【Yo Deng】Badger and Snake

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The Endless Valentine's Day (1)

Koito Yu began to seriously feel that he, who agreed to Dojima Taku's request 20 minutes ago, made the most stupid mistake since he was born 15 years ago.

If you want to say why, it is because...

…The sixth-year prefect of Slytherin House, Nanami Dengzi, is changing clothes right in front of her eyes.

The long robe slipped from the round shoulders of the black-haired beauty and curled up on the ground; the gray sweater was lifted up by the tight arms and left the body; On the top, thin black bands are looming in the hair.

Yu swallowed, and tried to move his stiff head, trying to figure out how to get out of the current predicament.

She was currently in the girls' bathroom in the west corridor on the second floor of Hogwarts Castle, casting the Disillusionment Charm.Behind her was the door of the bathroom that had been locked by Qihai Dengzi, and in front of her was the senior who was changing clothes while facing the mirror in the bathroom.

——In this case, it is simply an impossible task to unlock and leave without being noticed.

After figuring this out, Yu moved her eyes away, not wanting to continue to offend that venerable senior, but the reflections in the mirrors around her made her even more at a loss.Reflexively, she raised her hand, and realized sadly that her hand was as transparent as the rest of her body, blending beautifully with her surroundings—she was damn good at the Disillusionment Charm.

Seeing that Qihai Dengzi's shirt was about to fade to her waist, Yu tried her best to turn around without making a sound, facing the closed wooden door, and hugged her arms unnaturally amidst the friction of the cloth.

—Actually, why am I so nervous?We are all girls.

——No, no, that's not the problem.What is the difference between what I am doing now and peeping!Not only did he follow all the way to the bathroom, but he also ran into this kind of scene...

She pursed her lips in frustration, determined to get back the box of chocolates and paste it on Dojima Taku's face.What kind of mentality would it take to show off chocolates with love potion?It's okay to mess around in the Gryffindor common room, and you have to run outside to be caught by the Slytherin prefects.

"Koito, you can't do nothing!" Dojima Takuo could only hug her thigh and cry, "My elder brother wanted that box of chocolates, and I took all the deposit!"

"It would be nice if you returned the money to them!"

"I... I've already spent all my money! Koito, you can't do this! Let's be friends... Where can I find someone who can use the Disillusionment Curse again!"

"To be honest, I wish we hadn't known each other before," Yu swore that he must have rolled his eyes, "This is really the last time, next time you run into trouble and go to your Gryffindor manager, don't come here again Hufflepuff is annoying me!"

That's what she'd answered back then, but now she wanted so badly to cast the Stunning Charm on that naive self.If it wasn't for Dojima Takuo's stalking, how could she be in such an embarrassing situation now!

When the old faucet is turned, the unique "squeak" sound sounds, and the sound of water flow changes from small to loud.After confirming that the sound of the rubbing of the cloth material had completely disappeared, Koito expelled Takashi Dojima's smiling face from his mind, and turned his head carefully.

Qihai Dengzi has already put on a brand new protective robe, and looks like she is about to go to advanced potions class.She leaned over to scoop up water and slapped her face, and the slightly loose protective gown shook accordingly, which made her thin and tired, making her look less like the aura-filled senior she was familiar with.

Qihai straightened her hair in front of the mirror, and stuffed the changed clothes back into her bag.With sharp eyes, Yu saw a gold-rimmed gift box with powder foundation in the bag—there was no doubt that it was the "contraband" confiscated by Takuo Dojima.

She should have gone around to get it while Qi Hai was changing clothes, but it was too late to regret it now.Now that the location is confirmed, it will be easier for her to follow Qihai.

Just when Yu was thinking this way, Qihai Dengzi picked up the bag and threw it casually into the toilet compartment directly behind.She herself didn't follow in, but closed the door abnormally from the outside, and glanced casually at the innermost compartment with the "suspended use" hanging on it.Shaking her robe, Qihai strode towards the place where Yu was standing - the door of the bathroom - and she was about to leave.

What a once in a lifetime opportunity.Yu didn't know why Nanami kept her belongings in the bathroom cubicle, but it really helped her a lot.

