Attack on Titan's Silent Watch

She was extremely uncomfortable.

"Just me."

At this moment, a figure quickly slipped to the warehouse door.Looking around, the figure faced the lock of the warehouse and began to fiddle with it.

"Here we come." Dai'er tugged on Vanessa's sleeve, and Vanessa also poked out half of her face to observe the figure secretly, trying to distinguish who it was in the dark night.

Suddenly, the surroundings of the weapons warehouse lit up, and a group of instructors surrounded them with lights, "Who are you? What are you doing sneaking around in the weapons warehouse?"

The figure panicked.As several bright kerosene lamps approached, Dai'er and Vanessa also saw clearly the appearance of the figure, that person was Benson!

Just when Vanessa and Dai'er were focusing on the weapon warehouse, a slightly hoarse voice sounded from behind, "You two, what are you doing here?"

Turning around, the two screamed in horror at the same time.It turned out that Instructor Keith, with sunken eyes and dark complexion, stood behind them unknowingly.

debunked (2)

Because she slipped out to 'play' in the middle of the night and didn't sleep well, Vanessa, Dai'er, and Benson, who was suspected of using military supplies in violation of regulations, were put into the confinement room together.

The plots of Dai'er and Vanessa are relatively minor, and they can be released at dawn, while Benson can only wait for the results of the instructors' meeting tomorrow before deciding how to deal with him.

"It turns out that the 'ghost' is you, no wonder I didn't encounter anything when I went to the woods last time."

"Why do you secretly go to practice by yourself at night? Can't you practice with everyone during the day?" Dai'er looked at Benson who was silent, with question marks in her heart.

"Could it be that you are too thin-skinned, afraid that even if you work hard, you won't be able to catch up with others, so you practice secretly?" Vanessa stared at Benson with eyes that see through everything.

Benson said reluctantly: "This is only part of the reason." He swallowed, "But the most annoying thing is those guys who see you practice hard but mock you, always say in your ear, 'Anyway, you Brother will support you for the rest of your life, so what do you do so hard, I will be angry."

"Because the family conditions are good, others take it for granted that you just need to be obedient and eat and die. This kind of feeling of being looked down upon by others is really uncomfortable." Vanessa said with emotion.

"It's okay for others to think so, even the family members think that I am ashamed of the family by serving as a soldier outside and enduring hardships. It will make people think that my elder brother is incapable of taking care of my little brother, but we are not nobles, why should we pretend to be superior? "

Listening to Benson's full of complaints, Vanessa nodded empathetically, and her thoughts drifted back to the time when she insisted on leaving home to participate in military training. Some relatives also felt that she would bring shame to the family by doing so, and advised her: "Be a training soldier!" It's just to give those lowly commoners a chance to stand up, if you want to leave that house so much, you might as well marry a man of the right family."

"As a person with the right to inherit the family property, unless all family members die, they will always be treated as charity objects." Vanessa said to herself.

Benson frowned and looked at Vanessa, "Although I hate being treated as redundant, you don't have to curse me like that."

"Oh? Did I say anything?" Vanessa said with a 'retarded' expression.

"..." Benson was powerless to argue with her, and let out another long breath.

Dai'er listened quietly to what they said to each other, feeling that the conversation was particularly heavy and depressing. It seemed that everyone's motivation for participating in the training was not very pure.

In the afternoon of the next day, Benson was taken home by his brother. When everyone thought that he was expelled from school for using the three-dimensional mobile device without authorization, Benson came back a few days later.It's just that when everyone saw him again, the ease that belonged to the son of a rich family no longer existed, and an invisible burden was quietly pressed on his shoulders.

"I want to join the Gendarmerie." These were the first words Benson said to Fitch after returning to the dormitory.

"Are you okay?" Fei Qi didn't recognize the person in front of him a little bit.

debunked (3)

Benson followed his brother Joseph back home. Everything in the house was arranged as usual. The soft and spacious leather sofa, the thick and gorgeous carpet, the elegantly decorated fireplace, and the precious red wine on the wooden shelf next to him made him feel very familiar. His cheeks were slightly thinner, and his expression revealed that the tired man seemed a little more alienated than the day he left home after the annual vacation.

"Brother?" Benson called Joseph with a questioning tone.

