Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 180 Papi
After returning to the Ravenclaw common room, Roger once again invited Mike to have a drink and celebrate together. This time, he did not invite everyone in a grand manner, but only invited a few wizards who got along well with him.

At the last celebration party, he provided strong liquor to his classmates without permission, and was severely criticized by Professor Flitwick. If he did it again, he might have to repeat the grade or get a serious warning. However, even after such a stern warning, this guy still wanted to drink. Mike seriously suspected that he had the potential to become an alcoholic.

Mike turned down Roger and others' invitations on the pretext of going into seclusion and locked himself in the dorm.

The fireplace in the dormitory started to burn automatically, warming the small dormitory. Mike carefully observed the raven pendant in the light of the fire, not even missing the slight stains in the gap.

In the game just now, Mike was very sure that he heard a crow's cry. Others might think that they had heard it wrong, but Mike was very sure that the sound was made by this pendant.

Originally, Mike could choose to ignore the abnormality of the pendant, but now it is different.

Willy's bat made Mike fully realize that magical animals can also help wizards fight, and taking Willy as an example, the help is not small.

In fact, after the last time, Mike read a lot of information about the Nightmare Raven, and also had some guesses about the relationship between him and the Nightmare Raven. Today, Mike is going to test whether his guess is correct. If Mike's guess is correct, the Nightmare Raven will become Mike's real fighting force.

Mike took out a piece of beef from the Traceless Stretching Charm bag, cut a small piece and placed it in front of the Greed Pendant.

"Little darling, come out and eat."

The pendant didn't change at all and the atmosphere was very awkward for a moment.

Mike scratched his head, confused.

Since there is very little information about nightmare ravens, and most of the information left in Hogwarts is related to making nightmare ravens contracted creatures, Mike still doesn't know much about the living habits of nightmare ravens. In desperation, he could only find some beef according to the habits of ordinary ravens, but now it seems that the beef is useless.

Mike was walking around in the dormitory anxiously. The fire in the fireplace stretched the shadow of the pendant very long, and the shadow twisted as if mocking Mike's actions.

"Never mind, when in doubt, just act rashly!"

Shouting slogans, he drew out the Sword of Victory and Oath and chopped towards the Greed Pendant. Although Mike shouted fiercely, he just wanted to scare the Nightmare Raven in the pendant, so his target was only the lanyard connected to the pendant.

"bass!"

The sharp blade of the Sword of Victory and Oath cut the lanyard and the hardwood desk into two pieces like cutting tofu. Mike didn't even feel any resistance and had to sigh that the name of the Iron-Cutting Sword was well-deserved.

The Greed Pendant slid down from the crooked desk, bounced a few times and fell to the floor. Mike ignored it. At this moment, he was concentrating on observing the Sword of Victory and Oath in his hand, as if he saw a beautiful girl that was rare to see in a million years.

At this moment, the raven pendant on the ground suddenly flashed a strange purple light, and then four words suddenly appeared in Mike's mind.

'Do you want to die?'

Mike thought for a moment, then spat a large amount of sticky saliva onto the raven pendant.

"You're the one who wants to die, right? How dare you talk to your master in such a tone!" Mike pointed the Sword of Victory and Oath at the pendant on the ground and said domineeringly, "I'll give you two choices. Either show your true form, or I'll strike you with the sword right now and shatter your soul!"

After Mike said this, the scene fell into silence again. After a long time, Mike felt that the hand holding the Sword of Victory and Oath was beginning to feel sore, so he stopped waiting and stabbed at the pendant with his other hand.

'If you kill me you will get hurt too.'

Just as the tip of the Sword of Victory and Oath was about to touch the pendant, a row of words appeared in Mike's mind again.

Hearing this, the corners of Mike's mouth slightly raised, and with a flick of his wrist, the tip of the sword brushed past the raven pendant and pierced into the floor.

Perhaps it was because Mike's sword control ability was not good enough, when the sword blade lightly brushed against the pendant, it actually left a shallow sword mark on the side of the pendant.

