Hogwarts: What Mischief Could a Little Hufflepuff Get Up To?
Chapter 700

Hmph, It's Just an Order from My Master! (Continued)

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This commission was not difficult...

Rather than not difficult, it was far too simple.

Never mind an organization like the "Fourth Calamity."

Even if you casually dragged out an organization of forty or fifty people from Knockturn Alley, they could complete a commission like this.

Because the dangers inside ruins were generally only things like Inferi.

Things like that might be very dangerous to ordinary wizards.

But to the Dark Wizards in Knockturn Alley, they were practically as kind as newborn babies.

So if they were only using a commission like exploring a ruin to verify their strength, that was far too simple.

If getting through a ruin like this was enough to qualify them to accept that commission, then at least more than half the organizations in Knockturn Alley had enough strength!

"Whenever something is out of the ordinary, there's bound to be something wrong." Old Rep blew out a smoke ring.

"Maybe this ruin is different from other ruins? Maybe it'll be especially dangerous?" Agatha asked tentatively.

"That's possible. But we can't give up on this test just because it's dangerous."

"Because Black is very interested in that commission, so..."

Old Rep stood up and stretched hugely.

"I plan to go there myself... Oh, right, I'll have to bring Old Bart too."

Old Rep suddenly remembered what Black had instructed him before leaving.

That Old Bart—if there was a dangerous mission, he could be brought along.

Although Old Rep also felt that Old Bart was a bit useless, since Black had instructed him to do so, then that was what he would do.

"Then I'll write to Black and tell him about this."

"Mm, go on. He should be very interested in things like ruins too."

Thinking that Black might also participate, the slight unease Agatha felt toward

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