"Young master, there doesn't seem to be anything to eat in the kitchen, so there are only these two pieces of bread left!"

While Benjamin was sitting on the bed pinching the letter and thinking about it, Jeremy came back from the kitchen. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Before he could enter the door, Benjamin heard him shout.

Benjamin was shocked again. In order to prevent others from noticing the abnormality, he hurriedly stuffed the letter and envelope back under the pillow, covered up all the traces of abnormality, and turned around to see Jeremy walk in.

Jeremy took the bread and stood at the doorway looking at him, and he also looked at Jeremy standing at the door, and for a while neither of them spoke.

"Young Master, is something wrong?" he said suspiciously, as if sensing the strangeness of the atmosphere.

"It's nothing, give me the bread, it's enough to have this. It's hard to get anything else to eat at this time, right?" Benjamin quickly spoke, changing the subject.

"Oh yes. Jeremy replied dumbfounded, and didn't seem to think much of it, and handed the bread in his hand to Benjamin.

Benjamin took the bread and looked at Jeremy, still afraid that he would ask more, so he asked questions again, not giving Jeremy more space to think:

"What did I ask you to do, and how did you do it?"

Jeremy's attention was completely diverted by this question. I saw that he showed a somewhat flustered expression, and his hands groped in his pockets for a while, and after groping for a long time, he finally found a wooden cross from the pocket of his jacket.

He handed the cross to Benjamin: "Young master, I bought it for you." ”

Benjamin's mood was almost stable. He glanced at the cross in Jeremy's hand, revealing the poker face of the leader's inspection, snorted from his nose, did not speak, and looked unpredictable.

"Young Master?" Jeremy asked cautiously, suddenly nervous.

Benjamin glanced at Jeremy again and suddenly said, "This thing isn't right." ”

Jeremy's expression was even more flustered, and he should have forgotten all about what had just happened.

"Go back and find the carpenter in the east and tell him it's not what I want. He'll understand what I mean. Benjamin was silent for a moment, and then continued to give orders.

Hearing this, Jeremy's two eyebrows stirred together again: "Now?"

Benjamin nodded: "Yes, you go now." ”

Jeremy's face drooped again.

Sending the valet out in the middle of the night should attract the attention of the church, and after the church gets nothing, the attention to Jeremy should drop a lot. So even in the middle of the night, Benjamin had to work hard a few more times.

All for the sake of getting Anne's relics.

Although Michelle's letter disrupted all of Benjamin's plans, Benjamin still had no intention of giving up on the piece. He didn't think Michelle would be sincere in teaching him magic. On the other hand, he didn't dare to go her way, who knew what conspiracy this woman would have?

He still believes in himself more.

"Young Master, I'm leaving. If the housekeeper asks, remember to explain it to him, otherwise I will be deducted. ”

Already having the experience of running a long leg, Jeremy didn't complain anymore, leaving the room with the cross in his hand and a sad face. Benjamin nodded, smiled encouragingly, and watched him start another long journey.

He already trusted Jeremy, but not enough to let him know that much. After all, magic was involved, and he still had to send this simple and timid servant away.

You know, the church is doing a good job of brainwashing. In the eyes of the general public, the mage is the embodiment of the devil, the heinous villain. No matter how loyal Jeremy is to him, it is estimated that it will be difficult to understand his behavior. Keeping him in the dark is a good thing for both parties.

When Jeremy was away, Benjamin stepped forward and closed the door.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it's just his manservant, and he is not smart, so he is easier to deal with. If someone else came, he really didn't know what to do. Even if it was the housekeeper from before, I am afraid that he would be suspicious and spread a lot of rumors.

It is indeed dissatisfying to have few and dumb servants, but from another point of view, it is a good thing.

After closing the window and closing the curtains, and making sure that no one else would disturb him, Benjamin reached under the pillow and took out Michelle's letter again.

For him, the importance of this letter at this time cannot be overstated. He had just seen the beginning, and he was already in a cold sweat.

He'll have to read the rest.

In fact, the envelope contained two sheets of stationery. At first, Benjamin thought Michelle was going to say a lot, so he wrote two. But soon, he realized how wrong he was.

The first letter contained only a special commandment, except for the first sentence: "You are very talented in magic, and in ten days I will come to teach you magic":

"You burn this page of letter after reading it, and then give the second page to the bishop of St. Peter's Basilica and convince him to believe it. There are so many ways to contact a bishop, and I don't think I need to teach you. ”

Seeing Michelle ask for the letter to be handed over to the church, Benjamin was already starting to feel bad. And when he finished reading the second page, he couldn't help but sigh, and a strong sense of powerlessness came to his heart.

The second letter reads: "In five days, go to the prison ruins in the lower city to see me, don't make a fool of yourself, the time for the first attack of the curse is almost up, and you will be better off than dead." ”

Benjamin felt creepy.

