"Fool's Guardian... Assessment..."

Aileen chewed over Dumbledore's proposal, looking somewhat helpless.

However, in her heart, there was 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 trio would undoubtedly be severely hampered, as their current experience was simply insufficient to delve into high-level decision-making. But now, with corresponding guides, each of them essentially had a regent "assisting" them. This bond and assistance, even if it didn't reach the level of an ancient wizard's direct disciple, was pretty close.

On the other hand, with Hermione, Luna, and Hannah becoming "Fool's Guardians," it implicitly acknowledged their status.

Among the corresponding powers of the Major Arcana, the most important point was the equality of status—the supervisors and checks of the Major Arcana must be another Major Arcana. Allowing them to participate in checking Aileen was equivalent to allowing them to fulfill a portion of the Major Arcana duties in advance.

This state of mutual checks and balances and mutual learning ingeniously resolved the gap in status between Aileen and the trio.

More importantly, even if they were to be promoted to the Major Arcana, they would not become Aileen's subordinates.

That meddlesome old geezer... It's not like I'm a Niffler, a self-isolating orphan...

Aileen muttered silently, selectively ignoring the silly girls who were excited but didn't dare to show it, and directly summarized.

"In short, let's settle it like this for now. Before 'The Chariot,' 'Justice,' and 'The High Priestess' are promoted to formal Major Arcana, they will be supervised by 'The Tower,' 'The Hierophant,' 'The World,' and 'The Empress,' 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 fulfill the guardianship of 'The Fool'..."

In this way, Xenophilius Lovegood's opposition was also quietly resolved.

Besides, she had already promised the trio that she wouldn't 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 implemented. She guessed the ending, but guessed the wrong identities of the two sides in the end. Fortunately, Hermione, Luna, and Hannah were relatively simple, so there wouldn't be a terrible scenario where the roles were reversed.

Another good news was that with the establishment of their "Major Arcana Trainee" status, they were completely locked into Aileen's camp.

The only slightly unpleasant thing might be that if they started to get jealous, the horror of the love triangle would directly multiply geometrically. The jealousy of three Major Arcana was a cataclysmic war with a certain probability of destroying the world.

I'm not Merlin, I'm a girl, girls don't have bad endings...

Aileen 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 "Major Arcana Trainee" and "Tarot Guardian" were finally decided with seven votes in favor, one abstention, and zero votes against. Dumbledore also regained the lead and continued to push the meeting forward.

"Then, 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 striving to completely separate werewolves from normal society and uniformly confine them to areas designated by the magical governments of various countries... For various reasons, they hope that this action can be carried out in the name of 'sCpf'."

sCpf?

In the captain's room of the Hyperion.

The three newly promoted "Major Arcana Trainees" looked at "The Fool" at the same time.

This was the first time they had heard of the acronym sCpf.

If it was sCp, they roughly knew that it was a non-profit social security maintenance group under the Destiny Group. The content of the work was actually similar to the Magical Accidents and Catastrophes Department in the magical ministries of various countries, mainly responsible for dealing with major accidents and disasters caused by magic.

However, unlike the officials of the Ministry of Magic, the Foundation also had to shoulder the responsibility of containing some high-risk information and items.

Most importantly, as far as they knew, the existence of sCp was top secret—especially for the officials of the Ministry of Magic.

"It's a fake, well, you can't say that, it's an officially recognized multinational cooperation organization."

Aileen shrugged with a wicked smile, lowering her voice to explain.

"Whether from the English name, the purpose of the organization... or even the composition of personnel, the two have a considerable degree of overlap, but at least in the eyes of the officials of the magical 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 magical world. '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 Aileen thoughtfully. She had long since stopped trying to imagine what a terrible demon army she had joined.

Compared to constantly reshaping her worldview, it was easier to directly accept reality and start writing and constructing a worldview from scratch—if Hermione didn't guess wrong, she would most likely be responsible for this aspect in the future, after all, her 'Guardian' was Dumbledore.

"You can understand it that way. Of course, you can also understand it as—Fool."

Aileen blinked, answering in a cheerful and brisk tone.

