"Tuk-tuk."

On this quiet spring night, the three knocks on the door were so soft that they seemed to be afraid of scaring anyone. Maca knew that most of the people outside the door were not the fat men of the Hohenheim family, after all, that guy would not treat a door as gently as the one outside—he seemed to have guessed wrong.

"Please come in."

As he stood up and waved his hand, the office door opened silently.

The weather has been getting better and better in recent days, but the location of Hogwarts is also at a relatively high altitude, and it is still quite cold at night. So today, he still lights the fireplace, and when the fire is flickering, he doesn't really see much outside the door.

When he looked over here, he could basically only see a shadowy silhouette, and it seemed that the other party was still hesitating slightly in the corridor outside.

"What's the matter, don't you come in?"

It's hard to tell who is coming from the magic fluctuations alone, and although everyone's fluctuations are different, it's a bit reluctant to remember its characteristics. Of course, a squib like Filch's has a fairly low level of magic activity, so it's easier to tell the difference.

After Maca opened her mouth to ask, there was about ten seconds of silence, and the other party finally slowly walked into the office as if she had made a decision. When the light of the fire covered it with a soft orange hue, Maca finally saw who it was.

"Senior sister?" He wondered, "Why are you here?" Can I help you? ”

The person who came was Charlotte, a rare guest that Makawan had never expected.

Don't look at this big beauty who gets along with him very easily, and even has a little bit of a big grin on weekdays, but she is quite conservative in some basic principles. It has to be a little strange to come to a boy's place so late today.

What's more worth mentioning is that she is still wearing a set of simple cotton pajamas, and her thick long hair is so loosely tied up on her shoulders, which makes her look like she has a lazy temperament.

In front of the neck, which was buttoned one button less, half of the slender neck was covered by hair, but it made the other half look more delicate and fair.

Maca looked at her inexplicably and blinked, and suddenly found that there was a faint mist in her eyes, and her cheeks were slightly flushed, and she didn't know that the fire in the fireplace was causing trouble.

"Hmm...... Maca, you're still so crowded here, I think you should ask Professor McGonagall for a bigger office. Charlotte walked delicately between the stacks of books with her hands behind her back, her words a little slurred, "...... Also, why do you still call me 'Senpai'? Let's not say anything that can't be seen, the expiration date of this title has long passed, right? ”

"Oh, well!" Maca still looked at her a little puzzled, and for a moment she really wasn't sure what she was thinking, "So...... Charlotte, what's wrong with you? ”

"Me?"

Charlotte, who had just walked around to the desk, closed her eyes slightly, and her feet swayed unconsciously, until she opened her eyes again and looked at Maca, and there was already a faint layer of hazy light in her eyes.

"I'm coming for you?" She said quietly, "You know what? I can't sleep a little today...... Lying in bed just now, I was thinking about one thing all the time. ”

With that, she staggered her gaze with Maca's gaze and threw herself at the window behind her. Through the window, you can clearly see a crescent moon hanging high in the sky, but it is not as round as a few days ago.

Charlotte looked at Mingyue in a daze, and continued in a whisper, "I should thank you so much...... If you hadn't taken me out of that dark home, I'm afraid I would have been used as a bargaining chip by my family a long time ago, and sent to another family to marry a man I haven't met a few times in total. I should thank you for your ......."

"You don't have to care so much," Maca advised, "I just looked up and saw you in that carriage by chance...... Even if they decide to help you escape, they have some other purpose. ”

He really didn't say this to shirk or be modest, although the decision to help Charlotte basically had some friendship between friends, but when it came to the purpose, it was the side that took the lion's share of the intelligence.

But when Charlotte heard this, she only shook her head slightly.

"Whatever the reason, you saved me from that abyss, it's a fact." "But the more I appreciate you in my heart, the more difficult it is for me to express my gratitude to you...... Hmm, I don't know how to describe it...... It's like, what I want to say to you isn't just a 'thank you', but something else...... What is more important......"

As she spoke, her voice became softer and softer, and her vision became more blurred with the moonlight. At the end, she suddenly came to a daze, and suddenly staggered around her desk and walked towards Maca in three steps.

