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Seeing his brilliant younger brother completely show that highly specific, calculating corporate smile again, Sirius completely, entirely felt a massive, profound warmth in his Gryffindor heart. He absolutely already had a highly rough, tactical guess about exactly what massive, highly illegal operation Regulus was actively going to completely pull off today, after all, they had been highly suspiciously, intensely wandering completely around this highly specific area of London for the past few freezing days.
Although he was absolutely, mathematically greatly puzzled by the exact tactical objective, this highly confusing lack of intelligence completely did not physically prevent him from entirely, fully supporting his younger brother's massive, highly adventurous tactical plan.
Even his completely loyal, best Gryffindor friend James Potter was exactly the highly same—
"Here's the highly classified Invisibility Cloak directly for you—" James completely, happily stuffed the incredibly smooth, silky fabric of the legendary Invisibility Cloak he was physically holding tightly directly into Regulus's open arms, his hazel eyes completely sparkling with sheer, unadulterated excitement, "It's an absolute, highly massive good thing I completely managed to come—you two highly arrogant Slytherins absolutely shouldn't even mathematically think of completely leaving me entirely out of such a highly fun, deeply illegal thing!"
"Thanks completely, man!" Regulus smiled warmly and highly smoothly extended his right fist, highly lightly, perfectly bumping it directly against James's.
Originally, Regulus absolutely just wanted to highly quietly, politically borrow the legendary Invisibility Cloak from James, but the highly competitive James had violently, strongly insisted entirely on actively participating completely in their massive "adventure". James was entirely, completely willing to illegally Floo directly from his highly secure home completely to Diagon Alley incredibly early on freezing New Year's morning, and then actively, highly aggressively rush completely all the highly long Muggle way entirely from Diagon Alley to Westminster.
Highly analytically considering that highly restricted, traced Little Wizards completely absolutely couldn't mathematically legally use any magic casually entirely outside of the highly secure school wards, and he completely, indeed highly urgently needed absolutely trustworthy, highly capable physical help to pull this off, Regulus simply, logically went entirely with the corporate flow and highly officially included the highly capable James directly in the tactical operation.
"We absolutely, fundamentally must be incredibly, highly cautious today! This is absolutely not a highly safe, controlled adventure inside the school. I've highly mathematically calculated that this specific time, we've absolutely probably already violently, highly legally violated at least exactly seven or eight completely different, highly strict regulations of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Magic—" Regulus smiled completely, highly smoothly beginning the highly formal pre-operation corporate mobilization, "Not to completely even legally mention potentially breaking the absolute, fundamental International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy."
He completely blinked his dark eyes—the incredibly, highly serious, CEO way he actively talked about aggressively, violently breaking the absolute law successfully made the two highly reckless Little Lions immediately smile completely knowingly.
Highly tactically pointing entirely directly to the massive, highly guarded Westminster Palace sitting completely not far away, Regulus smoothly continued, "As I highly explicitly said in my coded letter, the absolute, highly most important tactical thing we mathematically absolutely need to be incredibly careful of today is the Muggles. The physical security guards highly stationed here are absolutely, completely true, highly trained military elites."
Sirius and James both immediately, highly completely nodded quite incredibly seriously. They had absolutely both just completely, highly terrifyingly seen the absolute, lethal kinetic power of modern Muggle weapons yesterday, and they absolutely, fundamentally definitely did entirely not physically want to highly aggressively have absolutely any violent conflict completely with the highly trained London security guards heavily equipped entirely with assault rifles and sidearms.
"Also," Regulus highly smoothly added, pointing up, "you two completely also absolutely need to be incredibly, highly careful of the massive, rotating Muggle surveillance CCTV cameras."
"Okay, completely understood. I've completely, flawlessly memorized the highly complex Muggle map you explicitly sent us," James's hazel eyes completely lit up even vastly more with the tactical challenge.
"Of absolute course, if there entirely, completely really is a highly massive, dangerous situation where we absolutely have to actively, illegally use combat magic—it will entirely, completely absolutely fall all on me! You two—" Regulus gave his absolute, final corporate instructions, his tone completely brokering absolutely zero argument, "Must absolutely just physically run entirely away as incredibly fast as you physically can."
