Chapter 680 Hostage

Hermione's worldview was greatly impacted, and she looked dazed for the rest of the time. At dinner time, they went to the cafeteria to finish eating, and Hermione didn't recover completely. Judging by her appearance, it might take a lot of time. It takes a while to digest this information.

"Didn't you not attack the little girl?"

Scathach was holding a stack of pastries, and approached Ethan curiously.

"No way."

"Hermione looks like she was murdered by you."

"I just told her about our identities." Ethan wanted to ask back: Where do we look like? Not at all okay?

"So this is ah."

Scathach found that things didn't seem to be going in an interesting direction, so he backed away with a look of disappointment, but deliberately added a sentence: "But there are more and more little girls around you!"

"..."

As soon as he turned his head, he saw Ilya holding Xiaobai and looking at him expressionlessly. Ethan decided to 'just pretend that he didn't understand', and wandered in a random direction, as a walk after cooking to help digestion. Even if this body does not have indigestion problems at all.

Besides telling Hermione his identity, the most interesting thing during this period was that Hogwarts was going to hold a dance, and as a contestant in the Triwizard Tournament, Ethan would be one of the lead dancers.

Snape greeted him specifically for this, and asked him to prepare the dress in advance, and if he couldn't dance, hurry up and learn.

"Dancing?"

Ethan really can't, since he traveled through time and got the time-space pointer, he has been working hard in order to survive and become stronger in the first few years.

Later, his survival was guaranteed, and he did not stop to make himself stronger.

For all kinds of knowledge, abilities or props that can make him stronger, he is very attentive to collecting and learning, and these things definitely do not include the skill of dancing.

With Ethan's current learning ability and physical coordination ability, he can learn these simple dance steps just by watching them once, so there is no need to worry too much.

Instead of worrying about that, it's better to worry about who should be the dance partner.

"Why do you feel like you're in trouble?"

After much deliberation, Ethan decided to invite Ilya. It doesn't matter if Scathach ignores it, but Illya will definitely be angry if she always ignores it.

After living in this world for a few years, Illya gradually stopped clinging to Ethan as she did at the beginning, and would find things to pass the time by herself from time to time.

But most of the time, she would stay by Ethan's side, and he seemed to be ignoring her a bit during this time.

"So, this counts as compensation?"

Illya looked at Ethan with an expression of "seeing everything already", but she still happily accepted the invitation.

This is Ethan's invitation, and it is impossible for Illya to refuse, not to mention that she is very interested in the dance. With a few years of peaceful campus life, she now smiles every day, which is completely different from the cold face at the beginning, when she occasionally smiled like a sneer.

"We still need to prepare the dress."

Since Ilya was very happy, she took care of all the preparations, which left Ethan with nothing to do, and could only quietly wait for the day of the dance.

"Have you solved the secret of the golden egg yet?"

That day he was still reading in the corner as usual. Hermione, who hadn't seen him for a while, suddenly found him. She thought he was continuing to ask about his identity, but unexpectedly, he was asking about the Triwizard Tournament.

"Golden eggs? Oh, you said that."

The first competition is to capture the golden egg under the protection of the fire dragon, and the information of the next competition is hidden in this golden egg.

It means that the three contestants who successfully obtained the golden egg will know some content of the game before the start of the next game, thus gaining some advantages.

Victor, who damaged the golden egg, can only choose to adapt to the situation.

Ethan didn't try to unlock the mechanism on the golden egg, because he already knew the content of the second competition.

Dive into the Black Lake next to Hogwarts and rescue the "very important people" to the contestants who have been captured and trapped at the bottom of the lake.

The more troublesome part of this competition is how to stay underwater for a long time.

This is not a problem for Ethan at all, not to mention him now, even Ethan before he created his divine body, he can stay underwater as long as he wants until he wants to leave.

As for those mermaids? Those guys can only rely on the convenience of the 'home court' to cause a little trouble for the contestants, and they can't cause trouble for Ethan either.

The only headache is, who is the hostage who will be captured?

According to the original plot, the goal of the four contestants Harry to rescue is his friend Ron; - Digory is going to rescue Zhang Qiu, the two are dating; Furong is going to rescue her own sister.

Now that he has replaced Cedric, it is impossible for Zhang Qiu to be taken hostage again. From a relationship point of view, Ilya is likely to be the replacement.

