When Maka asked about the plague curse on the second floor, but did not get the answer he wanted, it only took two or three minutes at most before he jumped down from the broken stairs alone. .
As for what happened upstairs after that, no one knows.
Well, no one knows for sure, at least for the time being.
"Well?"
As soon as he landed, he seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly turned back to look into the pile of rocks. And it was this glance that finally allowed him to see clearly who the figure lying on the floor was.
"Is it... Ron?"
Immediately, he subconsciously checked around, and after confirming that there was no one else around, he walked over the bricks and stone chips on the ground.
On ordinary days, Ron is easy to recognize—even from his back. In other words, the Weasley family members are actually very easy to recognize.
Because they all have the iconic red hair.
But now, because Ron's head had just experienced the baptism of an explosion and had already turned into a charred black mass, Maka had not been able to tell it immediately from a distance.
It wasn't until she got closer and saw the wand that fell in her hand that Maka finally realized who this person who seemed to have no signs of life was.
The next moment, Maka leaned over and turned the other person over with a slight frown.
“…”
Maka looked at the face whose true identity was unrecognizable, and squatted next to it and stopped. Looking at his expressionless face, she didn't know what he was thinking.
But just at this moment, he suddenly felt a tightening in his heart, as if something was tugging deep in his soul.
"hiss-"
He gritted his teeth, took a slight breath, then stood up, turned his head and looked behind him.
"…Herbo."
…
Ron didn't know when he lost consciousness, nor when he regained consciousness.
All he knew was that he felt pain all over his body.
Especially between the whole head and neck, the burning pain was somehow mixed with an itch that penetrated deep into the bone marrow.
However, he was completely unable to move, and could not even raise his eyelids, as if he had lost control of his body.
And just a few minutes passed like this... Well, maybe ten minutes or even half an hour. Because in the unparalleled pain and itching, he could no longer make a more accurate judgment on the time.
However, just such a period of time passed, and a very vague conversation suddenly sounded in his ears that were still unable to hear anything.
Is anyone nearby? One... no, two people!
"Come and save me! No matter who it is, come and help me! This kind of pain and itching... It's not something people can bear at all. It's so painful-"
He kept shouting mentally, but could not speak.
In fact, it's enough to say that I can't speak. But for some reason, he couldn't even breathe or feel his heartbeat, but he still seemed to be alive - the reason why he used the word "seemingly" was just because even he himself wasn't sure whether he was alive or not. Still alive.
"Yes, I remember... I fell down the collapsed stairs, and then... and then was directly hit in the head by an explosion spell from the dark wizard?"
The two hazy conversations were still echoing in his ears, and because he could barely hear them clearly, he didn't bother to listen anymore. And because the pain was unbearable, he tried to find something to think about, hoping to distract himself and relieve the pain.
But the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.
"Wait, so I'm really dead?"
No one can catch an explosive spell with their face without any defense, not even someone as strong as Maka. So logically speaking, there is no possibility for him to survive.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and then he suddenly thought again:
"Then... Since I can still regain consciousness, does it mean that I will become a ghost like 'Nearly Headless Nick'? Well, I forgot to ask him, is the process of becoming a ghost so painful? ?”
However, just as he was thinking wildly, the pain in his head seemed to gradually subside a lot without realizing it. Unfortunately, the terrible itching continued, and became even more unbearable after the pain subsided.
But at the same time, Ron suddenly discovered that the conversation lingering in his ears had changed from hazy to clear. Not long after, he finally heard a sentence clearly:
"... We can't hold on any longer here. Go back immediately and take at least one person away. As for who to choose to take away, you must know better than me."
"'Can't hold on'? 'Take at least one person away'? Who is this person speaking? Who is talking to him? What does this mean?"
To be honest, Ron finally heard that sentence clearly. But the problem was that he could understand every word clearly, but when the words were put together to form a sentence, he couldn't understand it at all.
But there was no need to rush, because the next moment, he heard another person's voice.
"It's not difficult to take someone away, but... are you sure you want me to give up everything in front of me and leave from here?" The voice said, "There is no way to delay it for a while longer?"
Ron listened silently, but the more he listened, the more something was wrong. After a moment of careful analysis, he finally understood where the "something wrong" in his mind came from.
"That's Maka! It's Maka's voice, absolutely right!"
Once this idea emerged in his mind, the more Ron listened, the more he felt that his judgment was accurate. But who is Maka talking to? Who does the other party want him to take away
Just as his heart was gradually filled with doubts, the conversation continued:
"No, I can't delay it much longer - before I truly control this body, if that guy wants to leave, I can't stop him."
"I understand, I will go back to the camp to do it after I finish talking to you!" Namaka's voice said immediately, "Then, Haierbo, do you have anything else to say?"
Haierbo? Why... no, it should be "how is it possible"
From the conversation between the two, no matter how stupid Ron was, he could still hear the harmony in it. And...do they have any "deal"
But because of the confusion, Ron couldn't even open his eyes, so naturally it was impossible to confirm the identity of the two.
"This... what is going on with me, Maka and Haierbo's conversation?"