【Yo Deng】Badger and Snake

The words that have been circling in my heart for a long time:

"—If you can, please rely on me for a little bit, too?"

Qihai opened her eyes slightly.

She knew that this "dependence" was not physical and substantive, but something deeper and spiritual.

Qihai Dengzi never thought that Koito Yu would say such a sentence, just like she never thought that she was so eager for someone to say this sentence to her.

She felt that her nose was sore, so she quickly withdrew her hand and turned around.

"It's too cunning to say such things." She protested weakly, causing the girl to be at a loss for a while: "So, I'm sorry? But, I'm serious, senior... I don't know anything, so this It's probably the only thing I can do."

"...There's no such thing," Qihai patted her hand reassuringly, "You've given me enough motivation just by standing here."

She looked deeply at the reflection of herself reflected in the girl's bright yellow pupils, and felt an urge to hug her tightly that came from nowhere.The urge was so specific that she took two hurried steps back when she realized it.

There was a hint of confusion in Yu's eyes, but before she could ask the question, the phone rang—it was from Koito Rei.

"Hey?"

When Yu picked up the phone, what he heard was Jane Greed's voice.

"Yo—I'm asking Sister Lian to call you, where are you now? Is Qihai with you?"

Yoo answered the questions one by one, and Gradle on the other end of the phone exclaimed: "What are you talking about, you were teleported to Kew Garden? Kew Garden has long been found out to be one of the exits of the 'Rabbit Nest'. Hound Patrol!"

——Dare this teleportation exit is not completely random!You groaned and changed the phone to another ear, and immediately began to look around.

This look really made her see something.Because there are always tourists in Kew Gardens, even if it rains, there will be no such situation where there are no other people at all, so Yu has long believed that he and Qihai have fallen into the repair area of ​​Kew Gardens; A shaky black figure appeared, speeding towards the pavilion.

Qihai also noticed the black spot: "Koito-san, it seems that someone is coming over there."

"...Hello? Yu, are you listening?" Grad was still muttering something anxiously, but Yu was no longer in the mood to listen: "Grad, I seem to have seen the hound—we will talk about it later Bar!"

"Huh?" Greed's voice doubled again, "You—you hold on, I'll find a map and let Lupine take me to Apparate here! Hold on!"

Before she finished speaking, the black figure in the distance suddenly came in front of her - it was a little boy on a skateboard.Qihai didn't see how he operated it at all, but saw that the opponent's skateboard swung around him, and his hands went straight to the baseball cap on the girl's head - Yu immediately waved his arms to block, the boy After a miss, he landed on the seat in the booth on the skateboard, and praised regretfully: "Big sister's reaction is really fast!"

"Thank you for the compliment!" Yu replied, hung up the phone, put it back in his pocket, and ran away.Qihai hurriedly followed, turning her head to observe while running:

Although the boy was young, he was a good skateboarder, and the time difference caused by the stairs in the pavilion was caught up by him on the flat ground in no time.He laughed while chasing, and seemed to enjoy this kind of chasing battle very much——Qihai guessed that his "teleportation" technique just now probably came from some kind of magic cast on the skateboard, and this kind of magic has a cooldown period, so he Not used anymore.

But even so, two legs are no match for four rounds, and running alone is definitely not enough to win; Nanami squeezed Yu's hand and motioned her to turn onto the cobblestone walking belt that runs through the lawn next to her.

The trick worked: the gravel roads made it impossible to ride the skateboard, so the boy had to run with his back on his back, and was thrown out of the way in a few moments.

After throwing away one, another group came.Maybe the skateboard boy used some method to inform the others, the hounds apparated on the lawn one by one, four or five huddled together, scrambling to run in the direction of Yuo.

Nanami asked anxiously: "Koito-san, can you use that 'rabbit nest' again?"

"Let's escape for a while and see!" Yu squinted and shouted, "There are only two chances to fall into the rabbit's nest, and they are sent randomly, in case the next time you fall into a place guarded by hounds—"

—that's the end.

She couldn't say the second half of the sentence, because the air in front of the two suddenly twisted—a big man apparated.

