A guide to self-rescue for animals in hell

"It's probably here." Haruko looked down at the information on the phone, and after confirming that the address was correct, she opened the door and walked in.

This is the second floor of a slightly old office building.

According to the statement given by the Magic Association, the purpose of buying this place was to establish a stronghold in Yokohama. It happened that Haruko took over the long-term mission and handed it over to Haruko to take care of it.

There is no mention of other expenses in the information sent.

Although it is said that the completion of the work itself is rewarded, all conjurers, including college students, will also have a fixed salary every month.

But in the final analysis, this is a long-term task, and we still need to find a place where we can rest.

Most of the tasks I participated in before were actually tasks assigned to Teacher Wutiao. I was too busy studying super-level spells and practicing hands, and completely forgot about this...

But here, it's not impossible to rest, there are tables and chairs to make do with lying on your stomach.

When Haruko was about to take a closer look at the office environment here, there was a "click" sound from the door.

It was a man in a simple black and white suit, who seemed to have rushed over after receiving the news, with a clearly visible panic on his face.

"Excuse me, is this Ms. Kagawa, I am Kitahara Aohiko who is in charge of connecting with you, and I belong to "Window". "

After the visitor introduced himself cautiously, he stopped to observe Haruko's reaction. Seeing that she had no intention of losing her temper, he breathed a sigh of relief and began to introduce the general situation of Yokohama.

In Yokohama, for some reason, the sense of existence is very low. There are almost no conjurers who can solve the magic spirits born here.

In the beginning, it was just an occasional low-level curse spirit that could be said to be harmless, so it was not noticed by people.

Slowly, the whereabouts of high-level magic spirits appeared in Yokohama. If the exorcism is not carried out, it may cause a large number of casualties in the population of Yokohama.

"Are you alone here?" Haruko asked with a frown.

"Yes, in fact, this "stronghold" itself has only been purchased for more than three years. Kitahara Canghiko responded, "Miss Kagawa can look around here. For my side, I still need some time to prepare materials." "

Speaking of it, it was true that she came a week earlier than the transfer order... Haruko took out her mobile phone, exchanged contact information with Kitahara, and then left first.

It can be seen that the geographical location here is quite good, with bustling crowds and rows of various shops everywhere.

Talking about shopping, she is not in the mood right now... Haruko herself is not interested in shopping and other activities, she can only walk aimlessly on the street, trying to deepen her impression of these strange streets around her.

Shall we go get some sweets first?Sit down and think about your next plan slowly.With such thoughts in mind, Haruko casually walked into a dessert shop.

After picking out a Baumkuchen with an attractive appearance, Haruko returned to the soft seat of the dessert shop with the finished milk tea in her hand.

Taking out her work notes, Haruko paused when flipping through the Tokyo section, but still left ten blank pages.

It will come in handy in the future.

From the booth next door, there was a whispered conversation.Although it could be heard that the other party had deliberately lowered her voice, Haruko still heard clearly because Haruko's hearing cannot be measured by normal human beings.

"Mr. Ranpo, there have been more and more deaths like this recently, and supernatural powers have no effect on them..."

Ability, death.After hearing the key words, Haruko stopped her finger on the work notebook, closed the notebook indistinctly, and eavesdropped intently.

"Well, but don't worry too much, things will turn around soon."

turnaround?What she won't say is... the corner of Haruko's mouth twitched.

However, the other party obviously had no intention of continuing to talk about the turning point, so the topic stopped abruptly at this point and turned to another direction.

Haruko withdrew her attention, hesitating whether to go over and talk to her.

Now it is clear that only Beiyuan is here, and I don't know that you can't use it.And the person on the deck over there is obviously an insider of the Yokohama curse spirit situation, and is a holder of a supernatural ability.

A text message notification sounded suddenly on the phone, Haruko opened it and saw that it was a message from Gojo Satoru.

"Just now, the teacher helped you get the benefit of being fully reimbursed for Yokohama's daily expenses..." Haruko read it subconsciously, and then she had a flash of inspiration, and continued with a slightly raised voice, "The curse spirits who have solved the troubles in Yokohama as soon as possible will come back soon. "

Her volume is controlled just right, not too loud to be noticed, but not too quiet so that the people in the booth next to her can't hear what she is saying.

If there is a reaction to the term curse spirit, then the person who just spoke or the forces behind them may be related to the spell.At least, they should already have a certain understanding of conjurers.