"How on earth can we...?" James completely, immediately became highly, violently anxious, his Gryffindor pride flaring, "We absolutely, mathematically can't completely just cowardly leave you completely behind in a fight..."
"You are entirely, completely all physically here strictly to actively help me with the logistics, and I am absolutely, fundamentally fully entirely responsible for this corporate operation." Regulus looked entirely, highly steadily completely directly at James and smiled highly slightly, his dark eyes completely cold. "If absolutely something completely goes physically wrong, I will absolutely, naturally bear the entire, absolute legal responsibility!"
This incredibly calm and terrifyingly, completely confident corporate demeanor completely, instantly almost physically made the highly arrogant James completely freeze for a few silent seconds. He completely nodded incredibly solemnly, secretly, violently vowing in his Gryffindor heart to absolutely be extremely, highly careful and completely absolutely not politically cause his friend Regulus to completely end up entirely in the freezing cells of Azkaban.
"If absolutely something completely unexpected happens, we will absolutely also immediately, violently summon Kreacher to extract us," Regulus looked completely directly at Sirius.
Sirius completely nodded instantly in absolute confirmation, "Okay, agreed. If the highly tactical situation is absolutely not physically right, Kreacher will immediately Apparate us safely completely out."
They absolutely possessed the absolute best, highly capable (and incredibly racist) house-elf in the entire world completely acting as their absolute, flawless tactical backup—highly speaking of which, if he historically completely absolutely hadn't tragically drunk Voldemort's highly lethal, agonizing poison in the cave in the original timeline, Kreacher might have absolutely lived highly comfortably entirely to 999 years old, or entirely even completely reached four digits.
"Okay. Let's absolutely, successfully test the heavily encrypted revealing paper communicator completely exactly one more time."
"Okay... highly right... let's absolutely go completely over the entire tactical process exactly one more time..."
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The three highly capable, fully armed Little Wizards completely, highly carefully checked absolutely all the logistical details, and absolutely everything was completely physically ready.
Regulus highly smoothly led them completely to an entirely unsupervised, dark stone corner and highly gently draped the legendary, shimmering cloak completely entirely over his own body. In an absolute, perfect instant, his physical figure entirely, completely flawlessly disappeared completely from human view.
He smoothly took out his highly polished racing broomstick from his pocket, thought highly analytically for a tense moment, and then highly cautiously completely put the wood entirely back directly in his expanded pocket. No cheating.
"Let's go."
The three highly coordinated boys completely, smoothly came to the massive New Palace Yard located directly on the highly secure northwest side of Westminster Palace, and the highly towering, massive clock tower completely stood entirely directly between this sprawling courtyard and the massive, freezing River Thames.
In this specific era, it was absolutely, completely still entirely open completely to the mundane public.
What the highly lucky, completely oblivious Regulus absolutely didn't highly mathematically know was that exactly in a few short six months, completely infiltrating this highly secure place would absolutely mathematically not be exactly so incredibly easy—because the highly violent Irish Republican Army would violently, terrifyingly throw absolutely twenty heavy pounds of massive, highly lethal explosives directly into Westminster Hall, and the physical security of Westminster Palace would completely be highly, massively, aggressively increased by the government.
"Wait entirely for my highly specific message. I'll completely leave the absolute rest of the highly complex logistics entirely completely to you two!"
"Okay," the two highly loyal Little Lions completely nodded exactly simultaneously to the empty air.
Then, Sirius highly smoothly, casually took out a steaming Muggle hot dog and hot coffee directly from his expanded pocket, completely, highly leisurely sat directly on the freezing Portland stone bench situated completely directly by the manicured lawn, and highly casually, heavily observed the highly complex surrounding security situation entirely out of the sharp corner of his grey eye.
The physical view here was completely, incredibly open, and the freezing, bare lime and catalpa trees entirely provided highly little to absolutely no physical tactical cover.
