[HP Fudai] Knot of Life and Death

On the day the old pedant in the frame died, Riddle was busy with the campaign for prefects—yes, the prefects of Hogwarts were not appointed, but elected anonymously.

It was early in the morning, and he was dragged by his friends to the long corridor leading to the Slytherin lounge, surrounded by a large group of children.Facing the wall, or whispering in horror or anxiety.That's where Daiyu likes to stay.

When Riddle arrived, the teacher also rushed to clean up the scene, so he only saw the debris of the wooden frame and the incomplete canvas scattered on the ground as if torn apart by some wild beast. "Someone killed the old pedant last night..."

Can a dead man die again?That's just a painting.

Riddle thought, no, Daiyu——

He turned hastily and walked through the crowd towards the Slytherin common room - not there, so he went back to the living room.

Fortunately, that familiar figure was still there, sitting facing the bottom of the lake outside the window.

"Dai—"

"Is that you?" The figure interrupted him.

"what"

"Did you do it?"

"how is this possible?"

Daiyu turned her head, her face was full of tears, "Riddle, you swear."

"I didn't kill him, I assure you, Day, I didn't kill him—I've been in the library with my friends—"

"Your group of friends?" Daiyu's voice trembled, "If anyone kills him, he will be wiped out, and he will never be reborn—do you dare to say that?"

The tension in Riddle's eyes cooled down, and the blue eyes fell silent as if boiling water had been suddenly poured into an ice stream.

"Of course I dare. If I kill him, I'll die, I promise."

After hearing this, Daiyu couldn't bear it any longer, and lay down in front of the window and wept bitterly.

Knowing that he was pardoned, Riddle stepped forward and spread a blanket for the emaciated girl.

"Maybe I know who did it, Dai, don't worry... I will help you find the murderer."

The girl's shoulders shrugged slightly, and the soft sobbing sound came from under her wet handkerchief, which was the answer.

At this time, there was a low banging sound outside the door—and the sound of a snake spitting out a letter, hissing, hissing.The voice seemed to come from hell, Dai was so focused on crying that she was not disturbed, or maybe only Tom Riddle could hear that voice.

This scene has not appeared for almost two years.

So Riddle knew that the man had returned.

After two years - Moffington, he finally found the key and came back.

Tom Riddle didn't answer the door.So the voice became louder and louder, the snake, the Gaunt's viper, said, Midnight, the Forbidden Forest.

Tom Riddle remained unmoved and continued to pat the crying girl on the back. This time, he had no intention of going to the meeting.

……

For the next three days, Daiyu was bedridden.

Riddle, busy with her presidency campaign and preparations, conjured the furniture to take care of her.If she hadn't been seriously ill, he would have wanted to take her with him, after all Gaunt was back, but Riddle felt that Daiyu didn't want to get close to him now.

Because of the unicorn blood, he wasn't worried about Daiyu's condition, maybe it was more from his heart disease, and after he had dealt with the secret room, he would have enough time to explain this to Daiyu instead of Now.

In the past few days, there has been no sign of Moffington entering Hogwarts, which is very strange. Maybe he is waiting for something, because of this speculation, Riddle has become a little uneasy again, this uncle who is related to him Not kind.

When Riddle walked to the auditorium with many candidates, Daiyu got up from the bed. She copied about fifty pages of poems, plus the ones she had written silently before, and brought them with her, preparing to put them in the old pedant's room. In that place, to commemorate him.

But when she walked, she heard whispers from the left and right picture frames—different from the previous compliments or brisk greetings, this time, the voices in the picture frames were like the sound of mosquitoes and flies vibrating their wings, which taught her She couldn't hear well.

Daiyu simply ignored it, and just squatted under the empty wall to recite scriptures and poems, putting down a page of poems after reading a page.After reading a few songs, she heard a sharp scream—a European lady who had been crying, and the lady said inarticulately, "Demon, you demon, get out of here!"

Daiyu raised her head in panic, and found that all the people in the painting were staring at her angrily and sadly. This strange scene made her scalp tingle.

"What's wrong?" Daiyu asked.

"Murderer!" "You devil, get out of Hogwarts." "How could you kill him?" "She killed the old pedant"

"What?" Daiyu was startled.

"She actually said she didn't." "She denied it." "Demon" "Demon" "She has..." "I saw you kill it!"

A child's voice came out from the buzzing of mosquitoes and flies, "I saw you kill him with a knife, and the stubble on the picture frame cut your hand." "I saw it too" "We together What I saw" "I saw" "It's her, she can't deny..."

Daiyu was frightened by this scene, she turned her head to leave, suddenly, by a strange coincidence, she raised her hand and took a look.

The sleeve slipped down, and on her wrist, there was a clear scar, thin and long, like a red line.

Like a hammer blow.

Daiyu turned her head and glanced at the wall, then closed her eyes.

