The last rays of the setting sun were fading below the horizon, and night ruled this side of the globe. A full moon quietly climbed into the sky. There are some clouds floating in the night sky, so the moon is dim, hiding behind the clouds from time to time. But for some creatures on the planet, the moon's mysterious gravitational pull is undiminished by the weather. They went outdoors one after another to accept the baptism of the magic power of the moon. The secret call from the sky was as strong as ever, making them involuntarily long to break free from all shackles, run freely, howl at the moon, and liberate themselves.
At this moment, outside the town of Ladier in Holly County, in the forest belonging to the Hollich family, Kefir was naked, holding a test tube full of strangely colored medicines in both hands, shivering in the cool air.
"Are you ready, Kefir?"
Opposite him, Augusta was holding a notebook and a ballpoint pen, and was looking at him with the objective and cautious eyes of a researcher facing a research subject, making Kefir feel like an orangutan tied to a dissecting table.
"... Honestly, not ready, can we move the date?"
"Today is the full moon, and if it is postponed, it will be next month!"
Kefir sneezed pitifully. "Do I have to drink this potion? Can't you... revise the formula?"
"If you don't try it, how would I know what's wrong? How would I know how to modify the formula?" Augusta shook her head, resenting that Kefir didn't have the spirit of scientific empirical research.
"What if it fails?" Kefir asked timidly.
"Failure is the mother of success."
"I mean... if the potion fails, I might lose my mind and even hurt you." Kefir sniffed. The magic of the moon is getting stronger and stronger like the rising tide of the sea, and Kefir can hardly resist it.
Augusta smiled strangely: "You made me laugh, it's so funny."
Kefir recalled the last time Augusta bounced him with magic power, and couldn't help shivering.
"In case the medicine has strange side effects again..." He tugged at his tail in frustration. Wolf ears and tails are still considered "cute", but if they grow fangs or claws, it will be a big deal.
"I will transform you back!" Augusta was very impatient, "Drink the potion quickly, or it will be too late!"
Kefir whimpered, brought the test tube containing the medicine to his mouth, and glanced at Augusta, hoping that he would change his mind at the last moment. Augusta was unmoved. Kefir had no choice but to gulp down the potion and made a face, expressing that it was extremely unpleasant to drink.
"Don't make funny faces! I obviously added honey and sugar to the recipe, so it's not bad at all!" Augusta said angrily.
Kefir licked his lips, it was indeed sweet. Although there was still a strange smell in his mouth, he felt much better. When he thought of how considerate His Excellency Augusta was, he felt that his body was not so cold anymore.
"Can you transform now?"
Kefir raised his head, the moon was covered by the lush branches of the forest, and he couldn't see clearly, only the moonlight shone on the wet ground. Kefir took a deep breath, letting the magic power of the moon fill his whole body. Augusta took a step back instinctively, propping up a transparent magic barrier in front of him to prevent Kefir from losing control and accidentally injuring him.
The young werewolf crushed the test tube in his hand and bent down in pain. His figure had grown rapidly, with long, stiff gray-white fur protruding from under the skin, and muscles rising from beneath the fur. Augusta quickly recorded the process of Kefir's transformation in his notebook. This was the first time he tried the medicine to suppress transformation on a full moon night, and he had no idea how effective it would be. As long as the kefir doesn't turn into something weird...
Seeing that he was about to turn into a werewolf, Kefir suddenly let out a scream and fell to the ground. His gray wolf fur receded, and his body shrank back to the size of an ordinary human, but the wolf ears and tail remained on his body. Augusta was startled, so frightened that he even lost his pen and notebook, quickly removed the barrier, ran to Kefir, and knelt beside him.
"Kafel, are you okay?" He hugged the upper body of the werewolf youth and let his head rest on his lap.
"I... feel... not good..." Kefir said with difficulty.
Augusta pushed back the sweat-soaked hair on his forehead. Kefir frowned, his body curled up like a shrimp, every muscle was tense. Augusta immediately regretted it. Why did he try some Laoshizi's potion? Just let Kefir run naked in the forest every full moon night! Anyway, there are only one or two days a month, and it is much easier to face Kefir who has turned into a werewolf than a violent woman who is on her period! He can guarantee that Kefir will not run out of the forest, so what's wrong with letting him be a free werewolf
"Augusta... Your Excellency... I..." Kefir hummed in pain.
