On the way back to the room after dinner, Maka easily noticed two people following her secretly.
In fact, he didn't even have to distinguish the magic power fluctuations too carefully. Because just during the meal, the two pairs of eyes that would wander in his direction from time to time were enough for him to guess who the two people following him were.
"Mr. McClain...those two students, don't you need to worry about them?"
Beside Maka, the windbreaker wizard followed closely as always, as if he could only feel at ease by his side.
Yes, even during this period of time, she would often run to hang out with Luna, Hermione and the others when Maka wasn't going out. Judging from the relationship between them, it can be said that they are quite harmonious.
But if there was anyone she wanted to be with for the longest time, it was undoubtedly Maka.
As time went by, even Maka could feel some little awkwardness in Hermione's heart - for example, when he went to the auditorium to dine with the windbreaker wizard every day, he would occasionally feel Hermione's hidden subtle feelings. glance.
However, he had never had any such thoughts about the windbreaker wizard. Because no matter who the other party is, he is only more concerned about other aspects now.
When the windbreaker wizard asked about the two "little tails" behind him, Maka immediately shook her head.
"No need..." he said, "Although they are indeed here to see me, it does not prevent me from going back to the room to wait for them - there is no need to stop here in a hurry."
After saying this, Maka didn't look back and saw him walking back to the door of his guest room in the deputy castle as usual.
"Mr. McClain, do you need me to stay too?"
"Oh, no need!" Maka turned her head and said as she reached out to open the door, "You should go back and rest early! Tomorrow my pot of potion will have to go to the last preparation step. In order to increase the success rate, by then I might need you to do me a little favor."
"Of course," the windbreaker wizard nodded slightly upon hearing this, "I'm happy to help you."
"Well, thank you!"
After saying that, Maka took a step toward the door, but then she looked back slightly as if she remembered something.
"By the way, if you have something to do yourself, there is no need to stay with me all the time - you know, I basically don't have anything big going on here these days."
"Ah," the windbreaker wizard was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded silently, "I don't have anything to do for the moment... So if you don't find me annoying, please let me stay with you for a while longer!"
After leaving such words, she turned and left, leaving only Maka's back that looked inexplicably lonely.
"… Yeah?"
Although Maka was not clear about the other party's thoughts, she couldn't help but be slightly startled after hearing her words. Then, he turned to the door diagonally across the corridor and muttered to himself:
"As long as you're happy with it! If nothing else, at least I'm pretty patient, so I won't find it annoying."
Before he finished speaking, he turned around and entered his room, closing the door behind him.
And just a moment later, two more figures appeared in this deserted corridor. However, after the two people appeared at the corner, the boy walking behind suddenly stopped.
"Go ahead, I'll wait here."
After the psychological adjustment during dinner time, Malfoy had regained his inner peace and was no longer overwhelmed by Pansy's tears.
But because of this, the softness he showed before was gone, and the expression on his face returned to the indifference it had at the beginning.
In this regard, Miss Parkinson, who was still feeling secretly happy, didn't pay too much attention to it, because her mind had long been filled with Malfoy's seemingly caring words.
"Well, Draco, just wait a moment, I'll be out soon."
While talking, Pansy walked along the corridor towards the door of Maka's room, and turned back after a few steps, her eyes full of reluctance to leave Malfoy for a while.
There is no doubt that while Malfoy was still standing on the shore and watching indifferently, she was already swimming in the river of love on her own.
Not long after, Pansy's knock on the door sounded, and Maca's faint voice immediately came from inside.
"Please come in!"
After hearing Maka's response, Pansy suddenly realized who she was going to see - she saw her hurriedly cleaning up her unusually high emotions, then she pursed her lips, opened the door carefully and left. Go in.
"Professor MacLean."
At this moment, Maka had already sat at the desk in the room. Of course, this is just a guest room, so the desk is just against the wall and against the window.
In addition, it has been filled with various potions tools recently, which makes it look somewhat messy.
Maka, on the other hand, turned around after Pansy came in, leaning against the table and looking towards the door.
