Roy drank tea in silence. Tanjiro felt like a fishbone was stuck in his throat, sitting restlessly.
The old woman's and young wife's faces became extremely pale. The latter initially hadn't realized, but now understanding, her hands twisted together, ten fingers digging into her clothing hem.
A ...
2025-10-06 15:48:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5: Chocolate Frogs
Shawn sat to the side, taking careful notes in a worn leather journal. Actually, that's not quite right either.
The page read:
Pronouncing the spell correctly is crucial—never say 's' when it should be 'f'. The incantation is 'Wingardium Leviosa', and that 'ga' must be pronounced long and clear.
Shawn looked...
2025-10-06 12:55:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4: Differences in Subject Difficulty
Wait—was that Hermione?
What a coincidence.
Shawn blinked in surprise, his voice mixing with the rhythmic clatter of the train and the whistling wind beyond the window. Outside, the vast plains had receded, replaced by dappled shadows as the Hogwarts Express carved through a dense yew forest. Shafts of golden sunl...
2025-10-06 12:55:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3: On the Train
Outstanding in all seven subjects. Shawn carried his suitcase through the barrier, his mind already racing through the challenge ahead.
He had arrived early, and the first few carriages weren't full yet. The Hogwarts Express gleamed scarlet in the morning light, steam billowing from its engine in thick white clouds. The platform hummed with e...
2025-10-06 12:55:33 +0000 UTC View PostNight deepened. Outside, trucks rumbled over wet pavement, their headlights casting fleeting shadows through the thin curtains. London was financialising, Canary Wharf was rising with glass and steel, but the street where the orphanage stood was still piled with uncollected garbage bags, rotting in the autumn damp.
The house alway...
2025-10-06 12:55:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1: London Orphan
"If you insist on going to that Hogwarts school, then you'll have to pay for your own expenses! The orphanage won't give you a single penny!"
"I understand, Matron Anna."
Shawn watched as the matron walked into the common room and gently closed the door behind her. A loud slam would give her an excuse to change his dinner from cheap po...
2025-10-06 12:55:03 +0000 UTC View PostOn the other side of Berlin, Newt pushed open a chained door in an abandoned subway station and descended into the basement, the rusty metal groaning under his weight.
After handing over his wand and numerous magical creatures to the suspicious guards, he carried a visiting lamp into the depths of the prison, its flickering light casting dancing sha...
2025-10-06 12:54:17 +0000 UTC View PostAt a post office in Berlin, Bunty went in carrying the case to mail it, her footsteps echoing on the marble floor.
Meanwhile, Yusuf Kama also joined Grindelwald's team with apparent sincerity, his face a mask of devotion.
Grindelwald extracted Yusuf Kama's memories with clinical precision, but being insufficiently proficient in th...
2025-10-06 12:53:41 +0000 UTC View Post[Duel Won!]
[Conditions Met: Victory Against Possessed Magical Opponent.]
[System Commencing Random Ability Extraction from Defeated Target: Igor Karkaroff.]
[Opponent Strength Assessment: Above Average. Drawing Two Abilities.]
[Extracting...]
Sean felt a slithering, insidious presence coil around his mind like invisible chains, followed by ...
After Dudley finished speaking, he performed Apparition and vanished, leaving only Gins and his two companions with the frowning Cole.
"Him?" Cole thought to himself, mentally replaying the honorific name Dudley had just transmitted directly into his mind.
"Is this the person above Dudley?" Cole wondered with uncertainty.
In his un...
2025-10-05 19:54:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe spells Yaxley had just given Sean were ordinary magic, with levels not as high as Sean's current abilities. They provided no help at all.
Black smoke swirled continuously around Sean, extending dark tendrils to block Barty Crouch Jr's attacks, while Sean went all-out on the offensive. His wand traced trajectory after trajectory as vari...
2025-10-05 19:54:03 +0000 UTC View PostDudley chuckled softly, glancing down at Gins sprawled on the dusty floor.
"You can do anything?" Dudley asked, his tone dangerously light.
"Yes, anything!" Gins nodded frantically, not daring to hesitate for even a heartbeat.
Compared to death, there was nothing he would not accept.
"What about you two?" Dudley turned his cold gaze to ...
2025-10-05 19:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post"Still no movement from Sterling and the others today?"
Professor McGonagall looked gravely at Terry, who shook his head with visible weariness.
"No signs of waking up. Ron's body has developed some strange patterns, but Professor Snape examined them thoroughly and found no problems."
"I see." McGonagall's lips pressed into a thin line. "Terry, today...
2025-10-05 19:18:28 +0000 UTC View PostAfter realising his uniquely advantageous position for cultivating Ember Fern, Ciel's eyes brightened. He immediately summoned Troll Priest Siris, asking whether pure gems could be refined from ore.
Siris looked confused. "Of course, my King. Refining gems to obtain wealth is a mandatory course for alchemists. Ni...
2025-10-05 19:18:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Sterling crossed the "gate", sky and earth twisted violently together.
Countless complex colours swirled and merged in disorienting chaos. Up, down, left, right—all spatial sense shattered completely. Sometimes his feet found purchase on cotton candy-like clouds that dissolved beneath him; sometimes thick earth layer...
