After realizing the problem was his own, Glenn began consciously restraining his aura even more, trying his best to ensure that Euclia wouldn't feel afraid when facing him.
And the facts proved that Glenn's restraint of his aura and Hermione's soothing actions were effective. Of course, there was undoubtedly some influence from the hippogriff Euclia's own determination, but at least when Glenn approached her, Euclia could maintain a normal state.
When Glenn walked near Euclia's alert range, he stopped. He understood this was the limit—if he walked even half a step further inside, the result would only be Euclia attacking him or directly losing control and fleeing.
Then Glenn froze, because one of the prerequisites for establishing a mutual trust relationship with a hippogriff was maintaining constant eye contact.
The problem was that he was still wearing his blindfold, making eye contact impossible under these circumstances.
Glenn could now remove his eyepatch and briefly make eye contact with humans without affecting them, but that was still only brief visual contact.
But what about facing a hippogriff with more acute perception?
Not to mention the eye contact would need to last much longer—Glenn wasn't sure if this would cause any troublesome effects.
This was, after all, Hagrid's first personally taught lesson in his life. If possible, Glenn didn't want to cause some completely avoidable disturbance in his classroom because of himself.
"Are you considering whether to remove your eyepatch?"
Seeing Glenn stop without any reaction or action, Hermione thought for a moment about the current situation and figured out Glenn's thoughts.
"...Yes, because I'm uncertain whether it would become troublesome."
Glenn nodded, agreeing with Hermione's assessment and adding his missing thoughts.
His tone was somewhat hesitant because he felt Hermione seemed to really hope he could also gain Euclia's trust.
Hermione said "Oh," then held her chin with a troubled expression.
What to do? Just giving up this opportunity to ride a hippogriff together with Glenn seemed a bit unwilling, but if something really went wrong, it would be unfair to Hagrid...
Hmm?
"I have an idea."
Hermione snapped her fingers. The troubled expression on her face disappeared, replaced by the confident smile the girl usually wore when solving difficult problems.
"Magical power is absorbed and depleted by things along its transmission path. Since you're worried that direct eye contact with Euclia might be affected by your eyes, why not use an indirect method for eye contact?"
"You mean, like with the basilisk?"
Hermione's reasoning made sense, and Glenn thought it was feasible, so he continued following Hermione's line of thought.
"Exactly, sensory sharing!"
Hermione extended her hand, scratched the feathers on Euclia's neck, then cast one-way sensory sharing on her.
In Euclia's perception, a strange perspective that had never appeared before her eyes emerged. However, she didn't panic too much because she also understood that this special feeling was caused by the human girl beside her.
"Strange, why would I think this?"
In Euclia's immature wisdom, thoughts like this quietly appeared and silently disappeared. In any case, she very naturally accepted the current situation, relaxing her body and mind to see things from Hermione's perspective.
"Hermione, your thinking really is clever."
Glenn sincerely sighed, then removed his eyepatch.
Using himself, who could no longer be affected by Glenn's eyes, as a medium to eliminate the influence that might originally affect Euclia, transmitting normal vision to her—it had to be said, this was a method Glenn admitted he couldn't think of in a short time.
"You just need to think about this kind of thing a bit more to know, and even if you praise me so directly, I won't give you a reward."
Though Hermione said this, she was obviously quite proud now.
Glenn had no intention of continuing to speak. He made eye contact with Hermione, and through this indirectly made eye contact with Euclia, while slightly bowing.
Glenn and Hermione's approach was obviously successful. A few seconds later, Euclia beside Hermione also bent her knees and bowed, trusting Glenn.
"Alright, this child already trusts you. Come quickly and pet her."
Hermione released the sensory sharing, Glenn also put his eyepatch back on, approached the hippogriff, and began stroking Euclia's smooth fur.
Mm, the texture really was good, and his mood became better too.
After signaling Euclia to crouch down a bit more, Hermione gracefully flipped onto Euclia's back, then extended her hand toward Glenn.
"Come, climb up—let's go fly in the sky together for a while~"
Glenn finally discovered what Hermione had been thinking about in her heart—so she was waiting for him here.
Glenn grasped Hermione's hand, borrowed some force, leaped lightly, and also mounted Euclia's back. Looking at his hands and remembering Hagrid's instructions, Glenn chose to embrace Hermione's slender waist, pressing his body against hers.
After pressing close, their originally scattered center of gravity would shift to a more stable place, preventing them from losing balance during flight and having an accident.
"!"
Hermione's delicate body trembled, her small face reddening somewhat. The warm sensation from her waist and back made the girl feel tingly all over, and Glenn pressing his entire body against her from behind nearly made Hermione go weak.
After all, such a situation had never occurred before—even when they hugged and embraced, it was Hermione who held Glenn's waist.
Hiss... How to put it? A bit stimulating, possibly addictive.
"Ah, ahaha, let me control Euclia's flight then—Glenn, you just behave and be a passenger!"
Hermione feigned composure, trying hard to ignore the sensation as she began urging Euclia to run and spread her wings to soar high.
Although Euclia was the youngest among the twelve hippogriffs Hagrid had brought, her physical condition was not inferior to her older companions at all. During the running process, Hermione only felt the wind howling in her ears, which made her bend down and hug Euclia's neck.
Then the girl only felt her body become heavy. Looking up, they had already risen into the sky, and before their eyes was a gradually broadening view and scenery.
Rising from the oppressive edge of the Forbidden Forest to the heights gave one a refreshing sense of sudden enlightenment.
Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. Hermione's movement of sitting up broke her balance with Glenn. The change in scenery before her eyes made her relax, and just then Euclia began to turn. As a result, her body became light, and she was about to fall off the hippogriff.
"Waaah!"
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