"Honestly, those old men were so sneaky, using a trick like that."
"Alright, alright, stop complaining."
Fang Zheng chuckled as he looked at Little Black sitting beside him with an unhappy expression and patted her little head. Little Black, meanwhile, clenched her fists in displeasure.
"That's just how it is. We should obviously have been the champions..."
Hearing Little Black's complaint, Nanoha, who was sitting opposite them, lowered her head uneasily.
"Sorry, Teacher. It was all my fault..."
"It wasn't your fault either."
Fang Zheng smiled as he looked at Nanoha.
The Magical Girls' battle had completely ended after Nanoha unleashed that SLB.
Although Nanoha had indeed won that battle in the end, the stunned mages had nearly failed to recover from the shock. Once they did, however, they began discussing it frantically.
They were not protesting that Nanoha had cheated or endangered anyone's safety. Rather... it was against the rules!
Of course, that was only one way of putting it. After all, the Heavenly Ladder tournament only allowed mages of the fifth circle and below to participate. High-level mages who had come into contact with sixth-circle spells were not permitted to compete.
That was perfectly normal. What university sports meet had Olympic champions competing in it? Were you here to compete, or to wreck the place?
Little Black and the others' earlier battles had not sparked such discussion, mainly because their fighting styles had not displayed especially overwhelming strength. Ordinary mages merely found the Magical Girls' methods strange and difficult to deal with, but not so impossible that they could not respond at all.
But the moment Nanoha fired that blast, the entire White Tower erupted.
What a joke. This was simply not something they could handle, alright? Other than the chiefs, who could possibly fight her?
This was