Library Friendship

Mya Mu gave Sean a token round of applause, then picked up the dry bread and milk and finished them in a few bites.

"I'm done eating. I'm going to the library now. Take your time, everyone!" With that, she left them only with her retreating back.

"As expected of Mya Mu, she's actually this serious!" Susan could not help but exclaim.

"She's just going to study English."

Shalian patted Susan. "Mya Mu sometimes can't even understand what the teachers are saying in class. She really should study properly."

Hannah suddenly understood. "Oh, right. No wonder she looked so clear-eyed and... innocent today."

When she arrived at the library, Mya Mu suddenly felt at a loss. Standing beside the bookshelves and looking at all the English books she could not understand, she felt her head start to ache.

With no other choice, she went to ask the librarian, "Madam, do you have any beginner English books here?"

Madam Pince did not even look away from the book in her hands. With her other hand, she pointed toward a bookshelf. "They're on that shelf. Go on, child. I hope you will not eat casually or speak loudly in the library."

Mya Mu lowered her voice a little. "Oh, all right, serious Madam. Thank you."

Mya Mu took three books and walked over to a girl with wildly curly brown hair sitting alone.

"Hello, is anyone sitting here?"

"No, go ahead and sit wherever you like." She was a little lion wearing glasses.

After Mya Mu placed the books on the table, the little lion glanced at them and asked softly in confusion, "You're still reading books like these?"

Mya Mu understood why she was confused. Children her age were reading spellbooks, history books, and things like that, while she was reading three beginner books meant for British babies.

"Yes, I'm an English idiot. I can't understand class at all," Mya Mu replied in an equally quiet voice.

"..."

Then she saw Mya Mu take out her wand and cast a spell, moving two of the books aside.

Was this really what she had learned despite not understanding class at all?

"Will you come to the library often in the future?"

"I will. Why?"

"I'm Hermione Granger. You can call me Hermione. Maybe we can study together in the future. I can teach you English." When Hermione smiled, two large front teeth showed, making her look just like a rabbit. Oh, a clever rabbit.

"I'm Mya Mu. I accept your proposal. Also, you look like a little rabbit when you show your front teeth. You'd look even more like one if you had rabbit ears." Mya Mu wondered whether she had a rabbit-ear headband in her wardrobe. Perhaps she could give it to this new friend.

"...Oh, thank you." Hermione continued reading, her face red.

Mya Mu softly followed the phonetic symbols in the book as she read. Sometimes Hermione corrected her pronunciation.

At nine o'clock, Mya Mu and Hermione said goodbye at the library entrance. She decided to go outside and explore the school. The two spells Hermione had just taught her, "Lumos" and its counterspell, "Nox," worked like a flashlight, though they were neither as bright nor able to illuminate as wide an area.

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Mya Mu came to a lake and shone her wand over its surface. It was pitch-black. Well, Mya Mu was disappointed. She had thought the water would be clear enough for her to catch fish.

Suddenly, ripples spread across the lake. Mya Mu saw a human face, then stumbled backward in fright and fell.

"Ow!" Her wand slipped from her hand and landed nearby, its tip still glowing.

"Why are there wizards coming near the Black Lake to play again?" Mya Mu was terrified. What the heck was that? And it wasn't even speaking English. How was she supposed to understand any of it?

At that moment, she thought of Dumbledore. Hadn't that Old Mischief-Maker said he would be her guardian? She was about to be killed by some unknown creature.

"What's wrong with this little wizard? Did she suddenly fall ill? Should I inform Dumbledore?" The next second, he saw Mya Mu open one eye. His eyes lit up. It seemed he would not have to see Dumbledore after all.

Mya Mu had only opened one eye to see whether that thing had disappeared beneath the lake's surface. Instead, she met the gaze of the thing that had crawled onto the shore!

Well, since she had already been discovered, she might as well die in a more graceful pose.

Mya Mu abruptly sat bolt upright like someone on their deathbed. Wow, the thing that had frightened her was actually a Mermaid. Sigh, she had scared herself.

Mya Mu picked up her wand and made an "eight" with her left hand beneath her chin. "You'd better behave yourself. This is human territory."

A huge question mark seemed to flash over the Mermaid's head. It was the first time a wizard had told him to behave himself.

"Leave now, little wizard!" He swept a pool of water from the Black Lake onto Mya Mu's robe with his tail.

"Ah! My school uniform! I didn't expect you to be this kind of Mermaid!" Mya Mu patted her robe and stormed back into the castle.

"Hmph, what kind of Mermaid was that? Seriously, not polite at all!" Mya Mu complained as she wrung the water from her robe.

"Mya Mu?" Cedric approached from the opposite direction.

Seeing Mya Mu wringing out her robe, he asked, "Mya Mu, what happened? How did you get your robe wet too? Scourgify!"

Mya Mu immediately noticed that her robe had dried. She sniffed it again. Very good, there was no strange smell either.

"Thank you, Cedric. I went to the lake outside the castle just now. A Mermaid scared me so badly that I fell over, then said a bunch of things I couldn't understand. After that, he used his tail to get my robe all wet." Mya Mu told him what had just happened.

Cedric froze for a moment. "Were you hurt anywhere? Mermaids normally don't come out of the Black Lake!"

Mya Mu shook her head, and Cedric sighed in relief. "That's good, then. It's almost curfew. I was originally going to the library to find you, but you weren't there. I was just about to look elsewhere when I saw you here."

"The school has a curfew too?" Mya Mu frowned. Cedric nodded. Then how was she supposed to explore the ancient castle at night?

"Let's go back to the common room now." Cedric looked at Mya Mu, who had already wilted, and could not help wanting to laugh. It seemed all little wizards liked sneaking around at night.

After returning to the common room, Mya Mu said goodbye to Cedric and went back to the dormitory. Having already exceeded her study quota for the day, she greeted the other three and went to sleep.

Yeah, right. Dumbledore had been beside her during the day, so she had not dared to go upstairs and play on the computer. But now? Hehehe.

She brought the chest onto her bed, opened it, then skillfully climbed up from the lawn.

"Meow~" It was her cat, Qiqi, a very shy British Shorthair. That was why it had not come out when Dumbledore had appeared with her during the day.

"Oh, Qiqi, come on. Let's go play games!" Mya Mu picked up Qiqi and ran into the house.