Dark skin, bald head, honest and honest face - Aaron Shaker bared his white teeth and said with a smile, "Long time no see, Koito! So you were with Qihai in the mall just now? It's so interesting." partner!"

Sweat dripped from Yu's forehead.She looked back, and as expected, the old woman who had confronted Greed and Lupine earlier also Apparated a dozen meters away.

"Where is the rabbit mentioned in the report?" the old woman yelled loudly as soon as she landed.She squinted her eyes and looked around, then fixed her eyes on Yu's body: "Aha - it's you brat! You made me suffer!"

Facing the old woman with raised eyebrows, Yu couldn't help taking a step back: "Oh no!"

"Don't even think about running away, little bastard—it's all petrified!"

The petrifying spell of the old woman hit Yu's body with incomparable precision, and the girl barely escaped by throwing herself to the side.The petrification curse hit the grass, affecting a large area of ​​innocent flowers and plants——Aaron Shacklebolt howled in distress: "Merlin's beard! How beautiful are these flowers, how could you—"

While the howling distracted the old woman, Yu got up from the ground, pulled Qihai across and ran.When the old woman came back to her senses, the two had already run away.She rushed forward a few steps, and angrily hit Aaron Shaker on the head with her magic wand: "Look at what you did! Why are you still standing there, give me chase!"

The big man trembled all over: "Yes, grandma!"

"—Grandma, grandma?" Even though she had run away, this claim still reached Qihai's ears.Panting, she followed Yuu into a greenhouse with the sign of "Orchard", "The old lady is the mother of the Minister of Magic?"

"It looks like it is. Aaron is Shaker's nephew. His name is grandma, so it should be right." Yu grabbed Qihai and hid in a corner shaded by a tree. Said anxiously: "Senior, do you have a place to store things, quickly put some in for me!"

"What do you want these for?" Although full of doubts, Qihai complied unambiguously; her small bag was cursed with space, and it was connected to a storage room at home.By pouring the passion fruit into the gap, she also took out the wand that had been put in earlier - even if she couldn't cast spells, it was better to play with it as a stick than with bare hands.

Yu didn't speak, just observed the movement outside through the gap between the leaves.The hounds who came in divided three groups of people and began to search, and two young men had already approached their hiding place.

Grabbing a passion fruit in each hand, Yu lowered his voice and said, "Senior, are you ready?"

"what to prepare?"

"Run." The girl said succinctly, "I'll throw fruit at them later, you hurry out to the door over there, run in a straight line without stopping, go to the 'Treetop Walkway', after passing the walkway, you will exit Kew Gardens The renovation area will start to have passers-by."

Qi Hai held her breath and nodded.Yu began to count down: "One, two, three—"

When it was too late, she quickly got out from the shade of the tree and threw the fruit away with one hand.The girl's accuracy and strength were astonishing: the passion fruit hit both heads fairly.After succeeding, Yu didn't stop for a moment, chasing in the direction of Qihai, and ran to the exit behind under the cover of the tree shadow.

"Where did you learn that hand?" Qihai asked while running, "I only know that Seekers need to practice catching, but I didn't expect to practice throwing!"

"No—it's not Quidditch practice," Yu said awkwardly, "it's softball, a Muggle sport—I was on the softball team when I was in elementary school."

While speaking, the treetop walkway was already visible in the distance.This is a very proud tourist project of Kew Gardens. A narrow treetop passage is paved on the raised piles so that tourists can enjoy the scenery of the Royal Botanic Gardens in mid-air.

At this moment, before the pursuers could catch up, Yu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, slowed down a bit, and took out his mobile phone to call Koito Rei again, but it was still Grade who picked up—they borrowed Lian's mobile phone for the time being, and they were already in Apparated to Kew a few minutes ago.

After putting down the phone, Yu was refreshed, turned around and said, "Senior, they are just over the passage—let's go!"

Qi Hai seldom exercises on weekdays, and she was already out of breath after a long run just now.After struggling to climb up the spiral stairs of the treetop walkway, she lay down on the railing exhaustedly: "Wait, Koito-san, rest, rest for a while..."

"Ah..." Yu noticed that Qihai was already sweating profusely, and quickly stepped forward to help her, "Sorry, senior..."

