"Click."
Maka half-crouched in front of the mirror and gently closed the plain box, as easily and comfortably as if she was closing a forgotten honey jar on the breakfast table.
"Do you want to know the real culprit of this disaster? Look, this is it." He patted the box he had just closed with his remaining hand, turned around and smiled.
A broken body is still a broken body. Even if he can reveal his original appearance on the other side of the mirror, when he returns to the mirror, all he can use is this weak and broken demon body.
But in the eyes of Hermione and others, he was stronger than ever at this moment.
"Maka..."
The thick fog around them was gradually dissipating, and Hermione, Luna, Harry, and Safina were all revealed in the thinning fog.
Harry seemed to want to say something. After all, until this moment, they still didn't understand many things.
But when he opened his mouth, he was stopped by Maccayo who raised his hand in front of the Devouring Mirror.
"The Sword of Gryffindor is over there... Did you see it? Go get it back! In any case, in this era it already belongs to Hogwarts. Remember to hold it tight in the future and don't let anyone take it away again. .”
Maka pointed to a certain location on the top of the cave and gestured:
"The sword of Gryffindor has special properties. Although Kern took it from you, he couldn't take it 'over there'... Well, let alone this box - everyone knows that the key can Insert it into a keyhole, because that's how it is used, but who has ever heard of a lock that can be inserted into a key? In fact, this box is a lock, and this Devouring Mirror is The key that can open this lock... Oh, Harry, have you taken it off? Okay, then just find a place to sit for a while! Take a rest and listen to what I have to say... "
Watching Harry fall back on his broomstick, Maka waved her hand and asked him to sit down around her with the other three people.
"I know you have a lot of questions, yes, I have always known it. Unfortunately, there are some things I still can't explain to you until now... Ah, Hermione must have guessed a little bit, right? I know, you So smart... Anyway, I will try my best to tell you what I can say!"
He said, looking at Hermione, just in time to see Hermione nod at him. Seeing this, he immediately smiled again.
"Well, by the way, let me tell you how to get this fatal box first!" Maka said, tapping the simple ancient box in front of her, "I don't know if it had a name before, but it doesn't matter, I'll give it myself There is a - I call it the 'Box of Sloth', because what gave birth to it is one of the seven deadly sins, the power of 'Sloth'."
Speaking of this, Maka paused slightly.
"The power of laziness actually doesn't do much harm," he said. "All it can do is encourage others to be 'hard-working.' When it materializes into a box, what it shows is 'all cognition' Its life, will open it', and that's it. So it's just the 'stuff' in the box that's troublesome."
Having said this, Maka scratched her head, seeming to remember something.
"Speaking of which, Royina Ravenclaw also fell into its trap back then - after realizing its existence, Royna finally chose to kill herself in order to prevent herself from causing this disaster. Now that I think about it, , before that she must have made a lot of efforts to solve this fatal problem. Unfortunately, she obviously failed... "
When mentioning Loyinnamila, Maka spoke in great detail. Because now, that experience that I once couldn't express to others can finally be spoken out with confidence and boldness.
This includes the matter of him unexpectedly accepting the Bronze Eagle Trial, the matter of Luo Yinna and her husband's thousand-year meteorite plan, the matter of his failure to complete the trial because of an accident that disrupted the order, and the matter of the real He said it without reservation that Enns should be the one who could complete the series of trials and not him.
And finally, the question that has puzzled Hermione and others the most has finally been answered - it turns out that when Maka was in school, she was always invisible and always busy alone, that's why!
"...The result is regrettable after all," Maka said at the end, and couldn't help but sigh slightly, "Even Luo Yinna, who is extremely intelligent, cannot calculate every detail after a thousand years. And facts have proved that the more meticulous and meticulous The more likely it is that the plan will go awry - if she really acts and completes the 'trial' in the order she envisioned, then the executor may not really know what the box is. Under the circumstances, it was destroyed..."
"But... there are no ifs in reality." Harry answered subconsciously.
Maka spread her hands.
"But having said that, who can say for sure that our current result is not within Luo Yinnamira's expectations?"
After the words fell, everyone was quiet for a moment.
"By the way," Hermione suddenly said, "Didn't you say you wanted to tell us how to solve this box problem?"
"Oh, that's right!" Maka nodded, "It's actually very simple, look! I'll just hold this box and sit against the mirror, and then... Harry, I'll give you a task... "
"What mission?" Harry was stunned.
Maka hugged the ancient box, leaned against the frame, then looked at him calmly and said:
"Come on! Cut off the head of the demon in front of you, just like you did when you faced other demons!"
"Varied-"
"As I said just now, Hermione should have guessed that - in fact, the 'me' in front of you came from another point in time.
The rule of time is a very mysterious, very strict, very wonderful, and at the same time very powerful rule. It represents countless possibilities in this world... In fact, I have experienced what just happened many times. .
I failed many times... yes, really many times, too many... so many times that I almost wanted to give up... Kern is very strong, very strong, better than the few shots you have seen. Much stronger! This forced me to look for every possibility over and over again.
Fortunately, I found it.
Well, let me tell you one more thing - in fact, I am not from this world. When I came into this world, I didn't know that magic existed, which led me through the darkest and most boring ten years of my life. Fortunately, one day, an owl sent me the most wonderful admission notice... "