"It's so hot—"

Could it be that it's hot right now? No, it should be a little cooler this season now......

It's just that the skin and muscles all over my body seem to be gone, as if I can't feel anything anymore.

The forearm of the left hand was connected with a repair spell to join the broken bone, but it was a fracture just now, and the muscle repair spell that was scratched by the sharp broken bone could not be recovered.

However, there was no pain at all, and the whole person was numb.

"It's so hot—"

Obviously, I can't even feel the temperature, but I always feel a tight and stuffy feeling pressing from the surroundings, and the irritability is constantly intensifying......

"Compress the ham meat in the can...... Probably ...... That's how it feels, right? ”

Maca staggered through the deserted alleyway, her eyes in a trance, and the appearance of Luna in a daze seemed to be carved out of a mold.

The light of some street lamps shone from afar, dragging the shadow behind him for a long time. The shadow twisted and twisted as he swayed, like a Venezuelan poisonous fire.

At this point, his surroundings seemed to lose their color, as if they were walking in an old Muggle photograph that had faded away.

The lanes were winding and uneven, alternating between peaks and valleys like waves, sometimes upside down like a roller coaster, and he couldn't maintain his balance properly.

Of course, it's not completely colorless.

In the entire field of vision, everything with magical power is dyed with a layer of hazy color.

Yes, it's like the rainbow that looms when you spray water mist with a watering can on a sunny day. It's so clear that you can't even tell the colors, but you can feel the ambiguity and colorfulness.

"Hmm...... It's really hard to stay awake to a certain extent......"

With one hand over her mouth and the other against the wall, Maca staggered forward step by step.

Although he didn't have the sense of touch under his feet at all, he was usually used to precise steps, and it was not completely impossible to move forward reflexively at the moment.

"The purpose of this potion is completely unknown, but ......"

From time to time he muttered to himself in his mind, laboriously keeping his mind running so that his head would not strike completely.

“…… However, when I see Willy, let's praise her...... After all, she's not good at potions at all......"

"Ahh Maca muttered inarticulately.

At this moment, a figure appeared at the mouth of the alley, outlined by the lights outside the alley, and a black outline was outlined.

"Huh? Who's there? ”

The dark shadow spoke, but the sound waves spread all the way, reflecting back and forth on the walls of the alleyway, and finally collected by the pinna into Maca's ears.

The voice, just out of tune, was incredibly loud, as if it were trying to pierce a hole in his eardrum.

"Ahh

Maca opened her mouth, but her vocal cords only vibrated meaninglessly.

"Hmph...... Drunk? The figure at the mouth of the alley snorted coldly, "It's okay, it's time to work overtime tonight......"

"Out of body!"

Before he could finish speaking, a gray light appeared in Maka's line of sight and rushed towards him. Probably because of the illusion, the water-gray magic that should have been covered like a net became distorted and flipped at this moment.

Although he couldn't hear the spell that the other party was chanting at all, he knew just by looking at the magic power that it was the Imperius Curse.

Maca's immediate reaction was to raise her right hand, but the wand in her hand had already been lost for a long time...... Maybe it's some part of the road you've traveled before, right?

In his twisted hand, there was no wand that was also twisted and deformed, at least he reacted to this fact in a moment.

At the moment when the gray curtain of light was about to envelop him, Maca drooped her eyelids and slammed her half-outstretched right hand.

In an instant, a tide of magic power poured out, completely dispersing the gray magic light curtain.

"Rough use of magic...... Wasteful, wasteful...... I didn't think I'd have such a day ......."

The irritability and complaints in my heart swelled up at the same time, as if enlarged by a magnifying glass, and almost in the blink of an eye, every corner of my heart was spread.

"The flames are blazing."

Meticulous research and countless exercises have allowed him to cast spells without a wand, just like the older generation of African wizards, while maintaining a high degree of precision.

But even so, he needs to chant loudly to ensure completion.

The flame formed by igniting the magic power did not turn into a fire dragon as it did in class. But even if the shape is not irregular, it is still a sea of high temperature fire that is enough to obscure the vision.

"Ah...... It's a waste of magic again...... That's why I don't like wandless spellcasting......"

The price of maintaining accuracy is to consume more mana to carve and maintain the broken runes.

