"We're all adults now, so we can't simply act on our preferences."
Mike Gold Cypress Plano was repeating this to himself as he lifted his eyes to seriously size up the freshman before him who had been included in the Great Arcana by the Magic Wand as a public-expense student.
The first time he heard the name Zheng Qing was during the Four Seasons Pavilion incident, when his good-for-nothing brother was attacked by a Wild Demon, metamorphosed into a Demon, and then was subdued by this then-not-yet-enrolled young man using a Talisman.
Sepulano knew that the incident was not so simple.
Neither the cause nor the result.
Although his brother was good-for-nothing, he was still a formal Wizard, not someone who couldn't deal with a Wild Demon or quickly transform after being assaulted; the response of the Mage Alliance could be described as 'more thunder than rain,' with loud declarations but no substantial actions.
