HP One More Chance.

…It’s alright, alright, I won’t tease you anymore, if you continue to play like this, you might really be so angry that I will run away tomorrow…” Seeing that her haughty look was finally somewhat defeated by him, Regulus frowned. Laughing uncontrollably while watching his stomach, "It's settled, it's decided..."

"I don't want to just forget about it, hum."

"Then what do you think? Although I will be happy to accompany you whatever you want." He shrugged and said disapprovingly, but he didn't notice that the other party had already planned.

——Sure enough, don’t push yourself too far.

"As a price, you have to... drink with me tonight."

Alice said these words out of nowhere, and the three-point seductive smile at the beginning appeared strangely on her pale face illuminated by the moonlight.

"Drinking?" After finishing speaking, Regulus was taken aback, dumbfounded, "When did you learn to drink? I've known you for so long, and I never knew you could drink." Besides, why do you want to drink?

"How strange this is. I don't drink it, but it doesn't mean I can't drink it...I know, before you came here to find me, you asked Jeter to prepare tea and snacks for me, so let's add another bottle of vodka, "She smiled even brighter, "In addition to books, wine is also indispensable in the cellar of Miku's house. It just so happens that I have a rare chance tonight, maybe a glass of wine is also good, as... welcome back. "

"Are you sure... this won't be, welcome to leave?" Regulus asked suspiciously.

"of course."

—Of course, you won't know.

She would never tell him that at the Christmas ball the year before graduation, because someone had lost her first date in life, so, out of revenge and comforting herself, on that night of that year, she unexpectedly Stayed all night in the Room of Requirement and got drunk.

If you must say why, then this is the only reason.

Probably, at that time, I already understood why people said that alcohol can anesthetize the nerves of frustrated people. Even if it was temporary, it still gave her a long dream.

"Let's go, you won't get drunk tonight...Although you said you won't leave no matter what, then just be a good person until the end and drink with me."

Alice smiled happily and ran to his side, quickly took his hand, dragged him straight down the roof, and led him to run along the old wooden stairs with bare feet Got off the roof.

In the lobby on the first floor, empty wine bottles were scattered on the dusty carpet.Like a chess piece that has fallen to the ground, because it has lost its original value, it can only be abandoned and rolled on the floor in such a emptiness.

No lights were turned on, and candles were never lit.According to the faint light of early morning that came through the broken window, she sat up from the ground, patted her wrinkled blue gauze skirt, and looked coldly at the woman not far away. He fell asleep peacefully on the sofa.

The entire space was dead silent, and the air was icy cold.Thinking about it, this place was supposed to be a non-existent place, and it was already a great sin for me to stay here at this moment.

"Sorry, I'm leaving."

She read through the frozen air in an elf-whispering voice.Then, she tiptoed carefully and approached him who was sleeping soundly on the sofa, bent down, and gently printed a farewell kiss on his forehead.

Like a butterfly's kiss, it disappears without a trace.

The intoxicating breath of iris brushed his face inadvertently, causing him to smack his mouth in a daze. Suddenly, some cold liquid dripped quietly on his face, flowing along the The pouring direction flows away and disappears.He didn't wake up, and Alice knew very well that it was impossible for him to wake up at this time.

"Keeping you in the dark all this time, wasting your trust in me, really... I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."

——But, I have something to do.

"You understand, Regulus."

She barely stood up, subconsciously staggered back a few steps, her footsteps were extremely unsteady, or her body was trembling at the moment, and she didn't know if it was because it was too cold in the early morning, or because her heart was already shaking. Become too insensitive.

She had hoped for a quarter of an hour that when she smiled falsely at him and sat here and handed him the last glass of wine with the water of life and death, he would instinctively push her hand away and refuse her offer , and then said "let's stop here, I've had enough drinking" to push her away.

But he doesn't, he never has.

From the time he said the phrase "I'm waiting for you here" on the rooftop, she already knew that he wanted to come back this time regardless of his own life or death, because he knew what she was going to do, so he came back to stop her on purpose her.

However, she couldn't say anything he wanted to know.I couldn't even say a simple "thank you for staying with me".

"You always believed in me, thinking that I was simple enough for you to trust me unsuspectingly."

