Chapter 51: The HP World

  The children in the living room dispersed in disappointment. Two little boys and a girl were particularly dissatisfied, and before leaving, they even glared at Yage with hostility.

  Choose that demon and not choose them, he will regret it sooner or later!

  "Mr. Prince, are you quite certain that child is related to you?" Mrs. Cole asked after a moment's hesitation.

  Although Ya Ge said she already had 80 or 90% confidence, that child... He was born clever and likable, although his personality wasn't very good, he was adopted several times, but ultimately returned to the orphanage every time. One child returning isn't a big deal, but those who returned the children also didn't want to contact the orphanage again.

  Those are the devil's children, they were raised in an orphanage that nurtured devils!

  She glanced at her with the corner of her eye, and Yage smiled lightly: "If Mrs. Cole is so worried about making a mistake, why don't you take me to that child's room and let him see me alone? You can rest assured, even if he's not the child I'm looking for, I won't be short of a single penny in donations to the orphanage."

  "Thanks to kind-hearted people like Mr. Prince, these abandoned children can survive." Mrs. Cole seemed overjoyed and tearful, "It's truly God's blessing!"

  Arriving at the dilapidated little cottage that belonged to Tom Riddle, Mrs. Cole took out a key and unlocked the large padlock hanging on the door, glanced at Nagini, and quickly left. Although the little devil had never caused her any harm, she still didn't want to get too close to this aberration.

  Mrs. Cole is the most devout Christian!

  After casting soundproofing and warning spells around the room, Yago stepped inside.

  The room was very small, with only a tiny window. The glass on the window was either gone or broken, and under the window was a small bed. It was called a bed, but it was just a few stools with a wooden board placed on top. On the board lay a tattered, old, and smelly quilt, and a boy with black hair and eyes sat on the board, staring at him intently.

  The boy's eyes looked nothing like a child's, filled with wariness, indifference and cruelty.

  With a slight wave of his hand, the cabinet in the corner of the wall flew to his side and transformed into a silver-green striped sofa. Yage sat down on the sofa, clasped his hands together and placed them in front of his abdomen, expressionlessly gazing at the little boy whose face couldn't hide its shock.

  "Tom Riddle? I'm Brian Prince, a distant relative of yours."

  Tom furrowed his brow and shifted back, with complex emotions in his dark eyes. Although this man who suddenly appeared also had that mysterious power, ... the life of these years had made him dare not to easily believe people, even if this person was his kind.

  Yage raised an eyebrow, with such a strong defensive heart, he didn't want to waste his energy on educating him, just wanted to beat him up. How to break the deadlock? Rubbing his brow, Yage was thinking about how to break the stalemate when he suddenly heard a sound that made even the experienced Yage freeze.

  Hiss...hiss...Tom, who is this guy? Is he here to bully Tom again? Hiss...watch Nagini scare him away! Hiss...

  With a sharp glance at Tom's pocket, Yago saw a small snake with a silver-white tail sticking out of the pocket.

  It seems like he's speaking Parseltongue... How is he able to understand it?! The Prince family has intermarried with many pure-blood families, but they have never had any connection with the Gant family, Yago was certain of that. He just wanted to use various relationships to abduct the future Dark Lord, now being able to understand Parseltongue, what kind of golden finger did the system give him?!

  "Not so, dear. Have you forgotten that you exchanged for language proficiency in the Blue Life and Death Love world, and later used points to retain this skill in the real world?" The system's electronic voice suddenly sounded in Yaka's ear, carefully explaining to him. "In this world, snake language is also considered a kind of language, so naturally, you can use it too."

  This sudden information made Yajiao involuntarily sigh, and with the intention of connecting with the system, he knew that mastering Snake Language only required 30 points of credit and could be exchanged for task goals. In an instant, he abandoned his previous plan and set up a new one. And this plan, he believed, would make Little Tom even more infatuated with the Prinz family.

  To Tom, Yago's eyes were no longer as clear and cold after hearing Nagini's words, but had softened a bit. He smiled at him and spoke in a low voice.

