Like Brother, Like Sister

Generally speaking, even if someone senses the faint predator aura emanating from Fina, they will only feel a slight unease.

Coupled with Fina's adorable appearance, even Bell, if he hadn't known Fina's background beforehand, would have thought it was just his imagination.

So, just how sharp must this Little Witch named Luna's senses be to be able to so clearly detect Fina's presence?

Etc!

Shanna, Fina, Luna —the second character of their names is "Na." Could there be some kind of mystical connection involved? Is it some kind of telepathic connection between people with the character "Na" in their names?

Bell's old habit of being unreliable has resurfaced again.

Whatever the reason, Bell definitely remembered Luna completely and was deeply impressed by her.

"Bell Senior, you just said you have a strange illness that says you'll die if you don't sit in this spot? Could you tell me more about this illness?"

Although Luna's voice remained as flat as ever, Bell could still tell from her pupils that Luna seemed quite interested in it.

But the problem is...

"No way! No one would actually believe such a half-hearted excuse!"

Bell stared at Luna incredulously for a while, and after finally confirming that Luna was really serious, he was speechless.

Turning his head to look at Penelope on the other side, Bell cast a pleading look at her.

As her secretary, didn't she see her boss was having a problem? Shouldn't she hurry up and lend a hand?

Penelope, secretly pleased with herself, felt the disapproving look from her boss. But what could she do? There was nothing she could do!

Since Bell said those words himself, he should take the blame for Bell.

"Luna is a notorious ' Mad Girl ' in Ravenclaw, you'd better figure out how to deal with her yourself."

Penelope, the utterly unprofessional "fake secretary," whispered in Bell's ear.

Bell glared at Penelope, clearly displeased that this lousy secretary dared to laugh at her boss.

Turning around, seeing Luna still staring at him expectantly, Bell simply couldn't bring himself to say anything like, "I was just making things up."

"Ahem, this... this is actually a curse! Yes! It's a curse!"

Bell, on a sudden inspiration, made up a story.

"Curse?"

Luna's interest waned somewhat. She was more interested in the unknown, strange illness than the curse.

"That's right! Actually... it was Professor McGonagall!"

She was very unhappy that I had been staying in Slytherin. So, she secretly cast a curse on me to force me to come back immediately.

As for why we have to return to this position... well... you'll have to ask Professor McGonagall, I don't know why either.

Since his own secretary was unreliable and unwilling to take the blame, Bell had no choice but to pass the buck to Professor McGonagall.

Bell now only hoped that Luna wouldn't actually go and ask Professor McGonagall. Otherwise, the old professor, who had already tolerated him for a long time, might really lose her temper this time and decide to make things difficult for him.

The rest of the meal proceeded peacefully. After all, not everyone is as reckless as Bell, daring to cause trouble under the gaze of a group of professors.

After reluctantly watching his sister leave for 10 minutes, Bell finally stopped his illicit attempt to follow her in outside the Slytherin Common Room by being grabbed by the ear by his exasperated girlfriend.

There was nothing she could do! Hermione didn't want things to turn out this way either! But Bell wouldn't listen to anything she said.

Under Snape's murderous glare, Hermione struggled to pull Bell along.

She was absolutely certain that if Bell really did follow Snape into the Slytherin Common Room, Snape would definitely pull out his Wand and kill someone!

The next day, after doing their morning exercise together, the three of them went their separate ways to attend their respective classes.

Incidentally, Hermione was discouraged again during morning training.

Watching the Bludger through the air and hearing the continuous sounds of it hitting her, Hermione once again pondered the meaning of life.

So, are all the Menethil Family members... monsters?!

Bell is one thing. After two years together, Hermione has long since stopped comparing herself to Bell. Her only goal now is not to fall too far behind Bell. At least she should be able to see his heels.

But who can tell her what's going on with Shanna?!

You know, Shanna is only 11 years old! More than two years younger than her! She's so embarrassed!

Actually, if you calm down and think about it carefully, Shanna, as Bell's sister, must have studied and trained with Bell from a young age. So, it seems quite normal that Shanna has the strength she has now... Yeah, right!

Rumble!

Hermione grimaced as she got up from the ground and rubbed her bottom.

Shanna is currently undergoing combat training.

Because Shanna's current strength is not enough for the 2.0 version of practical training, Bell specially built a 1.0 version practical Training Room for his younger sister in his suitcase.

This piqued Hermione's curiosity, as she had never witnessed any real combat training before. Despite Bell's advice, she insisted on coming along.

Sitting on the sofa in the rest area, Hermione watched expectantly as Shanna entered the Training Ground. She wanted to observe how the training was conducted so she could estimate when she would be able to use this place.

Hermione was still quite confident at this point. Although she had been somewhat frightened in the other Training Room earlier, Bell had said that Bludger Training mainly relied on practice to improve proficiency, and had little to do with magical skill.

Therefore, Hermione, who was quite confident in her magical abilities, believed that since even Shanna could conduct practical training here, she should be able to use this place soon as well.

You should know that after nearly half a year of magic control training, she can now smoothly control the doll and make it perform all kinds of difficult movements.

However, when Hermione saw dozens, even hundreds, of neatly arranged Philosopher's Stone rising from the ground, her heart sank.

"They're just ordinary stone statues. There are more of them, but stone statues, you know, are bound to move slowly. With good positioning, they're not impossible to maneuver around."

Hermione tried to comfort herself.

Unfortunately, Hermione's self-deception could no longer continue after the Philosopher's Stone was activated.

Gargoyle Swarm blotted out the sky, a charging knightly horde, arrows raining down like a torrential downpour, and infantry advancing step by step.

If Hermione hadn't known how much Bell doted on his sister, she would have thought Bell actually hated Shanna and was planning to kill her.

Before Hermione could recover from her shock, she saw Shanna use Hurricane Curse to blow away the Gargoyle that were swooping down. Then, the little girl leaped high into the air, dodging the knights' charge. Next, she unleashed an Explosion Curse at the archers.

The violent explosion shook the earth as if a major earthquake had occurred.

Caught completely off guard, Hermione was blasted into the air and landed hard on her backside.