Chapter 140: Slytherin's Locket

The next morning, Arthur called Sirius to wake him up.

"I don't understand why you're in such a hurry."

Sirius mumbled with a mouthful of bread.

Arthur ignored Sirius' complaints. He was running out of time and needed to deal with Sirius' situation first before heading to France.

Nicolas had sent him a letter, telling him that next week there would be a meeting of alchemists from all over the world in France.

Arthur was very interested in it, so he had to take care of everything in England as soon as possible.

With Sirius, who had finally finished breakfast, the two of them apparated to Grimmauld Place.

Sirius led Arthur to the middle of Grimmauld Place between numbers 11 and 14, introducing his house, "My family's house is number 12 on Grimmauld Place. Originally, it belonged to Muggles, but my ancestors 'invited' them to leave."

As Sirius spoke about the 'invitation,' he sneered, showing his disdain.

Then he made a strange gesture, and Arthur saw a house suddenly appear between numbers eleven and fourteen.

As they walked into the house, they could smell the dust and rotting wood, and the candle flames on the walls flickered very slowly.

"Kreacher, Are you dead yet? If not, get out here."

Sirius yelled into the air with a frustrated tone.

"Oh, the shame of being kicked out by the mistress. My young master, I didn't expect you to escape from Azkaban."

From the shadows came a high-pitched voice, and Kreacher came out and headed toward Arthur and Sirius Black.

"Let me see, the disgraceful master has brought a friend. Oh, what a respected young master you are. I never expected my master to have such a pure-blood friend..."

Kreacher rambled on.

"Shut up, you old thing!"

Sirius interrupted Kreacher's rambling and then looked at Arthur in surprise.

"I didn't realize you were a pure-blood. By the way, I still don't know your name."

Only then did Sirius remember that he didn't even know Arthur's name after two days?

Arthur spoke softly, "Arthur Gaunt, a Ravenclaw student."

"Hmm? A Gaunt and a Ravenclaw student? I hadn't heard anything about the Gaunt family since I was in school. I didn't expect there were still members of the family living in England and that even joined Ravenclaw,"

Sirius sighed and stopped thinking about it.

He himself was an anomaly; all the members of the Black family came from Slytherin, but he became a Gryffindor, which was considered a disgrace to the entire family.

"What do you want to find? Let Kreacher help you,"

Arthur nodded and looked at Kreacher as Sirius spoke.

"Kreacher, where did you put the box that Regulus gave you? Give it to me."

When Kreacher and Sirius heard what Arthur said, Kreacher became scared, and Sirius's face also changed.

"What box? What do you know?"

Sirius tried to ask, but Arthur stopped him and continued speaking to Kreacher, "Regulus asked you to destroy that box, but you failed, didn't you? Give it to me. I can help you make Regulus's wish come true."

When Kreacher finally couldn't hold back any longer, tears ran down his face as he disappeared from the scene.

However, he quickly reappeared with a locket pendant box in his hands.

He looked at Arthur with hopeful eyes and sobbed, "Noble guest, you... you wouldn't lie to Kreacher, would you?"

Arthur solemnly assured him and then took the locket pendant box in his hand.

Sirius heard their strange conversation, and he got very angry.

If he couldn't afford to make Arthur angry, why couldn't he make his own house-elf angry?

He shouted loudly at Kreacher, "You despicable house-elf, tell me everything you know about Regulus."

Sirius' order left Kreacher with no choice but to choke out all the information.

"When young Sirius escaped, it didn't matter much. He had already hurt the master's heart..."

"Regulus was different from Sirius. He knew his bloodline and noble surname, what it meant..."

"Get to the point, I command you to get to the point, Kreacher."

Sirius was about to be frustrated by his own house-elf.

Did he really have to put up with his jabs at this point?

After being scolded, Kreacher reached the important part with some fear.

"Regulus joined the Dark Lord. He was very happy and proud until he found Kreacher a year later."

"Regulus said that the Dark Lord needed a house-elf..."

When hearing this, Sirius noticed the critical point.

"What did the Dark Lord make you do?"

Kreacher continued, lost in his own thoughts.

"At that time, Regulus offered Kreacher. He said it was an honor."

Reaching this point, his voice filled with fear, "The Dark Lord took Kreacher to a cave by the sea. Deep inside the cave was a small island, and inside the cave was a large black lake..."

"He made Kreacher drink a lake of potion and put the locket into it, then filled it back with the potion. Kreacher felt horrible, and there were corpses in the lake trying to pull Kreacher into the water. Fortunately, Regulus' summoning allowed Kreacher to escape."

"Wait, the locket you mentioned, is it the one you brought earlier?"

Sirius asked hurriedly. An item that could make the Dark Lord so worried must be important.

"Yes, yes, it is."

"How did you get it?"

Sirius interrogated Kreacher as if he were questioning a criminal.

"Regulus asked me to take him to the black lake. He drank all the potion from the lake, then put a similar locket into it and refilled it with the potion."

As Kreacher reached this point, he was already crying, but he continued sharing the last piece of information.

"Regulus ordered Kreacher to bring the locket at home and not tell the mistress or anyone else. Kreacher did as ordered. Kreacher didn't embarrass the master... but Regulus never came back."

After saying this, Kreacher fell to the ground and cried out in despair.

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