Maka is not a person who likes to be sensational... well, at least not on the surface. If I have to say it, he is actually more pragmatic, and he pays more attention to efficiency in dealing with others.
So why did he take the initiative to talk about family ties when facing Lucius at Malfoy Manor this time? Is it really just to give Lucius enough time to mentally prepare
The facts tell us that Maka is still the same Maka, and he still doesn't have much sympathy for the suffering Malfoy father and son. The reason why he was so concerned about Lucius's state of mind was simply because he had already made a decision.
"Mr. Malfoy, a reminder to your house elves - they must not enter this room without orders for the next time."
In an empty room on the top floor of the mansion, Maka was scribbling on the floor, apparently sketching out a rather complicated rune array.
Even Snape had only seen Maka's strange use of ancient magical literature a few times.
At the moment, he was standing quietly on the side, his eyes fixed on the gradually forming pattern array on the floor, as if he wanted to see some clues from it.
Snape had also read the textbooks that Maka gave to students for class many times. Now when he looked at the rune array constructed by Maka himself, he could only regretfully find that these were two completely different levels.
"...In this kind of formation, the combination of ancient runes is basically not used?"
After watching for a while, Snape couldn't help but ask. After Maka heard it, she nodded immediately, but the speed of drawing the magic text on her hand did not slow down at all.
"Well, how should I put it..." He explained casually, "To put it simply, the meaning of the ancient runes is too vague. A simple combination may not be a problem, but if the combination is too complex, it will be difficult to do the job."
He said, but added a special sentence: "Of course, as the 'last ancient magic text', it can play a very important role in guiding students to get started. It can even be said that it is irreplaceable .”
Maka herself started with runes at the beginning. Without it, Maka would not have been able to understand how to understand more in-depth runes.
After he squatted on the ground and tinkered for a long time, a tangled rune array was finally completed.
Although it is just patterns and lines scrawled on the floor with pen and ink at the moment, when it is infused with magic power, it will bloom into a beautiful blue light.
"Mr. Malfoy," Maka stood up and told Lucius, who was also standing uneasy outside, "Although I told you about Draco's condition before coming here. But I I think you'd better listen carefully again, including what you need to do later... "
"Remember, Draco is still the same Draco, your son," he paused and added, "He may show a completely different personality than before, and may say a lot of messy words... even Maybe they will use begging or scolding to disturb your heart..."
"However, as long as you find a way to awaken the other half in Draco's heart, even for just a moment! I will firmly seize the opportunity to make him recover."
After saying this, Maka took out his staff and waved it casually, and a small statue immediately flew out of the pocket on his waist. I saw the statue getting bigger and bigger in mid-air. When it landed in the center of the array, it had completely changed back to its original appearance after being petrified.
"Remember carefully what I said to you before." Maka reminded again.
Draco's appearance after being petrified naturally did not change at all, and the anger and panic at that time were still vivid on his face. And his expression naturally had a great impact on Lucius.
"Draco..."
Seeing his son's petrified state, especially the panic and fear on his face, Lucius seemed to feel his heart being tightened.
Although he, a father, does not dote on his children as much as his mother, Narcissa, and sometimes even teaches them harshly, it does not mean that he does not love his children.
And since Maka also needed him to reveal his true feelings next, he did not suppress the other person's emotions with words. Because it can be seen that after the series of mental preparations just now, Lucius has been able to barely restrain the agitation in his heart.
"Are you ready?"
Maka asked one last time while taking out another potion bottle from her waist.
On the other side, Lucius rearranged his face, and after standing directly opposite his son, he calmed down and nodded. At this moment, Draco was within the rune formation, and Lucius was outside it. The distance between the two was like an unbridgeable gap.
There is no way, Maka said it earlier - even one failure is not absolutely difficult to accept, but if you walk into that formation, everything will be over.
After Lucius nodded to confirm, Maka immediately waved the staff again, causing the potion bottle with the oak cork to fly smoothly to the head of the stone statue.