After confirming that Nanami was completely out of sight, Yu breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the compartment with the door closed.However, within two steps, she saw the door of the compartment with the sign "Suspend use" unscrewed from the inside to the outside, and then—another Qihai Dengzi wearing a protective gown walked out of it.

"...?!" Yuu desperately covered her mouth and exclaimed in surprise.She took a step back, hitting the sink basin impartially with a muffled thud.

"Who!" Nanami who came out of the compartment immediately drew out her wand and pointed it in Yu's direction.She didn't see anything, the dim light in the bathroom concealed the traces of the Disillusionment Curse very well; Yuu held her breath, waiting for the other party to relieve her vigilance, while thinking quickly:

Qi Hai obviously just left from the only entrance and exit of the bathroom, how could she come out of the suspended compartment in the next instant?Hogwarts cannot disapparate inside, so in theory, this kind of teleportation is impossible.

If it wasn't teleportation...

Nanami Dengzi still didn't put down her wand, her eyes wandered in confusion between the transparent Yu and the sink, a few drops of cold sweat dripped from Yu's forehead.

... If it is not teleportation, it means that two Qihai lanterns appeared at the same time.Either one of them is a fake, disguised by another, or...

"Appear in a hurry."

Qihai opened her lips lightly and chanted a mantra, and the air rippled immediately.Yoo yelled inwardly, but it was too late to remedy it. The disguise she had obtained by relying on the Disillusionment Curse had been completely broken by the Revealing Curse.

"..."

Looking at the girl who "appeared out of nowhere", Qihai froze in place with a look of hell.

"...ha, haha," Yu laughed dryly, raising his hands, "...Senior Qihai, hello."

"You are... Koito Yuu? How could you—" Qihai's face turned from white to red and then from red to white, as if she had experienced a very complicated psychological change, "No, you, how long have you been here?!"

"Since, ever since you entered the bathroom, I have been... Senior, can you put down the wand first!"

"I refuse!" Qihai blushed, "Are you following me! I thought you were an upright person, but I didn't expect you to be a pervert who stalks others...!"

"What!" Yu was embarrassed, "No, senior, listen to me—"

"——Stop, don't come over!" Qihai shook her wand vigorously, "You have seen everything, right!"

"I didn't! I really didn't! I recited it! I didn't want to peek at you changing clothes—"

"——Who asked you that!" Nanami interrupted her in embarrassment and annoyance, "I mean, you saw 'I' leave!"

Her expression was really indescribable, mixed with panic, fear, and anger, she was completely different from the calm prefect in Yu's impression.

"I..." Yu opened his mouth and closed it again, his attention was attracted by something dangling on Qihai's chest.

It was a delicate and small golden pocket watch, which was hung on a chain around Nanami's neck, and it seemed to have leaked out of her robe because of her too violent movements just now.

Um……?

Yu felt it looked familiar, but couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Finding that Yu was staring at the pocket watch, Qihai stuffed it back into the collar, fumbled in the robe for a while, and took out a glass bottle the size of a thumb.

"Come here," she pinched the bottle, looking calmer, "drink it."

"This is?" Yuu stared at the wand in Nanami's hand, not knowing what she wanted to do.

"Forgetfulness potion," Qihai replied, "you can drink just one drop, I just need you to forget what you saw here."

"Senior, why do you carry this kind of thing around..."

"What are you thinking, how could I carry it with you. It's just that the Potions class just now—" She suddenly stopped talking, her face changed slightly, "Okay, don't talk about useless things. Just hold your hands like this and walk slowly Come and get it. Don't play tricks, my spells are much faster than yours."

Yu thought about it, but didn't make a sound. "Just now in the Potions class"——the Qihai in front of me really said that, right?But isn't Qihai who just left just going to take Potions class?Potion of Oblivion is the content of Advanced Potions. There is only one class at this level every day. How could she...?

"What are you still standing there for?" Qihai urged her, "Don't force me to use the Forgetting Curse, I'm not good at that stuff, I don't want to accidentally delete all your memories since you were three years old."

Yu compromised.Facing the other party's distrustful gaze, she walked over step by step, and after receiving the signal, she slowly lowered her right hand to get the medicine bottle held in Qi Hai's left hand.

