[You should call me Dad, not Mom…] Sithrak patiently turned its head to educate, [Also, Cohen is your brother…]
Then, Sithrak turned to the two black-clad figures, who were as still as statues:
[So, you're the ones who snuck into my son's room in the middle of the night, huh?]
The two Muggles obviously couldn't understand Parseltongue. All they knew was that they were being stared at by a terrifying giant snake, so big it could swallow a grown man whole without even pausing, and that this snake had menacingly opened its mouth slightly.
"Run!" A said after a few seconds of stunned silence, immediately pulling B and running outside.
But they turned their heads and bumped into a large, furry, slightly slimy, smelly, and sulfurous thing – strangely, there was clearly nothing in front of them.
Just as the two men pulled their faces out of the invisible mane, the air in front of them slowly began to distort, and a lion with a golden mane appeared before them, drool practically reaching the ground.
"Roar!" The lion couldn't wait to pounce on the two men, licking one of their faces fiercely with its tongue.
"Aaaaaahhhhh—hisss—owww—ummmph…"
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A screamed in pain and fear, but his scream was quickly cut off by the lion's slimy and extremely hot saliva stuffing his throat.
"Wait… wait for Cohen to come…"
The black goat held back the lion, preventing it from giving in to its appetite and biting off the heads of these two intruders.
"Roar…" The lion let out a pitiful whimper because the hair on the back of its head had been pulled painfully. The meat that was so close to its mouth was gone just like that.
[Looks like Muggles.] The long-horned water snake said, [Didn't sense any magic on them.]
"Blegh…" A immediately rolled over after the lion's paw moved away, wriggling his throat and spitting mucus onto the ground. After spitting out most of it, the cuts on his face, which felt like they were being scraped by barbs, made him cry out uncontrollably, "Aaaaaahhhhh!!!"
B, who had been spared by the lion's single tongue, directly chose to play dead. Even though the lion's right paw had moved away, he still lay motionless on the ground.
"What's with blocking the doorway?" Cohen walked over slowly, still wearing his pajamas. "Did you guys eat them?"
"Roar!" The lion happily lunged towards Cohen, but Cohen skillfully dodged.
After the lion moved aside, Cohen saw one guy screaming while clutching his bloody face, and another idiot lying on the ground playing dead.
"Episkey." Cohen flicked his wand at the thief clutching his face.
The bloody marks on his face were healing rapidly. The burning pain disappeared. A touched his now-healed face in disbelief and looked at Cohen gratefully.
But unfortunately, Cohen had a look of toying with prey on his face.
"It's past twelve o'clock, you know," Cohen blinked. "Merry Christmas."
"Ah? Mer, Merry Christmas…" A's eyes darted back and forth between the now-calm lion and Cohen – he didn't dare look at the snake in the house behind him anymore because these animals didn't seem like anything normal.
They had only seen the lion's front up close just now. Now that the lion was much further away from them, he clearly saw the pitch-black goat head growing out of the lion's back and the tail made of a bizarre long-horned snake.
This wasn't the territory of some perverted murderer; they had stumbled into a monster's den…
"I swear to God, we're really not bad people!"
A and B were tied to two trees in the woods. The unicorns had long since run far away – because these two men were full of malicious intent.
Cohen interrogated them with Sithrak, the Chimera, and the little Dementor, Mirk – because the little Basilisk and the lion really wanted an extra meal. If they were really going to have an extra meal, Cohen planned to let Mirk eat some too.
Consider it… repaying a favor to the Dementors next to the school? After all, Mirk had been in Azkaban for quite a while and was considered an adopted child by those old Dementors…
It was too messy. Cohen didn't want to think about it anymore. Any ethical relationship would become strange if it involved him.
"Really?" Cohen looked at the two Muggle petty thieves with a skeptical expression. "If you're not bad people, then I have nothing to talk to you about, because I am a bad person."
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A and B both looked at this seemingly small boy with incomprehension.
"I only work with people who can make money for me. Good people can't make much money," Cohen said coldly. "People with no value… I'll give the trash to them to eat."
The little Basilisk cooperatively opened its mouth wide, letting out an eager hiss – of course, this might not have been cooperation; it might have just been that it wanted to eat.
"We are bad people! Very bad people!" A said quickly. "We steal things! We can help you steal a lot of money!"
"And kidnapping!" B looked fearfully at the two terrifying giant snakes. "We can help you kidnap the children of rich people – and then make them pay ransom…"
"You guys don't seem very skilled," Cohen said distrustfully.
"We've succeeded many times!" A said eagerly. "Stole several thousand pounds! And even successfully kidnapped a child – you might have even heard of it – the Webster family on the next street…"
They really had kidnapped a child…
[Cohen, can I bite them to death?]
Sithrak's calm tone carried a surging anger, unrelated to empathy for humans, but because "kidnapping children" reminded it of some bad things.
It had never proactively attacked humans before, but this time it couldn't help itself.
[Wait until I'm done asking questions. You can bite as many times as you want.] Cohen replied.
"Oh, oh, oh."
Cohen said to the two men,
"Alright, then why did you come to my house?"
"To steal money…?" B said.
"We came to steal money," A quickly added.
"You humans always like to take chances…" Cohen shook his head with a cold face. "You're about to die. What's the point of covering up for an 'informant' who's using you?"
"Legilimens." Cohen drew his wand and sent a blue spell towards him.
Large swathes of memories flooded out. Since he was a Muggle, A's memories had no defenses at all.
Cohen found the person who told these two petty thieves that "the family at Number 4, Privet Drive has millions of pounds in cash and never locks their doors." It was a young man with a gloomy face. Cohen saw the silver key necklace around his neck.
And both thieves had been placed under a Confundus Charm by that young man to make them believe the information they were given was "correct" – why would the silver key lure two Muggles to Cohen's house to steal money?
Everyone knew that these ordinary Muggle thieves couldn't steal anything useful from a wizard…
An impossible plan, so the purpose of the plan couldn't be "to steal things."