All in all, Fang Zheng had finally figured out what had happened. Naturally, the next step was to devise a countermeasure.
Fortunately, there were still six months until the Dragon King Star Martial Festival. If they returned before then, they would still make it in time.
The problem was... how to get back.
According to Kurusu Himeko, Little Shell could barely travel from one world to another, but there was no telling whether it would be their original world. Worse still, this world seemed to have been sealed off, so Little Shell could not travel through it. Ikaruga Sayu's explanation was that the holder of the sacred sword in this world had likely sealed it off—after all, they were a reincarnated god, so doing something like that was hardly surprising.
In any case, their first priority was to investigate this world, find its sacred sword holder, and resolve the issue. Once they opened a crack in space, Kurusu Himeko could have Little Shell make the crossing.
After figuring everything out, Fang Zheng immediately convened a school-wide assembly and explained the current situation to everyone. Some students were confused, but most of them seemed quite excited.
That was hardly surprising. At an ordinary school, ordinary students would naturally feel lost and uneasy about suddenly arriving in another world. But Haoling Academy trained warriors. If they made their living through battle, they could not fear challenges. Thus, after learning that they had come to another world, quite a few students were thrilled. If they had not still been in the sky, some of them might already have been itching to go outside and explore.
"Anyway, don't worry. Just treat this as an unusual field trip. We'll find a way back too. Until then, everything will continue as normal. Understood?"
"Yes!"
Had it