Mysterious Journey
Chapter 995 Welcome to the World of Adults
Ailina chewed on Dumbledore's suggestion, looking somewhat helpless.
However, in her heart, she felt more admiration and gratitude towards the old wizard.
This was, in fact, the most ingenious balance.
Without the "Tarot Guardian" system, the growth rate of the little trio would undoubtedly be severely delayed, and with their current experience, they would not be qualified to participate in high-level decision-making. But now, with the corresponding guides, each of them essentially had a regent to "assist" them. This kind of bond and assistance, even if it didn't reach the level of a disciple of an ancient wizard, was close to that level.
On the other hand, with Hermione, Luna, and Hannah becoming "Guardians of the Fool," it was equivalent to tacitly acknowledging their status.
Among the corresponding powers of the Major Arcana, the most important point was the equality of status – the supervisors and checks and balances of the Major Arcana must be another Major Arcana, allowing them to participate in checking and balancing Ailina, which was equivalent to allowing them to perform some of the Major Arcana's responsibilities in advance.
This state of mutual checks and balances and mutual learning cleverly resolved the gap in status between Ailina and the little trio.
More importantly, even if the three of them were promoted to Major Arcana, they would not become Ailina's subordinates.
What a meddling old fellow... It's not like I'm a self-enclosed orphan like Newt Scamander…
Ailina muttered silently, selectively ignoring the silly girls who were excited but dared not show it, and summarized directly.
"In short, let's settle it like this for the time being. Before the 'Chariot,' 'Justice,' and 'High Priestess' are promoted to official Major Arcana, they will be supervised by the 'Tower,' 'Hierophant,' 'World,' and 'Empress' Major Arcana respectively. On the other hand, in addition to gradually participating in the affairs of the Destiny Group, Hogwarts, and Gringotts as originally planned, the three of them will also perform the guardianship work of the 'Fool'..."
In this way, Xenophilius Lovegood's opposition was quietly resolved.
Moreover, she had already promised the little trio that she would not hide anything, so this was just repeating the verbal promise on the table.
It was just a pity that some of the new games and titles she had originally planned to try might not be able to be put into practice. She guessed the ending, but guessed the wrong identities of both sides in the end. Fortunately, Hermione, Luna, and Hannah were relatively simple, so there wouldn't be such a terrible scene of offense and defense being switched.
And another good news was that with the establishment of their status as "Reserve Major Arcana," they were completely locked into Ailina's camp.
The only slightly unpleasant thing might be that if they started to get jealous, the terrible level of the shura field would directly double exponentially. The jealousy of three Major Arcana was a natural disaster-level war that had a certain probability of destroying the world.
I'm not Merlin, I'm a girl, girls don't have a chainsaw ending...
Ailina looked around at her little wings, comforting herself in her heart, it seemed that she had to try to distribute the love evenly in the future.
When the last Major Arcana chose to abstain, the relevant procedures for the "Reserve Major Arcana" and the "Tarot Guardian" were finally decided with seven votes in favor, one abstention, and zero votes against. Dumbledore also took over the leadership again and continued to push the meeting forward.
"So, now there's only one last thing left."
Dumbledore glanced at Grindelwald, his expression gradually becoming serious, and said in a deep voice.
"According to news from the International Confederation of Wizards and the British Ministry of Magic, government officials are planning to learn from the previous experience of the British Ministry of Magic and implement a joint raid on werewolf settlements around the world. They are trying to completely separate werewolves from normal society and uniformly confine them to areas designated by the magic governments of various countries... For various reasons, they hope that this action can be carried out in the name of 'sCpf'."
sCpf?
In the bridge of the Hyperion.
The three newly promoted "Reserve Major Arcana" looked at Miss "Fool" at the same time.
This abbreviation sCpf was the first time they had heard it.
If they roughly knew sCp, it was a non-profit social security maintenance group under the Destiny Group. The work content was actually similar to the Magical Accidents and Catastrophes Department in the magic ministries of various countries, mainly responsible for dealing with major accidents and disasters caused by magic.
However, unlike the officials in the Ministry of Magic, the Foundation also had to shoulder the responsibility of containing some high-risk information and items.
The most important thing was that, as far as they knew, the existence of sCp was top secret – especially for the officials of the Ministry of Magic.
"This is a fake, um, I can't say that, this is an officially recognized multinational cooperation organization."
Ailina shrugged with a wicked smile, lowering her voice to explain.
"Whether it's from the English name, the purpose of the organization... or even the composition of the personnel, the two have a very high degree of overlap, but at least in the eyes of the officials of the magic ministries of various countries and the International Confederation of Wizards, this is a protective shield that listens to them and maintains the stability of the magic world. Miss 'Justice' should be easier to understand, this is equivalent to an enhanced version of Interpol in the non-magical world..."
"So, the 'f' means... fake?"
Hermione glanced at Ailina thoughtfully, she had long since stopped trying to imagine what a terrible demon king army she had joined.
Compared to constantly reshaping her three views, it was easier to directly accept reality and start writing and constructing her three views from scratch – if Hermione guessed correctly, this aspect of the affairs would most likely be accepted and responsible by her later, after all, her 'guardian' was Dumbledore.
"You can understand it that way. Of course, you can also understand it as – Fool."
Ailina blinked her eyes and answered in a pleasant and brisk tone.
Just like Hydra hidden in S.H.I.E.L.D., the real sCp was also hidden in sCpf.
