Cypher had worried too much. He had forgotten what had happened to him before he left Hogwarts.
"Take your pass, Cypher!"
At the end of the long bridge leading from Hogwarts to the outside world, Cypher embraced each of the girls in farewell.
After the farewells, Iris called out to Cypher as he turned to leave, hurried over, and stuffed a tough piece of parchment into his hand.
"What is this?"
It looked like parchment, but in his hand, it had the texture of metal and the feel of silk.
Curious, Cypher widened his eyes and carefully examined the parchment. What miraculous tool had Iris and the others made behind his back?
Yet with his current level of understanding of magical runes, a brief inspection revealed nothing.
He only discovered that it was covered in intricate, densely packed magical runes. Even if an ordinary wizard used some means to see those runes, a single glance would leave them dizzy and disoriented.
"A pass for entering and leaving Hogwarts! While you were away, I worked with Professor Dumbledore to improve Hogwarts's defensive magic!" Iris said, patting her chest and puffing it out in feigned pride.
"You're sooo amazing..."
Cassandra and Luna came over and immediately chimed in with that line, deliberately egging her on...
"Wow!" "You're killing me!" "That's so cheesy..."
That bout of horseplay had eased the sorrow of parting...
Back to the present.
Simply carrying the pass was not enough to enter Hogwarts.
In fact, unless one stood in a designated location, one could not even see Hogwarts's gates.
The reason Cypher could see Hogwarts's Main Castle
was precisely because a girl who could not stop thinking of him had opened the door home for him.
Every night, Iris sat alone atop the outer wall of Ravenclaw's observatory,