When she took the bottle, she accidentally touched Qihai's hand.The moment their fingertips touched, a dazzling white light suddenly appeared on Qi Hai's chest. Both of them took a step back in fright. The golden pocket watch that was inside the clothes floated out by itself, flashed in the air, and then——it split in the middle.

It happened so suddenly that both of them were shocked.It took a long time for Qihai to come back to her senses, pulled off the pocket watch, and eagerly recited the restoration spell.It was only then that Yoo noticed that the "pocket watch" did not have a dial in the usual sense, but a small hourglass on the metal plane.

--what.

She remembered.

She'd seen this little thing in her History of Magic textbook, Chapter 52, The Department of Mysteries and Its History.

"Senior," she asked in a low voice, "is this... a time-turner?"

The Time-Turner, the only known form of time travel, is strictly regulated by the Ministry of Magic and kept centrally within the Department of Mysteries due to the serious consequences of misuse. The Department of Mysteries was destroyed 18 years ago, and none of the time-turners survived.

"..." Qihai's face was ashen, and she didn't make a sound.It looked like none of her healing spells were working.

"...Senior, where did you get this thing? Did you just use—"

"Koito-san, if you continue to ask, I really have to cast a Forgetting Curse on you." Nanami glanced at her angrily, gave up trying, and put the Time Converter back into her robe. "How about you answer my question—why do you follow me?"

"Uh, I was just asked by Dojima-kun to get back the box of chocolates that you confiscated...I didn't expect, uh..."

Yoo hesitated for a moment, not knowing how many pots he would give himself was more sincere.I was wrong for stalking, and I was wrong for bumping into changing clothes, but the time converter is broken...it has nothing to do with me, right?

She was still hesitating, Qihai Dengzi had already raised her wand and said, "Chocolate is coming."

Dojima Takumi's box of chocolates jumped over the closed compartment door and fell into Nanami Dengko's left hand without any mistakes.

"...You want this, right? Here you are," Qihai stepped forward and stuffed the box of chocolates into Yu's hands dryly, "Don't tell anyone about this."

Yu looked at the gift box in his hand in a daze.

"Did you hear that, Koito-san?" Nanami raised her voice.

"Senior, did you mean... the matter of returning the confiscated contraband to me, or the matter of you using the time-turner?"

Qihai looked at her condescendingly.Her height is actually no more than the average altitude, and she is already more than half a head taller when facing Yu. This height difference makes the projected line of sight quite intimidating: "Both of them. Just pretend that I haven't bumped into your friend. Please tell me." He should restrain himself next time, and don't embarrass his academy. I won't pursue the matter of you following me. I hope you will forget what you saw here. We are all smart people, there is no need to embarrass each other ,right?"

At the end, Qihai smiled slightly, but there was a coldness hidden in her blue eyes.Yu and her stared at each other in silence for a moment, and then said "yes".

"Thank you, Koito-san." She pointed at the forgotten potion that had been smashed on the ground with her wand, and said, "Whirlwind sweeps away."

The shards of glass and the spilled potion disappeared.Qihai picked up the bag left by the previous one, bypassed You, and strode out.Looking at this familiar scene, Yu still couldn't hold back, and blurted out, "Senior Qihai, if your homework is so heavy that you have to use the Time Converter, why don't you just take a few less courses?"

The Slytherin prefect stopped.A few seconds later, she turned around mockingly, "If you're so curious about other people's affairs, why don't you try to find the answer yourself? Anyway, Koito-san, you are very good at disillusionment spells - of course, I will never do it." Same mistake twice."

After finishing speaking, she opened the door and left, leaving Koito standing in the empty bathroom.

The Endless Valentine's Day (2)

Nanami Lantern is quite a famous person at Hogwarts.

Not only is he well-known in their small circle of Japanese-born wizards, but he is also a figure at the forefront of the entire magic school, a common after-dinner conversation topic for the four colleges.

The reason why she got this fame is not her pretty face, nor her impeccable grades, but her vigorous and resolute behavior that does not match her appearance, and her demeanor that is completely different from the philosophy of the college she belongs to.

