HP: Embrace the Darkness

After Asseth returned to his desk, a small bottle suddenly appeared on his finger, with a silver filament-like object floating in it.

This is the memory Artes pulled out while Miss Medusa was not paying attention before entering the crypt, all the memories about Grindelwald, prophecies and Horcruxes.

That's why he didn't stop Snape's Legilimency.

Because the things that really cannot be known by him have been extracted.

Aces stared at the bottle in his hand for a long time.

After a while, an inarticulate sigh filled the air. He had finally lied to Snape.

But he really didn't dare to gamble with Snape's life, he couldn't afford to lose.

Putting away the small bottle in his hand, he didn't intend to put the memory back after this time.

Future memories should also be checked regularly to extract what cannot be known.

After making up his mind, Asseth made a special place in the alchemy ring to place the memory bottle.

The space that was vacated happened to be the space that the diary had previously occupied.

Almost forgot about our Tom.

Aces raised his eyebrows, took out his diary, and walked into the alchemy box.

The diary seemed to be aware of it, and it glowed brightly in Asseth's hand, as if some mechanism had been triggered.

This kind of trick can only deceive those who don't know how to alchemy. It was extremely clumsy for Asseth. He sneered and rolled up the diary into a ball and threw it on the table.

"I know you're conscious, Tom."

The light in the diary subtly weakened a little, and then it opened automatically, and a line of words was displayed bit by bit on the blank page.

[Who are you? ]

"When you ask someone's name, you should introduce yourself, Tom."

"Or are you saying you haven't learned etiquette well?"

If the remnant Tom in the diary had a physical form, he would probably be gritting his teeth in anger right now.

Call someone by name and ask them to introduce themselves.

Now that the power is stronger than the human being, the remaining soul can only write pitifully again.

[I'm sorry for my rudeness. My name is Tom Riddle. What's your name? ]

That’s it now!

Remnant Soul gritted his teeth secretly in his diary. If he was still considered rude, he would rather die here by blowing himself up.

Aces sneered: "Are you kidding? You don't know my name?"

"It seems that if you follow me, the energy you secretly extract from the alchemy tools will be wasted."

[...]

Remnant Soul thought it would be better to self-destruct.

Now that I have decided to self-destruct, the remaining soul doesn’t matter anymore, and the words I write down are quite casual.

[Sorry, I'm deaf and can't hear. ]

Asseth's eyes flashed. The remaining soul after dividing the soul again wouldn't be stupid.

In order to verify his conjecture, Asseth patiently found a topic.

"Have you ever heard of a saying in the East?"

[What words? ]

"The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, so we don't need to know our names."

The words this time were more complicated, and Remnant Soul couldn't understand them for a while. It took a while before the handwriting appeared in the diary.

[What does this sentence mean? ]

So stupid?

Is this the point?

Aces put on a smile: "It's probably just the friendship between friends, it doesn't need too many external things."

[That’s it, then I won’t ask your name. ]

"Okay, we are friends now."

"Can you introduce yourself?"

[Perhaps I didn’t just say that the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water and there is no need to ask for names? ]

"But I really didn't ask for your name now, and I don't know you at all, so how can I be friends with you."

[This seems to be the reason]

[I actually don’t remember much. I only remember that I had a brother. I was a Slytherin student. Then my brother was sleeping. In order to wake him up, I secretly drained your energy, but I didn’t. After using it, I gave it all to my brother. When I woke up later, my brother was gone. ]

Is this fool Voldemort?

Asseth was speechless, but he still had to continue chatting with him, "What are you now?"

[I felt a lot of energy, but I was separated. I couldn't pump too much, and it still hurt. I could only pump a little bit, and it was hard to save enough energy to speak. ]

"Thanks a lot."

Asseth expressed his true feelings. Others don't know how many locks he has put on his diary, but he does.

There are nearly ten locks, and there are also attacking magic words. No wonder it hurts.

"Then what do you want to do now?"

[I want to find my brother. ]

Can this idiot Tom find another Tom?

Asseth put on his friendliest smile and said, "I can help you, but what can you give?"

The diary was blank for a while, and then handwriting slowly appeared.

[But aren’t we friends? Why do you need me to pay for helping me? ? ? ]

Aces could tell that he was confused because there were three question marks in the diary.

"Actually, there is a saying in Dongfang that brothers will settle accounts. Is the brother you are looking for your real brother?"

[yes. ]

"Then shall we settle the score openly?"

[……Seems to be? ]

"Then what can you give me?"

[There is nothing in my memory, but there are some magic spells and learning experiences. Do you want to take a look? ]

Aces still had a flawless fake smile, "I want to see it too, but I accidentally had a problem when I was practicing magic spells before, and I couldn't enter other people's memories."

[…let’s try it first? ]

"can."

Asseth readily agreed.

The diary began to exert force, the light on it became brighter and brighter, and the pages kept turning rapidly.

An invisible wave floated towards Asseth.

Aces had enough time to lean back in his chair.

A minute passed...

Two minutes have passed...

……

Even when the pages of the book were too tired to turn, Asseth remained unchanged.

[It seems you were seriously injured. ]

"Yes, I've had a headache for a long time, and it's getting better now."

[...]

[Now what? ]

How to do?

Looking at the beautiful handwriting on the page, Asseth suddenly smiled.

"I have a way, if you are willing to cooperate with me."

[any solution? ]

This line of text appeared quickly on the page.

Aces raised his hand and clicked on this line of text.

"Of course... like this"

A bright flame ignited from the fingertips, quickly igniting half of the book.

[What are you doing? ]

Broken words appeared on the page.

Aces showed no signs of movement and carefully controlled the flames in his hands.

[Stop! ]

[I told you to stop! ]

Tu

The mouth is quite tough.

Aces showed no expression on his face and increased the intensity of his fire.

Now the entire book was wrapped in flames, and a sharp scream could be heard faintly coming from the flames.

[I was wrong]

[Stop - please]

"Remember, this is the attitude of asking for help."

Aces moved his fingers slightly and stopped cursing.

The flame disappeared, but the diary also became tattered, and the first half that was ignited was so charred that it was difficult to see its original appearance.

A line of words slowly appeared on the other half, which was relatively clean.

[How did you find out? ]

Tom, the remnant soul, couldn't understand why Asses was discovered just now when he had clearly believed his words.

"I refuse to answer this stupid question."

[you--]

Aces raised his hand, bright calendar fire floating on his fingertips, "Huh?"

[nothing? ]

[What are you leaving me for? ]

Tom, the remnant soul, has seen through the insidiousness of Asseth, and he is not stupid. He knows that since Asseth spared his life, he must be useful to him.