HP: Embrace the Darkness

On the other side, Asseth hurriedly packed some things and returned to the cellar again.

It was still quiet in the cellar, and the Potions Master hadn't gotten up yet.

Aces turned around and entered the potion room, put down the things in his hands, and began to make up for the losses of the potion master one by one.

His wand was still in the Forbidden Forest, but he didn't rely entirely on it. With a wave of his hand, numerous potion materials automatically flew to where they should be.

"Aces?"

The Potion Master's voice came from behind, and Asseth stiffened, pretending to be calm and turning around.

"Professor, morning."

Snape looked Artes up and down, half-smiling but not smiling, "When did you recover?"

Instantly, his heart began to panic and his heart was beating wildly. Asses felt that he would not be surprised if his heart beat out the next second.

He swallowed calmly, with a habitual smile still on his face.

"Probably around midnight."

midnight?

Snape thought about the hug in his nightmare, and his face looked a little unhappy.

Guessing what he was thinking, Asseth quickly started to change the topic.

"Professor, let's go have breakfast first? There are some things we may need to talk about after dinner."

Snape looked at him deeply and nodded silently.

At the long table, Artes could guarantee that this was the most painful meal he had ever eaten. The torture reached its peak when Snape handed over the remaining plates.

He raised his hand helplessly, covered his eyes and begged for mercy, "Professor, stop teasing me."

"What kind of teasing? Don't you like it?"

Snape took the time to appreciate the rare embarrassment on this man's face, and his tone unconsciously brought a smile.

Seeing the smile on Snape's face through his fingers, Assel paused and then quibbled.

"Professor, that's the little white tiger, not me."

Snape's smile became even more obvious. It turns out that such things as self-deception can also happen to this person.

Asseth whispered as if sighing, "Professor."

The voice was very soft, as light as a feather, and it fell lightly on Snape's heart, causing waves of itch. Suddenly, he lost interest.

Putting away his smile, Snape looked at Asai calmly, "Let's talk."

"Okay, professor, what do you want to know?"

"What did you do to Quirrell? What's with that curse?"

The Potions Master leaned back on the sofa, waiting for his explanation.

"The bottle of unicorn blood was mixed with my blood, and I put a curse in it. When the curse is activated, he will die."

Aces said it in an understatement, but he didn't mention that the process of dying should be painful.

"So, you killed him."

Snape's face darkened and he stared at Asseth, his eyes scanning his face as if he was looking for something.

"Professor, I don't want to lie to you."

"To be honest, I don't feel pain about his death. I gave him a choice. It was him who chose to die."

Aces knew what he was minding, but he really couldn't feel guilty because of Quirrell.

"..."

"Professor, are you angry?"

Aces lowered his eyes, the shadow of his eyelashes fell on his face, and his whole person looked very depressed.

"I gave him a choice."

"...I'm not angry with you because of an idiot."

"It's just that if you have a brain, you should know that you shouldn't be stained with his blood. This..."

not worth it.

Snape still didn't say the last words.

"Although part of the reason why Quirrell died was because I gave him a curse, if he didn't have the intention to kill the Savior, he wouldn't die. The stronger the intention to kill, the faster he will die."

"In that case, his death has nothing to do with me."

Asseth brushed himself off in just one or two sentences, his tone was relaxed, and he didn't seem to take the matter to heart.

After hearing this, Snape looked at his expression carefully and found that there was no wavering when he talked about Quirrell, and he really had no burden.

Are you so calm the first time you get blood?

He concealed the confusion in his eyes and asked, "What happened to Potter? Why didn't he get hurt at all?"

"After Quirrell drank the unicorn's blood, I put some props on Potter to ensure that he would not be injured."

"No way, Dumbledore checked it."

"Because of this reference."

Aces raised his hand and pointed to the back of his hand.

"So those props are actually energy. After they are consumed, they will disappear and no trace will be left."

What a genius, he was able to hide this from that cunning old bee.

Speaking of the mark, Artes sat up straight and looked seriously into Snape's eyes, "One thing, I hope the professor can go with me to the Forbidden Forest."

"reason?"

"My consciousness was confused before, and the professor may not have noticed it, but now I should be able to."

Aces raised his hand, and magic activated the half-moon mark. At the same time, the same mark appeared on Snape's fingers.

"what is this?"

"It's a blessing. It was passed on to the professor. I don't know the specific one because it was only on me before."

Snape raised his hand and looked at the mark on his hand carefully. The magic flowed to the mark following the master's intention.

"Ok?"

The two were startled and looked at each other at the same time.

"Professor, try again?"

Snape followed his words and manipulated the magic contact mark again.

With the touch of magic, their heartbeats jumped in sync.

The cellar was silent, and the two seemed to hear the heartbeat.

"Is this supposed to be an air call?"

Artes looked at Snape uncertainly.

"But what's the use of not being able to send messages?"

"What did the unicorn say?"

"Cynthia said that she doesn't know the specifics, but this blessing will be like a line, connecting two people. Maybe that's it?"

"...That much?"

"That's all."

Asses looked depressed and explained to him, "Because no one has experimented with me before, I can't do research alone."

"But now I think it can be studied, if the professor is willing."

As he said that, Artes looked at Snape expectantly.

"Is that okay? Professor."

Snape's eyes fell on the beautiful patterns on his fingers, and he was also moved.

"can."

"But what does that have to do with the Forbidden Forest?"

"Because it was incomplete, Antonio simply and roughly moved some of the blessing's abilities over."

"If you want to be perfect, you just need to go to the Forbidden Forest again to find the leader of the unicorns, and... if"

Aces was a little confused about whether to tell Snape what the blessing said about his partner. It didn't matter to him, but he was afraid that Snape would mind.

"what if?"

Aces lowered his eyes and looked at the pattern on Snape's finger, "The blessing just mentioned connects two people, so the general recipient of the blessing is...the partner."

"If the professor minds, Cynthia will find a way to lift it...but it didn't tell me whether it can be lifted after blessing Che is passed on."