After saying goodbye to Cedric and the others, Link did not choose to return to the Hufflepuff common room, but instead went directly to Snape's office.
Yes, that's right, today was again the day for Link to drink his medicine.
In fact, after so many encounters, the relationship between Link and Snape was in a strange state, familiar, yet not particularly close.
Every time after Link finished drinking his medicine, he wouldn't leave immediately. Instead, he would take out his textbooks and ask Snape a bunch of messy and random questions.
Snape was also quite strange. Although he didn't show any good attitude toward Link, he would still answer all of Link's questions. Recently, he even directly commanded Link to assist him in handling some tedious experimental materials.
Naturally, Link would not refuse this. Because whether it was asking Snape questions or helping with the materials, it would all increase his Potions experience. And this kind of opportunity to help handle materials was not something everyone could come across.
You must know that Potions is a subject that burns money like crazy. Hogwarts certainly couldn't supply potion ingredients in unlimited amounts, so normally students only had the chance to do hands-on experiments in class.
Up to now, Link had already obtained four potion formulas, including the Confusion Potion and Draught of Living Death (a powerful sleeping potion), through this experience point farm with Snape, and had leveled them all up to LV2.
This also made Link not only unopposed to going to Snape's office to drink medicine, but even somewhat yearn for it.
Only this time, when Link arrived at Snape's office as usual, he was surprised to find that in the normally gloomy and quiet office, aside from Snape, there was actually another person.
And this person was none other than Emily Victoria.
Looking at that pretty figure who was focused on writing something at the workbench, Link was stunned for a moment and couldn't react in time, only able to cast a confused glance toward Snape not far away.
"What are you looking at? Hurry up and drink your medicine."
Snape said bluntly. As he spoke, he placed two glasses of potion in front of Link on the table.
One was a specially made calming draught, the other a stimulant potion.
Link didn't refuse, tilting his head back and drinking both potions.
But after finishing them and seeing that Snape still didn't look like he planned to explain anything, he had no choice but to speak directly, "Why is she here?"
"What does that have to do with you?" Snape said coldly. "Either shut up, or hurry over and deal with this bucket of toads."
Snape's words made Link's expression turn a bit ugly.
At that moment, Emily, who was still bent over her desk writing something, softly said, "Link, don't worry about me. I wasn't called here for detention because I did something wrong. I just recently encountered some problems with Potions, so I decided to set aside some time each week to come here for extra lessons from Professor Snape."
After speaking, Emily even gave Link a sweet smile. That smile was very sweet. It seemed that Emily truly thought Link was worried about her.
This left Link speechless, but hearing this, he didn't say anything more. Instead, he took the full bucket of toads next to Snape and went alone to a corner to start dealing with them.
What he had to do was actually quite simple, scrape and gouge out the toads' eyes.
This was a key ingredient for making the Clarity Draught.
Meanwhile, Snape began giving lessons to Emily.
The content was very standard, it was about Polyjuice Potion, but Snape's attitude was much gentler than it was with Link. That soft-spoken demeanor made Link feel a little sour. Even the notifications in front of his eyes saying [Clarity Draught EXP +1] didn't look so appealing anymore.
One can only say, comparing people really is infuriating.
After silently grumbling for a while, Link gradually forced his attention back onto the task at hand, because only this way could he extract the maximum experience value.
It wasn't easy, but he finally managed to finish processing all the toads in the bucket. By then, it was already dinnertime. Link carefully placed the processed toad eyes into the nearby storage room, then washed his hands and happily took out a tube of nutrient solution from his pocket.
Snape did the same, this had become a daily routine between the two of them.
After drinking the tube of nutrient solution, they would immediately throw themselves back into work and study without wasting even a moment.
Only Emily didn't act as casually as Snape and Link. She slowly pulled out a lunch box from her spatial pocket at her waist, placed it on the workbench, and gently opened it.
Instantly, the unique aroma of pumpkin spread throughout Snape's not-so-spacious office.
Link stood on tiptoe and craned his neck to look, and saw that inside Emily's lunch box were two large pumpkin pastries. From their appearance, they were exactly the kind of pastries John had saved for Link at the Halloween feast, only much bigger.
In a flash, Link felt that the nutrient solution in his hand didn't smell good anymore.
Emily also noticed Link's gaze. Smiling brightly, she waved some of the steam from the pastries toward him and said, "Link, would you like to eat together?"
"Or… maybe not."
Link swallowed a mouthful of saliva, but his eyes turned to Snape.
He wasn't an idiot, Snape was a petty man. If he left Snape alone to drink that slop-like nutrient solution, who knew what petty revenge he might face later.
But… this pumpkin pastry smelled so good.
"Is that so?" Emily clearly wasn't a fool either. She followed Link's gaze and also looked at Snape. "Then Professor Snape, would you like a piece?"
While she said that, she also pulled the lunch box closer to her chest, clearly having no real intention of sharing with Snape.
This made Snape's facial muscles twitch slightly. He looked at the lunch box, which only had two pastries, then looked at Emily and Link, and finally said, "No, you two eat. I don't like sweets."
As soon as Snape said that, Emily instantly lit up with joy. She cheerfully picked up the lunch box and handed it to Link, saying, "Link! Professor Snape already agreed, so hurry up and eat! Don't waste it!"
"Huh? This… isn't it kind of inappropriate? Eh? Why is my hand moving on its own? Professor Snape! You can't blame me! I can't control myself!"
Although Link said that with his mouth, his hands didn't hesitate in the slightest, he directly grabbed a pumpkin pastry and stuffed it into his mouth.
'Mmm, so delicious~'
Feeling the rich pumpkin flavor in his mouth, Link's eyes squinted into little slits.
Seeing this, Emily also happily laughed out loud.
At the same time, at the side of the workbench, Snape silently watched the two of them, then quietly pulled the wooden stopper from the test tube in his hand.
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