The Daily Life of a Hogwarts Terrorist

"If I can't succeed the first time, I'll try a thousand times! If I still can't succeed the thousand times, I'll try ten thousand times!"

Thousands of years ago, in the distant mythical era, a powerful wizard named Sisyphus did something similar. According to Homer's epics, Sisyphus was the most resourceful man in the world; he was the founder and king of Corinth.

When Zeus abducted Aegina, the daughter of the river god Aesopus, the river god went to Corinth to look for his daughter. Sisyphus, who knew about this, told the river god the whereabouts of Aegina in exchange for a river that flowed all year round.

Because he revealed Zeus's secret, Zeus sent Thanatos to take him to the Underworld. However, Sisyphus tricked Thanatos into kidnapping him, resulting in no one dying on Earth for a long time until Thanatos was rescued. Sisyphus, in turn, was banished to the Underworld by the enraged gods.

Before being cast into the underworld, Sisyphus instructed his wife Merope not to bury his body. Once in the underworld, Sisyphus told Persephone, the queen of the underworld, that an unburied person was not entitled to remain there, and requested three days' leave to return to the world of the living to settle his affairs.

But to everyone's surprise, Sisyphus, upon seeing the beautiful earth, refused to leave and did not want to return to the underworld. This behavior thoroughly angered the gods, who took Sisyphus to the underworld, where the Titans were imprisoned.

There, every day he had to push a heavy boulder up a very steep mountain, then step to the side and watch it roll down to the bottom. Sisyphus was to repeat this meaningless action forever, without any hope.

His only options were that rock and that steep mountain.

In the eyes of many wizards in later generations, there was no more severe punishment than performing such futile and hopeless labor. Sisyphus's life was slowly consumed in this futile and hopeless labor, even though he had once deceived Death and reversed life and death.

But the witch didn't see it that way. Sisyphus lifting the stone again and again was precisely the most silent rebellion against the gods and against fate! What could be more devout than moving that stone to deny the gods?

On that day, the desperate yet hopeful girl conceived a plan: to create an endless cycle of reincarnation within this small plane that exists at the origin of life and death, with each cycle lasting three years.

Repeated cycles shape a new outcome for an already established history, much like Sisyphus, who was punished by the gods for deceiving Death and rebelling against it, "constantly pushing the boulder uphill but failing each time before reaching the summit."

The witch uses this repeated ritual to alter the absolute laws of cause and effect, resist the arrangements of fate, and call upon the soul of her beloved.

This is like reversing cause and effect: "Hiraga Saito's appearance" is the cause, and "his loving and happy life with Louise" is the result. The witch wants to use the result that has been repeated countless times to rewrite the already established history, brainwash the world, create a huge gap in the law of cause and effect, and obtain a reason for "Hiraga Saito's reappearance".

As long as Hiraga Saito's soul enters this world again, then one day, the law of cause and effect will draw him back here!

However, although the witch possessed powerful magical abilities, she alone could not accomplish this. Furthermore, the portion of the Ark of the Covenant scattered throughout Tristain had already been taken away by the Papacy.

Yes, it wasn't just the Tristains who came to the point of origin of life and death; the Papacy's army followed them there. However, here, the Papacy's men couldn't kill the sorcerer, and the sorcerer couldn't kill the Papacy's men. So, in order to focus on resurrecting her beloved, the blind witch made a pact with the Papacy's army, allowing them to leave with the main body of the Ark of the Covenant.

For the witch, the Ark of the Covenant was already a broken and useless object, so using a "waste" to get rid of the "flies" that she couldn't eliminate and that might cause her plans to fail was just what she needed.

After replacing a small piece of the stone with a fake, the witch "generously" handed over the remaining main body of the Ark of the Covenant to the people of the Papacy.

The Papacy was not without its suspicions, yet some fragments of the Ark of the Covenant were indeed left in the Prime Material Plane. And for some unknown reason, the Papacy left hastily, unwilling to get involved. No one knew where they went. Judging from the Prime Material Plane history that Verne knew, it was clear that this group of powerful people did not return to save the Papacy from its precarious state.

But these things were irrelevant to the witch of Tristine; now she could finally begin her own plan. First, she sacrificed herself, becoming a being capable of controlling the consciousness of planes.

Then, shortly after she gained control of the plane's consciousness, a feeling of "longing for the good old days before the war" began to spread throughout the Kingdom of Tristine. The witch quietly took control of all the souls remaining in Tristine, making them all have the thought of "returning to three years ago" and making wishes to the plane, to the origin of life and death.

Thus, the witch's initial goal was achieved. However, ignoring the wishes of others, wantonly manipulating people's hearts, and deciding their lives, even in the name of love, such evil deeds are no different from those of a witch.

So, on that day, the beautiful girl named Louise disappeared, and in her place came the illusory witch.

