Chapter 148 The time of slacking off is over.

Mike looked at Hermione who was walking away alone, and couldn't help but feel a little sorry for her. He wondered whether he should comfort her. He seemed to have seen Hermione crying just now.

But a slight pain interrupted his thoughts.

"What are you thinking about?"

Penelope asked softly in Mike's ear, while twisting the soft flesh on Mike's waist with one hand.

Although he didn't feel much pain, Mike still pretended to be in unbearable pain and begged for mercy with gnashing teeth: "Ah? No, I was just thinking that it's late, why don't we go back to the dormitory to rest quickly?"

Penelope rolled her eyes at Mike, but didn't say anything else. She took Mike's arm and walked towards the exit of the venue, leaving Franklin, a single dog, eating dog food silently.

On the way back, Mike looked at the beauty beside him, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but pull up. The more he looked, the more satisfied he felt.

Penelope's emotional intelligence is really high.

Just now, she was very angry when she saw him staring at Hermione, but she didn't really twist her hard. She expressed her dissatisfaction to him, but she didn't express it too much.

"I like this kind of sensible girl." Mike thought to himself.

As if she noticed Mike's eyes, Penelope coyly loosened her hand on Mike's arm, as if she was a little embarrassed.

Mike couldn't let her succeed, so he quickly held Penelope's hand again.

Just as the two of them were flirting all the way to Ravenclaw Tower, they met two acquaintances at a hidden corner on the road.

Cedric and Qiu Zhang were holding hands and whispering in a shadow. At this time, everyone went to watch the duel competition, so they were very bold. Seeing the two getting closer and closer, it seemed that they were about to kiss.

Suddenly, Qiu Zhang seemed to have discovered Penelope and Mike from the corner of his eye, and then his face changed drastically, blushing and hiding behind Cedric.

Cedric was a little confused by her sudden action, until he saw Mike and Penelope walking towards him and understood the reason.

"It seems that we have ruined your good thing." Mike said with a strange smile.

"It's good that you know." Cedric shrugged and shook hands with Mike. "Long time no see, just came back from watching the game?"

"Yeah, didn't you go to see Qiu Zhang's game?"

"Her first game is scheduled for tomorrow." Cedric said helplessly, "The schedule of this duel competition is simply a pile of shit. I bet the person who made this rule must be illiterate!"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Mike was a little confused when he heard it. He had been in the Request Room for the past few days and didn't know the schedule of the duel competition.

Cedric didn't ask Mike why he didn't even know this, and started to explain directly.

It turned out that due to the large number of participants in this duel competition, and two months of time had to be left for students to prepare for the exam, the competition group directly stipulated that the first round of competition would last for one month. During this month, the elimination competition will be held every night at the venue of the competition, and 8 contestants will be selected in the end.

Then these 8 contestants will duel by random drawing, and the winner will be selected to form the real top 8 with the seeded contestants of each college.

Finally, there will be the semi-finals and the finals.

This will directly lead to a sharp increase in the intensity of the first round of competition.

Mike smacked his lips when he heard this. The first round of this duel competition is indeed very unfriendly to the contestants who were directly eliminated in the first game. Those contestants who won consecutively must fight continuously in just one month. Many people have not recovered from the injuries in the previous game before they come to the next game, and they have to fight with injuries.

And Mike estimates that when the first round of the game reaches the later stage, the people who play in the game will have some injuries to a certain extent.

Because the scale of the Hogwarts infirmary is not large, it is okay to treat some minor illnesses such as headaches and fevers and injuries caused by naughty children. Once the number of injured people increases, it will definitely be too busy. This is why Lockhart also organized some senior students to form a temporary treatment team.

Judging from Ron's incisors that have not fully recovered, the level of this temporary medical team is really worrying.

But these actually have nothing to do with Mike and Cedric. The two are seeded players of their respective colleges. They don't need to participate in such high-intensity competitions at all and can directly advance to the semi-finals.

The reason why Cedric felt that the schedule was a chicken was more because he felt sorry for Qiu Zhang.

Thinking of this, Mike joked: "I didn't expect you to really take away our Ravenclaw's pearl. How about it, tell me quickly, how far have you developed?"

Cedric showed a smug smile on his face, as if he had thought of something, turned his head and looked behind him, and saw that Qiu Zhang had been pulled not far away by Penelope at some point. At this moment, the two girls were whispering, and from time to time they secretly looked at Mike and Cedric, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I've said it before. With my conditions, Qiu Zhang will definitely choose me." Cedric whispered, "That Roger Davis is a far cry from me. I used a little trick to make Qiu Zhang leave him." Cedric became

more and more excited as he spoke. He put his arm around Mike's shoulders and wanted to tell him about his so-called trick.

"Mike, Roger asked me to tell you that you can attend the next Quidditch training." Qiu Zhang, who was standing by, had come to the two of them without knowing when. "You've missed several months of training. The Quidditch finals will be held soon. We need you."

Cedric was so scared that he trembled when he suddenly heard his girlfriend's voice.

"What's wrong with you?" Qiu Zhang asked when she saw that her boyfriend was acting a little abnormal.

"Nothing. Mike and I were just..." Cedric reacted quickly, "We were scolding the guy who made the schedule for the duel competition."

Qiu Zhang's puzzled expression faded slowly after hearing this, and she stared at Mike again, waiting for Mike's answer. This time, her Quidditch captain Roger Davis gave her a death order, and she must let Mike go back to training.

Roger himself had come to Mike several times before, but Mike always brushed him off.

After several times, Roger thought that Mike rejected him because he was not charming enough, so he sent Qiu Zhang, who had the highest charm attribute in their team, hoping to use the beauty trap to get Mike to go back to training.

"Mike, you should go to training." Penelope gently shook Mike's arm and persuaded him.

Seeing this, Cedric also reacted and advised: "Yes, I heard that you are good at Quidditch. I really hope to meet you on the field."

Mike was very conflicted.

After obtaining the Transfiguration Notebook and the "Flame Master's Guide", Mike needed to spend a lot of time practicing spells, and he really had no time to participate in any Quidditch training.

But looking at the expectant eyes of the three people, Mike couldn't refuse.

In the end, Mike gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Remember to notify me next time you practice!"

Qiu Zhang and Penelope both cheered, and Mike's heart was bleeding.

"Goodbye, my slacking time."