"Sit down, we haven't chatted together like this for a long time." Joseph went to the wooden shelf, picked up a bottle of red wine and two goblets and went back to the living room, skillfully opened the bottle and poured half a glass of wine for himself and his brother .

Seeing his elder brother taking out wine for him to drink in a serious manner, Benson had a bad feeling.In fact, he had already faintly noticed this kind of premonition during the winter vacation, but at that time he thought that his brother would definitely be able to settle the matter, but this did not seem to be the case.

"How is this wine?"

"good."

"Maybe you can still drink it in the future, maybe you won't be able to drink it again." There was something in Joseph's words.

"What happened?" Benson asked worriedly.

"Do you think our family has the ability to afford such expensive wine?"

Benson shook his hand holding the glass, "Alcohol is just a commodity, as long as you have money, it's not impossible to get it." His words were more like self-comfort.

"It was only after I took over the family that I realized that our chamber of commerce had already been involved with a certain nobleman back then. We have always acted as the minions of that nobleman to help him search for goods, especially those things of unknown origin. "

"Brother, is it too late if we want to quit now?" Benson stared straight at his brother, expecting an impossible answer.

Joseph sighed, "You are right, if you quit now, you will only be killed."

Benson felt like thunder was coming, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

The two brothers were silent for a long time, and finally Joseph spoke, "Although I did not object to your participation in the military training before, I did not agree with your approach. But thinking about it now, maybe your choice is right, if you can join the Gendarmerie Corps .”

"Join the Gendarmerie? Do you want me to protect our chamber of commerce when things happen?"

"It would be best if you can do it." Joseph smiled wryly, "However, my plan is to let you be the terminator of this disgraceful history."

Benson looked at Joseph in surprise, he didn't look like he was joking.

Joseph took out a key from his pocket and put it on the coffee table in front of Benson, "If that day really comes, you can go and take out the ledger from here. implicated you."

"How did this happen?" Benson put down the glass in his hand heavily, and a few drops of dark red wine spilled out of the glass, drawing blood-stained shapes on the transparent glass.Benson reached out to the table with a trembling hand, holding the key tightly in his palm, "Brother, can you tell me the nobleman's surname?"

hesitate (1)

Joseph hesitated for a moment, fearing that Benson would do something stupid, but when he met his younger brother's calm face, he said frankly: "Sterling. The Sterling family in the north of Rose's Wall."

"Okay, I remember."

Seeing Benson accept the reality so quickly, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.Immediately afterwards, he began to struggle with whether to confess the previous incident.

Benson saw that Joseph seemed to have something on his mind, and he said, "If you have anything else to say, just say it, there should be nothing worse than that."

"Alas..." Joseph sighed a long time: "At the end of last year, that nobleman asked me to provide detailed information about the training regiment in the Trost District, especially the list of left-behind personnel and the location of the weapon warehouse..."

Hearing this, Benson immediately understood, opened his eyes wide and took a deep breath, "Could it be that you were also involved in kidnapping Morris and stealing the three-dimensional mobile device to sell in the underground street last time?"

"I'm so sorry, I didn't expect to harm your classmate."

"What on earth does that nobleman want to do? Reselling arms is a serious crime, and those military supplies..." Benson didn't continue, because it was a taboo that could not be said.He hoped he was wrong and that the nobleman wasn't trying to do something horrible.

Knowing that his family was forced to go all the way to the black, Benson could only study harder to get the qualification to join the Gendarmerie.He no longer cared about other people's eyes. Not only did the training time suffer a lot, but he also sat quietly in the classroom to review his homework at night, just like Dai'er.

"It seems hard work is contagious." Vanessa saw that even Benson, who was usually the laziest, started to study hard, so she also joined the evening self-study team.As a result, besides Dai'er and Fitch, there were two more people in the classroom.

In the morning, Levi had just returned to the office after breakfast, and at some point there was another pile of pillar-like documents on the table that needed his approval, and his mood fell to the bottom instantly.

"Tsk, that guy Erwin..."

Before processing those documents, Levi first made a pot of black tea and put it on the table, then took out a cup to pour himself a cup of tea before dealing with those cumbersome paperwork.Just as he was holding the teapot and waiting for the tea to slowly flow into the cup, a loud noise came from outside the window.Realizing that there might have been an accident or even an attack, Levi immediately put down the teapot heavily, ran outside without even wiping the tea splashed on the table.

Just outside the woods on the training ground, the upper half of a giant model