"Barnes?"
When she saw Ernst in the hall the next morning, Marca was undoubtedly quite surprised.
It can be seen that the other party has no injuries all over, and the fluctuations of soul and magic are all normal. If you have to find some suspicious marks on him, it's probably just the dust on his trouser legs and some stains on his shoes!
"Mr. McLean..."
When Maka frowned slightly and stared at erns with doubts, the brova Castle wizard who had brought him before finally stood up and walked to Maka and whispered:
"This is what we saw in his hand when we met him - although he said it was his wand, we looked suspicious, so we kept it for him for the time being."
At the same time, the wizard handed over the snake stick he had collected from erns.
"HMM." Maka stretched out her hand and took a few more eyes before nodding. "I see... You can report to Mr. brova! Just leave it to me."
After talking to each other, Maka waved to Ernst, who had not spoken yet, and took him to the rest area on the side of the main hall to sit down.
"What has happened since he was taken away by halbo yesterday? Why have you been met on the streets of Italy by the brova family's search team?"
Maka's doubts are naturally well understood. To tell you the truth, after Ernst was kidnapped by halber, no matter who he was, he would find it difficult to find him again in a short time. As for what vicious things Haier Bo will do to him, it is a question that no one can be sure, but what he thinks is not optimistic.
But who would have thought that the next morning, Ernst came back unharmed.
"Professor McLean," said Ernst, who sat down with Marca and saw him slowly after a long hesitation, "In fact, I don't quite understand... Yesterday I asked him why he wanted to 'deliberately' only take me away from the beginning. However, halbo didn't directly answer me, but first told me a lot of messy past events..."
It can be seen that Ernst is actually quite tired - it is estimated that he didn't sleep all night like Maka last night. However, while recalling the old things that halbo told him yesterday, he roughly repeated them for Maka.
"... that's it. Halber said that if there had to be someone against him, it should be me. And you... Professor McLean, he doesn't think you need to target him everywhere."
"Huh?"
To be honest, the story between Haier Bo and the four founders of Hogwarts that Ernst just mentioned is quite long, and there are many details that Maka cares about. However, let's not mention the authenticity of the story... Or how much water is secretly mixed by Haier Bo in the story, but the last two sentences that Ernst quoted are the same Quite right.
Not to mention the Marca who was still racking his brains for royna's test, it is obvious that he can no longer be regarded as the damn "candidate".
But unfortunately, Maka, who has already become one of the "central figures" of this big trouble, is not easy to get out of it.
However, when Marca listened to Ernst, she just gave a little pause, but didn't open her mouth to interrupt him, because he knew that this was obviously not the most critical place in halber's conversation with Ernst.
On the other hand, after finding that Maka didn't seem to have any intention of interrupting, Ernst continued:
"Professor, you should be able to understand how I felt when I heard halbo say that - he said I was a descendant of Slytherin, which I can still agree with. But I can't accept his remarks in other aspects! Even if you give up fighting with halbo, you can't get me, nes Taron?"
Speaking of this, he hesitated for a little while in some embarrassment, and then said:
"But... Professor, I think your biggest question now should be why I appear in front of you intact?"
"Although I'd like to tell you directly that I escaped by myself when Haier Bo had something to leave at night," Ernst said, "in fact, I know that such a coincidence is not a lucky accident at all. It's more accurate to say 'released by Haier Bo' than 'escaped by myself..."
Then he pointed to the snake stick still in Maka's hand and said:
"Look! I can get out of that seemingly shabby room with a lot of magic hidden in it. But in the final analysis, it was also thrown back to me by halbo after he took it from me!"
"So," said Marca, "what does he want you to tell me? Oh, I mean, apart from the past?"
"Yes," nodded Ernst, "before nightfall last night, he told me that he really wanted you to make a choice - whether to continue to entangle with him and make a mess of the world? Or whether both sides should stop, he will no longer let the breath of those demons expand, and you should not interfere with his magic research."
"What is this?"
Marca frowned when she heard what erns had said.
"Did he really say that? Is there any follow-up supplement?"
If halbo really only said these words, Maka could only understand it as that guy joking with him. After all, how could he possibly believe that guy could be at peace with him? It is estimated that as soon as the other party recovers from his injury, he will hunt him down immediately.
Fortunately, it seems that Ernst has not finished all helbo's words. However, some of the later contents seemed to make him quite hesitant and didn't know whether to say it or not.
"What's the matter, Ernst? Is there anything you can't say?" Marca didn't force him, but asked calmly.
After hearing the speech, Ernst thought for a while, and then said:
"Professor McLean, it's like this... Halber told me frankly later that he was actually quite tired of fighting with you. He needed more and more time to do his magic research, rather than running around the world all day and wasting energy..."
"So according to himself, his request for a truce this time is serious, because the war with you is of little significance."
"Ah! By the way, there's another thing I didn't understand. But I remember he said... If necessary, what 'soul fragments in the mirror' can he take out?"