Chapter 123 Burial
The next morning, while having dinner in the auditorium, Wright received a letter brought by an owl.
While thinking about who would send me a letter, I quietly opened the letter.
After reading the letter, he suddenly felt sick. There were only a few words scribbled on the parchment.
"Wright, come here quickly. The new lives we cultivated are all sick. I can't cure them at all. Even the professors at school are helpless."
"Come here! I want you to see them one last time."
After reading the letter, Wright dropped the knife and fork in his hand, immediately stood up and walked to a secluded corner where no one was.
Wright, who was hiding in the corner, twisted his body and suddenly disappeared.
When he appeared again, he was already in front of Hagrid's hut. He saw Hagrid with his back to him, and there were four horse-shaped creatures lying neatly on the ground.
Hagrid knelt on the ground, sobbing and stroking the foal, which kept twitching in pain.
"How could this happen? I was healthy before..."
Seeing this scene, Wright felt extremely guilty. After a long silence, he called out softly: "Hagrid, I'm here."
Maybe it was because Hagrid was too sad, but Wright had to call him several times before he attracted his attention.
"Wright, I'm sorry! I messed up." Hagrid cried even louder when he saw Wright.
Wright walked closer and whispered to him, "This is none of your business. You have done your best."
After a long period of comforting, Hagrid's crying gradually stopped, and he seemed to have begun to accept the reality.
After seeing Hagrid calm down, Wright asked his own question: "What is going on? Why are they all dying?"
After listening to Wright's question, Hagrid's eyes became red again, but he held back his tears and said in a trembling voice:
"I noticed a few days ago that they were occasionally twitching unusually, but I didn't notice it at first."
"But as time goes by, their convulsions have become more severe over the past few days."
"Even after consulting the professors, they all said there was nothing they could do. Finally, today, he kept foaming at the mouth and fell to the ground and couldn't get up..."
The more he spoke, the more obvious the crying tone in Hagrid's voice became, but he didn't cry.
After another round of comfort, Wright said to Hagrid: "I'll go and take a look at them."
After saying this, Wright stood up and walked towards the foal that had collapsed on the ground.
After carefully checking all the foals, he didn't find anything wrong.
He glanced at the sad Hagrid and the foals that were twitching and looking very painful.
Having made up his mind, Wright's eyes suddenly turned dark, and at the same time he activated Legilimency and looked at the animals on the ground.
The magic eye opened the lock of their minds, and Legilimency continued to read the foal's memory.
In front of Hagrid's hut, Wright half-knelt in front of the dying foal, his dark eyes flipping through their memories.
As I recall, the foals basically ate and slept, ate when they woke up, and went out for a while every day. Their lives were basically the same.
These useless memories quickly flashed through Wright's mind until he felt an inexplicably familiar breath from the memories of his own people.
In this memory, it was a dark and cloudy night, and a black figure suddenly appeared beside the foals.
Nightmare watched in confusion as the dark figure took out a strange thing and injected all of the foals with it before they could react.
Then, this strange figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.
Nightmare could sense the man's breath of fear, but when he wanted to transform, he couldn't extract the breath and couldn't change.
However, Nightmare didn't care what was coming, didn't feel any sense of crisis, and continued to live a happy life.
There was no need to read the following memories. Knowing that someone had deliberately tried to do this to them, Wright's face became extremely gloomy and conflicted.
And he already knew who the murderer was.
However, it was precisely because he had roughly guessed who the murderer was that he was so hesitant.
When his eyes returned to normal, Wright looked sadly at the foals who were in pain. He gently apologized to them, "I'm sorry, this is all my fault. I'm late."
After finishing speaking, Wright stood up, turned to Hagrid, and said word by word:
"I'm sorry, their blood and hearts have stopped flowing. The reason they are still breathing is because the magic drains their vitality to maintain their health."
"They are already dead, they just seem to be alive. If I had come earlier, maybe I could have solved it. This is all my fault."
After hearing Wright's verdict, Hagrid was sad but also mentally prepared, and his sobbing became louder.
Looking at the sad Hagrid, Wright closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said resolutely:
"Let me end their suffering once and for all."
Hearing such a speech, Hagrid instinctively wanted to refuse, but he saw the foals twitching and suffering.
So, he closed his eyes reluctantly and accepted Wright's choice.
Having made his decision, Wright silently took out his wand and looked at the foals that were almost silent.
"I will set you free. I hope you will have a good start in your next life. 'Avada Eats the Big Melon'."
Several rays of pale green light shot out from the wand and hit all the foals accurately.
Faced with the deadly threat posed by magic, they were no longer able to struggle and could only quietly accept death.
At the moment the Killing Curse hit him, Wright seemed to see his spirit being instantly annihilated and the connection with his body being cut off.
Looking at the foals that had lost their voice, Hagrid really began to cry.
Feeling this sad atmosphere, Wright fell into deep self-blame.
For the first time, I felt that I had done something wrong. Because of my selfishness, I killed these new lives.
Slowly walking to their bodies, Wright waved his wand, and the soil on the ground turned into coffins, wrapping them all up.
Then, Wright quietly walked to a secluded corner, used the materials to conjure a shovel, and started digging a hole.
After a long time, Hagrid stopped crying and started digging with Wright.
Wright and Hagrid dug from day to dusk without stopping. They finally dug a big hole when the moon was hanging in the sky.
The coffins placed aside floated up under Wright's spell, flew towards the pit, and finally slowly fell to the bottom of the pit.
Then, Wright and Hagrid began to fill the soil, and both of them seemed to bury their sorrows.
The two of them worked with expressionless faces, like robots.
After burying them, Hagrid, who was covered in dust, forced a smile and asked, "Would you like to have dinner together?"
Wright didn't say anything, just nodded slightly, and at the same time used magic to clean away the dust on Hagrid and himself.
