Chapter 171

Two hours later.

Raising his hand from the head of the last member of the "Queen", a disappointed sigh escaped from his lips and the next moment, the three bodies were engulfed in scarlet flames, which in a second left them with no ashes, and Severus himself headed towards the stairs that appeared. 

"Almost nothing new..." - from the memories of the three, the Prince was only able to confirm some of his assumptions, approximate: strength, location, as well as the task that was set before the group, in addition, he learned that it is almost pointless to capture members of this organisation for the reason that the most important information, like the location of the headquarters, is copied and remains there, and from their memories it is simply erased until the task is completed.

"Although it is rude, and in the future it can negatively affect the psyche, I must admit that it is quite effective."

In addition, he was also able to get data on the organisation's spies in Britain, but most likely, this data was no longer relevant, because they could simply move to another place and change "faces", which they most likely already did, but finding them should not be a big problem anyway, because there are dozens of ways to track down a wizard, no matter how hard he tries to hide his tracks. 

And at the moment, he was not going to deal with them, but on the contrary, to rest and put his thoughts in order, too much had fallen on him in this short time and the young man's mind was simply overloaded with information, and also very exhausted after those three days, from which his productivity even dropped a little. 

After all, in normal times, half an hour would be enough for each wizard, but now he had to spend forty minutes, which was already not very good and it was urgently necessary to recover, since it was unknown what could happen even tomorrow, and what if suddenly the "Queens" get it into their heads to attack him all at once, although this was unlikely, but even such a crazy scenario could not be ruled out. 

As soon as he appeared in the living room, two pairs of eyes immediately turned to him. One belonged to Nagini, who had been waiting for him all this time on the sofa, and the second to a pale-faced man, who was a former member of the "Black Star", who looked at the snake with apprehension and kept a distance of almost five metres from it.

 "Speak faster, I'm a little tired," Severus said, yawning widely, looking with a smile at the maledictus, who was throwing an offended glance in his direction. 

"After you released us, we still don't know what our duties were."

"Duties…" massaging his temple, he shook his head, "... let's talk about it another day, and for now you simply do not have enough strength to trust you with anything," the man's eye twitched from his words. 

Still, in his department, he was only the third strongest, and in the entire organisation he was in the top thirty, but for the first time someone called him weak and he simply could not refute it, remembering how easily they were defeated, and now, they were not in the best shape. 

Snape himself ignored the change in his face and in the man's emotions, which, thanks to the seal, he could easily feel and, approaching the sofa, simply fell on it, closed his eyes and put his hand on the head of Nagini, who was looking at him with displeasure.

"Gorby." 

"What can I do for the Lord?" the elf who appeared opposite him asked, looking at Severus with admiration. 

"Find Jose and tell him to stop watching the Black house and take them on," he pointed his finger at the frozen dark wizard, "That's all."

"Yes, Master!" bowing, he immediately disappeared. 

"While he will take care of you, Jose, is a true master of stealth, as well as shadow magic, and you have been in the dungeon for too long and you need to recover,"  and then he looked down at the snake, which was still looking at him with an offended expression, "Today, rest well and tomorrow begin training,clear?"

 What the "boy" was telling him irritated the wizard a little, but he had no choice anyway, and he had chosen this path himself, so it was not for him to complain. 

"Yes, thank you." 

"That's great, you're free, if you need anything, talk to Gorby,"  he nodded silently and left the room rather quickly. 

Yawning again, the young man continued to stroke the snake. "Are you offended by my innocent joke?"

"No!"

"I can tell from your voice," he said lazily,  "How about going somewhere the day after tomorrow as an apology?"  but catching a look that said: "do you think I'm that easy to buy?", his smile became much more playful,  "Okay, then I'll invite Bella, I don't think she'll be p…"

"Manipulator!" she poked him in the side with displeasure, even though she understood that he wasn't serious and just wanted to get her emotional. 

"You're talking," he poked her in the nose with a grin, "But I wasn't joking about a date…"

The snake narrowed her gaze.

"With you, so stop being jealous."

"Hm!" and she turned away again,  "Go already!"

"Okay, okay, I'm leaving, but if anything, I'll save you a place on the bed," winking at her, he disappeared, leaving the maledictus, who began to hiss something "this" and something "that" and was definitely not a wish for "good sleep", but a few minutes later, looking out of the corner of her eye at the TV, Nagini got off the couch and crawled up the stairs 

... And while Severus was sleeping, in two other places there was a discussion of what happened, although they knew that Ichiros was not a simple wizard and even surpassed Dumbledore, but the fact that he would turn out to be such a terrifying wizard, truly shocked everyone and forced them to reconsider some plans, especially this concerned the Ministry of Magic, which had previously thought about trying to pull the old man over to its side through Snape, and Tom, who wanted to increase the number of potions received from the Prince through Bella, temporarily decided to put his plan aside. 

The last thing they both wanted was to quarrel with this monster, or even get involved with him at all, because it was unknown what he had in mind and how he would react to it, the outcome of Amon's meeting with the Death Eaters was proof of that. 

This event did not go beyond the two of them, not counting rumours at the level of tales told while drunk, in some seedy bar. 

The peaceful population of magical Britain remained in the dark, and no one was in a hurry to spread the word...

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The next day and a half, Severus did not leave the room, because as soon as he removed the potion of cheerfulness from his body, all the fatigue fell upon him at once and he fell asleep almost immediately, and to his luck, this time, as if someone from above had taken pity on him, turned out to be very calm. 

Of course, there were guests, among whom were, in addition to Moody, also: Black, Malfoy, Macmillans and Charles, but they behaved quite politely and did not disturb him, but quietly left when they learned that at the moment, the Prince was busy and helping the teacher in one important ritual. 

But besides them, there was another guest who wanted to visit a student of his school and that was Dumbledore, and he was just lucky, he arrived at the time when Severus woke up after a long sleep, already in a much better mood, although the young man was going to turn him away just like the others, but the old man's words that he was able to find the ingredient he needed and perhaps knew where the last one could be made him stop and allow him to enter, and Nagini, who heard this, was especially excited, because this was her chance to become human again...

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