As a prefect of Slytherin, Seven Seas Lantern advocates a friendly and peaceful "policy" between colleges. After taking office as a prefect, he vigorously suppresses the words and deeds of other colleges and students. Further restricting the spread of the theory of "pure blood nobility" has stepped on the bottom line of many Slytherins-these bad habits in the eyes of others have been inherited from the founder of the academy, Salazar Slytherin, and have been soaked in this history for thousands of years. Every brick, wall, and pillar of the college penetrates the bone marrow like the venom of a poisonous snake.

No one knows how Nanami Dengzi gained a firm foothold in the opposition of her own family, and no one knows how she made those diehards bow down unwillingly; Koito Yu, like everyone else, only saw This senior stood calmly in front of everyone, showing a calm smile.

Such a person...

"...There are times when you lose your composure..."

Koito Yu recalled Nanami Dengko's complexion changing three times a second a few minutes ago, and couldn't help but want to laugh.

"I really didn't expect it."

There are so many courses that I have to use a time converter to deal with them separately. One can imagine how desperate this senior is in private.for what?You don't know, all she knows is that Qihai is not as good at everything as she appears on the surface.

"Okay, next..."

It's time to "settle accounts" with Dojima Takuo.

Yu stuffed the chocolate that he had obtained through "untold hardships" into the pocket of his robe, took two steps towards the door of the bathroom, and then - returned to his original position in a whirl.

Yu: "..."

Not only did she return to the position before she took the step, she was also turned around intimately by some mysterious force so that she could stare at Qihai Dengzi face to face.

Seven Seas: "..."

Yes, that's right, that Qihai Dengzi who had left a minute ago was standing in front of her again at this moment, holding a magic wand in his hand, his eyes were wide open.

"Senior," Yu raised his hand again, trying to squeeze out a smile that felt joy from the heart, "Your time-turner...is it repaired?"

"No, I..." Nanami put down her wand, looking like she didn't know what was going on.Her eyeballs rolled around in confusion in their sockets, and then stared at the ground without moving.

Following her line of sight, Yu saw the appalling pile of debris.

The Forgotten Potion that was smashed a few minutes ago - the pile of debris that Nanami Dengzi cleaned up with a spell - was scattered on the ground nicely, beautifully, and messily, and the deep purple potion was still bubbling.

Yu subconsciously reached out to touch, the pocket of the robe was empty.She stepped forward and opened the toilet cubicle, and she saw Qihai's bag returned to the toilet seat at some point, and the box of chocolates was lying quietly inside.

"senior--"

"Koito-san—"

The two spoke at the same time and stopped at the same time, Qihai made a gesture: "You go first."

"...Yes," Yu pinched the door frame tightly, "Have we returned to the time when Senior lifted my illusion spell?"

Qihai held up the shaking time converter in front of her chest: "I think to be precise, it's back to the time when the converter broke."

"But this is not right? I remember that the time converter can't do this kind of full sense of time backwards. It just parachutes the user to a certain point in the past, but..."

After this whirlwind, the whole environment returned to what it was a few minutes ago.

"You are very knowledgeable, Koito-san," Nanami sneered, "Since this is the case, you should also know the rules that must be followed when using the time-turner, right? You must never meet your past self, and you must not be noticed by others, and I... I bumped into you."

The horrific tremor climbed from the tailbone to the brainstem, and she finally understood why Qihai lost her composure after discovering herself.

"So," she said with some difficulty, "this is...?"

Qihai checked the converter over and over again, and replied casually: "Those who break the 'rules' will naturally be 'punished'. I thought that the broken converter was the result of my breaking the 'rules', but now it seems that is not the case at all. Simple, the time regression just now is probably related to this."

"I said you... since it is such a dangerous magic item, use it carefully..."

"I even locked the door, how do you want me to be careful? How would I know that there is a perverted junior behind me who has used the illusion spell, and he has to follow me in even to the bathroom?"

"Please don't make it sound like I followed you into the cubicle!"

"I see that's all you've got to do."

"I won't!"

Facing the other party's cold questioning, Yu was defeated: "Okay. I'm sorry, I did make a mistake in this matter. You can make it up to me in any way you want, but we have to solve the current situation first—— What is going on now? Why did you go back in time just now?"

