Campus Life Was Full of Joy

The exchange between the Empire Leader and the God Realm was undoubtedly a major event worthy of being recorded in New Empire history. The subsequent reopening of the direct passage to the God Realm—Xiling, the resumption of information sharing, mutual dispatch of envoys... every one of these follow-up actions was an event that would affect the structure of the multiverse. Yet while these projects were underway in Shadow City and Avalon, everyone else in Shadow City continued living their own lives. In this wondrous nexus city of countless worlds, daily life had its own special rhythms.

Today was already the third day since our return from the God Realm. Shadow City's routine operations had all returned to normal, apart from those related to projects such as researching the giant fragment and expanding the passageways. Yesterday, I took Qian Qian and Little Pao Pao to the park for the whole day. We were mistaken for newlyweds three times, lost Little Pao Pao twice, and got tormented countless times by Qian Qian's bizarre ideas. That made me decide that, no matter what, I absolutely could not tag along with that mother-daughter pair of living treasures for any more mischief these next few days. So today, on a whim, I decided to visit the Imperial Military Academy—ostensibly to inspect the place, but really to check in on the Misaka Sisters, and also Busujima Saeko, that "younger sister" who was technically an ordinary person but somehow even more troublesome.

It seemed my forceful recommendation that Busujima Saeko come to the Imperial Military Academy and return to campus life had been a wise decision. After many days of boredom, combined with my earlier strong encouragement, that girl, whose thinking and behavior had always made her something of an outlier among her peers, had finally returned