Kasen jumped back into the pit, took out a torch, and stuck it into the ground.
After making sure there was nothing else left behind, he took out some stone and filled in the missing foundation beneath Hagrid's house.
After all, with Hagrid's weight, and now Grawp as well...
Hmm.
If he did not fill the foundation back in, there was no telling whether one morning everyone would wake up to discover that the global ground level had risen while only Hagrid's hut remained where it was.
Finally, after using the noble pillar-jumping method to get back up, Kasen turned around and examined the enormous pile of bones.
He was extremely curious about what ability these bones possessed that could cause such a strange reaction from the Watch of Flowing Time.
As for how to test it?
Hmm...
Naturally, with an incredibly badass method!
Kasen immediately pulled the pocket watch from his chest and rammed it straight into the pile of bones in front of him.
The next moment, the mountain-sized pile of bones vanished completely, swallowed by his pocket watch...?
Kasen stared blankly at the watch.
"Hm?"
He looked at the time-storage section in surprise. Its capacity had increased slightly. If it could previously stop time for three seconds, then now...
Let's test it!
Kasen pressed the stop button directly.
The world once again turned grey and white.
Five seconds later, colour finally returned.
While Kasen was still wondering why dinosaur bones could increase the storage capacity of the time section, he vaguely noticed an extremely small and ancient-looking line of text in that area, as though a dinosaur had scratched it into the earth with its claws.
[Two units... derived from the history of the first Baryonyx to be killed by a meteorite.]
"So the markings on this little dial don't come from time or anything like that. They come from history? Then this little dial should be renamed the History Storage Section."
Kasen murmured to himself.
"Kasen! Did you end up finding any treasure in that little mound?"
Hagrid's voice came from the distance.
Kasen looked over and saw him carrying a plate full of food in each hand.
"You left halfway through your meal, so I packed some food for you. You can eat it here."
Hagrid handed one of the plates to Kasen, and the two of them headed towards the hut.
Grawp sat obediently on a chair, waiting for Hagrid to feed him.
Then, sure enough, he made eye contact with Kasen.
"I have a feeling he's about to start yelling!" Kasen blurted out instinctively.
"It's fine. I think that between being afraid of you and being tempted by food, he should choose the latter. He's been ill recently, and Snape has been brewing potions for him for the past few days. The smell was really... well, you know, so he hasn't eaten properly for several days. He must be starving now, so he definitely won't care about you..."
Hagrid's voice grew quieter and quieter.
From that alone, one could responsibly conclude that even he did not believe what he was saying.
Because beside him, Grawp's face was gradually twisting into an expression even uglier than a giant's, something straight out of Yujiro Hanma's repertoire.
Just as he was about to start yelling, Hagrid quickly covered his mouth with one hand.
Then, in a low voice, he began an immersive threat.
"Now! Shut up immediately! Do you hear me?"
"If you don't shut up, I'll have Professor Kasen eat you right now!"
"See that! Professor Kasen is sitting right across from you. Do you think the stuff on that little plate is enough to fill him up?"
Kasen looked at the various meats piled into a small mountain on the plate in front of him and slowly swallowed.
...It really wasn't enough for him.
"See that! Professor Kasen is already swallowing. He's trembling because he wants to eat you so badly! Right now! If you don't shut your mouth and eat properly, I'll hand you over to Professor Kasen and let him eat you!"
Shut up... and eat?
Kasen thought back to what Hagrid had just said. Somehow, no matter how he looked at it, that did not sound quite right.
At that moment, Hagrid secretly winked at Kasen.
Kasen instantly understood. He shoved the plate in front of him aside, planted one leg on the chair, leaned his entire upper body across the table, and opened his mouth wide at Grawp as though he were about to devour him!
It stank!
The smell was not coming from Kasen, nor from Hagrid, and Grawp had only taken a bath this morning...
.....
Kasen sat on the steps outside Hagrid's hut eating, looking somewhat awkwardly at Hagrid, who had already cleaned everything up, including the hut.
"Well... I might have gone a little too far."
Hagrid sat down beside him. "It's fine. He's still a child. It's normal for him to be timid. If you hadn't scared him like that, who knows how long he would've kept howling."
"Besides, eating outside is awkward. Come inside. I've already cleaned everything."
"No."
Kasen shook his head.
This was like how pig intestines that had once contained shit could still be cooked into a dish, but a bowl that had once contained shit absolutely had to be smashed.
Right now, Hagrid's dining room was like that bowl.
Until Kasen had completely forgotten that memory, there was absolutely no way he was going back inside to eat anything.
"By the way, you still haven't told me what Fang buried in that pit," Hagrid asked.
"No idea where he dragged them from, but they were dinosaur bones. One of them was probably longer than you are tall," Kasen answered honestly.
"Wow. That must've been brilliant. Where are the bones?" Hagrid asked.
"Uh... I used them."
Kasen sounded a little awkward.
How was he supposed to explain this? Tell Hagrid that his pocket watch had eaten them? Or pull out a little blackboard and give Hagrid at least a two-and-a-half-hour introductory lecture on occultism, followed by the fundamentals of time theory?
Hagrid was not as clever as Dumbledore, and he also had a habit of asking questions until he got to the very bottom of things.
Explaining it would be a pain.
"Oh, are you using those bones to make some kind of alchemical item?"
Kasen nodded. "You can think of it that way."
While the two of them chatted, the food on Kasen's plate visibly dwindled until the plate was completely empty.
Just as Kasen was wondering whether he should go to the kitchens and get some more, a voice made him abandon the idea.
"Professor Kasenhis! I've been looking everywhere for you. So this is where you are!"
Clay's voice came from the distance.
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