After my rebirth, Miss Saint turned evil

Murphy gave a bitter smile.

He shook his head at Sharon who was leaning on his arm: "Sharon, don't joke."

"I'm not strong at all. I'm... a real weakling."

This time, Sharon didn't understand.

Because Murphy is now, without a doubt, a truly strong man.

Although I don’t know how he compares to my master, but compared to me, he is already so strong that I can’t catch up with him.

It is precisely for this reason that I feel unwilling to accept the situation.

Because, it was obvious that the previous Brother Murphy had grown up with me.

But why could he become so powerful in such a short time, so powerful that I couldn't even see his back.

Sharon reached out and gently pressed on Murphy's gray-white breastplate that was tightly attached to her chest.

"No, Brother Murphy, you are wrong."

"You are a truly strong person, at least stronger than I am now."

"I don't know about other things, but this is the only thing I can be sure of."

Although it was Sharon who was speaking at the moment, Candice's figure inexplicably appeared in Murphy's mind.

There's no doubt that Candice and Sharon are two completely different people.

From appearance to inner qualities, they are two completely different people.

Yet, they said the same thing to themselves.

"Could it be... am I really that strong?"

Just when Murphy was lost in thought, she suddenly felt Sharon, who was leaning in her arms, move slightly.

"Although you are indeed very strong now, it's okay, Brother Mephisto."

"Because I'll catch up with you soon."

"Just like you would always catch up with me in the past."

Sharon said as she slowly pushed Murphy away with her hand on her armor and stood up.

She turned her back to Murphy and stretched her stiff muscles a little - actually, she just stretched, and made some lazy sounds with her mouth.

As for her extremely soft body, it was displayed to Murphy without reservation at this moment.

Sharon turned her head and gave a bright smile to Brother Murphy who was still squatting there.

"Brother Murphy, keep practicing!"

"This time, I will teach you a lesson!"

Chapter 25: Do something big

"Brother Murphy, keep practicing!"

"This time, I will teach you a lesson!"

Looking at Sharon who was raising her fist towards her, Murphy opened her mouth to explain: "Ah! About that——"

But he wasn't finished.

Because at this moment, Old Jed, who had been standing silently by the side, interrupted him.

"He had already finished practicing all the exercises while you were just slacking off."

"Besides, with his current strength, he no longer needs to practice this kind of game-like exercises."

Sharon showed a surprised expression on her face, because she never thought that her master, who only knew how to criticize people, would express such high praise to Brother Murphy.

After all, before, he only scolded himself and Brother Meffie, and never gave them a decent compliment.

But Old Jed didn't care about Sharon because the person he was talking to was Murphy.

He turned his head, opened his single eye, and stared at Murphy intently.

That scrutinizing gaze seemed to want to discover some secrets hidden by his suddenly powerful disciple.

Facing the sharp gaze from the dim single eye, Murphy felt that he was about to be completely seen through, but he still gritted his teeth and looked into Old Jed's eyes.

Fortunately, at the last moment when he was about to give up, the scrutinizing look in Old Jed's eyes disappeared.

However, Murphy was not relieved, because a malicious smile appeared on old Jed's face again.

"Boy, I always believe that practice is the best practice."

"If you really want to do it... well, do you want to practice your skills by doing something big tonight?"

"..."

After hearing what Old Jed said, Murphy fell silent.

He learned a lot of thief skills from the other party, but he was never willing to use them.

On this point, he really felt that he had let down Old Jed's teachings.

But there was no other way. Instead of resorting to these despicable means, Murphy felt it might be better to continue to feel guilty.

In fact, to put it bluntly, there was a hurdle in his heart, and he had never been able to get over this hurdle before.

Although Murphy is the apprentice of Old Jed, a "man of evil", he has indeed been learning from him for two years.

But this doesn't mean that he is a bad person.

Don't forget that before becoming Old Jed's disciple, Murphy had always lived in the church and had been accepting the knowledge instilled in him by the church.

To be honest, Murphy really doesn't like the church, but what he doesn't like are the church's methods of recruiting believers and the huge amount of money it spends on prestige.

As for the deeper issues, such as those concerning humans, demons, gods, and the like, he has not figured them out yet.

But at least, what Aunt Kelly has been teaching him has always been positive.

Her teachings really had a profound impact on Murphy.

And this is also the reason why he has never been able to get over the hurdle in his heart.

Although he is the apprentice of a villain, it does not mean that he has to become a villain.

But now...

"Which one?"

Murphy finally chose to do something. After all, now that he had awakened his memories of his past life, he was indeed somewhat different from his previous self in some subtle aspects.

That scrutinizing look just now...Old Jed must have seen something from me.

