Delusion? Opal in this chapter seems to be unconscious and undisciplined (huh?). It's cute.,Forget it.,Anyway, this kid's external performance is natural.,It doesn't matter if it's cute.。

It's just that Draco boy you seem, it looks like you've been teased by Opal again, ahem......

Admittedly, though, if flirting with Snape is a great achievement, then flirting with Draco is eye-catching, huh...... (Crowd: That's just your personal bad taste!) ）

This chapter finally pulled V out to officially breathe.,By the way, skip some plots and personality changes.,But the details should be involved in this chapter.,You should be able to see some shadows.,Hmm......

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Wand 2 (upright): Mature.

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Hogwarts House Corridor

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After the events of Halloween, the Hogwarts students were concerned about this for a long time. They talked about the cat's petrified appearance, about the blood that still hasn't been erased on the walls of the hallway, about the so-called "secret room".

One by one, their eyebrows fluttered, and they swore as if they had seen it with their own eyes, and when the so-called "secret room" was mentioned, they all had a look of "only I know this secret, I know who the heir is, and no one else knows".

[Draco, why do I think the atmosphere at school is weird?] ]

Holding the book on the way to the history of magic class, Opal frowned as he looked at the students of the other houses who were whispering with a mysterious look on their faces, [If I'm not mistaken, shouldn't it be the Slytherin vs. Gryffindor Quidditch match tomorrow?] I remember last year, but basically the whole of Hogwarts was talking about it, why didn't you even mention it much this year? ]

"Don't mention it. It's not the Halloween incident, it's just that students from other colleges are rare and weird. ”

Draco, who was walking beside Opal, looked helpless, "Except for the Slytherin students, basically even the Ravenclaw students are discussing the secret room, guessing who opened it and what the next target will be...... As for the Quidditch match, this year we have a team with me, how can I lose! Besides, Opar, aren't you not interested in Quidditch? ”

[Quidditch matches are also a big deal in Slytherin House!] Who has been nagging in my ears before Halloween! ]

Opal shrugged his shoulders with a look of helplessness, [As for the Chamber of Secret...... So what's there to guess? Inside the chamber is clearly a Basilisk. ]

“！ How can you be so sure?! ”

Draco paused in shock, and after his tone was raised by an octave in an instant, he was immediately suppressed by his self-control, but he lowered his voice, "Opal, are you sure it's a basilisk?" I asked my father, but he said that the monster in the secret room must be an eight-eyed spider. ”

[If you talk about the eight-eyed spider, there is one in the Forbidden Forest.] But there's no way it's that kind of thing in the chamber. ]

Opal pointed to the corner of the wall near him by the windowsill, [or the little ones wouldn't have been busy running for their lives.] ]

Speaking of the eight-eyed spider, she remembered that the origin of the eight-eyed spider named "Arago" in the Forbidden Forest seemed to have escaped from Hogwarts many years ago, and she would take the time to ask next time - after all, the difficulty of those magical questions in the Ravenclaw archives can really be described as "perverted" without knowing the answer.

Hogwarts Castle has gossiped about magical plants and animals to a greater extent than humans, and thanks to that, she hasn't been able to get enough rest lately - and if she doesn't know what the creatures in the so-called "secret room" are, it would be a shame to be called her.

"Huh?"

Stunned by Opal's movements, Draco looked in the direction of her finger, and instantly drew a row of black lines on his head, "Spider? ”

As he spoke, a man in a Gryffindor uniform hurried past the two of them, and ran away without apologizing because he was so flustered that he bumped into Opal. Luckily, Draco on the side reached out in time to support Opal, who was unstable, otherwise the book in her arms would have fallen.

[The guy just now...... It's Gryffindor's freshman this year, right? ]

Turning his gaze away from the figure, Opal sighed helplessly, [that red hair is quite eye-catching...... Is it the Weasley girl who just arrived this year? What's the name...... Draco, do you remember? ]

"The devil knows. That aristocratic scum family is full of such reckless guys. ”

Glaring angrily in the direction of the little red-haired girl who had already run away, Draco changed the subject back to the subject, "Speaking of which, Opal, what are you pointing the spider to show me?" ”

[The spider's natural predator is the basilisk, and Hagrid complained to me the other day that someone had secretly killed his rooster.] ]

Keeping the book in his arms and moving on, Opal shrugged his shoulders, [Afraid of roosters, and a natural predator of spiders, plus the neighing of snakes I heard on Halloween, it's easy to tell, isn't it?] ]

"But ......"