The figure at the mouth of the alley was burned and scared away. From beginning to end, Maca didn't even see what he looked like, it was always a distorted black outline, and that's it.

But then again, even if the man stood in front of him and showed him, all he could see was a jumble of magical light.

It's the same whether you look at it or not.

Maca didn't have time to think about these things, he was still trying his best to keep his mind running, keeping an eye on the countless pulsing spots of magic light in his vision.

"Ah...... It's so hot! Well? It's ...... What the? ”

Suddenly, as if he had noticed something, he quickened his limp and disorganized pace, and staggered forward, towards his sight.

It was an indescribable mess of colors, bands of light intertwined to form a multicolored humanoid.

"Hmm...... Person? Humanoid magical creatures? Or ......" Maca stumbled forward, walking and walking, still babbling in her heart, "it looks beautiful...... What is it? Is it really human? ”

However, no matter how fast and staggered he went, the figure did not change at all. It was still so far away, still in the same position in the field of vision, but the color gradually changed to pale gold.

"Looks ...... Kind of like ...... Luna? Maca stopped suddenly, tilted her head and narrowed her eyes, "Oh...... That should be the so-called 'goddess' in the patient's mouth, right? ”

He thought so, then shook his head and looked away.

"So, 'goddess' or something...... It's just part of the hallucination...... Right? ”

When he stopped paying attention to the plausible "goddess", in just a moment, the pale gold disappeared without a trace.

Maca kept going, searching, and muttering...... The dreamlike scenery around him was receding, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and it was impossible to estimate the exact passage of time.

Step out of the alley, through the path, across the road, and on.

Most of the pedestrians after that don't want to cause trouble, and that's right. The black market is the black market, and there are all kinds of people, but most of them are wise people who know how to keep a low profile to survive.

After barely surviving for a long time, there were fewer and fewer pedestrians around again. After that, Maca stepped into an uninhabited alleyway again.

This kind of similar place is very common in the black market where all kinds of houses are dotted, and it is the product of the construction densification of every inch of land.

"Ahh

Maca felt as if she could only repeat this sentence, and she didn't get tired of turning it over and over again......

No, it's actually annoying! But no matter how annoying you are, you have to keep talking, if you don't say anything, don't think about anything, I'm afraid that the next moment the effect of the potion will "rob" your self-consciousness.

"Ahh Be...... That's it? ”

At the distance of this step, an unusually striking point of light lit up in the distance, like a pre-dawn star, standing out in the dim night sky.

Maca took a deep breath and quickened her pace again.

Hurry up, you can hurry up, can you hurry up? The staggered footsteps found a balance in the sea of illusions, but it was too difficult, and he finally fell.

"It's okay, I don't feel anything anyway, just get up and keep walking."

Closer, closer, this is it!

"Here's another one, give him ......"

Maca was still wearing an old wizard's robe for camouflage, but the wide-brimmed peaked hat had long since fallen to an unknown location. It's just that fortunately, the mask that fixed the Transfiguration has not expired, so it will not reveal its identity in the first place.

But to be honest, even if others saw through who he was at a glance, he couldn't figure it out.

The bright source of mana was stuffed into the pocket of his robe by someone, and the other seemed intent on just breaking his mouth and pouring it in.

And then...... Probably it will be accompanied by a "forget it all", right?

Leaving no trace is a prudent course of action—but this potion seems to weaken the effect of the Amnesia Charm, otherwise Lady Longman would not have left an impression.

Maca dusted off the man who had come over to break his mouth, squinting and looking left and right.

As Mrs. Longman said, the place was dark and damp...... Well, it can only be said that it is approximate, because the illusion is still there, and the world is still distorted.

"This guy still dares to push me ......"

The man he dusted off was visibly angry, but as soon as he drew his wand, he was stopped by another man.

"Stop! The master has said that every person who takes the medicine in the early stage is very important, don't mess around! ”

"Uh...... Okay, okay, okay! Never mind...... Let's hurry up and pour it on him......"

Before he could finish speaking, he grabbed Maca's arm, and the other person directly used a spell to try to imprison Maca.

But before they could react, they only felt themselves tense first, and then fell hard to the ground.

"Gross-"

As if feeling that the shaking was too intense, Maca held her knee and retched.