"Ladies and gentlemen, I wonder if you think... Marca has less and less time in front of us these days?"

After breakfast the next day, Maka returned to the potion preparation room as usual to study the potion, while the other friends gathered in the garden.

To be honest, although everyone is used to coming to Willie's plant paradise to relax and chat, this time, they gather because Hermione seems to want to say something.

"Yes," said Hermione, "I know that Maka must be preparing for that halber thing because she is so busy. But that's why I can't help worrying about him -"

As she said this, she looked around from left to right, and then continued:

"Maybe most of you know that Marca has been busy in the potion preparation room recently, and she goes to the Muggle Queen almost every night. However, although I have been an assistant a few times, he has never told me what kind of potion he is studying."

Just after saying this, many little friends couldn't help nodding slightly to agree.

Then, Ron said thoughtfully:

"No wonder you didn't call Delphi just now... Ah! By the way, have you asked Marca directly?"

"It was because I asked, and then he cut off the topic that I didn't feel quite right," Hermione pursed. "Maybe... He thinks' something 'I don't know. I can feel it. He's worried about me."

"Oh! Can you feel it? Women's intuition is terrible..."

Ron couldn't help muttering when he heard the speech, but even in exchange for several pairs of white eyes around him, he couldn't help shrinking his neck.

"I'm wrong, I'm wrong... Hermione, you go on!"

Hermione looked at him and shook her head. Then she coughed and continued:

"In short, I'm worried about Maka's going to do something dangerous again - I think everyone here should know that he is such a person. When he's calm, almost no one can compare, but once he's impulsive, he can even bet his own life!"

Speaking of this, Hermione suddenly looked a little solemn and said seriously:

"So I think the more severe the future is coming at any time, the more someone needs to look at him... What do you think?"

Hermione's words, in fact, are quite recognized by most of the little friends here, including the group of little sisters led by Willie.

However, even if they all want to help Maka and contribute to each other, as long as Maka doesn't want to, everyone seems to have little room to intervene.

At this time, Willie, who has become very good with Hermione recently, thought again, and then suddenly said:

"Hermione, that... Delphi? Who is she from Maka? Why doesn't Maka tell you something, even Luna, but she never avoids her?"

This question, to tell you the truth, really stopped Hermione.

Some time ago, although Hermione had asked Delphi directly, and the other party also told her about Marca's past, it sounded as if they had been good friends since they were very young.

However, Hermione was still unable to conclude that this was the case.

After all, the girl who suddenly came out one day and obeyed Maka's words really made her confused.

Say Delphi likes Marca... Well, I think so! But Hermione thought about it later, but she didn't think it was the kind of love between men and women.

"... is it difficult... Is it a long lost cousin or something?"

Hearing Hermione's subconscious murmur, everyone looked at her with all kinds of surprised eyes. Hermione quickly waved her hand.

"No, I just think the feeling between her and Maka seems a little like 'relatives', so I guessed along this line!"

After explaining a sentence like this, she even turned to say:

"However, the relationship between Maka and her is not ordinary, which is certain - and since Delphi seems to know what Maka is doing, it's never wrong to ask her."

With that, Hermione suddenly turned her head again and asked Luna, who was listening and teasing a Babo seedling not far away:

"Luna, what about you? What do you think of it?"

"Well?"

Luna looked up and thought:

"Go find Delphi? Yes... Although I don't think she will tell us. Because Marca doesn't want us to know, and she only listens to Marca all the time."

No one can refute Luna because what she said is almost the truth.

"What should I do?" Ron scratched his head, "Well, in fact, if you want me to say something, we just need to trust Maka, don't we? Look, Maka, all he has done so far is to make us live in peace? Although I'm a little worried about him, after all, the guy halbo... But if we act indiscriminately, Maka will feel uneasy?"

This time, before everyone responded to Ron's words, Luna, who usually didn't take the initiative, nodded first.

"Ron's right, I think so too," she agreed by lifting the hair on her ear, and then changed her voice. "However, if everyone can't help but want to know what Maka is doing, why don't you go to the preparation room and have a look when Maka, Delphi and Mr. shakel go to see the Muggle queen in the evening?"

"It's... useless?" Hermione hesitated. "Besides, if Marca finds out about it... Will he think we don't trust him? You know, I'm just a little worried about him."

Luna blinked her big eyes and shrugged her shoulders when she saw Hermione's hesitation on her face.

"That's OK! As Ron said, it's also a good choice to believe in Maka."

……

Marca can actually guess Hermione's worries - Miss Granger is a worry girl, as she has been since childhood.

But guess, there are some things Maka really can't tell her. Because that will not let the other party down, but will make her more distressed.

No way, because Miss Granger is also a very kind girl.

"OK, the toxin has been neutralized... Wait half an hour, this dose will be almost the same."

Maka put the mixing stick aside, and then sat down. While waiting, Maka began to think about some problems he had been thinking about these days.

For example, the itchy stone box.