Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

"Is there any discomfort? Where does manipulating magic make you feel uncomfortable?" She asked tentatively.Although the emotions surging in his heart were too complicated to be completely clarified in a short time, Snape's performance was too abnormal. The kind of concern that had been deeply rooted in his subconscious reaction after 20 years came out in an instant. She couldn't help but start looking for a suitable reason for him - or an excuse.

"Maybe it's too difficult for this magic to target two living people at the same time...it's okay." She subconsciously used the gentle and comforting tone that she had used for so many years.

"It's okay, Severus. We can do it next time—"

Severus Snape looked up suddenly.

The second half of Liu Quan's words were choked back by his action.She looked at him in amazement, and saw that he cast his eyes directly on her who was talking, his eyes were burning, as if they were about to burst into flames; his face seemed to be livid with anger, and he seemed to be under some strange spell , his lips were trembling, as if he wanted to speak, but his whole body seemed to be out of his rational control.

Liu Quan couldn't help feeling even more worried.She looked back at him tentatively, and called him questioningly, "...what's the matter, Severus?"

Snape finally forced a fragmented, single syllable from his throat.

"S..."

That syllable sounded like the hissing of a poisonous snake.

"S..."

Severus Snape said it again.But it seems that he can only utter this single syllable for the time being.His nostrils fluttered, his face turned blue and then pale, and he looked out of breath; Liu Quan was really worried that he would fall to the ground due to lack of oxygen in the next second.

Seeing this, Mrs. Dai Lisi de Winter in the magic portrait suddenly sighed.

"This time the magic can only go so far." The old lady said in an extremely pure and rational tone.Then, she changed into a kind tone.

"...I'll take my leave then. I thought maybe Mr. Snape needed some time to himself...?"

After she finished speaking, the figure quickly disappeared from the magic frame.

Liu Quan speculated that perhaps she was planning to rush back to the headmaster's office at Hogwarts to inform Albus Dumbledore of the news that the magic had failed again.In any case, however, her thoughtfulness was quite appropriate.Moreover, her words also reminded Ginny and Liu Quan.

Ginny was a man of action. She got up from her chair first and walked to the door.

She put her hand on the doorknob, hesitated for a moment, did not unscrew the doorknob immediately, but turned her head to Snape, who was still standing in the middle of the room, with a hint of disappointment and...subtle concern in her eyes.

"Perhaps you are under too much pressure, and your nerves are stretched to the limit...Sev." She tried to find an excuse for him, and sighed faintly again.

"It's okay, then next time...we still have a chance to try again. You can take a good rest today..."

Snape lowered his gaze again.The attempt to make a sound just now seemed to have exhausted his strength for a moment. Now he lowered his face slightly again. He didn't look at Ginny at the door, nor did he respond to her, but just nodded slightly imperceptibly. head, to show that he heard.

Ginny pursed her lips.Her second attempt at magic, which she had hoped for, had failed, and she looked as if she had been hit hard.However, as Bai Yueguang who is almost everyone in the original work, the real Lily certainly cannot be knocked down by one or two magic failures like this.She stood at the door, still trying to ease the atmosphere.

"Tomorrow is Christmas... Sev, maybe you should take a good rest, relax, and give yourself a vacation... By the way, if you don't want to stay at Hogwarts, maybe we can have a meal together ...?"

Snape visibly shook his head this time, and squeezed out more syllables.

"No...thank you." His voice was terribly hoarse, it sounded as if his vocal cords had been worn through by gravel.

But no matter what, after the magic failed, he uttered a complete sentence for the first time—as expected, it was something that only the Bai Yueguang Lily in his heart could do.

Liu Quan sighed in his heart, and then planned to follow in the footsteps of Zhen Lili and leave this inexplicably stuffy room as soon as possible.

The magic failed, and she was almost as disappointed as the real Lily.Because she was tired of wearing the name of Lily Evans for a long time, and all her efforts were obliterated by everything behind the name; this feeling was different from any previous mission world-in those worlds Here, although she also needs to wear other names, her own brilliance will not be concealed by that false name. What everyone affirms is her own efforts, not the aura of goodwill that the name itself carries.

She was only thinking about how long it would take to prepare for the next spell after the spell failed this time; in addition, whether it was necessary to summarize the root cause of the magic failure this time in detail, and whether she should gently persuade Severus Snape to deal with this spell The main points of the study - such as subtle manipulative skills - practice and so on, so she didn't notice what Snape was planning when he was still in the room.

She watched as Ginny walked ahead of her and opened the door; with a soft sigh, Ginny stepped out of the door.Liu Quan didn't want to follow too closely, so she paused at the door for a while, holding the door handle that Ginny let go, and fixed the door from closing automatically, while hesitatingly thinking about the future after returning to Hogwarts. , in case Dumbledore asks about today's situation, how should he answer——

Then she heard a hoarse voice behind her.

