Chapter 22: Newspaper Advertisement

Keats woke up on the morning of the third day, unfortunately, the Christmas holiday was already half over.
Beside the hospital bed, Judith leaned against Blanca's embrace and fell asleep together on the sofa provided by the hospital. They hadn't had a good rest since they sent Keats to St. Mungo's.
Qizi tilted her head and carefully observed that one of Blancas eye circles seemed to be slightly purple, and she also had some long scratch marks on her face. Judas had tears all over her face and her hair was messy.
"Ah!" Kizzy stretched lazily and cracked his joints with a snap.
His sound woke the two up, and Judice rubbed her eyes before running over to hug Kizzy and started crying.
“Are you feeling uncomfortable? Shall I call a doctor?” Blanca stretched and rubbed her arm that had gone numb from being leaned on by Judice.
“Wait a bit before calling. I feel fine now.” Chiz sat up and held Judice in a more comfortable position.
"To be honest, it's my first time seeing such a young formal knight. You know, I was already seventeen when I became a formal knight." Blanca exclaimed, "You are really lucky. If you hadn't become a formal knight, the dark magic that hit your waist would have been enough to blast you into two pieces."
Judith cried even harder when she heard this.
"I'm fine, it's okay. It's just a joke, Blanca is kidding," Chiz gently patted Judith's back and rolled her eyes at Blanca. "Right, Blanca?"
"How can it be okay? You've been lying here for almost three days, and I woke up to see you covered in bruises!" Judith's voice grew increasingly tense.
"I'm really fine! Blanca, what happened to your eyes?" Chiz quickly changed the subject, "And your face, did you go fight some fierce beast? A tiger? A tigress?"
"You're done for. I'm going to tell Lucia that you dared to call her a tiger mom," Judith cried and laughed at the same time.
"This is what a knight should endure," Blanca's face showed some reluctance.
Later on, he apologized to Qiz with a guilty face, "I'm sorry, I didn't take good care of you guys."
"You don't have to blame yourself. No one expected it, and besides, we're all okay, right?"
"Next time if something like this happens, you must not come to rescue me by yourself again. It's too dangerous! They said you had a fight with the 'body dismemberer' and almost lost your life!" Judith sobbed and choked while speaking.
"Okay, I got it. Next time I'll find a bunch of people to rescue you."
"There won't be a next time, you promise!"
"Okay, I promise."
"By the way, you've become a famous person now, many people know about your story. Look, this is yesterday's news." Bianca handed over a newspaper.
奇兹接过报纸，闻着怀里香香的朱迪斯，读了起来。
映入眼帘的是一行有些夸张的标题，《十一岁新生疑似击败黑巫师‘分尸者’，救出同伴后怒斥傲罗无能》
Then there's the illustration of Kees going out of control in the room, berating the madman Moody and his assistant over and over again in the animated picture.
There are no laws protecting the privacy of young wizards in this world, so in the picture Kees looks monstrous and battered, jumping up from the bed and spewing insults at Moody.
"That would be the side effect of the Blessing Elixir, not my intention," Kiz had memories of that time, but he was completely unable to control his actions.
"They know about it, Lucia had the same reaction last time she used her own self-made Blessing Elixir," Blanca explained with some amusement, "Don't say it was me who told you, and you guys sprayed the same person."
"Man, Moody really had some bad luck."
In the afternoon, after completing one check-up, he was allowed to leave the hospital.
When he was initially rescued, he looked like his skin was ripped open, but in reality, his injuries were mostly external and could be fixed easily with a few healing spells.
The Arlos searched the laboratory where the "Dissector" had been burned, but found nothing useful except for a charred severed hand and a heavily corroded mithril short sword. They did not find his body either.
On the second day of his release from the hospital, Professor McGonagall brought her condolences from Hogwarts, while Moody came with his men to take his testimony personally.
With Professor McGonagall as his witness, Kees repeated the slightly more plausible lie he had prepared beforehand.