In order to control the consciousness of the plane, the witch cannot descend to Tristine on Earth at all times, which causes gaps in the rewinding history. However, the witch has already arranged for people to take her and her lover's place to maintain the course of history.

Using the origin of life and death, the witch created a body exactly like her original one. Combined with the body of her former lover, under the control of the witch's wand and Saito's sword, the story of "Louise" and "Hira Saito" would repeat itself every three years.

And this time, without the invasion of the Papacy, Louise and Saijin will live happily until the end of the third year.

All the witch had to do was wait quietly, waiting for the cycle that repeated every three years, when all the souls would once again make that wish. But at the same time, the witch was also looking forward to it!

I wonder if one day another soul will break into this plane and quietly take someone else's place.

Was this ritual repeated 100 times? 1000 times? Or...?

Next? Nobody knows except the witch.

The cycle of reincarnation continues endlessly.

Until one day, a Hogwarts professor of runes unexpectedly stumbled upon this place...

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PS1: The background of the main storyline has finally been mostly explained.

PS2: I recommend a psychological thriller film, a co-production between the UK and Australia, called "Triangle." It's inspired by the story of Sisyphus and tells the story of a single mother desperate to save her son. She deceives Death (the taxi driver) who wants to take her soul, and gets caught in an endless cycle of killing herself and her companion, saving her child, dying in a car accident, and being resurrected to save her child again.

37. Simmo is a "good boy".

Simo felt very sad, really sad. If he had to describe exactly how sad he was, Simo thought he could add the richly meaningful prefix "sad" before the adverb "sad".

Simo believed that Kiss, standing opposite him, felt the same way. They were both boys who liked girls, but why?! Why did the girl over there see them as "true love"?

This world is truly a piece of garbage!

But even with countless "sacred excrements," it was impossible to vent the frustration in Simo's heart at that moment.

Simon believed that everything was Kish's fault!

If he hadn't been two-timing, he wouldn't have been exposed!

If it weren't for his desire to reconcile with Montmorency and Kate, he wouldn't have come to me asking for poetry!

If he hadn't stubbornly clung to my leg, I wouldn't have had to use magic!

If I hadn't used magic, I wouldn't have been knocked unconscious along with Kishu!

If I hadn't been knocked unconscious by the explosion, the younger girls wouldn't have thought that I was gay with Kishu!

If it weren't for the misunderstanding caused by the younger girls, Kishu wouldn't have loudly challenged him to a duel!

If Kisch hadn't shouted it out, Louise wouldn't have learned the so-called "truth" from the gossiping girls!

What's most infuriating is that Louise actually preferred to believe those girls rather than believe herself, and even slapped herself, yelling, "I never thought you were like this, Simon!"

!

What do you mean by 'this is the kind of Simo'? Louise, have you ever seen any other 'Simo'?

But Simo is someone who can distinguish between primary and secondary issues (rare indeed)! He's someone who can see through superficial phenomena to grasp the essence of a problem (very rare)! He's someone who wouldn't easily lose his temper with a girl (he wouldn't dare)!

While he didn't care what others thought as long as Louise cleared up her misunderstanding, Seamus knew the root of the problem wasn't with Louise. To dispel the misunderstanding, he couldn't just focus on Louise; for example, wouldn't it be enough to make her believe she truly didn't love Kisch?

So how can you prove you don't love Kisher? Didn't that blond bastard just make a great suggestion?

"You want a duel, huh? Are you ready to die once, you blond bastard!"

"Once I kill this guy, no one will believe he's my 'true love,' heh heh!"

However, a few minutes later, when he followed the group to this square called something like "Weiss", Simo felt that he must have been under someone's spell or that he had just lost his mind.

Simo found it strange. According to the nanpa experience he learned from a certain Japanese game during the summer vacation, and referring to the plots of "Dou-sei" and "X-class 2", when a female character misunderstands the protagonist, the best, fastest, and most effective way is to rush up and "shut" her mouth!

As for how to "seal off" it?

Ahem! Don't worry about such small details. The big picture is God, but the details are the devil. So Seamus would rather die than reveal the "details" between him and Louise to anyone.

In short, Simo felt that the situation just now was a perfect opportunity to take action and tell Louise whether he was gay or not, whether he liked girls or not, and who he really liked! Thinking about this, Simo felt a little excited.

but......

Why didn't I think of such an efficient method earlier?

Why did I agree to duel a man?

Normally, a duel between a lady and a gentleman would be a very traditional and romantic thing, but the reason this time is anything but romantic!

"To prove he's not gay, he duels someone who's considered gay?" Even if he wins a duel with such a lame reason, it doesn't prove anything, right? The key question is, will Louise be happy after winning?

Simo felt that the "Simo" from earlier was definitely not himself, as it was completely inconsistent with his usual style of planning before taking action.

