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"Klein, so, why are you suddenly telling us all this? Did something happen?"
"And didn't you say the Church has confidentiality clauses? Is it really okay to tell us this?"
Benson's expression was quite serious when he asked this, with a hint of worry. He wasn't stupid, and could even be considered clever among ordinary people. So, Benson could imagine that Klein, who had been hiding all this from them due to confidentiality clauses ever since becoming a Beyonder and joining the Church, must have a special reason for suddenly confessing everything.
"Don't worry about the confidentiality clauses. Telling you this is a special approval from my teacher. With their permission, it's not a violation for me to tell you about Beyonders," Klein first explained the confidentiality clauses. "As for why I'm suddenly telling you this, there are indeed some special reasons..."
He paused, carefully choosing his words before saying, "War may be coming."
Rather than saying that the end of the world was only a dozen years away, or that the future was uncertain, Klein decided to use the information that war might be coming to persuade Benson and Melissa.
"War?" Benson and Melissa looked at Klein in astonishment, clearly shocked by this information.
"Klein, where did you get this news? War? Why is war coming out of nowhere? Is there some inside information?" Benson asked quickly, his tone somewhat anxious. Although he had never experienced war, Benson knew the cruelty of war and naturally wanted to understand the situation as much as possible.
"I'm not very clear about other information. This is what my teacher told me. They told me that Backlund might have a war with another country in the next few years. However, it's hard to say exactly when, and it's not certain whether a war will really break out. It's just very likely, so you'd better not casually tell others about this," Klein explained, adding a word of caution.
It wasn't that Klein didn't want others to get the information about a possible war in advance to prepare. The key was that, given Backlund's current situation, the public basically had no way to prepare.
The time of the war's outbreak was unknown, the opposing country was unknown, and it was unknown whether Backlund would invade the other side or be invaded in turn.
In this case, spreading the information that a war might break out would be disastrous if people believed it, even if they didn't believe it.
The lower class people can't prepare in this situation. After all, it's hard to say whether they can live to next month, so how can they have the ability to prepare for war a few years in advance? And once "rumors" about war arise, they will almost inevitably lead to rising prices for a period of time, which may not have much impact on those with a good standard of living, but it is a complete disaster for the lower class people who starve if they don't work, and even ordinary families like the Moretti family before.
At that time, the war that hasn't even happened may cause a group of people to starve to death first, which is completely more harm than good.
In the end, the ordinary people are the ones who suffer the most from war... Klein sighed with some melancholy.
"Internal news from your teacher? Then it should be true." Although Klein spoke vaguely, Benson listened carefully.
If someone else had told Klein this, he might have just laughed it off. After all, in Benson's view, the current international situation really didn't show many signs of war breaking out. But since the news came from Klein's teacher, from a Goddess's blessed, then it was very likely to be true.
After all, it's normal for such important people to know some internal news that ordinary people don't know, and Klein's teacher didn't need to use this kind of thing to fool Klein.
As for why his teacher spoke vaguely, there were even more reasons, such as the matter involving some strategic layout of the kingdom's future, so it needed to be kept secret or something.
"But... but what does the outbreak of war have to do with you telling us this?" Melissa frowned, obviously thinking of something, and said, "Could it be that, Klein, you want us to join the Nighthawks like you?"
"Strictly speaking, I hope you become Beyonders," Klein corrected. In his heart, he didn't really want Benson and Melissa to become Nighthawks. Even though he sincerely respected Captain and the others, Klein also understood how dangerous it was to become a Nighthawk.
Clerical staff are okay, but formal Beyonders are almost certainly going to be fighting on the front lines against monsters, out-of-control Beyonders, and evil cultists.
Klein himself didn't mind being a Nighthawk, didn't mind fighting against evil, and didn't even mind working with Lin Ruo to fight against the Backlund royal family that had problems from the root, and didn't mind becoming an important tool person in the fight against the possible doomsday, but he still hoped that his brother and sister could live safely, without participating in these things.
This was Klein's selfishness.
Everyone hopes that the people they care about can be safe and sound. No one wants the people they care about to have the possibility of dying every day. Klein is naturally no exception. This is human nature.
"You mean, let us become the kind of wild Beyonders you just mentioned?" Melissa asked.
"Yes, I do hope you become wild Beyonders. The future world is not safe. Only by becoming Beyonders can you have more self-protection ability. And with me here, even if you become wild Beyonders, you don't have to worry about being arrested by the official. I will arrange a confidential source identity for you, which will make you much safer than other wild Beyonders," Klein said, revealing part of his future plan for Benson and Melissa, and then said:
"However, I don't force you to become Beyonders. You also know that becoming a Beyonder has certain dangers. Even Sequence 9 has the possibility of losing control... So, whether or not to become a Beyonder is up to you."
He paused, and solemnly said, "But whether you become Beyonders or not, I will protect you. I promise."
When he said this, Klein's eyes were firm.
Benson and Melissa looked at each other, and then the former smiled, his eyes somewhat complicated, and his smile with the relief of an old father, said: "Klein, you have grown up."
"But don't forget, I'm the older brother. How can the older brother be protected by the younger brother?" Benson said, obviously having made a decision.
He was the eldest brother of the Moretti family, the one who single-handedly raised his younger brother and sister. Such Benson had already decided that he would protect Klein and Melissa in the possibly chaotic world of the future, no matter what, when he learned that war might break out in the future.
So even if becoming a Beyonder had certain dangers, he didn't intend to back down.
He didn't want to regret not having the power in the future war, and he didn't want to become a burden that could only drag Klein down.
So Benson said, "Klein, how do I get the Beyonder potion? Teach me!"
Melissa then raised her hand at this time and said, "Count me in. You've all become Beyonders. You can't leave me behind."
She also didn't want to become a burden to the other two.
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