What was supposed to happen still happened, nothing changed, everything happened again.
Delphi, who became a Muggle, did suppress Herbo in a short period of time - but who was Herbo? Ever since he made the Devouring Mirror into his own Horcrux, he probably has never been afraid of anything.
Even when Rowena and Salazar teamed up to suppress him under the Monument of Bewilderment, he was just not particularly angry because he knew that he would never die because of being sealed.
Therefore, not to mention the little girl standing in front of him, making him feel a little doubtful at most.
After a tentative conversation, Haierbo had walked step by step in front of Delphi, but the other party remained motionless.
"Aren't you going to take action?"
He didn't hide anything, he just covered the wound on his chest with one hand and stared at Delphi again, and then said impatiently:
"If you don't want to take action, then get out of the way! It's not you I'm looking for."
As soon as he said these words, Haierbo raised his dark, muscled arm and swept it towards Delphi's waist.
"Bang!"
With a clearly audible sound of bones breaking, the latter immediately flew out, and even after landing on the ground, it slid far away, and barely stopped until it crashed into a bench at the edge of the square.
And as Halbo himself said just now, even though he knew that Delphi did not die immediately, he did not make up for it. Because, although what he is looking for is indeed a girl, it is not this girl.
"Your name is Lovegood, right? Oh, now I really want to know what McClane will look like after seeing your body..."
Haierbo looked at the mercury statue in front of him. As he spoke, he raised his right hand again, and even made his palm into a fist.
But as he spoke, the action of accumulating punches suddenly paused, and then a sharp light suddenly flashed in his eyes.
"...cunning boy..."
Before he finished speaking, Haierbo finally punched out. The next second, the entire statue exploded, and a large amount of mercury mixed with scarlet plasma scattered all over the floor.
However-
"False again."
Haierbo immediately threw the corpse aside that was pierced by his punch. The powerful impact caused by the punch had already made the corpse as broken as a rotten sack.
But Haierbo had already noticed before punching that it was not "Lovegood" at all, just a fake that exuded the same magic wave.
Because Haierbo soon discovered that the soul in that body not only did not belong to the girl named "Lovegood", but was even incomplete.
Yes, just like those living corpses that were resurrected after being infiltrated by the devil's breath.
"but… "
After punching hard and smashing the mercury statue together with it, Haierbo, who was somewhat vented, couldn't help lowering his head and glanced at the rag bag-like corpse on the ground.
It can be seen that among the large amounts of blood, the few strands of long golden hair are still as dazzling as before.
"Even his appearance has been tampered with... Does that kid really want to hide this from me?"
Other Haierbo can figure it out, just like Maka replacing Luna inside with a corpse obtained from the battlefield. This is naturally because Maka wants to protect that girl.
However, as the holder of the "Pride" rune, there is no way Maka will forget Haierbo's in-depth research on the rules of the soul.
Only this point, Haierbo suddenly felt a little unreasonable.
It's just... Of course, Maka would not try to deceive Haierbo with such a small trick. The person he wanted to lie to was himself from the beginning.
"snort."
Haierbo, who didn't want to understand what "conspiracy" was hidden here, immediately stopped thinking about it. I saw him take two steps back, then raised his hands, clasped them together, and pounded them heavily on the ground in the square.
"boom!"
For a moment, the masonry and soil flew up as if they had been exploded by explosives. If he couldn't figure it out, he put it down first. He had already sensed that there was a magic source moving underground.
Since the one in front of me is fake, then the real one... I'm afraid it's down there, isn't it
After all, the two "survivors" were used as spies, so much so that he fell into the trap once. But not long ago, that Lovegood was still outside the observation room, and this was always true.
In this underground space that cannot be apparated and has only one exit...
"It won't disappear out of thin air!"
While Haierbo was thinking this, he quickly jumped into the hole he made and dug deep underground quickly.
…
"Oh! Miss Lovegood, you're finally here?"
In the spacious secret passage deep underground, Maka still maintained the appearance of the volunteer he played, leaning against the wall of the secret passage and waiting for Luna's arrival.
He had already told Luna that after the second layer of magic shield was breached, he would immediately give up and choose to retreat—of course, he said this in the name of "Mr. McClain."
At this moment, when she sensed the stronger and stronger magic power fluctuations in Haierbo above her head, Luna finally emerged from the darkness in the direction of the entrance of the secret passage unharmed.
"Why are you still here? Are you waiting for me?" Luna glanced at Maka from side to side, then raised her head and looked up, "Well, it's really scary up there!"
"you do not say!"
Maka nodded, then waved her hand and said:
"Miss Lovegood, let's leave quickly! I promised Mr. McClain that I would send you to the latest refuge point—quickly, let's go!"
While urging her continuously, Maka also pulled her, and then the two of them immediately ran towards the end of the secret passage.
To be honest, this secret passage is very long, and can even reach as far as the coastline, with a total length of more than ten miles.
However, this time, except for some of the injured who were unable to move through Apparition, others only needed to run out of Spiral Town to go directly to an evacuation point near Calais, France, temporarily out of danger.
However, just as Maka and Luna were running away, Haierbo had already penetrated into the ground. Even though he didn't take the stairs, his speed didn't seem slow at all, as if he would break in from the entrance to the secret passage at the back at any time.
The footsteps were mixed with the increasingly heavy breathing, which still could not cover up the rumbling sound of digging the earth that was approaching behind her, but Maka was unable to use her true strength to lead Luna out of this ghost place immediately.
"Time... should be enough, should be enough..."
He whispered to himself secretly.