Wednesday, 14 January 1987
03:30 am
Diagon Alley
In the library within the suitcase, a cold fog was crawling, spying on the hidden corners and the hundreds of books and docunts.
If one were to step into this enchanted suitcase now, the scene within could have scared the living breath out of the most highly trained and courageous wizards and witches. And why wouldn't it?
Two of the vilest creatures known in the magical circle across the Multiverse had infested this place.
Dentor and Lethifold!
The four lvl 1 Dentors, all 2.3 ters tall, were gliding here and there, their long, tattered black cloaks billowing noiselessly in the cold fog.
Wherever they passed, the thinnest layer of frost claid the objects as if they were deliberately and presumptuously leaving a trail of their presence.
In the middle of the library, the Lethifold, Lilith, fluttered endlessly.
The Dentors kept howling, gliding around it in circles, but the Familiar gave them no mind.
Not to ntion, Lethifold was levitating high above the soul-sucking fiends.
It was as if it was eying them with distaste and disgust; as if Lilith considered her presence higher than the Dentors; a noble among the peasants.
Not much had happened after Kai's return, especially considering that he had transfigured into Darcie almost instantaneously.
Then, on Monday morning, Darcie had returned to Diagon Alley, resuming her Page Duties at Flourish and Blotts Bookseller, the bookshop under the managership of one Mr. Pigplanter Hillam.
However, this week was bound to differ for the young Malfoy.
Darcie Malfoy's life had already taken a strange, but interesting, turn on the last weekend, when her ntor, Madam Villanelle, had taken her to the mythical place, Avalon.
There she had learned of the existence of the Six mbers of the Order of the Immortal Lotus and their identities that surpassed the concept of ti.
Those Six were the ones who didn't belong to this era, she had co to know.
Madam Villanelle was the reincarnation of one of the Six, the Witch of Endor. That, too, she had learned.
To top it off, because of a series of queer and fatal coincidences, Darcie had obtained a Spirit Companion for herself - a Lethifold!
The Order had decided to prepare Darcie for her Candidacy of the Indigo Seat; the only Seat that was empty among the seven rainbow-colored Seats.
Her training would begin this week on Wednesday afternoon.
It was then that Madam Villanelle, in the guise of taking her to the Euro-Glyph School of Extraordinary Languages, would instead accompany her to visit hidden magical communities to begin her training.
Darcie Malfoy, though calm and composed, couldn't help but feel a tremble of excitent whenever she thought of that ti.
If there was a change worth ntioning, then it was Darcie's sudden interest in the concepts of Kabbalah, which she had even ntioned to her ntor.
Well, I am rather fascinated by the magical symbolism portrayed by Kabbalah, Darcie had told Madam Villanelle upon being questioned. I also read that the Tree of Life and the Sefirot, ntioned in its various concepts, are related to Alchemy. I can't practice Potioneering without a wand, anyway. Alchemy is much more theoretical, right? I like theories.
This all, however, was only one side of the coin.
For, hidden behind the innocent face of the young girl, was the most ruthless demon, fooling all, including himself.
Once in three-four days, in Darcie's room on the top floor of the Brews and Stews (-a restaurant-cum-hotel in Diagon Alley under the ownership of Ms. Clutterbuck Crispe-) this demon ca out in the open, planning his hideous deeds with his ever-loyal fiendish subjects that were neither alive nor dead.
This demonic being was none other than Contestant Red — Kai Stormborn, the Blood Demon.
It was Kai who had nudged Darcie to direct her research toward this new concept and ntion it to Madam Villanelle so that he could learn it from a magical perspective.
...
Near the hearth in the library, in which red-white fire was blazing high, trying to fight a bitter battle with the cold fog, Kai, Rintaro, and Petyr were seated on three high-back chairs.
From this afternoon, Darcie's training would begin, Kai knew.
If he had played his cards right, then he knew which training Darcie would undergo first.
