Carmal went to Gawain's study, but he didn't see Gawain, only the dull-looking little maid was waiting for him.

"Mr. Carmel," Betty saw Carmel push the door open and float in, and immediately greeted him with a large teapot, "the lord left for a moment, and he said he would be back soon, so let you wait here for a while." ”

After all this reflection and precipitation, Carmel's mood has calmed down, and he is still a little glad to hear Betty's words - he can still take a few more minutes to adjust his mood and sort out his findings before Gawain returns.

"Did he say where he went?" Carmel casually asked in a corner of the study as he found a random place to rest.

"The master went to the laboratory, and said that there was a place on the drawing that was still uncertain, and he wanted to test it again...... Uh-huh......" Betty struggled to recall what she had heard from Gawain, "test the 'data'!" That's what the word says. ”

"Data? Drawing? Kamelton was curious, "What is it about?" ”

Betty thought about it carefully, and raised her head and chest: "Forget! ”

Carmel was silent—forgot, not unaware, which meant that Gawain must have told the little maid something else, but she apparently didn't...... But this is not surprising.

Kamel knows Betty, although this little girl is just a maid, but she is said to have followed the lord from birth to death, very trusted and loved by the lord's family, in the lord's mansion can always see this little girl running around, sometimes she will follow the lord in the study to learn to write, such a special little girl will of course leave a deep impression on Kamel.

So Carmel knew Betty, not only her, but also some of the things about this little girl, such as knowing that she was a little stupid, knowing that she liked to write, and knowing that she always forgot things that were not easy for her to understand...... Frankly speaking, Kamel couldn't understand how such an unreliable maid could become the head maid who took care of the entire lord's mansion and could command a few servants here......

Suffice it to say that the approachable lord was too lenient with the servants of the palace - though Kamel didn't intend to be too judgmental about it, he was just a researcher, and was rarely interested in anything other than academic issues.

While he waited, he began to study a map hanging on the wall of his study, which seemed to be a topographical map of a fairly large area around the territory, and its detail was astonishingly detailed, hardly like what could be drawn by people in this age of technological disobedience, Betty stood beside him, holding a large teapot and looking at the guest thoughtfully, as if in a very tangled thought.

After some thought, Betty finally spoke, "Mr. Carmel, do you want tea?" ”

Kamal was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at the little maid with a serious face, and waved his hand slightly embarrassed: "Ah, no need, thank you." ”

Betty blinked and returned to the table with the teapot, "Oh. ”

But after a while, she stepped forward again: "Mr. Carmel, do you want tea?" ”

Kamel: "...... I really don't need to, thank you little girl. ”

“…… Oh. ”

After a few more moments, Betty's voice sounded behind Carmel for the third time: "Mr. Carmel, do you want tea?" ”

Carmel finally felt that he could no longer study the map, and he turned around and tried his best to hide his embarrassment: "Little girl, didn't you notice that I don't have a mouth?" ”

Betty seemed to have finally figured out something, and she suddenly realized "oh", and then put the teapot on the desk a little lost: "Oh......"

Looking at this dumb little girl, Kamal suddenly couldn't help but want to say something, but after hesitating for a long time, he only said a dry sentence: "But thank you very much...... of tea. ”

"The gentleman said that when you entertain guests, remember to serve tea," Betty still looked frustrated, "but I always felt like I didn't do ...... well."

"You've worked hard to do a good job...... It's my situation that is so special that I don't think any maid knows how to entertain a 'guest' like me," Carmel didn't know why he was talking so much to a little maid, but he just couldn't help but say, "How long have you been serving Cecil's family?" ”

Betty did the math this time - she had never been able to count the years before, but now she knew how to count, and she had figured out a lot of things that she hadn't figured out before: "It's been six years, but the first two years were just helping Mrs. Hansen wash the dishes......

She's only sixteen years old now...... In other words, was he sold to the castle as a servant at the age of ten? Dishwashing girls?

Kamel knew she had no reason to continue, but she couldn't help but ask, "Do you like living like this?" ”

“…… I don't know," Betty apparently hadn't thought about it, and she was stunned for a moment before answering, "but Miss Rebecca and the old viscount are very good to me, and Lady Hetty, and the old lord, they are all very good to me. And when I was younger, my family and I were always hungry, but since I entered the castle, we have all had enough to eat......"

It took Kamel a few seconds to figure out what was going on in the meantime—nothing more than that Betty had a ration for the lowest-class servants in the castle, and her family had not only sold it for money, but also had one less mouth to eat.

