Chapter 80: Criminal Record

"Why are you crying? No, who are you?"

"My name is Shirley...Ah! Can you really force me to answer? Are you really the owner of the house?"

"...Are you a house elf?"

When Lu Yunkai heard the words of the strange-looking creature, he instantly understood what it was.

Although Lu Yunkai knew about the existence of house elves as early as last year, this was the first time he saw this magical creature that was said to be absolutely incapable of disobeying its master.

In Malfoy's mouth, they are "lowly and dirty magical races", but in Lu Yunkai's view, the big-eyed creature in front of him who was wiping tears with grievance had an indescribable cuteness.

"Don't cry." Lu Yunkai tried to order the house elf named Shirley.

Sure enough, it couldn't cry anymore.

It could only look at Lu Yunkai with its eyes wide open.

"Are you the house elf of this house?" Lu Yunkai asked.

"Yes."

"How come there is a house elf in this house?"

"Shirley's great-grandmother was a house elf of the Shafik family, and Shirley's grandmother was also..."

"The previous owner of this place was surnamed Shafik?" Lu Yunkai interrupted Shirley's thoughts of counting down the generations.

"House elves can't talk about their masters."

"I am your master now! Tell me!" Lu Yunkai was amused.

He appreciated this house elf named Shirley a little more.

"...Yes." Shirley obviously didn't want to say it, but she couldn't go against Lu Yunkai's wishes.

The aggrieved big eyes made Lu Yunkai embarrassed to force it.

"Forget it, I won't ask you anymore." Lu Yunkai suddenly felt a little guilty and waved his hand. "The previous owner of this house exchanged it with me for a wine bowl, so now this house is mine. If you are willing to stay, stay. If not... By the way, I remember hearing someone say that the contract with the house elf seems to be to give you something..."

"No!!! New master, please don't chase me away!!"

"Okay! Okay! Don't cry!!" Lu Yunkai was startled by its sudden loud voice.

"Master, do you want to eat? I'll prepare it for you right away." Xueli seemed to be frightened by Lu Yunkai's plan to chase her away, and she was anxious to show her value immediately.

"No... Well, that's fine." Lu Yunkai thought about it and nodded.

Let's give this house elf a chance to show off!

"Yes."

After responding to Lu Yunkai, Xueli suddenly disappeared just as she appeared.

It scared Lu Yunkai again.

Then Xueli suddenly appeared again.

"Master, if you have any requirements for the room, you can let me take care of it. You don't have to do it yourself."

"I'll do it myself! Aren't you going to cook?"

"It's ready! Do you want to go to the restaurant now?"

"... So soon?"

"This is the magic of our house elf, but it's also because there's really not much food to eat at home..."

"If I give you gold galleons, can you buy food and drinks by yourself?" Lu Yunkai looked at Xueli, who was shy, and realized that this big-headed and big-eyed house elf was actually skinny. He also remembered that it and the previous owner of this house actually sold them for a bowl of wine that could not be finished.

I think this family should have been out of food for a long time.

Wine, it's really harmful! !

"Sure... Wow! So many gold galleons??"

As soon as Xueli answered, Lu Yunkai took out 10,000 gold galleons in cash from his bag and piled them into a small mountain in front of it.

"You can take it. I see that many things in the yard outside the house and the house have been in disrepair for a long time. It will cost a lot of money to maintain it. If it is not enough, come and tell me." Lu Yunkai answered calmly.

"Okay, master!" Xueli nodded happily.

Then the pile of gold galleons in front of it disappeared.

"Although I am not short of money, you should not spend money behind my back, understand?" Lu Yunkai warned.

"Master, don't worry! Since my great-grandmother, we have been the best house elves..."

"Well, I'll go to eat first." Lu Yunkai interrupted Xueli's idea of ​​boasting about the family tree again.

After having a simple dinner in the huge dining room, Lu Yunkai realized that this house might not be suitable for living now.

There are too many things missing.

And it is a bit unrealistic to expect a house elf to gather these things quickly. After Lu Yunkai was interrupted while tidying up the bedroom, he also lost interest in this matter.

So, he decided to leave the task of cleaning up the house to Shirley, who wanted to show her loyalty to the new owner. After dinner, he used a handful of Floo powder and returned to the Leaky Cauldron in London using the fireplace at home.

The bar was still bustling, and the cocktail party after dinner was still going on. Those solitary wizards without families seemed to have no better place to relieve their loneliness than the Leaky Cauldron at Christmas.

Lu Yunkai glanced at Tom, who was already drunk and arguing with the guests about whether the beater or the seeker was more important, and went back to his room to sleep.

After waking up the next morning, when Lu Yunkai came to the bar hall again, there were still traces of the carnival the night before everywhere.

The boss, Tom, was dragging his obviously tired body behind the bar, wiping the wine glass with a cloth.

"Are you up?"

"Yeah." Lu Yunkai sat in front of the bar, "Is there anything to eat?"

"Only some snacks and bread left over from last night." Tom said as he waved his wand, and some unappetizing breakfast appeared in front of Lu Yunkai.

But compared to what we ate at home last night, it was already rich.

Lu Yunkai wasn't too picky, so he picked up a piece of scone, stuffed it into his mouth and took a bite.

"You're here to ask me about Chris, right?" Tom continued to pick up the rag and wine glass, wiped them, and said casually.