Qihai shook her head and said it was okay.The girl's neck was also covered with crystal beads of sweat, but her breathing was not as rapid as her own - she stared intently at the slightly opened and closed lips of the junior for a while, as if attracted by the healthy color.

Yu didn't notice anything strange about his senior at all, just kept observing his surroundings.This aisle is very narrow, and at most two people can walk side by side. This feature is very easy to defend and difficult to attack.She took the small bag from Qihai, took out the passion fruit and stroked it, to guard against the appearance of pursuers.

The two didn't rest for long, and Mrs. Shaker and her grandson Aron soon appeared in the field of vision, followed by two or three other hound players. The number was only one-third of the previous number, and it seemed that some of them had gone Search in other directions.

Qihai straightened up and quickly retreated with Yu, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Greed and Lupine appeared at the other end of the trail at the right time.

You didn't dare to shout loudly, so he could only wave his hand at them excitedly, with a slightly larger range, and when he retracted, he brushed against a branch beside him——

And then——that branch that was scratched suddenly swung around, wrapping around Koito Yu's right arm forcefully.

"What—?!" Before Yu had time to react, another branch waved mercilessly.Qihai hurriedly stretched out her hand to block it, and her left arm was also tightly wrapped.Mrs. Shaker had already boarded the trail at some point, and when she saw this, she laughed loudly: "Oh, have you been caught by me? Let's see where you are going now!"

Before the words were finished, more branches ravaged and struck, lifting the girl up in a few seconds!

"Koito—!" Lupine in the distance shot several spells in a row, but lost his aim because of running.Nanami, who was firmly fixed by the branch, watched as Madam Shaker walked up to Yu, took off her hat, and touched the pair of ears that were struggling with her master——

—she touched it.One egg disappeared from the earring, and instead hung on Mrs. Shacklebolt's bracelet, becoming companions with seven or eight other stolen eggs.

At this moment, a cleaner climbed up the spiral staircase with his head down.Mrs. Shacklebolt was startled, and subconsciously shuddered.This shaking not only shook the body, but also shook the wand that was still controlling the branch - the branch entangled with the girl retreated quickly, and Yuu, who was more than half of his body outside the railing, fell straight down before he could utter an exclamation.

"—Yo!!" Qi Hai's mind went blank, and she pulled out her wand before her mind: "Wang Lizhi——"

Under the stunned gaze of the cleaners, the branches danced again, weaving into a fine net-Yo Koito was firmly caught by the net, and then went up all the way and was sent back to the solid trail.

Everyone present was stunned.Whether it was the cleaner, Mrs. Shaker, Grad and Lupine who were about to arrive, and Koito Yuu who was slumped on the ground, all eyes were on Nanami Touko.

The person who was the focus of the line of sight was pale, and still had his wand in his hand.

"You..." Grad was the first to react.She took a step forward and wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say—for Koito Yu, this woman who was always hypocritical in her eyes actually violated the "Underage Wizard Restraining Law".

Qihai lowered her wand, silently walked to Yuu and squatted down, and asked gently, "Xiaoito-san, are you not injured?"

The cleaner had already fled down the walkway screaming, and Yu's face was not much better than him: "Senior, what are you——you don't need to make a move——"

Yes, in the presence of two adult wizards, Koito Yuu would not be in danger even if Nanami Toko didn't make a move.

"I know, but," Qihai smiled helplessly, "When I saw you fall, I didn't think so much..."

Yu looked directly into the woman's blue eyes.Familiar anxiety and bewilderment rolled in the waves, but there was no remorse—presumably, even if her senior did it again, she would not be able to stand by her fall for even a second.

"Thank you, senior."

In the end, that was all she could say.

※※※

When Yuko Koito and his party returned to the Leaky Cauldron, the hour hand was steadily pointing to five o'clock in the afternoon.Because of an accident in Kew Gardens where Muggles witnessed the use of magic, staff from the Ministry of Magic, Department of Prohibition of Misuse of Magic, intervened in the investigation and dealt with the aftermath. Today's Easter egg game was also ordered to stop.All players returned to the Leaky Cauldron one by one to remove the game "props" such as rabbit ears and easter egg bracelets.

