Attack on Titan's Silent Watch

The joy of meeting old friends.

Vanessa's face immediately darkened, "I'm sorry, we are going to miss the appointment."

"What happened?"

"Fitch...is missing...Kathy...is outside the wall...is missing too...Daer...severely injured...was taken away..." Vanessa recounted the recent events with a heavy heart.

The more Benson listened, the more shocked he became. The scenes of several people training, eating, chatting, and shopping together were still vivid in his memory, but now he was suddenly told that everything was different, and it was hard for anyone to accept it for a while.

After a while, Benson stammered and asked, "So now, are there just the two of us?"

Vanessa nodded slowly, sniffed, and asked, "You came to see me today, didn't you just come to catch up on the past?"

Benson remembered his purpose of coming to investigate the corps, "I..." He hesitated how to speak, "I heard that when my brother was killed, you were also there..."

"That's right." When Joseph was mentioned, Vanessa avoided Benson's gaze guiltily, "Sorry."

"Why are you looking for him?"

"Your brother sent us a few boxes of chocolates last time, and the regiment commander and soldier wanted to ask your brother for a discount." Vanessa said against her conscience.

Benson couldn't believe it, this group of people who gave their lives for human beings actually went to his house in the middle of the night for a few boxes of chocolates?However, his brother did mention in his letter that he had sent several boxes of chocolates to his contemporaries.

"Is that so?"

Vanessa still didn't dare to look directly at Benson. Facing her former friends, she could no longer use her superb acting skills to utter high-sounding words to lie.

"If that's the case, why do you show that expression?" Benson clenched his fists. Although there is nothing wrong with Vanessa's statement, he has also learned a lot from the daily interrogation work after staying in the Gendarmerie. , Intuition told him that things were not simple.

"You came here to confirm whether it was the Survey Corps that killed your brother, right?" Vanessa tentatively asked.

Benson nodded stiffly.

"If we really did it, I'm afraid you won't be able to go back alive today."

"So who did it?" Benson mustered up his courage and shouted at Vanessa.

"As far as I know, it should be done by the Sterling family, that is, the nobleman that Daier is about to marry." Vanessa stated calmly: "The Sterling family has a killer who can drive a three-dimensional mobile device , When we rushed to the study that night, the murderer had already escaped through the window and flew away with the help of a three-dimensional maneuvering device." She clicked to stop and didn't dare to reveal too much. She knew the truth was far more than that, but she didn't dare explain.

"So you are not looking for my brother for the chocolates." Benson lowered his head deeply and opened his eyes wide to keep the tears from falling. "You are looking for my brother to get evidence against the Sterling family."

"That's right." Vanessa turned her head and looked down at the floor. "If you want to blame, you can blame me. I was the one who knocked on the door that night, and met us in order to lower your brother's vigilance."

Hearing this, Benson stood up abruptly, striding towards Vanessa.

Evidence (3)

"Give you."

A thick book fell on Vanessa's hand.

"This is?"

"My brother had expected that something bad would happen to him, but he didn't expect that he would be assassinated instead of arrested by the Gendarmerie." Benson turned his back, his voice was clearly crying, "It contains the criminal evidence of the Sterling family , Can the Survey Corps avenge my brother?"

"If you don't believe us, why do you still carry such important evidence with you." Vanessa's eye circles were also moist, and she stood up and said solemnly: "Thank you."

"One more thing." Benson asked with trembling lips, "Why did my brother tell me to hang out with you more? What is your background?"

Vanessa was taken aback, and then sighed, "It's nothing, it's just that we are all victims of the Sterling family."

"By the way, will you take over the Field Chamber of Commerce in the future?" Vanessa asked.

"If this evidence is submitted, there is a high probability that the Field Chamber of Commerce will be banned." Benson said guiltily.

"Then what about your family?"

"It doesn't matter. As long as I am still the Central Gendarmerie, I can still maintain the basic expenses of the family."

Vanessa put her hands on Benson's shoulders, "Come to me if you need help."

"Thank you."

When Vanessa and Benson met, Erwin also went to a tavern for an appointment on time according to the letter from Durand.

"Long time no see." Erwin said to Durand who was sitting in front of the bar as soon as he entered the door.

Durand was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "Yes, long time no see." The two tacitly did not mention the fact that they met a few days ago, because they knew that in public places, there might be people watching them nearby .

"I heard that the funds for the investigation outside the wall have not been released yet. You must be in a hurry now."

