First University held three school-wide hunting events every year.
The Spring Search in April, the Campus Cup Hunt Moon in October, and the Winter Hunt at the end of December.
This schedule echoed the ancient Wizarding World tradition of the "Four Seasonal Hunts"—Spring Search, Summer Seedling, Autumn Hunt, and Winter Hunt. The school did not arrange a hunt in summer because that period happened to coincide with summer vacation.
However, those three hunts were not always held as scheduled every year.
Like last year, when First University canceled the Spring Search without explanation.
Of course, by now everyone knew why. Less than a few weeks after last year's Spring Search was canceled came the Black Prison Incident. It could be inferred that most of the school's attention had been focused on Black Prison during that time, leaving it naturally without the energy to tend to the young wizards' hunting games.
Although there had been no Spring Search, not long afterward, as a large-scale lich war erupted in the otherworldly Black Prison, harassment forces organized by the Demon Allied Army also appeared on Puji Island, giving the young wizards, who had just begun to feel disappointed, a thoroughly satisfying taste of hunting.
Back to this year.
According to most people's expectations,
since there had been no Spring Search last year, it should not have been canceled again this year no matter what.
But the temporary curfew on the night of the seventh week's weekend—though it had lasted only a little over five minutes—cast a shadow over the hearts of many young wizards at First University.
After all, hunting meant entering the Silent Forest.
And right now, everyone knew that something must have happened in those woods.
With last year's experience of "anticipation-disappointment," no one dared claim that this year's Spring Search