The so-called "long time ago" in Hermione's mouth naturally refers to before Maka entered Hogwarts. Needless to say, she regarded Delphi as Maka's childhood friend.
But think about it, how many people in this world can realize the true origin of Delphi
"Mr. Maclean's 'past'...?" Delphi looked at Hermione who was not looking at herself, but was still facing the mirror, and said softly, "Well, there is nothing wrong with his past. You said it. But, I’m afraid I don’t know much more than you do…”
Nowadays, let alone Maka's past, even the future things that Delphi is familiar with will undergo huge changes.
After all, she came here to reverse the "history" she knew.
However, when it comes to Maka's past before she received the Hogwarts admission notice, Delphi really knows a little about it - she still remembers that when she was a child and followed Maka around, the other party recalled While talking, he told her many old things as bedtime stories.
So now, when Delphi paused for a moment, he turned around and leaned lightly against the clean wall next to the sink.
The next moment, her soft but pleasant words gradually echoed in the bathroom where there were only two people. Just like she remembered one night, hugging her father gently in a certain ruins, with a trace of clearly discernible gentleness.
"I remember that when Mr. McLean was nine years old, his mother passed away..."
In fact, Maka never admitted that her childhood was miserable, including her previous life, and of course this life. Although his life was indeed not good at the beginning, there were many people in the world who were worse off than him, so it was not his turn to blame others.
But it must be said that, at least in this life, his childhood was not a happy one.
Today, many people have heard that he comes from a Muggle family.
But probably only a few people like Dumbledore would know that his father was a promiscuous gambler who lost his life, and his mother was once abandoned by a maritime merchant. Old mistress.
When he opened his eyes for the first time in his life in that dark and cramped old house, what he saw as a baby was a drunken gambler father and a seductive mother covered in makeup standing on both sides of the small bed. Scenes of mutual abuse.
To be honest, Maka was not too dissatisfied with those scenes. After all, being able to live again was considered a gift from God.
But when the couple's spit fell on his face like rain, he still cursed to himself and closed his big bright eyes again.
Yes, not to mention the biggest secret of his second life, even in a childhood family like this, Maka would definitely not tell Delphi casually as a little girl. Even if he doesn't really care about his poor background, he is still afraid that the bad deeds of his parents will lead to the still innocent little Delphi!
Therefore, the story that the future Maka told Delphi started after his mother died when he was nine years old.
"At that time, Mr. McLean spent all the money he took from his family to buy a cemetery and a tombstone for his mother. After a funeral without a priest and no guests, he moved his very small building into a cemetery. His shabby house was sold to others, and then he blended in with the crowd on the pier and boarded the ferry bound for Torpoint."
When he said this, Delphi couldn't help but chuckle slightly in ecstasy.
"I also accused him at the time, saying that it was a bad behavior for him to take the boat without paying... But what do you think he answered me? He actually told me that children as young as him should have been on the boat for free. From the boat!”
Hermione on the side couldn't help feeling a little amused as she listened. But when she thought about how Maka had already left her hometown alone when she was nine years old, and even skipped the ticket to board the ship in order to save money for a ferry ticket, she soon stopped laughing.
"Miss Fisher...were you also with Maka at that time?"
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When Hermione was listening to Delphi telling Maka's past, and mistakenly thought that the two might have experienced childhood hardships together, she would not have thought that Maka had turned him again before she and Delphi left the ward. time converter.
It's just that the time point chosen by Maka for the second time to look back has already exceeded the tentative safety limit of five hours - of course, this safety limit was not set by him.
When the ticking sound like the turning of a second hand sounded in her ears again, the world in front of Maka changed from slightly blurry to clear again. And in the Muggle street in front of St. Mungo's in his sight, there were already a large number of witches and wizards walking in groups from a distance.
From here, you can see that the old wizard walking in the front is Mr. Akinbad, the president of the International Federation of Wizards.
"No problem, it's about time."