Koito shook her head, feeling a little bit of reluctance to say goodbye to the rabbit ears in her heart.When she was about to be touched by Mrs. Shaker at last, the pair of rabbit ears struggled violently and unwillingly, which made Yu, who was also unwilling, soared in favor of the pair of ears that she had never looked at——Jane · Greid couldn't understand this, but Nanami seemed to feel the same way—the reason was "I haven't touched it yet."

If I knew this, I should have let her touch it.Yu secretly glanced at the senior sitting beside him, thinking in his heart.

She didn't know how to speak.Qihai received a summons from the Department of Prohibition of Misuse of Magic for her violation of the "International Statute of Secrecy" and the "Act on the Restraining of Minor Wizards".Although Mrs. Shacklebolt coordinated and was exempted from the wand control, she must go to the Ministry of Magic for a trial on the penultimate day of the Easter holiday, and decide whether to enforce compulsory expulsion or suspension of school based on the results of the trial.

Koito took a sip of his drink sullenly, only to feel that there was a lump of cotton stuck in his throat.

Just as she was feeling uncomfortable, a hand suddenly touched her back.

Yu raised his head and looked at Nanami in a daze.Her senior smiled as usual, and said softly, "Koito-san, it's okay."

"But……"

"It doesn't matter, my use of magic complies with Article [-] of the "Binding Law". When 'the lives of other wizards present are threatened', magic can be used outside the school and in front of Muggles. There are also witnesses at the scene. Mrs. Shaker also Having said that, I won't ignore this matter, after all, she can't get away with it. So don't be afraid, it will be fine. "

Nanami patted her on the back, comforting her.

Koito Yu looked down at her, and after a while, he grabbed the hand on his back and held it in the palm of his hand.

That hand was very cold, but faintly sweaty, still trembling slightly.

"Senior, don't be brave, you are also very scared, aren't you?"

"..." The smile on Qi Hai's face gradually faded.Without the cover of the smile, the worry in his eyes finally completely surfaced.

Letting her hand be held by the girl, she was silent for a while, and then said hesitantly: "Well... I'm afraid. I don't know, if I'm expelled..."

You pursed her lips and said, "Senior, I will accompany you on the day of the trial."

"……real?"

"Yeah!" The girl nodded firmly, "If they dare to quit your school, then I will put a curse on each of them and let them quit me too!"

"...Pfft," Nanami chuckled, "Koito-san, you're so cute."

She knew that this was just an exaggerated comfort, but the warmth began to miraculously rise from the hand held by the girl, seeping into the chest all the way, driving the panic out of the ventricle mercilessly.

——I really started to depend on her.she thinks.

Yes, she was terrified.She didn't know what to do if she was expelled from school.

However, she is also very aware of another thing - she is more afraid of any mistakes in the girl in front of her.

Quietly holding those warm hands, her thoughts gradually shifted from the trial to other places.Fear being fear, she was still quite sure that she would not be expelled from school; but the information that Jane Greder had revealed to her before taking her farewell concerned her very much.

"Qihai," Greed was still frowning and folded his arms, looking not very polite, "you'd better pay attention—I don't know what's going on inside Slytherin, but there are rumors outside that you and Saeki Sami-Xiang are spreading a lot recently."

"...I see, thank you. But—why did you tell me? I think you don't like me very much."

Hufflepuff's prefect gave this answer: "You are right, I really hate you, but I hate those guys who do little tricks behind your back even more."

In the end, she patted the Slytherin prefect's shoulder hard, her expression softened slightly: "Thank you, Nanami, for saving Yuu for you."

——That was the first time she saw Jane Grad put aside her hostility in front of her; and she somehow felt that as long as Koito Yu was still around, this would not be the last time.

"Ah," Koito Yu's low cry brought her back to reality, "It's six o'clock...Senior, shall we go home for dinner?"

Looking into the girl's inquiring eyes, Qihai raised her head and smiled brightly.

"...Okay, let's go back."

——Go back to a place where she can be at peace, and stay with this person who can make her be at peace.

Down the Rabbit Hole (5)

After Nanami Dengzi stepped out of the bathroom wiping her hair, she immediately saw Koito Yu typing on the bed with her mobile phone in her arms.

