Vio got out of the greenhouse and trotted all the way - Professor Sprout told her to do so, and she very open-mindedly acquiesced to Vio's observance, but she couldn't afford to delay the other students' time, so she told Vio to hurry up, and had to get back to the castle in a short time to get a pair of earmuffs. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The greenhouse was originally adjacent to the castle, but the exit from the third greenhouse area happened to be at the back of the entire greenhouse, facing the Forbidden Forest and Hagrid's hut, and to get back to the castle, you had to bypass half of the greenhouse.

Vio was panting along the glass wall outside the conservatory, and she was about to jump over a pothole in front of her when a voice suddenly came from behind her.

"Virgo Santriel?"

Vio stopped abruptly and almost didn't fall. The person behind her quickly stretched out his arm to help her.

Once they had steadied themselves, Vio patted his chest to reassure himself as he straightened up and looked up at him.

The eyebrows and eyes of the boy in front of him are still clear, and his smile is as warm as when he first saw him, like sunshine.

"Linnaeus Weil?" Vio exclaimed in surprise. "I didn't expect to meet you here!

"- Long time no see. Linnaeus smiled.

He looked at Vio and explained slowly, "I'm Professor Sprout's student assistant, and I'm helping her to dress up the beater willow at noon today - and then, I saw you standing in the middle of the students who were going to class, so I thought, the weather is so nice today, it's a good time to loosen the soil for them in the fourth greenhouse or something." ”

"Ah, is it?" Vio was a little embarrassed, she hadn't even noticed that Linnaeus had been with Professor Sprout at that time.

"It's supposed to be class time, why did you come out? I remember, Professor Sprout doesn't object to sitting in on this, right?" Linnaeus looked at Vio, who was still taking a deep breath of air, with some confusion.

"The professor gave us a mandrake for this class, but she didn't know there was an extra me. Vio laughed and explained that it had been a long time since she had spoken so easily, and she didn't have to think about it at all, and she could say whatever she wanted. So when it was time to loosen the soil, there weren't enough earrings, so the professor told me to rush back to the castle to get a new one. I think I'm running pretty fast—"

She gestured with her fingers crossed in a running position.

Linnaeus smiled even deeper, he wanted to tell Vio that he didn't have to show up in the fourth greenhouse in the afternoon - it wasn't a coincidence, but it seemed that she didn't notice at all.

But now, he doesn't care if Vio notices his deliberate behavior.

"Perhaps, by coincidence, I have a spare pair of earmuffs here. ”

Vio watched Linnaeus open and close his lips and teeth, and heard the phrase he was most happy to hear at the moment. She smiled and thought she was lucky.

Linnaeus turned around to go back to the fourth greenhouse to get the earmuffs, but he took a few steps and turned to look at Vio, his clear eyebrows and eyes were a little blurred under the warm sun: "You also come along?" There are also a lot of interesting things in the fourth greenhouse, such as the kaka fruit you didn't eat last time." ”

Vio nodded hurriedly and jumped up to follow.

The fourth greenhouse is really different from the previous greenhouses, and most of the plants here are hydroponics.

There is a body of water in front of you, and I don't know if the underground is connected to the bottom of the school's black lake. The center of the water was dark and black, and Vio guessed that there should be some submerged plants such as algae inside.

A little closer there floated a few plants resembling water lilies, with overlapping petals and a rainbow of color. The closer you get to the edge of the water, the denser the upright plants become.

Vio was surprised to find a few cranes in front of a blue canna that was about the same height as her, with white and plump wings and a leisurely and elegant posture. Among them, there is an elegant lady who is slowly approaching the canna with her long beak and is reminiscent of a flower viewing.

She was about to get closer to take a closer look, when Linnaeus grabbed her with a quick hand.

Before Vio could speak, he took a glove and put it on, then took a bloody chicken from the wooden box next to him and threw it at the cranes.

That's when something magical and terrible happened.

The cranes raised their slender necks, slowly opened their long yellow beaks at a speed that challenged Vio's patience, and then pecked at the chicken on the ground with a swift "kokokoko" crash like a piledriver, and in a short time the chicken disappeared entirely, not even the feathers.

Vio took two steps back, fearfully thanking Linnaeus for reminding her.

Linnaeus looked at her expression intently and explained, "That's a crane, very cunning. They suck the blood, and, given enough time, any creature that gets on the beak of a crane is certain to die. ”

"It's like- just now?" asked Vio, reluctantly, "what if it escaped faster? wouldn't it be able to peck at it for a short time—"

"・・・・・・ better pray that you don't actually encounter it in the wild—" Linnaeus said as he looked into Vio's black grape-like eyes, "and its most terrifying weapon is not that yellow beak, but hypnotic magic that can only control a certain range." At present, no human beings in the plant kingdom have been found to be awake and alive within the range that the crane can reach. ”

When Vio heard that this plant was so powerful, his mind began to come alive again—is it possible to tame a plant—to tame a plant as powerful as a crane・・・・・・

The bell rang suddenly.

Awakened from her thoughts, Vio looked at Linnaeus, whose eyes were unnaturally avoiding her, as if she had just wandered. After reacting, Linnaeus found his earmuffs.

Vio didn't think much of it, but jumped up and took the earmuffs handed by Linnaeus, a little annoyed that he had been here for so long and had delayed Sprout's class.

She turned to walk out of the fourth greenhouse, and casually glanced at it, only to see a familiar reflection on the glass wall on the left-hand side near the second greenhouse.

The reflection was walking towards Hagrid's cabin.

Vio turned his head to look outside the walls of the fourth greenhouse, where Ginny Weasley was slowly, somewhat precariously walking to Hagrid's hut, where Hagrid had a flock of chickens.

A flash of inspiration flashed through Vio's mind, and then he denied his own idea - that couldn't be, couldn't it? How could the diary possess Ginny like in the original book, killing the chickens and causing panic at Hogwarts?

Linnaeus saw her stop, and looked out, and followed, but Ginny turned into the other side of the coop, and he happened to miss it, and saw nothing.

Vio hurriedly said goodbye to him and rushed out of the greenhouse.