Finally, having successfully received a new assignment, Benjamin and Augustine, who had brought him, left Andrei's house. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It was nearly evening, and it was time for Benjamin to show him where he lived. Originally, he had planned to book a room at a hotel in the town, but Augustine warmly invited him to stay at their house for a while. Benjamin didn't want to trouble anyone, but the other party was gracious, so he had to follow Augustine to the west of the town again.

"Don't worry, I'm interesting, I don't want to leave if you go!"

Benjamin could only smile wryly and shake his head.

Before Augustine came here, he used to be a housekeeper in a wealthy family. There was also a mage in the family, but it was claimed that the mage was Madame's personal maid. At first, Augustin didn't know that he had been eye-to-eye with the maid, but after he really rolled into bed, he was frozen by the maid with restraint techniques and "played" all night.

He was so frightened that he tried to sneak to the town's church the next morning to complain, but was trapped in his room by the mage and forcibly taught him a trick of magic. From then on, he became a mage. Later, he found an opportunity to escape from the mage, and went around and around until he came to Crewe, trying to escape the kingdom, but was stuck here by the gate. So, he used his savings for many years to open a tavern in the town.

Actually, when he first heard this story, Benjamin was a little caught off guard.

Is that really good?

Although he crossed over, Benjamin was only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child after he crossed over. Tell this kind of story to a child, who is responsible for the nutrition can't keep up?

And after Benjamin expressed his shock at the story, Augustine shook his head in some bewilderment.

"Yes? I thought you were okay with this. He showed a somewhat regretful expression and said with a serious expression, "The experience of bondage is really very bad, I have suggested that she buy rope several times, but it is even stronger, and she refuses to buy it." And I couldn't speak even if I was hit by the restraint technique, and the agreed safety word was still a fart? Later, I couldn't stand it, so I ran away while she wasn't paying attention. ”

“......”

Benjamin felt like there were so many slots that he didn't know where to throw up.

He regretted agreeing to stay with Augustine for a while.

But fortunately, when he arrived at the tavern, Augustine began to be busy greeting guests and all kinds of trivial things in the tavern. Because of this, he was unable to communicate more details with Benjamin, and Benjamin was able to catch his breath.

He sat by the window of the tavern, enjoying Augustine, as the boss, and invited him to ale and barbecue.

And in his heart, he was thinking carefully about the task he received from Andrei.

...... Take a cross from the guards.

It is indeed a difficult thing to do. It's not that the guards are so powerful, but after they get the cross, they can't let the people in the Crussad gate find out. If they find out that they have lost a cross, they must be on guard, and the chances of getting past are even smaller.

At the very least, he had to prepare a stolen fake.

Not only that, but he also had to inquire about the situation inside the gate. How many were stationed inside the gate, what was the daily routine of the guards, and where did they put their crosses when they rested?

He's got a lot of work to do.

――If you don't know anything, you want to steal things, and even the thieves on the streets of the royal capital will think he is unprofessional.

With that in mind, he glanced at the next table again.

Sitting at the table next to him were two guards who had come down from shift to rest. When Augustine saw them, he exchanged glances with Benjamin, and pretended to inadvertently put Benjamin in his position.

They also looked five or six points drunk, and they should be able to overhear quite a few things.

And the two guards, who were also eating happily at the moment, were chatting enthusiastically, completely unaware that someone was secretly observing them from the side.

“...... The captain of the grass fuck, who shows a straight face every day. ”

"It's not because of the Bishop. What the hell do you think he's been doing these days? Why is it like the enemy is coming, and he won't give up without tossing us a few times a day. ”

"Who knows, but I've heard that His Majesty the Pope has only been in retreat for a long time, and he has started to go into retreat again, could it be because of this?"

"No, why is the Bishop so angry about this......

Benjamin listened from the sidelines, thoughtful.

Earlier, from other mages, he had learned that there was also a bishop inside the Crusade Gate. Unlike the bishop of the royal capital, this bishop lived in seclusion, and people outside basically never saw this bishop. However, there is no doubt that Benjamin had previously observed the inside of the gate with the water elemental sensing method, and the alarmed priest was the bishop.

Judging from the words of these two men, there is something unusual about the bishop's behavior?

Although Benjamin was a little surprised to hear that the Pope was in retreat again, he also did not feel that the Episcopal Church, far away at the gate of Cruzard, had become behaving strangely because of this kind of thing.

- Unless, unless, there is something else hidden in this "retreat".

Thinking of this, Benjamin shook his head.

The matter in the royal capital is a puddle of troubled waters, all parties are criss-crossed, today we are good friends, tomorrow I will stab you again. He finally managed to break free from that quagmire, and he really didn't want to pay attention anymore.

The only thing he might care about was what happened to the Reese family after he left.

I don't know if the church blamed the 30,000 people for the "plague" or the Rieser family, I don't know what Grant thought after that happened, I don't know what Claude, Jeremy, and the old lady are doing now......

Although I didn't live with them for long, I ...... After all, it was his family after he came to this world.

Although he was a little embarrassed to use the word "family".

Benjamin took a deep breath, took his composure, and took back his thoughts of running far away, and put it back on the two guards who were drinking and chatting.

Although the two chatted endlessly, from scolding the leader to drinking to women. However, from their words, Benjamin gradually figured out the pattern of the guards' shifts.

Twenty-four hours a day, they worked three shifts. Six in the morning, two in the afternoon, and ten in the evening, this is when they change shifts. Except for the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. shifts, there will be 10 people at the gate to check the entry and exit of pedestrians, 200 people stand on the top of the gate to guard, and the rest will rest inside the gate.

Most of the time, the guards were not allowed to leave the gate. However, every two years, they can take a complete break for a month, move freely, go back to their hometown if they want to, and eat, drink and have fun if they want to. Like these two in the tavern, they are nearing the end of their month's vacation, so they have just returned from their hometown and are ready to start their duties again.

Benjamin couldn't help but sigh that the management system of these guards is actually quite scientific and humane.

It's a pity that the most crucial information, about the cross that checked the identity of the Dharmakaya, the two of them have never talked about it. So Benjamin couldn't tell where the crosses would have been placed—whether they would have been distributed and taken back by the church, or whether the guards themselves had brought them.

Therefore, he can only find a way to investigate on his own.

And so, after eating and drinking, the two guards departed. Seeing that he couldn't get any more information, Benjamin simply left the tavern and walked towards the door.

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. After thinking about it, Benjamin decided to use the water elemental perception method to observe the Crusade Gate more. It would be better to draw a diagram of the structure of the entire gate, so that it would be much easier for him to start.

Thinking so, he soon came to the handmade textile shop closest to the gate again.