The Admiral of Hogwarts

"What's this White Robe Society?" After mingling in the crowd and listening for a while, Hugo became interested in a word that those people kept repeating.

Because these people who lost money, besides criticizing the Magic Association and those alchemists for cultivating a bunch of useless disciples, repeatedly mentioned that if members of the White Robe Society could participate in the competition, they would definitely be able to defeat those European devils.

Hugo didn't feel anything was wrong with the other party using derogatory terms like 'devils' to describe Westerners, after all, their losing money could be said to be closely related to these Westerners.

However, it was a bit strange that they repeatedly mentioned that the White Robe Society's wizards could easily defeat Western opponents, but no so-called White Robe Society members appeared in the competition.

"White Robe Society... White Robe..." Enterprise repeatedly muttered these two words, while revealing a thoughtful expression.

"I probably have a guess in this regard." Unlike ordinary wizard school students who have to spend money every year to buy school uniforms, Japanese wizards are uniformly issued a magic robe that can automatically adjust its size as the wearer grows.

In addition to adjusting the size, this robe can also change color as the wearer's knowledge increases. When they first enter school, these robes are all cherry blossom-like light pink.

And in the end, when wizards can get the best grades in all magic subjects, then it can turn gold.

However, in addition to this change, there is also a worst change called "whitening," which means that the robes of wizards who violate laws and regulations will turn white.

"—The so-called White Robe Society may be an organization composed of criminals among those wizards," Enterprise analyzed after briefly describing this characteristic of the Japanese wizarding world.

"However, the one thing I don't understand is, if it's really like I guessed, then why don't these local wizards show any disgust towards the White Robe Society, but instead, you can hear a faint support in their tone?"

With this question in mind, the two entered a Japanese-style pub. Like the Muggle world, Japanese wizards also prefer to spend time in pubs after work.

In this case, Hugo and Enterprise only spent about half an hour and the equivalent of five Sickles' worth of beer to successfully find out what this so-called White Robe Society was from the mouths of those middle-aged men.

Just like Enterprise guessed, this White Robe Society is indeed a special organization established by a group of criminals. However, this organization does not want all criminals, but only accepts wizards who have mastered traditional magic.

At the same time, in terms of crimes, they basically do not accept those who have committed serious criminal offenses, but accept those who have violated the Secrecy Act for some reason, but have not committed obvious evil.

As for why they are popular among the people, the reason is very simple, that is because this organization holds high the banner of Japan First.

For example, they believe that the main problem with Japanese wizards now is that they are learning from foreign countries across the board. As long as they can drive out all the foreign influences, everything will be fine.

Of course, this kind of blind xenophobia is a very stupid approach, but for the entire Japanese wizarding world, it is a saying that is secretly recognized from top to bottom.

Because, compared to reforming the existing Japanese wizarding world as a whole, attributing all the problems to foreign countries is obviously a simpler and more stable approach.

"A kind of Japanese craftsmanship spirit," Enterprise curled her lips with a look of disdain after hearing this news. "Being able to persist in some inappropriate or stupid views for decades, and never willing to change."

In fact, a series of problems did occur in the Japanese wizarding world during foreign exchanges, but those problems only lasted for a very short period of time when the two sides began to contact each other.

However, even though those collisions due to different cultures at the beginning have disappeared, this xenophobic atmosphere has been passed down and has even become a target in today's Japanese wizarding society, specially erected to vent various dissatisfaction in reality.

In addition to this, they also heard a piece of news related to themselves. That is, there is a rumor circulating in the pub that members of the White Robe Society will make some big moves in this competition to make the Japanese Ministry of Magic feel their power.

At the beginning, both Hugo and Enterprise only regarded this as some kind of boasting. After all, for this kind of extremist organization, it is difficult to establish enough appeal if they cannot brag.

But when they went to buy all kinds of alchemy items to be used in the next game, they found that this rumor might not just be a rumor, because those things they wanted to buy had all increased in price.

What Hugo wanted to buy were relatively common alchemical raw materials, so he directly asked the clerk in the store why these commonly used items would suddenly increase in price.

"This is mainly because the purchase price has increased a lot recently," the short-haired female clerk said helplessly. "So in this case, we can only increase the price, otherwise, the store will lose money."

"I see!" Hugo nodded, and then asked, "Then, are there any activities here recently that would cause such a big fluctuation in prices?"

"I also find this a bit strange," the clerk frowned at this time, "This price increase is mainly due to the supply of goods falling short of demand, but there are indeed no major events in Japan recently that require the use of these materials."

"This—" Hugo and Enterprise quickly exchanged glances, because this consumption was obviously a bit abnormal, and even in Enterprise's view, it was very similar to the behavior of stockpiling materials before the war.

But before they had time to say anything, they heard a commotion outside, and vaguely heard shouts like "The White Robe Society is here to kill the American and British devils!"

But soon, all the riots subsided. Then Hugo and the two saw several people in uniforms, who should be staff members of the Japanese Ministry of Magic, escorting two wizards wearing white robes from the street in front of the door.

"Ha, Yoriki and Doshin have caught a few more White Robe Society guys. To be honest, although those guys keep saying that they want to make Japan great again, it's always us merchants who get hurt."

Yoriki and Doshin are equivalent to the Aurors and Hit Wizards of the Ministry of Magic in European countries, and from the sporadic voices coming from the street just now, so after they escorted the prisoners away, Hugo and Enterprise, who had bought their things, mixed into the crowd watching the excitement outside the store, and inquired about what happened just now.

"Just now, that White Robe Society wizard seemed to be attacking a European... a European. As a result, he was blocked by that European—"

After hearing Hugo ask about this topic like a melon-eating crowd, the people around him quickly talked about what happened just now, one after another.

Soon, Hugo and Enterprise had a good understanding of the situation on the field before.