"Let me tell you what I need your help with, Ilia. We need a batch of relatively dangerous fantastic beasts and magical plants—"
"Yo?"
"No, no, no, not to kill them and turn them into potion ingredients. It's for a teaching plan, using them as training targets for young wizards—when we stayed at Newt's place, didn't we play that Muggle board game together? Dungeons & Dragons, remember?"
"Yo, yo!"
"Yes, Muggle board games are fun, and the Unicorn card was strong too—anyway, that's the general concept. We're planning to create an area where young wizards can adventure inside, with fantastic beasts and magical plants playing the roles of monsters. Let me explain the requirements in detail—"
In Vaughn's plan, he did not intend to make Isabella's first class too intense. The practical format in the World Within the Painting would be something new for both first-year students and upperclassmen.
Hogwarts had never had a course involving this kind of real exploration!
Everyone needed time to adapt on their first visit.
The students had to adapt to this new format, and Isabella and Vaughn also had to adapt to a teaching method with no precedent to follow.
Of course, it could not be completely without challenge.
"—First of all, since this is a trial, and our first attempt at that, I hope the fantastic creatures we find will all possess a certain degree of intelligence. They need to understand what I mean and be able to communicate, so we can avoid situations beyond our control. Trolls are absolutely out of the question!"
"Yo, yo!"
Ilia cried out indignantly twice.
She was a beautiful, elegant unicorn. There was no way she would go looking for trolls. Those things were among the few disgusting creatures that unicorns could neither communicate with nor wished