"It's useless to worry, the thief can't be found, and we can't make the parliament let go."

The two sat side by side in front of the bar and each ordered a glass of wine with ice cubes.

"Thank you for your hard work. I'm treating you today." Durand shook the wine glass in his hand, seemingly merging the ice cubes with the wine, but he was actually communicating with Erwin using the army's code word.

"I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do, it's not hard work." Erwin watched Durand's signal and took a sip of wine, "Today we're just here to catch up on the old days."

"Yes." Durand already understood what Erwin meant.

"It's a pity not to call Nair over here."

"Speaking of Neil, I remembered that if you hadn't joined the Survey Corps back then, maybe Mary would have been chased by you."

Erwin gave Durand a sideways glance. Is this guy's skill 100% accurate in stepping on mines?Although in order to realize his dream, Erwin has already looked away from many things.

After chatting with Durand nonchalantly for an hour, Erwin returned to the Corps headquarters first on the grounds that he had too much work.When he came outside the office door, he found Vanessa standing there with her back against the door panel, waiting for him, holding a thick account book in her hand.Seeing Erwin coming, she took the initiative to get out of the way.

"What are you holding in your hand?"

"Go in and talk."

Erwin took the key to open the door, Vanessa followed him in, and screwed the door lock with a 'click'.

"This is the ledger brought by Benson Field, the younger brother of Joseph Field who was murdered a few days ago." Vanessa put the ledger in front of Erwin, "With this, I will investigate with that Durand squad leader. Comparing the evidence, the Sterling family has been convicted of obtaining a large amount of money through unknown channels and carrying out money laundering. As long as we follow the clues and investigate, we should be able to find the source of the huge amount of property."

Erwin flipped through the ledger with a serious face. Although he didn't know what the Sterling family relied on to make such a huge profit, since they were going to launder the money secretly, there must be more unknown crimes behind it.As long as this matter is exposed, the Gendarmerie Corps naturally has the right to investigate it openly, and the matter will eventually come to light.

"Heh..." With a chuckle, Erwin showed a mixed expression of worry and joy.

"What's wrong?" Vanessa asked strangely.

"It's nothing. I'm just glad you're not the enemy." Erwin felt that Vanessa was getting more and more scary. Before leaving for the capital, he tentatively asked if Vanessa had any clues to bring down the Sterling family. , As a result, the evidence has automatically appeared in front of him in the past two days. It is really hard for him to believe that this is all a coincidence.

"Have you thought about the request you made to me last time?"

Vanessa raised her head and thought for a while, "Just wait and see, think it over soon."

Pathfinder (1)

The engagement banquet was held as scheduled, but apart from basic entertainment, Icarus and Dill hardly stood together at the same time.Halfway through the banquet, the two each found a reason to leave the banquet.

When Del returned to the room, she wanted to take off the high-necked gown that was custom-made to cover the wound on her neck immediately, and it almost strangled her.Putting on a light white nightdress, Dai'er ordered: "I'm tired, I need to go to bed early."

"Yes." The maid cleaned up the room and closed the door from the outside.

The room was plunged into darkness, and after pricking up her ears to hear any noise outside the door, Dai'er lifted the quilt and jumped out of bed.

Thick clouds cover the sky tonight, the whistling wind and the rustling leaves are intertwined, and the noisy voices and music float erratically from the banquet hall on the first floor. , best for burglary.

In view of the fact that the corridors on each floor are patrolled and the door of the study is difficult to pry open, Daile decided to find another way to invade through the window.When she was visiting the garden these days, she noticed that for the sake of beauty, the exterior wall of the Stirling family's mansion was inlaid with many horizontal or vertical decorations and sculptures, and there was a narrow window sill outside each window to step on.

It just so happens that the study is on the first floor obliquely below Daier's room. Although the horizontal distance is a bit long, for Daier, the difficulty of climbing is much easier than the rock climbing training when training the corps.

In order not to attract attention, Daier stuffed the pillow into the bed to pretend to be someone, and then took out the 'criminal' tool she had prepared from under the mattress.A set of thin and simple clothes, which she stole from an unattended clothes basket on the pretext of inspecting the servant's residence.A set of simple lockpicking tools was made by her out of jewelry that others gave her. Anyway, in order to curry favor with her, the 'Earl', many people gave her various small things. Nobody cares.

Putting on her clothes, tying up her hair, carrying the lockpicking tool, Dai'er was naked under the cover of night.