Fail Demon King

Booth," Tom hissed dangerously, visibly gnashing his teeth, "I, just, knew, yes you!Did you put your mind on the pillow when you woke up? !That's pretty incredible, ha!Why didn't the Sorting Hat sort you into Gryffindor? ! "

Billy swallowed, then calmly raised his eyes to an angry Tom.Being caught on the spot made him indefensible—Tom's hand was still on his lips.

His roommate's handsome face was contorted slightly in exasperation, and they were so close that Billy could clearly feel Tom's snort.

Sure enough—he knew that everything would not go so smoothly!

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37 An Unlucky Uninvited Guest

There was silence in the girls' bathroom. A faucet seemed to be leaking, and water dripped into the sink at long intervals.

"Look at the watch, what time is it?" After a while, Tom snorted coldly, and said sternly, "You are not sleeping in bed at this time, what are you doing out here?"

"..."

"say!"

Billy raised an eyebrow and pointed to Tom's hand still over his mouth.

Tom gave him a hard look, then jerked his hand away.Without the barrier, Billy felt he could breathe a lot more easily.He cleared his throat and said dryly, "I'll see why you keep sneaking out in the middle of the night. What about you, Tom? We're supposed to be lying in two beds in the same dormitory at this time, and you run to three Upstairs... what are you doing in the girls' bathroom?"

Unexpectedly, Billy would be so direct, Tom raised his eyebrows, then he raised his jaw indifferently, and said as a matter of course: "I am a prefect."

"Come on, this has nothing to do with the prefect." A muscle on Billy's cheek twitched uncontrollably, and he crossed his arms, "Let's all be honest: I'm not hiding my purpose of following you, In fairness, shouldn't you also reveal a little bit about why you're here?"

There was a silence, and Tom didn't answer him.

In the dark girls' bathroom, the two of them looked at each other, neither willing to show weakness.Billy's heart was actually beating a drum, and he could see that Tom was extremely annoyed.It would never be a good idea to anger the future Dark Lord, but at this moment, he had no choice.

After an extraordinarily long 2 minutes, Tom blinks rapidly, then slowly pulls a hideous smirk as he drawls softly, "You really want to know what I'm doing? - Lumos! He shoved his wand into Billy's hand. "Excellent, then you'd better keep your eyes peeled!"

Tom strode to the innermost pool, then bowed slightly.Billy heard him whisper something in Parseltongue—the hiss hadn't died down before a blinding white light came from the faucet.Billy, who had adapted to the darkness, was shaken so hard that he couldn't keep his eyes open. After the slightly sour stinging pain in the corner of his eyes passed, he found that the pool had disappeared, and with the fluorescence from Tom's wand, he could clearly see a The water pipe is thick enough for an adult to get in.

Billy stared at all this dumbfounded. There was no doubt that this was definitely the entrance to a secret room.

"Is this... Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets?" He glanced at Tom and asked uncertainly.

Tom, standing in front of the pipe, looked Billy up and down for a good ten seconds, and then he said in a drawn-out voice with his hands behind his back, "You know a lot, Billy Stubbs. This is yours too. One of the secrets, right?" He snorted softly, turned around, and spoke a snake language to the tube.It wasn't too short, and the hiss sounded unquestionable.

"What are you talking about?"

"What am I talking about?" repeated Tom viciously, striding back to Billy with that smirk of a successful, viciously mischievous spoof. knew."

It's not hard to see that this is obviously Tom's teasing with a pouty attitude, but here's something creepy: In such a dark and dank place, Tom speaks in Parseltongue: to whom—or what—he's talking to ?

Billy took two deep breaths, trying to reason with his dour roommate.However, just when he was about to speak, there was a sudden sound of stumbling and chaotic footsteps from far and near outside the door!

Someone's coming this way—who is it?

Billy and Tom looked at each other, and both saw thoughts in each other's eyes that connected with their own.The flickering fluorescent light of Tom's wand went out, and at the same time, they rushed to a compartment quickly in unison.Billy leaned against the cold innermost wall, and Tom squeezed in neatly.Literally, it all seemed to happen in a fraction of a second, almost as fast as they could Apparate.

The moment they pulled the wooden door of the single room behind their hands, the doorknob of the bathroom turned with a click.

The man must have rushed in in a panic, for Billy heard the door slam shut and locked, followed by a girl's gasping and whimpering sobs.