Along with her, Kai too wanted to dive deep into the various magical theories, putting his mind and heart into studying the ancient art of magic.
So, before forgetting all worries and plans, Kai decided to evaluate his gains and losses, resulting from the recent visit to the Pirates of the Caribbean.
But even Kai had to agree that things had surpassed the level and goals that he had hoped to accomplish in the Switched World.
Kai had just entered his Identity Period of 3 hours.
Unlike the routine, where he would first make an entry in the journal for his psychological problem, this ti he refrained from doing so.
There were two reasons for that.
First, after his visit to the Random World, knowingly and unknowingly, Kai had made drastic progress in his Comprehension of the true essence of Facelessness.
Much of the credit for this went to him acting as Murtogg, fooling not only the Contestants but the main Character as well.
Then there was the fact of his Sword Spirit using one of the Faceless Contrasts to discard the concept of Self from his projected Inner World, letting it last longer than usual.
The second reason was that Kai had much to do and plan before the Identity Period ended.
Yet, in his hands, there were no newly gained Items, but a book.
No, not a book.
The Book.
Kai eyed the first tale in the Tales of Beedle the Bard, a yellow stroke glowing sickly on his forehead.
Other than the Sword Spirit, birthed by his own subconsciousness, none could see this yellow stroke, though.
This yellow stroke represented the unlocking of half of one of the three arms of the Yellow Sign.
It also represented Kai's absolute mastery over the Parselscript.
And this yellow stroke also represented his understanding of a part of the Ancient Magical Script, in which the old wizard, Mr. Beedle, had written these tales.
Kai's eyes kept moving up and down, left and right, his fingers flipping one page after another.
As he approached the last page, his gaze landing on the last runic letter, Kai sighed.
Both Petyr and the mad scientist looked at Kai, hoping to see so hint of his findings.
Kai shook his head, took a deep breath, and closed the book.
"It's not that bad," he comnted, observing the two characters' expressions. "If I am right, then Parselscript represents over half of the Ancient Magical Script.
"Hmm, you can take Ancient Magical Script as the 26 letters of the English Alphabet. Then Parselscript will have at least 15-16 of those alphabets in it."
Kai didn't say it, but his understanding of Parselscript had taken his knowledge of runes and ancient texts to never-known heights.
Comprehensions, by nature, were absurdly complex, their power imnse.
Kai's Comprehension of his Reality Marble, learning Parselscript as the result, was almost equivalent to his studying runes, bone texts, glyphs, and symbols for hundreds of years.
One could even say that Kai's knowledge of these subjects, languages, and scripts had even surpassed his knowledge of other scientific subjects.
This was the power of Comprehension; the Epiphany.
This was also the power of creating a Multiverse Interdependency of the Primordial Laws.
However, Kai had yet to put his newly gained knowledge to the test.
He still had ample ti, and his schedule was already set for the foreseeable future.
Petyr's eyes shone with understanding upon hearing Kai's words.
"No wonder," he mumbled, rubbing his chin. "No wonder, among all the parts of Ancient Magical Script, only Parselscript survived, taking the form of Parseltongue.
"The question is, why in the Mother's na Beedle the Bard possessed the knowledge of Ancient Magical Script? Sure, he might be the greatest of his ti. But his ti wasn't that far away into the past, either."
It was a brilliant question, Kai had to agree.
"He-He.. Ha-ha... Hahaha!"
The sudden peal of laughter made Kai's and Petyr's eyebrows jump simultaneously.
It was as if so grand scher had trapped his archenemy and was now relishing in the torture he would inflict on him.
This laugh had originated from a young man in a white lab coat, with a light stubble on his chin.
In his right hand was a flip mobile, and his left hand was in his coat's pocket, giving an impression as if he had just stumbled upon the greatest mystery of all.
Who else could be, but the self-claid and self-nad insane scientist Hououin Kyouma?
