10. Suspicious Alby

"Didn't that old man leave some food for me? Even though I was sure that he saw me and ignored me like I wasn't here," said Lolita with an annoyed face. She looked at the food drawers in the dining room and there wasn't a single food left there. Lolita's stomach rumbled several times because she was very hungry, she didn't understand why Professor Pilius was punishing her stomach too not to eat when she could have died if she didn't eat. "Are you looking for food? I left this for you," Yuri said when everyone was not in the dining room and was doing outdoor activities because it was break time. Lolita was surprised by Yuri's appearance in the midst of her dilemma. Her face seemed to indicate that he was surprised.

"I don't need your food, besides you must have poisoned the food and gave it to me. You are a bad boy," said Lolita then threw the food Yuri handed her. Yuri saw the cake he left for Lolita fell on the floor and it made her sad. Yuri didn't mean to be mean to Lolita, he just wanted to give Lolita some food because he knew Professor Pilius didn't leave any food in Hankey Pankey's dormitory.

Secretly from a distance Professor Pilius saw Yuri who was being rude by Lolita. The little boy seemed to be cleaning the floor so as not to leave dirty traces on the dining room floor. "Yuri is a good kid, I don't know what will happen if Lolita fights Yuri. That little boy must just be silent until Lolita's magic takes him away," said Professor Pilius with a disappointed face at Lolita's very rude attitude as a girl. Professor Pilius stepped closer to Yuri then put on a surprised face so that Yuri wouldn't know that he was stalking Yuri and Lolita all along.

"What are you doing here? All your friends are in the garden practicing the magic I taught you." Professor Pilius said that seriously making Yuri turn her head then shake her head slowly.

"Professor, you're punishing Lolita, right? You can punish her, but isn't it too much to leave her hungry in the room? You can be sued too and Hankey Pankey dormitory can be closed because you let a child starve to death," said Yuri, who looked displeased with Professor Pilius's attitude of letting Lolita starve without any food in her room.

"Who let her starve? Look at room number thirteen, I have given him a lot of food, but on the condition that she is not allowed to wander around again until her sentence is over," said Professor Pilius making Yuri

surprised then he ran away from Professor Pilius to dorm room number thirteen to prove the Professor's words. Sure enough, when Yuri saw Lolita's room, she saw that the girl seemed to be eating various delicious foods and Lolita's room was completely full of food. "Wow, Professor Pilius must have conjured this especially for Lolita. Thankfully, I'm relieved that the girl won't starve to death," Yuri muttered then left the room. Yuri ran into the garden where Alby and the others were practicing the magic that Professor Pilius had taught him.

"Hey, where have you been? Break time is almost over and you just appeared here," said Alby while pointing his wand at Yuri making Yuri walk far above the ground alias he was lifted up without realizing it because Alby pointed the wand at Yuri.

"Hah! I can use the magic the Professor taught me!" Alby shrieked with a happy face after his fiftieth attempt and finally succeeded because Yuri was nearby helping her focus. "Put me down, idiot!" Yuri shouted who was already scared because he couldn't get down. Alby laughed then put Yuri down like before making Yuri breathe a sigh of relief then took his wand and told Alby to teach him because he didn't come to class this morning.

Alby turned his wand at something, but it didn't lift which made him feel frustrated even though he had been able to lift Yuri.

"Oh, I don't know. Looks like I'm still not proficient in using the magic given by the Professor, look when you were able to lift because of me and now I can't lift things anymore," said Alby feeling confused and thought that he had no talent at all.

"You must pretend you can't, come on teach me magic. I should be able to look better than Lolita," Yuri pleaded to Alby. Alby sighed then shook his head quickly at Yuri making Yuri feel frustrated. Begging Professor Pilius also seemed pointless as Professor Pilius wouldn't teach him specifically as a warning so that no one would skip bewitching class even once. "Ah, I thought you were a friend, it turns out—" Yuri's words were cut off because Alby immediately covered the boy's mouth so as not to continue their conversation.

"Shut up, you can't call us friends in the Hankey Pankey area. I don't want to be bullied by Lolita, that little girl will definitely bully me if she knows I'm your best friend," said Alby as if he was afraid that he would get into trouble with Lolita, Alby didn't want to run away from his status as Yuri's best friend. However, it made him uncomfortable and not focus on learning magic.

"Doesn't he know that we are friends?" Yuri asked feeling confused because previously Lolita looked at herself and Alby with displeased faces, according to Yuri, it was because Lolita knew she and Alby were best friends. "Yeah, of course he doesn't know. Don't you know that Lolita doesn't catch on quickly and understand what people are talking about? It's common knowledge that Lolita has a brain like a grandmother who doesn't catch on quickly and there is an interesting fact that Lolita is a dwarf grandmother who can't grow according to her age, she just looks like a child. However, he is no longer a child," said Alby, who had started to know more about Lolita. Yuri was wide-eyed at the words of his best friend, he didn't know Alby knew so much about Lolita's secrets that no one else knew. "You can know all of Lolita's secrets, don't say that you have become a good friend of the girl," said Yuri who was suspicious of Alby's recent behavior who knew a lot about Lolita even though everyone in the dormitory never knew Lolita's identity. apart from that he came from a poor family, it was because Lolita admitted that in front of Professor Pilius and also the other children when they took room number thirteen.