"Ugh!"

A crow's cry that Mike had never heard before was heard, and the pendant on the floor flashed purple light and turned into a black raven that flew to the magic lamp hanging on the ceiling of the dormitory.

Mike instinctively looked towards the raven, and saw a shallow wound on one of its wings, emitting black air. The nightmare raven was using its beak to comb its feathers at the wound, while one of its eyes was looking at him vigilantly.

"Oh my! I'm so sorry, you said it too late and I didn't have time to change my mind." Mike said the words of apology, but there was no apology in his tone. At the same time, a magic wand appeared in his other hand.

The nightmare raven on the magic lamp also stopped combing its wound feathers. Its little head swayed from side to side. One eye observed Mike's movements, while the other was quickly looking at the layout of the dormitory, as if looking for an escape route.

"In fact, the contract between us has already been signed, right?"

As soon as Mike's words came out, Nightmare Raven froze immediately, and its little eyes flashed with fear in a very human way.

Seeing this, Mike's smile widened and he continued:
"According to records, the essence of the contract between the wizard and the Nightmare Raven is a kind of symbiosis. The Nightmare Raven obtains more food and magic power through the wizard's ability, while the wizard can obtain the combat power of the Nightmare Raven.

The most advantageous thing about this contract for wizards is that this symbiotic contract is unequal. If the wizard dies, the Nightmare Raven will also die, but if the Raven dies, the wizard will only suffer minor injuries.

What you just said has already exposed the fact that you and I have signed a contract."

"You despicable human! I will never yield to you!"

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with giving in to me. You can still eat beef. See how good I am to you?"

"Foolish human! I only need your dreams and magic power, I don't need your beef at all!"

"Oh, no wonder I haven't had any dreams in a while. It turns out it's you. So the contract between you and me is also related to you eating my dreams?"

"Cunning human! You are trying to trick me again!"

……

An hour later, the Nightmare Raven had flown from the magic chandelier to Mike's shoulder.

In this one-hour negotiation, Mike has reached a preliminary agreement with Nightmare Raven. From today on, Nightmare Raven will obey Mike's orders, but they must not be orders that will send it to its death. Mike will work hard to have more good dreams.

Because according to the Nightmare Raven, good dreams taste sweet and nightmares taste salty, and it is a pure sweet raven!

And Nightmare Raven also told Mike the truth about the contract.

It turned out that before it was sent out, it was signed a contract by Ms. Ravenclaw. As long as it could not resist sucking the dreams of others, it would sign a contract with that person. Out of disgust for humans, it had been resisting hunger and not signing a contract with Ms. Grey. But when Ms. Grey died, it was collected by the people of Hogwarts as a relic, which meant that it had no chance to eat dreams even if it wanted to.

In order to escape the torture of hunger, it could only turn into a pendant and hibernate, and it did not wake up until shortly after Mike got the pendant.

So, the Nightmare Raven, who had been hungry for nearly a thousand years, suddenly turned on the delicious food mode and ate up all of Mike's dreams that night.

"Hey, let me give you a name?" Mike reached out to Nightmare Raven, "How about Papi?"

Nightmare Raven was stunned when he heard this, and even forgot to avoid Mike's outstretched hand.

"You despicable human, since you said so, I will let you call me that."

There was a gleam of smug joy in Nightmare Raven's eyes, and he held his head high with a look of great pride, unaware that the hair on his head had been rubbed into a bird's nest by Mike.

Mike was also a little surprised. He originally thought that the raven would resist this name, but he didn't expect it to accept it and look quite happy. Seeing its proud look, Mike felt happy and started calling it by its new name.

"Pappy!"

'Eh! '

"Pappy!"

'Eh! '

……

However, although the conversation between the two of them seemed smooth, they were actually not on the same channel at all.

The word Papi in Mike's mouth means puppy, which means a small dog. At the same time, this word also means a follower, an arrogant and rude boy.

But Nightmare Raven thought that Mike was talking about papi. The two words have the same pronunciation, and many people confuse the two words, but in fact they have different meanings.

