Chapter 571: Does Flirting with Young Girls Count as Being Sleazy?

Chapter 571: Chapter 571: Does Flirting with Young Girls Count as Being Sleazy?

Shock and panic!

Lupin, trapped in petrification, felt like he was about to go mad. What was going on? What on earth was happening? Why could Peter Pettigrew, standing right in front of him, take on his appearance without needing Polyjuice Potion, and even steal his memories?

And what was the identity of this utterly unnatural house-elf? What exactly were they plotting? Question after question swirled through Lupin’s mind, and he suddenly realized that he seemed to have fallen into some dark vortex.

He wasn’t the only one, either. Everyone in the livestream was shocked as well.

Doujin Artist: What magic is this? Does something like this exist in the Harry Potter world?

This is an Actor: Not in the original story, but magic like this does exist in this world. This so-called Mirror Image is actually an application of the laws of soul attunement. Its principle is to attune one person’s soul to another, letting that person perfectly inherit every one of their traits.

Skirt-Flipping Maniac: That... should count as forbidden magic, shouldn’t it?

This is an Actor: It’s a lost magic of the ancient era. Even Dumbledore knows nothing of it.

Lazy Kitten: Tsk tsk, amazing!

Kitten understood what her group leader meant.

If even Dumbledore didn’t know about it, then the question of whether it was forbidden never mattered in the first place. Because as far as most wizards were concerned, this magic simply didn’t exist!

And if it doesn’t exist, how could anyone rate it?

This is an Actor: As time passes, this magic will turn the attuned one completely into the person they were attuned to. If no one is there to assist and remind them, their very existence will slowly fade away.

Curly-haired Guy: Damn, that magic is seriously unsettling.

Your very existence slowly fades away. In other words, you are no longer you, and you will become the person you’re playing, forever. And the sad part is, that imposter is nothing but a fake in the end.

It amounted to erasing your own existence and turning into someone else’s shadow.

Wig Guy: It truly is a cruel magical power. But this Peter Pettigrew still makes it impossible to feel sorry for him.

Doujin Artist: Exactly! Scum who would sell out his own friends deserves to die.

Machete Girl: But right now he’s still useful to Anzen-san, right? Is the idea to have him impersonate Lupin and infiltrate Hogwarts?

By the time her message went out, Katsura Kotonoha had already entered the dense jungles of Borneo together with Janet. Their destination was the Aina tribe, deep within the jungle.

It was a human community that had preserved its primitive social structure to this day. If translated into plainer terms, the tribe’s name meant "Headhunters." That’s right, this primitive tribe was the famous headhunting tribe, also known as cannibals.

The natives of the island spoke of the tribe with dread, believing its people to be descendants of demons. Even the most seasoned guides on the island refused to set foot within a mile of the community, because these descendants of demons had no love for outsiders.

Of course.

The local government had more than once considered negotiating with this people who still lived in a primitive manner, but of all the negotiators they had dispatched, not one had ever walked back out of the forest.

Even when armed military police were sent in as escorts, the result was the same: no one who came near that tribe ever returned.

According to the native shamans, the forest surrounding the Aina tribe was alive. It could sense and identify every outsider, and it devoured anyone who ignored its warnings without the slightest hesitation.

In the end, the helpless local government could only report the strange phenomena up to the national level, and the national security services took the matter very seriously. Two years ago, they specially hired a professional exorcism team from the Holy See and sent them into the jungle.

Janet had been a member of that exorcism team, and one of the few survivors.

Unsurprisingly, the Holy See’s exorcists had likewise failed to reach the Aina tribe. They had only drawn near the tribe’s outskirts when they came under attack by a horde of terrifying giant serpents.

Each of those serpents was over ten meters long, and they moved several times faster than ordinary snakes.

The Holy See’s exorcists might have been experts at dealing with the eerie and paranormal, but against such creatures of the natural world they were clearly helpless. Even with every trump card played, they had nearly been wiped out to a man.

Under those circumstances, the Holy See had no other choice. The region could only be designated a Ninth-Tier Forbidden Zone.

If she hadn’t known that her dear friend possessed the power to slay gods, Janet would never have returned to this cursed place.

Skirt-Flipping Maniac: What’s the point of impersonating Lupin, though? Anzen-san is already a professor at Hogwarts, isn’t he?

This is an Actor: Mm-hm. But as everyone knows, Zickrein is a professor of noble character and fine virtue. There are certain sleazy things I simply cannot do. You understand, right?

Skirt-Flipping Maniac: Sleazy things?

Amegakure Village’s Angel: And how, specifically, do these sleazy things go?

Doujin Artist: "Noble character"... You’ve got some nerve saying that, you scheming mastermind!

Machete Girl: By "sleazy things," do you mean flirting with young girls?

Scarlet Lotus Fairy: Pfft, Kotonoha, how dare you!

Curly-haired Guy: H-how is that sleazy?! That’s romance, okay? A man’s romance! Our honorable president is just that kind of simple, unadorned romantic!

Machete Girl: ? I never said Anzen-san was flirting with young girls. Why are you so worked up? Is there actually something going on?

Wig Guy: Gintoki, you actually exposed the president’s strategy!

Pretty Boy from Skull Island: That’s a seppuku offense, you know.

Shark-Faced Guy: Unbelievable. Logging off right away, huh?

This is an Actor: You all seem to be under some misunderstanding. Am I really the type who would flirt with young girls? This is nothing but slander.

Soul Society’s Villain: You might not flirt with anyone, but that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t flirt with you.

This is an Actor: I really don’t think I can be blamed for that.

Gerard didn’t deny it, because at Hogwarts he really did get flirted with every single day. And the young girls flirting with him weren’t just Hermione and Luna, there was also Penelope of Ravenclaw, Daphne of Slytherin, and others.

Of course.

Aside from Hermione and Luna, Gerard had no real involvement with any other girl in this world. Even when flirted with, he never responded in kind. So Gerard hardly considered himself some kind of playboy... romantic.

When he looked up from his message, Acting Headmistress McGonagall was delivering the end-of-term remarks. This year, the House Cup had been claimed by Ravenclaw.

The little eagles cheered and jumped for joy, while the other houses bowed their heads in silence.

After a brief address, McGonagall announced that all of the year’s classes had come to an end. Two months of happy holidays were about to begin for the young wizards of Hogwarts.

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