Snape slowly raised his head, his eyes burning with scorching fire, and he glared angrily at the door where the woman had disappeared.

The door had been silent ever since it closed, so quiet that he almost wondered if Voldemort had cast some anti-eavesdropping spell on it, until now he knew that the woman was alive the moment before she screamed. But now? What's going on inside that door now?

His breathing was much heavier for a moment, and it felt like he was the only breath he was breathing in the hall that was suddenly and horribly empty, like a dilapidated bellows.

"What, Severus, what do you want to say?" asked Voldemort, with a strange look on his face, his tone almost dangerously soft.

Snape gritted his teeth, feeling like the sides of his cheeks were going to tense from too much force. His voice sounded like it was coming out of between his teeth.

“...... Yes, my master, I want to say...... My hatred for her has never been as deep as it is today. ”

Voldemort scrutinized him, slowly twirling the Elder Wand between his fingers.

"Really, Severus, aren't you angry about it? I heard that you used to act like a fool in love in front of her—you know, somebody is willing to tell me some old anecdotes at any given time. He stared at Snape playfully, and said slowly, in a tone like a sizzling viper.

Snape did not shy away from his gaze, glanced gloomily at the closed door, and said coldly, "My master, you must have heard some shameless and whimsical rumors. I don't love her. I hate her......"

"Oh?" Voldemort laughed slowly, spreading his hand slightly, the Elder Wand between his fingers.

"How interesting. Gee. He shook his head, as if regretting the outcome between the two men and women, who had been on the verge of marriage, and pursed his lips contemptuously.

Snape lowered his gaze respectfully and meekly, and said nothing.

Voldemort seemed to have finally lost interest in the life and death of the Hogwarts Muggle Studies professor, and five fingers were folded together, holding the old wand, and said, "Now I have conquered this wand, Severus." Conquer this wand, and you will finally conquer Potter. ”

Snape whispered, "Master, you alone are the only object of its allegiance, there is no doubt about it. ”

Voldemort laughed and said, "Severus, you have always been a good and faithful servant, and I regret what had to happen. For this reason, I allow you to go and say your final goodbye to that woman. By the way, take my Nagini to Hogwarts. ”

Snape hesitated, and for a moment he seemed a little dazed, as if he couldn't tell if Voldemort's command was a temptation, or if he wasn't sure if letting him see the body of the woman he had narrowly married was a new form of torture Voldemort had come up with. But he quickly calmed down, bent down expressionlessly, and said, "Yes, master." Then he turned and walked to the door.

He stood still in front of the door, hesitated slightly, put his right hand on the door handle, and rotated slightly, and the door actually opened.

He walked in, his face wary, the muscles of his body tensed, like a bow ready to fire. At first, he didn't seem to know what he was really looking forward to seeing, there was a faint confusion and nervousness in his eyes, and his hands hidden under his sleeves were clenched into fists, so hard that the backs of his hands turned white.

His gaze finally slowly lifted, and he quickly swept into the room, and his face suddenly became bloodless.

He quickly turned around and whispered to Voldemort, who was still standing in the middle of the hall, "Master, there's no one in there...... She-the woman was gone! and...... And Nagini is gone!"

Voldemort's face darkened. He sped across the hall to the secret execution room, and Snape quickly dodged aside, giving him the doorway.

Voldemort only glanced into the room, and his blood-red eyes stood up, exuding an aura of extreme rage.

"Nagini! that disgusting mudblood actually stole Nagini......" his voice cut off, closing his eyes as if feeling something. Then, with an inconspicuous sigh of relief, he opened his eyes, and immediately commanded Snape: "Go and get Nagini back for me, immediately!"

Snape answered, as if he had been a little overwhelmed by the sudden turn of events, but his composure worked almost immediately, and he bowed to Voldemort with a calm expression, and was about to turn away.

Voldemort stopped him again behind him, his tone extremely resentful.

"Plus, I got that mudblood seed for me. As soon as you find her, kill her!

Snape's footsteps paused slightly, and he immediately replied, "Yes, my master." ”

......

Severus Snape faced a test when he apparitioned to the outskirts of Hogwarts.

He had two options: first, follow Voldemort's instructions to find out the whereabouts of Lily Evans and Nagini, and second, follow the repeated stresses and persuasions of Dumbledore and Lily, including the fake Lily who used the spell to transform into Bigonia, and return to Hogwarts to defend the great school and its teachers and students, as he promised.