Maka stood in this deserted room, quietly looking at the group of wizards through the window, and nodded silently.
He remembered clearly that it was on this early morning not long ago that Ajinbad led the supporters of the Federation to St. Mungo's.
And just over ten minutes later, he came out of the hospital with Hermione, Luna and others, planning to lead the remaining half of the supporters to the Diagon Alley defense line.
But who would have thought that before he could lead everyone out of here, Haierbo came over first.
Seeing the group of supporters getting closer and closer, Maka immediately waved her hand and closed the curtains on both sides of the window. Because he knew that just by restraining his magic power fluctuations, he might be able to easily avoid Akinbad's detection, but he might not be able to be discovered by himself or the despicable Haierbo who came out later.
In order to prevent mistakes, he simply covered the windows... Anyway, he knew exactly what was about to happen outside, and there was no need to look further.
What's more, even though the time of looking back this time is a little longer, he still doesn't plan to do anything. Because this time, he was just here to be a calm bystander.
"Okay, now according to the previously planned plan, half of the people will follow me in, and the remaining half will stay on the street to defend and standby!"
After a while, Maka, who was sitting on the sofa by the window, heard voices outside the window. He knew that Akinbad would lead people into St. Mungo's next.
Sure enough, after only ten more minutes at most, his own voice came from outside.
"You will follow me next, and we will go to the Diagon Alley defense line for reinforcements... Although I feel that I may not be qualified yet, I still want to represent the many wizards and Muggle people in London to thank you all for this time. One time help… ”
"... Well, that's it! We don't have much time, let's set off now!"
These words are naturally addressed to those supporters.
And to be honest, without Ajinbad and without these federation supporters who risked dying at any time to come to help, the situation in London would definitely be ten times worse than before Maka came back.
So it must be said that when Maka thanked them, she was really sincere.
"Next... it should be the time when Luna and I discover Haierbo, right?"
Thinking that Luna was still alive at this time, Maka felt a tremor in her heart. Today, Maka has begun to experience firsthand what kind of mood her "future self" had. .
"Luna is still alive."
Suddenly, Maka couldn't help it and quietly moved the curtains.
"Wait, Maka!"
He never expected that as soon as he opened the corner of the curtain, he found that his eyes were running straight into the pair of silver-gray eyes downstairs.
Maka, who was shocked at that time, quickly retracted her left hand that slightly opened the curtains, and then stood stunned for two seconds. It wasn't until he heard his own voice outside again that he came back to his senses.
"Hermione, take the people back! Go back immediately... quickly!"
Looking at the heavy and still curtain in front of her, the shock on Maka's face gradually faded away. But just by looking at his tightly furrowed brows, you can tell that the doubts in his heart have obviously not diminished by half, so much so that he even temporarily ignored Halbo's subsequent teasing "You don't have to go anywhere."
"How could it be?" He thought secretly and couldn't help but murmur to himself, "The 'wait' that Luna yelled at that time was not actually sensing the existence of Haierbo, but discovering the current me? She How did you realize I was here?"
At that time, Luna happened to see the slight swing of the curtains, or... No, with Luna's sensing ability, it was obviously impossible to feel that she had restrained the fluctuations of magic power.
However, the premise is that Luna has no other sensing methods.
"Remember she said that she seemed to be studying psychic magic?"
Although it is quite incredible, Maka cannot rule out this possibility.
Because according to what he knew about Luna, this blond girl with a pure mind did have considerable magical talent. If she had to give her a reason to discover herself, there seemed to be only a few possibilities.
"Calm down... now is not the time to think about this. The mission this time is to observe. In the next time, there must be no omissions."
Because at this time, because of the existence of Haierbo, he was not able to distract his attention too much to the surroundings, so his memory was actually very vague in many places.
Therefore, if he wants to save Luna, he must take everything here into consideration and try to find a feasible solution as soon as possible.
For Maka, the time after this may be very long; but for Luna below, there is not much time left for her!