"……Um."

In fact, Lu Yunkai is really not.

Yesterday, he just came up with an excuse to deal with Daphne. When he entered the bar, he casually asked Tom. Maybe Tom and Chris have known each other for many years, but Lu Yunkai doesn't want to hear anyone tell him what Chris was like back then...

It felt too much like family and friends sitting together for a memorial service after someone died.

Chris is not dead! !

Therefore, he rejected it from the bottom of his heart.

But Tom was so positive, and Lu Yunkai was really embarrassed not to give him face.

"Is Chris really dead? It shouldn't die that easily, right?"

Tom said something casually, which instantly cheered up Lu Yunkai, who was still feeling very uncomfortable.

Even now in Hogwarts, no one except Daphne knows that Chris is still alive (well, of course he doesn't know that Firenze has told Dumbledore about it), there is a lot of information in Tom's sentence .

"It's not dead. But it's almost dead."

"Is its soul gone again? Who else cast a life-killing curse on it?" Hearing Lu Yunkai's words, Tom was stunned, stopped what he was doing, and looked at Lu Yunkai.

This was the first time that Lu Yunkai saw such a serious expression on this bald man who didn't know whether he was hunched over because he liked to bow or bent over, or whether he naturally bowed and bent over because of his hunched back.

"Again??" But what Lu Yunkai focused on was this word.

"Chris was killed by a dark wizard before. Boss Jesse was very angry about this incident. He thought Chris was dead at the time, but he didn't expect that a month later, she came back to life... Well, although the thing that came back to life cannot be regarded as Chris. "

"Well, she's much prettier than Kris." Lu Yunkai remembered the lynx with long white hair and nodded.

"Kris can actually become beautiful, but after she becomes beautiful, many witches will want to touch her, which will be annoying to her." Tom said and laughed.

Lu Yunkai was stunned and then smiled.

really. As ugly as Chris is now, Hermione and Daphne still want to hold it and pet it. It will turn into a white long-haired cat...

Chris will definitely have a worse and more violent personality.

"In order to take revenge on the wizard, Jesse found Oro, who was at the Ministry of Magic at the time, and sent the wizard to Azkaban on the grounds that Chrissy's possessed soul was equivalent to the human soul." Tom continued, "As a result, that The wizard died within a month of entering Azkaban."

"Then Jesse helped Chris get another soul?" Lu Yunkai asked curiously.

"Of course not! If that were the case, Boss Jesse would have to go to Azkaban." Tom laughed, "As soon as the wizard who used the Imperius Curse on Chris died, Chris recovered the next day. "

"...Huh?? The memory has also been restored?"

When Lu Yunkai heard this, his eyes lit up.

"Yes! It's amazing!" Tom nodded. "Boss Jesse later said that it was probably because the Imperius Curse actually removed the soul of the wizard from the body and imprisoned it in the wand, and the wizard who used the Imperius Curse After death, the soul imprisoned by him escapes from the wand. The wizard who loses his soul will die, but as long as the soul-eating lynx is still alive, the possessed soul will return to it..."

"Then, as long as I kill the monster that attacked Chris, Chris can recover, right?"

There was a hint of trembling in Lu Yunkai's voice.

Kris can recover! ! What are you waiting for! ! He must do it!

"Are you sure what kind of monster attacked Chris?"

Suddenly, another voice sounded in the bar.

A wizard familiar to Lu Yunkai appeared at the back door of the bar, wandered to the bar and sat down.

It was the old man who Chris sold a crystal ball to for a thousand gold galleons last year.

"Old Eli, why are you so early today?" Tom greeted the old man with a smile, while skillfully pouring a glass of beer and placing it next to the counter.

"I heard that Chris died, and I was still wondering what could kill that guy." The old man whom Tom called Eli smiled and sat next to Lu Yunkai, "From what you said, it was obviously Someone used the soul-stealing curse!"

"It should have been attacked by a monster." Lu Yunkai shook his head, "It's not a wizard."

"How are you sure?" Tom answered.

"So say the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest."

"Oh, that should be the case. Centaurs are a race that is notoriously disdainful of lying." Tom nodded, "And they also understand nature best."

"But apart from the Soul-Eating Lynx, I haven't heard of any creature that can attack the soul directly!" Eli disagreed, "If there are any such creatures, they would have been exterminated by the Ministry of Magic long ago."

"Then I don't know. Maybe you can ask Isabella?" Tom shook his head, "It's normal that you don't know."

"With a boss like you talking like this, this bar is probably doomed." Eli glared at Tom.

"Then you pay me the wine money, and I may not go bankrupt." Tom retorted.

"...The Leaky Cauldron can't go bankrupt, I can't find such a good place again." Eli changed the subject instantly.

"Um... sorry." Seeing the two people start chatting, Lu Yunkai had to interrupt, "Who is Isabella you are talking about?"

"She is the owner of the magical zoo in the alley over there!" Eli answered with a smile, "No one in the whole of England knows more about animals than her."

"Don't worry, she drank until the early hours of this morning and didn't go back. It's good enough to open in the afternoon." Seeing Lu Yunkai stand up and leave, Tom advised.

"... Yeah."

Lu Yunkai nodded calmly.

But in his heart, he was already eagerly looking forward to the afternoon...