At Hogwarts Hospital, Madam Pomfrey is the true master, and even Maca and Dumbledore are very polite to her. Because everyone knows that Madam Pomfrey, although she is harsh and harsh, she is genuinely considerate of her patients.

When it comes to love for this school and all the students, she will never lose to anyone.

Otherwise, with her level of treatment, she is afraid that she can get a very high salary and courtesy wherever she goes, so why deal with a bunch of naughty little devils at Hogwarts with a salary that is not up to par.

After honestly apologizing to Madam Pomfrey, Maca immediately left the room. As for Sarah, who no longer had to stay in the school hospital to pretend to be sick and recuperate, of course he also took it with him.

A moment later, there was a room for requirement.

“…… Sarah, it's up to you to help me confirm this conjecture. If my conjecture is wrong, then you may experience 'partial' emotions, and in case my conjecture is confirmed...... That means your problem will be more difficult to solve than I thought. ”

In this empty new room, Maca crouched on the floor and sketched the rune array one by one, while speaking to Sarah, who was standing nearby.

If Snape had been here, he would have noticed that this formation was exactly the same one that Maca had drawn at Malfoy Manor.

"If you don't mind, I think I'd better tell the truth first," as she spoke, Maca suddenly stopped what she was doing and turned back to Sarah and smiled, "Actually, I still prefer that my guess is correct, after all, it is more beneficial to me......"

Maca's so-called "truth" seems to be full of selfishness no matter how it sounds, but Sarah doesn't seem to care too much.

"Whether it succeeds or not, your actions have an element that helps me. As for whether your conjecture will succeed in proving it on me, it's not up to you to decide, is it? ”

"Ah, that's true......"

Maca nodded, and then continued to bow her head and draw his formation. Sarah, on the other hand, while staring at Maca's back, once again recalled the "conjecture" that Maca had mentioned just now.

……

Just ten minutes ago, when Maca and she had first arrived, the two had continued their conversation in the hospital room.

At that time, Maca told Sarah what he had observed with Draco.

"Sarah, I think that what we often call 'love' and 'sin' are actually from the same source," Maca said at the time, "and the only source may be 'desire.'" ”

Moreover, both should be desires that have gone out of control for some reason, and are an extreme manifestation of the will...... That is, they are the same thing in themselves, nothing different. ”

"As for why people treat them differently, I think it's just because people take the initiative to impose standards of good and evil on them according to their own needs."

As she said this, Maca thought for a moment, and then immediately waved her hand.

"Of course, I'm not saying that's wrong," he explains, "and it's the need for people to restrain their behavior that makes it as clear as possible between good and evil." Because people are probably already clearly aware that 'desire' is influencing everyone all the time, and it is a deep-rooted existence-"

"Or to put it another way, it's simply with us."

When Maca says this, she is actually reminding Sarah that the so-called "desire" is likely to be part of the soul, or even the soul itself.

And if you think about it, you can understand that people's emotions and emotions are not an external manifestation of desire?

"Therefore, I have something here, and its properties may be able to examine your soul in a targeted manner." After pointing out the point of the right talent, Maca dug into the pocket of her waist, "This thing seems to magnify a specific 'sin' in the human soul...... As long as there is a desire in your soul, no matter how small that desire is, it will be able to capture it accurately. ”

At this point, Maca shook her head again.

"Of course, for your soul...... I actually have a rather bad conjecture here. He said, "You used to say that you were a 'defective product', right?" I think you're probably right about what you call yourself......"

"Really?"

Sarah didn't feel anything about it, as she had been prepared for it for a long time.

At that time, she stared at the gem in Maca's palm for a while. She was good at spiritual alchemy, and she could feel that there seemed to be a very special energy contained in it, but because Maca's rune array was firmly imprisoned in it, this sense was quite vague.

And at that moment, Maca pondered again, and then suddenly said, "By the way, if my guess is correct, then we may be able to try it in another way." Of course, that would be more dangerous than the current method—"

"Yes."