Qihai frowned: "I didn't do anything, I was just walking. I thought something happened to you."

"I'm just standing where I am."

The two looked at each other and fell into an awkward silence again.

After a while, Qihai broke the deadlock: "It's almost time for me to leave, Koito-san, you have a watch, right? Please remember the time."

Yoo realized that she was trying to remove the time factor from what triggered the backtracking, and did as she was told.

These minutes were unprecedentedly long.Qi Hai leaned against the washbasin, propped her hands on the ceramic countertop, her knuckles turned white from the pressure, expressing a completely different mood from that calm side face.Yu's peripheral vision lingered on that delicate face for a moment, and then slid back to the dial without leaving a trace.

The rumors are all wrong, Qihai Dengzi is actually very suitable for Slytherin.she thought so.At least in this school, there was no color that suited her better than the green and silver that adorned her Slytherin uniform.

The minutes went from five to ten and nothing happened.

"It doesn't seem to be a retrospective phenomenon with a fixed time period," Nanami breathed a sigh of relief, "It should be triggered by other reasons. Let's go, Koito-san, it's useless to stand here, let's leave this bathroom together and see look."

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This is the first time that Koito Yu has experienced that kind of whirling feeling, and he can't remember it.

She felt that she had passed several hours physically, but the hands of the watch in her hand had never passed for more than 10 minutes in a row.

Qihai seemed to have reached the limit of her patience, and was pacing back and forth in front of her, talking to herself in a low voice; Yu called out to her, and simply sat down cross-legged, closing her eyes and resting her mind.

In order to escape this invisible cage of time, they tried all kinds of things: leaving alone, leaving together; leaving with a time converter, leaving without a time converter; taking something from the bathroom; Someone enters the bathroom and leaves it; talks to people after leaving the bathroom, does not talk to people; leaves while casting the disillusionment spell... No matter what they do, they will come back here in a whirl, looking at each other wordlessly .

irregular.No matter what I try, I can't find what triggers this backtracking phenomenon.Several times, they thought that they had finally escaped successfully and could say goodbye to each other completely, and the next moment they were captured by this bathroom that seemed to penetrate their minds.

"Senior, aren't you tired from walking around..."

Yoo began to miss the soft sofa chairs in the Hufflepuff common room, the warm sunshine and the smell of grass outside the window.Her game has only reached the third town, and she is still parked at the entrance of the gymnasium; she has only read half of the new book from the owl mail order, and is on the way to the exciting part.

"...I said, senior, take a rest, I'm tired looking at it."

Qihai ignored it.

Yuu sighed inwardly.This senior has much more to worry about than she does, and anxiety in his heart is unavoidable.It would be better to say that she has resisted the fact that she has not really attacked herself, the "culprit", so far, which is considered a rare good temper.

Subconsciously twisting up the robe, Yu felt a subtle sense of loss.Although she has never spoken, she has always respected this senior very much, but with things like this, her impression in Qi Hai's heart may have fallen to the bottom.

When you feel down, you will want to do something else to divert your attention.Yoo remembered that he seemed to be carrying a piece of chocolate frog, touched it, and found it inside the robe lining.She peeled off the wrapping paper and took a bite. When she looked up, she saw Qihai Dengzi had stopped and was staring at her with a complicated expression.

Yu swallowed the chocolate frog in his mouth: "Senior, do you... want to eat?"

Nanami narrowed her eyes: "You still have the mood to eat under such circumstances, Koito-san really deserves to be Hufflepuff's 'calm Seeker'."

Koito Yu choked: "Senior, why do you know this nickname!"

"I watched your game, last year's Quidditch final." Qihai leaned against the wall and said flatly, "You fly well, I am very impressed."

You wiped his mouth with his sleeve in a bit of embarrassment, and whispered: "Thank you, thank you... I thought you were not interested in this, senior."

"I'm not interested, but the last game last year was Slytherin vs. Hufflepuff, so I was drawn to watch it."

"That's it..." Yu didn't know what to say, and Qihai didn't answer any more, but just looked straight at the opposite wall, seemingly lost in thought again.Yu stared at the other party's tightly embraced arms for a while, feeling a deeper sense of loss.