Snape looked around, then slowly spread his right hand. A note appeared out of thin air in the palm of his hand, slowly floated up, and automatically opened in the palm of his hand.

This was what the fake Lily had quickly shoved into his hand as she turned upside down after her Mind Drilling Spell had been struck by him. It has to be said that in that situation of great pain, she still retains a strong control over her body and will, and she actually did it without anyone noticing it under the nose of the Dark Lord.

Now the note lay in the palm of his hand, with the familiar handwriting on it.

[Now, your reputation is clean at Hogwarts.] Stay alive. Forgive me, I don't really have any secrets about Lily to tell you. I'm sorry, I cheated on you again, but I promise it's the last time. 】

Such a few simple words, which seemed to have nothing to do with each other, made Snape stunned.

That's what that fake Lily left him...... Last words, or last wishes, or hopes, or explanations?—— oh, whatever it is, she can't explain it to him herself now.

At that moment, the empty scene of that room reappeared in his mind.

There were inconspicuous traces of blood on the carpet, and there were signs of a fight all over the room, overturned chairs, silver plates, and candlesticks on the floor, but there was no sign of her anywhere—not the serpent that the Dark Lord so dear.

A strange and bold conjecture suddenly appeared in his mind—

If by the time he pushed the door open, she had lost her life like Beriel Potter in that house in Godric's Hollow on Halloween in 1981, and the serpent Nagini was still there—

So, what's going to happen next? what will happen to him? what will the Dark Lord plan to do to him?......

He hadn't forgotten what the Dark Lord had said to him earlier—about whether he was the true owner of the Elder Wand—and that the Dark Lord had cast an anti-illusion spell at Malfoy Manor, which should mean that the Dark Lord had actually killed him.

And then, why is he still standing here?

...... That's because—because the night Dumbledore fell from the Tower, she chased him here, and then cast that disarming spell at him in front of those Death Eaters!

And, because she didn't know how to take Nagini from Malfoy Manor, and for some reason he didn't know yet, Nagini was very important to the Dark Lord, and the Dark Lord couldn't just kill him until he could get him back, because the Dark Lord needed someone to retrieve Nagini for him while he was busy dealing with Harry Potter!

The thought seemed to make him feel a little dazed, surprised, and at a loss for a moment. In that daze, his gaze fell to the last sentence of the note in his hand.

The handwriting on which the sentence was written was particularly messy and crooked, and it was evident that the note had been written in a hurry, and that it had even been hastily finished because of lack of time, but the crooked, scribbled black handwriting seemed to pierce his eyes like a criss-crossing needle, and he could not help but feel a tingle.

[I'm sorry, I cheated on you again; but I promise it's the last time]

...... To put it like this, so lightly, and so for granted! There is no apology for doing something wrong! Not at all...... There is no sincerity at all!!

His face twitched violently, his teeth tensed, and inconspicuous bruises appeared on the sides of his cheeks, but the movements of his hands were extremely fast and slight. He folded the note again and put it back in his pocket.

...... Now, where does Severus Snape go from here?

The fake Lily had already hinted that she had helped him clear his name, and that he would not face charges of unknown truth when he returned to Hogwarts. He guessed that the fake Lily must have been directing Professor McGonagall or someone else respectable to see the old bee's memories of their secret promises and missions.

And he still has an unfinished task. He also had to find the impulsive and brainless Broken Kid, and then follow Dumbledore's instructions to send the Broken Kid to his death. Although the fake Lily kept insisting that the Broken Kid wouldn't have a big problem even if he did, he was still worried about whether the risky plan would be as safe and secure as she had promised.

But they don't seem to have a better way to defeat the Dark Lord right now.

Snape stood on the hillside of Hogsmeade, looking at the lights of Hogwarts Castle in the distance, and the huge openings that hung over Hogwarts Castle, which had been broken for an unknown number of times, leaving only a faint layer of enchantment shields that looked like rags.

He knew that all of the Death Eaters, including the Dark Lord himself, had assembled near the Forbidden Forest and that Hogwarts was about to be breached, and he didn't have much time to think carefully about which of the two options came first, and he had to make a choice right away.

His cheeks tensed and his teeth gritted. Then he rushed down the hill and ran to the pig's head bar.

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June 12:

The professor was talking insincerely

In fact, insincere is also a good word, right, [Hey!

Well, almost from this chapter onwards, most of it is from the professor's perspective, and you can look forward to it.

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