He turned his head to look at Tom beside him—it was quite strenuous to do so, they were crowded on the same side of the toilet, and in an extremely small space, they had to be close together, and any movement might hit the compartment door And make a sound.

Bill asked Tom with his eyes: What should I do?

She couldn't spend the night here--Tom blinked impatiently--until she was gone.

The cubicle was too cramped, and while neither of them were of the muscular build, it was bearable.Billy was half on top of Tom, and he could feel the powerful heartbeat of the man behind him beating against his shoulder blades, and the warm breath behind his ear.

This is so strange!Billy felt breathless again and stiffened, his blood rushing from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.At this moment, he was very fortunate that no one could see his face clearly, otherwise he would definitely be regarded as a boiling hot teapot with red face and foolishness.

——It can't go on like this, he must at least find a way to move to the other side of the compartment.

Billy tried to turn his head around, trying to get Tom to cooperate a little bit, but they were really in harmony, and at the same moment, Tom turned his head slightly towards him——

Billy felt Tom's lips brush against the bridge of his nose, and then, the soft and moist touch finally settled on his cheek.

—Merlin on!This time is even more embarrassing than that gentle goodnight kiss during the summer vacation!

Billy jerked violently as if hit by a fire spell, and then subconsciously leaned back, completely oblivious to the cramped space they were in, and his legs hit the partition with a muffled thud.Tom reached out and grabbed Billy's shoulders in case he lost his balance and fell over.During these unexpected movements, the two of them did not know what happened again, the toilet suddenly made a screaming sound, and flushed with water!

Tom held Billy's shoulders tightly, and they were almost cheek to cheek.

"Don't move!" he whispered into Billy's ear through gritted teeth.

Without him saying anything, Billy froze already.But it was too late, the whimpering and whimpering outside stopped abruptly, and after a while, a girl's shrill voice rang out: "...Who? Who's there?"

The familiar voice was like a nightmare, but Billy wasn't sure yet.He glanced at Tom, who was frowning, obviously listening too.

"...Who the hell is it? I, I heard your voices!" The voice raised slightly, but it was obviously stern, "Come out quickly! Otherwise, I, I will go to open the door!"

This time Billy was sure, and he swallowed dryly.Tom recognized who it was too, and with a sneering grin at Billy, he flung open the door and strode out without hesitation.

Billy followed him, and then they saw the girl leaning against the bathroom door, dumbfounded.

—Myrtle.

"You—Billy!" The moment she saw Billy, her eyes, which had already been stared to the limit, became even bigger, but she quickly changed into a shy and shy expression, "Why are you here?" Here?" As if realizing something, she began to circle around Billy in disbelief, "Oh! This is the girls' bathroom, and you're not a girl..."

"Stop." Billy interrupted her with a headache. "I'm dizzy from you spinning. What about you?" he asked back. "It's long past bedtime, why are you still outside?"

Myrtle stopped.She stood in front of Billy with her back to the innermost sink.Tom stood beside Billy with folded arms, looking at them both icily without saying a word.After a mournful sob, Myrtle said, "Yes... it was Olive Hornby who laughed at me... that I looked like a hapless four-eyed dog with my glasses, and that's why I ran out of the dormitory." Yes. Oh Billy! You don't know what I saw out there just now! I—" She wiped her tears, paused, and looked strangely at the row of weeping candles on the bracket, " Uh, why don't you light the lamps?"

Tom snatched the wand from Billy's hand and made it glow again.He gave a disdainful laugh, turned his face away in disgust, as if Myrtle was a stupid arthropod: "Use your brain, because the light will leak through the crack in the door."

Myrtle stared exaggeratedly, as if she had just noticed Tom was here, and then turned to Billy resolutely: "You haven't told me, Billy, why haven't you called back so late?" Your Slytherin dormitory?"

"Me and—" Billy turned to look at Tom, perfunctory, "I'm with our prefect."

Myrtle nodded indifferently, and busied herself blowing her nose.

"You said," Billy asked, "what did you see out there?"

When he got to the point, Myrtle's expression changed, and she gave a mysterious expression, as if she was glad to share a secret with Billy: "I see—" she whispered, Taking two steps closer to Billy, "Oh, I can't believe it... you know, I saw a hairy black leg and a huge black shadow flashing past a corner!"

Billy didn't know what to say.He couldn't help taking two steps back. In fact, he wasn't used to Myrtle approaching him so shyly.Beside him, Tom folded his arms, his brow almost knit together.

"I don't like him," whispered Myrtle suddenly, her eyes fixed on Billy.