She took another bite of the Chocolate Frog, and slowly pulled out the card exposed at the bottom, and found it was a Bridget Wenlock.She hasn't drawn this card for a long time.

Bridget Wenlock on the Chocolate Frog card yawned, pulled a quill from his matted black hair, and began to write quickly.Yu looked closer, only to see that she was drawing a triangle.She recognized it as "triangle theory," Wenlock's most famous discovery besides "the magical properties of the number seven."Last year, when she was taking arithmetic and divination, she was so tormented by this theory that she wasted fifteen sheets of parchment to type a draft of her thesis.

As the triangle in Wenlock's pen gradually took shape, a thought flashed through Yu's mind very quickly.She stood up abruptly, startling Qihai: "What are you doing?"

"Senior," Yu whispered, "have you noticed that when the backtracking is triggered, we are basically acting alone?"

Qihai thought for a while: "It is true that most of the time. However, there are also cases where backtracking is triggered when acting together."

"...didn't we both have the broken converter with us when we acted together and triggered the backtracking?"

"Converter? You mean..."

Qihai stared at her in a daze, and after a few seconds, she suddenly realized that she stomped her feet and said, "Distance! That's right, it's distance! I really... I didn't think about it after I eliminated the distance between me and you. Yes The distance between us and the converter! Not just you, not just me, both of us must keep within a certain distance from the converter!"

Her last words were almost shouted.After staring at Yu for a while with eyes mixed with surprise, Qihai was startled by her gaffe, and coughed in a concealed manner: "Uh... um. How did you... think of it?"

Yu held up the chocolate frog card in his hand, and Bridget Wenlock had already written more than half of a roll of parchment.

Qihai couldn't help laughing.

"So that's it, 'Triangle Distance Theory', thanks to Ms. Wenlock for her great contribution." She took two steps forward and extended her hand with a smile: "Good job, Koito-san, let's verify whether this conjecture is correct. "

The Endless Valentine's Day (3)

It wasn't until she followed Nanami Dengzi into the entrance hall that Koito suddenly remembered that today is Valentine's Day.Dazzling pink lanyards surround the castle's foyer, bright red bouquets can be seen everywhere, and many students walking in the foyer are wearing Valentine's Day badges that will pop out of pink bubbles when pressed.A Ravenclaw girl walking directly across from her pinned the badge to her neckband for fun. She pressed it too hard, and was sprayed all over her face with a string of bubbles, and had to stop to wipe it in embarrassment.

The entry of Qihai Dengzi brought a different atmosphere to the hall, and the three Slytherin boys standing at the corner of the stone stairs immediately stopped talking, and looked at Qihai walking down the steps with awe.When the two passed by, the leading black-haired boy greeted cautiously: "Happy Valentine's Day, Qihai." Dengzi Qihai nodded and responded with a faint smile: "Thank you, Jeff, and I wish you a happy holiday too. .”

Although it was a very appropriate response, the alienation and fear in Jeff's eyes were still obvious.When passing sideways, Yu met his scrutinizing eyes and smiled awkwardly.

"Speaking of which, today is Valentine's Day, so many things happened, I have forgotten." Yu said without words.Qihai glanced at her, but said nothing.

"Uh, haha," Yu laughed self-deprecatingly, "I'm sorry, it's obviously a rare Valentine's Day, but senior has to take me with me, so I can't go on a date..."

"I don't have a date, so you don't have to feel guilty about it." Qihai interrupted her with a calm tone.Seeing Yuu seemed quite frustrated, she added intentionally or unintentionally: "If Koito-san feels guilty for what you did, please follow me closely, I really don't want to go back to that bathroom anymore gone."

"Yes..." Yuu responded in a low voice.

Inspired by the "Triangle Theory", they successfully confirmed the conditions that trigger the retrospective after countless experiments: she and anyone in Qihai are more than 15 meters away from the Time Converter.This discovery greatly relieved the two of them, and they could finally say goodbye to that bathroom—You felt that she would probably never use this bathroom again in the future.

According to Qihai Dengzi's self-report, the maximum rewind time limit of this illegally obtained time converter is only 12 hours, so in theory, as long as they keep within 12 meters of the converter for the next 15 hours, they can pass smoothly. Live this "never-ending day".