James smoothly stood directly facing exactly towards Sirius, so they could highly mathematically, aggressively cover absolutely both sweeping directions of tactical view.
The two highly capable wizards completely, highly flawlessly pretended to simply be innocent Muggle friends meeting, completely happily talking and highly loudly laughing—James was absolutely best at entirely being a massive, highly theatrical show-off. He highly casually held the glowing revealing paper completely safely hidden entirely in his gloved hand and wildly, highly enthusiastically gesticulated completely directly towards Sirius.
Occasionally passing freezing Muggle pedestrians, actively seeing these two highly handsome, completely innocent and seemingly entirely harmless teenage boys, completely couldn't absolutely help but warmly smile.
The highly scattered, heavily armed guards entirely patrolling completely around the Houses of Parliament also completely, entirely did absolutely not physically notice absolutely anything physically unusual. They highly professionally glanced completely directly at them a few times, deemed them safe, and then highly smoothly completely looked directly away.
...
On the highly secure exact other side, Regulus completely hidden entirely safely under the flawless Invisibility Cloak looked directly up completely entirely from the absolute freezing bottom of the massive clock tower, highly intensely gazing completely at the towering, terrifying spire—the massive, highly vertical Gothic clock tower was exactly, mathematically physically like a massive, sharp sword entirely thrust completely directly into the freezing sky, entirely awe-inspiring.
He took a highly deep, highly calming breath, his pale fingers completely, firmly, heavily gripping the highly cold, protruding stone decorations entirely of the Caen stone completely covering the entire outer wall of the massive clock tower.
Actively, entirely physically climbing completely on the sheer, freezing brick outer wall of the towering clock tower—this incredibly highly familiar, highly nostalgic gaming feeling was exactly entirely like physically taking him completely directly back entirely to scaling the rough stones of Hogwarts Castle... At this exact, massive moment, Regulus's physical heartbeat was incredibly, mathematically completely steady, his sharp gaze was completely, utterly intensely focused, and his freezing hands and feet seemingly completely, perfectly exactly fit the intricate architectural details entirely of the clock tower's outer wall, exactly entirely just as he had highly aggressively practiced repeatedly in his mind.
Completely entirely under the flawless cover completely of the legendary Invisibility Cloak, absolutely no one physically below could legally, physically see his highly light, incredibly elegant, yet absolutely strong and completely highly powerful physical movements exactly as he actively, smoothly climbed rapidly upwards.
The highly beautiful, exact first Gothic pointed arch window was entirely directly before his highly focused eyes completely in an instant, and he highly curiously glanced completely entirely into the dark interior completely of the massive clock tower, which was absolutely, completely currently highly not officially open entirely to the mundane public exactly at this time—
Completely, highly compared entirely to the incredibly luxurious, highly ornate exterior, there was absolutely no other highly superfluous or expensive decoration completely inside except for a massive, highly twisting spiral iron staircase, and absolutely not a single, solitary person.
As the highly terrifying height exponentially, aggressively increased, the freezing wind completely violently became massively, incredibly stronger, and the tiny figure of Sirius currently sitting on the freezing ground became highly, incredibly mathematically smaller and vastly smaller... The freezing surface entirely of the clock tower completely in the howling cold wind completely left a highly freezing, numb touch entirely on his pale palms, and the highly thin air completely also mathematically carried a highly freezing, biting taste.
The highly massive, incredibly slow and completely steady, deafening ticking sound completely of the massive Big Ben bell was actively entirely getting completely closer and vastly closer—
The highly massive, illegal tactical climbing process was mathematically vastly entirely smoother and highly vastly easier than he had even actively imagined. Entirely for such a highly precious, massively famous Muggle cultural heritage, the physical security completely here actually seemed completely, mathematically unusually simple.
(Bean Sprout: Maybe absolutely, logically no one actually legally thought anyone would ever completely, physically violently climb it...)
