Of course, he remembered the first night when the night wind blew his clothes under the stars.
That night, he stood side by side with the ignorant girl with a trace of intelligence on the open grass in front of the house, plausibly talking about his and her yearning for the magic school she will enter a year later, as well as the yearning and imagination of the magic they will learn.
Two children who also lost their mother looked at the stars like that. One said to study the mystery of magic so that both of them could see their mother again. So the other showed a quiet smile and said that although it was dangerous, it was indeed a way.
Today, the girl has gradually grown up, and her original simple mind has grown up due to various experiences and hardships. But after so many years, on the girl who has grown taller, the pure spirit temperament like cloud gauze cage moon seems to be still the same.
"Marca, have you found that way?"
At the moment, the girl Leng Buding went on to talk about the original topic. Even if it seemed endless in the past few years, it fell in the once young man's ears as if he suddenly smelled the cool night wind that night, so that he could not remember.
Now, the girl is still the girl, and the boy is still the boy.
However, some people or things seem to have undergone subtle changes, so that everything can no longer be as simple and beautiful as yesterday.
A moment of silence passed, and there was always a smile on Marca's face. Tonight, she lost her smile for the first time. He didn't care about other people's looks any more. He just looked at the girl with long light blond hair who was still waiting patiently from a distance and said seriously:
"Do you want me to find it, or don't you want me to find it?"
He did not affirm or deny, but asked a rhetorical question and threw the question back to the girl.
The dialogue between the two made everyone in the hall a little confused. However, at the moment, it is obvious that everyone has not figured out what to say, so no one tried to interrupt, but silently watched the follow-up development.
The girl, Luna, did not return the question after hearing the rhetorical question thrown back by Maka on the high ladder. She thought about it, then nodded calmly and calmly as usual, and answered in the face of the other party's eyes:
"It doesn't matter to me, as long as it's what you want."
"Really?" makaton paused, and suddenly his tone became a little low. "Even if I found the 'way', it might tear everything apart?"
Luna smelled the speech, but her expression still didn't change at all. She was still as calm as before.
"Yes!" she nodded again and looked at him. "Although we all love each other and everything we know, we all know that your love for the world is not less or even more than any of us. So as long as we know that this is really what you want, we will support... Is that right, Hermione Neville Harry?"
At the end, she swept over the other little friends one by one with her calm and natural sight, and stayed on each other for a few seconds every time she called up a name.
However, her inexplicable and accurate intuition seemed to suddenly fail at this moment. On the faces of Hermione and others, there was no expected affirmation, but more a struggle with deep hesitation.
After a few seconds of silence, a few people, such as Neville and Hannah, hesitated to nod, but sporadic responses made the atmosphere more subtle and rigid.
Luna blinked her eyes. After a circle, she finally returned to Hermione standing on the steps.
The next moment, she walked slowly out of the crowd in the center of the hall, passed Snape in front, and went straight to the stairs.
She stopped just a few feet away from the steps, where she would step up the steps one step further, looked up at Hermione who had already returned above, and seemed to have some doubts:
"Hermione?"
The once fair "competition" with Hermione not only made Hermione gradually understand Luna's various behaviors and ideas with unique thinking, but also made Luna become closer to each other and get a real friend she always wanted.
It is precisely because the "friendship" between the two sides can be said to be directly based on their feelings with Maka. After excluding some factors for the time being, the friendship - for Hermione and Luna - becomes more pure and special.
However, the two girls who finally established a friendship are two people with very different personalities. In the face of some major choices enough to touch the values of life, the contradiction temporarily pressed in the past is destined to reappear uncontrollably.
There is no doubt that the choice that everyone here must face tonight is so important that even if the other party is their former students, younger generation, close friends, teachers... And even their loved ones, they can't give up thinking, credulity and blind obedience simply by "trust".
What's more
"Maka!"
On the ladder, Hermione looked at Luna for a few seconds, seemed to be unable to resist the extra pure eyes of the other party, suddenly gave up the latter and suddenly turned around.
"Are you serious? Haven't you thought --"
Looking at the tall figure, a lot of words came to her mouth, but she couldn't say it. Because she, as one of the people who were closest to each other, was deeply aware of each other's wisdom and knowledge, even if she was full of words to question and refute each other's just words, she knew what she could think of. How could Maka not think of it?
So, why?
"Why!"
Finally, Hermione couldn't help shouting.
Of course, she is willing to believe in Marca. She believes that partners such as Harry and Ginny who have not been able to agree with Luna for the time being are also like her, but who can interpret a trust as incomparably thorough and even seem to be stunned by the principles like Luna?
Yes, to some extent, maybe she can, or... It's better to hope she can do it. But now, when she tried to fight for it, she found it extremely difficult, even painful.
"Maka," so she had no choice but to hide it and confide, "don't carry it alone... No matter what difficulties it is, let's face it together! You see, we have all grown up, and we can even hunt powerful and terrible demons. We... Are no longer vulnerable students who can only be protected under your wings."
"Maka, let's fight side by side, okay?"