HP Bella's Lie

10 - Missing Time Sands

"Bella, what happened to the owner of the old house?" Riddle called out to attract her attention.

Bella's gaze finally left the bookshelf and fell on him as he wished.

"That's what I'm going to tell you today."

Her gaze was as gentle and affectionate as ever.

40 minute later.

Riddle heard it with great interest: "So, your predictions are all based on future facts?"

"My writing is limited..." Bella shrugged a little embarrassedly, "Fortunately, as long as the prophecy is vague, you can get away with it, and the requirements for literary literacy are not high."

Riddle was amused by her: "The truth is so terrible, I don't believe in prophecies anymore."

Bella was struck by this sentence!

Bella, who has personally experienced the future, knows very well that the cause of the black and white battle that led to the defeat of the Dark Lord was a prophecy.

What does it mean for a Dark Lord who doesn't believe in prophecy?Even though it was an offhand joke, Bella couldn't help but secretly laugh.

Forcibly suppressing her excitement—now Riddle is too sensitive to her emotions—Bella said relaxedly: "Honey, if you are interested in learning ancient poetry. My writing is only at this level. In the future, I can only It's up to you to make up the prophecy."

"Really, I'm here to write the prophecy?" Riddleton became interested for a moment, but he quickly controlled his gaffe and said with some reservations, "I have to say, it's interesting."

Bella was so fond of his small, outspoken way that she almost pulled him into her arms and rubbed him - if she did, the latter would be furious.

But Bella thinks Riddle like that is cute too.It's a pity that she is always reluctant to bully him, even though it is full of love.

On the other hand, Riddle, who felt that writing the prophecy was "interesting", plunged into his small room as soon as he returned from the old house, and didn't come out all afternoon.

Bella pushed the door "inadvertently" and went in to deliver water. As expected, she saw that he was studying an anthology of ancient poems and forgot to eat and sleep, and she didn't even notice Bella's arrival.

Putting the water on the desk, Bella silently exited the bedroom.

The quiet moonlight sprinkled on the desk, coating the cup of warm water with a layer of silver, and suddenly there was another full moon.

In the bedroom, there is the occasional sound of flipping books, the lights are silent, and the starry night is quiet and beautiful.

Bella came to the open-air balcony and looked at the bright and complicated night sky.

Everything went too smoothly.

Even if there were occasional small difficulties, they were overcome without any danger.

Compared with the life and death before death, everything is so smooth that it is unreal.

——Is it really because of the power of the prophet, or... I missed something?

She slowly withdrew from the too beautiful status quo, thinking carefully about everything after death.

After a while, Bella went to her bedroom and took out a glass ball from the dark compartment under the bed.

A time-turner is sealed inside the transparent sphere filled with mist.

——That's right, the time-turner that took her through time.

Bella turned on the light on the dressing table, took out her wand and lightly chanted a spell to dispel the fog inside the ball, and then observed carefully under the light.

The time converter is still the same, the glass wall of the hourglass is cracked, most of the golden time sand is lost, and the rest is spread on the bottom...

and many more……

Bella suddenly sensed that something was wrong, and carefully examined every detail of the Time Turner.

After watching it over and over again, gradually, something was determined, and Bella's eyes became terrifying.His originally pale face was now as pale as paper.

Another bedroom.

Riddle looked up from the book and saw the clear water beside the table.You can still feel a touch of temperature when you pick it up, as if hot air flows into the blood along the fingertips.

His eyebrows softened, and he was about to drink the water when the sound of something breaking suddenly came from the next room, which was as obvious as a stone thrown into the water in the silent night.

Riddle put down his water glass and rushed out the door, and came to Bella's room, but found that the bedroom was locked, so he could only knock on the door eagerly: "Bella! What's the matter? What happened?"

Bella in the room stared blankly at the shattered glass ball on the ground. The Time Converter sealed inside lay quietly on the ground without any new damage.It wasn't until Riddle's question came that she woke up from that trance state, quickly waved her wand, and whispered: "It's back to the original. Cleaned up."

Then he replied to Riddle: "I'm fine! I knocked a water glass off."

The skillful floating spell sent the restored glass ball back to the secret compartment, and Bella opened the door for Riddle, her expression adjusted to the best.

Riddle walked in and looked at her face: "You didn't hurt your hand, did you?" He scanned the ground again, "Water glass...?"

"It's been resolved." Bella pointed to the water glass by the table, "The Restoration Curse."

Looking at the intact cup, Riddle was still a little uneasy.Bella pushed him out of the room: "Okay, okay, don't make a fuss. Go do your business."

Back in the bedroom, Riddle was still thinking about the scene in Bella's room.He always felt that there was a slight violation, but he was not sure.After flipping through a few pages of the book, I found that my mind was full of the pictures just now, and I couldn't see them at all, so I simply threw the book away and thought about it seriously.

Seeing the water glass that he had put back on the table, Riddle subconsciously picked it up and drank for a while, and didn't realize what he had done until he put the glass back on the table.His face changed suddenly, and hesitation flashed in his eyes, but he was still uncertain.

That night, the two lay on their own beds with their own thoughts, and had no dreams all night.

On the second day, Bella behaved as usual, but Riddle took the initiative to ask to go to the old house to learn magic knowledge.Bella readily agreed.After breakfast, the two set off to the old house.

The old house is still the same, so dilapidated and simple that it makes people sad.But this time Riddle didn't cast a glance at those furnishings, and went straight to the storage room, opened the box and jumped in - Bella gave him the spare key and the opening spell last time.

Although Bella was surprised by his impatience, she didn't pay much attention to it. After all, it was normal for young wizards to desire magic knowledge, especially for the young Dark Lord.

She didn't go down immediately, but locked the door on the top, and one by one, transported the packages that had piled up in the room into the bottom of the box with a floating spell.It wasn't until the last package entered the box that Bella followed.

The parcels were all piled up in the open space facing the box opening, and the set of tables and chairs was placed in a half circle around them.

Riddle had disappeared into the depths of the bookshelves, and Bella moved the chair closer to the pile of packages and began unpacking them one by one.

After a period of testing, the wizards who were eager to make an appointment also roughly figured out what the old house owner wanted.Most of the packages contained ancient books, lost histories, and forbidden black magic books. In short, the relatively rare and profound magic books are the taste of old houses; besides books, there are all kinds of black magic items. Ra also removed a severed hand from a cuboid package.Even though she has long been used to bloody scenes, she was still shocked by the terrifying appearance of this severed hand exuding strong malice.

Glancing at the name tag on the package, Bella wanted to block this idiot named Fels.

In the morning, Bella had sorted out the useful things, and she returned the rest of the packages through the original owl.

All that’s left is to schedule an appointment.Bella found Riddle who was sitting under the bookshelf and was concentrating on studying.

"Honey, are you interested in being the 'owner of the old house'?"