"What's wrong? Didn't you receive an invitation today? If you don't make some preparations, why are you here?"
Although his words were definitely not asking questions knowingly, they still had the meaning of deliberately pretending to be confused. Fortunately, Pansy obviously knew nothing about this, so there was nothing surprising about it.
Hearing Maka's question, Pansy couldn't help but become a little nervous.
To be honest, her coming here this time actually kind of broke the agreement she made with Maka. Because although she didn't tell Malfoy the truth directly, since Malfoy was watching from the outside now, it was actually equivalent to giving Malfoy an "explicit statement".
After all, if she really had some connection with Haierbo, meeting Maka at such a close distance would almost be like actively exposing her.
Thinking about everything Maka has done in the past, how many people dare to say that they can hide evil intentions in front of him? Maybe there is! But that would never be her, Pansy Parkinson.
Therefore, as long as Malfoy saw Pansy walk out of that door unharmed, his not-foolish wisdom would be enough to guess a lot of things.
Before Pansy could say anything, Maka deliberately glanced at the door and said calmly:
"Also, since you have brought Malfoy to the door, why don't you just let him in together?"
Seeing that Maka pointed out Malfoy in the corridor almost straight to the point, Pansy was obviously even more nervous. She didn't expect that Maka could actually detect the presence of others through the wall.
"Yes, I'm sorry... me," she hurriedly explained, "I didn't tell him the specific situation, but... I believe you also know that, Draco is very smart, and he will tell him things just by looking at my usual performance. I guessed a lot..."
Because her heart was full of panic, Pansy's words suddenly became hurried. Under her somewhat confusing explanation, Maka, who had not been there to watch in advance, also got an overview of the whole process.
I have to say that the back and forth between Pansy and Malfoy was quite different from Maka's initial imagination.
He had thought that given Malfoy's past temperament, he might be even colder than he was now. But after listening to Panxi's story, he found that the other party seemed to have changed a lot.
Not to mention Malfoy's extreme profit supremacy, just in terms of the way he treats people and things, he is much smoother than in the past.
Otherwise, that guy probably wouldn't have made Miss Parkinson so happy intentionally or unintentionally.
Unfortunately, no one can guess whether Malfoy will pay a greater "price" for his tact in the future.
After Pansy finished talking about her several conversations with Malfoy, Maka saw that she was still trying to find some nice words to say to protect herself from punishment, so she immediately waved her hand to interrupt her.
"Okay, if it doesn't make sense, there's no need to say it."
Maka stared at Pansy for a while, making her feel a little frightened, and then continued:
"Remember, this is not only the first time, it will also be the only time. If you still deliberately reveal the matter to others, I don't think you need this opportunity to atone for your sins and commute your sentence. Go directly to Azka Ban, stay here!”
As soon as these words were spoken, Pansy's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, causing her to let out a deep breath on the spot regardless of her appearance.
But after that, she quickly realized that Maka was in front of her, so she quickly put back the relief on her face.
Then, Pansy saw Maka wave her hand again and motioned towards her.
"You can go and get ready. Especially the Auror invisibility cloak. Get familiar with how to use it, because it will probably save your life."
Maka said a few words casually, but finally added:
"By the way, call Malfoy in before you leave... go ahead!"
When Pansy heard this, she immediately hesitated.
Because she knew very well that Malfoy obviously didn't want to see Maka.
"Let Draco in? What-"
Maka didn't react much to Pansy's hesitation, and just urged again:
"Just do what I say. Just say it's me. You don't need to think about anything else... Don't worry, he will come in."
The words gradually settled down, and Maka didn't explain any more, just watched quietly as Pansy turned around and left slowly. It can be seen that although she wholeheartedly wants to think about her little lover, she still can't disobey Maka's words.
When Pansy walked out of Maka's room and slowly came to Malfoy's side. She could feel that the other party was thoughtful about her leaving the room safely, but now she had no intention of being happy that the misunderstanding was resolved.
"Draco, Mr. Maclean... wants you to come in right away," she said. "He... seems to have known that you were waiting for me outside from the beginning."