Are Magizoologists All Outlaws?

"Hiss—what were the odds that the head of the Runespoor Reserve wouldn't recognize fertilized Runespoor eggs?"

Within the Mental World, Manus seriously considered this question.

Obviously, the answer was so close to zero that it could be ignored.

Of the twelve Runespoor eggs in the suitcase, ten were unfertilized and two were fertilized. That combination did not look like someone had accidentally mixed in two fertilized Runespoor eggs...

So that was it. The Ministry of Magic in Britain prohibited trading Runespoor eggs, but Runespoors themselves could be bought and sold, so gifting them did not count as selling them.

The Runespoors at the Runespoor Reserve in Africa could not be sold, but their eggs could, so he had sent fertilized Runespoor eggs?

Mnyiam really had figured out how to play by the rules...

Wait, why did he suddenly feel that these respectable Magizoologists all seemed to have outlaw tendencies?

After thinking it over, Manus gave up on digging deeper into that question and focused on the two Runespoor eggs before him, feeling somewhat troubled.

This was Mnyiam's kindness, and naturally he could not return them. But the problem was that the creatures inside these eggs were purebred Runespoors. Their rate of producing Potions ingredients was far beyond anything Manus's homemade version could match.

Although they were still inside their eggs and theoretically had not yet been born, he could still modify their life information. But that seemed to count as modifying natural creatures...

Should he apply for a Magical Creature research project and list the two Runespoors as official experimental subjects?

He had mentioned before that all sorts of experiments on Runespoors had been conducted for a long time. They were all officially approved. Though law was not the same as morality, for the sake of academic progress—and as long