As Rintaro realized Kai and Petyr eying him with stony gazes, his laugh ca to a gradual stop, becoming a rueful twitch at the corner of his lips.
"Cough! Cough!" he coughed, and then his face gained an incredibly serious expression, making Kai and Petyr narrow their eyes. "I think... I think I just peed a little."
Motherfucker... Kai cursed, balled his fingers into a fist, and drew a deep breath.
Petyr chuckled, his sly smile dancing across his lips.
"Sure, sure," he mumbled, patting Rintaro's back. "Shower us with the theory you have co up with just now."
Rintaro was stunned.
"How did you know, Lab mber 003, Mr. Finger?" he asked, his brows raised high. "Oh! Haha! I get it. So... you, too, have fallen under the influence of my absolute charisma. Heh-heh! That makes you the second one after Lab mber 002, Ms. Humph."
Kai rubbed his temples, sighing inwardly.
Lab mber 002 was none other than Cersei Lannister.
Her wrath could have burned the entire world when Rintaro had nad her — Ms. Humph; because she had just snorted at sothing, then.
Petyr shared a glance with Kai and then cleared his throat. "Ahem! About that theory..."
"Ah!" Rintaro smacked his lips as if he had forgotten about it already. "Rember what Ms. Virgin (-g-) had said about the Parseltongue.
"It's the tongue of the Old Ones. So we can assu that THEY know Parselscript. And if THEY know Parselscript, then we can also assu that THEY know Ancient Magical Script as well, right?
"I think... I think Mr. Beedle got to learn the script from either so unnad entity or through so great secret. But he must not know the true significance of his findings, either.
"Rember what he kept shouting all the ti..."
"IT's coming..." Kai recalled the words, his gaze widening. "IT's coming for ..."
Rintaro nodded.
"How could the Deep One, the Sovereign of the Harry Potter Random World, tolerate such ddling?" he continued, smiling. "Maybe that's why HE was haunting the old wizard."
Kai fell into a stunned silence.
No matter from which angle he revisited Rintaro's words, it all seed just too far-fetched.
Yet, as far as it seed to him, a troubled feeling couldn't help but rise in his heart.
"HE and you seed to be fated, my lord," Petyr jested, smiling. "I think it was right for you to command us to not speak HIS true na in the open. Even if there are so grounds behind our good friend's theory, it isn't like we could go back in ti and do sothing about it.
"I am more interested in hearing your gains. To be honest, I quite envy our missing companion.
"She had struck a fortune this ti, gaining powers I would have never imagined we, who don't even have a proper form, could possess."
Rintaro suddenly gasped.
"Ah! Mr. Storm." He fell to his knees, tears welling up in his eyes. "Please seal the powers of Clear-Clear Fruit in . Please..."
"About the gains and losses..." Kai began, ignoring Rintaro's entire existence.
Suddenly, a great mass of dull-gray fog appeared inside the hall, shocking the living breath out of them.
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A Brief Summary of Characters (penned by Rintaro):
1. Na - Unknown [Code Na - Red, Blood Demon, Five-Crowned Prince, Lab mber 000 - Mr. Storm]
2. Margrethe II Ingrid (g) [Code Na - Morning Mist, Lab mber 005 - Ms. Virgin]
3. Selena Hao [Code Na - Spawn, Lab mber 006 - Ms. Silence]
4. Robin [Code Na - Red Sun, Lab mber 007 - Mr. Swindler]
5. Moraine [Code Na - Stark Blue, Morgan Stark, Lab mber 008 - Ms. Big]
6. Selene [Ghost Basilisk, Lab mber 004 - Ms. Lunatic]
7. Cersei Lannister [Book's Character, Act - Blood Prophecy, Lab mber 002 - Ms. Humph]
8. Petyr Baelish [Book's Character, Act - Relentless Love, Lab mber 003 - Mr. Finger]
9. Hououin Kyouma, Act - D-Mail, Lab mber 001
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