——However, I have no way to repay your trust.

"I'm sorry, I can't let him go...Even if I live again, I still love that person, so..."

She choked up, and continued to speak to herself with difficulty:

"I must... let him live a happier life than me, at least... before I leave this world, I want him to leave those hazes and live a bright and honest life..."

—Sorry, Regulus.

"...I'm really...sorry for making you worry about me..."

Tears could not stop falling on Alice's cheeks, dripping on the ground and evaporating silently.

Since all his family members have left him, he is probably the only one who is still by his side to support him and worry about him, right?

She knew it, but there was nothing she could do to repay it.

"...Promise me well...after you wake up, please...leave this place well, and don't touch anything about me again."

Goodbye.

— never again.

Holding back her tears, she exited the living room step by step, walked carefully to the door and took the luggage she had prepared a long time ago. After wiping away the tears on her face with her arms, she forced herself to wear clothes calmly. He put on his boots, put on a dark blue shawl, and took a magic wand. He struggled to open the wooden door of the mansion, and walked out of the Miku family's other courtyard in the morning light without looking back.

Everything is finally about to begin.

The author has something to say: When I finished writing Chapter 10, unexpectedly it only took a little more than a week (of course, the content draft was thought up early in the morning). During the writing period, it took about a month In the time since then, many things have happened, such as the author's miss is sick again and other messy things.

How should I put it, I always feel that this period of time will be difficult.

But fortunately, I finally wrote it here.Compared with my own many unpleasant things, I want to hope that Alice can see the moon and see the moon.

☆, 11.1

In the middle of the night, when the darkness came covering the sky and the moon, all the men in black who were tainted with the dark aura got ready and set out in different directions to carry out their same plan.

Except for two people, because they failed to find a "perfect" answer during the torture a few days ago and told them "boss", so they were lucky to be left as gatekeepers this time.

"You should be happy, Severus."

Putting down the bunch of keys that he had been holding all the time, Lucius conjured a bottle of red wine out of nowhere, opened it with a snap of his fingers, and sat on the sofa in the reception room of the Riddle mansion to drink it by himself. .

"I don't think so."

Snape stared at the desolate scene outside the window with a serious face.

He knows what he wants to say.

As we all know, the Dark Lord, who possesses absolute majesty, never allows anything or anyone to threaten his existence.Ever since Snape told him the prophecy he heard from Dumbledore some time ago, he has been planning to get rid of that thorn in his heart, even though he never revealed the slightest bit of it to the people around him. plan.

But those who can become the Dark Lord's subordinates, they are not easy-going lamps, so they can naturally guess three to five points.

"...that man... is too suspicious..." Snape murmured nonchalantly.

"Don't tell me you just found out now, Severus," Lucius glanced at him with a smile on his face, "otherwise...how could we be left alone to guard this 'haunted house' tonight, isn't that Because of his 'suspect problem'?"

Instead, he put down the crystal goblet he was playing with in his hand, stood up and walked slowly behind Snape, whispering:

"Calculating the time, they should have set off by now, but there is still about an hour before the start of the operation. I told you earlier...about that 'cute' Miss Miku, since...she is Miku The last person in the Ku family, then, you know what I want to tell you..."

——She has what the master wants in her hands.

"Then what exactly are you trying to say?" Snape glanced back unceremoniously, and saw that the platinum peacock's calculating eyes fell directly into his eyes, which made him feel even more defensive.

"Ah……"

The other party responded with a sneer, "I don't need to tell you that you understand that there is only one chance, no more, no less... My dear colleague... Oh, of course, since we are staying here together today, we will discover together if we discover anything new Yes, it's just that... Miss Miku and I can't seem to get along, so it might be better for you to ask her..."

——Since the Dark Lord can't ask what he wants, then if someone else asks, maybe he can ask what he wants.

"She's not a simple person, she must know something, otherwise, the master wouldn't have gone to great lengths to catch her here... Poof, she's just a mere woman around her... I think you should know her better than me Let's get down to the details."

Lucius took a step forward, and snapped the key in his hand on the wooden table in the corner.

"So, the key is here. If you don't ask for what you want, what can you do when everything is irreversible?"

——What else can you do.

"..."