  Are you kidding me? Sorry to disappoint you, I'm not afraid of snakes.

  If the previous magic had shocked Tom, then the snake language now left him no choice but to be surprised.

  "You... you can talk to snakes too?" Tom jumped down from the bed and walked a few steps to Yakko, looking up at him.

  It wasn't until then that Tom discovered the man had black hair and eyes just like him, so... he was actually his father? After all this time, he had finally come to pick him up?

  "Yes, I will." Yakuso smiled lightly. Although he could speak and understand the snake language, the "hiss hiss" still made him uncomfortable, so he quickly switched back to English, "I'm very sorry for not coming to pick you up sooner, Tom, I just found out about your existence recently, and it took some time to find you."

  "You... are you my father?" Despite being precocious, Tom was still a child. He had learned from the nuns at the orphanage that his mother had died giving birth to him on the doorstep of the orphanage, and he had always... yearned for a strong father who could protect him. "I... no, I mean we, aren't the devils, monsters they say?"

  He just forced himself to ignore it, but in reality, when others called him a devil or a monster with disgust, he really... wanted to punch them and make them never dare say that again! But every time he did, the next time he got even more isolation and indifference. He didn't know what to do, so he could only pretend not to care, desperately comforting himself in his heart that he was stronger than them.

  But actually, he is self-abased.

  If he wasn't self-abased, he wouldn't have desperately tried to conceal his origins after entering Slytherin Academy and proposed the pure-blood theory.

  "I'm sorry, Tom. I am not your father." Yago patted his head, "We have the same blood relationship, although it has become a bit diluted over thousands of years. We are not demons or monsters, we are wizards, Tom. The abilities you possess are magic, but you need to learn to control yourself. Young wizards' magic is unstable before they turn eleven, and using magic carelessly can cause magical outbursts. Frequent magical outbursts will damage the young wizard's core, making them a dud."

  Although Tom felt a little sad knowing that Yakko wasn't his father, he was quickly distracted by Yakko's words: "What is a dud?"

  Next is Yaka's Q&A session, where he popularizes the general knowledge of the wizarding world to this young wizard who grew up in an orphanage in the non-magical world, especially emphasizing the importance of the soul to a wizard. This world does not have necromancers and soul mages, and Yaka cannot be too shocking.

  Even if you want to change the world, it must be within the scope of what this world's rules can tolerate.

  Tom Riddle's life began to take a turn from today, as he followed Agatha out of the orphanage and onto the carriage, seeing those children who often squeezed him and snatched his clothes and food, with an expression that looked down on him, thinking it wouldn't be long before he was sent back, yet couldn't help but feel envious, smiled.

  How would they know that he won't be coming back! He's no ordinary person, the one who came to pick him up today is his adoptive father, and he has to follow his adoptive father back to the world where he belongs.

  Tom's days became more colorful, and he first knew that there was such a magical world. And the clever and magically gifted him also gained Haille's favor.

  Hale didn't know where his son found such a good seedling, but upon learning that Tom was one of the four giants Sara Chal. Slate Lin's descendant and also the child groom prepared for Irene by his son, he immediately raised both hands in approval. With such a well-cultivated and promising son-in-law from a young age, he didn't need to let his son marry again.

  The Prinzes have always been a monogamous family, which is why Brian didn't come along until his father was fifty. And that's also why Brian has been so down in the dumps since his wife Alice died. Hailer doesn't know what finally got through to her son and snapped him out of it, but whatever it was, she's just glad he's doing better now.

  Tom's learning task is very heavy, in addition to understanding and learning the wizarding world, he also has to learn etiquette, language, management and dressing up and other things that a noble should know. Yago cultivates Tom in the same way as he cultivated the Crown Prince in the Red Mansion Dream world.

  In the original book, that dark lord was still okay in the early stages, but by the later stages, he was simply unbearable, only knowing how to use black magic and terrorize his subordinates. Using China's thousands of years of political struggle as a textbook, Yago raised Tom into a introverted and ruthless person. He is no longer that sharp-tongued kid who would provoke Dumbledore's attention and be disliked by many in the orphanage, but rather the adopted son of the pure-blood noble family, Prince, and even the future head of the Prince family.

