Yokohama Notes of a Miss Wizard

Alvira has only been in this world for less than 24 hours, and she still doesn't know anything about the situation here, so she doesn't know about the Armed Detective Agency.

Therefore, after listening to Edogawa Ranpo's words, she did not immediately come up with the new gadget that Ranpo wanted, but asked very sincerely and from the bottom of her heart: "Why should I join the detective agency? I am a witch and Not a detective."

"I'm the detective." Edogawa Ranpo continued to akimbo, frowned, a little angry.

Alvira, who was completely out of the situation, was even more puzzled, "I know you are a detective, but what does that have to do with what we just said?"

After hearing this, Edogawa Ranpo became even more angry.He pointed at Alvira and shouted: "Stupid witch!"

"You are the idiot!" Not to be outdone, Alvira took out her wand and pointed at him, "Why should I join an inexplicable detective agency when I don't know anything? You are such a big man, why don't you understand anything? ?”

"It's not some inexplicable detective agency!" Edogawa Ranpo continued to roar.

Alvira didn't want to shout at him anymore, so she waved her wand to make her voice louder: "What is the situation like, tell me? How could I know if you don't tell me?"

The girl's voice echoed in Wanxiangtang, Edogawa Ranpo, who was the closest, finally stopped talking and covered his ears in a daze.

His ears were full of buzzing, and he was almost deafened by the girl's sudden action.But also because of this unexpected behavior, he became calm.

"Even if you say that, Lord Ranbu won't tell you." He muttered something in a low voice, walked to a row of seats in the Wanxiang Hall, and squatted on it without caring about etiquette.

After watching the quarrel between Edogawa Ranpo and Alvira, he crossed his fingers with Yosano Akiko and explained with a smile: "The Armed Detective Agency is centered on Mr. Ranpo, armed to the limitless detective agency."

"So, in the detective agency, there is really only Mr. Ranpo who can be called a detective."

"Everyone except him is the 'armed' part?" Alvira thought for a while, retracted her right hand, and shrouded it under the long cloak again.

She looked around Wanxiangtang, and finally looked at Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Mr. Fukuzawa is the president, right? If I want to join the Armed Detective Agency, what do I need to do?"

Before Fukuzawa Yukichi could figure out what to say, Edogawa Ranpo took over the conversation.

"Master Ranbu has already given you a hint." He took out a bag of potato chips from nowhere, and while chewing on the potato chips, he complained, "The war is so boring, let's end it quickly! "

"What kind of hint is that? You don't need to think about it to know that what you said is not a test at all." Alvira had nothing to do with his child's temper, so she could only find something fun to deal with.

She took out an unused opal cone from the ring, handed it to Edogawa Ranpo, and attached instructions, "No, this is the opal pendulum. I haven't used it since I made it. It's just right for you." .”

Opal can inspire inspiration, imagination, and strengthen personal talents. It is the most suitable gemstone for gifted people.

The amethyst is the most convenient for Alvira to use, but she does not have pendulums made of other crystals.The opal pendulum that Edogawa Ranpo is sending now is one of the finished products she made in her spare time.

She sincerely hoped that the big detective could play quietly with the pendulum and avoid the trouble.

However, expecting a detective to shut up with a "new toy" is absolutely impossible.

"You use this to know that you can't go back?" Edogawa Luanbu took the pendulum, and then removed the rest of the pendulum, leaving only the crystal pendant itself.

Um?How can it be seen that she can't go back?

Alvira's right hand, which had not been taken into the cloak, froze in mid-air, her eyes widened in disbelief, and she carefully looked at him from head to toe, "Your [Super Reasoning] can still see this? Do you want to do this?" Cheating?"

Even after divination with white crystal, which is the most stable and least susceptible to magnetic field changes, she dared to be sure that she could not find a way to return to the original world. How could this detective get along with her so well? Can you be so sure in just a little time?

If she hadn't been convinced that Edogawa Ranpo was incapable of interfering with the connection between the worlds, she would have wondered if he had played a trick in it.

"If we don't accept your words, you will be taken away by the port mafia as soon as you go out." Edogawa fiddled with the opal, and casually dropped a bomb that made Alvira confused.

Although she is a witch who doesn't often come into contact with ordinary people, it's not that Alvira has never heard of the term mafia.

In the laws of mortals, some countries allow the mafia to exist legally, such as Japan.

But she probably didn't... Oh no, she did.

Alvira's face suddenly turned cold, she thought of the boy who called himself "Dazai Osamu" and his subordinates with guns.

Those guys must be from the port mafia.