He was right, indeed, when everything was settled, there was nothing anyone could do.

Snape laughed silently.

"But if you just let me do what I want to do, aren't you afraid that you won't get any benefits in the end?" It's not that he doesn't know that the other party is a person who can "calculate" better than himself, "Last time, In the dark room, because you and I were in crisis together, you helped me, but now, I don’t think I have any benefits to repay you, so you still..."

"Wait, you're undermining my dignity by saying that, Severus." There seemed to be a hint of anger, but he didn't intend to be rigid about the details, "To be honest, the Malfoys never Don't be a short-sighted person, especially... a backer will not always be a backer. There has never been a person who is always reliable in the world. It is wise to judge the situation and act according to the wind. But of course, don't take it too seriously. There are no such cheap things in the world, and for now, the crisis has not been resolved, rather than the two of us fighting for 'one person', it is better to cooperate temporarily, which can be regarded as a care."

"It really makes me feel 'honoured' for you to say that, Mr. Lucius Malfoy." Snape deliberately emphasized the last title, and sneered, "But I don't want to do that."

"Even if you know that the master is going to kill Lily Potter, do you think it doesn't matter?"

Lucius looked at his duplicity colleague with great interest, as if he had already seen through everything.

—His target was the Potters.

you know.

"However, Master didn't tell me who to kill." Snape replied as if pretending to be calm, but his voice was trembling slightly, "He didn't say anything, neither you nor I are sure."

"As I said at the beginning, what he never lacks is 'suspect'. There is almost nothing he can't get, because he would rather destroy what he can't get than leave any blind spots for himself. Do not understand?"

——He has never lacked suspicion. Even the most trusted people around him, in fact, that kind of "trust" is just based on the relationship of mutual use.

"Then what do you want?"

"Take the key immediately, go to the dungeon to find Miss Miku, and ask what you want to know," Lucius shrugged disapprovingly, "Well... that's it, I think you can do it."

He picked up the bunch of keys that had been placed on the table a while ago, and threw them over to Snape, "You'd better ask as soon as possible. It's going to start—I mean, if you don't want to ask for information only to end up with a few dead bodies, you'd better hurry."

"...you don't need to tell me."

Snape took the heavy key, his expression had long since disappeared into nothingness in the darkness.He didn't say any more polite words, and after Lucius left the hall, he walked alone into the dark mansion.

He knows where he should be going.

The route leads directly to the destination in the depths of the mansion—the dungeon.

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It seemed to be in a dead city, silent and silent.

As he expected, all the people confirmed on the list participated in this operation, except for the two of them - of course, the two of them were not on the list as one of the people considered.In other words, no one stayed in the mansion tonight, and even the prison, which was supposed to be guarded, became empty.

Of course, if you don't count the only lady imprisoned here.

"The mark appears."

Raising the wand and giving an order, all the fluorescent green defense marks arranged on the road leading to the dungeon appeared.Fortunately, this is just a general defense technique. As long as you can see clearly and avoid it, it is not impossible to get to the dungeon safely.

——I knew that Lucius Malfoy would not have any good introductions.

It would be too naive to open a dungeon with a single key.What's more, if it was really that simple, then Lucius didn't have to spend a lot of time convincing him to come here for questioning, he would have come here by himself.

However, Snape himself just scoffed at these "conspiracies".

--Get used to it.

With the last layer of defense untied, although it is not "easy", but finally reached the destination.Snape quickly opened the innermost cell of the dungeon with the key in his hand.

The surrounding air has always been filled with a bloody smell, and even the smell of rotting corpses, which makes people feel uncomfortable at all-there is no smell of a stranger.

- Click.

"………………who……"

A feeble syllable came from the depths of darkness along with an ethereal voice.If the hearing is a little better, you can still recognize it with difficulty, it is the voice of an extremely weak woman.

"Still awake..." Snape secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, paused, slightly raised his voice and said to the still dead silence in front of him, "Not bad, you are one of the women I have ever seen The one who is tenacious enough is still awake now..."

"... Sever... Les...... Snape," hearing the voice of someone coming, the woman hiding in the dark depths immediately recognized the identity of the voice, and a burst of anger that had been dormant for a long time came up again. In her own heart, she tried her best to always refute him forcefully, "......Stop talking nonsense! Cough cough..."

