After practicing throughout the day, I only took a short break during lunch. The rest of the time was either theory or practice, and no effort was wasted.
To be honest, this kind of high-intensity study and training is very tiring for everyone and Maka.
Especially Maka, even though he is just walking back and forth in and out of the courtyard, he will come to the friends in need from time to time to give them advice. However, this kind of targeted guidance regardless of the target is obviously quite labor-intensive.
Until the end of dinner, after Maka announced that everyone had consolidated the magic theory learned today, she went upstairs to rest quite tiredly.
"Then I'll try Maka's arm shield again!" As soon as Maka left, Ron stood up immediately and said enthusiastically, "Ginny, give me a courier—"
He was obviously very tired today. After all, since Maka had driven him to lift stones with Neville in the morning, in addition to studying magic theory, he had been lifting stones for training to enhance his mental strength.
But it is obvious that he really loves the rune arm shield, because even though he is not very talented, he can also cast amazing magic.
For Ron, this feeling is probably addictive!
Looking at Ron who took the arm shield from Ginny and ran out of the living room happily, the friends couldn't help but look at each other a few times.
"I'm going to practice alone for a while." Neville waved to everyone, and then ran out of the back door after Ron.
Perhaps Neville and Ron's positive influence affected others. Soon, most of the friends left the living room one after another, leaving only Hermione, Luna and Delphi.
"Let's go and keep working hard!"
Seeing that everyone was gone, Hermione couldn't help but let Luna and Delphi continue studying the rule runes together. But at this moment, Luna on the side seemed to have remembered something and gestured to Hermione.
"Let's go to Harry's place first!"
"Oh!" Hermione nodded immediately after hearing this, "I almost forgot... Okay, let's go! Let's go visit him."
Hermione nodded suddenly, then got up and walked upstairs with Luna and Delphi. And during this process, the only one who never said a word from beginning to end was Delphi.
…
A moment later, in the room where Harry and Ron lived.
"Harry!"
Hermione opened the door first and walked in. Then she caught sight of Harry who was reading a notebook on the bed. Although she currently needs more time to rest and cannot participate in practice, she still does not forget to study the theoretical progress in bed.
Seeing Hermione and the others come in, Harry put the notebook aside and happily greeted the three people who came to see him.
"How are you feeling?" Hermione stepped forward and asked, "Can you go back to practice tomorrow? Oh, by the way, have you had dinner?"
"Well," Harry nodded when he heard this, "It should be fine by tomorrow... Then, if you mean dinner -"
As he spoke, he pointed to the table not far away.
"Maka brought it to me. I just finished eating it."
"That's good," Hermione smiled, "Just go to bed early! Don't watch it tonight... Okay, I'm relieved to see you are in good spirits, so let's first..."
She was about to go downstairs to the yard, but before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Luna behind her.
"Hermione, there's something I want to tell you."
"What?"
Hearing Luna's words, Hermione immediately turned around slightly and glanced at the other party.
"It's Maka," Luna tilted her head and said with some confusion, "Delphi told me before that Maka seemed different... I didn't notice it at first. But as the day progressed, I seemed to feel it too. It’s getting a little weird.”
When Maka was mentioned, all eyes in the room fell on her, including Harry on the bed.
At this moment, Luna looked at Harry again, and then said:
"Harry, you must have noticed what you said, right? Maka seems... a little anxious?"
"Well?"
Harry was startled by what Luna said. He scratched his head, frowned and thought for a while, then nodded hesitantly.
"I wouldn't have felt anything if you hadn't said anything, but after you mentioned it, I felt like something was wrong."
He recalled and said slowly:
"Well... you should also know that today I wanted to challenge the Sword of Gryffindor, but I failed completely. But maybe you still don't know that this challenge... Maka offered to help me start this challenge. Based on Maka’s past temperament, I don’t think he would be so eager to let me start if he wasn’t very sure.”
But before she finished speaking, Hermione couldn't help but shook her head slightly.
"But, isn't it right for Maka to be anxious? Luna, you know, even though Maka deliberately spared time to 'make up lessons' for us, in fact, the current situation is already quite serious."
"Well, I know this," Luna said, "But even so, it's not like Maka's style to make us all stronger, is it? Although he has only been responsible for many things so far, this is indeed It's a little inappropriate, but his current change... is too sudden."
After listening to Luna say this, Delphi on the side finally couldn't help but interjected:
"Yes, actually I feel the same way - to be honest, I have been worried about whether Mr. MacLean would leave us ever since he came back from the sea. And you see... he is so eager to guide us and tries every possible means to guide us. Let’s build up our strength, like—”
"... Are you preparing for the situation where we don't have his protection?" Hermione subconsciously took over and said hesitantly, "No, he... how could he... Maka will not leave us alone."
"Of course, generally speaking, of course he won't," Delphi said solemnly, "unless... he wants to fight a final decisive battle with Haierbo alone for our future. And, in fact, he doesn't want to do that at all. There’s not much certainty that we can win.”
To be honest, both Luna's words and Delphi's words sounded somewhat far-fetched. However, Hermione could not find any contradiction with reality in their analysis.
She naturally didn't want to believe it, but unfortunately, she couldn't deny these possibilities either.
"I-" Hermione stood there hesitating for a long time, and then finally couldn't help but said, "No, I have to go find him and ask him clearly, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to feel at ease."
As soon as she finished speaking, she turned around suddenly and hurried out of the room.