The Happy Days at School Were Over

When he returned to Hogwarts, Yinsen made sure no one noticed his arrival.

Dumbledore still received Yinsen in his office. Hogwarts' Headmaster's Office could be considered a relatively safe and private place.

"So... you already destroyed one of Voldemort's Horcruxes?"

"Since I came across it, I took care of it for you."

"Nagini?" Dumbledore suddenly fell silent, as if recalling something. At last, he sighed helplessly. "Perhaps this ending was a kind of release..."

"A release?"

Anyone unaware of the full story would have been confused by Dumbledore's words. But Yinsen knew why Dumbledore felt that way, because he had known Nagini.

"You thought I killed Nagini?"

"Didn't you just say..."

Yinsen waved his hand, and an image appeared beside him. Looking at it, Dumbledore was astonished to see the once-familiar Nagini kneeling happily in the bright hall of what looked like a church, her hands clasped before her chest, her eyes closed, and her lips constantly moving. She appeared to be praying.

"This is..."

"I only killed the giant snake that served as Voldemort's Horcrux. While I was at it, I rescued Nagini from that body, which had completely turned into a snake."

Extracting a soul from a body was not an easy task. Even though Nagini had already been killed by Yinsen and her body no longer restrained her soul, her situation was extremely complicated. There had effectively been two souls inside her.

One belonged to Nagini. The other was the Beast's soul, born from a curse and now occupying the dominant position.

As for Voldemort's soul fragment? Yinsen had simply destroyed it.

When Yinsen casually extracted Nagini's soul with a wave of his hand, he had actually relied on the natural attraction that his "Heaven" had toward "kind" souls. That was how he successfully separated Nagini and