Chapter 23: The Black Robed Man in the Tavern with His Pig Head (Ch 23)

“Hey Hagrid! I knew you were here!” Kaisen greeted Hagrid who was fertilizing the pumpkin.

“Kayson! How’s your job as a professor? Are the little wizards very naughty?” Hagrid responded, straightening up.

“That’s not the case. To be honest, the little wizards who taught me alchemy were all pretty good. By the way, are you free today?”

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“So…to be honest, you might as well drink in your cabin. It’s a bit too dirty here.” In the Pig’s Head Tavern, Kaisen kept wiping the table in front of him with a handkerchief with some disgust. As for the wine glasses, he brought his own.

“Don’t worry about these details. Drinking is all about the atmosphere here, and we can drink to our heart’s content without worrying about encountering danger like in other places. The boss here is a powerful and scary wizard, and no one dares to cause trouble in his place.” Hagrid said comfortingly.

“Well, you won’t remember these things if you drink too much.” Kaisen picked up the whiskey on the table and poured it into his own glass. He clinked the glass with Hagrid and poured it into his mouth.

“Eh? I don’t feel as dizzy as last time. It seems that I have made considerable progress in my alcohol tolerance.”

“Of course. I didn’t enjoy myself enough when I drank with others before, and they just lay on the ground. Only you can drink on par with me… But I remember you said last time that if you keep drinking, you are a dog?” Hagrid scratched his head and said.

“Oh…did I say that?”

Hagrid rolled his eyes. “No, you didn’t say that. I remembered it wrong!”

“That’s right!” Kaisen picked up the wine glass and clinked it with Hagrid again, but this time he felt a little dizzy.

Gradually, he could no longer count how many bottles of whiskey there were in front of his table. Of course, there was not only whiskey, but also various distilled liquors used as base liquors, such as vodka, gin, brandy, tequila, etc., which filled the table in front of them.

And of course the surrounding floor.

A figure in a black robe with an unclear face was considering where to stay and finally sat down.

“You two? Would you mind having a drink together?” the man in black robe said in a low voice.

“I mind it very much.” Kaisen shook his head.

“Well, do you mind making a bet? I have the money. Look at this huge thing! I won it from someone else. This is a huge dragon egg!”

The moment he heard about the dragon eggs, Hagrid, who was originally drowsy, suddenly became half awake, but only half.

“What do you want to bet on?”

“Actually, I know you, Hagrid, the gamekeeper at Hogwarts. I heard that you are very knowledgeable about magical creatures. I happen to have a three-headed dog, but it seems a little too excited. I want to know what I should do to calm it down. If your method works, this dragon egg will be yours.” said the man in black robe.

“This is easy. The three-headed dog loves music very much. You just need to play some soothing music for him and he will calm down until he falls asleep. I recommend the harp. The three-headed dog particularly likes that kind of music.”

Kaisen leaned on the wine bottle and looked at the man in black robe beside him. For some reason, he always felt that there was something wrong with him.

But because of his alcohol-induced brain he couldn’t react, what was the problem?

Forget it, who cares!

He poured himself another glass of wine and drank it down in one gulp. Soon the man in black robe handed the dragon egg to Hagrid and looked at himself who was in a daze.

“Professor Kaisen, seriously, you have been in the limelight recently. I heard that you have made a lot of alchemical creations using a red stone that you refined yourself?”

Kaisen burped and recalled, well, he did use redstone to make an advanced version of the alchemical induction cooker for Snape.

“Yeah, what’s wrong?”

“Don’t get me wrong, this is just a small request. I made a small device based on the redstone theory you taught in sixth grade. However, I accidentally arranged the route wrong when I was arranging the circuit. I don’t know which one is the real switch. What should I do?” the black-robed man asked softly.

“Where did you get the redstone?”

“A sixth grade student gave it to me, saying it was a product of their professor’s alchemy and asked me to treasure it.”

“I see. Just cut off the main redstone route and connect the redstone blocks to the main redstone route.”

“So simple?”

“Haven’t you learned runes? They are similar in pattern?”

Kaisen’s confused mind had almost figured out who the man in black robe was.

If he only asked Hagrid questions about the three-headed dog, then it is possible that he really did happen to have a three-headed dog.

But as luck would have it, he also asked himself about the redstone. The three-headed dog plus the redstone, anyway, he didn’t think there was such a coincidence in the world. From this, it can be concluded that the man in black robe is most likely Quirrell.

But this was just right, because Dumbledore had previously asked him to tell Quirrell how to pass through the piston door in a clever way, and he was wondering how he should tell him.

As a result, a pillow is given to me when I feel sleepy. Isn’t that just perfect?

“Thank you both. By the way, Hagrid, this dragon egg is for you.” The man in black robe, or Quirrell, left the dragon egg on the table and left the Hog’s Head Tavern.

“Haha, Kaisen! I didn’t expect that we would get such a big surprise when we come out to drink, a dragon egg! Haha!” Hagrid was originally laughing as he held the dragon egg in his arms, but he stopped laughing immediately when he saw Kaisen who was constantly pouring wine into his mouth.

“Am I a bit of a fish farmer?”

“What do you think?”

“Sorry, sorry, let’s have a drink!”

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the next day……

“The total is 29 gold Galleons plus 6 silver Sickles. I’ll round off the number and give you 30 gold Galleons.” The old man with a goatee said in a flat tone.

Kaisen’s action of taking out money froze, apparently he was stunned by the reverse rounding operation.

But he didn’t have much objection to this. He and Hagrid slept in the pub all night yesterday and occupied the table until this morning, which did delay other people’s business.

Moreover, the two of them did not miss anything after sleeping for a night. From dragon eggs to galleons, they spent a whole night in a crowded tavern.

With security at this level, it wouldn’t be a big deal to give him one more Galleon.

“Thirty Galleons, would you like to count?” Kaisen took out thirty Galleons and placed them on the bar.

“No need.” After the old man collected all the gallons, he stood back and continued to wipe his dirty wine glass with his dirty rag.