The next morning, at dawn.
With the holidays over, Saihagakuen Academy once again welcomed its returning students.
The weather was still unbearably hot, and many people were complaining bitterly.
However, the damage caused by the incident involving Lotanlingchia's Magical Crime perpetrators some time ago had now all been repaired.
The students did not even know about it.
To the public, the school claimed that the repairs were being carried out to renovate the campus grounds. It did not tell the students that a serious crime had taken place at the school.
That had been Natsuki's idea.
"There was no need to deliberately cause panic among the students."
That was Natsuki's position.
If the students learned that Magical Crime perpetrators might break into the campus at any time, they certainly would not be able to feel at ease, would they?
Thinking from the students' perspective, Natsuki had insisted on keeping the matter hidden. Thus, the students returned to school without knowing what had happened.
Naturally, Luo Zhen also obediently came to school.
This time, however, Luo Zhen had another purpose in coming.
"Hase Natsune hasn't come to school?"
In the garden on the roof of the middle school division building, Luo Zhen listened to the information Yukina had brought and nodded thoughtfully.
----"Hase Natsune."
That was a name Luo Zhen had only heard yesterday.
And the person who had mentioned that name had been Nagisa.
Luo Zhen had brought home the photograph La Folia had secretly slipped to him yesterday and asked Nagisa who the person in it was.
"She was wearing the middle school division uniform of Saihagakuen Academy, so she must be a student there. Nagisa is quite popular and should know her, so it would be better to ask her when I got home."
That was the decision