Frowning, Draco seemed eager to raise his own objection, but Opal, who saw what he was thinking, waved his hand: [Maybe Draco you might say that if you really look at the basilisk, it should be a direct death, but I went to ask for Professor Lockhart's autograph yesterday, and looked through the "Dangerous Magical Creatures Illustrated Book", which I have studied about the basilisk. It is found that the instant lethality of the basilisk's gaze is triggered only by looking at each other directly, so if you don't look at each other directly, although it will also have an effect, it will be transformed into petrification to varying degrees due to its own resistance. ]

Speaking of which, when she took Lockhart's signature and went to the forbidden area to get the book, she seemed to see Hermione biting her finger in the forbidden book area, and when she went out, she asked if the "Magical Pharmacopoeia" had been borrowed - I don't know what kind of potion problem Hermione encountered and even thought of running to the forbidden book area.

"And that cat ......"

[There was standing water in the hallway that night due to Peeves, and I found marks on the edge of the water that looked like wheels had been run over.] So I guess Lady Loris's must have seen the eyes of the basilisk in the water, so she was completely petrified. ]

After saying this, O'Paal paused, [but these are all my guesses, so I haven't told anyone else.] Draco: You've heard it, forget it. ]

It was only after finding out the information of the basilisk that Opal remembered the strange behavior of Sister Qianwei asking her to wear contact lenses during the previous summer vacation, and once again confirmed that Sister Qianwei must know the follow-up plot, but she couldn't tell her directly for various reasons, so she could only protect her in this obscure way - although she was also squeezed by her badly.

"Even if it's speculation, I think what you said is much more reliable than the rumors out there."

Pinching his chin and thinking about it for a moment, Draco came to a conclusion.

[Rumors?] What kind of rumors? ]

"It's nothing more than a ...... around the Savior"

Speaking of this, Draco once again looked disgusted, "Our great savior, the Golden Boy, is in fact the heir of Slytherin...... Is there a more bullshitty rumor than this? I dare say that if Lord Salazar had known about this, he would have jumped out of his grave in anger. ”

[Does anyone believe such a ridiculous rumor?] ]

Opal was stunned, [and didn't he say that Potter was the heir to Voldemort (Draco visibly shuddered when he heard the term)?] Why did you switch to Slytherin again this time? ]

"The most speechless thing is that there are many people from other colleges who believe this rumor - and the people who believe it the most are the stupid lions."

Draco just shrugged his shoulders and said that he couldn't understand the thinking pattern of the group of hot-blooded lions, "Alright, back to the topic, it's not wrong to be a little more vigilant about the secret room, I'll inform the other prefects later." ”

[That's right, be prepared, then hard work Draco you!] ]

Opal just stuck out his tongue at this.

"How dare you say it! This is obviously what the head of your grade has to do! I was asked to do it as a prefect! You really don't feel guilty at all when you are the shopkeeper! ”

Looking at someone's look of "if you can work harder, you will take care of it more", Draco couldn't help but itch at the root of his teeth, and directly raised his hand to pull someone's cheek, "If you really want to be so irresponsible, you just give me the position of chief!" ”

[This position is not what I want.] ]

Although his cheek was pinched, but because Draco didn't use much force at all, Opal didn't struggle, just held the book and blinked his eyes and looked at Draco innocently, [But who told Draco that he couldn't beat me, and he couldn't release the water if he wanted to.] ]

“！”

Draco, who was trampled on in an instant, couldn't help but increase the force of his hand, pulling Opal's face out of a slight deformation, "I even mentioned this matter again!" You did it on purpose, absolutely on purpose, definitely on purpose! ”

knew that his challenge to her was repeated defeats, and he stepped on his thunder like this!

[Painful pain...... Let it go! ]

"If it doesn't hurt, you won't be able to remember!"

[But what I said is clearly true...... Draco, you're a bully! ]

"You brought it on yourself!"

“………… Hey............"

Pansy, who was passing by with Blaise, patted Draco on the shoulder with a black line on her head, "It's in the academy hallway now!" You two should pay a little attention to the impact! No more classes! ”

[Pansy Pansy...... Draco bullies! I don't admit it even if I can't beat it! ]

Opal, who had been able to escape from Draco's clutches, shrank behind Pansy with the book in his arms, tearfully accusing.

“……”X3

It's already said that Draco can't beat you, how can he bully you?! Opal, your logic is completely messed up, hey!

The gazes of the other three present began to drift in unison.

====================I am the dividing line of the passage of time==================??? ・The secret land of the lake

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Early Saturday morning, after taking Draco to the Slytherin Quidditch training room, Opal said hello to Pansy and Blaise, and then couldn't wait to use the Portkey he had received on Thursday night to teleport into the Secret Land of the Lake.

[Riddle Riddle!] ]

As soon as he recovered from the faintness of the portkey, Opal plunged headlong into the arms of the man he knew best and was closest to, and if it weren't for the "reserved" and "image" that had been mentioned many times, he would have turned into a koala and climbed on Riddle's body.

