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With unusually mixed emotions, he did not stay in the outer city for long, but went straight back to the inner city, in front of the big house of the Reeser family.

If, as usual, either, he would enter directly through the main entrance, and let the servant at the door take the coat and take it to change. Or, he'll go around to the backyard, climb over the railing, and sneak in through the window of an empty room, avoiding everyone's gaze, and tiptoe back to his room.

However, today......

He didn't know how to step into this seemingly grand and elegant house.

He has also lived in this house for some time since the crossing. When facing the people in the family, although he didn't treat them as real family, at least, after eating together for so long, the relationship can still be cultivated a little.

Therefore, when he first heard the system say that the pearl necklace was from Mary, Benjamin was so stunned.

Mary - Benjamin and Grant's biological mother, Claude's husband, and a well-known good wife and mother among the aristocracy.

In Benjamin's impression, Mary has always been a gentle and demure mother. While Claude treats his two sons sideways, she likes to speak for Benjamin and help Benjamin bring food for him who is in confinement. Judging by Benjamin's experience so far, she is a pretty competent mother.

Although she did not get along well with the old lady, Benjamin did not think that Mary was at fault.

But now Benjamin ......

Now Benjamin doesn't know what to think.

He suddenly remembered that the old lady had left him to open the necklace in the treasury, and said something for no reason: "What you see is not necessarily true." At the time, he thought that the old lady was alluding to something related to Michelle, but he never associated this sentence with her tearing up with Mary.

But now it seems that the old lady said this as if to warn him to be careful of Mary.

Beware of Mary......

Should he really be careful of Mary?

At this moment, Benjamin still has the illusion that he is not dreaming.

Was all this true?Why was it Mary who instructed the Assassins?Why did Mary have murderous intent on him?and...... Even if she really had murderous intent, why would she make such a stupid choice?

That's right, stupid.

Mary certainly didn't seem like a smart and transparent person, but the series of actions seemed too stupid to him, and they were so stupid that they were a little untrue.

Why, exactly?

At the end of the day, Benjamin still couldn't think of Mary's motives. He didn't understand what it would do Mary to hire an assassin who posted small advertisements all over the city to kill him.

In his mind, there are still quite a few doubts.

He's going to have to figure it all out.

In this way, Benjamin stood outside the gate of the Reeser family, thought for a long time, and finally made a decision.

He was going to take the necklace and test Mary's reaction. He wanted to find out, as the old lady said, whether "what he saw" was true.

He kept an eye on it, first hid in a remote corner, dug a pit and buried the suspicious things on his body. Then he returned to the gate and strode into the house.

Ignoring the servant at the door, he walked straight down the hallway, just in time to see Mary standing alone in the drawing-room. Mary in the living room clasped her hands together and looked a little nervous, as if waiting for someone.

At the same time, she also looked up and saw Benjamin outside the door.

After a brief pause, she tentatively spoke, "Yes, is it Benjamin?"

Benjamin swallowed the unspeakable taste in his mouth and nodded.

"Yes, my ...... Mother. ”

Mary's face suddenly showed a relieved expression. She walked briskly, and said as she went, "I have found you, where have you gone, you child?" I said, how could I not find anyone? ”

She reached out and seemed to want to grab Benjamin's arm, but Benjamin subconsciously dodged it.

"You ......," Mary was stunned for a moment, and then, looking downward, she suddenly saw the pearl necklace that Benjamin had half-hidden in his hand.

At that moment, her face changed drastically, as if she had changed a person, and like an eagle pounced, she reached out and snatched the necklace.

Because of Mary's sudden change of face, Benjamin didn't react for a while, and Mary snatched the necklace away.

However, after reacting, he didn't make any resistance, but took a deep breath, too lazy to care about the pearl necklace that was snatched away.

He really didn't expect Mary...... It was so quick to show its feet.

...... It's good that he doesn't have to make a detour here.

"Mother, are you going to explain this necklace?" he said, looking at Mary coldly.

Mary held the necklace and was stunned. She also seemed to realize her gaffe, took a few steps back, adjusted, and soon returned to her former gentle appearance.

Suddenly, she smiled awkwardly, and then showed a solemn expression.

"My dear child, whatever you have heard, do not believe it. Although she was already trembling faintly, her tone still sounded unusually "sincere".