As Haruko's voice fell, the conversation over there also disappeared.

Not long after, a black-haired man in a brown coat stood next to Haruko. After looking straight at Haruko for a while, he smiled at his companion who followed him, "This is it."

"Mr. Ranbu?" The white-haired boy with slanted bangs didn't know why.

"Dun, turn around."

After some simple self-introductions, both parties have a basic understanding of each other's situation.

The information revealed by Edogawa Rampo is roughly that the force behind them called the Armed Detective Agency has contacted the Spell Society, and the other party promised to send a special-level conjurer to help deal with the curse spirit in Yokohama.

Of course, how this was negotiated is open to debate.

Well, since conditions can be given to make the high-level guys let go, the "Armed Detective Agency" should not be a small organization-in fact, she can probably judge this from these two members.

The information that Beiyuan mentioned probably refers to this partner, "Can I go with you to see it? Armed Detective Agency." Haruko asked, she wanted to see it with her own eyes rather than the information.

"Of course! Mr. Dazai should be at the detective agency now." Atsushi Nakajima happily answered Haruko directly when the matter he was worried about just now would be resolved.

On the other hand, Edogawa Ranpo didn't intend to stop him, and his smiling face seemed to be thinking of something.

After following the two of them back to the Armed Detective Agency, Haruko found that it was not far from the so-called office of the "Spell Club", and it only took about 10 minutes to walk there.

"We're back—" Luanbu dragged his lazy ending, attracting the attention of everyone present.

"Is this the client?" the man wearing glasses asked.

"No, it's probably a lady conjurer." Qingzi looked along the source of the voice, and the other party was obviously also watching her. Seeing her subconsciously looking over, she affirmed her judgment, "Hello, curse Ms. Artisan, I am Osamu Dazai."

"I'm Kunikida Doppo." Mr. Kunikida, who was wearing glasses, didn't seem to be able to react, but just said his name.

It seems that not everyone in the Armed Detective Agency understands the concept of conjurers and curse spirits, Haruko thought while saying, "I am Haruko Kagawa, and if you are a conjurer, you can indeed be regarded as one."

"Can it be? Ms. Haruko is too modest. When negotiating with your "Spell Association", the other party said that you are one of the super magicians that can be counted on one hand so far. Osamu Dazai smiled brightly, but the words in his mouth were not forgiving.

Really, that really flattered her.

No, if you think about these words, you will easily think of the conflicts between yourself and the higher-ups of the Magic Society.

Her detective agency itself is just because it's new to the agency.The attitudes and positions of various forces are in a state of ambiguity.

I was taken over immediately...

"If you want to say super, I am indeed. The purpose of coming to Yokohama this time is to exorcise the high-level curse spirits here."

Haruko chose to speak honestly, "Please let me know when there is information about the curse spirit, here is my contact information—"

Haruko, who finished speaking like a robot with a deadpan expression and no fluctuation in her tone, shook her phone.

In the end, it was Kunikida who came up first and exchanged phone numbers with her.

"Ah, I left here a little earlier, and I will visit you later." Ten or four minutes ago, Beiyuan sent a message, saying that the materials were basically sorted out, and she was invited to come over.After saying hello, Haruko hurriedly bowed and left.

"He's really a freshman in high school." Osamu Dazai sighed as he stared at Haruko's back disappearing at the door of the detective agency, "If you're chaotic, what do you think of Miss Haruko?"

"It's much better than that guy who has completely rotted from thought to action." Ranpo asserted, recalling the scene of the negotiation that day.

Osamu Dazai's finger tapping on the table stopped: "Then it's decided?"

"It's decided..." Ranpo replied affirmatively.

"Prefer to cooperate with the Armed Detective Agency?" Haruko flipped through the not-so-thick documents, "Why, logically speaking, wouldn't it be better for us to cooperate with Mafia, the port?"

"Because, the news from over there is that Ms. Haruko is asked to choose the Armed Detective Agency to cooperate as much as possible..." Beiyuan said weakly, "It seems that the Armed Detective Agency contacted the high-level first."

It can't be because of some simple first-come-first-served reason, Haruko concluded.

The information in her hand is not complete, most of it only has name, status and external reputation, what Haruko pays more attention to is the general evaluation of the two organizations.

"Okay, please help me reply there, just say that I plan to cooperate with the Armed Detective Agency." Haruko put the materials on the table and folded them casually, "As for now, I'm going to discuss cooperation."