The International Confederation of Wizards, the magic ministries of various countries, and those ancient magic families, they would take the initiative to solve some troublesome problems, such as the identification and certification of these wizards' cross-border actions, such as their wages... It would certainly be okay for the Major Arcana to do these things, but in the end, it was not as reliable as handing them over to the official institutions on the surface. At the same time, this was also the core armed force directly under the "Fool".
At the same time, the focus of attention of the other Major Arcana was on another piece of information mentioned by Dumbledore.
"The entire wizarding world is joining forces to encircle and suppress werewolves? That sounds very ambitious."
Nicolas Flamel raised his eyebrows curiously, tapping the table noncommittally, and commented softly while thinking.
"If I remember correctly, the last time sCpf was established was with the excuse of containing Tom Riddle's Horcruxes, right? It's time to move around for so long and re-expand its influence in the magic world. Werewolves are different from other species, they are too much of a threat to humans. Moreover, if quarantine zones are really established, allowing werewolves to disappear from now on like dealing with a plague, it's not a bad thing..."
As a top alchemist who had lived for hundreds of years, Nicolas Flamel had experienced several wars between wizards and alien races.
And among them, werewolves were undoubtedly the most special type – they were transformed from normal humans and spread like a plague.
In fact, for a long time, whether it was the wizarding world or the non-magical world, when facing werewolves, without exception, they were dealt with by directly killing them. Even today, werewolves are still classified in the category of "dark creatures".
From the meaning of "Magician", he doesn't seem to care about "human rights"?
Hermione, Luna, and Hannah were a little uneasy, this was the first time they had heard Nicolas Flamel express his opinion.
On the other side, Xenophilius Lovegood was silent for a full half a minute, and said dryly.
"Frankly speaking, I don't like werewolves, but I don't think that this kind of plan to deprive them of their freedom, and even their lives, can be justified by the excuse of safeguarding the peace of the magic world – this is actually a policy of extermination of the minority by the majority. Why don't we try..."
"Try what? Are you planning to rescue them?"
Grindelwald looked up and leaned comfortably on the head of Dumbledore's bed.
"Mr. Hermit, this is different from the humanitarian rescue a few months ago. The magic ministries of various countries roughly know how many werewolves there are in various places."
"If the Ministry of Magic finds out that the werewolves suddenly disappeared a few days before the operation, can you guess how crazy those officials will become? And if this news is accidentally reported by the media, oh, this is inevitable, then what kind of panic will the magic world fall into?"
The old Demon King glanced at Dumbledore's expression, grinned, and a dangerous smile appeared.
"Unless, you plan to take this opportunity to declare war on the entire magic world? The werewolf legion, that's not a bad idea."
"No one expects war, Mr. Tower. What I mean is, what if we can make them 'misremember' the number of werewolves?"
Xenophilius raised his right hand slightly and gestured, his gaze cast to the handsome blond wizard in mid-air.
In the last "Soviet Union strategy", Lockhart's memory team showed an influence that Mr. Lovegood could hardly imagine.
As they cleverly tampered with memories and created illusions in various parts of the former Soviet Union, the Destiny Group and Gringotts Wizarding Bank not only successfully took root in that land, rescued a large number of valuable wizards and experts, but even deeply interfered in the reconstruction of that market.
"You mean, to simultaneously tamper with the memories of senior officials of the magic ministries around the world and members of the International Confederation of Wizards in a short period of time?"
Gilderoy Lockhart looked at the naive editor of *The Quibbler* as if he were a fool, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
Did this "Hermit" overestimate the strength of the organization too much?
Did he really think that memory magic was omnipotent?!
Even in the former Soviet Union, he barely completed the task with the help of hundreds of old guys who had participated in the magic war.
"Sorry, to interrupt you a bit, everyone."
Just then, Grindelwald suddenly coughed lightly.
"Regarding the werewolf issue, Mr. 'Hierophant's' information is incomplete, I have the other half of the news here."
"Almost within a few minutes after the multilateral meeting of the Ministry of Magic and the International Confederation of Wizards ended, many employees of the Destiny Group received requests for help from different 'werewolf communities' – well-informed werewolves hoped to get our protection, even if it was just to temporarily avoid capture."
"Standing idly by, taking the initiative to attack, rational analysis, and standing on the opposite side of the world... there are only these four ways."
The first generation Dark Lord looked at the expressions of the Major Arcana with a playful expression, and raised his eyebrows happily.
He waved his wand lightly, and several pieces of information about the British Ministry of Magic's encirclement and suppression of werewolves, the werewolf community's request for help that looked like dog crawling, and the joint operation plan from the International Confederation of Wizards... appeared in front of everyone in turn.
"Now, the multiple-choice question is here, what should we do now?"
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At the same time, the bridge of the Hyperion.
Wait!
This passage seems to be somewhere...
Hermione tasted the description of the "Tower" and looked at Ailina with a sense of feeling.
This was the same as the question Ailina had asked during the previous quarrel – it was a multiple-choice question with only two answers.
Not helping the werewolves was actually helping the magic government persecute the werewolves.
However, the slightly different point was...
Hermione subconsciously covered her mouth, looking at the photo floating in front of her with a shocked expression.
"A lot of people will die, if you choose the wrong one – in fact, it's possible even if you choose the right one."
Ailina turned sideways, leaned close to Hermione's ear, and said slowly with a devilish smile on the corner of her mouth.
"This is what we will be doing every day, every week, every month from now on: in cruelty, weighing the value of life, and trying to find the only correct path. Welcome to the real, cruel, adult world, dear Miss 'Justice'."
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