The next day, Ron was still not discharged from the hospital.

But I heard from the Slytherin people that Malfoy seemed to have been taken away by his father and went to St. Mungo's.

Kyle didn't care.

He has more important things to do today.

After breakfast, Fred and George were dragged by Wood to Quidditch training.

Kyle came to the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor and spent the whole morning transferring all the Moon Beasts and some plants there into his own box.

However, those plants with slow growth cycles, such as poisonous tentacles, did not move.

The seeds of these plants were the compensation given by the Ministry of Magic last year. Only a year has passed so they are still in the budding stage. The special properties of the Room of Requirement allow them to grow better.

There will be plenty of time in the future, no need to rush now...

After transferring the last Moon Beast, Kyle returned to the hut at the entrance of the box.

But he didn't leave, instead he took out a box from under the bed.

After seeing Lucius Malfoy yesterday, Kyle remembered that he hadn't opened the diary since Fawkes came last time.

I don't know what happened to Riddle...

Kyle took out the dragon's blood he bought from Diagon Alley, poured it into an empty ink bottle, and then added some water.

Dragon's blood is so expensive, try to save as much as possible.

After doing all this, he opened the diary.

Soon, a line of faint handwriting emerged.

Sorry, I haven't recovered yet.

[I don't know why, but my magic power is recovering very slowly]

"It's okay. I found dragon blood."

Kyle wrote a line of red words on it with a feather pen.

This line was quickly absorbed.

After a few seconds...

[Strange, it is indeed dragon blood, but why is there so little magic power in it? ]

"I don't know..." Kyle wrote, "I bought it in Diagon Alley."

[Then you chose the wrong store. This is not pure dragon blood. ]

"It's of no use to you?"

[Although the effect is much worse, it is still useful. 】

The words are much clearer than before.

Kyle nodded in his heart. As long as it was useful, why would he ask for so much?

After the Riddle card reading machine came back online, Kyle continued to ask questions about the arrangement of magic runes...

But Riddle's mind was not on this. He cared a lot about what Kyle had said before.

Who on earth could... easily kill an enemy that even Dumbledore found difficult to deal with?

And the dark wizard with a strange name mentioned by Kyle may very well be him in the future.

The enemy that Dumbledore finds difficult must be... only him. No one else is qualified.

He was eager to know more and the reasons for his failure.

After patiently answering Kyle's questions, Riddle couldn't help it.

[I remember you said before that there are people who are stronger than Dumbledore. Is that true? ]

[Also...what's his name? Is he from my generation?]

Kyle raised his head from the pile of symbols and runes, glanced at the diary, and wrote on it:

"Do you care about this matter?"

[I'm just too curious.]

Riddle replied.

[After all, in my memory, Professor Dumbledore has always been the strongest, and he is also the goal I strive to catch up with. ]

[Ever since you said someone had surpassed him, I've been thinking about this.]

[There's nothing I can do about it. I just can't concentrate.]

"Well, I understand..."

Kyle looked at the permutation formulas for several combinations he had just written down on the parchment and tapped his fingers lightly on the table.

Although this arrangement order seemed normal and no different from the previous ones, it happened that Kyle had seen two of the symbols before.

It is clearly stated in the alchemy book written by Nicolas Flamel that the symbols representing "light" and "touch" must never be directly connected together, and there must be a buffer in between.

Otherwise, there is a 90% chance that the alchemical items produced will explode directly.

Was this intentional? Or was it an accident...

Kyle hesitated and didn't say anything about it.

There was no point in saying it, Riddle could easily make the excuse that he was thinking about something else and was careless for a moment.

And if he knew that I had read books related to alchemy, he would definitely be more covert when doing bad things next time.

That would be troublesome...

Kyle sighed, scratched the parchment lightly, and used a clip to get some nutrients prepared for the poisonous tentacles from an iron bucket nearby, threw them into the ink bottle and stirred them.

Then he dipped his quill in some fresh "ink" and wrote:

"I'm sorry, Tom. I was just joking with you. The person who killed the dark wizard was not as strong as Headmaster Dumbledore."

[It turned out to be a joke... But I guessed it a long time ago. 】

Riddle's handwriting was a little clearer.

[I knew that no one would be stronger than Professor Dumbledore...]

"No Tom, you're wrong."

Kyle wrote: "In fact, Headmaster Dumbledore is not even second."

【What?】

"I was afraid you wouldn't be able to accept it before, but now I've decided to tell you the truth...

In fact, there are many hidden families in the magic world. They have been passed down for thousands of years and possess extremely powerful strength. They can move mountains and fill the sea with ease.

However, the people of these families rarely appear in front of ordinary wizards. They just quietly guard the safety of the wizarding world in the dark."

【This is impossible! 】

[If that's true, why did I only meet mediocre people when I was in school? ]

Riddle's handwriting was so sloppy that the words were almost connected.

"They won't come to Hogwarts to study. They are all family inheritance... I know it's hard for you to believe, but this is the truth."

This time, Riddle didn't reply.

It was a long time before words appeared in the diary again.

[If that's the case, how did you know that? ]

“Many people know about this…”

“More than a decade ago, the dark wizard named Voldemort…his subordinates were too rampant. They once shouted in front of many people, “My Lord, the Dark Lord, has the appearance of a god of magic,” and thus angered those people.

Then an old man came out with a two-handed sword and hacked the Dark Lord they were talking about half to death."

The diary fell into silence for a long time again.

…

【What happened to the Dark Lord afterwards?】

"Maybe a few days later, he died at the hands of a baby, and that's the only news that was reported."

As he spoke, Kyle pasted the clippings he had prepared in advance into his diary.

Another ten minutes passed...

"Tom, Tom, are you still there?"

This time, the diary seemed to be broken and there was no response at all.

…

(End of this chapter)