A month later.

The Scottish Highlands, in the small town of Russ on the shores of Loch Lomond.

With the sound of "Amen", the morning prayer meeting was over, and the townspeople bowed to Father Benitez, who was standing in front of the prayer table, and left the church in twos and threes to start a new day.

It wasn't long before only Benitez and ...... were left in the church.

"Sorry, I'm just curious...... Do you people over there also believe in God?"

Benitez closed the Bible in his hand and looked helplessly at the old man sitting in the last row of seats in the church.

For the past month, the old wizard, Otto Apocalis, has been here almost every day for all sorts of excuses, either to listen to prayers with great interest or to accompany the children in the orphanage to read and write in his free time.

"If you believed in God, would you agree to my previous proposal?"

Grindelwald raised an eyebrow and asked curiously, with a very serious look on his face.

Obviously, as long as Benitez nodded his head slightly, with the face and character of the original Dark Lord, there would definitely be no hesitation and psychological burden, even if it was a Muggle world religion that he once looked down on at all.

“...... Mr. Apokalis, I have explained this many times before. ”

Benitez walked over to the old wizard and sat down, looking through the church window at Elena, who was singing with the children.

"Although I know that as a witch, the world that Elena will live in in the future will definitely be very different from what I have seen and imagined, and I am very grateful for your care of this child, if it is a normal adoption, as long as Elena agrees, I will not have much of a problem, in fact, I am glad to see that she can get along with you. But ......"

Glancing at the wrinkled old man beside him, Benitez scratched his cheek and said with some embarrassment.

"As you are aware, according to the current UK government legislation, if you want to adopt in the UK, you do not need to be a British citizen, but you or your partner must have a permanent residence in the UK and have lived in the UK for at least one year. More importantly, the adoptive parents are the only option in the current adoptive relationship. ”

"The problem is that the stubborn little girl only agreed to me being her grandfather. ”

Grindelwald sighed and shrugged his shoulders, his expression extremely helpless.

According to Elena, there can only be one person to her father in this world, and that is José Benitez, and if Grindelwald wants to get legal custody of her, then he must have the consent of Benitez himself.

On the other hand, if he doesn't want to completely turn against Elena, he can't use any magic to assist.

Therefore......

Turning his head, Grindelwald looked at the middle-aged man beside him, and once again sincerely stretched out his right hand.

"Be my son, Mr. Benitez! wealth, status, woman, fame, power, eternal life, power, whatever you want, I can give it to you, countless people in this world want to be my son!"

“...... Sorry, I refuse!"

Benitez twitched his cheeks, and once again firmly refused.

For Benitez, since agreeing to Elena to go to Hogwarts, he has envisioned a variety of scenarios:

For example, Elena was adopted by another wizarding family because of her outstanding talent in magic, or Elena was forced to drop out of school because she made trouble in school, and even thought that Elena would become a witch and harm the world after completing her studies......

However, José Benitez was the only one who did not expect it......

After a year of studying Hogwarts magic, this Nizi actually found him an adoptive father?!

Although he didn't understand the status of this old wizard in the wizarding world, but through the attitude of the foreigners who had recently moved to live in this town in the past month, Benitez knew that the other party was definitely a big man.

You know, in the first week of Otto Apokalis's arrival in the small town of Russ, the Holy See received a huge donation from the Austrian Apokalis family, which directly "bought" Elena an official nun status - if it weren't for Elena's girl, she would have almost become the owner of this church directly.

The orphanage and church have also been completely renovated and rebuilt.

It hasn't been transformed into anything extravagant, but it's definitely the most beautiful, neat, and comfortable place in the town, and both the kids and the townspeople are very happy with it – except for José Benítez.

Because whenever these things happen, an old man will always appear in his sight and persistently send him an invitation to "be my son!"

Of course, in the face of "money ability", Benitez couldn't even get angry except for refusal.

Of course, Benitez has always suspected that there is another reason why the old man has been here for a long time......

"Hey, what are you two talking about?"

Elena pushed open the door and walked into the church with the other children in the orphanage like a mother chicken.

Glancing at Benitez with a helpless face, and Grindelwald with the same expression, a hint of a leather smile flashed in Elena's eyes, and her face was straight, as if she didn't know what the two men were talking about, and said seriously.

"I'll leave the rest to you, I'll prepare lunch. As usual, one of you will come and help me with the ingredients, and the other will take care of the little ones for a while, and supervise them in their homework. ”

"Then, I'll supervise everyone's affairs today. ”

José Benitez quickly stood up and volunteered to pat his chest.

According to the rules set by Elena Cook Kaslana, the daily menu will be decided by the person who teaches the children to read, and Otto Apocalis's taste is a little too heavy for Benitez.

What sauerkraut stewed with pig's blood, Bavarian roast pork knuckle, kale caramel sausage, meatballs with creamy caper sauce, curd pancakes, dandelion salad, sour beef stew, beetroot fish stew, pickled cucumber......

To make matters worse, the children in the orphanage have been trained by Elena to take on her shape from an early age.

Anything made by Elena was delicious for them, and there was no mismatch in taste, and Benitez and Grindelwald had to fight every day in order to eat what they wanted.

Although at the beginning, the two men complained a little about a certain little devil sowing discord.

Over time, though, Benitez got used to it.

The three of them are like a family who are always bickering, living together in this small town orphanage far from the city, enjoying this extremely short leisure time.

If...... Mr. Apokalis should not be so insistent on recognizing his son......

.........

And on the other side, for a certain boy who lives at 4 Privet Road.

The first month of summer vacation was obviously not so pleasant.