"Everyone, I wonder if you feel... In the past few days, Maka has been appearing in front of us less and less?"
After breakfast the next day, Maka returned to the potion preparation room as usual to study potions, while the other friends gathered in the garden.
To be honest, although everyone is usually used to coming to Willy's plant paradise to relax and chat, this time, they gathered because Hermione seemed to want to say something.
"Yes," Hermione said, "I know that Maka must be preparing for the Halbo thing when she is so busy. But because of this, I can't help but worry about him even more-"
As she said this, she glanced at everyone around her from left to right, and then continued:
"Perhaps most of you know that Maka has been busy in the potion preparation room recently, and will show up to the Muggle Queen almost every night. However, although I have gone to work as an assistant a few times, he has never been there. He told me what kind of potion he was researching."
As soon as he said this, many friends couldn't help but nodded slightly in agreement.
Then, Ron was heard to say thoughtfully:
"No wonder you didn't call Delphi just now... Ah! By the way, have you asked Maka more directly?"
"It's just because I asked and then he changed the subject that I felt something was wrong," Hermione pursed her lips and said, "Probably... he thought it was better for me not to know 'some things'! I can I can feel that he is concerned about me."
"Oh! Can you feel this? A woman's intuition is really terrible..."
When Ron heard this, he couldn't help but murmured, but he was immediately greeted with blank stares from several pairs of eyes around him, making him shrink back.
"I was wrong, I was wrong...Hermione, keep going!"
Hermione looked at him and shook her head, then coughed dryly and continued:
"Anyway, I'm worried that Maka is going to do something dangerous again - I think everyone here should know that he is that kind of person. When he is calm, almost no one can compare to him, but once he gets impulsive, he can Even your own life is a bet!"
Having said this, Hermione suddenly looked slightly solemn and said seriously:
"So I think, the more severe the future is coming at any time, the more it is necessary for someone to keep an eye on him... What do you think?"
In fact, most of the friends here agree with Hermione's words, including the group of sisters headed by Willy.
However, even if they all want to help Maka and contribute to each other, as long as Maka is unwilling, no one seems to have much room to intervene.
At this moment, Willie, who had become very close to Hermione recently, thought about it again, and then suddenly said:
"Hermione, that... Delphi? Who is she to Maka? Why doesn't Maka tell you some things, not even to Luna, but she never avoids her?"
This question, to be honest, really stuns Hermione.
Although Hermione had directly asked Delphi about it some time ago, and the other party also told her some past events about Maka, it sounded like the two had been good friends since they were very young.
However, based on these alone, Hermione still couldn't conclude that this was the case.
After all, the girl who suddenly appeared on her own one day and was completely obedient to Maka's words really left her confused.
Let's say Delphi likes Maca... Well, I guess she does! But when Hermione thought about it carefully afterwards, she felt that it was not the kind of love between a man and a woman.
"... Could it be... that she is a long-lost distant cousin or something?"
Hearing Hermione mumble something like this subconsciously, everyone looked at her with various surprised looks. Hermione saw this and waved her hand quickly.
"No, I just think that the feeling between her and Maka seems to be a bit like a 'relative', so I just made a random guess along this line of thinking!"
After explaining this sentence, she immediately turned around and said:
"However, it is certain that Maka has an unusual relationship with her - and since Delphi seems to know what Maka is doing, it would not be wrong to ask her."
Just as she said this, Hermione suddenly turned her head again, looked at Luna who was listening and teasing a Babo sapling not far away and asked:
"Luna, what about you? What do you think of this?"
"Well?"
Luna heard the sound, then raised her head, thought for a while and said:
"Go to Delphi? Yes... Although I think she won't tell us. Because Maka doesn't want us to know, and she always only listens to Maka."
No one could argue with what Luna said, because what she said was almost the truth.
"Then what should we do?" Ron scratched his head and said, "Well, actually, if you want me to say it, we just have to believe in Maka, right? You see, everything Maka has done so far, Isn't it all so that we can live peacefully? Although I am a little worried about him, after all, that guy Haierbo... But if we act randomly, it will make Maka feel uneasy, right? "
This time, before everyone had reacted to Ron's words, Luna, who usually didn't take the initiative to express her opinions, nodded before everyone else.
"Ron is right, I think so too," she flipped her hair around her ears and agreed, then changed the subject, "But if everyone can't help but want to know what Ma If Ka is doing something, why not take a look at the preparation room while Maka, Delphi, and Mr. Shacklebolt go to see the Muggle Queen at night?"
"This... is useless, right?" Hermione said hesitantly, "Besides, if Maka discovers this... will he feel that we don't trust him? You know, I'm just a little worried about him."
Seeing the hesitation on Hermione's face, Luna immediately blinked her big eyes and shrugged lightly.
"Forget it! Just like Ron said, I believe Maka is also a good choice."
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Maka could actually guess Hermione's worries - Miss Granger was a worried girl, and she had been like this since she was a child.
But you can guess that there are some things that Maka really can't tell her. Because not only will that not make the other person feel relieved, but it will make her even more distressed.
There is no way, because Miss Granger is also a very kind girl.
"Okay, the toxins have been neutralized... Wait half an hour and this dose will be almost done."
Maka put the mixing stick in his hand aside, and then sat down next to him. While waiting, he began to think about some of the issues he had been thinking about these past few days.
For example, that stone box that makes people feel itchy.