Arno's words, he quickly nodded his head and expressed his willingness to cooperate: "I am willing! I am willing to cooperate with you, as long as you don't hurt me!"
Arno looked at Kelsey with scrutinizing eyes, "Okay, so this gentleman, what's your full name?"
"Kelse, Kelsey Strauss!"
"Hmm...... Mr. Kelsey, do you have a wife? How many people are there?"
"There are five people in my family, my father and wife, and two children, a boy and a girl!"
"Thank you for your cooperation, how many pennies a week do you work as an overseer in this factory?"
"I'm about 3 shillings a week, sir"
Arnold nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, Mr. Kelse, yes, I would like to recommend a job to you, 4 shillings per week, which is to take care of the hygiene of the workplace, and then help some children wash their clothes, and by the way, clean the stables every day, please do not refuse." ”
Kelsey looked at Arnold in a daze, "Four shillings? are you sure you're not kidding me?"
Arnold had an intriguing look on his face: "Relaxed? maybe...... But before you start working, I'd suggest you take care of yourself. ”
"And what about this child?" Seville asked Arno as she picked up Blundon, who had fainted.
Arno looked at Brendon, who frowned even if he fainted: "Don't worry, I think there is no shortage of work in the hiding place, you send this child to the carriage, I think Meghan and they have already solved the overseer downstairs." ”