Really? I'm fighting the Dark Emperor.

Chapter 172 Like an Outsider

After reading rapidly with the help of magic, Harry Potter held Maria in one hand and took the paper and pen handed to him by Rapunzel in the other.

"Hey hey hey, just showing off a little bit of emotion~"

The sudden snapping sound nearly caused Rui Busi to lose half an apple.

Suddenly, she felt a sense of relief—she was right to have shaken her head frantically when she first saw the magic, indicating that she didn't know it.

The quill pen wrote on its own, leaving behind the three words: "trust," "care," and "worry."

Eh?

Even with the hints, it only makes things more confusing.

"Ribsi, this magic doesn't seem to be very useful."

Although it's categorized under parenting magic, adults' emotions are far more complex than children's.

It's even harder to guess someone's specific thoughts based on their emotions.

"Let me see." She took the paper from her. "Hmm..."

"Trust, us?"

Maria nodded.

"Worried, Genny?"

Maria nodded again.

What is 'concern'?

Maria pointed at Harry Potter.

"Me?" Harry Potter was confused. "I feel great right now."

"Is Harry Potter hungry now?" To be precise, Maria was just pointing to Harry Potter's stomach.

Maria nodded three times.

"Wow!" Harry Potter exclaimed in surprise, "This magic is actually quite useful! I want to keep this book!"

He happily and openly ate the pastries, feeling all the unhappiness he had been carrying in the infirmary vanish in an instant: "The pastries Xiao Fudie brought are so delicious, I'm so happy~~"

These are pastries that I wouldn't normally buy for myself. When he first saw them, he couldn't help but drool. I never thought I'd actually get to eat them!

He didn't forget to find a few more pieces and offer them to Maria, but Maria waved them away.

“Oh right, Head Nurse Big Sweetie said that when patients wake up, what they want most is water, the pastries are too dry,” he ate another piece, “Is it because they want water?”

Maria nodded, and he then eagerly ran off to figure out how to get hot water from the infirmary.

Rui Bu Si briefly explained Kenny's whereabouts: "Kenny is having a meeting with Meng... um, a group of people."

Of course, that happened in the morning, and she had no idea what Genny was doing now.

She, Maria, had a touch of novelty.

The fact that she could swiftly, accurately, and decisively throw a Bible at the enemy seemed to have little to do with what Kenny had said about being the gentlest person in the world. Before Mary woke up, she casually flipped through it—it was a hardcover edition, over two thousand pages long, and felt heavier than a brick in her hand.

"However, he has been gone for a long time, so he should be back soon."

When Genny left, he only said it was for the Meng Knights meeting, and he didn't trust Maria to be left to others—ah, I don't know how he could trust her so much.

But soon after, veterans suddenly appeared on campus, not only strictly enforcing the curfew but also prohibiting students from going out alone. She and Harry Potter have been stuck there for half a day.

They couldn't leave Maria alone in the infirmary; but she couldn't go out alone either.

When Genny asked her for help, she initially refused.

But Genny gave too much.

Well, when I came here, there were no veterans in Moe Academy yet, and there was no such damn ban. Maybe the reward could have been increased again.

As for Harry Potter, whom I met on the road, he seemed perfectly suited to take care of the patient. Oh, right, there's also Harry Potter, double pay... let her consider the feasibility of selling magnolia flowers for some profit.

Suddenly feeling a chill down his spine, Harry Potter turned his head quickly, but saw no one behind him.

Could it be... could it be that the rumors about steroids on campus are true, and there really is a ghost in the Moe Academy's infirmary?

His hands trembled as he picked up the things. Then he remembered there was a nun in the infirmary. Wait, do nuns exorcise ghosts?

"Probably," he reassured himself. This assumption made him less likely to suspect that someone who didn't exist was standing behind him.

The warm water was ready quickly.

Although there were only three people there, one of whom was mute, Harry Potter felt that time flew by after Maria woke up.

He couldn't remember what he said, but he said quite a lot. Maria kept handing him food, and when Kenny finally came over, he suddenly felt a sense of loss about leaving his mother.

Maria really reminded him of his mother!

He suddenly felt homesick; he had never been so far from home before.

I'll write letters to my parents when I get back to the dorm!

Finally back in the infirmary, the first thing Ginny saw was her two best friends lounging on the hospital bed, taking up a large space. One of them was fast asleep, with Maria gently patting her back, while the other was rubbing her stomach, looking like she had eaten quite a bit.

Suddenly I felt like an outsider who had disrupted the warm and cozy atmosphere of someone else's home.

What kind of random outsiders are these?!

Just as he was about to wake Ribusi, Maria gestured for him to be quiet, and he felt a little aggrieved.

Harry Potter saw that he stopped rubbing his stomach instantly, and feeling guilty, he didn't dare to look at her. He silently moved a couple of steps closer to Maria.

Genny: ...

This is his Maria mother! What's going on with these two?!

Within seconds, perhaps because of Genny's resentful gaze, Ruibosi woke up.

She yawned, sat up from Maria's lap, rubbed her eyes, and greeted Genny, "Hi, friend, good afternoon."

Genny said reluctantly, "Good afternoon."

For Maria's sake, she felt a little better in the afternoon.

"Didn't you say the meeting would only last a short while? Why did it take so long?" It seems that before she left, she promised Ya Ya that they would go to the Magic Shopping Street together to check out the new duck snacks.

Oh right, she also promised to do that! But why hasn't Ya Ya come to the infirmary to see her?

"Because a lot happened today," Ou Pa explained, as the other cute knights followed closely behind Kenny, and the infirmary was full of people.

A lot happened today for the Cute Knights.

Rewinding to this morning, after the meeting of the Cute Knights concluded, in the science classroom, Ou Pa had a general idea of ​​the research direction for the antidote.

“I have potion-making books from the Dark Clan at home, and I have a general recollection of this part. Excluding the most complicated ones, there are only a dozen or so that match Maria’s mother’s symptoms.” Having heard Kenny call her “Maria’s mother” so many times, he had also gotten used to calling her that.

I roughly listed these dozen or so antidotes in my notebook, and circled those with the same antidote together.

Unlike the plastic surgery potion that Blue Sapphire drank, Maria's situation was not complicated. He roughly calculated that there were only twenty antidotes.

"In other words, the biggest problem right now is the uncertainty about the potion's effects on humans." Miya Xing glanced at the circles and marks on the notebook.

“That’s right. The biggest problem now is that we don’t know how different the symptoms humans experience after drinking the potion are from those of the Quarks.” If the difference is too great, then the potion Maria drank may not be within the scope of his assumptions.

“Related to humans…” Miya Xing thought of someone, “Teacher Victoria! She knows witchcraft from the human world and is also good at potions.”