Once again, he underestimated Michelle.

This witch has too many ambitions. What she wanted was not only for Benjamin to get her the Treasury of the Reeser family, but also for the church. She was going to use Benjamin to set a trap to lure the church people to the lower part of the city five days later, and then take revenge on the church once.

This is no longer a fight between him and Michelle, it is a fight between Michelle and the church. And he is just a pawn in the hands of Michelle.

What should he do? What could he do?

Michelle really saw through all his thoughts.

If he did what Michelle said, he would have given the second page of the letter to the church. Nine times out of ten, the church will make its way to the prison site five days later and fall into Michelle's trap. In this way, the church was hit and Michelle could act more unscrupulously.

If Benjamin doesn't give the second page to the church, the curse will make him suffer. At the same time, he will lose the help of the church and face Michelle alone, and the situation will become very dangerous.

And if Benjamin had thought backwards and given both pages to the church...... The church will discover Benjamin's magic and purify him on the spot.

Not to mention that he burned all the letters, and then lied that the letters had spontaneously combusted, and went to persuade the church with empty words. The Bishop is also a cunning fellow, and without Michelle's real clues, will he believe it? He will pretend to believe it, and then, like last time, say a lot of nice things, throw out some inconsequential information, and give Benjamin no real help—he has no other relic to find, and this information is really irrelevant.

All roads lead to Yama, and no matter how you play this move, it is a life of nine deaths.

Benjamin finds himself in despair again.

"Ahhh......hhh What should I do?" he covered his face, looking so anxious that he was not even in the mood to eat the bread in his hand.

"Hmm...... Maybe you should listen to Michelle, didn't she say she was going to teach you magic?" the system thought for a moment, and then made such a suggestion.

"Then, I learned her magic, and I became the next Sally, the next Annie, or even worse. My life is in her hands, do you think she will really regard me as a companion, or do you think she will take the initiative to lift the curse for me? Benjamin shook his head and said.

"That's right. The system rarely replied normally, even though it was completely useless.

Benjamin fell into deep thought. He felt all the thoughts running through his mind, a tremendous pressure pressing against him, shadows looming over him, forcing him to make a choice in a short period of time.

He had to decide as soon as possible.

If he is going to give the letter to the bishop, then he must leave tonight. After today, the "five days later" in the letter will become "four days later", and it will be difficult for him to explain all this to the bishop, and any explanation will lead to the bishop's distrust.

And if he wants to take advantage of this time difference between "five days later" and "four days later" to do things, the result will only be worse. The Bishop pounces on Benjamin and lowers its trust in Benjamin, while Michelle feels that Benjamin is disobedient and curses him worse than dead.

Benjamin was caught in a dilemma.

He is caught between the church and Michelle, and the church wants to use him to catch Michelle, and Michelle wants to use him to fight the church. If one is not careful, he will end up with a flattering end. It's so hard to be able to do it right and left. But he has to do it, otherwise he will have no chance of turning the tables.

At the end of the day, he had to make a decision that would best serve him.

- in this extremely short period of time.

The clock in the corner hummed nine times, as if even it had become uninteresting, urging Benjamin, who was in a hurry.

While...... While...... While...... While......

When the ninth bell ended, at last, he stood up.

A curfew began at ten o'clock in the royal capital, and no one was allowed to wander the streets after ten o'clock. If he wanted to return to the Rieser family before ten o'clock, he would have to leave now.

That's right, to go, he finally made a decision. He was to do what Michelle said, give the bishop the letter on page two, and lead the church people to the lower town for Michelle.

He took the letter to the table, burned the first page with the fire of an oil lamp, and poured the ashes of the letter into the nightpot.

While doing this, he thought that the fate between himself and the night pot was not shallow.

"Are you really going to come all the way Michelle had planned? If the church gets hit hard, who knows if it will be angry on you? Don't be impulsive. The system was a rare kind reminder.

Benjamin didn't show a surprised expression. As he prepared to go to church, he replied in his heart, "The church is really likely to be angry with me." But if I fall into a trap and get badly wounded, or even nearly lose my life, will the church still doubt me?"

The system suddenly realized: "You plan to use bitter meat tricks!"

Benjamin sighed, nodded, and replied helplessly, "If you want to gain, you have to sacrifice." If I'm hurt enough and maybe I'll still be trusted by the church, it's worth it. ”

When the system heard this, it fell silent again, perhaps also considering Benjamin's choice, or maybe it was just circulating Yida's series of advertisements in his head.

Benjamin paused for a moment, and then spoke, as if answering the system, but as if talking to himself:

"As a chess piece that is slightly reciprocated, if I don't make small moves, what else can I rely on to accumulate the capital to become a chess player?"

After everything was ready, he quietly left the Rieser family and hurried towards St. Peter's Basilica.