Billy frowned: "What?"

"Aren't you..." Myrtle pouted and played with her hair with her hands. "Can you let your prefects go out for a while? This is the girls' bathroom after all."

"...I think you forgot," Billy choked, and then said firmly, "I'm a boy, too."

"But I like you!" Myrtle paused, "And you are much gentler than he looks, he was really good enough in the hall last time..."

Tom sneered rather sharply, but surprisingly, he said nothing this time, just fixed his dark eyes on Billy.

"I'm sorry, but I don't think he needs to please you, does he?" Billy said uncomfortably, and he was almost at the limit of his patience.Taking a step forward, he casually grabbed Myrtle's wrist, trying to pull her out quickly, so that Tom wouldn't really kill her in a fit of anger, "You should go back to sleep—"

As he was talking, he suddenly and keenly heard a strange voice.The chilling, countdown sound came from the big pipe exposed in the innermost sink!

It's like - something big is crawling in the slimy slime!Follow that pipe, getting closer and closer!

Billy suddenly realized that the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets had been open from just now!With a pale complexion, he turned his head to look at Tom beside him—the tall, thin, handsome boy was still standing there with his arms folded, unmoved, and he was also looking at Billy.

Like those cold silver-clad knights in the corridor, Tom said nothing.He blinked slowly, his long eyelashes gleaming with extremely stern eyes.

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38 An ugly giant snake

In the girls' bathroom on the third floor, a thick pipe was exposed in the innermost sink.A little fluorescent light from the magic wand shone on the wet ground, reflecting the gloomy water light.

Billy was stiff as if under a Body-Binding Charm, and he was holding Myrtle's wrist, looking terribly pale.

——There is something heavy sliding in that pipe, and there seem to be scales rubbing against the wall of the pipe. In this damp and dark place, the sound makes the hair stand on end!

Myrtle blinked suspiciously, and she heard it too: "What noise?"

"...It's nothing." It was a miracle for Merlin to be able to squeeze out a voice at this time!Billy's throat was unbearably dry, and he saw Myrtle subconsciously want to look back, so he pulled her hard.

Myrtle flung herself into Billy's arms, her forehead on his shoulder. "Yeah! My glasses!"

Billy couldn't care about anything else, so he held Myrtle's head firmly and kept her from struggling to look back.Myrtle quickly stopped moving, and she thought it was a hug, so she said shyly, "Can you let me clean my glasses, Billy - of course, when you let me go Just wipe it." She paused, "But did you hear a very strange sound, as if you were flushing a clogged toilet... What's in here?"

— what is there?

Billy couldn't help a wry smile, and he turned his head to meet Tom's eyes.Sure enough, his roommate was raising an eyebrow at him defiantly, then shifted her burning gaze to Myrtle.

—Merlin on!What else can there be!They're Slytherins, and who doesn't know that their symbol is—

snake!

The rustling and sliding thing finally crawled out of the pipe!A gigantic object raised its head and neck from the pipe with a "crash", and the whole girls' washroom seemed to shake. A stream of mud was brought out by it and splashed on the already filthy ground!At the same moment, Tom flicked his wand crisply, and a red light hit Myrtle, who was holding Billy's shoulders, and her head fell limply.

And Billy didn't have much time to pay attention to Myrtle anymore, he could only look up and stare at that thing, the blood in his whole body seemed to congeal at this moment, and his breathing stopped suddenly!

—that's a giant snake!It has a body as thick as an oak tree trunk, green scales, a large flat head and a blood-red letter!It twisted its head and neck rustlingly, and every time it vomited, it exuded a foul smell; it didn't completely slide its bulky body out of the pipe, otherwise the girls' bathroom would probably be crushed by it!

Tom squinted his eyes, and then violently ripped off Billy's hand that was subconsciously on Myrtle's shoulder, and the poor girl fell directly to the ground, her glasses falling aside.With a cold smirk, he turned to Billy and said slowly and mockingly, "Now, do you know what I'm doing?"

Billy was still staring at the giant snake, and it took him a long time before he finally breathed out.He tried to make a sound, but his voice was like those rusty armors in the hallway that haven't been oiled in a long time: "Its, its eyes—"

"how?"

It took a long time for Billy to finish the sentence: "What's... in its eyes?"

On both sides of the giant snake's flat and ugly head, there are two copper bell-sized eyes, but they are covered with a gray-green hazy membrane, which looks like it is blind.