Benjamin's tone was even colder: "But this incident is not something I have heard, but I have personally experienced it, in the middle of the night, a man with a dagger ran to my room and said that he wanted to kill me. ”

If Benjamin was skeptical before, now, after watching these botched performances, he is convinced of the fact that Mary wants to kill him.

However, he still didn't understand why Mary did this.

What about motivation?

There must be a reason behind everything.

"What? Really? But...... I...... No, you ......"

Listening to Benjamin's words, Mary also showed a confused expression and opened her mouth, as if she wanted to explain something. However, after a long time, except for her increasingly panicked look, there was no substantial progress in anything else.

"I'm sorry, my mother. Benjamin interrupted her impatiently, and said nonchalantly, "I was too abrupt, and perhaps I should have given you a little more time to make up an excuse that would be perfunctory, wouldn't I?"

Suddenly, Mary was choked by this sarcasm, and her hands holding the necklace trembled slightly.

She just stood there and was silent for a while, and suddenly, her face changed again, she lowered her head, covered her mouth, and a few sobs came out of her mouth.

“......”

Which one is this playing?

I saw Mary come up, take Benjamin's hand, choked up and said, "It's my mother, it's me who has been confused for a while, you will definitely forgive me, isn't it......?"

Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath.

So, is this not even bothering to deny it?

He didn't expect Mary to admit it so quickly. She just saw the necklace, and then was casually questioned a few words, and the whole person became what she is now, and she had no intention of denying it any more.

If you want to play the play, you can play the whole set, so let's play more quibbles.

Benjamin suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

But......

It's okay, so that he doesn't bother to talk about it any more.

He shook Mary's hand away, looked unusually guarded, and took a few steps back.

"Why are you doing this?" he asked coldly.

Hearing this, Mary clenched the necklace in her hand, choked up, and shook her head helplessly: "I...... I can't help it, it's all for everyone, it's all ...... For Grant. ”

Grant?

Benjamin's doubts have increased.

"You want to kill me, what does it have to do with Grant?" he immediately asked.

As if she hadn't heard, Mary fell into a certain uncontrollable emotion, and while weeping, she staggered back a few steps, and began to talk to herself abruptly:

"You ...... You don't know how hard it is for me, I'm all for this family, and even Claude doesn't care...... Do you know that when Grant was a child, he was almost killed by the Assassins, but Claude didn't even care, saying that someone would protect him...... But we are his parents, who else can protect him but us?"

Benjamin stood aside with a cold face, indifferently staring at Mary, who had a tendency to lose control of her emotions, as if he was watching a disgusting performance.

And Mary's self-talk is obviously not over yet.

With this emotional self-confession, her state also began to become a little abnormal. Even the pearl necklace in her hand was clenched tightly by her, as if it was about to be ripped open if she tried a little harder.

"You don't know how much I've done to protect this family. That dead old woman doesn't know anything but sneering every day!" she became more and more agitated, "You know what? From that day on, every night, I would secretly replace the number at the door of your and Grant's room, and replace it back before dawn...... I persevered for more than a decade. It was me, it was I who protected Grant so that he was not kidnapped by the bad guys, but no one knew, no one ever ......"

Groove ......

Hearing this, Benjamin could no longer remain indifferent.

She...... What the hell is she talking about?

Benjamin's mood at the moment is no longer something that can be described by a few simple words of "sleeping".

Didn't everyone in the family think that Benjamin ran away from home and wasn't kidnapped, so what does Mary mean by saying this now? She knows that Benjamin was kidnapped, so why didn't she say it?

He originally thought that Claude was partial enough, but he didn't expect that it was Mary in front of him who seemed gentle and harmless.

Moreover, Michelle tied the wrong person, it turned out that it was not an accident?

Benjamin didn't know what to say anymore.

How could he have imagined that the kidnapping he experienced at the beginning of his crossing was not because of anything else, but because Mary would change his and Grant's house numbers every night?

Really...... A conscientious mother.

Hehe.

"Don't blame me, I'm all for this family. Do you know how many people in the entire royal capital are planning to kill Grant?" Suddenly, Mary's gaze returned to Benjamin, "that day...... That night, the Paladin sent you back, and I was the only one in the house. I...... It occurred to me that if Grant wasn't such a dazzling child, what if ...... If he were you, would he have survived......? Then I don't know what's wrong, this thought has been in my head all the time, and I can't shake it off. I was confused for a moment, and then I saw the notice on the street, and I ...... Just ......"

Seeing that Mary began to come over again, as if she wanted to take Benjamin's hand and ask for forgiveness, Benjamin could only shake his head in amazement and retreat all the way.

