Could it be that he is in some terrible trouble?

Tom vigilantly held the silver basswood wand in the palm of his hand, and with his other hand touched his pocket, making sure that the Kuro card was still in his pocket, and then grasped the bird's head wand hanging from his chest.

"Anyone?" shouted Tom.

"Is there anybody—" "Is there anybody—"...... People—""...... Isn't-"

His voice echoed through the empty castle.

This made Tom panic.

The situation was clearly abnormal, and not a single student or professor responded to Tom's shouting.

"Is it the Kurot card trick again?" Tom guessed secretly, tightening his grip on the bird's head wand.

The wand squeezing Tom's palm through his clothes reassured Tom a lot.

"It's time to test you, Tom. Tom took a deep breath and cheered himself on.

Before coming to Hogwarts, he had never faced an unexpected situation in his life alone, and he had returned to three years ago because of the "Time" and "Horn" cards, and he was accompanied by Corubelos.

This time, he faced Hogwarts alone, which suddenly became weird, and it was indeed a huge test for Tom.

"Don't panic. Tom raised his silver basswood wand to his chest with a solemn expression.

"If it's really the Kurot game, I'll have a way to solve it. ”

He cheered himself up in his heart.

"Rubelos said that in order to seal the Kuro card, you must first find the location of the Kuro card. He resisted the panic in his heart and closed his eyes, "As long as I feel it carefully, I can know where the Kurot cards are." ”

He recalls what Korubelos has taught him to get the hang of the Kulo cards as he struggles to find them.

His breathing slowed, and the pounding heartbeat caused by the running and nervousness calmed down strangely.

"Bang-Bang-Bang"

It was the sound of his heartbeat.

Feel carefully, the fluctuations in energy.

Tom reminded himself.

"Whew-"

It's the sound of a breeze blowing through the hallway.

"Brush—"

It was the movement of his robes brushing the ground.

"Tom, tom, tom"

Hey, what's going on?

Tom suddenly felt something unusual in the castle.

It was like a pebble thrown into the calm water by a mischievous child, and an inexplicable wave shook not far from Tom.

"Is this just a fluctuation of energy?" Tom moved his eyelids in confusion, trying to open them.

"No, no. He immediately closed his eyes tightly again, "Maybe it's just my delusion." ”

Tom thought.

But Tom was very concerned about this rippling water wave, and he focused almost all his attention on the center of this "water wave".

The figurine who created the movement seemed to notice Tom, and it began to move into the distance.

"No matter!" Tom opened his eyes suddenly, and chased after him.

Miraculously, even now that Tom had his eyes open, he could still feel the location of that strange movement.

"Maybe it's a Kuro card!" Tom thought happily as he chased.

He followed his feelings, jumped up the stairs in three steps and two steps, and ran to the eighth floor with a "swoop".

"Maybe I should break the seal on the key first?" Tom hesitated, "At this rate, I'm going to catch up with that thing soon, if it's a Kuro card, the key is in wand form, so I can seal the Kuro card faster, right?"

But then, he dismissed the idea himself: "No, no, what if that thing wasn't a Kuro card? What if it was actually a ghost? I'm holding such a pink wand, I'm afraid I'll be laughed at, right?"

"Forget it," Tom quickened his pace, "until we catch up." ”

The thing seemed to be tired of running, and Tom had only stepped up to the eighth floor on his front feet when it stopped not far away.

Tom looked up and saw a golden point of light the size of a firefly dancing four or five meters in front of him.

"Hee-hee~"

Faintly, Tom also heard a strange playful sound coming from the point of light.

If you can play it like this, you think it's a Kuro card.

Tom was relieved.

He looked left and right, and saw that there was no one on the eighth floor, and even the stone beast in front of the door of the principal's office at the end was sleeping with its eyes closed.

Tom immediately made a decision, took out the key hanging from his chest, and whispered, "Break the seal!"

"Wow!"

As the magic circle lit up under Tom's feet, the light points let out a strange cry, jumped up and down on the spot a few times, and ran towards the depths of the eighth floor in a flash.

Tom immediately pulled his legs to follow, and as he ran, he didn't forget to pull the Kuro cards out of his pocket.

He didn't notice that the stone beast with its eyes closed in the distance quietly opened its eyes and grinned at Tom's departing back.

"Wind, please turn into chains and trap everything that has escaped!" Tom blurted out without thinking.

Immediately, he neatly threw out the "Wind" card, and the bird's head wand was accurately pointed on the "Wind" card.

Gusts of wind turned into ropes of wind visible to the naked eye, shooting out in the direction of the escape of the point of light.

"Wow!"

A cry of horror even more terrifying than just before came from the depths of the eighth floor.

Tom quickened his pace and ran in the direction of the wind rope.

"Chirp!"

Listening to this call, the point of light seems to have been captured by the "wind".

As Tom snorted and gasped to catch up, the blob of light turned into a slender girl dressed in a black and white square-like circus clown costume.

Its face was panicked, and it was wrapped in wind ropes, even the huge wheel-like wrinkled collar around its neck was deformed by the wind ropes.

It grasped a transparent cloth in its hand and shook it up and down with its free fingertips, intending to cover it over itself.

When Tom approached, it struggled as hard as it could, and its clumped body writhed wildly like a giant caterpillar.

"Looks like it's you!" Tom finally caught his breath and raised his bird's head wand at "girl".

"Restore your old self, Kuro!"

No matter how unwilling the "girl" was, her body still turned into a stream of magical power, surging towards the wand in Tom's hand.

Gradually, the outline of a Kurot card appeared on the tip of the bird's head wand, and as the magic poured in, the shape of the Kurot card gradually became clear.

Until the girl wrapped in the "wind" completely disappeared, a Kuro card fell from the tip of the wand and floated into Tom's hand.

"Elimination. Tom whispered the words on the Kuro card, and an indescribable sense of accomplishment welled up in his heart.

It was the first time he had taken the Kulo card alone.

"Maybe it's a day to remember. Tom laughed, took a pen from his pocket, and wrote his name on the cullo card, "Oh, it would be perfect if I could forget all those shameful spells I uttered." ”