He put the "Elimination" card and the "Wind" card that came back automatically into his pocket: "It's really strange, I usually only recite the shortest spells, why do I have to recite all the spells this time?"

The noise gradually sounded everywhere.

Tom walked out from the depths of the eighth floor, and saw that the castle, which had been empty, had suddenly returned to its former bustle, and the students rushed to the stairs, looking so young and energetic.

"It's Professor Moody!" shouted an excited student who scurried past Tom.

"Professor Moody has appeared!"

Tom's face froze.

Well, now that the "Elimination" card has been sealed, it is indeed time for Moody, who was missing by the "Elimination" card, to come back.

However, the professor was obviously unfriendly to him, so he better get out of here!

Oh oops!

Tom stopped and felt in his pocket—the note from Headmaster Dumbledore still couldn't be found.

"Maybe Professor Dumbledore will forgive me for not showing up?" muttered Tom.

"If you have a reasonable reason. An old but energetic voice suddenly sounded behind Tom.

"Reasonable reason?" Tom's eyes lit up, "there must be! I can't find a note with a password written on it, and the stone beast in the principal's office requires me to have a password before he can open a ...... for me."

Tom realized that it was none other than Dumbledore who had just spoken to him.

He quickly put on his most sincere smile and turned to face Dumbledore.

"Good afternoon, Professor Dumbledore," Tom said in his most well-behaved voice, "I didn't mean to ignore your invitation. ”

Dumbledore touched his long white beard and nodded with a smile, "Yes, I heard it all, you lost the note with the password." ”

Tom nodded as hard as a chick pecking rice.

"Hahaha," Dumbledore laughed, the half-moon eye on the bridge of his nose sliding down with his laughter, "what an honest boy, Mr. Cooper. But it's obviously not a good time for us to have afternoon tea together. Alasto—your Defence Against the Dark Arts professor is back, let's go check it out?"

Dumbledore winked mischievously at Tom.

Tom only felt a drop of cold sweat slip down the back of his head: when it comes to acting, among the people he knows, I'm afraid only his mother Cynthia can compare with the old man in front of him.

To be honest, not even Tom himself could make such a pretended cute expression - maybe Professor Dumbledore was just a child!

Without waiting for Tom's consent, Dumbledore took the lead in the commotion of the crowd.

Tom pouted reluctantly and lifted his heels.

Moody, who had been missing for a few days, appeared at the same staircase where he had disappeared.

When Tom and Dumbledore arrived, the stairs were already crowded with students.

The students chattered like cheerful sparrows, gossiping about Moody's situation.

Professor Moody seemed a little more dazed than he had been before he had disappeared. He frowned at the students' concerns and inquiries, as if he was trying to remember something.

The blue eyes embedded in his eye sockets, which were always spinning wildly, seemed to have disappeared this time, malfunctioned, and remained motionless in the middle of their sockets.

"Apparently, your Professor Moody has just finished a fantastic trip. Dumbledore chuckled, not forgetting to glance back at Tom.

What else could Tom say, he nodded in agreement.

Suddenly, Moody's scarred cheeks twitched as if he was suffering from something in the crowd.

Ignoring the exclamations of the students around him, he quickly untied the kettle at his waist with his hands and feet, and took a big gulp.

Seeing this, Dumbledore hurried over.

The students surrounding Moody moved out of the way, making way for Dumbledore and Tom, who was following him.

"Are you alright, Alastor?" Dumbledore asked in a low voice, worried.

Tom noticed that as Dumbledore approached Moody, Moody had taken a small step back.

"Of course I'm fine. Moody replied gruffly.

"You don't look like you're doing well," Dumbledore said, dismissing the students around him, "Go to the school infirmary and show Poppy?"

Tom was about to take advantage of this time to leave with the students who had been dismissed, but Dumbledore actually saw through his intentions, put one hand directly on Tom's shoulder, and motioned for Tom to stay.

Tom wanted to cry without tears.

To be honest, he really doesn't want to face this Moody, who has obvious malice towards him, especially since Moody's disappearance is closely related to himself.

Before, Dumbledore must not be a good thing to find himself, for him, in such a situation, he should try not to appear in front of these two professors.

But the hands on Tom's shoulders shattered his plans.

"I just didn't react for a moment. Moody rejected Dumbledore's offer, insisting that he was fine, "I'm more concerned about why the students say I've been missing for days than my physical condition." ”

With that, his big and small eyes stared at Tom.

What should come is always coming.

As soon as Tom heard Moody speak, he knew it was going to come back to him.

For both students and professors, Moody did disappear after talking to him, especially if it wasn't a good thing for him, and it was understandable that everyone would blame him for it.

Even if it wasn't Tom's business, everyone would be suspicious of him - the rumors before are the best proof of that.

To make matters worse, Moody's disappearance does have something to do with Tom.

Tom is the Cullo magician, and the loss of the Kuro card was caused by him.

Besides, the Kuro card likes to be around the Kuro Magician, which is what Rubelos told Tom at the beginning.

So the fact that the "elimination" card was able to appear at Hogwarts and cause chaos between professors and students was largely due to Tom.

Therefore, in the face of Dumbledore's failure to prevent him from leaving the scene, and Moody's malicious speculation, Tom must be false if he wants to say that he is not nervous or flustered.

Fortunately, most of the professors at Hogwarts believed that Tom was innocent, and there was no trace of dark magic on the scene, and the huge magic that was necessary to make a powerful former Auror disappear was something that Tom did not currently have, which gave Tom some confidence.

"It's really a pretty amazing thing. Dumbledore patted Tom on the shoulder and laughed at Moody, "I can't wait for you to tell me what happened to you in the days you've been gone!"