Merry McCallan.
John looked at the file in his hand, his brow tightly furrowed.
"Was someone overlooked?"
Before Silver Wolf Magic School was established, there had been eleven leading magic schools around the world.
But later, Mahoutokoro in Neon had been struck from that list entirely.
The incident behind its removal was also why wizards held prejudices against Neon.
Human experimentation.
Unlike places such as the United Kingdom and the United States, where wizards maintained a delicate relationship with Muggle governments.
Neon had enjoyed very close ties with Mahoutokoro at the time.
In ancient times, wizards there had been called Onmyoji, and they had also been connected to that era of madness in Neon.
Even wizards had joined that war of aggression.
Yet defeat had not put an end to Neon's ambitions. The wizards who had been brainwashed during the war into pledging loyalty to so-called bloodlines reentered wizarding society.
They gave rise to a large group who refused to give up, hoping to restore Neon's former standing.
An extreme zealot among them took control of Mahoutokoro.
The arrival of such a fanatic completely transformed a school meant to train wizards.
On the surface, it educated students. Behind the scenes, it abducted Muggle and wizard children for human experiments.
Through human experimentation, they sought to increase magical power and create artificial wizards to strengthen the nation.
John had single-handedly destroyed that operation, and the headmaster had been killed. The incident had shaken the entire international wizarding community.
In the end, even Neon's Ministry of Magic had been overthrown and replaced with a new magical administration.
Of the children who had suffered, the wizard children had been placed with wizard adoptive families, while John had arranged for the Muggle children to go to the Silver Hand Angel Orphanage.
Strangely, the names