Dumbledore, who was in the middle of researching how to juice the golden apple, nearly dropped it on Remus Lupin's face when he heard the explosion.
However, the final result was much the same: juicing the golden apple and feeding it to Remus was meant to wake him up, and the explosion scaring Remus awake also achieved that.
It was a wrong path, but the right outcome.
Dumbledore and Remus Lupin exchanged glances, and the latter asked, "What happened?"
"I don't even need to think to know who caused this," the former silently took a bite of an apple and reluctantly left the Headmaster's office. Remus Lupin, seeing this, quickly followed him.
The two arrived at the Alchemy Professor's office on the south side of the third floor. Upon opening the door and entering, they felt as if they had stepped into a vast plaza.
In terms of area alone, this office should be no smaller than Black Lake.
Dumbledore was momentarily overwhelmed. He quickly used Apparition to leave the interior of the Castle, took a look from outside, and slowly calmed himself down.
Kaisen hadn't gone crazy and made a huge protrusion on the third floor of the south side of Hogwarts Castle; instead, he meticulously expanded from the foundation to the first, second, third, and fourth floors... Fourth floor?
In short, the Castle looked as if it had been expanded, still with black brick walls, matching Hogwarts' original style.
Apparating back inside the Castle, the first floor of this massive new area on the south side of the Castle was left empty by Kaisen.
The second floor, however, had been renovated into a huge classroom, with the sign for the Alchemy classroom already hung up.
There was also a staircase by the podium, leading directly up to the alchemy office on the third floor.
Dumbledore was surprised by Kaisen's civil engineering skills, and then he continued up to the fourth floor... Hmm, the fourth floor wasn't as insane; its area was much smaller than the third floor, just a normal suite for living.
Remus Lupin, who had followed, was also somewhat surprised. The layout was almost identical to 222 Baker Street, with a living room, restroom, study, and bedroom all complete, and even a kitchen and a large balcony.
"Ah… when it comes to enjoying life, I truly feel inferior," Dumbledore sighed.
Soon, Kaisen had the entire wall of the third-floor office protrude slightly to create a massive floor-to-ceiling window, perfectly overlooking the Black Lake, which now resembled a piece of dark jade. He then placed various light fixtures inside the office, and the new office was thus completed.
"How about it? Have you two finished touring my new office? Have you? You?"
Dumbledore smiled helplessly, "An office this big even has an echo."
"It's not bad. I plan to build quite a few things in the office in the future," Kaisen said.
"...It looks pretty good... but you still forgot my Headmaster's office." Dumbledore's voice even had a hint of grievance.
"Next time, definitely next time."
"..."
"Really, definitely, you believe me."
"Hmm, I believe you. I'm going back to sleep. Remus, you should stay at Hogwarts for a while, until the full moon." Dumbledore unsteadily left the alchemy office.
"Me? Where do I stay?" Remus Lupin looked at the departing Dumbledore, then at Kaisen, a bit bewildered.
The latter pointed to the resting area upstairs: "The layout is the same as 222 Baker Street. Go find it yourself."
"Thanks." Remus Lupin walked over and gave Kaisen a big hug.
Come to think of it, this was the first time he had made such a gesture in a long time.
"It's a very ordinary thing. You could even go to the Medical Wing and find a bed for the night."
"It's not just this one thing."
"OK, no more mushy stuff." After sending Remus Lupin upstairs, Kaisen stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing at the moon in the sky.
"Waxing Gibbous, three-quarters full moon."
The knowledge of the moon phase was captured by his monocle and then inserted into his mind.
"It's just a pity that the moon can't be scanned for elements."
Kaisen mumbled, turned around, pulled out a structure workbench and redstone components, and began to make a fully automatic deconstruction machine.
The next day, Remus Lupin descended from the fourth floor in a daze, and then he saw a terrifyingly huge machine.
Even though it was completely encased by a one-meter-thick glass panel, one could still feel a terrifying sense of shock from it.
Kaisen, meanwhile, was sitting in an executive chair in the corner of the office, deeply asleep.
Seeing this, Remus Lupin took out his wand and tapped it. Kaisen floated up and followed him to the second floor. After settling him in the bedroom, Remus Lupin came out again, planning to find something to eat.
Kaisen slept until evening.
"Ugh... my body clock is completely messed up. I can't work overtime tonight. I need a bottle of Life and Death Water."
He walked downstairs in a daze, a smile appearing on his face as he looked at the fully automatic deconstruction machine, which was now complete and continuously producing elements.
It was worth it that he had watched several redstone tutorials before; this was truly a moment of redstone automation's charm.
Walking towards the floor-to-ceiling window, Kaisen looked at the white disc slowly appearing in the east.
"Full Moon."
"Hmm, no rush to sleep yet."
After leaving the Castle, he found Remus Lupin jogging by Black Lake.
"Today is the full moon," Kaisen said.
Remus Lupin turned around, his expression a little tense.
However, this was only natural, just like the moment test papers are handed out: good students wonder if they got a hundred or ninety-nine.
Average students wonder if they got eighty or sixty.
And poor students wonder if their score will be single-digit or double-digit.
In short, before the scores are revealed, no matter what kind of student, they all feel that inexplicable fear.
It's just that the source of the fear is different.
"I thought it would be a few more days... I kind of forgot," Remus Lupin said, scratching his head awkwardly after calming himself down.
"Because we were in Brazil before, and now we're in England, the full moon is earlier," Kaisen walked over and sat down beside Remus Lupin, looking at Black Lake with him.
"Yes, it's coming soon... very soon... Oh, by the way, Kaisen, stay away from me. What if... uh, it's not that I don't trust you, it's just that if my lycanthropy hasn't been completely eliminated, it wouldn't be good if I accidentally hurt you," Remus Lupin said.
"There's no need for that. I have one hundred percent confidence in my own craftsmanship."
Although Kaisen said this, Remus Lupin still subtly moved a little further away from Kaisen, and very meticulously sat on his hands.
This would cause him to instinctively lose his balance when transforming into a Werewolf, at least giving Kaisen time to draw his wand.
Soon, the sun completely set, and the silvery-white full moon hung high in the sky.
Remus Lupin tilted his head back, staring blankly at the moon, a tear silently slipping from the corner of his eye.
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