This is the way for the untouchables of the lower ranks of this era to survive in a desperate situation, and it even takes some luck to achieve it - because not all times the lord needs to buy a servant.

This is something that is common knowledge in this era, but for Kamel, who came to this era from the heyday of the Gondor Empire, there is too much to imagine.

However, he couldn't change the status quo of the entire era, and a thousand words finally converged into a sentence: "What a cruel era." ”

"That's what the lord said," said Betty, who suddenly spoke at the remark, "but I don't understand what he means." ”

"The lord said the same?"

"Yes, the lord said that the times were cruel, and that a new order was to be built...... "Betty recalled, "and it was a complicated thing in short, and I heard him tell Miss Rebecca and Mrs. Hetty. ”

"......I see," Carmel listened silently, and sighed softly, "This is also normal, he is a person who has lived through that glorious era, and must not be able to endure the ignorance and darkness of the present." ”

Betty looked at Carmel in a daze, she didn't quite understand the meaning of the other party's muttering words, and Carmel glanced down at Betty, suddenly realizing why she couldn't help but say so much to this little girl.

"I used to have a younger sister...... Ah, she doesn't look like you, but the last time I saw her, she was about your age," the ancient magus said quietly, "she was ...... I like to make tea for me to drink. ”

Betty blinked, "Is your sister also a great mage?" ”

“…… No, she has no magical talents, she's just an ordinary person, and she died of illness before she reached adulthood," Kamel said in a very nonchalant tone, "If it weren't for that, I probably wouldn't have left the Imperial Capital and become a part of the 'Disobedience' scheme." ”

Betty lowered her head: "Hmm......"

"It's all in the past," Carmel lowered his head, trying to touch Betty's hair, but before his "palm" full of arcane energy touched the latter, there were already sparkling arcane sparks jumping near Betty's hair, seeing this scene, the ancient magister slowly withdrew his hand and let out a soft sigh, "Alas......"

Betty felt some itching on her scalp and couldn't help but scratch her hair, but when she looked up, she found that Kamel had drifted somewhere else: the conversation was over.

The little maid didn't know what was going on, so she had to go back to her desk and continue to be in a daze.

Soon after, the door of the study was pushed open, and Gawain returned to the room with a scroll of drawings, and when he saw Carmel, who seemed to be studying the bookshelf, and Betty, who was standing at the desk, he couldn't help but smile: "Are you impatient?" ”

Kamel turned to Gawain and floated towards Gawain: "No, I was chatting with the little girl just now, and I wasn't bored. ”

Betty ran to Gawain with a large teapot: "Sir, Mr. Carmel doesn't drink tea!" He said he didn't have a mouth......"

"Ahem, I know, I know," Gao Wen touched Betty's head a little embarrassed, and asked the little girl to step back first, "Go back and rest, I don't need anyone here for the time being." ”

"Hmm!"

Betty snapped and ran out, leaving Gawain looking at Carmel with an embarrassed expression: "This kid is sometimes more stunned to speak......"

"It's okay, I don't care, she's a lovely girl," Kamel said lightly, "Lord, I have something to report to you. ”

Gao Wenlai was about to let Kamel look at his artillery design ideas, and was stunned when he heard this: "Oh? What's up? ”

"It's about those aberrations," Carmel's look was incomprehensible, but there was a serious tone in his tone at the moment, "I think...... I know where they come from. ”

"You figured out where the aberrations came from?" Gao Wen's expression instantly became serious, and he immediately walked quickly to the desk and put down the data drawings in his hand, "Where did they come from?" ”

"We made it," Carmel said slowly, "the product of a disobedient plan." ”

“……”

Gawain was silent, and did not speak for almost ten seconds, until even Carmel felt a little uneasy, he smiled silently and shook his head: "It's really such an answer......

"Did you expect that?"

"It's just a guess," Gawain exhaled, "and after learning of your plans for disobedience, I had a slight suspicion about it based on the information I had come into contact with when I broke out of the Gondor Wasteland, but I didn't expect it...... It turned out to be exactly what I thought. Tell me, how did you find out? ”

"Miss Tyr gave me a sample of the aberration, a clean sample that could be analyzed by magic after removing the magical energy of chaos, and I found signs of a type II genetic mutation in that book, and this mutation ...... It is the characteristic of the 'divine iniquity' that we created in the first place. ”

"Sit down," Gawain sighed, took a seat behind his desk, and gestured to a chair next to him, "We might have to talk about it." ”