The Irregular at Magic High School: Mayumi Route

Volume 26: Yokohama Disturbance: Part 1

"Illegal entrants have landed via a small freighter docked to loading zone five. All personnel, proceed immediately to loading zone five."

On this particular night, many were present, all waiting with cold breath on Yokohama's Yamashita Wharf.

After receiving their command, two detectives in plain clothes began running. While from a far distance, it seemed that they were quite professional, closer up, it seemed that they were arguing.

"Sheesh! I thought I told the that it'd be over there!"

"This isn't time to be complaining, Chief!"

"But!"

"Stop it and run!"

"But wasn't I the one in charge here?"

"I'm still older than you,"

"Damn."

After answering his subordinate, Chief Inspector Toshikazu Chiba increased his speed.

He and his subordinate were nearly half a mile away from loading zone five, the place they needed to get to, and, for most people, it would take at least a couple minutes to run there. But for these two, they weren't 'most people'; they were magicians. Within thirty seconds of continuous banter, the pair made it to loading zone five.

"Ah! I knew we wouldn't have enough people!"

"But what can we do then? Only detective-magicians can deal with these sorts of crimes."

"Well... That's not... Completely... True... Huh!"

Chief Inspector Chiba spoke, leaping high into the air with the help of, of course, magic. His head reached a height to where he was able to spot the trespassers, and with grace -or as gracefully as he could have done- he attacked them with his sword. The trespassers tried to retaliate with long-range spells, but it was absolutely futile.

To finish the remaining trespassers, Inagaki simply took his pistol out and fired at the ones who were too distracted by Chiba. They'd wrapped things up, or at least close to it.

"Chief, we need to get to the ship!"

"What! Wait- you mean me?-"

"Stop complaining and do it!"

Between the pair, it was quite obvious which was blessed with a far superior work ethic, while the other was almost a complete opposite of him. Nonetheless, the two managed to take this task seriously enough, at least to the extent of not sabotaging the human-smuggling sting.

"Fine, fine, I'll go, so Inagaki, go stop that boat for me."

"But... If I do it, it may end up at the bottom of the sea."

"Don't care. It's not us who are liable you know, it'll be our managers who deal with it."

"Ah. I have no clue why I expected you to take responsibility."

Inagaki's shoulders dropped with disappointment before he loaded the caseless rounds into his revolver. With his left hand, he flicked a switch on the grip's bottom, causing the aim-assist attached to the top to light up.

The specialized CAD expanded an activation sequence; he pulled the trigger, and within a split second of delay, the device began the magic program.

A magic jacket bullet traveled through a defined path, carefully piecing the small vessel's stern just as it was leaving the dock.

The gunshot echoed a couple of times before the bubbles coming from the stern began to calm.

"Good job!" Chiba praised, carefree. A click came from his hands, revealing what seemed to be a wooden sword. On closer inspection, however, it was a sword cane.