Perhaps it is because of this that he mentioned this matter to me at this point in time.

Maybe he hasn't figured out the specific situation yet, but that doesn't prevent him from guessing the fact that he has changed.

After all, before today, he had never taken the initiative to ask me to "visit" someone else's home.

In fact, the invitations he had rejected before were all from the group of "rats" under his command.

This invitation was personally sent by Old Jed, the "Rat Chief". For Murphy... no, I'm afraid it was the first time for everyone.

After hearing Murphy's answer, Old Jed laughed softly: "You finally figured it out."

"How about choosing Dickens Webb, the lord of this border town, Lars?"

"Why did you have to choose him?"

Murphy needs to know the reason why Old Jed chose the city lord Dickens.

After all, there are far more wealthy people in the city than just the city lord.

But Old Jed didn't answer him. Instead, he asked him, "How much do you know about the Reinhardt family?"

Murphy thought about the Reinhardt family for a moment, but he basically only knew the most basic things that were used as gossip after dinner.

For example, after several generations of branching out, the Reinhard family actually has quite a large number of members.

They were placed in various locations within the family's territory.

The territory of this family is actually located to the east of the royal capital, and its area is very large.

However, I don’t know what the king who divided the territory was thinking.

The territory he granted to Reinhard, together with the territory of another older earl's family, actually surrounded the entire royal capital.

Aren’t you afraid that people from these two families will rebel?

No...it's probably because they're afraid, so every king would implement that countermeasure.

This is actually something Murphy had heard someone say before.

Take the Reinhard family as an example. Patrick, who inherited the title of earl this generation, did not stay in his own territory, but lived in a castle in the royal capital with his family.

Instead, it was his younger brother, who held the title of Viscount bestowed by Leyden XIII, who lived in the fortress on the family's territory.

It's just that his younger brother doesn't care about family affairs and just lives there.

The person who actually manages the territory is still Earl Patrick. He handles affairs in the royal capital every day and then passes them on through letters.

In fact, this is also the reason why this family is called the "Royal Capital" Reinhard family.

The same situation occurred in another earl's family: the heir to the title lived in the royal capital with his family and handled affairs, while his direct relatives lived in the fortress in the territory with their families.

As for the other tribesmen except the two Patrick brothers.

For example, Patrick's uncles and aunts from the previous generation, or his cousins ​​from the same generation, were all assigned to various positions in the territory.

However, although the members of this family are scattered in various places, they may not have seen each other for a long time.

But they have one thing in common.

That is the obsession with swords.

Because Reinhardt is a noble who founded his family on the sword, the ethos of his entire family is to respect the sword.

Therefore, in the words of old Jed, the people in this family are a group of idiots obsessed with swords.

Moreover, they are a group of battle maniacs who only know how to find people to fight with all day long.

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There will be another chapter today, probably after ten o'clock, and there should be three updates in the next few days.

Chapter 26 Don't Be Anxious

Old Jed had always believed that the Reinhardts were just a bunch of sword-obsessed fools.

But, in fact, it is precisely because of this that most people in their family can become swordsmen, and their swordsmanship level is very good. It can be said that almost everyone is a good swordsman.

No matter male or female, young or old.

Murphy once heard a joke that said that apart from the members of that family, if you randomly picked any one of the maids who were busy all day long, she would most likely be a highly skilled swordsman.

It may be a bit exaggerated, but it can also reflect from the side how obsessed the people in this family are with swords.

However, although there are indeed many swordsmen, the number of magicians and diviners in this family is pitifully small, probably no more than ten in total.

In addition to these combat professions, the non-combat professions in their family are almost all blacksmiths. There are not even many merchants because they all engage in sword-related professions.

Even the few businessmen who were there were actually voted out by the family to make money. No one did it voluntarily.

Because the money they spent on the blacksmiths and the materials needed to forge swords was all wasted.

If they only rely on the taxes paid by the civilians in the territory, it will not be enough to support their lavish spending, so they must select a few people to go out and make money.

The Reinhardt family previously relied on taxes from civilians, the money earned by a few businessmen, and the money earned from "hunting" to support their family.

It is precisely for this reason that although they are a group of nobles, they are always extremely poor.

However, it seems that this situation has gradually improved since the current Earl, Filia's father, Patrick Reinhardt, inherited the title.

Murphy didn't know how he did it exactly, but in his opinion, Earl Patrick was a very skillful man.

After all, he was able to slowly bring this family, whose income was less than its expenses, back on the right track. This alone was enough to make him worthy of my respect.

However, although there are indeed many swordsmen in this family, there are probably no more than five people who can reach Filia's current level, including herself.

As for the future Filia...