At that moment, Sarah's answer was succinct and crisp.

……

However, compared to Sarah's desire for emotion, Maca has other ideas.

He promised to find a way to help Sarah and make her a "whole life", which was naturally selfish. Otherwise, Sarah's help in saving people would not have made him agree to a troublesome thing that would not benefit him.

In fact, as he had observed Draco, that energy had the property of inducing desire. And judging from Draco's previous performance, it was all related to the Bewitching Monument.

That's why Maca pinned Draco's affairs on Voldemort's head.

On this basis, as soon as he thought about the next test that the bronze eagle handed to him, he couldn't help but have some other considerations.

"If it's really as I thought, what to do with the Ravenclaw test, I might have a clue......"

In the center of the room, Maca was drawing a diagram of the formation while secretly pondering it.

Because this formation had only been drawn once before noon, he was now drawing it very quickly. Without making Sarah wait too long, he added the final touches to the formation, and he immediately stood up.

"Come and stand in the middle," he beckoned, "I'll inject some of your energy into you in a moment, and if I feel something isn't right, tell me right away." Of course, if my side detects an abnormality, it will immediately withdraw all the energy from your body. ”

Hearing this, Sarah nodded silently, and walked to the center of the formation to stand.

Maca took out her staff from outside the array, and when Sarah signaled that she was ready, he immediately swung her staff to draw the energy stored in the gem into the array.

Suddenly, an invisible shadow continued to stretch forward in Maca's perception like a silk thread, silently connecting with Sarah's forehead.

Maca is also trying for the first time, so the energy extracted is very small. As soon as he activated the rune array, he could instantly peel them out in the blink of an eye.

However, there is always a danger, and this experiment cannot be replaced by anything else, it has to be an emotionless "person" like Sarah who is the effective test subject.

And the moment that glimmer of energy touched Sarah, Maca sensed a familiar wave of magical power. He knew that the energy was working.

It's a pity that I don't know whether to say it or not, as Maca expected, the activation of energy did not bring any changes to Sarah. Her expression was still calm, and her eyes were still as clear as mortals.

There are only two possibilities at the moment: one, there is too little energy to produce such a quick response; And the second, presumably, is that Maca's conjecture has been confirmed.

Of course, since there are two possibilities, then Maca has no intention of interrupting the experiment.

He continued to pump out more energy, instilling little by little into Sarah's body, while his eyes were focused on Sarah's expression.

In Maca's senses, the magic fluctuations in Sarah's body have changed a lot. At such a close distance, he could clearly feel that Sarah's magic was becoming more and more obscure.

That is a testament to the fact that its own magic is attached to the energy of the Bewitching Monument. Although the change is very slow because of the infusion of the energy of the past, it is real.

"Sarah, do you feel any different from usual?"

Maca asked as she kept observing.

"A different feeling?" Sarah, who was standing in the array, blinked, as if to feel it more closely, before replying, "I can sense that energy...... I didn't see anything, but I could see it building up in my body...... And, make me stronger. ”

"Can I use it?" Maca continued, "I mean, that energy ......."

"I ...... Well, I can't really tell," Sarah said after a moment's thought, "I just feel like I'm getting stronger, or rather, I have a power that I didn't have before...... Maybe that's the energy you're talking about......"

After hearing this, Maca nodded.

"What about the emotional aspect?"

"I don't feel it."

Sarah answered the last question neatly, but it undoubtedly meant that Maca's conjecture was confirmed.

"Oh, okay......"

Although judging by Sarah's performance, the power of the Bewitching Monument is completely harmless to her, Maca can't risk keeping it in her body just because of this.

After Sarah answered, Maca immediately pressed her staff against the array at her feet and activated it.

"I'm sorry, Sarah......" Maca whispered as she ran the rune array to strip away the energy, "although it can be seen through my soul magic, there is no sign of your soul being broken...... However, the results of the experiment proved that it seemed to be the remnant ......."

"No, wait! Speaking of which, why did you ......?"