Little did he know that Mary had hired assassins to kill him for this reason.

This woman has gone mad.

Crazy and stupid.

He didn't know how much obsession Mary had in her heart, and how much pressure Grant's genius name had put on her. But in any case, Benjamin is also her biological son, and just for this reason, to let Benjamin die is definitely not something a normal mother would do.

In her eyes, Benjamin is Grant's substitute for the dead?

No wonder...... No wonder the old lady faced her with such an attitude every day.

"Do you forgive me, I'm all for the sake of the Rieser family and the future of the family...... You can't blame me. Mary looked up at Benjamin with a long-suppressed madness in her eyes.

The makeup on her face was already crying, her hair was messy, and her eyes were bloodshot. She was trembling all over, how could she have the appearance of an ordinary lady.

"I don't blame you. Benjamin took a deep breath, shook his head, and said coldly, "I'm only going to tell my father, and my grandmother, and everybody." ”

He believed that, at least in this matter, Claude would give him a satisfactory answer. Moreover, the old lady should be very interested in this matter.

This inexplicable farce should also have an end.

Hearing this, Mary suddenly shook her head and took a few steps back.

"You...... Your father is still in the territory, your grandmother...... She went to tea with Mrs. Wood...... Home...... It's just me. For some reason, at this moment, she stopped sobbing, as if she was struggling out of that half-out of control emotion, and began to gradually return to her usual gentle and restrained shell.

With what she said, the atmosphere of the entire corridor suddenly became a little weird.

Only...... She's in?

In Benjamin's heart, a not-so-good premonition suddenly emerged.

He stood in the hallway outside the living room door and looked around.

In the whole big house of the Rieser family, the servants who usually come and go, Benjamin didn't see a single one at the moment. The servant who had been guarding the door just now was gone, and I don't know where he had gone.

Wrong.

What's going on?

At that moment, Benjamin suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

Could it be ...... Something happened at home?

"What about the others? What about Jeremy? What about the butler? and the other servants, where have they gone?" he asked sharply, first looking at Mary, and then, not caring so much, shouted at the top of his voice, "Jeremy!

His voice echoed over and over again in the empty house.

No one responded.

"They...... It's all broken up by me. Mary wiped away the remaining tears, and her choked voice began to gradually return to calm, revealing an inexplicable sense of strangeness.

"What do you want to do?" Benjamin took a few steps back, ready to cast his spell.

Mary shook her head and looked at Benjamin quietly.

"I'm doing this for the sake of the Reeser family, for the church, for the supreme providence, and everyone will forgive me...... Claude, he's going to understand why I'm doing this. ”

Benjamin felt in his heart that there were 10,000 grass horses galloping by.

He didn't know what Mary was going to do, but his instincts told him that he had better not stay here any longer, or something terrible might happen.

Therefore, he turned around and prepared to get out of here first.

However, at this moment, at the other end of the corridor, the door of Reese's house was suddenly pushed open. At the same time, Mary, who was standing at the entrance of the living room, also moved. She seemed to have made up her mind, and even the necklace in her hand burst apart because of her sudden force.

She threw off her necklace and ran up to Benjamin, fell to her knees, hugged Benjamin's legs, and suddenly burst into tears.

Benjamin was stunned.

What's the situation?

She cried and shouted, "Grant, you...... How can you do such a thing? My Grant...... My child, you are ...... You're ......."

With her words, the broken necklace unfolded, and the pearl landed on the smooth floor, bouncing lightly with a crackling sound.

At this moment, outside the door that was pushed open, a large group of people walked in. I saw that the two leaders were the Bishop and Aix Fowl, followed by a large group of paladins.

They walked over, and soon, their eyes were on Benjamin, who was stunned, and Mary, who was crying bitterly with Benjamin in her arms.

The atmosphere was eerie and heavy.

Suddenly, Aix let out a cold snort, stepped forward, and shouted at Benjamin, as if a judge had knocked down the gavel and pronounced the death sentence:

"Grant Reese, you, as a trainee priest, God gave you the gift of Light, and yet you fell into Light and did that kind of thing with the same sex. I have told everything to Your Excellency, and tomorrow you will be burned by the sinners' crosses to cleanse you of the stain of the Holy Light!"

After he finished saying this, the pearls scattered on the floor finally stopped rolling at this moment, like a dying person who had finally lost his life after a painful convulsion. of servants