"I know, I know," the magician rubbed Kefir's wolf ears distressedly, "there must be a mistake in the formula... I shouldn't test it on you directly! Can you still stand up? We'll go home right away , I'll get you some thinner, and you won't feel so uncomfortable."
Kefir sniffled and struggled to get up with the help of Augusta. He was taller than Augusta, and more muscular than the frail spellbook, and Augusta could barely support him. Kefir also particularly likes to stick to him. This made the magician miserable.
"I'm so uncomfortable, Your Excellency..." Kefir said weakly, his tone seemed to be coquettish.
"You might as well tell me what's bothering you."
"... felt like shoving shit back in... Ouch!"
"Disgusting!" Augusta slapped him on the back of the head.
Kefir flattened his mouth pitifully. "I can't transform anymore. Although I can still feel the call from the moon, I don't have any strength in my body. I really want to transform but I can't... It's like..." He pondered his words, "It's like It's constipation!"
"Enough! Dogs can't get ivory out of their mouths!"
"You insisted on me!"
Augusta stared at him angrily, he didn't dare to speak anymore, and rubbed against the magician harder, as if he was a puddle of mud that couldn't stick to the wall. Augusta was hesitant to just use teleportation to send them back, but he didn't want to waste his magic power with the mansion so close.
Walking out of the forest, Augusta let out a "huh" against the moonlight.
"What's the matter, sir?"
"There seems to be something wrong with the magic barrier I'm casting around the house..."
Since the last time his home was burglarized, whenever he went out, Augusta would use magic to protect the entire house to prevent thieves from breaking into the empty door—after all, he had already learned a terrible lesson. He thinks that even if his magic barrier is not the best in the world, he is still a rare opponent. The person who can break his barrier must be a spellcaster with high magical attainments, and he probably doesn't bother to do petty theft, so he is very relieved. Only someone like Cavodian likes to worry about nothing, and if he has nothing to do, send him a "werewolf security guard"...
The barrier around the house is now broken, though most of it is still intact, and the breakable part is enough to allow a thief to invade.
"You wait outside." Augusta said to Kefir, "I'll check first."
Kefir couldn't see the magic barrier, so he didn't know why. Augusta walked around the house and saw no suspicious footprints. Of course, it is also possible that the intruder did not "walk" at all. The unicorn was grazing alone in the stable. Seeing Augusta sneaking around the house, it sneered disdainfully: "What are you looking for? Is there gold on the ground?"
"The magic barrier has been destroyed. I'll look for signs of intrusion."
"There's no need to look for it. When you were out, a black shadow flew into the house on a Persian flying carpet."
Augusta was stunned for a moment, and after realizing that the unicorn was not joking, he yelled: "Damn it, why didn't you say it earlier!"
"You didn't ask me again!"
"You let him in like this?!"
"Otherwise, what else can I do? I am a pure and kind unicorn, not your watchdog. Do you expect me to fight gangsters bravely and defend the family property? What if he has weapons! How can I, who is weak, fight?" A brutal and cruel gangster!"
"Aren't you yelling every day that you want to kill others with horns? You are actually afraid of a mere gangster!"
"Could it be that if I say I'm going to kill others, will I really do it! Then I say that I am the king of the world, and tomorrow the earth will really be my home? You are so old that you can't even tell if you are joking or telling the truth? "
"Ahhh! I'm going to be mad at you!" Augusta frantically tugged at her hair.
"Look, you have learned to joke, and you won't be really mad."
Augusta left behind the unicorn, which was not a big deal to watch (it is estimated that even if the house caught fire, it would not help put out the fire, but would happily roast marshmallows beside it), and walked back to the main entrance. Kefir was sitting at the door blankly waiting for him to come back.
"Someone broke into the house!" Augusta yelled.
Kefir jumped up, his feet seemed to be loaded with springs. "I'll catch him for you!"
"Forget it, in your state..." Augusta opened the door. This seems to be a bit too coincidental, why did someone invade the house on the night of the full moon? Could it be that the two of them are not at home tonight
"I'm fine! I can protect you!" Kefir held on to the door frame, gasping for breath every step he took.
"It's good that you protect yourself!"
Augusta silently chanted the spell and cast the search spell, and within a period of time, all the changes in the traces in the room turned into white shadows and floated in the air. Sure enough, apart from him and Kefir's shadow, there was a third person who had been here before, and it must be the suspicious intruder!
"He went upstairs..." Augusta looked towards the stairs. "The top is my study... Is it the same as last time, his goal is my research notes?"