The Black Duke of the Pirate

Chapter 616 616. Roentgen's Change

your loyalty...

Hearing this, Rontgen was stunned for a moment, and was about to answer, but subconsciously stopped the words when they reached his throat.

Can you guarantee absolute loyalty to the family in the future?
If these words were put in the past, he would not have any hesitation, even now, he should not have any hesitation, but he still subconsciously paused.

Roentgen is an extremely smart person, and he would know how strong a crisis of trust would be in Reinhardt at this moment of hesitation.

He really wanted to tell Reinhardt himself that there would be no problem with his loyalty, it was in the past, and it will be in the future.But he couldn't deceive the man in front of him who had treated him like his own brother since he was a child, and he was even more unwilling to answer this question directly.

"Brother, you..."

Roentgen could hear a tone of doubt about himself from Reinhardt, which was never before.

"I didn't expect such a simple question to make you hesitate for so long." Reinhardt walked to the position opposite Roentgen and settled down. After glancing at his face, he said softly, " What are you hesitating about? Roentgen..."

"I also didn't expect my elder brother to ask such a sentence." Roentgen looked directly into Reinhardt's gaze, without the slightest evasion or panic, and a kind of calmness appeared in the clear pupils.

"I didn't even think that my elder brother would have doubts about me." Roentgen spoke sharply, leading the army instead.

At this time, the scene began to stagnate, and the two sides entered a tense atmosphere from a cheerful memory scene.

Reinhard's eyes narrowed, and at the same time his expression turned cold. He stared at Roentgen closely, and reprimanded slightly coldly: "Pay attention to your position!"

Roentgen was startled suddenly, his eyes moved subconsciously, but there was a moment of hesitation in his heart.

This is the first time Reinhardt has spoken to him in a cold and stern reprimand for so many years, the first time in this life.

"Brother." Roentgen felt a little embarrassed, but he still mustered up the courage to look at Reinhardt's eyes, and continued: "Trust is mutual. During my eight years of undercover navy, every day I spent it in a state of tension, for fear that my identity would be discovered by the navy. If I had a different intention, why should I persist for eight years?"

"For the entire eight years, I have been counting the days, especially in the past year, the cruel internal review of the navy, I don't know how many innocent sailors have died because of this, many times my spirit is about to collapse, if It’s not that I kept my position in mind, and I betrayed long ago, so why wait until you personally question it, big brother?”

Reinhardt has always trusted him, but Roentgen's strange performances and soft decisions all show that Roentgen has been shaken deep in his heart, and this wavering will only get worse if he does not warn Intensely, even on a certain day...

The end result of letting go is self-evident.

But if you force it, the result will not be too good.

Reinhardt's gaze was still indifferent, and he said with an undeniable tone: "Don't forget, this is your own choice."

"I told you before, it was a long, brutal, painful process."

"Hehe...it's my own choice." Rontgen laughed in a low voice. He suddenly felt that Reinhardt's character had changed a lot. His irresistible tone and cold and ruthless eyes made him very strange.

He didn't understand what caused Reinhardt's current temperament. Was it caused by growing power and expanding ambitions, or after he became the king's Qiwuhai?
Or... Reinhardt himself is such a cruel and ruthless person.

"But do I have a choice?"

Roentgen's expression suddenly became agitated, "From the time I started discussing this matter, I have no choice."

Indeed, as Roentgen said, although Reinhardt respected his personal wishes at the time, whether to go or not was entirely up to him, but the situation at the time and Roentgen's character, this would not be the first time. Choice of two options.

"So you regret it now?" After a moment of silence, Reinhardt spoke.

Roentgen stood up and looked at Reinhardt with a very strange look: "I have no regrets, nor will I give up halfway. As long as you and I are still alive, my position and identity will not change."

"Since this is the case, I take back that sentence just now. I was overthinking."

After hearing Roentgen's words, Reinhardt also stood up at the same time, and then resumed his familiar smile. Even so, he knew very well that from now on, he would never fully trust Roentgen again.

For Reinhardt, once a member of the family has such a different heart, then he will never show mercy. This is different from the situation of Chitila at the beginning. Chitila did not belong to the family from the beginning to the end, and Roentgen Not only the core members of the family, but he has always treated Roentgen as a relative.

However, this matter is not without room for relaxation, maybe Roentgen is really just an emotional vent.

With this fluke mentality, Reinhardt continued to look at Roentgen and said, "Would you blame me for my original decision?"

"No, my elder brother and I have always stood together, always in the same position, and I just vented my helpless emotions." Roentgen shook his head, and seeing Reinhardt's tone eased, he also recovered a smile.

As for Reinhardt's suspicion, Roentgen didn't want to go into it any further. Maybe in the long years, everyone's temperament will change more or less. , why hasn't it changed?
It's just that he knows in his heart that after this unpleasant conversation, the relationship between the two may never return to the way it was before.

"It's my words that are too serious." Reinhardt nodded, "I know the pressure you are under in the navy, and I can understand some changes in mood."

"Brother, I will not forget my true position." Roentgen said.

"Let's not talk about this matter." Reinhardt nodded with a smile, and then asked again: "You should have a firm foothold in the G13 branch, right?"

"I just became the deputy base chief of the G13 branch." Roentgen nodded. He became the deputy base chief with the rank of major general of the G branch, which proves that he is only half a step away from the rank of lieutenant general of the G branch.

"Now that the intelligence system in the family has been completely perfected, I will specially arrange some useful pirate information for you, so that your rank can be promoted to lieutenant general of the G branch as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)