"Ah—Senior," seeing her coming out, the girl put down her phone, "Have you finished washing?"

"...Yeah." Qihai nodded, recalling that she was embarrassing in front of the younger generation because she didn't know how to use a water heater, a blush appeared on her fair neck.

"Are you sending... er, that, 'message'?" She changed the subject.

Koito smiled and said: "Yes, I was sending a message to my mother just now. Didn't I mention it to my seniors before, they were looking for bibliophiles in Finland; originally they came back a few days late, but now they seem to have spent the whole vacation in Northern Europe Traveled around."

"That's good."

"Yeah, that's great—leaving my daughter to look after the house, the two of us are chic," You pouted, "Come on, senior, sit here, and I'll blow your hair."

While speaking, Koito Yu had already plugged in the hair dryer.

"What is this?" Qihai twisted her body awkwardly, staring at the machine in the girl's hand with suspicious eyes.Yoo gently turned her face away, and said, "It's a machine that can generate hot air, something Muggles use to replace the drying spell."

With that said, she turned on the hair dryer.The low hum of the machine's operation startled Qihai, but soon she was relaxed by the girl's gentle touch, and sighed: "The wisdom of Muggles is also endless."

"Yeah," Yu combed the woman's wet hair with his fingers, "and they are still improving. In comparison, there are almost no new spells in the wizarding world today."

"I'm starting to understand the value of engaging in Muggle studies," Nanami agreed, "When I take office as the chairman, I must strive for more benefits for associations and activities related to Muggle studies—the spirit of innovation is exactly what we lack now .”

"Then I can thank you on behalf of all half-blood and Muggle-born wizards." Old God Yu joked on the ground.

"Hmm!" Qihai seemed very dissatisfied with the girl's words, and stretched out her hand to attack the girl's waist; Yuu flicked back with a "wow", and fell down on the bed together with the blower that was subconsciously turned off.

Qihai laughed loudly: "So Koito-san's waist is so sensitive!"

"What—I didn't! You were the one who made a surprise attack!" You threw away the blower angrily, got up and rushed over: "'Those who scratch people must be prepared to be scratched'—look at me!"

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

"Hey!!"

Qihai struggled to resist, but Yu insisted on getting it back relentlessly—the two were playing around, from sitting on the bed to standing up and falling down together—the young Seeker finally occupied the "air supremacy" and supported himself On the body of the senior, he kept "hands up and down"; while Qi Hai kept twisting his body and couldn't help laughing: "Hahahaha—stop, don't—hahaha——"

She struggled and loosened the collar of the bathrobe.Koito Yuu then stopped, helped her to press the collar again, and triumphantly declared victory: "How about it, do you want to do it again!"

"No, no more!" Qihai burst into tears, "Koito-san, you're going too far!"

"Hmph, you didn't pick it up first, senior—"

Just at the moment of this "post-war negotiation", the door was pushed open.Rei Koito stood at the door with a tray in her hand, and said loudly: "Yu, Qihai! I'll bring the cheesecake—"

After seeing the scene in front of her clearly, she suddenly stopped talking.

Her younger sister was wearing light yellow pajamas, pressing on the senior who was only wearing a bathrobe, with her hands on his chest; Qihai Dengzi had tears in the corners of her eyes, looking pitiful and ravaged.

"...Uh," Koito Reiki took a step back with a grimace, "I'm sorry to bother you, you guys continue."

The door was closed with a "bang", and then pushed open after a while——Koito Reiki also put the tray on the coffee table, and then flashed out of the room at an inhuman speed.

Yu: "..."

Nanami: "... Koito-san, I think your sister may have misunderstood something."

"She's like this... I've told her many times to knock before coming in, but I still can't learn it!" Yu grumbled dissatisfiedly and picked up the hair dryer, "Leave her alone, let's eat cake!"

The girl sat down cross-legged with bright eyes, and after handing the fork to Nanami, she couldn't wait to start.

Qihai forked a piece of cake and it was indeed very soft and delicious.

"Koito-san, do you like cheesecake very much?"

"Yeah!" The girl bit the fork and nodded, half of the cake on the plate was already gone, "But Xiao Lian doesn't like to cook very much, unless Hongjun—her boyfriend—comes over." She took another bite, "Today probably It’s because you, senior, did it! Super lucky!”

