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Originally, Noah had been somewhat worried that the flow of time between Earthland and Edolas might differ, causing a repeat of the previous incident where he had left for less than an hour, only for an entire month to pass in the Fairy Tail world.
That concern had not been unnecessary.
In fact, Noah had previously visited two parallel worlds in the Type-Moon World.
One of those parallel worlds had been a world from roughly ten years ago, while the other had been a world ten years in the future.
Since Earthland and Edolas were likewise parallel worlds, it was necessary to consider whether there might be discrepancies in time between them as well.
Fortunately, unlike the Type-Moon World, the flow of time in Earthland and Edolas was almost completely identical.
In other words, however long Noah stayed in Edolas was exactly how much time passed in Earthland.
Thus, when Noah returned from Edolas to Earthland, only one or two days had passed since the Anima incident.
Of course, compared to the other two matters, those one or two days were utterly insignificant.
The first of those matters was naturally the arrival of Extalia's Exceeds in Earthland.
That day, the sight of a huge group of cats like Happy and Charlulu descending from the sky truly shattered the worldview of quite a few Fairy Tail mages.
Happy and Charlulu in particular had previously never seen any Exceeds other than each other, despite being of the same race, and had nearly been thrown into complete confusion.
However, compared to the members of Fairy Tail, Extalia's Exceeds were instead extremely happy about arriving in Earthland.
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