In his testimony, Qizi cleverly avoided most of the 'dissectors' magical attacks using the effects of the Blissful Elixir. After cutting off one of his hands with a short sword, he scared him off and rescued Judice, but not before the 'dissector' set fire to the laboratory and destroyed the evidence inside.
On the Arrogance's side, 'the dismemberer' has been defined as being at large.
"This guy hasn't spoken a word of truth, sir. Are we really going to use his testimony to close the case?" The adjutant next to him was somewhat skeptical, this was not like the madman Moody's style. "Our Arrogance has lost face this time."
"The 'dissector' has already run away, hasn't he? We should have more people to protect him these days. This kid is quite interesting, I can tell he has no malicious intentions," said Moody as he tightened his cane. "Besides, Ms. Miller won't allow us to interrogate a first-year student. And, we have Lucius looking after him, don't we?"
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Professor McGonagall brought Hogwarts' condolences and left after Moody finished recording his statement.
Before leaving, she also mentioned Chiz's fight on the last day of school before break, where he defeated three senior Slytherin students, and allowed him to choose when to serve his punishment for the Forbidden Forest patrol.
"He's got some guts, that guy." Blanca said excitedly, praising him.
"Do you teach children like this?" Lucy couldn't stand it and kicked her.
"Don't be so reckless in the future, whether it's in school or in situations like the other day. Do you understand? Remember that it's important to protect yourself too..."
Chizi listened attentively to Lucia's earnest advice on the surface, but his mind was already immersed in his personal attribute panel and the results of his last simulation. He had been searching for a chance to carefully read it through, but hadn't found the opportunity until now.
"Simulator, generate the property panel!"
【Property panel generating】
【Name: Wang Qi/Qi Zi Burton
Age: 11
Physical fitness: 4.9
Strength: 5
Intelligence: 2.1
Mana: 26
Talents: (Magic Affinity), (Photographic Memory), (Indomitable Will), (Intuition), (Hyperthymesia), (Mechanical Mind), (Lionheart), (Madness)
Skills: (Knight Lv3), (Acrobatics Lv1), (Magic Lv5), (Mechanical Design Lv4), (Magic Knowledge Lv4), (Dark Magic Lv4)
【Current energy: 2, energy being collected automatically, current progress 9%, one unit of energy will be collected in 65.5 hours】
【Current items: Fake Magic Stones * 8, Fake Elder Magic Wand * 1, Traceless Storage Box (access/storage requires 3 energy points)】
The strengthening effect brought by exchanging for formal knighthood is immediate, with physical and strength both at around 5. Perhaps due to previous injuries, physical strength is slightly lower.
After putting the Traceless Stretch Box away, Qizi only had 1 point of energy left, and the other point was earned over the past three days. He had finally saved up enough energy, but now it was all gone. He felt so heartbroken!
"Check the last simulation results!"
【Day 0, Judice did not return home until evening after leaving, and you and the late-returning Blanca were very worried. You went out to search but couldn't find her until late at night. When you returned home, you found part of her dismembered body at the doorstep.】
On the first day, Lucy came back from a business trip and had a fight with Blanca. Blanca didn't fight back and was beaten badly.
You're very sad and swear to find the culprit, and start trying to gain power by any means necessary.
On the second day, you completely immerse yourself in learning magic and knight training, ignoring everything around you. Lucia advises you, but you don't listen.
On the third day, Blanca gives you the method to condense the knight's halo, and you embark on a journey to find the killer alone. You gain some achievements in knight training.
During the first week of school, you privately searched for everything related to Voldemort during the day and went on a patrol in the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid at night. Unfortunately, before Halloween, Chiloh was injured too badly and had to advance their own plans. On the fourth night, you discovered a unicorn that had been bitten to death by Voldemort. You hatched the prepared tracking butterflies and used them to determine Voldemort's whereabouts at night. You gained some insights in your knight training.
Week 2: Tracking the Butterfly proves useful as it follows the trail of magical potion left on Voldemort and leads to his whereabouts. In the Forbidden Forest, just as he finishes consuming the blood of a unicorn, you appear before him...