"Potter,
What are you guys doing?! " Snape really didn't understand. Since when did those bastards, who didn't even dare to raise their heads in the potion class, have the guts to have a party in his house?
Of course, Harry and the others weren't having a party.
Snape walked over to take a look.
He found that they had moved the sofa away and were sitting around the carpet.
Everyone was looking at the scroll spread out on the coffee table with a serious face. No one even noticed that Snape was standing behind them.
Drac frowned and tapped the table with her fingers. "There's another possibility. Has anyone considered aliens?"
Snape saw Harry biting the end of his pen and blinking.
Then Scott shook his head and said, "The people of Reach are aliens."
"But they are now just mercenaries of Nihon.
What if aliens from other planets appear? What if more spaceships come to surround us? "Ron excitedly drew a spaceship under the pen.
"Well... that's a good idea." Harry got up.
He added a few more strokes on the "map".
At the same time, he said, "But,
We have to give them a reason to appear... Ouch... "
When Harry got up, his head bumped into Snape's chest. Only then did everyone notice the arrival of the Potions Professor.
Snape pressed Harry down with one hand and leaned over to look at the long scroll.
He found that it wasn't a map. The lines on the paper that looked like mountain terrain were actually strings of words. At the beginning of the scroll on the left, there was a big "Harry Potter".
Two arrows led downward to "Ascend to Tardis" and "Remain at Greentown," and downward to many more arrows, as they had been discussing a little while ago.
The arrows seemed to be the subordinate options of "war" and "peace".
Harry had just added the word "aliens" between the two options.
Harry moved closer to Hermione.
He made room for Snape.
Snape read the whole scroll from beginning to end and roughly understood what they were doing. "A... story written for Harry Potter?"
"Hehe …" Harry laughed awkwardly. "I have nothing to do anyway …"
Hermione, whose fear of the Potions Professor had become more and more vague these days, took the initiative to explain, "We are analyzing the possible future trends — of course, with Harry as the center."
Snape glanced at her. "Then we'll formulate a countermeasure for Potter based on these possibilities?"
Hermione paused for a moment, then nodded. "That's what I meant."
Snape glanced at the tree diagram. "I thought I was looking at Potter's 1,001 ways to die." Then he took the pencil from Harry's hand and crossed out the parts about "aliens" and "peace" in the diagram. He pointed to the remaining keywords and said, "Just do what you're good at."
Ron and Drac still liked the part about "aliens" very much. They couldn't help but ask, "What if something else happens?"
Snape sneered and drank his tea. He threw the pencil back to Harry. "There won't be."
Although Ron was flirting with the little snake, he wasn't brave enough to talk back to the old snake. So he curled his lips and looked at his brother, only to see that Harry was poking his chin with the tip of the pen and looking at the window in a daze.
"Harry? What do you think, Harry? "
"I think …" Harry said slowly. "I want to see if there's any big news in today's newspaper."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then tacitly put away the things in their hands. Pietro, who was sitting on the right side of the coffee table, quickly rolled up the scroll, tied it up, and put it into a long-necked vase on the shelf. The others took out their textbooks and notebooks from under the coffee table. In the blink of an eye, the living room was filled with a studious atmosphere.
Snape, who was sitting next to Harry, put down his teacup and saw the two police officers walking into the yard. At the same time, he understood why the children had opened half of the curtains.
In response to the requirements of the Stabilization Act, the special police often conducted spot checks on residents. It was common for them to come to the door in the middle of the night and ask for a resident count, but it was rare for them to knock on the door in the middle of the afternoon.
Snape opened the door and looked at the police officer named Todd with his cold and gloomy eyes. He watched as the police officer trembled, then took out his gun in a threatening manner. "Security check."
Snape moved aside so that he could take a peek into the house. Todd had intended to sneak a peek into the house as usual, but when he saw the twenty over children sitting together, he was shocked. "You guys are … gathering … uh …"
His partner quickly added, "Illegal assembly."
"But, officer …" Hermione raised her hand. "According to the Stabilization Act, it's illegal to gather more than fifteen people outside of a school or church without permission."
Todd quickly took out the Stabilization Act that he carried with him, glanced at it, and nodded. "This is indeed not a school or a church."
His partner did a head count. "And there are more than fifteen people here."
"But we applied," Hermione said.
"And it was approved," Drac added.
"We're just a group of ordinary students at Green High School who love learning …" Fred raised his textbook.
"We formed our own extracurricular interest groups …" George took out the proof.
"And then we gathered together to study homework." Harry's eyes were pure and innocent.
The two police officers were dumbfounded. Todd took the proof that George handed over. His partner flipped through the Stabilization Act and did not find any regulations that prohibited students from forming extracurricular interest groups. The proof did have Principal Charles' signature, but the problem was …
"You have … several interest groups?" Todd wiped the cold sweat off his forehead. "Chemistry, physics, history …"
"Yes. Learning should be done in all directions! "
Drac knocked on Ron's head and corrected him. "By analogy."