Tom walked past Myrtle, who was lying on the ground, and Billy felt, perhaps delusional, that he had kicked her on purpose.He walked towards the giant snake—it may indeed be inappropriate to say so, but—the handsome and slender black-haired boy stood under the head and neck of the green giant snake, reflecting the faint fluorescence of the magic wand, unexpectedly produced a shocking feeling Creepy and eerie beauty.

The giant snake turned its head and neck in confusion, it seemed that it could not see anything.Over his hissing, Tom said grimly, "I made him close his eyes."

Billy eyed the giant monster suspiciously: "But... a snake has no eyelids. How can it close its eyes?"

"..."

"Isn't it right?"

"To shut up."

"..."

The two of them were supposed to have a fight - when Billy discovered Tom's secret and Tom also discovered Billy was following him secretly.

But after this night's accident, especially after coming out of the small bathroom, they seemed to have lost their minds about arguing.The most important thing now is how to get the unconscious Myrtle out.

After Tom hissed a few words, the giant snake swam down the thick tube.It took a while, it couldn't see clearly, its heavy body writhed, making the pipe creak like it was overwhelmed.After that, they quickly cleaned the girls' bathroom, and then walked warily back down the hallway.

The minutes passed by, and even Pringle, the housemaster, was old and lethargic, and wandering the dark corridors for long periods of time was not safe.But they could only try to be careful now, because in addition to the two of them walking softly against the wall, they also had a delirious companion.

The unconscious Myrtle was cast with a Levitation Charm, and she floated in mid-air with her head down, her glasses slid to the tip of her nose.Tom led her with his wand, and Billy used his wand to light the way for them.

"Be careful," Billy whispered through gritted teeth as Myrtle's head slammed against the wall again because of Tom's willful inattention, "I know you hate her, but at least don't wake up the portraits! "

"Oh——" Tom raised his eyebrows, and he drew his voice strangely, "You are so kind to her."

With a soft bang, Myrtle's head hit a picture frame again.A portrait of a short wizard dressed as a gentleman suddenly woke up from his sleep, and just about to say a few words of condemnation, he met Tom's gloomy black eyes, so he immediately closed them, tilted his head abruptly, and pretended to be asleep up.

"..."

Well, in the face of Tom's unreasonable righteousness, Billy has nothing to say.

"Just leave her here, we're just heading back to the dormitory," Tom said impatiently after they had gone underground and passed the Potions classroom.He pointed to a damp and dark corner, "It's almost dawn," he squinted at Billy, "You're not going to escort her back to the Ravenclaw common room, are you?"

"I haven't," said Billy calmly. "As you please, Tom."

Tom sent Myrtle round the corner with a flick of his wand with a twist of his lips, and then he turned and walked away without looking back, as if he had dropped some terribly repulsive burden.Billy figured that Myrtle would wake up tomorrow morning with a twisted neck, because her head and body formed an almost impossible "L" arc in the corner.He shook his head, snouting after his roommate.

He wasn't going to blame Tom for Myrtle.For one thing, he wasn't a very kind man himself; and for one thing, Myrtle had gotten a little too much of herself in a way, and Tom hadn't just let the snake take her away just beyond his expectations—

"I do want it to take Myrtle away," said Tom, giving Billy a hard look as he strode along. "I'm not going to hide that, Billy, you guessed it."

"..."

"Come on, don't open your mouth stupidly." Tom waved his hand vaguely, "Of course I can see what you're thinking. So—" He suddenly slowed down his voice, twisted his thin lips, showing a malicious look Smiling, "How do you think the big Slytherin pet behaved tonight?"

Billy retorted angrily, "Can't you see what I'm thinking?"

Tom snorted coldly, and said sarcastically, "That's right—you're scared."

"Of course I'm scared!" said Billy bluntly, looking around the hallway carefully, lowering his voice cautiously. Say, 'Hey! You look delicious!', don't you?"

Tom's face became as ugly as a gray stone wall in an instant.

"...so any normal person would be scared to see it. And I hope you don't tell it what I'm going to say—of course, I didn't mean to offend it, but—" Billy didn't see Tom's expression, he The corners of his eyes twitched uncontrollably, and then he said quickly and sharply, "It's really ugly, and the way it turns its head from side to side is silly; also, did you smell the smell in its mouth? I know The former is not its fault, but for Merlin's sake, you should make it pay attention to personal hygiene."

A moment of silence.