A mouthful of blood was spit out on the cold ground in front of her, and a blood-colored flower bloomed.

"Save your energy, you don't have to answer me."

The candles in the dungeon were automatically and consciously lit one by one because they heard the sound of someone's footsteps approaching.As the last candle was lit, Snape had a clear view of the lady locked in the depths of this hell.

——He was covered in scars and bloodstains, his face was pale, his lips had been bitten and scabbed for an unknown number of times.Such a "wretched" woman—that woman named "Shirley Lou" had her hands suspended by heavy chains, and she was imprisoned in this dark place, unable to move at all.

This is the second time he has examined her appearance seriously.

If it was the first time he saw her in the Miku mansion, he just looked at her seriously because he was curious about this proud woman, then at this moment she lost all the weapons that could protect herself and fell in front of him dying, because he wanted to know Why did she persist until now, so I looked at her seriously.

"You don't need to do this, since the last member of Miku's family... Alice Miku died, you can stop getting involved in these things... Or, you shouldn't be involved in Miku's family and Death Eaters. In the wrestling between."

I don't know why, seeing her being treated like this, what he thought of was her who stood in front of him in the same way and begged to die that day.

——Alice Miku.

She... never begged for mercy in front of him.Representing the dignity of the Miku family, she never lowered her head to a "villain" like him.

if.

"If...that day I let your cousin go without telling the master, the person who is in this dungeon now is probably no longer you, Miss Shirleylu Miku."

He had actually thought that it would be better to just loosen her shackles and let her return to that house safely.

In this way, they will not be in arrears with each other.

Just like the scene by the lake that day—the scene that he could have chosen to stop, but he did it in the end.

"You want my life, if I give it to you, it will be regarded as I owe you, and we will not default on each other from now on."

——But it's obviously impossible.

Want redemption?

Snape suddenly laughed strangely for no reason, pointed the wand in his hand at Shirley who was already powerless, and asked sharply:

"Why did you lie to me, when you were at Miku's mansion."

"...Heh..." There was a disdainful sneer at first, and then a heart-piercing arrogant laugh, "...you...you dehumanized person...are you worthy of hearing the truth? "Xue Lilu unyieldingly raised her head stubbornly and stared at the person in front of her who had merged into the darkness with her red eyes.

"...Why do you need to know that it's my freedom to do these things, you don't care, cough cough... cough cough..."

Another mouthful of blood spit out in front of him, a burst of warmth.

"you……"

Snape was at a loss for words, walked over and bent over to help her up, but she pushed her away desperately.

Even though her body was very weak, Xue Lilu still maintained an absolutely clear will, just like how he questioned herself just now, she also refused to give in and continued to speak, swallowing every word, every word with great difficulty:

"...don't forget, you are just a running dog under that devil, why...how do you know why I want to do this?"

"It's you, don't forget, I can kill you at any time, right here." Snape stared at the stubborn her with indifferent eyes, pointing to the cold ground under his feet.

"Then you kill me!"

Like a complete explosion, after hearing that he was going to threaten her, Xue Lilu suddenly yelled out of control, "You killed me! Why did you keep me until now, you just killed me here! Cough... Cough, cough, cough..."

"Do you really want to die that much? Don't you want to..."

"My only wish is to kill you devils!"

—It was you who killed all my pillars and beliefs, you devils.

Struggling, he interrupted Snape's words fiercely, speaking in a tone as if he didn't even leave any room for his own life.The woman who was locked here in the past who lied to her in the past is the same now, standing in front of death's door without fear, she would rather be broken than whole.

——It was the same as her.

The entire dungeon suddenly fell silent, no one made a sound, and the two people who were looking at each other became speechless.

"Can……"

for a long time.

"...tell me where is the necklace you hid," Snape stood up, put his wand away in his arms, but crouched down again, and opened the set with the remaining key Putting on her shackles, he asked calmly:

"That person... you know who, he's not here now because of you... I mean, if you could tell me where the Miku family's necklace is, there will be a lot of people including you tonight Saved because of it."

When his hand approached her, Shirley still struggled to prevent him from unlocking the chain, but he pressed it firmly, "If you still have the strength, you might as well walk out from here by yourself. "

"..."