"……and many more."

It was just a simple word, and Liu Quan's movements suddenly froze.She raised her head and glanced ahead in a little surprise——in the corridor outside the door, Ginny's figure seemed to have gone away.

She paused for a second in disbelief, then turned around and asked, "...are you talking to me?"

After uttering the word just now, the cork stuck in Snape's throat seemed to disappear without a trace; he began to speak more smoothly again.

With a trace of impatient impatience, he said in a rough tone: "...Is there anyone else? Only you are here."

...that's exactly what it sounds like.But Liu Quan didn't think it was a good time to have a heart-to-heart talk or discuss his experience in using magic.However, she was not willing to start a savage dispute with him here, so she maintained the previous posture of holding the handle of the door and standing by the door, and softened her voice, asking: "... What's the matter?" thing?"

This room is in a small and inaccessible corridor extending from the sixth floor of St. Mungo's. Liu Quan always suspects that all the rooms in this corridor are used to do some dangerous experiments or store some mysterious medicinal materials or medical books, because their rooms The doors were locked tightly, and the light in the corridor was dim, which was completely different from the bustling scenes of tea rooms and shops on the sixth floor.

At this moment, outside the half-open door, the crystal bubbles hanging in every other section of the corridor did not light up—maybe it was because Ginny had already gone downstairs, and they could not sense other people passing by.

Snape looked up quickly, frowning as he glanced down the dark corridor beyond the door.When his gaze passed over her face, he didn't stay there, but for some reason, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense again.

Snape lowered his gaze again, but he also stood in the middle of the room without moving, still clenched his wand tightly in his hand, the half of his hand that exposed his long black sleeve was stretched into an unnatural line, The joints bulge outward.

Standing there, he seemed to take a deep breath in embarrassment (?) before he said in a low voice, "Close the door...please."

He added the word "please" at the end of the sentence in time, which subtly eased the atmosphere in the room a little bit.Although Liu Quan was full of suspicion, he felt that he had to close the door to talk in such a serious manner, maybe he wanted to say something about the failure experience just now, because it was too embarrassing to let others hear - but in the final analysis, in this world he He is the most important person, even if he is going to die, she has to accompany him; so she just froze for a moment, then closed the door softly as she said, and then stood at the door, waiting for Snape's next move. In a word.

... and he returned to his strange silence.

This attitude is becoming more and more strange.Liu Quan stood there and waited quietly for several minutes, but she didn't hear Snape say anything; she couldn't help frowning slightly, showing a puzzled look.

"...Severus?" she called out questioningly.

Snape didn't respond to her.

He remained suspiciously silent, his eyes lowered, as if he was staring at a fixed point on the floor - where a drop of silver-white potion that had just been smashed by her on the ground due to a magic failure froze on the dark ground. It is very conspicuous on the floor.

Finally, he spoke, with a bit of difficulty in his tone.

"...it's a pity that you didn't go home as you wished," he said.

Liu Quan felt that it was difficult for him to make a perfect response.Answering "It's okay" seems a bit inappropriate, and it doesn't express your disappointment; but answering "It's all your fault!" The spell succeeded again—so she was in a dilemma for a few seconds, and responded awkwardly: "Then... next time, next time, please be sure to succeed, we can't go on like this—"

She thought she didn't say anything excessive, but Severus Snape's tall body in black robe suddenly trembled, as if he had been hit by something.

"Yes," he actually nodded after a moment of silence, as if he really agreed with her words. "It really can't go on like this..."

She always felt that there was a subtle emotion in Snape's tone - but before she could figure it out, Snape coughed heavily.

"So—" he said.

Liu Quan involuntarily raised his heart following Snape's serious tone that was almost terrifying——

Then he let out that inexplicable hissing sound like a poisonous snake spitting a letter.

"S...S..."

Willow Springs looked strangely at Snape's face.This time she even turned a little sideways, bypassing the cover of his half-length black hair hanging down his temples, and saw his chin.At this moment, his jaw was tense, and the lines were somewhat unnatural; but when he looked closely, he could find that it was trembling slightly.

Liu Quan thought, he probably wanted to say something like "Sorry" to her?Although he just started with "I'm sorry", after all, it is not as simple and rude as a direct apology; perhaps to him, the two magic failures involving her might have made him feel that he was in her This imposter has no face in front of him, so this kind of apology that he has to apologize from an etiquette point of view is like a public execution——

In the next second, she finally heard the few syllables that he had been working hard from just now until he was barely able to utter the whole word.

"...Stay."

Liu Quan:? !