Days passed one by one.
Overall, Fang Zheng's work was fairly leisurely: teaching classes, getting off work, giving Nanoha and the others some magical training, occasionally watching Sakura collect Clow Cards. Of course, Fang Zheng had not forgotten to investigate the Shadow Monsters, either.
But honestly, at this point, the investigation into the Shadow Monsters had more or less reached a dead end.
According to Precia's findings, these Shadow Monsters were entities that had leaked out from another world. They had taken shape after being tainted by and absorbing this world's magical power. Moreover, once their numbers grew large enough, they would form a humanoid boss-type entity and create an extradimensional passage that swallowed the Magical Girls and sent them to another world.
If Fang Zheng's guess was correct, resolving this matter would ultimately require going to that other world.
For the moment, though, to be safe, Fang Zheng planned to wait a little longer—at least until Sakura had settled everything on her side—before taking everyone to that world to see what was really going on.
However, when Fang Zheng arrived at school today, he found that the atmosphere felt somewhat strange.
How should he put it... The whole school was brimming with festivity, almost as if they were celebrating a holiday.
A holiday?
But shouldn't there be no school on a holiday?
Fang Zheng had lost track of the days somewhat—after all, as a Time Dragon, an existence beyond time itself, he was perhaps the least sensitive to the passage of time.
"Teacher!"
Not long after Fang Zheng entered the school building, two little girls called out to him in the hallway.
"Hm? What is it?"
Seeing the two girls hurrying toward him, Fang Zheng stopped and looked at them. He was no stranger to either of them. They