HP: Embrace the Darkness

Meanwhile, Malfoy Manor is on the other side.

"Severus, please don't tell me. Aces has really good taste. Sissy couldn't put it down the gift he gave to Sissi."

"And even I have to lament his generosity. The gifts he gave to Draco became more and more valuable every year. This year, he found the cub of the invisible beast from nowhere. Draco regarded it as a treasure and spent every day in the manor. His treasures are everywhere in there.”

Lucius, who had met Artes just now, was sitting on the sofa in Malfoy Manor, talking to Snape on the sofa on the other side.

After talking for a long time, he realized that Snape had not spoken, so he thoughtfully handed over the words.

"By the way, what gift did you receive this year?"

After asking, Lucius shook his head to himself.

"If you ask me, don't return potions in return next time. Although it is indeed very precious, but you return potions every day. I'm used to it. It doesn't matter, but Asseth..."

Snape, who was questioned, had a cold face and looked at the burning fireplace of the Malfoy family with a fierce look in his eyes.

Gift?

Ah

Not to mention gifts, not even a human being was seen.

"Severus? Why don't you speak."

After talking a lot but not hearing a response from Snape, Lucius turned around in confusion and saw Snape looking at the fireplace in his house with a gloomy face.

Why did his fireplace offend this junior?

Lucius didn't understand, but he kept his mouth shut.

……

The snow is falling more and more heavily.

When I looked up, I could see nothing but snow, which covered the sky and the earth.

"Master, the snow is so heavy this year." Nina stood on tiptoe and looked at this shocking natural landscape.

"Yeah, the snow is really heavy."

Asseth looked at the falling snow, slightly curling his lips, and his brows and eyes lost their sharpness and became gentle.

"Let's go, we should go back."

Hogwarts cellar door

Aces, Nina and Miss Medusa looked at each other in confusion.

"...Wait, you mean Sif told me to go back to the alchemy office?" Artes repeated what Miss Medusa just said with difficulty.

The young master is going to be driven away?

Next to her, Nina's eyes widened, looking first at the cellar door and then at Asseth.

"Yes, not long after you left, the dean went out, and when he came back, his expression was scary. Let me tell you - get out of here."

The weather was so cold that Miss Medusa didn't even have the energy to gloat about her misfortunes, and her head drooped.

Assei frowned and went through all the recent events, but he didn't think of an answer.

"You let me in first."

"I can not."

A man and a snake faced each other for a moment, and their eyes met.

"Okay, okay, you know how to bully me, and you can bully the dean if you can!"

Miss Medusa muttered and reluctantly crossed her body into a comfortable position.

"Remember to untie me as soon as possible." She warned uneasily, with a rare pitiful look in her eyes.

Asses nodded and tapped his fingers. Miss Medusa was covered in gray starting from her head.

After Miss Medusa was petrified, Artes stretched out his hand to push the door open, and magic followed his hand to unlock the door.

There was no difference in the cellar from when he left. Asseth looked at the potion room, but there was no light coming from inside.

that……

Aces looked towards the bedroom.

The bedroom door was closed tightly, and no light leaked out.

Ace hesitated for a moment and walked towards the bedroom.

"Sev?"

There was no sound inside.

Artes opened the door and saw Snape leaning on a chair, holding a book and sleeping with his eyes closed.

He stepped lightly and approached cautiously.

While walking, use the Cleansing Charm and the Warming Charm to remove the dust and cold from your body.

Walking to the bed, he picked up the quilt and the magic flow turned the quilt into a blanket.

Then, Artes stood beside Snape, carefully took away the book he was holding, and gently covered him with a blanket.

After doing all this, Snape still didn't wake up.

Artes sat down next to the bed, picked up the book that Snape was reading just now, and started reading. However, he was still thinking about Snape's abnormality and didn't read much of it.

The snow was falling heavily outside the house, and the cold wind was blowing against the windows, but it could not break the peace inside the house.

Less than a tenth of the way through the book, Artes heard Snape's breathing change.

He put down the book and looked over, meeting Snape's eyes who had just woken up.

"Aces?"

"it's me."

Snape's mind cleared up instantly, and he subconsciously gave a sarcastic smile.

"It turns out to be our busy professor."

Busy Professor?

Artes didn't know why and looked at Snape confusedly, "Sif? Are you unhappy?"

The confusion and innocence on his face made Snape unable to get up and down, and there was a lump in his throat that made him feel uncomfortable.

The mouth opened and closed, closed and opened again, and squeezed out a few words from between the teeth.

"I do not have."

Aces was even more confused.

"Sev, why are you unhappy?"

"I assume you understand me?"

Snape glared at Artes sullenly, as if he would kick him out if he mentioned "unhappiness" again.

Although Artes didn't understand why the question "unhappy" made Snape angry, he still kept his mouth shut. After all, he didn't want to be thrown out of the cellar.

"Merry Christmas, Sev."

For some reason, Asseth, who couldn't coax anyone, chose to divert the Potion Master's attention.

Snape became even more angry when he mentioned Christmas. He quickly organized words in his mind, and was about to spit out the venom in his mouth when his fingers suddenly felt cold.

Snape was stunned and looked down at his fingers.

It's a tail ring.

The body of the silver ring had the two letters S and S engraved in a floral pattern with dragons and phoenixes dancing on it. Dark green light flashed faintly around it. It looked similar to the clan emblem tail ring that Ass had worn before, except that the pattern had changed.

S·S?

The potions he made usually had this signature, but if he remembered correctly, the alchemy tools that Ass had left had the same signature before, but it was followed by the family crest.

Artes looked down at Snape with a smile, and suddenly spoke to interrupt his speculation.

"It's your name, and it's also your wish."

Soaring in the sky

Soaring in the sky, I hope that the proud potion master can soar in his own sky forever.

Snape raised his head and stared at Artes, feeling that he had something unsaid, but the pride in his eyes seemed to have told him the answer.

"There's something else inside, don't you want to take a look?"

Ace reminded him at the right time.

Snape was stunned again, and his hand unconsciously touched the ring. So this ring is really an alchemy ring?

He tried to mobilize his magic power, and sure enough he felt that there was a space for storing things inside. Under his perception, the space inside was filled to the brim, leaving only a small half of the space.

The goblins of Gringotts still remember the day they were greeted by a demon and a terrifying nightmare.

In his vault, Asseth stuffed everything that could and could not be used into it.

He almost emptied the vault, but in the end he had to take out some of the rings because he couldn't fit them in and left room for Snape to put his things.

Even so, his treasury was missing nearly a third of its contents.

When the goblin of Gringotts closed the door for him, he almost cried when he saw so many things missing inside.