"McLean! What a coincidence?"
When Maka saw the big fat man, he happened to turn around. But just when Maka wanted to say hello casually, the fat man ran towards him in waves with his body swaying.
It was naturally a bit funny to see him running away, but unexpectedly he was extremely flexible. Not long after, he quickly ran to Maka's side.
"McLean, let me tell you - if you meet a little girl, remember to stop her for a while. Well, if you have a way, it can take a year or a half! I will run away first. !" The fat man kept walking in place, said something to Maka, and then walked non-stop towards the castle behind.
"I believe in you! If it's you, it will definitely work! I'm optimistic about you... I like you... You... Yo..."
Listening to the unknown echo behind them, Maka and Fanny looked at each other, and then subconsciously looked towards the garden entrance in front.
Not to mention, they only took one look and soon found a small figure suddenly walking out of the corner of the hedge. It was a little girl, probably in her early ten years, wearing a fashionable fine linen dress, and she even looked cute.
Of course, if it is popular, it is only in France, the Muggle world. If you want to ask what kind of clothing is popular in the wizarding world recently, well... except for wizard robes, which are always in heavy colors, you can say that you can wear everything, but there is really no popular trend at all.
Just like the conservative mentality of pure-blood wizards, most of the mainstream aesthetics in the wizarding world still remain a few decades ago. Complicated and heavy clothes are exquisite, but sometimes they are a bit inconvenient in daily life. When it comes to Muggle-born wizards, that's much better.
"Is this little girl the fat man's sister?" Maka secretly shook her head, "It seems unlikely. Didn't you just send a letter this morning?"
While he was still thinking, the little girl opposite was already coming this way.
I saw the little girl passing by the front garden, her eyes lingering in the splendid sea of flowers around her from time to time. But even though she seemed to be attracted by the delicate flowers, her feet did not stop at all, and the distance between her and Maka was quickly shortened.
But just when Maka felt that the other party was coming to her, the little girl's footsteps suddenly stopped. Immediately afterwards, a black shadow suddenly jumped out of the bag behind her, grabbed her clothes and swung towards Maka.
"Why?"
The little girl quickly reached out and pulled, but she couldn't catch the black shadow.
The little black shadow is very fast, and can even be said to be agile. In just a blink of an eye, it landed on the ground and suddenly jumped towards Maka's waist.
Maka's reaction was extremely fast, but he quickly reached out a hand and used a floating spell to freeze the black shadow in mid-air. The little guy struggled in the air. After realizing that it seemed to be in vain, he could only look at Maka innocently with his big round eyes.
At this time, you can see that this little guy is covered with short black and shiny hair, his mouth is as flat as a duck, and his limbs are stubby and his claws are long. If you can compare it, it may not be difficult to find that it looks very similar to a mole.
This is a Niffler.
"H-Hello, sir...can you give me my Skaven back?"
When Maka looked at the little thing in front of him, the little girl stood in front of him with her lips pursed. Judging from her timid appearance, she looks quite well-behaved.
"It's a good pet. At least with it, you won't have to worry about daily pocket money." Maka shrugged and said, "Of course, the premise is that you are not afraid of those who have had their things stolen come to your door..."
As he spoke, the Niffler named Skaven floated forward as if lightly. When it arrived in front of the little girl, the other party held it in his arms.
"Thank you, sir." She said softly, and then wanted to pass by Maka, obviously not wanting to say anything more to this stranger.
But if there was a fat man before, how could Maka really think that this was an ordinary little girl? Just by looking at the fat man who was so frightened that he ran away, he knew that the little girl in front of him who acted so well-behaved and shy might be an illusion.
"...Sarah, why are you here?"
Maka shouted casually without looking back. But after a while, he turned around again and looked at the small figure.
"What a funny little girl." Maka said to herself with a smile.
The words he shouted just now were just to lure the little girl into reacting. If a normal person suddenly hears someone calling their name, most people will respond. This is almost a conditioned reflex action.