"Senior sister?"

Maca subconsciously called her again, and seeing that the soles of her feet seemed to be a little weak, she quickly reached out and grabbed her shoulders again, so as not to tripped over the books at her feet if she was not careful.

Just when there was less than two feet between the two of them, Maca's nose twitched slightly. Accustomed to rely on his sense of smell to determine the refining of potions, he immediately caught a slightly familiar smell - the aroma of rum with a hint of chocolate.

"You drink—" He was only halfway through his sentence, and finally said as if he remembered some crucial point, "Ah! Is that the Easter egg? ”

At that time, he was in the principal's office, and when he met McGonagall, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't prepared an Easter gift for the other party, so he took out the easter egg that he had taken from the three broomsticks. Because he remembered very well that Professor McGonagall had a good amount of alcohol, and the other party had drunk several glasses at several banquets, but he was only slightly drunk.

However, what he didn't expect was that the egg ended up surprisingly in Charlotte's hands.

"Oops...... I said Senpai," Maca said with a smile and a smile, "Come on, be careful and stand firm...... You're the signature waiter at the Hog's Head Bar now! How do you take a few sips to become this virtue? ”

He laughed and opened the window next to him, and suddenly the cool air outside poured into the room with the night breeze. The spring vestibule garden has already bloomed with countless flowers, and the fragrance is still constant at night, mixed with the cool air and diffused in this office.

Charlotte, who was supported by Maca with her hands, sniffed gently, and a faint sweet fragrance lingered between her mouth and nose, with a bit of the unique comfort of the night air.

Are you drunk? Or are you not drunk at all? She couldn't tell the difference herself......

"Maka, senior sister has a question for you......"

Charlotte raised her head slightly, and was slightly surprised to find that the little boy who had just entered school had grown taller than herself.

It was at this moment that the eyes of the two finally overlapped silently, one clear and translucent, the other as deep as a thick mist.

“…… Do you think that the senior sister is beautiful? In fact, she had wanted to ask the question with what little drunkenness she had left.

Ever since she had been in her room tonight, taking small sips of the wine from the chocolate eggshell, the question that had lingered in her mind had been swirling between her lips and teeth. She walked out of the room step by step, and staggered to Maca's side, didn't she just want to say this?

But when she opened her slightly dull mouth, and the words in her mouth were about to blurt out, she caught a glimpse of a picture frame out of the corner of her eye. Behind the framed glass, a blonde girl was facing away from this side, looking up at the moon in the distance.

The moonlight crept through her long hair, and a hazy pale golden glow leaked out without a sound.

This was what Maca had seen on the hillside outside the house after dinner on the first night of his stay at Lovegood's house, Luna standing under the stars.

Even though the girl in the magic photo kept staring at the sky and didn't look back once, Charlotte could tell at a glance who it was. Immediately, her throat seemed to be blocked by something, and her lips gradually pursed again.

At that moment, she jerked Maca's shoulder.

"Smack!"

A loud slap echoed in the silent room of the night, and the originally slightly sweet air seemed to be swept away.

"Ha, you've been fooled!" Charlotte straightened Maca's body and giggled, "Little one, my charm is still good, sister, right?" Look at you, you dare to stare at your sister all the time, and be careful that you can't pull out your eyeballs! ”

She laughed and slapped Maca on the shoulder twice before she took a light step back and stood aside with her hands behind her back again.

"Don't think it's great to be a professor! Sister, I'm studying every day now, maybe we'll be colleagues sometime! ”

After a slight pause, Charlotte dropped the last sentence, and without giving Maca a chance to speak, she turned around with a brisk step around the stacks of books. In the blink of an eye, the door to the office closed with a soft click in front of me.

Maca stood by the window, feeling the delusional numbness in his back, burning his nerves. He stood there for a long time before he closed the window with his own hands, but quietly looked at the moon in the sky.

“…… Happy Easter, Senpai. ”

In the dimly lit hallway outside the office, Charlotte leaned against the wall by the door in her pajamas and sighed silently.