Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 359 Stealing Poseidon's offerings from his temple
Can't it just be that I want to have children?

The old water snake said sheepishly,
You've been gone for so many years and haven't come back to see me in Greece. I miss you so much...

The old water snake's voice trembled slightly; if snakes weren't incapable of crying, Cohen felt it might have burst into tears on the spot.

[Very heartfelt.] Cohen nodded, then turned to look at the Chimera Beast, wanting to hear the three heads' opinion—

"You killed the head of the Greek Ministry of Magic?" the long-horned water snake tail asked.

"Isn't it a bit too radical to suddenly shift the topic here..." Cohen frowned.

“One hundred and thirteen years ago, it stormed into the Greek Ministry of Magic in order to eat a captured glowing sea crab,” the goat explained to Cohen, explaining why the water snake tail was so suspicious.

“Sounds alright,” Cohen said. “Eat as much as you can while you can.”

"After the crab was released, it destroyed half of the building. Greek wizards hunted it for twenty years until Leonidas, the director of the Department of Mythical Creatures whose arm had been bitten off by a lion, was imprisoned for his work with animals. Only then did the hunt end..." the goat continued.

“Wait—this is a lot of information—” Cohen frowned. “Destroying half a building, how big was that glowing crab—and why did you use that word before an animal—a lion? Hmm? This one—?”

Cohen pointed to the lion's head that was chewing on a ball of yarn.

"The crab's full name is the Ionian bioluminescent giant crab, and adults are typically fifteen to twenty feet long," the goat said. "As for Leonidas's animal, his target was another chimera, but unfortunately, that chimera was a good friend of the lion, so the lion helped him out."

“That’s insane,” Cohen said in awe.

We don't care what strange things are inside the wizarding world, or what losses it has suffered.

The long-horned water snake said fiercely to the old water snake.

[Old man, you said this crab was incredibly delicious, and that one would be enough for us to eat for a year, so you asked us to help you catch it—but after you got it, you only took one bite and then yelled that it tasted awful and ran away, leaving a huge mess behind. Because of being chased by a bunch of wizards, I couldn't sleep well for days!]

"Facts aside, those crabs actually tasted pretty good—I was just saving them for you three little ones..." the old water snake tried to argue. "But this time it's definitely not as serious as last time—I didn't mess with the Greek Ministry of Magic..."

"In general, the name you mention later in this situation will be more troublesome than the Greek Ministry of Magic," Cohen said experiencedly. "What did you do this time?"

【I only told my own snakes—】 The old water snake sensed that Cohen seemed to have a talent for detecting lies, and quickly suggested that he and Chimera Beast go to a secluded place to talk about this alone.

"He's one of our own snakes," said the long-horned water snake. "Remember what we told you when we left Greece?"

"Stop talking nonsense. Do you think I can't recognize the eggs you laid? How could it be just one..." The old water snake thought the Chimera Beast was making excuses, but when Cohen actually transformed into the Chimera Beast and sat on the grass next to it, it immediately stopped its hissing.

"Go on, go on," Cohen said. "I'll decide whether or not to let you stay here based on your criminal record."

"He's right," said the long-horned water snake's tail.

The goat nodded as well.

"Roar..." The lion stretched out its head and licked Cohen's mane. [My precious grandson!]

The old water snake immediately changed to a fawning demeanor and moved closer to Cohen.
I've missed you so much all these years! I knew that giant squid couldn't just bring someone here randomly—

[Don't change the subject. Who did you offend? Why can't you even stay in your hometown anymore?] The long-horned water snake's tail pulled the old water snake off Cohen's neck. [Don't miss any details.]

"Well... I didn't cause anything serious..." the old water snake said hesitantly, pushing the mud with its tail. "I just ate some small fish from the temple..."

"Which temple?" the horned water serpent asked.

Erechtheon...

The old water snake said,

Those wizards placed a huge fish in front of the idol. You didn't see it; you can't imagine how miserable the fish was, thrashing about, waiting to be dried into fish jerky. How could a kind snake like me stand for that? So I concealed myself, put on a robe, and ran to the idol to rescue it...

"Did the rescue go down to the stomach?" Cohen said. "That would be very kind."

The group of wizards initially reacted quite normally, bowing to me one by one—I remember they reacted similarly when I first encountered wizards over a thousand years ago. Ah… those were better times; we could lie motionless in our nests and have wizards bring us fish to eat…

The old water snake sighed.
As I ate, they kowtowed, but they stopped before I finished. A familiar-looking wizard shouted at me a few times, and then they all started throwing spells at me like madmen—to be honest, the other snakes were right; wizards are indeed very unpredictable…

"It sounds to me like you pretended to be Poseidon and stole the offerings, then got caught," Cohen said, his voice strained. "This isn't the first time you've done this, is it?"

[I waited several years before going there!] The old water snake was very confident in his meticulous plan. [But it's obvious that a wizard who knows me is still in that dilapidated temple, even though the wizards there are changed every three years—those cunning humans—they're looking for me everywhere, so I decided to come out and lay low for a while...]

"Does stealing a tribute really require such a huge fuss?" Cohen asked doubtfully. "Did they search all over Greece for you?"

"That's how people are, they hold grudges." The old water snake said knowingly, "I've been fighting with humans for so many years—my precious grandson, just follow me and learn from me, and I'll make sure you can blend in with humans without being detected..."

【…】

Cohen couldn't say for sure who should learn anthropology from whom.

"Whether you can stay here depends on Cohen's opinion," said the long-horned water snake's tail. "I have no objection—but don't expect me to catch fish or anything for you anymore; I've switched to eating rabbits."

"That precious grandson..." Old Water Snake looked at Cohen expectantly.

"What else can we do..." Cohen transformed back into human form and sighed. "But you have to stay in the box and can't run around. There are people everywhere outside. If you scare those students, a terrifying old man with a white beard will catch you."

"No, no, no!" the old water snake said confidently. "I don't eat people."

"You have to make him say 'I won't leave the box,'" the long-horned water snake reminded Cohen, as if he had plenty of experience being tricked by the old water snake.

(End of this chapter)