If they still can't get rid of this situation after 12 hours-then whether Qihai Dengzi is willing or not, they must turn to the school teachers for help.Yu naturally hoped that the matter would not come to this point. Using the Time Converter privately is strictly prohibited. If this matter is exposed, let alone continue to study, Qihai Dengzi might have to receive a summons from the court.

If she caused disaster for this senior because of her reckless behavior, Yu felt that he would blame himself for the rest of his life-although Nanami was not completely innocent to a certain extent.

Following Qihai's swaying waist-length hair and fluttering pitch-black robe, Yu once again felt deeply doubtful: Why did he go to this point, would rather take the risk of using the converter in private than let himself go, even if Just missing a few classes?

Nanami Dengzi's straight back showed no fatigue at all, but Koito Yu couldn't forget the weariness and patience she showed when she faced herself in the mirror alone.

Just as she was thinking, Qihai's footsteps suddenly stopped.You almost bumped into her, and wondered: "Senior? What's wrong?"

A shrill voice accompanied by a clumsy harp sounded, answering her confusion: "Miss Nanami Dengzi, here is your Valentine's Day message—"

The dwarf messenger dressed in bright purple and pink spoke with a strong accent and plucked the strings.Qihai snorted, quickly pulled out her wand, and pointed at him: "Silence and silence."

"...?!?"

Everything happened in a blink of an eye, Yuu didn't even see where the senior pulled out his wand, only saw the dwarf courier pinching his throat in panic, with his mouth open, unable to make a sound.The two Slytherin girls who had been gloating by the gate put away their smiles, straightened their robes under Nanami's glance, and left in the opposite direction.

Qihai turned to the messenger who was beating her chest and feet in anxiety, and said, "Don't worry, the effect of the spell will be lifted naturally in 3 minutes." After finishing speaking, she turned her head and signaled, "Don't just stand there, Koito-san, we just We arrived at the greenhouse with 10 minutes left."

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They barely arrived at the last minute before class.This class is an advanced herbal medicine class for sixth-year Slytherin students. In the third greenhouse, through the transparent shed, you can see that the students have basically arrived. The shed is all silver and green. Outside the door: "Senior..."

Qihai Dengzi turned to look at her, thought for a while, and said, "Well, you wait for me here."

"Here?" Yu looked around, the greenhouse was located by the lake, and there were no buildings around except for the towering castle in the distance - did she want her to stand outside the shed for a class?Qihai had already walked into the greenhouse on her own, while Yuchu was outside, receiving a lot of probing or curious eyes.

In order to ease the embarrassment, she turned her back and saw that the second greenhouse on the right was over.Dozens of students who looked like they were in the second and third grades came out in a file, wearing silver-green and gold-red ties respectively; it seemed that it was a joint class of two old enemies, Slytherin and Gryffindor.

Yoo folded his arms and watched the low-grade students walking by in front of him, and sighed in his heart how time flies.It was five years ago that she received the admission notice for the first time, and she will become an adult and graduate in two years, and she doesn't know if she has found a goal that she can work hard for at that time.

It was winter and spring at this time, and it was still a little cold outside, so Yu couldn't help rubbing his hands, and sneezed against the wind.She was shaking her head, when two figures who were only as tall as her shoulders rushed towards her, shouting excitedly: "Yo! Yoo!"

Yoo took a closer look and found that it was the Slytherin second-year twins, Claire and Kara.The two little guys grabbed one of her arms and rubbed up affectionately: "Yo, why are you here?" "That's right, isn't the Quidditch instruction starting in half an hour?"

"I'm waiting for your Nanami prefect." Yuu smiled and rubbed her elder sister Claire's golden curly hair, and put her arms around her younger sister Kara's shoulder, "I probably won't be able to attend the upcoming Quidditch instructor... ...But Edward and Maki will host it for me, so go ahead."

"Hey!" "Why!" "Edward is dead!" "Maki can't get on the broom!" The two sisters complained one after another, hugging Yu and refusing to let go.Yu smiled helplessly, and when he looked up, he saw Qihai Dengzi holding on to the door of the shed, looking at himself with interest.

"senior……