Just like the Hydra hidden in S.H.I.E.L.D., the real sCp was also hidden in sCpf.

The International Confederation of Wizards, the magical ministries of various countries, and those ancient magical 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 was certainly okay for the Major Arcana to do these things, but after all, it was not as reliable as entrusting them 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 unites to encircle and suppress werewolves? That sounds very ambitious."

Nicolas Flamel raised his eyebrows curiously, tapped the table noncommittally, and commented softly thoughtfully.

"If I remember correctly, the last time sCpf was established, it was with the excuse of containing Tom Riddle's Horcruxes, right? It's time to move around and re-expand its influence in the magical world after so long. Werewolves are different from other species, their threat to humans is too great. Moreover, if quarantine zones are really established, allowing werewolves to disappear from now on like dealing with plagues, it's not necessarily 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 these, werewolves were undoubtedly the most special kind—they transformed from normal humans and spread like a plague.

In fact, for quite a long time, whether it was the wizarding world or the non-magical world, when facing werewolves, they were invariably dealt with by direct killing, and even today, werewolves are still classified as "Dark Creatures".

Judging from what "The Magician" said, he didn'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, I don't like werewolves, but I don't think this plan to deprive them of their freedom, or even their lives, can be justified by protecting the peace of the wizarding world—this is actually a policy of extermination by the majority against the minority. Why don't we try..."

"Try what? Are you going to rescue them?"

Grindelwald leaned back and rested comfortably on the headboard of Dumbledore's bedroom.

"Mr. Hermit, this is different from the humanitarian rescue a few months ago. The magical ministries of various countries roughly know how many werewolves there are in each area."

"If the Ministry of Magic finds that the werewolves suddenly disappear a few days before the action, guess how crazy those officials will become? And if this news is accidentally reported by the media, oh, which is inevitable, then what kind of panic will the wizarding world fall into?"

The old Dark Lord glanced at Dumbledore's expression, grinned, and a dangerous smile appeared.

"Unless, you plan to use this opportunity to declare war on the entire magical world? The werewolf legion, that's a good 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 and gestured slightly, his eyes turned to the handsome blond wizard in mid-air.

In the last "Former Soviet Union Strategy," Lockhart's memory team showed an unimaginable influence on Mr. Lovegood.

With their skillful manipulation of memories and the creation of 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 in the Ministry of Magic 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 an idiot, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Was this "Hermit" overestimating 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, everyone."

Just then, Grindelwald suddenly coughed lightly.

"Regarding the werewolf issue, 'The Hierophant' doesn't have complete information. I have the other half of the news here."

"Almost within minutes of the end of the multi-party meeting of the Ministry of Magic and the International Confederation of Wizards, many employees of the Destiny Group received requests for help from different 'werewolf communities'—well-informed werewolves hoped to get our shelter, even if it was just to temporarily escape the hunt."

"Standing idly by, taking the initiative to attack, rationally analyzing, and standing on the opposite side of the world... there are only these four ways."

The original Dark Lord looked at the expressions of the Major Arcana with a playful expression, and raised his eyebrows happily.

With a flick of his wand, several pieces of information about the British Ministry of Magic's encirclement and suppression of werewolves, requests for help from the werewolf community that looked like dog crawling, and a joint operation plan from the International Confederation of Wizards... appeared in front of everyone one by one.

"Now, the multiple-choice question is here. What should we do now?"

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At the same time, the captain's room of the Hyperion.

Wait!

This passage seems to be somewhere...

Hermione savored the description of "The Tower," looked at Aileen as if she felt something.

This was the same as the question Aileen had asked during the fight before—this was a multiple-choice question with only two answers.

Not helping werewolves was actually helping the magical government persecute werewolves.

However, the slightly different thing was...

Hermione subconsciously covered her mouth, looking at the photo floating in front of her with a shocked expression.

"Many people will die, oh, if you choose wrong—in fact, it is also possible to choose correctly."

Aileen turned to the side, leaned to Hermione's ear, a devilish smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and said slowly.

"This is what we will do every day, every week, every month from now on: in cruelty, weigh the value of life and strive to find the only correct path. Welcome to the real, cruel, adult world, dear 'Justice'."

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