The right hand shrunk in the cloak kept stroking the pattern on the wand, she took a step back, lowered her head, took a deep breath, and said softly.

"Thank you. But in this case, my joining will cause you trouble, so it's still..."

"No." Edogawa Ranbu interrupted, "Why don't you understand at all?"

He casually threw the opal onto the table, raised his feet up on the table, and showed an uncomfortable but comfortable sitting posture.

"Your current choice is to go out and be caught by the port mafia, or to join a detective agency. And after you are caught, you will try your best to escape, and in the end you will still choose to join a detective agency. So I will omit the middle part, You are directly invited to join."

"In the end, that's all there is to it."

Edogawa Ranpo put one hand behind his head, raised his head, and narrowed his eyes.

He didn't say anything more, just lay on his back, not caring about Alvira's answer at all.

After quietly listening to Edogawa Ranpo's words, Alvira closed her eyes, took off her pointed hat with her left hand, and let out a long sigh.

She originally called herself "Best", but she actually wanted to seek the protection of the human beings she sheltered.

This was really hard for her to accept.

Everything Edogawa Ranpo said was correct.

Alvira has never seen this so clearly.

For her, there are still many unknowns in this world, but even so, it is impossible for her as the White Witch to join the Mafia.

Therefore, Alvira has no choice but to go one way - to join the Armed Detective Agency.

In order to protect herself, she had to do this.

After the black-haired girl took off the pointed hat, she untied the cloak, revealing the clothes hidden under the cloak.

She was wearing a three-quarter-sleeve shirt with a high slanted collar on her upper body, and brown and black suede shorts on her lower body. Even the accessories were in the style of steampunk.

Taking out a dagger from the ring, Alvira pierced her right index finger, dripping a few drops of blood onto the prepared parchment.

Strangely, the blood didn't soak the parchment holding it at all, but just floated on the surface.

Immediately afterwards, she took out another quill, dipped in the few drops of blood, and quickly wrote words on the parchment that no one except her could understand.

She didn't stop writing until the blood was used up like ink, and dried the ink.

"Please sign." Alvira handed the parchment to Fukuzawa Yukichi, "This is my last request."

"You don't have to worry about the above content. I just added some restrictions, such as I will not accept orders to hurt others, which is the bottom line of my personal principles."

"If you force me to violate my principles, it will turn into a curse against you."

"Although I don't think you are that kind of people, this insurance is still necessary."

Alvira nervously clasped her wrist behind her back, her golden eyes fixed on her name, completely embarrassed to see Fukuzawa Yukichi's face.

After receiving the parchment, Fukuzawa Yukichi said calmly, "Apart from not hurting others, is there anything else?"

"I am a white witch who received orthodox witch education. Actually, I don't like vicious black magic very much, but it can still be used."

Alvira licked her lips and continued to explain: "In general, as long as I am not ordered to actively use black magic to attack other people without reason."

"If I can't do it, I will say it directly, and I will make corresponding announcements where black magic will be used."

After explaining the restrictions on the parchment, she hesitated, wondering if she should hand out the quill.

"Do I want to sign with blood too?" Fukuzawa Yukichi put the parchment on the table and looked at Alvira.

"From the perspective of effect, signing with blood is the most effective. However, ordinary signing is also acceptable. As long as you sign with your real name, this contract will have corresponding effects."

Before Alvira finished speaking, Fukuzawa Yukichi cut his finger with a saber, and silently reached out to ask for the quill pen.

She quickly handed the quill pen over with both hands, pointed to a blank space and said, "Sign here."

According to Alvira's instructions, Fukuzawa Yukichi signed his name.

The moment he put down the quill, the parchment spontaneously ignited before his eyes.

The burnt ashes turned into two off-white silk threads, forming the same unknown pattern on the backs of their respective left hands, and then this pattern disappeared under the skin.

Fukuzawa Yukichi retracted his hands into his sleeves, nodded to Alvira and said, "Welcome to the Armed Detective Agency."

Alvira pursed her lips, clasped her hands, and responded with an almost inaudible "um".

Witnessing the conclusion of the magic contract with his own eyes, Ranpo Edogawa, who is playing with a "new toy", revisited the past with great interest.

"Since you have joined the detective agency, why don't you bring what Ranpo-sama wants?"

Being interrupted by him like this, Alvira couldn't keep down anymore.

Thinking of her thinning little treasury, she clenched her fists and hammered it on the table in front of Edogawa Ranpo.

The money-obsessed little witch gritted her teeth, and threw down two words loudly—"No way!"