Qihai watched her feasting with a smile, her eyes were gentle: "Speaking of which, Koito-san..."

"Huh?" Yu just put the last fork into his mouth.

"Actually, maybe I shouldn't ask you this question, but I still really care..." The woman tilted her head, "Well, that is, how much of my memory did you see on the morning before Easter?"

The power of this sentence is extraordinary.Koito Yuu froze in place, and then coughed violently: "Wh-cough, cough cough--"

She quickly took a big gulp of water to prevent herself from choking to death.

"...Senior!" The girl put down the glass and wiped the water from her chin in embarrassment, "You, why did you—"

Nanami said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Koito-san. The memory you entered that day was retrieved by me the night before. Accidentally intercepted some irrelevant memories."

Sighing, she went on to say: "I only found out about this when I saw you using the Pensieve the next morning. I sneaked in and wanted to call you out, but... I saw you in my memories from a long time ago. inside."

"I'm sorry!" You bowed forward and almost knocked over the water glass, "Senior, I really didn't mean it!"

"I know, don't panic, Koito-san," Nanami walked over and straightened her body, "I just want to know how much you saw."

It would be a lie to say she didn't care.Not many people can remain calm when others see the past they don't want to recall, and Nanami Lantern is no exception.

So, her first reaction at that moment was to grab Koito and throw the Pensieve, and she did pull out her wand, intending to do so—

——It was that hug that stopped her.

She saw Koito Yu stretching out her hand to herself in the memory, and then bent down hard, as if to wrap her whole.

Excessive shock can damage people's perception, so Qihai can no longer accurately name her feelings at that time.She only knew that if she hadn't escaped from the Pensieve immediately at that time, she would have cried uncontrollably.

"Koito-san... look at me."

The girl on the opposite side closed her eyes tightly after confessing, as if letting go.

"Don't be afraid. I'm not angry. I'm, I guess... glad you saw it."

"Eh?"

"It's a past that's hard to talk about for me. I've made up my mind to keep those things to myself and never tell anyone about them; but until I saw you— When I saw you stretching out your hand and wanting to hug me in the past——I suddenly realized that I hoped from the bottom of my heart that there was someone who could listen to me, comfort me, and... give me a hug and tell me that everything is not me wrong."

She looked at the girl with emotion.

"Thank you, Koito-san. Whether it's the hug, the invitation after that, or the fact that you're sitting across from me now——thank you, I'm really glad to have met you."

Koito Yu opened his mouth slightly, and for the first time, sentimentality appeared in his eyes.

"... I'm also very glad to meet you, senior," the girl's voice whispered softly around her, "Can I... give you a hug?"

——Yu Koito hates herself for being powerless.

But burying her head in her arms, relaxing and relying on her Qihai Lantern with all her heart, she no longer felt so powerless.

She encircled the other party with an unflappable force, resting her chin on the woman's soft black hair, and the graceful aroma of lavender penetrated into her nose.

Her senior is so soft.The seemingly tough exterior is just a layer of camouflage. Inside is a vulnerable child, wandering in the maze ignorantly, bumping into walls everywhere but refusing to give up—this combination of stubbornness and softness, finally She created this person that she couldn't let go of.

"Senior, anytime, anywhere, as long as you need me, I will be there."

"……Um."

Qihai Dengzi responded from the nasal cavity, it sounded muffled, I don't know if it was because of the cloth or because of the nasal sound.

You couldn't help but tightened his hands again: "Senior... what else can I do for you?"

That's the question she's left unanswered in her never-ending Valentine's Day.

Qihai Dengzi moved in her arms, and was buried deeper.

"Please do not leave me."

—If you want to take the floating board away, it is better not to give hope to the drowning person in the first place.

"……it is good."

"Don't hate me either."

——Actually, I am not as good as you think. I am a very, very excessive person.

"it is good."

"Could you... hug me a little longer?"

——Maybe one day in the future, I will hurt you like I hurt her.But even so, I still can't give up the temperature at my fingertips.

"it is good……"

"You're so gentle, Koito-san."

