What should have happened has happened, nothing has changed, everything is repeating itself.

Delphi, who had become a Muggle, did suppress Helmo for a short time - but who was Helmo? Ever since he made the Devouring Mirror into his own Horcrux, he probably hasn't feared anything again.

Even if he was pressed under the Monument of Bewitchment by the alliance of Rowena and Salazar, he was only extremely annoyed, because he knew that he would never die because of being sealed.

So, not to mention the little girl who was in front of him right now, at most he felt a little suspicious.

After a tentative conversation, Helbo had walked up to Delphi step by step, but the other party still didn't move.

"Don't you make a move?"

He didn't hide anything, just stared at Delphi with one hand over the wound on his chest and looked at it again, and then said impatiently:

"If you don't make a move, get out of the way! I'm not looking for you. ”

As soon as he said this, Helbo lifted his black, muscular arm and swept it towards Delphi's waist.

"Bang!"

With a distinctly audible sound of bones breaking, the latter flew sideways, slid far away even if it fell to the ground, and only barely stopped when it crashed into the benches at the edge of the square.

And as Helbo himself had just said, even though he knew that Delphi was not dying immediately, he did not make up for it. Because, although he was looking for a girl, it was not this girl.

"Your name is Lovegood, isn't it? Oh, I'm curious to know what McLean will be like when he sees your body......"

Helmpo looked at the mercury statue in front of him, and as he spoke, he had raised his right hand again, and even his palm had become a fist.

But as he spoke, the action of charging the punch suddenly paused, and then a sharp glint flashed in his eyes.

“…… Cunning boy ......"

Before the words fell, Helbo finally threw a punch. In the next second, the entire statue exploded in an instant, and a large amount of mercury mixed with scarlet blood was scattered all over the ground.

And yet—

"It's fake again."

Helbo tossed aside the corpse that he had pierced with his punch, and the powerful impact of the punch had already broken the corpse like a rotten sack.

But Helbo had already sensed it before he threw the punch, and it wasn't "Lovegood" at all, just a fake that exuded the same magic fluctuations.

For Helmo soon discovered that the soul in that body not only did not belong to the girl named "Lovegood", but was even mutilated.

Yes, just like the living corpses who have been revived by the breath of demons.

"But ......"

After punching and shattering the mercury statue together, Helbo, who was somewhat vented, couldn't help but lower his head and glanced at the ragbag-like corpse on the ground.

It can be seen that in the midst of a large amount of blood, those strands of long golden hair are still dazzling.

"Even the appearance has moved...... That kid, do you really want to rely on this to hide from me? ”

The other Helmo could figure it out, just like Maca replaced Luna with a corpse she got from the battlefield, which was naturally because Maca wanted to protect the girl.

However, as the wielder of the "arrogant" rune, Maca could not have forgotten Helbo's in-depth study of the rules of the soul.

This alone suddenly felt a little unreasonable.

It's just that...... Of course, Maca naturally wouldn't have thought of fooling Helbo with such a small trick. What he wanted to deceive was himself from the beginning.

"Hmph."

Helbo, who didn't understand what "conspiracy" was still hidden here, immediately stopped thinking about it. I saw him take two steps back, then raise his hands and clasp them together and slam them on the ground of the square.

"Boom!"

For a moment, the masonry and dirt flew up as if they had been blasted by explosives—if he couldn't figure it out, he had already sensed a source of magic moving underground.

Since the one in front of you is fake, then the real one...... I'm afraid it's down there, isn't it?

After all, the two "survivors" were used as spies, so much so that he was tricked once. But not long ago, that Lovegood was still outside the observation room, and that could not be wrong.

In this unapparition-free underground space with only one exit......

"It's not going to disappear into thin air!"

As he thought so, Helbo quickly jumped into the hole he had smashed out and dug deep into the ground as fast as he could.

……

"Oh! Miss Lovegood, are you finally here? ”

In the spacious passage deep underground, Maca remained the volunteer he played, leaning against the wall of the passage and waiting for Luna's arrival.

He had already told Luna to abandon his stay and retreat as soon as the second layer of magic shield was breached—in the name of "Mr. McLean", of course.

And at this moment, when sensing the fluctuation of Helpo's mana above her head, which had recovered more and more powerfully, Luna finally emerged from the darkness in the direction of the entrance of the secret passage unharmed.

"Why are you still here? Waiting for me? Luna glanced at Maca left and right, then looked up at the top of her head, "Well, it's scary!" ”

"Not really!"

Maca nodded, then waved her hand again:

"Miss Lovegood, let's go quickly! I promised Mr. McLean that I would send you to the newest refuge - quick, go! ”

While urging repeatedly, Maca also dragged her, and then the two immediately ran briskly towards the end of the secret passage.

To be honest, the passage was built so long that it could go as far as the coastline, covering a total length of more than ten miles.

However, this time, except for some injuries who could not move through apparition, the others only needed to run out of the range of Spiral Town to go directly to the refuge near Calais City, France, and temporarily get out of danger.

However, just as Maca and Luna were running, Helbo had already gone underground. Even though he didn't take the stairs, his speed didn't seem to be slow at all, as if he would break in through the entrance to the secret passage behind him at any moment.

The sound of footsteps mixed with the sound of increasingly heavy wheezing still couldn't drown out the approaching rumbling of earth behind her, but Maca couldn't use her true strength to lead Luna out of this hellish place immediately.

"Time...... It should be enough, it should be enough......"

He whispered to himself in his heart.