She stopped moving suddenly, allowing him to loosen her shackles little by little.

"...Ahem...Why did you do this...to be rescued?"

She turned her face away, until a long time later when he was about to unlock all the locks, she read intermittently.

"...well, rescued,"

The last sound of unlocking the lock landed crisply, and after successfully unlocking all the chains, Snape carefully grabbed her weak arm and helped her up, who had been kneeling weakly on the cold ground, "You, Lily... , I mean those two pure-blood families that appeared in the prophecy, in short, they will escape the fate of being killed by that person because you handed over the necklace."

"Why are you so sure?" Xue Lilu squinted at him suspiciously with indifferent eyes.

"He needs the necklace from Miku's family, and that's the price. Choose one, kill someone, or get the necklace... He won't do something that is not sure unless he is desperate, but at least he hasn't reached that situation yet, so ..."

Snape supported Shirley Lou, who had trouble walking even a single step, and led her out of the dead dungeon little by little.Although the other party still wanted to refuse him to take him out at first, but in the end, because he was powerless to resist, he could only let him help him to leave step by step.

With his support, she was like a puppet. Except for her consciousness, all the sensations in her body were annihilated due to the pain accumulated for a long time.

"...I know you are working hard, but if you still have some remaining strength, try to follow my footsteps," he seemed to see her difficulty, so he sighed and whispered in her ear, "Although there is no one else here, there are spells for monitoring everywhere. I can't help you heal your wounds here. As long as I use the healing magic, the alarm here will definitely be triggered, and you will definitely die by then. gone."

"...Then...why...you still want to save me..."

She asked him, with a trace of unwillingness and despair.

——She didn't expect that he planned to do this.

She didn't expect anything that wasn't planned.

"Because I want to save you, it's as simple as that."

Snape didn't stop, he kept supporting her to walk without stopping, but when he saw that she was about to lose his hold, he simply picked her up and continued walking.

In this world, he can't find the reason for many things.

"...you know, your cousin's death...that's what I took from you...your cousin's thing," he suddenly muttered to himself inexplicably, but his eyes remained on the road ahead. In the confusion, it seemed that he could find an answer he wanted there.

"She shouldn't be so troublesome, but I can't help it..." A sigh, "...Only her, at that time, she can be the price for Lily back... Lily Evans. "

She was a victim, a victim of helplessness.

"……why……"

Hearing these unexpected words from him unexpectedly, Xue Lilu who was in his arms suddenly opened her eyes wide in disbelief, and she froze in a daze.

"...You...what did you say...Severus Snape..."

- "He's definitely going to do it."

She suddenly remembered that a while ago, when she and she had exchanged the necklace in their own home and reached an agreement, at the end of the conversation, she was full of confusion and asked her:

"Why do you want to do this, and... how can you guarantee that he will do it."

At that time, she didn't actually believe that the other party's statement to her had any possibility of development.

——Obviously that person, Severus Snape, was a bastard who only called her "Mudblood" and was with that group of devil Death Eaters.

"You don't need any guarantees, because he will only do it for you."

The blue-eyed girl sitting across from her just smiled at her confidently, and said calmly: "He loves someone, so he is willing to do this. As for who he loves, if you don't know who he loves, go ahead and don't know." , because..." Alice frowned slightly, and looked at the person opposite her inexplicably, "I think, if you know, you will definitely feel guilty, Lily... Besides, according to Severus's Character, if he didn't, he'd never be happy in his life, and I'm sure that's the way he should be."

It had always been a nightmare for him to face the death of a loved one.

But what.

"Don't ask me why I came to you and talked to you at this time... There is no reason for this, it's just because I know I have to do it... But I haven't regretted it, because I know... He wanted to The person he loves is living well, and he also wants to be redeemed. However, the redemption he wants must be exchanged for a certain amount of blood... Do you understand? Instead of letting him give up his own life like this, It would be better to let me fulfill my own wish, not only fulfill what my family wants me to do, but also replace him... In this way, maybe a person can die well."

At that time, she——Lily Evans, absolutely never imagined that the other party planned to use such a ridiculous but extremely reasonable reason as her future epitaph.

— Alice.