Fortunately, there was a chance before the official duel, so Seamus and Kisch secretly made a deal, the result of which was to "help their companion, who was also troubled by the rumors, regain the favor of the girl he liked."

In other words, it's about fixing the game—oops, I mean throwing the match! What could be more likely to gain a girl's sympathy and favor than suffering a minor injury and then feigning helplessness? Of course, the prerequisite is that the girl knows you were injured for her sake. However, this extremely important causal premise currently requires a little maneuvering. For example...

At this moment, Seamus completely forgot that the Knights' previous games were supposed to be fair and just, and that honesty was one of the Knights' eight virtues.

In reality, he had long since abandoned any sense of chivalry, completely absorbed in thoughts like, "How can I seize this opportunity to increase Louise's favor?" Let's pray that a certain king currently "lying dead" in Avalon won't come out and behead him after hearing the thoughts of his false believer.

Even if Simo regretted it, it would be too late!

Simo, who still didn't know what kind of dangerous place the so-called "Tristine" was, perfectly exemplified the saying "ignorance is bliss."

It can only be said that Professor Binns of Hogwarts, as a "favored one" of Hypnos, truly made the wrong career choice when planning his life. This also fully exposes the flaws in the Ministry of Magic's student assessment system. Such an important subject as the history of magic is given only a tiny fraction of the marks, completely ignored.

So, Simo, who often napped during history class, had absolutely no recollection of some ghostly old scholar mentioning Atlantis or the Big Bang in class. He only caught a glimpse of those few sentences in Miss Know-It-All's review notes a few nights before the exam:

The third chapter of History of Magic: The Glorious Revolution; Key points: (1) Analyze the main impact of the event, three stars (understanding and mastery); (2) Explain its relationship with the Wizarding Secrets Act, two stars (memorization); (3) The process of the event, one star (knowledge and understanding).

You see, Seamus doesn't have much time to review, and the History of Magic exam has a lot of questions, so...

"Professor Victor, the fortune teller, once said that we should make full use of the probability of events in life." Simon was a "good boy," so he listened to the professor and told those one-star test points to hell!

P.S.: A big thank you to Dongfeng Xiaopo for the generous donation!

38. The Attack of Simo

Oh, I almost forgot, Professor Binns is a ghost, so Simo's actions were simply returning knowledge to his professor. Therefore, Simo said "Let the exam center go to hell" with complete confidence.

Can this be considered a "good kid"?

Of course it counts! Thanks to Hermione's notes, Mr. Seamus achieved an E (exceeding expectations) on his exam, and the obscure knowledge of the Glorious Revolution was not even tested.

So, Seamus, the pseudo-academic at Hogwarts who had already discussed the "debate details" with Kisch, nonchalantly surveyed the crowd of Tristan students who had come to watch: almost all the teachers and students who ate in the dining hall were there, even the cooks in the back kitchen and the maids serving the students.

Every single groom who had secretly gone to the back kitchen to cook for others came. And many more people who had heard the news were constantly arriving.

"Are you guys really that bored?" Simo thought to himself.

At that moment, a subtle communication spell was transmitted...

"Hey, boss, it's all up to you now. We agreed not to go too far, I'm afraid I can't handle it." Indeed, the one who sent the message was Kishu.

"Don't worry, this isn't the first time I've done this. I'm very skilled at it." Dean and the others were quite satisfied with his match-fixing skills, so Ximo was full of confidence in himself.

Kisch was silent for a few seconds, and then wisely did not ask Seamus "why he is so skilled", but as a partner, Kisch still kindly reminded Seamus to take the opportunity to win over Louise.

He then told Simo that he had already made a vow with Montmorency: he would prove his love for her (Montmorency) with his life, and if he did not love her, he would let Simo kill him in a duel.

Look how clever he is! He already secretly discussed it with Simon before saying such things to Montmorency. As a result, the naive Montmorency cried her eyes out, begging Kichiu not to say such foolish things again and that Kichiu absolutely must not die.

In response, Kisch excitedly said that as long as Montmorency could forgive him, what did it matter if he died at the hands of Simon?

Before he could finish speaking, Montmorency immediately hugged Kish, forbidding Kish, the "jinx," from dueling with Seamus.

Kiss gently patted her back to comfort her, then said he had to excuse himself by saying he needed to "prepare for the duel." He then secretly went to Kate and repeated the same lines, receiving the exact same response.

In response, Simo thought that Kishu was really damn smart, so smart that Simo secretly decided to make the charade real later and give Kishu a good beating, while also letting Simo himself have his own thoughts sorted out.

However, given Kisch's kind reminder, Seamus wouldn't kill him, just half-dead. Having made up his mind, Mr. Seamus decided it was time to have a proper talk with Louise.