"...No, this is very common."

Unlike Nanami Dengko, Koito Yu was not satisfied with the other party's answer.

She subconsciously hoped that something could actually help her, but she didn't know what to do and how to do it.

——Then, let’s fulfill these requirements first.she thinks.This is something only she can do now.

And after that...they still have a lot of time.

She will understand this impulse surging in her heart one day.

The Badger and the Snake·Chapter3·End

Inter-chapter July 4st

Tick, tick, tick.

Koito Yu stared at the second hand of the watch, biting her lower lip anxiously.

She is now sitting outside the courtroom on the tenth basement level of the Ministry of Magic, waiting for Nanami Dengzi's hearing to end.It has been more than four and ten minutes since her senior entered the huge wooden door, and the waiting time is estimated to be about 10 minutes.

Even though she knew that Nanami Lantern would be fine, she was still unavoidably restless; the gloomy stone corridors, shaking torches and rough benches on the tenth underground floor made this discomfort even worse—be it the corridors or the interior of the courtroom. Well, they were all built like this on purpose, to give the interrogates mental stress.

Koito Yuu sneaked a glance at the two guards standing at the end of the aisle. They were wearing uniform black uniforms, most of their faces were covered by the shadow cast by their hats, and their expressions could not be seen clearly; Two sculptures that one suspects are petrified stand there.

"If the seniors are really sentenced to be expelled from school, I will rush in and cast a curse on each of them" - a few days ago, on the day when the incident happened, she seemed to have said this to Nanami Dengzi, but looking at it now, she probably Will be knocked down by the two wizards acting as guards before raising their wands.

She was thinking wildly when the elevator in the distance suddenly clicked.A tall young witch stepped out of it.She was wrapped in a dark blue robe, her black hair was tied into a bun, and her facial features were small and agile, a rare Asian face.

Koito Yu couldn't help standing up.She knew this face—it was Nanami Dengzi's sister she had seen in her memories.

Nanami Mio looked at the aisles on both sides, and walked towards the side where Koito Yu was.She counted the number of the courtroom as she walked, and finally stopped beside Yuu.

"1006..."

After confirming that the number was correct, she turned her head curiously and looked at Yu: "Miss, you don't look like an employee of the Ministry of Magic, are you waiting for someone?"

"Ah, yes." Yuu replied nervously.

"Who are you waiting for?" Nanami Mio asked further.

"It's...a friend who is waiting for trial."

"Huh? Are you Toko's friend?" Nanami Mio turned her body around completely, and Yuu saw that she had a pair of very beautiful aqua blue eyes.

"Yes, I am Koito Yu from the fifth year of Hogwarts, please give me your advice." Yu secretly wiped his sweat and stretched out his hand.

"Slytherin?" Mio smiled and shook hands with her, "I'm Toko's older sister, Nanami Mio."

"No, I'm at Hufflepuff House."

Mio showed a surprised expression for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully: "It's Hufflepuff, sorry, the lamp belongs to Slytherin, so subconsciously..."

"It's okay." Yu replied quickly.

Mio nodded and said nothing.After a while, she asked, "Excuse me for being rude, is Miss Koito the one that Dengko rescued this time?"

——Sure enough, I still asked this question.

Yu pursed her lips and said, "Yes...I'm sorry."

Different from her heaviness, Nanami Mio laughed easily: "Ah! Really, it's okay, you don't need to apologize - I'm just curious."

"Senior, didn't you mention the details of this trial to Miss Nanami?"

"No, I only found out today that she is going to be tried. My colleagues saw her name registered as a visitor, so they came and told me." Nanami Mio was still smiling, but she could faintly read a little loneliness from her face.

"...Miss Nanami is an employee of the Ministry of Magic?" Yu changed the subject.

"Yes, I work in the Office of Misinformation, dealing with serious magical incidents involving Muggle society."

"Is it the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters?"

"No, it's the Department of Magical Creatures." Nanami Mio smiled and said, "90.00% of people will get it wrong the first time they hear it, because generally speaking, it's easy to think that only wizards can cause magical accidents—— In fact there are countless magical accidents caused by magical animals and ghosts. There was a ghost in Cornwall the day before yesterday, in