Sirius was delighted to see his feline friend again, but Crookshanks seemed a little strange.
The moment he appeared, he ran straight toward Lucia and circled around her. Even when Lucia swept him aside with her tail, he did not care in the slightest.
Because he knew Crookshanks so well, Sirius understood what he meant.
"Beautiful Miss Lucia, I feel like I've seen you somewhere before. I think we need to find a quiet place and have a proper chat."
Crookshanks's tail had even curled into an ambiguous shape, making Sirius bare his teeth in annoyance.
Lucia hooked Crookshanks around the neck with her tail and flung him aside.
"Stay away from me."
"Oh, you've broken my heart and stolen my soul..."
Watching Crookshanks look as if he had lost his soul, Sirius could not help sighing inwardly. What an incredible move. She shattered Crookshanks's will so easily and made me lose an important ally.
Poor Crookshanks, toyed with by Lucia as she pleased.
Sirius reverted from his Animagus form and prepared to look for an exit, to see whether he could escape.
But before he could take two steps, a strange sound of beating wings suddenly rang out overhead.
The rumbling waves of sound seemed to be coming from the area around those small hills.
Following the sound, Sirius narrowed his eyes toward the hills and saw a blurry black silhouette rise from among them like a black sun.
The shadow flew out of a cave and spread its wings freely in the air, soaring higher and higher until it became a black dot, then folded its wings and dived down.
A shadow fell across the ground, small at first before gradually expanding.
By the time it reached Sirius, it could easily envelop him. The gale stirred up by