"What a pity."
Kaisen looked at Lupin and shook his head helplessly.
"What's wrong?" Lupin asked.
"That bottle of milk was useless; we'll have to think of other methods."
"It's fine, I've gotten used to it over the years."
"Hmm… How much time is left until the full moon today?" Kaisen suddenly asked.
"About two days? Roughly." Lupin replied.
"Understood." Kaisen directly placed a grindstone on the ground, then took out his magic manual, and sat down on the spot.
"Do you trust me?"
Lupin looked at Kaisen in front of him, then at his own hand, and decisively sat down, placing his hand on the grindstone.
"Hold on."
Kaisen held Lupin's hand with one hand and began to turn the grindstone with the other. Magical symbols flew out directly from it, caught by the magic manual floating in mid-air.
"Your book is pretty good…"
Kaisen looked at the bloody hand on the grindstone and at the struggling Lupin, saying, "You can scream. The first time this thing got to me, I screamed like Tom Cat."
"No need, I think I can still hold on."
Soon, as the magic manual slowly closed, Kaisen also took out dittany and bandages.
After all, the grindstone only caused ordinary physical damage; a few minutes with dittany would heal it.
Kaisen, meanwhile, held the magic manual, distinguishing the symbols on it with the help of his magical monocle.
For example, on some characters, it would directly reveal human and magic tags, while other characters had beast tags.
Thus, he quickly categorized the two types of characters. How to delete them was indeed the more difficult part.
"Is this thing very complicated?" Lupin clenched his fist, feeling his palm was almost healed, then leaned over and asked.
"Actually, I think it's fine. Let's try it first." Kaisen placed an Enchanting Table on the ground, with three lapis lazuli floating inside, then directly pushed Lupin onto it.
Poor Lupin was directly captured by the Enchanting Table's powerful magic and floated up.
"Oh… What's going on?"
Kaisen said nothing, only flipping through the book floating on the tabletop, which recorded Lupin's three symbols.
"...Oh dear…" he said with some surprise.
"What's wrong?" Lupin asked.
"...Nothing." Kaisen shook his head. He couldn't possibly say that he accidentally made Lupin suffer for nothing. This… he had no prior experience either.
The last time he used a grindstone was to grind an ender pearl; grinding a person was the first time. Who knew the Enchanting Table could directly display a person's symbols?
However, the two of them hadn't completely wasted their efforts before; at least this time, Kaisen didn't need to re-identify them.
"Done? Come down." He pulled Lupin down from the Enchanting Table. "Let's get ready and go find Dumbledore."
Lupin pursed his lips. "Has Dumbledore helped you with this kind of… ritual magic before?"
"No."
"Then how did you just… Apparate with a whoosh?"
"I enchanted myself."
"Then just enchant me too. It's just the two of us. Didn't you enchant yourself? I trust your skill." Lupin said.
"We are responsible for my own life, how can we be responsible for your life?" Kaisen frowned and said.
"I can do it."
"Oh… And then you want me to be an accomplice in killing you… Besides, your relationship with Dumbledore should be good, so why are you so afraid of seeing him?" Kaisen put away the Enchanting Table and grindstone, then looked seriously at Lupin and said.
"You are a Professor. If one of your excellent students accomplishes nothing after leaving Hogwarts, floundering in the lower echelons of the Wizarding world for half their life, or even… never mind, just the former part, what would you think of him?"
"I would think he suffered many undeserved hardships. Should I think anything more?" Kaisen explained, "Believe me, Dumbledore and I… should think the same way. Otherwise, how would I have the money to hire you as a bodyguard?"
"What kind of hiring is this? It's as if you can't solve those things yourself. It's more like charity than payment." Lupin shook his head.
"Come on, you sold five Galleons worth of crystals for five hundred Galleons, and you still have this kind of moral purity?"
"One thing at a time. Why refuse something for free? Besides, Wizard matters, how can they be considered…" Lupin's face flushed slightly.
"Then that's it. Human enchantment is very dangerous, do you know what 'nine deaths and one life' means? It's literally a one-tenth success rate."
"…Now?"
"Are you worried that the time difference between Brazil and England will make him fall asleep? Hogwarts's number one night owl is not joking with you."
The next moment, Kaisen directly grabbed Lupin's shoulder, looking at the latter's somewhat confused gaze: "Don't you know I can Apparate?"
"..."
"It's not just for that reason. I'm also afraid you'll secretly escape. The world is so big, it would be quite difficult to catch you back." He added.
"Alright." Lupin sighed, took out his wand, and waved it.
Whoosh…
Hogwarts Headmaster's office...
"I can only say, you finally decided to see me." Dumbledore looked at the two entering the Headmaster's office, a smile appearing on his face as he looked at Lupin, who was following behind.
Lupin nodded, sitting somewhat awkwardly in a chair: "Professor, I have a question. If a student you once considered excellent loses his aura after leaving Hogwarts and struggles in the lower echelons, how would you view him?"
"He must have suffered many hardships that were not his to bear." Dumbledore said without thinking.
"Hmm…" Kaisen made a comfortable villager sound, stood up, and placed the Enchanting Table in the center of the office: "Then let's begin."
Lupin took a deep breath, stood on the Enchanting Table, and was quickly lifted by the magic.
"A ten percent chance of success. I'm putting my life in your hands." he said.
Dumbledore, meanwhile, looked at Kaisen: "Didn't you say last time it was more than twenty-four percent, even higher?"
"Uh… Don't mind those details." Kaisen said, beginning to flip through the enchantment book: "This work was originally the grindstone's job, but it's a pity you're a person. Those symbols will be repaired along with your body's healing, so the grindstone is useless."
"We can only use the Enchanting Table to forcefully delete them."
Kaisen said, carefully comparing character by character, selecting and marking one beast symbol after another.
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