HP Bella's Lie

21 - Showdown

The front table who received the invitation was unexpectedly reluctant.

"Go...to your house?"

Riddle was very dissatisfied with his attitude, and drew a long tone: "Well—do you have any questions?"

"No...no..." The front desk quickly shook his head, "It's just that my recent research has entered a critical period...but it doesn't matter! I still have time for a meal!"

Riddle hid his knife with a smile: "That's good."

The invisible power came over, and the little white rabbit at the front table went to the appointment tremblingly.

Bella made a sumptuous dinner to greet her. During the dinner, she greeted the front table warmly, which made Riddle jealous.

The front table was obviously flattered, coupled with Riddle's persistent low pressure and cold killing intent next to him, he ate a meal with fear, and when he left, he seemed to return home, and his back could be said to have fled.

Bella said helplessly to Riddle: "Don't bully him all the time, he is a guest after all."

Riddle smiled cleanly: "Do I have it? He seems to be eating happily. If you don't believe me, you can ask him next time."

next time?Next time, he might be too frightened by Riddle to even enter the door.

Bella finds the Muggle unreliable.But she couldn't find a better candidate so far, so she could only persuade Riddle to hang out with him—even if it was just to do experiments together.

Riddle was indifferent to this proposal, but since it was Bella who proposed it, he would occasionally go out with the front table, but it was unclear whether what he actually did was what Bella expected.

As time passed, Bella clearly felt a kind of weakness, which seemed to originate from the soul or the time of life, etc., which could not be relieved by any form of sleep and rest.However, she still needs to do a lot.

Since this time, relying on the fact that the Ministry of Magic has no record of her own magic power and wand, she has used black magic extensively in the Muggle world. Although she is careful every time, she never exposes obvious traces of magic in front of Muggles, nor He will abuse a lot of powerful magic, and also use some methods of dark wizards to eliminate traces of magic and avoid detection by the Ministry of Magic... It is not low-key.However, the Ministry of Magic still found some clues, but they suffered from too few clues and no evidence, so they are still in the stage of guessing.

But the suspicion of the Ministry of Magic is a big hidden danger for Bella.

With the settlement of Muggle assets and the steady transfer of the management of the old house, finding a way to eliminate her bad clues in the Ministry of Magic has become her important goal, because if someone investigates along this line in the future, it is likely to involve Riddle's innocence - although the idea of ​​the Dark Lord's innocence is a bit ridiculous.

Due to the urgency of time, she traveled almost non-stop between Muggle London and the Ministry of Magic.Starting from the place where the "Black Lady" assassination appeared in the first place, bit by bit to clear the traces she left in the Muggle world, and correspondingly, relying on the experience before death and superb on-the-spot adaptability, sneaked into the place again and again. The Ministry of Magic amended the records accordingly.

And all the spare time she had left was spent looking for a partner for Riddle—no matter how much she was reluctant.

To her mixed joy and sorrow, she found that Riddle had sealed her heart, and no one else could walk in.This made her understand that it was basically impossible for her to find someone who could replace her.But... Thinking of his possible loneliness, she would think about the solution again in the torment of anxiety.

There must be... a way to keep him from feeling alone...

Bella in a black robe skillfully walked into the elevator of the Ministry of Magic. She used the appearance of a young member of the Ministry, and the elevator stopped on the sixth floor.She walked out to the Portkey office.

Before reaching the door of the office, she was suddenly thrown to the ground by a crazy dizziness, and her whole body ached like being hacked by a knife!It would be good for an ordinary wizard to be in a coma, but Bella, who walked through the battlefield, was only crushed by the terrible pain for a moment, and then she immediately stood up forcefully, in that terrible dizziness. After struggling to identify the direction, he turned around and walked towards the elevator.

Fortunately, the pain came and went quickly, and it had completely disappeared when I walked into the elevator.Bella's footsteps immediately stabilized, only she knew that her back was soaked.

Temporarily giving up this operation, Bella Apparated back home after leaving the Ministry of Magic.