Billy suddenly found that the person who had been walking beside him was gone.He turned his head, and Tom, who always walked fast, fell behind him, which was really rare.

"I'm sorry," he said, blinking, "I said it, and I didn't mean to offend it. If you think—"

"It's nothing." Tom paused, and then with long legs, he quickly passed Billy.He gave an odd short laugh, and said to himself, "Yeah, I should have known you'd say that."

Billy narrowed his eyes: "...you've been acting strange recently."

Tom glanced at him casually. "Really?"

"I don't know what it is," Billy said suspiciously. "I always feel like you and I—uh!" Gritting your teeth against the wall.

Tom was keenly aware of his abnormality: "What's going on?"

They were already walking through the tunnel under the lake, and the common room was not far after the turn.Billy took two deep breaths, barely suppressing the golden stars popping up in front of his eyes one by one: "...it's nothing." He tried his best to keep his tone unchanged, "I just...maybe I didn't sleep well, I've been too tired lately .”

Tom looked at Billy for a while. "If you want," he said slowly, "I can cast a Levitation Charm on you too. It will save a lot of effort to float in mid-air."

"..."

"I can guarantee you won't bang your head against the wall."

"...Thanks, Tom." Billy gritted his teeth, pushing himself up from the wall, "but honestly, I don't think it's a good idea."

Thanks Merlin tomorrow will be a Saturday.Billy didn't realize that he was exhausted until he fell on the familiar four-poster bed. He didn't know what Tom was doing, anyway, he didn't even have time to change his robes, and he was already unconscious.

At the last moment when consciousness could still rule the drowsy brain, one last thought flashed through his mind: Is this just the way it is?No complications, no uproar, the Chamber of Secrets, the Basilisk, and the Myrtle—

Merlin is really kind, everything went so smoothly.

Vaguely, Billy felt that something was wrong.Slytherins tend to be skeptics through and through, and they are extremely defensive, thinking that anything too smooth is suspicious.

But Billy didn't have time to think about it -- well, he heard Tom draw the curtains of the bed too.Don't make a fuss about it, even a future Dark Lord always needs sleep after a whirlwind of nighttime adventures - and after a lisping goodnight, Billy falls asleep as if in a coma.

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39 A Hard Myrtle

Billy had a long sleep this time.Rather than saying that he fell asleep as if in a coma, it would be better to say that he was in a coma as if falling asleep.

When he woke up, he opened his eyes shyly, but was suddenly startled.

—for nothing else, because Tom was leaning over him questioningly, that handsome face just above Billy's very near.His eyebrows were knotted, and a look of worry flashed across his face before he could hide it.

Billy stared blankly at Tom, looking uncontrollably down from his dark eyes, and finally resting on his roommate's well-shaped pale lips, where the fine lines were clearly visible.Learning his lesson from last night in the bathroom cubicle, Billy froze in bewilderment and stiffened, but there was no doubt that he was awake in an instant.

Fortunately, Tom moved away quickly, and his worried expression did not match him. He immediately recovered his usual calm and calm expression: "You have been sleeping for a long time, I almost thought I couldn't wake you up."

Billy picked up the watch by the bed and glanced at it. The time showed it was two o'clock in the afternoon.He scratched his hair and smiled dryly: "Just in time for lunch."

Tom went to the table, sat down, and began to write in his diary.The lake outside the window gave his black hair a blue light: "I hope you still have a good appetite--I think it's best to tell you in advance. There was an accident at Hogwarts last night, and a girl He was attacked and taken to the school hospital this morning."

Billy thought he heard it wrong, he sat up from the bed, and felt dizzy because he got up too fast: "...what?" After a pause, he suddenly had a bad premonition, "Who? I am Say, who was the girl who was attacked—”

"—Myrtle." Twenty minutes later in the house-elf kitchen, Lucretia put down her knife and fork heavily, "You know, Billy, that Ravenclaw girl she's been chasing and you've been hiding from. "

"Thanks," said Billy darkly, "Tom already told me."

Billy didn't go to the lobby to eat, and just after coming out of the common room, he met Lucretia at the stone wall door.Instead of going to the crowded auditorium, it's better to go to the house elf kitchen. Anyway, they are already regular visitors there, and the hardworking elves know their tastes very well.

"Oh, of course," Lucretia said clearly, "I notified the president of the student union and the prefects in the morning, and asked them to pay attention to the safety of the students in their own colleges. Why," she chuckled, "he didn't specifically tell you? I Seeing that he should wish to lock you up altogether, that's the most at ease."

