HP X LOTM : Please Call Me Mr. Error.

'What if I threaten her by setting up a ritual inside the Abyss where I can set up a stage for corrupting 'Her'?'

'What if I created a ritualistic region in the Abyss that the other Gods and Goddesses can use to conquer it or hurt 'Her'?'

Loki thought about this for a while but eventually shook his head again.

'No…that would make it dependent on the will of Gods and Goddesses…'

'And I doubt anyone wants to get into a direct confrontation with 'Her' on 'Her' own domain. That would be stupid…'

'And opening a method to hurt her would mean that she can possibly hurt or act on this side of the barrier protecting the planet…that's even more dangerous.'

'...*sigh* if even Gods don't want to do this, why am I?'

Eventually, Loki gave up thinking about various opportunities and finally settled on reading a book for now.

Loki walked through the familiar shelves and picked up a book from the nine-part series that he had been avoiding reading for a while now.

'Knowledge Hunter Series (3): A Tale Of Corruption.'

With six more books to go, Loki picked up the third one and walked back to his table as he opened it to read more about the next Sefirot detailed in it.

The first Sefirot was the Calamity City which he had ignored, and the second was the Chaos Sea but there was very little written about it.

And this was the third-

'The third Sefirot is also called the Brood Hive.'

Loki's eyes widened as he read the name of the third sefirot represented in the book.

'Seriously?'

'I get a mission about 'Her' and now I'm already finding books regarding 'Her' 'friend'?'

'Well at least it isn't directly about 'Her' and is about 'Her' friend-'

But Loki froze when he read the next line.

'This Sefirot has been captured by an Outer God that also controls the Abyss pathway after 'She' corrupted the Devil Monarch Farbauti.'

'God damn it's about 'Her'! The one that I need to keep distracted for a month!'

'This isn't just a coincidence, is it!?' Loki complained as he thought about Dumbledore doing something with the Quill of Alzuhod.

But then remembered the strange fluctuation in his spirit thread earlier that night.

Loki took a few deep breaths and continued reading since he had a few questions he wanted answers to.

'The Sefirot is located deep in the Abyss where it resides disconnected from the entire world.'

'Although the territory of the Sefirot has been captured by 'Her', she fails to accommodate or even control the Sefirot which is working hard to corrupt any Beyonder Characteristics that come in contact with it to raise Beyonders that might or would help it in becoming free.'

'My short visits to the Abyss have led me to believe that the Sefirot is waiting for an opportunity not to return to its original owner a different Outer God, but to help revive an Ancient 'Goddess' that goes by the name of Omebella.'

'As such I believe that the current ruler behind the puppet of the Abyss has been at odds with the will of the Sefirot which is rejecting 'Her'.'

Loki paused reading any further from there and quietly closed the book as he began to ponder about the situation he'd just read about.

'So there's a Sefirot inside the Abyss too?'

'Is that why her presence in the Abyss is so strong?'

'Was it brought there intentionally and locked there by 'Tree woman'?'

'...would doing something with that count as a logical way to distract 'Her'?'

'Maybe I can do something to the Sefirot? Like leak its exact location to the 'Depravity Lady' so that they fight about it outside the barrier?'

Loki kept a cool head as he studied his ideas in detail, trying to come up with a complete plan as he pieced together various items he had with him.

'Hmm…I feel like I'm missing something.'

'Something that would make all of this a lot easier would help very much…but is there something like that?'

Loki thought about it for a while but didn't recognise what he was missing.

As such he gave up and left the Room of Requirements to go stroll around the castle.

Loki walked aimlessly, letting the castle carry him to wherever it desired. It was just a thing Loki had started doing ever since he realised that he was definitely involved in the making of this castle in some way.

First Loki was taken to the astronomy tower where he met Miss Norris who was lazily licking her paws to make sure they were clean for her next hunt.

Loki fed her some tuna he'd stolen during dinner and continued on his walk.

It took a while to travel from all the way at the top of the astronomy tower to a room in the dungeons that had become the favourite of several students.