But even so, the little beast that refused to come out in someone's arms, half-squinting and enjoying the stroke on the top of his head, was more like a little beast that was spoiling its owner.

"Why don't you take a little more rest."

Gently patting Opal's little head, a soft light appeared in the depths of his azure eyes, "Didn't you say you wanted to come over in the afternoon?" ”

[It's Quidditch match day between Slytherin and Gryffindor, but Riddle knows I'm not interested in that kind of match.] I didn't have anything else to do in the morning, so I came early! ]

With a "satisfied" expression, he followed Riddle's side, and Opal said as he pulled out the scroll from his clothes that was specially used to load documents, [As for the processed documents, I've already brought them here, do you want Riddle to see them now?] ]

"You can do your best to do that kind of thing, and if you don't worry, I won't leave it to you."

Knowing that the documents Opal was talking about were those that belonged to the "Cappadocia" family, Riddle had been reluctant to do so since he had helped with some of them at Malfoy's house.

In the past, he might have been enthusiastic about it, but in recent years, as he has learned more about the principles of magic, his original desire for power has finally faded.

Now that I think about it, in the past, I am afraid that he was really like the witch said, because of his background, so he wanted to gain better power and get the approval of everyone.

And now, after coming into contact with the power of the higher levels, looking back, he can only funnily admit that what he chased in the past was so ridiculous - because his vision is no longer limited by the past, and his understanding of many things is different.

He still had contact with Lucius and his group of Death Eaters, but less often, and his orders shifted, and although he had been vaguely aware of the movement among the Death Eaters lately, he wasn't as concerned as he had been - he knew that it must have been the effect of the scattered darkness of twelve years ago.

The dark forces that fell on Malfoy Manor back then obviously regarded his past diary as a nest, but he also instructed Lucius to find a reason to throw the diary at Hogwarts, and I believe that his silent girl should also find some clues, right?

[Is Miss Vivien out on business again?] I can't seem to have been able to contact her lately, although the official document is still thrown over on time. But how is Riddle living here? Helping out with Miss Vivien's work would be a hassle, wouldn't it? I'm not here to interfere with Riddle's work, right? Why didn't Mr. Yeji help out here? ]

He followed Riddle to his treehouse in the secret realm of the lake, and asked his own questions like Opal in his arms as he had done in the past—in fact, the time she contacted Vivien through the two-way mirror turned out to be Riddle's affair, which really scared her, so much so that she felt a little guilty of facing Riddle now.

"You have so many questions together, do you want me to answer which one first?"

Looking at Opal in his arms with some amusement, Riddle curled the corners of his lips slightly, leaned back on the back of the chaise longue and spoke in a leisurely tone.

[uh......]

Then, not at all, I was not surprised to see my silent girl tilting her head, thinking there with a distressed expression.

It was no different from the past, and he could probably guess what Opal's answer would have at the end.

[Forget it, none of those questions matter.] ]

Finally, Opal looked up and looked at Riddle with a big, innocent smile, [Just know that Riddle is doing well now.] ]

See, sure enough, that's the answer his silent girl would have.

Simple and pure, yet extremely tough.

The blue eyes were no longer cold when they were alone, and now there was a slight soft look that no one else could ever peep at, and Riddle belonged only to Opal's side.

"Have you seen anything interesting happen at school lately?"

[There are a lot of interesting things, but there are also a lot of troublesome things.] Recently, because of the secret room, I almost couldn't get my application report approved...... Really. ]

He would complain about it, but Opal was just because he almost couldn't get out to see Riddle.

As for whether Riddle is "Voldemort" or not, Opal never felt that this was something he needed to care about - because it was and it was not, for Opal, Riddle was Riddle.

"Secret room?"

Hearing a familiar term that was too long ago, Riddle raised an eyebrow slightly.

[Well, I don't know who opened it, but it's probably the secret chamber in Slytherin where the basilisk is kept.] ]

"Has anyone died?"

[Not yet, but if things continue to develop, something will probably go wrong.] I've asked Derack to inform Slytherin House students to remember to attach a "speculator" to themselves when they travel, or simply bring glasses. ]

"So...... What are you going to do? ”

[How?] ]

After repeating a sentence with some confusion, Opal simply shrugged his shoulders, [If there is no follow-up incident, then it will be fine, but because Hogwarts will be in trouble if it closes for this, if there is another incident where students are attacked, I should find a way to solve this matter.] ]

"Even if it's possible to face Voldemort?"

[Yes, yes.] ]

Blinked, pigeon's blood-red eyes were full of puzzlement, [He's not Riddle.] ]

As long as the opponent is not him...... Is it?

Slightly stunned, after a while, the curvature of the corners of his mouth rose again, and Riddle leaned slightly into his arms and dropped a kiss on the girl's smooth forehead, which was a compliment.

"Good boy."