After exactly passing five massive, highly ornate sets of pointed windows, he successfully reached the massive, highly heavy gilded frame exactly of Big Ben's magnificent, massive dial. More than exactly three hundred highly expensive, massive cat's-eye stones, beautifully illuminated completely by the rising winter sun, brilliantly sparkled completely with the absolute, undeniably massive glory completely of the former British Empire.
He highly gracefully climbed entirely completely past the highly massive Latin inscription completely that beautifully read "O Lord, keep completely safe our beloved Queen Victoria I," smoothly passing completely past the highly solemn and incredibly majestic, massive bronze hour hand and the massive, heavy copper minute hand—
Completely inside the highly massive clock tower, the highly massive Big Ben bell himself completely came entirely directly into his highly focused view.
With a highly agile, massive physical flip, he highly lightly, flawlessly jumped entirely directly onto the highly massive iron platform completely inside the clock tower, entirely exactly just as he had highly flawlessly, heavily done completely entirely in his 'The Hero' game... He highly casually looked completely around, and the highly massive Buckingham Palace completely sitting in the distance highly quietly directly met his dark gaze.
Completely entirely without absolutely any delay, Regulus completely took out the highly classified revealing paper and highly quickly, heavily began completely to aggressively write entirely his message.
...
At the completely absolute, freezing foot entirely of the massive clock tower, James and Sirius were absolutely completely still entirely casually eating their hot dogs when highly suddenly, the highly magical revealing paper they completely, heavily safely wore highly completely close entirely to their bodies violently heated up—
Regulus is mathematically absolutely so incredibly, terrifyingly fast!
Sirius highly subtly, casually tapped entirely exactly directly on James's shoulder and smoothly, highly casually completely glanced directly completely up entirely at the massive, seemingly highly empty clock tower.
James completely, instantly understood the highly specific code, highly smoothly pretended to completely actively hug Sirius entirely warmly as if happily saying goodbye, and then highly quickly, completely purposefully walked completely to a highly specific, entirely designated highly hidden back alley completely not very far away and completely, highly quietly safely put something completely down.
Then, James highly quickly, safely directly replied completely entirely on the glowing revealing paper and completely highly actively gave a massive, highly victorious peace sign completely directly completely to the sky.
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Regulus, who was completely highly overlooking the entire highly massive area completely entirely from the clock tower, completely seamlessly saw absolutely all of this flawless execution completely and warmly smiled highly sincerely, a highly massive sense of entirely complete, highly steady tactical reassurance violently completely rising entirely in his cold heart.
It's officially completely time to entirely continue the climb—
After highly, flawlessly climbing entirely completely over a highly massive, sloping section completely entirely of the heavy tower roof heavily adorned completely with highly intricate, sharp Gothic pointed windows, he successfully reached the highly massive Elton Light exactly at the very top completely of the clock tower—
He highly gracefully, aggressively moved completely actively entirely along the freezing side, heavily using absolutely both his hands and freezing feet, flawlessly passing the highly massive, gilded shield badges proudly, beautifully displaying highly solemn red and white roses, thistles, shamrocks, and leeks.
In the violently, highly aggressive whipping freezing wind, he completely, flawlessly climbed entirely to the massive, terrifying crown-like sharp spire completely exactly at the absolute, very top completely of the massive tower entirely in one single, highly fluid go, highly beautifully spreading absolutely both his arms slightly completely exactly like a massive, highly hunting falcon, and absolutely, completely stood highly incredibly firm—
The highly massive, sprawling Muggle city view was completely, fully safely visible exactly completely at his feet, the freezing morning light beautifully piercing completely through the thin London fog, beautifully illuminating the highly violently beating heart completely of the United Kingdom—
London, exactly 1974!
It was completely, mathematically highly different entirely from absolutely any modern version of London he had absolutely completely ever safely seen before!
But it was absolutely exactly, completely just as physically, undeniably beautiful!
A highly familiar, incredibly sharp eagle cry violently came completely directly from the sky. He entirely looked up completely and successfully saw Godric and Regina violently, highly aggressively circling completely entirely around the absolute top completely of the clock tower, flawlessly hovering completely directly entirely beside him in the wind. Their incredibly huge, highly massive golden wings were completely, entirely beautifully spread out, looking exactly entirely like two highly ancient, massive gods completely violently protecting him.
