He had largely understood what his future self in Heaven had said.
Perhaps he didn't know the principle, but the outcome was clear: he only needed to create a magic seed, and the timeline of the future Kaisen who was hunting him would be derived.
And when that future Kaisen found his timeline, he would be captured by the time rules of his timeline and world, then disappear along with the shattering of the magic seed.
However, the only thing that made him uncomfortable was that his mistakes would implicate three billion people!
"What's wrong?" Dumbledore turned and asked.
Kaisen pursed his lips: "I made a mistake, and now I'm trying my best to make amends."
"You didn't..."
"Let's go find trouble with that Basilisk first." Kaisen shook his head, refusing Dumbledore's comfort, and walked directly towards Myrtle's lavatory.
The three of them arrived at the lavatory. Myrtle shyly hid in the toilet, clearly having no intention of coming out.
Kaisen, however, meticulously inspected every inch of the lavatory through his monocle.
Finally, he found a slight difference on one of the faucets.
Metal. magic.
"This..." Kaisen walked over, looking at a delicate little snake carved on one of the brass faucets.
Dumbledore also looked over: "Let me think... you said Harry was a Parselmouth before, right?"
Kaisen nodded, while Lupin beside him was a bit confused.
"Huh? What Parselmouth? Harry?"
"That's right." Dumbledore nodded.
Parselmouth ability is generally passed down through blood, or it can be said to be passed down through the soul.
Harry might have had an ancestor who was a Parselmouth, and this Parselmouth talent only manifested in his generation.
But this explanation is a bit far-fetched; after all, the Potter family has a considerable reputation in the magic world, and there's no record of any Potter ancestor having the Parselmouth talent. Even if there were, it's unlikely it would only manifest now.
If this talent isn't inherited through blood, then it can only be acquired later, such as... passive learning of Parselmouth through foreign soul contamination...
Soul contamination... torn soul, Horcrux, Lord Voldemort... Horcrux!
If Harry's Parselmouth ability came from Lord Voldemort, that proves Lord Voldemort also knows Parselmouth. And an Alchemy object whose depth he couldn't discern with his magic attainments could only be something in his blind spot of knowledge...
Thump... Thump...
Dumbledore looked on, a bit bewildered, as Kaisen unceremoniously hammered two holes in the wall, revealing a huge pipe.
"...You're destroying Hogwarts' walls." He sighed, not just about destroying the walls, but also Kaisen's direct and shameless interruption of his thoughts...
In short...
It made him seem useless.
Dumbledore put his hands on his hips, angry.
Forgive me for not finding a picture... all the ones I found had subtitles.
"Alright, let's go in... Wait, Lupin, put this on." Kaisen was about to jump down but didn't forget to pull a pair of glasses from his pocket and hand them to Lupin.
"What's this for?"
"It can save your life if you look into the Basilisk's eyes."
"Thank you."
Lupin also put on the glasses, and the two of them, one after another, jumped into the pipe.
Dumbledore, however, poked his head in, clearly disliking the somewhat dirty pipe, and directly used Apparition.
...
"So, can anyone tell me why you two are still well-dressed, and only I am?" Lupin looked at Kaisen and Dumbledore, who were still neatly dressed in Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets, and then at his own disheveled appearance.
"Oh... I can fly, Dumbledore can teleport... only you actually played on a slide, no help for it." Kaisen shrugged.
"...."
Dumbledore looked up at the huge Chamber of Secrets: "As expected, this is Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets. We just need to wait here."
"Waiting for the rabbit... What do you think of this plan?" Lupin whispered to Kaisen.
"You want me to say? I think Dumbledore is getting senile."
"Cough cough..." The person Kaisen was sharply commenting on coughed twice, a bit awkwardly.
"What... Wow... Dumbledore, do you want to look back at that awesome-looking thing behind you?"
Dumbledore shook his head: "If you're really thinking of murdering a Principal, I suggest you start with Minerva."
"Then why aren't you running?" Kaisen said, pulling out his staff, death elements gathering at its tip.
On the other side, Lupin had no wind-up at all, starting with zero-frame and directly sending an Eye-Blinding Curse towards the Basilisk.
Almost instantly, the Basilisk's originally round eyeballs shriveled up, losing all their luster.
At the same time, the death elements accumulated in Kaisen's staff also struck the Basilisk's huge head.
From the Basilisk's appearance to its death, less than fifteen seconds passed. The culprit that had terrorized Hogwarts for half a semester lay on the ground, just like that.
"Severus will be very fond of this giant Basilisk corpse." Dumbledore said cheerfully, hands on his hips.
"Yes, I have no doubt... But could our esteemed Principal condescend to help us find Lord Voldemort's old notebook?"
Lupin looked at Dumbledore, a bit bewildered by Kaisen's shocking words.
"What Lord Voldemort?"
Kaisen opportunely walked over, put his arm around Lupin's shoulder, and walked to a corner to whisper.
"That's right... Dumbledore, you don't know yet?"
"He just has that peculiar habit."
"Yeah, that's why I say there's something to the Defense Against the Dark Arts position."
Dumbledore looked speechlessly at the two loudly conspiring in the corner, and helplessly took off his glasses, pinching the bridge of his nose.
Kaisen originally had little respect for him, well... although he himself was partly to blame, he had initially thought of recruiting the admiring Lupin to balance things out.
But he didn't expect Lupin to be assimilated by Kaisen!
This meant that next semester he would have to face two Professors who had little respect for him...
Thinking of this, Dumbledore only felt a dark future ahead; he probably wouldn't get much good sleep next semester.
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