Billy took a sip of the soup and pretended not to hear her last words. "I've always been weird," he murmured. "Where do you get all your news from?"

Lucretia waved her hand perfunctorily: "Of course the sources of information for their prefects are two systems, but they are equally fast and accurate." She gently put down the silver spoon, "It is said that when Myrtle was sent there, she was covered with Bai Si almost wrapped her into a chrysalis. The poor girl was frightened, and after waking up, she was incoherent and didn't say anything... What's your expression?"

"Nothing." Billy pushed the plate away wearily, and a house-elf hurried over to remove it. "I just don't have an appetite."

Soon, the attack on Myrtle spawned countless versions in Hogwarts.Some people say that the ancient monsters in Hogwarts became active during the first term, and some people said that the terrible dark wizard Grindelwald sent messengers to sneak into the school secretly.One of the most thrilling and popular versions comes from a girl in the same dormitory as Myrtle. She vividly described how she vaguely saw a huge black shadow in her sleep, and how it was swept away fiercely. Poor Myrtle.

Taking the opportunity of going to the school hospital to get moonshine grass decoction, Billy met Myrtle.He gulped down the pearly white potion that had made him sick, sneaking sideways glances under the cover of the cup.Madam Pomfrey raised a corner of the white curtain, revealing a gap, and he just saw Myrtle's bare foot, where there was a strangle mark made by something like a silk thread.

"...Not good," Billy heard Madam Pomfrey whispering to Principal Dippett, who was standing there hunched over, "this kid is terrified, and even if he wakes up occasionally, he can't say anything." Come out...the white silk that binds her is corrosive and makes her hard, look at her arms—it's almost not wrapped around her neck..."

Billy didn't want to stay there to listen to Dippet's helpless sighs, and he hurried back to the dormitory after drinking the medicine.Just as he entered the door, Tom just came back from the outside.Billy's shrewd roommate looked at his expression and immediately asked, "Did you go to the school hospital? Why, looking for a chance to see Myrtle?"

Sometimes Billy wondered if Tom had used insanity on him, and his brain seemed to be completely transparent in front of Tom.He coughed twice with an ugly face, and nodded.

Tom went to the table and took two rolls of parchment.After a while, he suddenly said with a dark face and sharp tone: "It's really puzzling, to be honest, didn't you suddenly realize that you actually like her after the attack?"

"...are you crazy?" Billy held his forehead wearily, "...but anyway, Myrtle didn't say anything—at least for now, she didn't mention the hapless girls' bathroom with the two of us."

"Really?" said Tom dryly, "so you think the reason for her so sweet silence was not because she was frightened, but because of her deep affection for you?"

"Stop laughing, Tom," snapped Billy. "For whatever reason, I'll admit I'm really starting to feel guilty about her—we dumped her in the dungeon, after all."

"You don't have to say 'we,'" said Tom grimly. "It was me. I left her there. I hope that makes your ridiculous conscience a little easier."

Billy choked, and let out a long breath: "... Forget it. I should actually apologize to you."

Tom had already walked to the door, his hand rested on the doorknob, and he frowned: "What?"

Billy waved his hand dejectedly. "I'll admit it's partly my fault. Damn curiosity, isn't it?" He said mockingly, "I shouldn't be following you in the middle of the night, it's just that I'm worried—well. Sorry, Tom."

Tom was obviously taken aback for a moment, and he showed a very rare expression of hesitation.After a while, he said softly, "I owe you an apology, too. I'm sorry, Billy Stubbs—for my concealment," he added emphatically, "but not for Myrtle."

This time the stunned person was replaced by Billy.He blinked in bewilderment, but Tom had already opened the dormitory door and strode out.

Rumors of a mysterious monster intensify and all students are panicking.Girls even started to go to the toilet in groups, and the team has a tendency to grow stronger and stronger.

The Transfiguration class had just ended, and Billy and Tom hurried to the greenhouse outside the castle.

"...you saw the look in our Transfiguration professor's eyes," said Tom grimly, and he strode quickly, "as if he knew everything. Prying, examining, and doubting—" He snorted coldly, There was a sudden pause, because a large group of chattering girls was passing by.It seemed that they were low-grade students, and some little girls were still holding some strangely shaped amulets tightly in their hands.A few words floated from them, but they were monsters, legends, and what resistance methods were more effective.

Billy heard a girl say seriously: "...better to wear