Outside London, darkness gradually permeated the world, accompanied by occasional howls and sobs from afar, announcing that the night, which was more dangerous than the day, had come.
But the night has nothing to do with the city of London.
The magic flame rising from the square is increasing its brightness as the sky darkens, completely lighting up the whole ice city, like a dazzling torch in this dark night.
However, even if it is so eye-catching, those dangerous demons do not want to get close, because they are far from as stupid as the fallen "anger". Not to mention the joint efforts of several demons, at least they are very clear that there will be no good results if they rush here alone.
Fortunately, there are few cases where demons come together like "anger" and "arrogance" before. Therefore, this night should still be as calm as the previous two nights.
Yes, it's like there's always something ready to go.
"Look at the time, it should be coming soon - if they really want to come!"
At this moment, Hermione was standing at the front hall door, raising her wrist to look at the time and whispering to herself. To be honest, in fact, she was not quite sure about the other party's coming to the appointment, even if the other party had agreed to her invitation just this afternoon.
It's a living corpse, not a human like her. If you really want to communicate with them... And even make friends, you can't and shouldn't directly impose human ideas and habits on each other.
At least not at first.
"Maybe she didn't really understand what I meant at that time? Carefully calculate, it doesn't seem to be long since she actually began to learn English!"
While Hermione was thinking about it, there came a rather neat sound of footsteps in the square outside. It's like several people are walking together, but each step is almost at the same point, which makes people feel very strange.
Soon, when Hermione looked around, she saw three familiar figures coming through the square.
A moment later
"Miss Granger." naturally, the leading one was the girl's corpse of the Gemini. When she walked up the front steps, she stopped a little and looked at Hermione bowing from the door. "Good evening, Miss Granger..."
Just then, the girl took out an old pocket watch from her arms, "Ding" opened the cover of the watch and remained silent for a few seconds. After a delicate silence, she looked up again and said:
"... the time is just right. I've come to keep the appointment, Miss Granger."
With a "snap", the cover of the watch closed, and the girl put the old pocket watch back in her arms, leaving only half of the exquisite silver chain shining on her chest under the light of the square.
I don't know if she was as rigid as she was when she was a human, but now as a living corpse, she really has strict self-discipline on many details to the extreme.
"Well, thank you... Of course, thank you for coming to enjoy our dinner tonight." Hermione smiled and nodded to the obviously smaller girl behind each other. "We meet again."
"Good evening, Miss humanity."
The little girl gently pulled the back of the robe of the Gemini girl in front of her and said hello in a low voice. I don't know whether it's introverted and shy, or just not adapted to human communication... Maybe even just because I'm not good at human language. In short, she looks timid.
Next to the little girl, the third guest of today's dinner was a male corpse - he didn't change into more neat and beautiful clothes like many of his kind, and he was still wearing rags from the low-level period. He was the kind that people with cleanliness would never be willing to approach.
However, the object of Hermione's personal invitation today will not be the kind of living corpse that is difficult to communicate. Despite his scruffy appearance, Hermione knew that the other party was actually one of the few individuals who were willing to take the initiative to communicate with her. When she first tried to contact the group of living corpses, she was also thanks to the help of the sloppy living corpse!
"Anyway, please!"
Hermione, who said a few words, then turned sideways and invited the three "guests" to take the lead to the stairs. When I passed the corridor, I subconsciously looked at the main hall gate and said:
"By the way, your brother should still be there? Are you going to invite him?"
"No, no, Miss Granger." the girl shook her head decisively. "I've asked him before, but in fact, he doesn't like this kind of party, so you should know the answer... Of course, plus the task given by the master, he won't leave his post without permission."
"Oh, what a regrettable answer."
After such a response, Hermione did not continue to speak, but led the three up the stairs to the second floor. After I had to turn a corner, I took them to the front of the restaurant soon.
Maybe he met Safina and Sarah when he went downstairs and overheard something. Now he couldn't help glancing around as he walked. It was only obvious that the two men turned back to the restaurant after her front foot left.
"Click."
Reach out and twist the door handle to open the closed door. In an instant, a strong smell of cheese came out of it. While taking a deep sniff, Hermione glanced back at the three corpse guests, but she could only regret to find that their faces didn't have much expression.
On the other side, seeing Hermione turning her head, the girl immediately nodded:
"It smells delicious. It looks like this dinner will be delicious."
"Thank you... Hannah and Luna, they'll be very happy to hear you say that." Hermione could only cope with such a polite compliment.
Fortunately, although they did spend a lot of thought and effort on delicious food today, the key point is not here after all. So even if it's hard for the living corpse to enjoy the delicious fun, at least there are other preparations waiting!
"Please... Oh, Neville, you're here... Share some food for Harry and Ron first!"
As soon as she stepped into the restaurant, Hermione saw Neville who was helping Hannah. But all kinds of dishes and desserts are obviously almost finished. Instead of fooling around here, it's better to bring food to Harry and Ron first.
"Oh, Sarah has gone for me - she said she would ask Ron to adjust the details of the alchemical prosthesis and come down in a minute."
Neville put down his work and said aloud.