Everything suddenly became clear and clear.

"... Let me go... Let me go..." Xue Lilu's eyes were lost, but she couldn't stop muttering.

"What? Let you go?" Snape felt ridiculous at her sudden request, "No, there's still a long way to go before you get out of here, since you can't walk anymore, I can't possibly leave you here..."

"Let go of me! Let go of me quickly! Let go..."

But he didn't expect that in the next second, Xue Lilu would use all her strength to push him away and get back to the ground from his arms.She suddenly yelled hoarsely like a cry, and her voice immediately filled the empty dungeon with echoes.

"Let me go! Severus Snape! Let me go!!"

Snape had no choice but to let go, which made her fall powerlessly to the ground again in an instant.

--That's too late.

"...Alice...Alice...she wants to..."

"What did you say?"

The sharp pain she felt all over her body when she landed didn't stop her from continuing to speak incoherently, words that Snape couldn't understand.However, there was only one word—but when she called out a name, he immediately opened his eyes in disbelief like a conditioned reflex, looking at her kneeling on the ground and crying.

"What do you want to say?"

"She! She!! Alice..." Shirley grabbed his hand tightly and looked at him in despair, "...Alice, she wants to kill Voldemort alone!"

The moment she called out the name of "Voldemort", Snape felt a sharp pain in his wrist, but he didn't care too much, because what he learned from her was a hundred times more serious than the pain in his hand:

—Alice, to kill Voldemort.

"What did you say? How is it possible..." Snape knelt down and grabbed her shoulders, staring at her with a panicked expression, "Alice Miku wants to kill...that person... ...Impossible, how is it possible...how is this possible...your cousin..."

How could this be possible.

She is dead.

But she is... dead.

But in the next second, a slap caught off guard was slapped on Snape's astonished face, as if a basin of ice water had been poured on his head, icy cold to the bone.

"I'm not her...I'm Lily! Lily Potter! Can you see clearly! Alice is not my cousin...I'm not Shirley Lou! I'm Lily Potter! Evans!"

——Let's exchange identities with you, then you will be safer.

That idiot actually switched identities with her just to die in front of Voldemort himself!

"... She wants to die, so... she asked me to promise her..." It turned out that she wanted to die.

Why should it be like this.

Why, this is so.

The excitement was fully revealed in the tone of Lily who was disguised as "Shirley Lou", but there was always a deep sense of mournful despair.

"...it's too late...everything is about to start..."

Snape turned his face away, but he was already looking not much better than her. He pretended to be calm and said tremblingly:

"Where is she..."

"Harry and James..." She shook her head in a daze, "... During the siege tonight, she knew that Voldemort was going to kill us, so... she said, she would be there to protect Harry... ...She must be planning to face that person alone...and then kill him..."

— be there, and kill him.

"how is this possible……"

The person in front of her, it turned out, was never her.

"...Are you serious, you are Lily...but...Alice Miku, is she still alive? And...she is staying there alone now...she wants to kill herself The Dark Lord...this, this...impossible..."

All this, Snape couldn't believe it, even though it was all the truth he wanted to know.

At that moment, he completely forgot that the person in front of him was the person he had tried so hard to save—Lily, the Lily he had been thinking about day and night.

Because, what he thought of was completely another person——the other one was gradually disappearing where he couldn't see, with brown long hair and blue eyes, the last member of the Miku family, Alice Miku.

——Why is this happening?

Obviously he didn't need to care, but his heart was already heading in that direction.

"Where is the house where you... and James are hiding, tell me."

"...It's too late...it's too late...she..." Lily, who fell on the ground, just continued to talk to herself absent-mindedly, ignoring Snape's questions to him .

The darkness finally led him and her into the abyss of eternal doom, just like the date written on the tombstone long ago: October 10st, perhaps, this is destined to be a day of parting.

The author has something to say:

☆, 11.2

"You're here at last, Dark Lord."

"I think you'd prefer to call me 'Voldemort', don't you?"

At the end of darkness, what is waiting is not endless light, but deeper darkness.

Before Peter Pettigrew, one of the former Potter foursome, "betrayed" Sirius and told his master about the house where the Potter family used to hide, Voldemort deliberately dismissed all the people around him,