The medicine bottle is tilting, and the potion inside is pouring out little by little.
As the liquid drops from the head of the stone statue, the petrification effect is continuously weakened and eliminated wherever it passes.
This process is actually not long, and the effectiveness of the Mandrake resurrection potion is quite short. But in Lucius's mind, these few dozen seconds seemed as long as several months.
Of course, Maka didn't completely lift Draco's petrification state, all he wanted was to be able to talk normally. Soon, when he noticed that Draco's eyes began to tremble slightly, he immediately took the potion bottle back.
"...Ah! You are lying to me! No..."
Draco's thoughts were obviously still stuck on the moment when Maka petrified him. At that time, he mistakenly thought that Maka was going to kill him on the spot. But at the last moment, when he realized that his entire face was numb, he realized that he had been deceived.
And then, he completely lost consciousness.
Now that he was partially relieved of the petrification effect, he couldn't help shouting out, but it didn't take long for him to find that he had arrived in a new environment.
"… Father."
"Draco," Lucius looked at his son's face with a complicated expression, "Draco... you... are you feeling okay?"
As Maka said before, Draco is still the same Draco. Facing his father at this time, his face showed an unspeakable hesitation, as if he was remembering something.
Sons worship their fathers. This sentiment has been common since ancient times and is nothing new. And Draco is one of these people.
From a very young age, he felt that his father was cool and always looked arrogant and confident in everything he saw and did. For a long time, he believed that his father was the most powerful wizard in the world, and he wanted to imitate his father's every move.
But after that, he enrolled in Hogwarts, Voldemort was resurrected, the Malfoy family fell into turmoil, and the father he admired at the beginning became increasingly blurred in his mind.
Then one day, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have grown up.
As for Draco's mental condition before he had problems, Maka's judgment on him was generally correct - Draco had indeed endured a lot of pressure from his parents and family, which made him almost breathless.
But there was one sentence that Maka said wrong.
Draco was not overwhelmed by the heavy reality. He was indeed timid about himself and the future of his family, but he still tried to straighten his waist.
Even when he was plagued by nightmares and gradually discovered that there was a problem with his condition, he still did not give up, but made his last struggle.
Otherwise, I'm afraid Maka wouldn't have this chance to "save" Draco now.
When Lucius asked a tentative question, Draco's expression changed slightly, but after a while, his eyes showed a strange edge again.
Immediately afterwards, he simply stopped looking at his father's face, and reluctantly turned his head to look at Maka, who was standing beside Snape.
"McLean, we seem to... meet again."
While throwing this sentence at Maka, a sarcastic smile appeared on Draco's face.
He is still alive now, which proves that his observations and inferences about Maca seem to be correct. In other words, as long as he is Draco Malfoy, Maka cannot really kill him.
Now, even his father Lucius has appeared in front of him. Doesn't this prove that he is right
"Yes! We meet again."
Maka nodded expressionlessly and didn't say much. His eyes were also looking in Draco's direction, but rather than looking at Draco, it was better to say that he was looking at something else through Draco's body.
Seeing Maka's somewhat casual expression, Draco slowly narrowed his eyes, his eyes becoming sharper.
"You finally deceived me and petrified me before I could react. Didn't you guess that I could assimilate and devour 'that guy'..." He said in a low voice, "Why, do you think that I will be able to survive with my father here?" Isn’t it okay to cry, shout, kneel down and beg for forgiveness?”
At this point, Draco curled his lips, his disdain getting stronger.
"Hmph... OK," he said with a smile, "Unpetrify it! I will do it as you want... After all, this is my most respected good-for-nothing father!"
"Draco, you-"
"Shut up! Dear father," Draco turned his head sharply and said with a cold face, "Haven't you made me miserable enough? Haven't you made this family miserable enough? If I were you, I would definitely I will cast a life-killing curse on myself so that I don’t have to sit in this house and endure the continuous curses from the ancestors’ portraits every day!”