Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 398 The Griffin Couldn't Resist

As Cohen passed by, he felt like the witch's mind was racing—the griffin passing by did indeed give off a terrifying feeling, like a murderer fleeing the scene, or rather, an invisible one.

However, Cohen and his team didn't have time to linger here. The news would soon spread throughout the Greek Ministry of Magic, and they needed to take care of those traitors one by one before they realized someone was coming to kill them.

The news spreads quickly for humans, but not so quickly for the highly efficient little Dementors—in just a few minutes, Cohen rode the old griffin from the first floor to the third floor, and now the list of traitors only had that Greek Deputy Minister of Magic left.

Meanwhile, news that assassins within the ministry were slaughtering wizards in extremely bloody ways quickly reached the upper echelons. The Aurors had actually taken action as soon as the witch screamed, but they all remained on the first floor.

Because they saw the underground transaction slip that was being pressed down by the severed hand—that already spoke volumes.

The witch who brushed past the invisible feathered creature has proven an important point: this was a purposeful act of magical creature revenge.

Similar situations have occurred in Greece before, and most of them ended tragically—whether for the wizards or the magical creatures.

So after the Aurors discovered the second dead body and the second piece of evidence of illegal activity, their investigation slowed down from "non-stop" to "it's okay to wait a while." After all, they didn't want to stop a dangerous magical creature that was intelligent and planned its actions without any preparation—they only had a small monthly salary, and it would be too stupid to risk their lives in such an unnecessary place.

Cohen's side also encountered some unexpected events at the location of the last mole.

The deputy minister, extremely cleverly, used the pretext of discussing political affairs to slip away into the minister's office after hearing rumors.

None of the other Ministry of Magic officials fled after hearing that someone involved in illegal transactions had been killed in retaliation by a griffin-like creature. If he were to run now, it would be difficult to explain his innocence—he felt that the griffin that came in retaliation could not possibly get past the Auror next to the Minister and kill him in front of the Minister.

He'd heard that the Silver Keys had accidentally let a rare, talking griffin escape, but he truly hadn't expected that this griffin wouldn't go after the Silver Keys, but instead would come looking for them—those who had connections…wait a minute…

Deputy Minister Dmitry realized something terrible.

Even if that griffin is incredibly clever, how could it possibly find those people hiding behind the whole thing?

Just as Dmitry was discussing trivial but economically significant topics such as international crucible trade with the minister, while remaining wary of the lurking griffins breaking down the door, their office door was flung open with a bang, just as Dmitry had feared.

"Who?" The Greek Minister of Magic, a small, white-bearded old man who looked like a dwarf from a fairy tale, slid off his seat with a glare and asked towards the door, "Yar? Mok?"

He asked the names of the two Aurors at the door, but there was no response, because the two Aurors had been knocked unconscious by the old water snake's two tails.

They were all speaking Greek, which Cohen couldn't understand, so he left everything to the griffin—though Cohen reminded it that only the tall, thin guy was the target.

Unlike the minister, Dmitri was not relaxed. He immediately drew his wand and threw several red spells at the empty doorway. They seemed to hit something, but the effect was not obvious, because the next second the griffin's cry rang out fiercely.

Then, just as Cohen had planned, the griffin and the water snake revealed themselves a split second before the attack. Cohen, still invisible, crept up to the Deputy Minister Dmitry and subdued him as he attempted to Apparate away. Less than a minute after Cohen and his companions entered, the griffin pecked open Dmitry's throat, while the Minister of Magic, his face filled with terror, pointed his wand at the griffin, his wrist trembling—but he didn't use any spells, not only because the griffin seemed to have no further intention of attacking him, but also because of the gleaming water snake on the griffin's back.

“Εσαι.εκενοτοκερασφροδριοφδι？ (Are you... that long-horned water snake?)” The white-bearded old man stared wide-eyed at the old water snake, unwilling to look away.

He muttered something to himself, but neither Cohen nor the old water snake could understand him. The griffin looked thoughtfully at the old water snake, but asking Cohen to translate it now would expose the fact that there was an invisible human present...

So after Cohen found the evidence on Dmitri and placed the parchment next to him, the old griffin carried Cohen and the old water snake through the wall and flew away.

“He seemed a little happy at first,” Cohen said, “but he didn’t look so happy after you broke down the wall in his office.”

"Why was that wizard staring at me?" the old water snake recalled from the griffin's back. "My dear grandson, did you understand what he said? Could it be that I stole his fish...?"

"Wizards wouldn't value fish that much..." Cohen said, covering his face. "When are you going to get rid of this serious thieving instinct..."

However, Cohen was also quite curious about the old water serpent's relationship with the current Minister of Magic, so he asked the griffin on behalf of the old water serpent—it was the only creature among them that could understand Greek.

“That wizard said, old man—your grandfather was his savior,” the old griffin said, flapping its wings, “and even asked it if it remembered itself—”

"You can still call it 'old thing'," Cohen said, his lips twitching.

"What?!" the old water snake asked Cohen curiously, poking its head out from over his shoulder. "What did that wizard say?"
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Cohen had originally expected that this sense of relief after achieving his main goal would last until the end of his vacation.

It wasn't until they returned to the old griffin's hideout that Cohen faced Newt's questions.

"Have those traitors within the Ministry of Magic been caught?" Newt asked.

"Emmm..." Cohen hesitated for a moment, his gaze lingering between the griffin and the old water snake, before finally making a decision—

"It did it!"

"..." The old griffin sighed, "Yes, yes, I did it, I couldn't help it..."

“What?” Newt was a little confused about what Cohen meant—but he quickly realized it.

Those people's fate may be quite bloody and mangled.

(End of this chapter)