"Report, Principal! Terrible news!"
Headmaster Dumbledore, sitting in his office, fell into deep thought as he looked at a week-long leave request in his hand.
"Why do you say he's sick?" he asked Cedric, who had come to deliver the news.
"I don't know, but I think Professor might be too overworked. He's barely slept this entire semester, constantly teaching me," Cedric, also distraught, tearfully complained to Dumbledore.
"That shouldn't be the case. Kayson's physique, while not like a muscle-bound brute, should still be capable of lifting Hogwarts, right? How could he suddenly fall ill?" Dumbledore looked unconvinced.
"Professor said it's because he's undergone too many human modifications, and his flesh and machinery are rejecting each other," Cedric said softly.
"Then just change it back?"
"Professor has replaced his heart with an engine, and his lungs have been sliced into three parts. He probably can't change it back…"
"No matter what, that's just physical modification. How serious can it be? At most, I'll go with you to take a look; Madam Pomfrey doesn't even need to get involved." Dumbledore stood up, put his hand on Cedric's shoulder, and attempted Apparition… it failed.
As a last resort, he Apparated outside the alchemy office.
Kayson, who was in the innermost part of the office, reading a novel and eating an egg pancake, heard the alarm from the crystal ball on his desk. He instinctively glanced towards the door. One was Cedric, the other looked like Dumbledore. Both were old acquaintances…
Wait, Dumbledore?
He suddenly reacted, stuffing the egg pancake into his mouth in a few bites, chewing it, and swallowing it. Then, he immediately lay down on the sofa, controlling his brain to lower his body's metabolic rate.
Almost instantly, Kayson, who a second ago had been eating with the ferocity of Lu Zhishen, lay on the sofa like Lin Daiyu.
Soon, Dumbledore and Cedric appeared before him. Dumbledore's strange gaze swept over Kayson from head to toe…
"Are you sick?"
Kayson shook his head: "No… *cough cough*… No!"
Dumbledore pulled out his Elder Wand, about to examine Kayson's body. Cedric instinctively moved to stop him.
Kayson, however, maintained his half-dead appearance: "Go ahead and examine me. I've always been a bad person, always fond of human modification, someone who doesn't value his own life. Perhaps fate will give him the corresponding punishment…"
"For someone like me, it's understandable that Headmaster Dumbledore wouldn't trust me, right?"
Dumbledore's wand-waving hand suddenly paused, but he quickly reorganized his thoughts. He wasn't distrusting Kayson; he was purely examining his body.
That's right, just a body check, nothing about distrust…
Slowly, the wand rested on Kayson's chest, and cerulean magic flowed into his body.
Kayson remained in that ghostly state, and Cedric bit his lip, quietly watching the scene unfold.
The second party involved, Dumbledore, stared blankly at the wand in his hand. His neck stiffly turned to Cedric: "I think we need to call Madam Pomfrey, no, take Kayson to Madam Pomfrey."
He said, directly waving his wand, lifting Kayson along with the sofa beneath him. They floated unsteadily towards the Medical Wing.
Seeing this, Cedric quickly stopped Dumbledore: "Wait, wait, Principal, isn't it a bit inappropriate to just carry Professor over like this?"
Dumbledore stopped: "You have a point." He temporarily put Kayson down, then found the charged ender pearl floating on its pedestal in the office. He looked it over, found a lever, and pulled it down, uncharging the ender pearl.
"Cedric, come here," he called.
Cedric ran over quickly, and in the next moment, they appeared in the Medical Wing.
"Ahem, Madam Pomfrey, please take a look at Kayson," Dumbledore said after setting down Kayson and the sofa.
"Kayson? What's wrong with him now?" Madam Pomfrey asked, puzzled.
"Who knows? Maybe it's a cold," Dumbledore unsteadily picked up a cup of water, trembling as he brought it to his lips, only to find it completely spilled. "Maybe a fever… Also, when you're done, please help me with my Parkinson's."
Madam Pomfrey sighed: "That's not Parkinson's."
"What do you mean by that…? Then why do my hands keep shaking?" Dumbledore said awkwardly.
"Perhaps you're nervous?" Madam Pomfrey said casually.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
"Eh? Why can't I hear your heartbeat?"
"That shouldn't be right? All normal human reflexes are gone…"
"Why aren't your pupils reacting either? Constrict! Pupils, constrict quickly!"
"Dumbledore! Potion! Quickly give me a Potion! A life-restoring Potion!!!"
Dumbledore took a deep breath, waved his wand, moving all the Potions from the entire shelf to Madam Pomfrey, then slowly walked over: "You two must be trying to scare me, right?"
As he spoke, he reached out and patted Kayson's shoulder: "After all, he's so sturdy…"
The next moment, Kayson immediately vomited a large amount of blood-red liquid with zero-frame startup.
Dumbledore's stiff neck looked at the ground…
"What is that thing?"
Cedric walked over and squatted down: "It looks like… internal organ fragments. Can they be put back together?"
Dumbledore's expression became even stiffer…
Madam Pomfrey also directly pried open Kayson's mouth, inserted a funnel, and desperately poured various Potions into him.
Cedric looked at this scene, a bit bewildered, wondering if he should try to stop her, but he felt that if he stopped her now…
Since Professor Kayson is doing this, he must have his purpose… Believe in him!
Kayson, whose eyes were rolling back from being force-fed massive amounts of Potions, felt that it would be better to just die now…
Is this the punishment for feigning illness?
Merciful Merlin, please grant someone to save me from this predicament, to come to my side… Arigato!
"Oh… What are you doing?" Snape walked over, carrying a small black box, and asked, looking at the chaotic Medical Wing.
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