We were all adults, so we couldn't conduct ourselves based on personal preference alone.
Mike King Ceplano repeated those words to himself. At the same time, he raised his eyes and carefully studied the scholarship first-year student before him, someone whose wand had listed him among the Great Arcana.
The first time he had heard Zheng Qing's name was during the Four Seasons Market incident. His good-for-nothing younger brother had been attacked by a wild fiend, transformed into a demon, and then suppressed with talismans by this young man who had not even enrolled yet.
Sephrano knew that the matter was not so simple.
Neither its cause nor its outcome.
Though his younger brother was useless, he was still a fully qualified wizard. He should not have been unable to handle a wild fiend, nor should he have transformed so quickly after being attacked. Meanwhile, the Wizard Alliance's response could only be described as all thunder and no rain. Their slogans shook the heavens, but they never took any substantive action.
According to Sephrano's private investigation afterward, the Four Seasons Market incident had involved multiple forces, including demons, the Dark Council, and the Under the Moon Council. There had been demons simply venting their rage and causing destruction, members of the Dark Council taking advantage of the chaos, and Under the Moon forces killing with a borrowed blade.
At the very least, Sephrano had uncovered countless ties between the demon that attacked his brother and the Karen Family. As for whether some subordinate of that fool Friedman had acted on his own to curry favor with him, Sephrano did not care. He merely etched the debt firmly into his heart and would choose a suitable time to repay the other party.
Zheng Qing had merely been an unexpected chess piece