The home of Noberta the Whimsical dragon.

She was given such a name because Noberta had taken to collecting the strangest items from the students at Hogwarts.

Initially, she was interested in shiny things like gold, silver and diamonds like any other Niffler, but once Loki introduced her to a kaleidoscope, she had started to collect absolutely absurd things to put into the one Loki had gifted her so that she could enjoy looking at it from different angles.

Loki hadn't done this out of a sense of enjoyment from watching a small creature be puzzled by the existence of mirrors and their reflections, but he'd done it because he noticed that Dumbledore had fed the girl a Spectator potion.

As such, the Dragon was bound to get bored staring at the dungeon walls all day, and started to have a few 'destructive' tendencies that only Hagrid could handle.

So Loki gave it a kaleidoscope.

The dragon couldn't talk though since her throat was too big for that. She could however interact with people through gestures.

And when Loki walked into her nest, Noberta instantly pinned him down with one of her claws before snorting fire onto him.

"Hehe~ I know~ I know~ It was summer vacation, that's why I didn't arrive here in the last two months."

There was another *snort* which partially singed his collar but Loki only giggled and softly pushed away the dragon's face and started to climb onto its head.

Loki spoke to Norberta for a while, talking about silly things like plans that involved shrinking the dragon so that she could 'hunt' a certain pink toad that was torturing students.

Loki doubted 'it' could defend 'itself'.

Loki then left the dungeons to go to the island at the centre of the black lake to meet his tree friends, but stopped walking, however, when he noticed something disturbing the space around him.

"Sunny, you're back?" Loki asked as he grabbed the letter that the Niffler passed to him before climbing his arm and falling asleep inside his robes wordlessly.

Loki opened the letter and read calmly, but with each line he read, his eyes widened further as he stood stunned in the middle of the corridor.

"Seriously!?" Loki asked himself as he looked at the letter once again.

"Dear Loki,

I have two things to tell to you.

Firstly, don't disturb me in the middle of the night. I know those of the Darkness pathway don't need to sleep too much, but did you have to send me a letter right in the middle of the night when I sleep for two hours?

Secondly, the Bones family has reached out to join hands for our support for Amelia Bones to become the next head of the British Wizarding Aisles.

As a show of acceptance, I will need you to accept her daughter Susan Bones into your team at Hogwarts Honest Mill.

Yes, this is the precursor to a marriage proposal.

But don't worry, Amelia doesn't have such intentions in mind. This is purely for the public.

It will happen after I reveal your adoption to the public.

I will start by including your name in the list of official inheritors for the Gringotts vault of the Black Family tomorrow.

Now that I think about it…did you already know about this? Is that why you sent me a letter in the dead of the night? Did you want me to die of ill health?

If you didn't, then that's too shameful.

You should think more like a Black.

Anyway, getting back to the matter at hand, Susan Bones will be joining you at Hogwarts Honest Mill, you can decide what she should do.

But along with that, you'll also be the head of the team Susan Bones will be joining as a Beyonder that will do what every Beyonder student at Hogwarts does at year four.

Good night.

Don't disturb me again.

If you do, I'll make sure to turn your dreams into nightmares.

Good night.

Your dear grandma,

Walburga of the Oldest and Noblest House of Black."

Loki *sighed* at the information he was bombarded with and then *sighed* again because he realised that he'd really disturbed Walburga since the letter was a mess, meaning she'd really been woken up to write it while she was sleeping.

'....I hope she forgets about it once she wakes up.'

'If not…I fear how she'll take her revenge.'

'She's already informed me about something that would've made my night worse as revenge…I hope it ends at that.'

Inside the Black Manor, Walburga quietly sipped tea with a smile on her face.

'Hehe…he's probably worried about disturbing my sleep…'

'I didn't know how to break the news about Bones's niece…but this gave me a nice excuse…how innocent…he really is much easier to handle than Sirius.'

'What a nice child I have acquired for myself!'

'I should give him a bonus in the inheritance…lest Sirius spend it all away on booze and nightly fantasies.'

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