Late at night...
The scaffolding and the covering cloth outside the house had been removed, and Kayson was leisurely sitting on the fabric sofa in the living room on the first floor, watching TV.
As for the others, they were still using small brushes and paints to draw patterns on the wallpaper.
"Professor, are you really just going to watch us paint over a thousand square meters of wallpaper?" Neville's head suddenly popped out from the stairwell.
"Otherwise, what? The floors, wallpaper, furniture, carpets, decorations, even the appliances and pots in the kitchen of this house were all handled by me. It's very fair for you to paint the wallpaper... And you can even ask Sirius for wages... Remember to charge by the square meter."
Kayson waved his hand, and the potato chips from the shopping bag in the corner flew into his hand. Within the magic field amplified by the amplification skeleton, the potato chips very sensibly lined up and flew into Kayson's mouth.
The next day...
Kayson, who reappeared at Sirius's doorstep, pushed open the door, then used a magic field to place each of the Little Wizards into their own rooms... In fact, there were no allocated rooms; Kayson just used a rather crude method of 'boys in one room, girls in another' to put them into their rooms.
As for Sirius... there was nothing he could do. He forgot to buy bedding yesterday. Currently, there were only two habitable rooms: Hermione in one, the other three Little Wizards in another, plus Sirius. It was indeed a tight squeeze.
After placing the breakfast bought on the way in the dining room, he picked up a paintbrush from the floor and began to finish the wallpapering project that the five of them hadn't completed last night.
Noon...
As one of the Little Wizards sat up blankly and yawned, a chain reaction caused the other two in the room to wake up. Then, the chain reaction in the room caused Hermione next door and Sirius on the sofa downstairs to also sit up from their beds, looking bewildered.
The other one fell off the sofa.
Then, with expressions like someone had died, they returned to the second floor. Just as they picked up their paintbrushes, they saw that all the unfinished wallpaper on the second floor from last night had been completed.
"Oh... Thank Merlin." Sirius breathed a sigh of relief. The next moment, Kayson, who had just finished washing the paint off in the bathroom, walked out, unceremoniously wiping the water with Sirius's clothes while giving him an elbow jab.
"You shouldn't be thanking Merlin, but me."
Sirius quickly chuckled, "Yes, yes, that's exactly what I was thinking."
"There's breakfast downstairs for you... though it should probably be called lunch... Remember to heat it up with a spell or a microwave."
"Will do, will do." Sirius quickly agreed, then he suddenly seemed to remember something and said to the Little Wizards, "I'll give you money later. We'll take you to Diagon Alley, and you can have a good time there for a day. Kayson and I need to go to Romania to catch Lupin and urge him to take leave quickly."
"No problem." Neville nodded while gulping down cold milk.
Hearing the sound, Kayson also came downstairs, "What's wrong, isn't Lupin coming?"
"He said there's too much going on at the Dragon Reserve," Sirius explained.
"A joke. Does he think we're discussing this with him?"
The Little Wizards, listening to Kayson's bandit-like rhetoric, couldn't help but swallow, "Professor, aren't you a bit too extreme?"
Kayson reversed the Little Wizards' thoughts with just one question: "If the four of you agreed to go out and play, but one person couldn't make it, what would you do?"
"Curse that person and then rush into his house and drag him out by force!" Ron said without thinking.
And Harry, who had just been the one dragged out before, also nodded in agreement.
"Then, Professor, I wish you success. Hurry and bring Professor Lupin back," Neville also said.
"Hmm..." Hermione slurped her milk.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill... well, the amount of breakfast for these people who hadn't eaten all morning and noon couldn't really be called 'eaten and drunk their fill'; at most, it was an appetizer.
But still, after they had eaten and drunk their fill, Kayson directly used Ender Teleportation to bring them to Diagon Alley. Sirius took out four bags from behind him.
"Here are four hundred Galleons, one hundred Galleons each. Buy whatever you like, and the rest is for pocket money. If it's not enough, just sign an IOU in the name of the House of Black, and I'll settle up when I get back."
The Little Wizards, especially Ron, looked at Sirius as if he were a close family member.
Meanwhile, Kayson was pondering whether he should conjure a small airplane to go to Romania this time, or use Ender Teleportation to Romania. However, he quickly made a decision.
Dumbledore's informant 2.0, Lucius Malfoy, had already revealed the latest movements of the Death Eaters. This meant that Lord Voldemort, even if not fully resurrected, had successfully contacted a Death Eater. At such a time, these Little Wizards would not encounter danger in Diagon Alley during the day.
However, at night, let alone going home, even staying at the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley would not be safe. After all, Old Tom is a master at bartending, but his magic... while not weak, it would be difficult for him to even make a loud sound before dying in front of those top Death Eaters skilled in Dark Arts.
On the other side, after Sirius had distributed the Galleons to the Little Wizards, Kayson said no more. He directly enveloped Sirius in a force field and arrived at the entrance of the Romania Dragon Reserve.
The two arrived at the guardhouse, knocked on the door, and after registering inside, walked into the interior of the Dragon Reserve. The Wizard at the guardhouse even specifically pointed out Lupin's likely location to them.
As the two walked through the grounds of the Dragon Reserve, a strange sensation suddenly came over them, like an electric arc flowing into Kayson's body, then lighting up the small light bulb in his head at a forty-five-degree upward angle.
"Sirius... I have a plan!"
-------------------------------
I've already uploaded 40 chapters of this story on Patreon!
If you enjoy it, come check out the latest chapters in advance.
Here's the link:
[pat*eon*com/DaoistRoeoNQ]
Thank you so much for your support!!!
"And If you're enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!"