When Harry and Ron watched in despair as hundreds of spiders surrounded them, preparing to devour them completely, flames descended from the sky and instantly formed a wall around them. The blazing inferno erupted wildly, swallowing huge swathes of forest in the blink of an eye and quickly turning everything around them crimson.
"No, my children!!"
Seeing her children killed, the enormous spider roared and pounced at Harry and Ron.
"What have you done?! I will never forgive you!"
However, her life ended there.
A flame formed into a spear and descended from above, piercing straight through the giant spider's head. Flames quickly erupted from inside her body, turning her into a blazing fireball. The giant spider, wrapped in flames, only staggered forward a few steps before collapsing to the ground and being swallowed by the fire in an instant.
Only then did Harry and Ron drop to the ground back-to-back, drenched in sweat from head to toe—not from the heat, but from terror.
Then, in the next moment, a voice rang out beside them.
"What are you doing here?"
The voice was like ice-cold water poured over them from head to toe. At that moment, they could no longer feel the heat outside. They hurriedly jumped to their feet and stood stiffly on the ground. Then, trembling, they looked up and saw Airi sitting on a broom in the air nearby, staring at them coldly.
"I assume you know how many points are deducted for entering the Forbidden Forest without permission... Five points each. Gryffindor loses ten points this time. No objections, right?"
"..."
Even if they had objections, they had no choice but to say they did not!!
"Follow me."
As she spoke, Airi lowered her broom and came down in front of them. Then she turned and