Of course, if the other person doesn't look back, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's not the other person's name. In fact, most people will turn their heads and take a look when they hear something moving behind them. This is not a conditioned reflex, but a vigilance talent that a living being must have.
If you don't look back at this, if you didn't hear it, then you probably didn't allow yourself to react on purpose.
Maka thought for a while, then asked Fanny to follow him. He wanted to see what kind of child this little girl was.
…
More than ten minutes later, the mountain behind Beauxbatons Castle.
In the shadow somewhere in the woods, the fat young man of the Hohenheim family was carefully hiding behind a big tree. But because he is so fat, how can an ordinary tree block his figure? This made him look extremely funny.
"Oh no, no, no... that girl is here! McClane couldn't stop her for long? Oops, ouch... it turns out that even the wizard who can kill the Dark Lord is no match for that girl, well... it's really scary!"
The fat man hid and peeked out, mumbling incessantly. As he muttered, he quickly glanced around a few more times, as if trying to find a more reliable hiding place.
It's a pity that the little girl obviously knew the general direction of his location. At this moment, she walked out from the back door of the castle with small steps and came to him without hesitation.
"It's over now..." The fat man stomped his feet vigorously, splashing mud, "I hope McClain is okay! Well, I wish you good health... Master, I can only express my extreme gratitude for your sacrifice." "
After he said that, he immediately turned around and ran toward a bush, striding deeper into the forest.
At the bottom of the hill, the little girl was gently stroking the delicate fur of the Sniffing Skaven in her arms, but her eyes glanced straight in the direction the fat man left.
"Dear brother, do you really not want to see Sarah? Sarah misses you every day!"
She muttered to herself, but without stopping, she continued walking forward unhurriedly.
After a while, the fat man realized that he had escaped far enough. He finally slowed down and took a deep breath. Even if he felt that such a distance was not enough, he would have no more energy to continue running - in fact, just such a mountain road was enough for him!
"Oh... forget it, master, I won't run away..."
He took two more heavy steps, and then leaned weakly against a tree trunk. As he leaned closer, the tree suddenly swayed, which showed that his body was really hefty.
It's a pity that his escape is obviously going to come to an end here.
"Brother Noah, Sarah finally found you—"
A sweet voice sounded right behind the fat man, which made his whole body tremble, and he immediately jumped away. Judging from his agile skills, it seemed that the exhausted look just now was all fake.
"Uh... Sarah..." A stiff smile appeared on the fat man's face, "Good afternoon! My dear sister... why are you here?"
"Did Brother Noah not want me to come?" The little girl blinked and said pitifully, "That's really a pity. During the two days when Brother Noah was not at home, Sarah missed you very much... Brother Noah, Sarah didn’t wake you up today, so you must have stayed in bed again, right?”
The fat man's face darkened when he heard this, because he immediately recalled the explosion in the auditorium this morning. If he hadn't happened to get up early today, I was afraid that the letter would have been delivered directly to his pillow. He was terrified just thinking about that scene...
"No, no, brother got up early today -" the fat man immediately clapped his chest hard and said, "You don't know, the letter exploded in the Beauxbatons auditorium today, that's really... you have to pay attention, It’s okay if it’s at home, but you can’t let that kind of ‘little joke’ happen outside!”
"Explosion?" the little girl asked with a puzzled look, "What explosion? Why can't Sarah understand?"
If you just looked at her innocent expression, maybe most people would be deceived. But Fatty has seen his sister grow up to be as big as she is now, so how can he believe her words
"Oh - Sarah, my brother is doing things for the family now, isn't he? You can't let your brother be in trouble outside!" He tried his best to put on a smile on his face and said softly, "By the way, you are still I didn’t say why you came here! Is there anything going on at home?”
"Is nothing wrong?" Sarah shook her head, looking at her brother's eyes that were sparkling, as if they were filled with gem-like brilliance, "Well... my brother is now a person who does big things, Sarah knows... But Sarah also knows that people who do great things are not as fat as her brother? So Sarah is still here to help her brother lose weight!"
After hearing this, the fat man's face obviously turned darker.