Tonight was quiet. In the moonless, pitch-black sky, the seven stars of the Big Dipper shone unusually bright, twinkling like a giant spoon hanging overhead...
Suddenly!
Deep in the mountains, among the dense forest, a brilliant blue portal appeared without a sound in the middle of the uninhabited wilderness.
"..."
-?˙?˙)?
"Ha!"
?(?)?
A moment later, a pretty little girl with golden hair and blue eyes cheekily poked half her head through the portal and looked around. Only after confirming that no one was outside and nothing had noticed her did she cheer and hop straight through.
"This is..."
Σ(?Д?;≡;?д?)
Annie looked around, then frowned as she tried to get her bearings. She suddenly felt that this place—or rather, this world—seemed strangely familiar. But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't remember where it was.
(Report! Esteemed young mistress, this is Britain—the world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where you visited last time. That's right, it's the world where you used to be a magic professor. You've come back here again!
(●￣(?)￣●)
Before the troublesome little mistress could figure out what kind of world this was by "looking" with her eyes, Tibbers promptly explained it to her in private. Its mental scan had immediately revealed what sort of place this was, and it had also detected several familiar figures not far away.)
"Huh?!"
!!!∑(?Д?ノ)ノ
"Looks like it really is..."
o(*^▽^*)o
After her initial surprise, Annie focused and took a closer look. She glanced up at the stars and roughly worked out how much time had passed in this world since she left. Then she smiled sheepishly.
But coming back to this world again, she felt nothing like she had the last time, when she'd been frustrated and desperate to get home. Now she was in a carefree,