"So, officer, is there anything else?" Everyone picked up their textbooks and looked at Todd as if he was standing in the way of the future of his country.
"No … No …" Officer Todd took two steps back and finally struggled to ask Snape a question before he closed the door. "Mr. Snape, may I ask why you provide a place for these students to gather?"
Snape glanced at him indifferently. "Did you investigate my occupation?"
"Uh, you used to be a chemistry teacher at Green High School, but you later resigned …" Todd scratched his head.
"You know that I also raised a child?"
"Uh … Harry Potter?"
"So I need to open an extracurricular tuition class to make money."
Bang. Todd was shut out by Snape again and could only sigh as he walked down the stairs. His partner held an umbrella for him and watched as he added another line to Snape's danger level in his notebook.
He returned to the coffee table and saw that everyone was pretending to be immersed in their studies, but they were all holding back their laughter. Harry had a newspaper spread out in front of him and was reading the town's news with Hermione.
"Hmm … Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary?" The morning news was harmonious, and Harry only saw that the town's safety index had increased by several percentage points.
Snape also took the newspaper and read it, then shook his head and said to Jean, who was sitting opposite him, "Is the school newspaper still being published?"
Jean was stunned for a moment before she said, "The school's safety inspector has taken over the school newspaper, and most of the news has to be reviewed before it can be published."
Snape frowned and thought for a moment before he suddenly heard Harry say, "Most of the news … What content do they not review?"
"Uh … The sewn advertisements? Lost and found? Announcements of school clubs? "Jean stroked her chin.
Snape looked up. "Give me a copy of the school newspaper within a week."
Jean did not know what Snape was thinking, but she nodded. "Qianhuan is in charge of keeping the files."
Li Qianhuan, who was at the side, immediately took out a thick and large file from his backpack. Inside it were the drafts of the school newspaper for the past month.
After taking the school newspaper, Snape quickly flipped through it, but he skipped the first and second pages and went straight to the seams and back pages.
The others also asked Qianhuan for the rest of the newspaper and carefully checked to see if there was anything out of the ordinary. However, most of the news did not differ from the official report, except for the increased security checks and the increase in the peace index. Jean, however, seemed to have thought of something as she carefully ran her finger over the lines of print.
The first person to shout was Harry. "This!" At the same time, he pointed to a certain spot in the newspaper.
Everyone looked over and saw Snape nod. Then, he circled a certain piece of news and put down the newspaper for everyone to read.
"This is … a missing item notice?"
Surprisingly, what Snape circled seemed to be just an ordinary missing item notice. It only took up a few square centimeters of space in the middle of the school newspaper. The content was: A white glove has been lost. Whoever finds it, please wait at the Tomorrow Tower at 8 p.m. There will be a great reward.
Harry reminded them, "Look at the signature."
The signature was an abbreviation: K. A.
Hermione looked at Harry's expression and guessed, "Could this KA be someone we know?"
Harry smiled. "I've seen him before, but I'm not familiar with him."
Everyone looked at each other until Ron suddenly quivered and said in surprise, "Could it be … Ah, I remember a KA …"
"Who?" everyone asked in unison.
"The kickass from the ball."
Most people had no impression of him. Only some people remembered his funny green diving suit.
Harry continued to explain, "This missing item notice is also very strange. Generally speaking, when we're looking for a lost item, we have to describe its characteristics and where it was lost, rather than simply saying what was lost … "
"Ah, there's such a time and place!" With Harry taking the lead, Hermione quickly reacted. "The information he provided was only 8 p.m., but he didn't say which night it was."
"There's also the Tomorrow Tower. There's no such place in town." Peter raised his hand.
"So …"
"So this isn't a missing person notice at all." Harry touched his chin. "If I'm not wrong, this should be a recruitment notice." After exchanging glances with Snape, Harry looked up at his friends from Marvel and DC. "You guys shouldn't be too active recently, right?"
Scott and Tim nodded as representatives. After all, it was during the crackdown period. The X-Men and the Bat Family, as key targets, were avoiding the limelight. Naturally, "Mystery and his friends" were also keeping a low profile. On the one hand, it was because of the special police. On the other hand, it was also because Harry and the others had other plans and didn't want to complicate matters.
"… But others may not think so. This Kickass, and perhaps even more students, are fanatics of the masked vigilantes. In other words, they're chuunibyou. In the current situation, they may think that the masked vigilantes have been persecuted by the authorities and are planning to retire, so … "Harry knocked on his head." So, they decided to stand up for themselves. Whether they want to replace them or call for the return of the heroes, they plan to form their own team and publish this missing item notice with a secret code. "
Everyone was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to evaluate this Kickass.
After a long while, Pietro scratched his silver hair and asked, "He should just be an ordinary person, right?"
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