Papi comes from Spanish, the same as papa, which means father. This nightmare raven is very likely from Spain, and it thought Mike was calling him father.

Anyway, these two boring guys finally stopped after answering each other for the one hundred and first time. Both of them looked at each other with a teachable look. It seemed that their relationship became closer in this weird conversation.

Just as the man and the crow looked at each other affectionately, Papi suddenly turned his head and looked towards the door. At the same time, a string of words appeared in Mike's mind again.

'There's someone at the door. It's the guy with the little bat.'

Mike followed Papi's gaze towards the door, but after waiting for a long time he didn't find anything unusual. Just as he was about to ask Papi, there was a knock on the door.

Mike and the raven Papi looked at each other, and after a moment of eye contact, Papi understood what Mike meant, and fell into Mike's hand and turned into a pendant again.

Mike calmly tied the pendant back around his neck and then opened the door.

"Congratulations, Mr. Townley. I'm here to fulfill my bet."

Willy, wearing a plain robe, held his hands in front of him and smiled at Mike.

Although he still looked gentle, Mike found that his lips were very pale and there were beads of sweat on his forehead. It was obvious that the injuries caused by the previous game had not yet healed.

Seeing that Mike's eyes were constantly scanning him without saying anything, Willy twisted his neck uncomfortably and said, "Mr. Townley, aren't you going to invite me in?"

Hearing this, Mike looked around and saw that the narrow corridor was already full of people, and everyone's eyes were on the two of them. Among them, Franklin and Roger's eyes were slightly unfriendly, and they were obviously suspicious of Willy's intentions.

"Oh! How rude! Please come in." Mike pretended to react and stepped aside to invite Willy into the dormitory. At the same time, he gave Franklin and the others a reassuring look.

Mike slowly closed the door of the dormitory. As soon as he turned his head, he saw Willy looking at the furnishings in Mike's dormitory. Seeing that Mike had closed the door, Willy said, "Mr. Townley, your dormitory reminds me of my great-grandfather's cabin. It is small but warm. I will never forget the time I spent in that cabin with him when I was a child."

"Really? I didn't expect that a rich young man like you would have lived in that kind of house."

“Although our Hunter family has made some money now with the craftsmanship passed down by our ancestors, we never forget our roots.”

"What a fine tradition." Mike said in an exaggerated tone. "By the way, how is your injury? To be honest, I'm quite surprised that you were able to be discharged from the hospital so soon."

Willy naturally heard the sarcasm in Mike's words and understood what Mike meant, so he did not answer Mike's question, but took out a bag of Traceless Stretching Spell from his arms and placed it on the table.

"Ten thousand gold Galleons, all here."

Mike flicked his wand and the bag flew into his hand. When he opened the bag, he saw that it was full of golden Galleons. The moment he saw these gold coins, he knew the number of gold coins in the bag: ten thousand.

This is the quantity counting magic that comes with the gold galleon.

Please forgive Mike for his contempt for the wizards' mathematical abilities when he first entered the wizarding world. In fact, the magic currency issued by Gringotts all has built-in quantity statistics magic, which can automatically calculate the quantity of various currencies.

"How generous, Mr. Hunter."

Seeing Mike putting the bag into his arms with a smile on his face, Willy's smile became even wider. Mike just needs to love money. As the heir of the Hunter family, the last thing he lacks is money.

"Just call me Willy if you like, Mike." Willy smiled, "If it's all right, I'll take my leave. Oh, by the way, I wish you win the championship."

After saying that, Willy walked out of Mike's dormitory with a smile, which surprised Mike a little.

He originally thought that Willy came in such a hurry to fulfill the "blocking agreement" because he needed something from him, but he didn't expect that Willy left without saying anything after giving him the money, which made Mike very confused.

Could it be that this guy is simply here to give money?
Is it because he is stupid and has a lot of money or is he playing the long game to catch a big fish?

Mike: Pappy! (You arrogant dog)

Papi: Hey! (My dear son, I'm fine)
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(End of this chapter)