What is "disappointment"
This question has never been thought about by little Tia, who is only about to enter the second grade this year. Because the biggest prerequisite for people to be so-called "disappointed" in you is to have "expectations" first.
Obviously, growing up, Tia has seen contempt, harshness, ridicule, and ill-intention in the eyes of the people around her... Of course, perhaps compared to There were too few, too little, but she finally saw sympathy, pity, and sympathy for the same people.
But the only thing I haven't seen is "expectation". Yes, even the man named John Stewart who welcomed her into Ilvermorny with good intentions... Even when she looked in the mirror every day, she never experienced it at all.
If anything, it might not have been until many years later when she went to England alone across the sea and was accidentally invited by that outstanding, gentle and polite young wizard to be a temporary potion preparation assistant during a crisis. For the first time, I felt that perhaps insignificant, but yet pure and real expectation, recognition and trust.
Of course, at this time about ten years ago, little Tia, who was just 12 years old, definitely had no idea what was going to happen so long in the future. As she fell to the ground at this moment, she couldn't even imagine what she would become in the next second.
So, when she "subconsciously raised the wand that she had been holding tightly in her hand since before, trying to cast a spell on Alyssa in front of her that she had never learned well, but nothing happened. And not surprisingly, the other party casually pulled the wand away." During the entire process, her mind was almost blank.
"...Oh, so you are still a little witch? This...why doesn't it surprise me at all?"
Alyssa squatted in front of Tia who was lying on the ground, put away her wand, and then gently pressed the wand that Tia had taken into her own forehead and said:
"I think your teacher must have taught you that for us wizards, the wand must be the most important companion and reliance in our lives. Unfortunately, you may not know it yet, but this is often not the case for wands. Once the current owner Defeated, it is likely to switch allegiances...or at least, not exclude the possession of a new owner who has defeated its previous possessor."
As Alyssa said this, she suddenly pushed the wand in her hand forward, stabbed Little Tia on the forehead and said loudly:
"Just like this! Cutting out the heart and bones... ah!"
The moment Alyssa shouted out the spell with great evil thoughts, an extremely terrifying pain that penetrated to her soul suddenly rebounded from the handle of the wand in her hand, flooding into herself unbridled.
Alyssa, who was unprepared, immediately fell down as if she had been electrocuted. She screamed and wailed in pain, and her facial features twisted and twitched in front of Tia.
There is no doubt that she, who has long known that Tia is a little wizard, never thought that the wand she took from this little girl was not only not her own, but also a wand she picked up by chance and had been with her for many years. A strange wand belonging to a dark wizard with a bad temper, extremely sensitive and difficult to control!
"ah?"
Tia had already sat up. She stared blankly at the "crazy" woman in front of her, and at the wand that was still in her hand just now, but now seemed to be stuck in the other person's palm and couldn't get rid of it. , my heart was full of confusion and fear.
Of course she didn't know what kind of magic Alyssa was going to cast on her just now, and she didn't quite understand what the other party's situation was now. But she had already realized in a confused way that if she had been able to cast the spell just now... Alyssa wouldn't have needed to do anything. The person lying on the ground in extreme pain now might be herself.
However, after a moment of confusion and fear, she finally remembered her current situation again. Immediately afterwards, she was still sitting on the ground, holding her hands on the floor, stood up in a hurry, carefully bypassed Alyssa, whose twitching amplitude was slowly decreasing, and continued to run towards the end of the corridor.
But before leaving here, she didn't forget to take out the wand that belonged to the other party from Alyssa's pocket, grabbed one end and pressed it against the ground, and stepped on it into two pieces.
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Tia finally escaped back to the monastery on the ground. She ran forward with all her strength in the corridor, while looking back from time to time. Alyssa didn't follow, and the mysterious old man didn't appear either. She even ran into no one along the way.
For Tia, who wanted to escape as soon as possible, this was obviously a good thing. But she remembered clearly that the boy had said before that his classmate Brooks Stewart was waiting up there.
So, where did Brooks go
"Miss Prince."
Tia, who was doubting but not thinking about searching for the other party, heard the voice when she turned a corner. It was the voice of a boy that I had heard a few times but could not be said to be very familiar.
"Mr. Stewart?"
Tia's steps slowed down a little, and she turned to look behind the vase from the corner where the sound came from, keeping a cautious look on her face.
If John Stewart is his guide into Ilvermorny and one of the few trustworthy people so far, then this person is a student of the same class as himself in Ilvermorny and is John's younger brother. Brooks, too, seems equally trustworthy.
Even though the two of them didn't have much of a relationship during the year at school, since the other party actually brought the boy to save him today, it seemed that he had no reason to distrust the other party.
"Miss Prince, come here quickly! Someone is coming from ahead."
In the corner, the boy whispered, and pulled Tia, who was not struggling, behind the big vase.
"Squat down and hide."
Tia watched as the other person pulled her in, then muttered, shook the wand in his hand and poked, as if he was arranging something with a magic spell. Although she complied with the other party's actions for a moment, she was still uneasy in her heart.
And at this moment, Brooks, who had probably arranged the concealment spell, finally turned around again, looked at her and said softly:
"Don't worry, it'll be fine... Where is 'him'?"
Tia was stunned and was about to speak, but soon there was a series of footsteps outside, causing both of them to subconsciously hold their breath and concentrate, and no longer cared to speak.
Just as Brooks said, at the other end of the corridor, someone was coming this way.