But with Illya's character, I'm afraid she won't be a hostage obediently, right? At that time, the game has not been ordered to start, and Ilya, who woke up there, made a big fuss in the Black Lake and killed all the mermaids in the water, and the situation will be lively.

Because the mermaid in the Black Lake has a good relationship with Hogwarts, they participated in this competition.

As for the so-called kidnapping of the important people of the players, and trapping them underwater, if they can't be rescued in time, they will die, etc., just fool these half-grown children.

All the professors from the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts will guarantee the safety of these 'hostages', that is to say, even if some players fail, they don't have to watch the most important person die in front of their eyes. It's just a play together.

In this case, of course Illya can't be allowed to go crazy and kill me casually, so Ethan decided to find a time to say hello to Dumbledore and the others, don't choose Illya or Scathach as hostages, um... ... Leah doesn't seem to be able to do it either. Who knows if she will suddenly awaken the power of a demon king.

As for Rin Tohsaka... Well, she has the potential to be a good hostage.

"What are you thinking?"

Thinking a little far away for a moment, I forgot that Hermione was beside me waiting for my answer.

"Have you already solved the secret of the golden egg?"

"Yes." Ethan looked at Hermione next to him, and suddenly thought that Hermione and Harry were also good friends: "Are you here to help Harry with inquiries?"

"Harry has already solved the secret of the golden egg." Hermione then looked at Ethan again, as if she was looking at something strange: "I should have known it a long time ago, how can a puzzle of this level be so difficult?" hold you?"

Ethan understood now. Hermione was worried that she didn't understand the golden egg, so she wanted to remind him.

"Thank you."

"No, it doesn't help much anyway."

Hermione stood up and was about to leave, but Ethan stopped her just as she stood up.

"What's wrong?"

"this is for you."

In Ethan's hand, there was an extra inconspicuous necklace, similar to the ones sold by roadside vendors.

But Hermione would not really think that this thing was bought from a roadside vendor, after all, the identity of the person in front of her was a bit scary, and she hadn't completely believed those words until now.

"what is this?"

"A talisman, I see you are no longer wearing the Time-Turner."

Hermione touched her neck, her face flushed slightly.

"You actually noticed?"

Ethan wanted to say, 'I'm not blind', but then realized that he was staring at the girl's neck all the time, which made people feel weird.

But it's hard to explain, saying that my mental power and eyesight are too strong, no matter how small a change is, it's impossible to escape my perception? That doesn't seem to help.

In the end, I could only remind a few words in embarrassment: "Remember to wear it on your body, it will help."

Hermione opened her mouth, and finally walked away quickly, holding the necklace without saying anything.

In fact, the necklace in her hand has several spells such as restoring sanity, underwater breathing, and visual enhancement, which can make Hermione not suffer so much when she is taken hostage.

Although Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic will do their best to ensure the safety of these hostages, but it is not a warm day, soaking in the icy lake water, they will suffer no less.

Cold, choking, and suffocation are not comfortable, although the professors will make some arrangements, otherwise ordinary people would have drowned if they soaked in the bottom of the lake for an hour.

And with this amulet, Hermione can wake up early, and don't have to worry about being choked after the spell on her body is untied, and she can watch the fun at the bottom of the lake with her enhanced eyesight.

Provided she does wear the amulet.

Ethan took a special look the next day, Hermione was wearing the amulet he had given her around her neck.

Don't worry about Hermione, Ethan immediately went to find Dumbledore and explained Illya's situation to him.

"Relax, we are not going to take Illya as a hostage in this competition."

As for how Ethan knew the content of the game? Dumbledore didn't even bother to think about it.

"And Scathach...err...we don't think it's a good idea to take this hostage."

Others who are closely related to Ethan, such as Leah and Tohsaka Rin, are not going to consider it, which makes Ethan strange.

"Then who are you going to ask me to save?"

"We are also troubled by this problem." Dumbledore has been thinking about this problem for a while. The few people around Ethan try not to disturb them if they can, but there is no one who has a close relationship with Ethan except these few people. up.

"Maybe you can name someone?"

Ethan touched his chin, and Dumbledore threw the question back, only to realize that it was really not a good choice.

"Or... Draco Malfoy?"

After thinking about it, this young master of the Malfoy family is very knowledgeable about current affairs and has never provoked himself, so there is no need to deliberately trick him.

"You can arrange whatever you want! This time I will keep a low profile and stay in the water for a while."

The subtext is: the hostages will suffer, you can choose according to your choice.