……

"Thank you for your participation over the past few days. Hogwarts is proud of all of you! First of all..." The headmaster stood on the stage and delivered a speech, holding a list in his hand, which was the final list of prefects , Tom Riddle sat in the candidate seat with a dozen students, silently staring at the stage.The Gryffindor boys on the side were full of pride, or whispering with the Hufflepuff next door, but the Slytherin seats were silent.

Tom Riddle is not worried about what will happen next. All the candidates with him are his supporters. No one can match his popularity and ability. It doesn't look like there are a few people sitting here As a candidate prepared by the superior, it is more like Tom Riddle's support team.

At the same time, the girl seemed to have been emptied of her soul, and stumbled towards the living room, holding the crumpled poem tightly in her hand. Behind her were Chinese poems scattered all over the floor.

"There is no cold or heat in Zhijun through the ages, and the reunion in thousands of years is like the evening", "If life is only for the first time, what is the autumn wind and the sad painting fan?" The annoyance goes away suddenly, and when I go, I don’t say anything and don’t hear it.”

Those elegant verses were condensed on the paper by ink and scattered all over the place, like the withered wings of a butterfly in winter.

The girl's eyes seemed to be burned by a branding iron, and she couldn't see clearly what was in front of her. When she finally opened the door of the living room, she found a book in the middle of the table.

"In the past few years, we have experienced a lot. In the Muggle world, war is about to start, but our students have not decreased-at the beginning, Hogwarts was just a muddy field full of weeds. A great wizard built this paradise for all the little wizards to learn magic and live a better life—”

These platitudes made Riddle uncomfortable, and he began to miss Dai, wondering if she was better today.

For some reason, he suddenly felt a little uneasy, probably because of Moffington's return, he always felt that this demon was going to enter Hogwarts soon.

and his girl

At this moment, standing quietly in front of the table, the title page of the book on the table is very clean, only three words are written - "Dream of Red Mansions"

The girl raised her trembling hand and opened the title page.

After an unknown amount of time, the old headmaster's speech finally came to an end.

"In the previous month, our college elected four new prefects through secret ballots!" Amidst the cheers of the crowd, the old headmaster raised his hand and said slowly, "I am very happy." It is an honor to be able to name them here, and I will also grant them the most honorable task—”

The envious and jealous eyes of several colleges turned to Tom Riddle one after another. Of course, there were also flattering, congratulatory, or disgusting ones.Tom Riddle straightened his green tie and looked ahead calmly.

The girl sat on the chair, like a piece of sculpture, her eyes stopped on a few short lines - the ending.

"Slytherin prefect——Tom Riddle!" Cheers rang out, and the much-loved Tom Riddle stepped up to the stage in front of everyone's attention, accepting the badge awarded by the headmaster, which symbolized Slytherin He held up his badge, showed it to everyone, then nodded and smiled.

"A wisp of the fragrance soul is scattered with the wind, and the third watch of melancholy is like a dream."

The girl continued to flip down.After turning to the last page, the door opened.A boy's voice sounded behind him: "Dai, I'm back."

Lin Daiyu closed the book, turned her head, her face was tear-stained, her eyes and cheeks seemed to be hot, and she looked at Riddle blankly.

"Did you do it?"

"what?"

"What the hell am I?" Daiyu said.

"No, Dai, what did you see, that..."

"Riddle, what am I?"

Riddle looked at the Dream of Red Mansions from nowhere, in astonishment, and was about to explain.

The girl closed her eyes.

"What a monster you've turned me into."

"It's not like that, Dai. Unicorn blood is just—"

"That's... blood?" Daiyu recalled the silver liquid that Riddle handed her with a smile. It was slightly sweet, had a strange taste, and had a strange luster like mercury, but she never doubted that it was blood of something.

Stomach churned, she held onto the table and retched—tears were coughed out from the corners of her eyes, and at the same time every organ in her body twitched, as if the shell was about to collapse.She drank the blood of animals for so long!Alive, and killed a person—was Riddle doing this on purpose?

Was it part of so many of his plans that he didn't know about?Those unicorn blood, those who killed at no time, and his inexplicable appearance, and his predestined death, was he planning it from the very beginning?

Those laughs, those protections—— Daiyu coughed up a mouthful of blood.

The bright red blood instantly stained the carpet, "Dai!" Riddle hurried over, but was stopped by the knife Daiyu suddenly took out.

Damn it, that's Riddle's collection, she found it sometime—"Don't come here."

Daiyu said.

A strange surge of grief was erupting in her eyes, like the lapping tide.

Dai is the purest and bravest one.

Therefore, you will not compromise yourself to live in deceit and sin;

Therefore, the scene that Riddle is most afraid of, he often dreams about in his nightmares, Daiyu's death, or death from illness, or being bitten by a giant snake, those dark, weird, bloody things , those things that he tried his best to hide from the girl's sight——

The girl raised the knife to her chest——

"No!"

Riddle only had time to let out the dragon's dying cry.

The author has something to say:

The update is very slow, um, because I lost [-] to [-] words in the saved manuscript, I have to start writing again later, I am very, very sorry.