Getting acquainted with the Kinomoto family was not difficult. They were all genuinely good people, and Illya and Little Black were lively, adorable children themselves. Since they were close in age, the girls became good friends within just a few days.
Meanwhile, Fang Zheng brought the two little girls to Private Seisho University Elementary School. Fang Zheng became the homeroom teacher of Class 3-1, while Illya and Little Black enrolled as students. In the class he taught, he also met the legendary person he had long admired—Takama Nanoha.
Incidentally, Takama Nanoha was in third grade, while Sakura Kinomoto was in fourth. As for Illya and Little Black, they were in fifth grade... Well, seeing those names, Fang Zheng did not need anyone to tell him what kind of world this was.
This was clearly a world of Magical Girls.
What puzzled Fang Zheng, however, was what Magical Girls had to do with souls. It was not as if he had never watched these two iconic Magical Girl anime series. There had been nothing related to souls in either of them, had there? And honestly, while the power level in Magical Girl worlds was not low, their stories were extremely simple because they were "for children."
For example, Sakura Kinomoto's job was to collect the scattered Clow Cards, while the second season had her transform them into Sakura Cards. Takama Nanoha, on the other hand, collected the Seed of the Holy Stone in the first season, then fought the Night Sky Book in the second.
Frankly, the plots of both series were very clear-cut—standard, orthodox Magical Girl stories with nothing to do with conspiracies or dark pasts. Nanoha's third season did have some more complicated plot elements, but... that was more than ten years later!
There was no way he would