The Admiral of Hogwarts

Rewinding time to five minutes prior, just after Hugo, panting, met up with Veneto at the entrance of the school infirmary, Enterprise's amplified voice echoed through the corridor.

“Enterprise has engaged the enemy. If we're discovered here by a professor, we'll definitely be dragged back to the common room.” Looking at the empty corridor, Veneto suddenly became anxious. “We have to find a place to hide.”

“This way—” Hugo pulled Veneto towards a closet diagonally opposite the infirmary entrance. After opening the wooden door, the two of them hid inside and closed the door.

In the corner of the closet were a mop, a few rags, and a galvanized iron bucket. It seemed to be where Filch usually kept his cleaning tools.

Fortunately, these items were only piled in the corner, leaving most of the closet space empty and large enough for Hugo and Veneto to stay inside.

“Let me tell you, among all the battleship sisters, only I can squeeze in here with you.” Veneto, who was almost pressed against Hugo after they barely squeezed into the closet, said with a proud look.

“Whether it's Saint George, or Repulse, or Renown, they definitely couldn't enter this place to protect your safety at close range right now.”

“—Ah, that's good.” The topic was slightly awkward, so Hugo thought for a long time before managing to squeeze out a not-too-impolite response.

In the following period, the two of them heard the sound of Professor McGonagall leading a group of students back to the common room from the large staircase not far away.

Obviously, for the professors, the most important thing at this time was to ensure the safety of the students, rather than killing or driving away the Basilisk, so they were busy evacuating the students instead of going to support Enterprise.

Of course, besides protecting the students, there was another important reason why they didn't go to support Enterprise: Enterprise had only notified them, but hadn't asked for help.

Considering Enterprise's background as an elite Auror from the Magical Congress of the United States, the professors naturally assumed that she could hold off the Basilisk alone and buy time for everyone.

“Someone's coming.” Not long after the group of students left, Veneto suddenly became alert, and Hugo also felt her entire body tense up.

However, strangely, through the crack in the broken wooden door of the closet, Hugo didn't see anyone passing by in the corridor.

But a few seconds later, Hugo, whose body had been strengthened, heard very faint footsteps coming from the corridor. The walker had obviously noticed it, but the structure of the corridor amplified the sound of the footsteps.

“I'll go out and attack first, you act according to the situation.” Veneto instructed Hugo through the Admiral Network, and then, when the footsteps reached near the closet, she suddenly pushed the door open and rushed out.

Bang!

With Veneto's forceful push, one of the closet doors flew directly off the frame and smashed towards the place where the footsteps came from. Then, Veneto swung a keris in her hand and stabbed out from behind the door.

Bang, crash, ah—

After a burst of noise, a short figure appeared from the air, clutching its right arm with its left hand. Drops of blood were seeping from the place the figure's left hand was clutching and dripping onto the ground.

“When did Ravenclaw students become so vicious?” The figure raised its head, revealing the face of Hannah Abbott.

However, at this time, her eyes had changed from blue to black, with no warmth inside, just like her tone of voice.

Obviously, the being in front of them shouldn't be the real Hannah Abbott, but Voldemort's diary borrowing her body.

Otherwise, a second-year student could never have directly shattered the closet door in Veneto's surprise attack, and then blocked her fatal blow to her spleen.

“This is the entrance of the school infirmary, even if a knife is stabbed into the heart, Madam Pomfrey can save you.” Veneto smiled. “Besides, it feels a bit comical to hear the word 'vicious' coming from your mouth.”

“It seems, you recognize—Avada Kedavra!” Tom Riddle said as if in ordinary conversation, but halfway through his words, he suddenly raised his injured right hand and released the Killing Curse at Veneto.

Bang! With a loud crash, the green light didn't hit Veneto, but hit a stone wall that suddenly rose up.

At the same time, several gray crystals the size of bottle caps fell to the ground around Tom Riddle with a clatter and turned into powder. Then, one sharp stalagmite after another, as long as an arm, emerged from the floor and shot towards him.

Damn it! Riddle cursed softly, but he could only change the target of the magic in his hand from Veneto to the surrounding stalagmites.

After all, he was only borrowing Hannah's body now, and couldn't be as smooth as he was in his own body. And these stalagmites, which looked as thick as arms, could cause him fatal damage if even one hit him.

But at this time, Veneto, who had been keeping in contact with Hugo through the Admiral Network, suddenly seized the opportunity. She suddenly jumped up, forcibly tore a cast iron torch holder from the wall, and smashed it at Riddle.

Seeing Veneto's actions, Riddle had to dodge the fist-sized cast iron frame in a very embarrassing posture.

As a result, the cast iron frame, like a black light, brushed past her with a whooshing sound and smashed into the ground, creating a pit the size of a washbasin.

“Damn it!” Looking at the washbasin-sized pit, Riddle felt cold sweat break out all over his body. Because he realized that Veneto didn't seem to be as cautious as she had said before, but every move was aimed at killing.

From a certain point of view, Voldemort's feeling wasn't wrong. For ship girls, the safety of the Admiral is the most important thing when going out on missions with the Admiral, and ship girls don't care about the lives of others.

And this also hit Riddle's weakness at once, because he believed that his current advantages were only two. One of them was that after being attached to someone else's body, he had extremely strong concealment and was basically impossible to be discovered.

And the other was that even if he was discovered, his current situation of being attached to someone else's body would make the wizard who was his opponent hesitate for fear of hurting the innocent.

But now, these two advantages had completely disappeared in the face of Veneto. Being able to ambush and block people in this place showed that Veneto had already seen through his identity, and now her every move showed that she didn't care about the lives of innocents at all.

So, Riddle was really scared now. Because as the murderer who killed his father and grandfather's family back then, he could clearly see that Veneto wasn't bluffing, but really didn't care about human life.

But in battle, any distraction can become a fatal problem. Just as Riddle was shocked by Veneto's reckless fighting style, Hugo successfully seized the opportunity to throw three runestones at his feet.

In an instant, the stone floor under Riddle's feet turned into a quagmire, causing him to stagger and the magic he was preparing in his hand to be interrupted.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Veneto immediately stepped forward and violently grabbed Hannah's chest and abdomen from top to bottom. Riddle, who couldn't dodge, immediately had a huge tear in his robe.

Then, a black-covered book fell out of the tear. Hannah's eyes rolled back, and she fell backward.