2025-10-05 19:18:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe Divine Joy Flower seed began to pulse weakly, rhythmic like a heartbeat. Simultaneously, its originally faint life force began slowly reviving.
Seeing this, Ciel couldn't help but widen his eyes. He hadn't expected to actually guess correctly. The method Divine Joy Flowers used to identify gods wasn't magic power, appearance, or ...
2025-10-05 19:18:14 +0000 UTC View Post"So—you're calling this Animagus?"
Hermione spoke with both hands firmly covering her eyes. They were still floating high in the sky, and she feared accidentally glancing down and "falling asleep" again.
"It can be considered one." Sterling lied with as much sincerity as he could muster.
"Even I know Animagus transformations can't prod...
2025-10-05 19:18:05 +0000 UTC View PostBut Ethan had no intention of letting Sirius escape again.
With a shout, like those cabinet monsters from video games, he grabbed the edge of the closing door!
Meeting Sirius's shocked gaze, he held two fingers together and called out, "'Universe in the Wardrobe' – Open!"
Swoosh! A deep b...
2025-10-05 18:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post"Are you sure it's hidden here?"
In a bathroom on the first floor, watching Dumbledore walking ahead, Evans's expression was decidedly strange.
Since it was already very late, Nicolas Flamel couldn't hold on and had returned to his room to rest, but this old man before him obviously had no intention of sleeping. Instead, he was excitedly leadin...
2025-10-05 18:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostBiting frost climbed onto the Dementors' tattered black cloaks, freezing their incorporeal, weightless forms like corpses preserved in ice. As if heavy iron balls had been shackled and dragged behind them, their movements became increasingly sluggish.
Never before had Dementors known that cold could reversely corrode...
2025-10-05 18:01:44 +0000 UTC View Post"What was that sound?"
Two pairs of eyes snapped toward the door simultaneously. Lockhart slowly tucked the diary into his robes, while Umbridge drew her wand with practised precision.
That explosion wasn't particularly loud, but the two people in the bathroom were close enough to hear this sudden disturbance clearly.
Although Hogwa...
2025-10-05 18:01:39 +0000 UTC View Post"Oh, you seem to be thinking about things that children shouldn't be considering."
More than the Sorting itself, Harry found himself fascinated by the Hat. "You can actually read my mind?"
"This isn't Legilimency. Gryffindor didn't grant me such invasive abilities—he valued privacy too highly. If we're discussing mind-reading,...
2025-10-05 15:33:16 +0000 UTC View Post"System, I need a loan related to inanimate-to-animate transformation and animate-to-inanimate transformation in the Transfiguration field."
Leo had already mastered inanimate-to-inanimate transformation. The next level of difficulty involved these two advanced Transfiguration directions.
The challenge of inanimate-...
2025-10-05 15:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostSlytherin disappointed Harry.
He'd expected some response, some protest, some fire. Instead—nothing. Complete acceptance of the Sorting Hat's yearly insult.
Perhaps they were accustomed to the Hat's disparagement, or genuinely believed "cunning and treacherous" and "any means to achieve ends" weren't derogatory terms at all. P...
2025-10-05 15:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostDumbledore entered the room first, with Snape following close behind. He observed the three-headed dog contentedly gnawing on the enormous pork rib, raising an eyebrow with mild curiosity.
"Hagrid wouldn't come feed the dog at this hour, would he?"
Dumbledore chuckled softly, "Perhaps the visitor just now was a do...
2025-10-05 15:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostLooking at the ghosts' miserable state—frozen mid-glide with dark energy crackling across their translucent forms—the young wizards' minds raced with anxious speculation. Their parents hadn't explained what the Sorting test actually entailed. Surely they wouldn't be made to duel this terrifyingly powerful boy, would they?...
2025-10-05 15:32:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe crisp bell echoed through the hallways, and Sawada walked toward the classroom with measured steps. As the door swung open, every student inside turned their heads in unison, their eyes tracking his movement with a mixture of curiosity and reverence.
Looking at those students who were slightly older than Naruto's ...
2025-10-05 14:36:47 +0000 UTC View PostIn just one exchange, the Animal Path was destroyed, and the Preta Path was half-obliterated.
Only the Asura Path could barely hold its own against Karin, and this was while Karin hadn't even used her full abilities.
Meanwhile, Naruto had just finished dismantling one Pain and was about to continue f...
2025-10-05 14:36:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Naruto said this, Sawada just chuckled softly. If only it were that easy to achieve. Moreover, Naruto's natural affinity was only for Wind Release.
"I'm not saying this to make you overconfident," he said, patting Naruto's head gently. "Everyone has their own strengths. For example, you possess enormo...
2025-10-05 14:36:35 +0000 UTC View PostAfter clearing the area with one strike, Naruto closed his eyes and released his Observation Haki to sense his surroundings.
His full-power Observation Haki's sensing range was already impressive. Now maintaining Sage Mode constantly, his perception was being further enhanced.
While completely covering the entire Land of Rain might be impossible, scan...
2025-10-05 14:36:30 +0000 UTC View Post