"Resurrection Potion is a complicated potion. Perhaps when I was brewing it for you, I got some of the ingredient ratios wrong, which caused this mutation..." Murphy spun the tale without even blinking.
"All right." Lucas nodded, but he did not dwell on it.
Being able to come back to life, to possess a living body, to truly experience this world—he was already very happy. He did not particularly care whether he was male or female.
He was not planning to fall in love anyway.
This female body was somewhat weak at the moment, but that was probably mostly because he had only just been resurrected. With some training, it would not affect anything.
More importantly, as a wizard, he would not become weaker just because he had turned into a girl.
"Professor, is this laboratory yours?" Lucas asked.
They were currently touring the magical plant laboratory. Inside the enormous glass greenhouse, Cobra Lily flicked its tongue at him.
"Yes," Murphy said. "It is one of my experiments, I suppose. An attempt to explore the future path of wizards and Muggles."
Lucas fixed his sapphire-blue eyes on Murphy. "Professor, I want to tell you something. It may sound very strange, but I hope you can hear me out."
Lucas then told him everything: how he had once been Tom Riddle, then later became the diary, how he had been found by someone from the year 2077 and learned of the wizards' tragic fate in that era, how he had then been sent back to the present and become Lucas, how the diary had used him as a tool for resurrection, and how, through a series of coincidences, he had ultimately become a girl.
Hearing the story he had arranged come from Lucas's own mouth, Murphy nearly failed to keep a