With nothing to do all afternoon, I simply climbed up on the roof to soak up the sun.

The afternoon sun is very warm, and because it's spring, there is no temperature that can burn people.

Lying down, suddenly feeling a little sleepy, I closed my eyes and fell asleep before I knew it.

When I woke up, there was one more person beside me.

“……”

"Huh...... You're awake. Bena grinned and smiled at me: "I didn't have anything to do in the afternoon, I wanted to ask you to go to the homeless village with me, but now you are lying here, ...... Slept soundly. So I didn't wake you up. ”

"......" slept for too long, and when I woke up all of a sudden, I felt a little headache: "I'm sorry. ”

"It's nothing, it doesn't matter if you go another day." Bednar stood up, and from my vantage point, he felt as tall as a giant.

Suddenly, he bent down and reached out and touched my head: "Boy, are you tired?" ”

In fact, it's idle and fast.

-- In this case, you can't say it to your immediate boss.

"It's fine."

"It's better to rest in the house when you're tired." Bena sighed: "By the way, it just so happens that tomorrow I will go to the homeless village to talk about the contract, why don't you go with me." ”

"Contract?"

"Well, this can be regarded as the mercenary group's entry...... "Bena touched his chin: "Chelsea has been working on it before-we want to build a manor in the area that the homeless village now occupies, and then hire those homeless people to work in the manor." ”

"Actually, it's almost done, and I'm just going to get the contract directly."

Turning the place where the homeless village was built into a manor?

I remember Bednar once saying to me that the homeless village was built in a gray area between the East and West 6, and was an unsupervised area. In this way, as long as you get the consent of the displaced people, hire them and give them some payment. With the background of the Blade Mercenary Regiment, it almost didn't cost any marks to get all those lands.

It's a great plan, and it's a good deal.

But...... Only the Warblade Mercenary Regiment can do that.

Figuring out the joints, I nodded at Bednar and answered.

"And tomorrow morning?" Bednar took my hand and pulled me up, he had a lot of strength, I didn't pay attention, I was pulled to a stumbling side, I saw that I was about to fall, in a hurry, I could only reach out and hug him.

His body was warm and muscular, and I was a little taller than him, so I hugged each other...... It's like a hug between lovers.

What a mess.

I quickly threw such a bizarre idea out of my head, hurriedly let go of my hand, and touched my nose a little embarrassed: "That...... See you tomorrow. ”

Without waiting for him to answer, I turned around and walked away very rudely, which ...... It shouldn't be considered a deserted escape...... Right?

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It's a man, but ...... To be honest, I've never had such intimate physical contact with someone.

This feeling of embarrassment did not completely disappear until the next morning, when I walked with Bennar on the road to the homeless village.

But he didn't care and even made fun of me.

- "No, Chloe, you're a man, just hugging, awkwardly like a little girl. ”

He has always looked like an elder in front of me, generous and gentle, but I didn't expect such a bad time.

Seeing that I didn't answer, he began to talk to himself again: "But...... This is actually the same as training vindictiveness, as long as you repeat it more and practice it diligently, you will get used to it. With that, he opened his arms and gave me another strong hug.

Well, I'm really not used to him being a bit of a ruffian like this.

It's just like Ryan's.

…… Ryan?

-- A sponsor with whom I have been in correspondence for three years but have never met.

This person was suddenly found by me from my distant memory, and it still smelled of decay.

His mailing address has never been fixed, so even if I want to go to him now, I don't know where to look.

It seems that he has been completely burned by the fire in the Pansen Welfare Institute three years ago.

I also...... I have long been accustomed to the current life, accustomed to forgetting him.

It's just that I didn't expect to think of him again, but it was because of a word and a hug from Bena.

I looked up, and Bednar was walking ahead of me. Looking at his back, I suddenly had a feeling of "could it be that Bena is Ryan?" "Such thoughts.

But soon, I dropped that thought.

- Ryan is just an ordinary mercenary, how can he be the head of a mercenary group with a prominent family like Bena?

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Displaced villages.

It has been renovated by Chelsea's orders, and you can faintly see the prototype of the manor.

But......

Most of the houses are empty, and it feels like the number of people here does not correspond to the number of houses.

"Why are there so many empty rooms?" I asked Bednar.

"These houses should be demolished by then." Pointing to the houses, Bednar explained to me: "Actually, we only employ some of the homeless, and we pay a lot of marks to those who don't. ”

"Because the pay is so good, many people leave voluntarily."

"Is it all Earl Chelsea who came to negotiate with the homeless people on his own?"

"Not necessarily, he occasionally brings some people there, don't worry, he was originally a nobleman of the 6th Western University, and when he was in the 6th Western University, he dealt with a lot of similar things, and he has a good set of methods in this regard."

I did hear that the aristocratic enclosure on the side of Xida 6 was a common practice.

In fact, many of these homeless people in the homeless village lost their homes because of the enclosure of the 6 nobles of Xida, and they had to wander here.

Thinking of this, some vague thoughts suddenly occurred in my head.

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Bena was still leading me forward, seeing that he had almost passed through the entire homeless village, but he still had no intention of stopping, and he didn't know where to go to get the so-called "contract".

As I walked, a low house suddenly appeared in front of me. Just looking at it from a distance, I felt that there was a cold aura coming to my face.

I suppressed the uncomfortable feeling in my heart and followed Bednar over the room.

"Bang-"

Not long after walking, the sound of glass shattering could be heard in the room. This was followed by the dull thud of a heavy object falling to the ground.

Bednar and I glanced at each other, turned and ran back, pushing open the old wooden door.

By the good light of the day, we could see clearly what was going on—a strong man was tying a tall and thin man with a rope at a wooden table, and beside them an old woman was already slumped on the ground, her face trembling with a pale face.

"Good Biden!"

I heard Bednar's excited exclamation, and I wondered, so I turned my head to look at him.

As if sensing my gaze, Bednar turned his head and smiled at me.

"......" I frowned, but a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in my mind: "What you said before...... Causes of the accident...... Are you lying to me? ”

Hearing me ask this, he was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "Kolo, I won't deceive you. ”

At this time, the strong man named Biden dragged the captive with one hand and quickly walked in front of us: "Finally let me catch him." Biden sighed and said, "Bena, I'll bring this guy back first." ”

"Yes, be careful on the road." Bednar nodded.

I looked at the woman who was sitting in a daze, and then at Biden's back in the distance, and I was really a little confused.

Suddenly, my neck was hooked by Bednar's outstretched arm, and he suddenly leaned over, and his hot and humid breath hit my neck, and his deep voice came to my ear: "Hey, boy, do you want to try to guess what the hell is going on?" ”

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