However, as soon as she appeared in the bedroom, that terrifying feeling came back like a flood. Bella couldn't hold on any longer, and fell directly on the bed.

After a long time, she finally got rid of the pain, sat up slowly, looked at the magic wand in her hand: "Is it... the magic power is overdrawn..."

The recent frequent use of high-intensity magic has made her already depleted body weaker and weaker, and Bella can clearly feel this.But this is the first time this has happened.

She took out the Time-Turner, counted the amount of sand—which was much easier, since there were so few left—and frowned deeply.

Is memory wrong?

The amount of sand... seems to be less.Not less normally, but less than it should have been.

Bella walked to the bookshelf, and skillfully pulled out a notebook among the rows of books and notebooks that were densely packed without distinction between you and me.

The traces written in memory ink have long since disappeared. This is a memory that only Bella can see.She uses it to record her every day.

Turning to the time when the sand grains were counted last time, I checked it again and found that the memory was correct.

The amount of sand, really reduced...

And it is obvious that there is a difference of more than ten grains!

Is it because of the overdraft of magic power?

Is she... going to disappear?

Bella closed the notebook and put it back in its place.Lie in the chair for a long time.

The feeling of weakness becoming more and more irresistible, the overdrawing of the magic power of overloading magic, the accelerated loss of time and sand, and the fact that there is no one to accompany Riddle...

These mountain-like hardships were suppressed layer by layer, and Bella's thinking became broadened instead.

The sun was gradually setting. This afternoon, as the sun came to an end, she thought about many things.

Bella didn't stop her magic cleaning work. On the contrary, because of the shortened time, she doubled her magic power and the life guarantee plan ended early.

Then she went to the backyard she hadn't set foot in for a long time.

There was Riddle's lair for Nagini.It has grown large enough to be somewhat intimidating indoors.Although Bella said he didn't care, Riddle insisted that Nagini live alone in the courtyard, because he didn't want to make Bella feel uncomfortable while communicating with Nagini in Parseltongue.

She found Nagini in a hollow tree.

The boa constrictor looked like a well-fed child, spitting out words one after another, with its head leaning against the hole.

Bella tried to get close to it, because of her experience before her death, she always had a little psychological shadow on Nagini.But until she walked up to Nagini, the other party didn't respond at all, which made Bella let go of the big stone in her heart, and bravely touched its head.

"Nagini...you will accompany him. Last time, you followed him to the end...I want to thank you...This time, please accompany him too."

Nagini just let her touch her, spitting out snake letters from time to time, making a hissing sound.Unfortunately, Bella couldn't understand what it said.

Back in the bedroom, Bella lay on the bed for a long time before relieving the feeling of weakness and dizziness.

When Riddle came back, his expression was a little dignified.However, Bella was tortured by her body, so she didn't realize it, and returned to the bedroom after dinner as usual.

When it was almost time, she took out the time converter and looked at the hourglass in her pocket watch, but she didn't find the door lock that opened silently.

"The port key is flying!"

Riddle's voice resounded resoundingly.Unsuspecting, Bella was stripped of the Time-Turner and watched it fly into Riddle's hands.

Taking a deep look at Bella, Riddle gripped the Time-Turner tightly and activated the Portkey.

"Wait...!" Bella was startled, as soon as she took a step, Riddle disappeared in front of her eyes.

Bella was in a hurry, but fortunately she knew his destination, and immediately apparated after him.

The memory bottles all over the wall and building shocked Riddle, and almost as soon as he came here, the sound of Apparition sounded behind him.

Bella followed him as he expected. He collected his emotions, turned around and said, "Aren't you going to tell me? This is... what's going on?"

Bella looked into his eyes, and suddenly felt that her worry was unnecessary: ​​"Also... it's time..."

She walked up to him and took the Time-Turner back from him.

"This is too long a story..." She looked at the empty hourglass, suddenly raised her head, and showed Riddle a bright smile, "Tomorrow is the weekend, shall we go out for a ride?"