The girl in the room seemed to fall into silence again.
Seeing this, Maka could only suppress the urge to continue urging her, and turned around to go back to the stairs - since Delphi needs a little space, it's better to give her a little more space. Maka still has to go and talk to Harry and the others anyway. Say a few words.
But before he could take a few more steps, he suddenly heard the creak of the door being opened behind him, and Delphi finally came out.
Sure enough, when Maka turned around, she immediately saw that she had arrived in the corridor, and there were some complicated emotions in the eyes looking here.
"Dad... please come in!"
After saying that, Delphi immediately returned to the room. When Maka saw it, she had no choice but to follow him in together.
"Delphi."
Looking at the girl who picked up the silver cup and sat back on the edge of the bed, Maka didn't know what to say at this moment. So after thinking for a while, he said slowly:
"What kind of difficulties did you encounter? If you feel uncomfortable holding it in, why not just tell me! Look, I'm not... well, am I not 'dad'? Are there any worries that I can't tell dad about?"
However, Delphi just shook his head and lowered his head while holding the cup.
After waiting patiently for a moment, giving her some more time, Maka walked up to her and knelt down, looked at her face and called her softly.
"Delphi?"
"No," the girl was still shaking her head, "I can't tell my father about this... and don't be so gentle to me anymore, because if you know the truth, you will definitely not..."
It can be seen that Delphi is very embarrassed at the moment, as if something is constantly bothering her.
At the end, I saw her biting her lower lip and whispering:
"Anyway... I'm sorry, Dad, I can't give you the time turner back."
Maka was startled when she heard this, and couldn't help but immediately said:
"Why?"
Seeing him asking this, Delphi looked at him seriously, and after a few seconds said:
"You should know the reason, right? You even know it better than me... You just keep it hidden from others and never tell anyone about it."
"Um?"
After Maka heard this, she couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, and then said a little dumbly:
"Are you talking about... the consequences of forcibly breaking the rules and exceeding the lookback time limit?"
Due to the dual limitations of time rules and the time turner itself, the maximum span of time travel is approximately five hours. If this time is exceeded, there will be unforeseen serious harm to travelers and time itself.
When the time turner was used last time, Maka did not violate the five-hour rule limit at first. After all, this was the result of many wizards' experiments with their own lives.
However, with just five hours and the many limitations of time travel, the possibility of changing certain decisive events is slim to none. So later on, Maka had to repeatedly use the time converter to conduct research calculations, and finally found a method that could break through the five-hour limit to change the facts.
In the end, he deceived himself, deceived others, and even deceived the entire world, and seized the glimmer of hope that belonged to all members of Hogwarts.
But it was obvious that he still failed to deceive the almost strict time rules.
Excessive time travel caused certain damage to his body. His coughing and sudden coma after returning were the best proof.
However, he didn't tell anyone that it was actually a permanent injury. If nothing unexpected happens, even if he never uses the time turner again, the damage will follow him throughout his life.
Fortunately, a certain degree of organ damage is not a big problem for an excellent potion master. As long as he takes the potion uninterrupted for a long time, at least the damage will not continue to worsen, and it will not have an excessive impact on his health.
Not long after, after developing a targeted potion and starting to take it regularly, his cough symptoms disappeared. No one, including himself, cared about this innocuous little thing anymore.
However, in order to prevent the injury from getting worse, this is naturally based on the premise that he will never use the time turner. If he dares to time travel again, even within the limit of five hours, it may continue to cause damage to his body.
And if the limit is exceeded again, deepening the damage will almost become an inevitable result.
These thoughts flashed through Maka's mind, but then he slowly shook his head and showed a relaxed smile to Delphi.
"Yes, I know very well - but what needs to be done still has to be done, right?" He said, "Just like you, Delphi... you spanned more than ten years at a time, just to prevent The beginning of this disaster, I believe if it were you, you would understand my feelings."
"understand?"
Delphi pursed her lips, still lowered her head, and whispered as if talking to herself:
"Yes, I can understand dad's mood... and I also know very well that it is very, very difficult to stop you. Because you have always been so determined, tenacious... and stubborn!"
"Yes! Since you can understand, then-"
"No!" Delphi immediately interrupted, "Maybe dad doesn't know me very well. In fact, I am just like you, and I am also very stubborn. What's more..."
Just like she was hesitant to speak before, she didn't finish what she said. Seeing her stop again while talking, Maka couldn't help but feel a little confused, but she still changed the subject and said:
"Delphi, I know it must be for my own good that you stopped me. Yes, I can feel your concern for me, and I am also very happy to see you who have grown up now... "
"But, no matter how dangerous it is, there are some things I have to do. Not to mention, aren't you there? Tell me what will happen if I do that, and what consequences will it cause? What kind of consequences, and then we will work together to study how to overcome that problem—"
"It can't be helped!"
Delphi listened, suddenly put the silver cup in his hand aside, and then grabbed Maka's arm tightly.
"Dad, there's nothing you can do... the rules of time cannot be deceived." She looked at Maka, frowned slightly and tried to emphasize, "Dad, do you know? In fact, even if I don't tell you what will happen, today You can also figure it out by yourself at night - do you understand? It can be said that my plan has completely failed. The moment I was discovered by Haierbo, it completely failed!"
"After that, you can actually predict all the developments by yourself - including the possibility that you may need to travel beyond the limit, including what exactly Haierbo will use the devil summoning technique to do... Even if I don't tell you, all this you can I will also rely on my own wisdom to figure it out piece by piece."
"Yes, Dad... I really think you are very powerful. I have always regarded me as your child as the most proud thing in my life. Even after I found out that my real father is Tom Riddle , I have always felt so in my heart.”
"But... no matter how smart you are, even if you clearly know that you will be seriously injured, you still use the time turner in the end."
Having said this, Delphi let go of Maka's arms and sat back on the end of the bed.
"You are really powerful... You had already calculated clearly and understood that you would most likely leave and never come back, but you still came back in the end. I heard what Miss Granger said... She said, just when you use A few minutes after the time turner, you appeared in front of everyone with injuries all over your body. You smiled and said that you found an opportunity and were 'lucky' to save your life... "
After Maka heard this, she just frowned slightly, but then asked hurriedly:
"What about... Luna?"
This time, Delphi didn't answer.
When Maka saw her falling silent, her expression changed again, and then she couldn't help but slowly closed her mouth.
After nearly a minute of silence, Delphi continued:
"After that, you and Mr. Snape spent a long time together for treatment. In the end, although the injury was barely suppressed, it also left extremely serious sequelae... But even then, you were still able to move After that, I immediately stood in front of everyone and organized the remaining resisters to establish a resistance base."
"As for what happened after that, I already said it last time, so I won't repeat it..." She paused, "In short, I just want to tell you - you have actually already done everything that should be tried and studied. I have done it myself, but it only proves that all efforts are useless!"
"Not only could you not save Miss Lovegood, you almost... no, not almost... I think you just killed yourself!"
I remember Delphi said before that Maka should have gone to find Haierbo for a decisive battle in the end, but no miracle happened in the ending.
Well, maybe if he hadn't been so seriously injured due to time travel, he would have been more likely to defeat Haierbo, right? Who knows
But the question is, will Maka give up the chance to save Luna
No, not possible.
Maka shook his head and couldn't help but let out a long sigh - these words from Delphi's mouth really made him feel the ultimate concern. Delphi was really concerned about his safety, and even whether he could defeat Haierbo seemed to be a very minor matter.
It can be seen that when Delphi said that her purpose of coming to this era was "for her father", she was serious.