Another week passed before Duanmu Huai finally dismissed his avatar and returned to the Inquisition.
However, he had not returned to the Inquisition because the Magical Girl world's problems had all been resolved. It was because of a message from Echote.
Before heading to the Magical Girl world, Duanmu Huai had ordered Echote to dispatch a survey fleet to another star region to raise the Disaster progress. Now that Echote had notified him, news from that star region had naturally arrived.
Thus, Duanmu Huai returned to the Inquisition with Ann, Kigara, and Akemi Homura. After all, the news from that star region was also extremely important to him.
Of course, on the way, Duanmu Huai dismissed his avatar and explained the situation to Kigara and Akemi Homura. As for their reactions... well, there were no particular problems.
After all, they had already been shocked by everything worth being shocked over when Duanmu Huai became a Magical Girl. At this point, his current appearance was much easier to accept than when he had been wearing a pink-and-white lace Magical Girl Outfit.
"Uncle, you're finally back."
Seeing Duanmu Huai return, Echote also let out a sigh of relief—or rather, she only relaxed after seeing that Duanmu Huai had changed back into his usual clothes.
After all, everyone knew that Duanmu Huai had something of a penchant for bad jokes. If he had shown up wearing pink lace, Echote would not have known what to say.
Thank goodness, thank goodness.
"Tell me what's going on."
Duanmu Huai knew that since they had called him back, something must have happened. Sure enough, Echote nodded, then opened the battle command console in front of her.
"Yes, Uncle. According to your previous instructions, I dispatched a reconnaissance fleet to that star region. As expected, we discovered