  Of course, Little Tom still didn't know at this time. He seized every opportunity to absorb all the knowledge like a starving man, and Aileen, who could only say a few words and couldn't walk yet, was just an adorable little girl in his eyes, who wouldn't be afraid of him and Nagini.

  "Tom, you must remember. Brute force can make those inferior to you submit for a time, but it will not bring you true loyalty. To be a qualified superior, strength, strategy, wisdom and charisma are all indispensable. Of course, in some sense, having no brute force is also okay, someone will be willing to offer his brute force for you!"

  Tom kept the call of Yago firmly in mind when he later became the King of the Wizarding World and even the Underworld, not daring to forget a single thread. If it wasn't for meeting Brian Prince, his foster father and father-in-law during his youth, there wouldn't be a successful him in the future.

  "Dad, I want to know the real reason you adopted me."

  Two years later, after Erin's third birthday party, Tom found Yago alone in the study. Two years of education had made him mature and elegant, now he would return to that orphanage, probably no one dared to recognize him.

  "Although we are both descendants of Slattery, that alone is not enough for you to go to such great lengths to cultivate me. I wonder, what do I need to pay for this?"

  Parseltongue was a mark of the Salazar Slytherin's descendants and not all wizards could, which Tom found out just a week after he arrived at the Princes' Manor. Luckily, Jago had exchanged Parseltongue proficiency with Irene as soon as she returned from the orphanage, so his lie about having some blood relation to Tom didn't get exposed.

  It was Hagrid who jumped in fright, his son and granddaughter could actually speak Parseltongue! After studying the family tree of the Princes for a long time, he could only attribute it to the fact that some generations had married into noble families with Slytherin blood, which had been passed down through several generations and suddenly appeared in his son and granddaughter.

  "What do you think I'd let you pay for, Tom?" Yago laughed sincerely. Two years of getting along had made him go from acknowledging to liking this precocious and clever kid; if at the beginning he had adopted him for the sake of his mission and testing the system, now he was truly willing to make some extra considerations for him.

  After a long contemplation, Tom shook his head: "I don't know, Father. The reputation of the Slender's descendants may be loud, but you and Irene are also, I don't think there's anything on me that you want."

  "You're wrong, Tom." Yago patted the sofa beside him, letting Tom sit down. "Having studied the history of the wizarding world, do you know how much importance pure-blooded nobles attach to inheritance?"

  Tom nodded.

  "But look, even if the nobles valued heritage, many pure-blood families still disappeared in the long river of history. The former Hogwarts Four Founders, now not a single descendant is left." Yajiao's eyes were gentle as she looked at the young boy beside her, "I went to the orphanage to bring you back, not only because we are both Slytherin descendants, but also because I hope you can become the next head of the Prince family."

  He chose to tell Tom bluntly what he thought, believing that after two years of precipitation, Tom would make the most beneficial choice for himself.

  "Make me the next head of the Prince family? But isn't there still Irene..." Tom suddenly had an epiphany, thinking of that little girl who was somewhat cute when she smiled, but would make a mess even while eating, and couldn't help but twist his face in distaste as he asked, "Father, you wouldn't be thinking of having me marry Irene and become part of the Prince family, would you?!"

  The author has something to say: This chapter should be a bit thicker, Potato worked hard and wrote several hundred more words!

  "Okay, the foreshadowing about language proficiency has finally been written out. Tuber is actually very hardworking!"

  Knowing the strategy, knowing what is best for himself, Voldemort would make which choice?

  Yage is a man, and the biggest difference between him and women is that he doesn't consider emotions as the most important thing!

  Of course, if Tom and Irene can't stand each other, he wouldn't really let a pair of sworn enemies be born.

  P.S., potato rolls over and asks for comments and asks for flowers! Without comments, how does the potato know if you want to watch or not? !