Su Yu swept his eyes over every stone chamber, the Rinnegan's perceptive power fully unleashed.
Thank goodness. At last, he found Ginny lying unconscious in one of the stone chambers.
Su Yu leaped over, golden chakra carving an arc through the darkness.
Ginny lay weakly at the base of a statue in the stone chamber. Her mind was muddled, her entire body limp, her thin frame curled up on the spot. Su Yu crouched and checked her pulse—she was fine. She had merely passed out.
He picked Ginny up, and a faint moan came from his arms. Ginny stirred, her dazed gaze shifting from the dark stone chamber to Su Yu. Then she suddenly drew in a sharp breath, wrapped her arms tightly around him, and tears streamed down her face.
"It's all right now," Su Yu said, gently stroking Ginny's head. "Voldemort is dead, and Lockhart has been caught. How did you end up here? Didn't I give you a badge?"
Ginny cried for quite a while before she finally said in broken phrases, "Su—oh—Su Yu, Professor Lockhart drugged me. I went to his office this morning to get him to sign off on borrowing a book, but his tea knocked me out." She sniffled and wiped her tears away. "Oh, right! And Voldemort! He wanted to absorb my life force to revive himself, but the Kurama Cloak's automatic defense stopped him. Later, though, I was so scared that I fainted, so I don't know what happened after that..."
Su Yu sat down on the floor, placed Ginny on his lap, held her in his arms, and slowly began telling her about everything that had happened that day.
Elsewhere, Grindelwald was searching the Chamber of Secrets for any other treasures.
He stepped over rubble, rummaging through every corner of