He highly aggressively completely activated his "Eagle Vision" completely again. Looking actively around, this entire, massive highly specific small area entirely of London completely directly below him violently, highly beautifully turned entirely completely into a highly clear, highly massive tactical map entirely completely in his dark eyes: the exact, absolute highly mathematical physical structure completely of absolutely every single building, the highly complex, sprawling layout entirely completely of every single freezing street, and absolutely completely even the tiny, highly completely moving physical figures completely walking in the dark alleys, absolutely all were entirely, completely in his highly massive, full tactical view.
Although there was completely absolutely no violent system prompt—he completely, highly analytically understood perfectly that the highly massive mathematical range completely entirely of Godric and Regina's linked "Eagle Vision" had completely, physically actually nearly highly massively doubled entirely in radius!
He completely highly patiently waited—
BANG!
Not highly entirely completely far away, an unusually highly massive, incredibly bright glowing magical fireball, heavily beautifully accompanied completely entirely by a highly massive loud noise, violently shot highly aggressively completely up entirely into the freezing sky, beautifully, violently blooming completely entirely into massively bright and highly beautiful magical fireworks—
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Massive, vastly more massive fireworks violently exploded completely subsequently.
Absolutely completely everyone on the freezing street completely looked entirely directly in the highly exact direction completely of the fireworks, and the highly trained nearby security guards were entirely completely exactly as if physically facing a highly massive, formidable enemy. Highly trained black dots highly quickly, violently aggressively completely moved exactly entirely towards there.
Sirius, completely entirely completely unnoticed by the distracted guards, smoothly took out a highly specific, very small bag completely directly from his expanded pocket and highly casually took exactly a few highly specific steps entirely forward—
WHOOSH!
A highly massive, terrifyingly huge pile completely entirely of massive dead branches and highly dry autumn leaves, almost entirely completely half a grown person's entire highly mathematical physical height, suddenly, violently completely entirely physically magically appeared directly entirely by the sidewalk completely in the highly secure courtyard!
Sirius completely violently immediately retreated exactly a highly specific few steps completely back—
Regulus mathematically explicitly said he highly exactly mathematically completely absolutely needed exactly 4.5 seconds of cover!
Sirius highly anxiously looked directly completely up and violently completely held his breath!
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Standing highly entirely completely on the New Year's freezing morning entirely completely in London, Regulus's calculating corporate heart had absolutely never completely been exactly so highly incredibly clear and terrifyingly firm.
The exact, absolute microsecond the massive pile completely of highly dry grass magically physically appeared on the concrete below, a massive, highly familiar violent system prompt beautifully flashed completely entirely exactly in his gamer mind.
[DING!]
[Highly Classified Hidden Task Unlocked: "Leap of Faith": Please violently, completely successfully jump directly completely from the absolute, very top completely of the Westminster Palace clock tower without dying.]
[Task Reward: Massive Partial Stealth skill upgrade.]
[Task Progress: 0/97.5 Meters]
[Active Witnesses: 2/3]
Regulus highly gracefully, flawlessly leaped completely entirely entirely without a single, microscopic microsecond of hesitation—
Two highly massive, incredibly sharp, terrifying eagle cries violently came completely entirely from the sky completely entirely with him.
The terrifying physical fall was exactly entirely so incredibly, mathematically rapid, the incredibly merciless freezing cold wind violently aggressively rushed completely directly entirely into his nostrils and ears, completely violently cutting his skin incredibly painfully...
But there was absolutely, completely mathematically entirely no unease or fear completely entirely in Regulus's highly cold, calm gamer heart, entirely absolutely only pure, unadulterated, highly absolute faith.
For absolutely everything he completely politically desperately completely wanted to actively, heavily safely protect...
He highly beautifully completely entirely surrendered absolutely himself entirely completely to the open sky!
This was entirely completely absolutely his—
Leap of Faith!
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