"What happened?" Miravia asked as she stepped out of the shadows.
She raised the beech wand and lightly tapped the air in front of Nagini.
Nagini felt a gentle breeze sweep over her skin, and the foul stench of mixed potions clinging to her body instantly disappeared.
"That's better. A girl should pay attention to her personal hygiene..." Miravia said with satisfaction.
"Teacher, I didn't want to smell like that either. They... we can talk about it later. They're coming!" Nagini said nervously, looking toward the dark wizards emerging from the forest and gradually surrounding them.
"It's fine. Just keep talking," Miravia said calmly.
She acted as though the menacing dark wizards approaching them did not even exist.
By now the dark wizards had already rushed forward.
"Why is there another one?!"
"Forget it! Kill her too! Leave no loose ends!"
"Avada..."
Miravia lightly raised her wand. Swoosh!
The dark wizards' incantations abruptly stopped. Every one of them stood frozen in place, staring blankly ahead without moving a muscle.
"They..." Nagini stared in shock at the dark wizards who had been attacking them moments ago, only to suddenly stop in such an eerie manner.
"They're asleep. I gave them a 'good dream,' so before they wake up, you have plenty of time to tell me exactly what happened."
"Asleep..." Nagini looked at the dark wizards again in astonishment.
Individually, none of them were especially powerful, but with so many attacking together, even if she fought desperately, she would barely have been able to break out of their encirclement.
Yet her mysterious teacher had not even spoken an incantation. She had merely waved her wand, and every one of them had fallen asleep?
This was the first time Nagini had ever seen her teacher take action.
It seemed her teacher's strength was truly unfathomable.
Seeing the slight impatience on Miravia's face, Nagini did not dare delay any longer and quickly explained everything that had happened.
"Oh... So this happened because of me." Miravia suddenly understood. "Then this is my fault. If I hadn't ordered you to capture so many dark wizards, you wouldn't have ended up in this kind of danger."
"No... I was careless and let myself get discovered..."
"No need to say anything more. This really is my responsibility. I'm not so cowardly that I can't admit it." Miravia looked at the people in front of her and stroked her chin thoughtfully. "Hmm... How do you want to deal with them?"
"I'll leave it to you," Nagini replied.
She knew perfectly well that when dealing with people who had tried to kill her, the best solution was to kill them all.
But there were simply too many of them, and she could not quite bring herself to do it.
Miravia only had to glance at her expression to understand what she was thinking.
"All right... Since you don't want to kill them, I'll find them a 'good place' to go instead."
Miravia thought of the group of dark wizards she had left to Wade.
She might as well send him a few more.
She owed Wade far too much, so whenever she came across something useful, he was naturally the first person who came to mind.
As far as she was concerned, Wade would certainly find a use for this many dark wizards, whether for human experimentation or simply as hired muscle.
"Teacher, you seem... different somehow."
Now that the danger had passed and Nagini had finally calmed down, she noticed the differences between the current "senior" and the one she had known before.
First, Miravia no longer looked nearly as illusory.
Second, she had changed her clothes.
If Nagini was not mistaken, the outfit Miravia was wearing was the latest design from Mr. Morgan's shop in Diagon Alley, and it was not cheap.
How did Nagini know?
Women were naturally more sensitive to styles of clothing.
Especially Nagini, who had only recently regained her human form and wanted to properly experience life again.
"Mm. That's because I escaped... I'll explain the details to you later. Let's deal with these people first."
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"How can Toby help you today!"
At Hogwarts, inside Wade's suitcase, Wade called over Toby, who had been busy helping him build the castle.
"Oh, hey! Do you know where house-elves who have lost their masters usually go?"
"T-This.." Toby immediately looked terrified.
"Yes... Toby knows where house-elves who were driven out by their masters or lost their masters gather..."
"It's a horrible place! Toby would rather die than end up there... because that place is full of shameful, free house-elves!"
As Toby spoke, he covered his face in fear. "Young Master Wade, please don't send Toby away..."
"Don't overthink it, Toby. I have no intention of sending you away." Wade looked toward the castle, which was already more than half complete.
"I simply need more house-elves who are absolutely loyal to me to help with a top-secret task here."
"Toby can complete Young Master Wade's tasks too," Toby said with wide eyes.
"But one elf alone can't handle it," Wade said, shaking his head. "So you'll need to help me find some others. Don't worry, they won't replace you. I'll even give you authority over them."
Hearing that Wade was not asking because he wanted to replace him with another house-elf, Toby finally relaxed.
"Young Master Wade, recruiting those house-elves may be very difficult," Toby said seriously.
"Oh?"
"Even after being driven away by their masters, they still can't stop thinking about their former families."
"Hmm," Wade naturally understood that.
Back then, he had only managed to recruit Toby because of the system's power. Otherwise, even though Wade had saved Toby, the most he could have expected was Toby's gratitude.
The chances of Toby abandoning the Somnolen family and pledging loyalty to Wade would have been extremely small, even though the Somnolen family was already completely gone.
"Well! Don't worry. Since I'm asking you, I naturally have a way," Wade said confidently. "You only need to take me there and let me have a look."
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