"Hey, don't run! The experiment isn't over yet, hey, you've signed a contract with me!"

It was a very crisp and moving voice, and if it was the first time to hear it, it was easy to think that the owner of the voice must have been a young girl - in fact, but the charred man who heard it ran faster as if he had heard the roar of a ferocious beast.

"Hey, stop!"

With a somewhat angry scream, a small man who was also charred and blackened sprang out of the smoke-emitting alley, shouting at the man who had already fled far away.

"Breaking the contract is punishable!"

The man, however, ran without looking back, and seemed to stumble a few times as the little man shouted the word "contract."

At the same time, Nanoha, who was standing next to Cheruth, couldn't help but tremble slightly, and seemed to have no good feelings about the word "contract".

The people in the surrounding streets quickly regained their composure, as if they were accustomed to the explosion and such scenes, except for the little charred man standing alone at the entrance of the alley.

Cheruth, who happened to be standing not far behind the little man, smiled at Nanoha, who had a speechless expression.

"Well, it looks like you're quite energetic. ”

You're overthinking......

Nanoha complained in her heart.

Unlike the people in the surrounding streets, who seemed to walk around the alley slightly, as if trying to avoid the little man who was still standing there muttering "breach of contract" and "punishment", Cheruth walked straight over and said hello.

"Kewpie-chan, good afternoon~"

The little man who heard the sound turned around, and a small face that could be seen to be very white and tender, but was a little dirty because of the dust under his eyes, faced Cheruth and Nanoha, and his big red eyes blinked.

"Eh, Cheruth, good afternoon—no! How many times have you said that people call Chuchu not Chubby!"

Shaking his gray hair, which was also a little dirty from the dust, the little hicchurl protested solemnly to Cheruth.

"Gee, the name thing is good. ”

"It's not good—ah!"

Chuqiu, who was about to have an uncompromising argument with Cheruth about the correct name of his name, suddenly noticed Nanoha who was hustering behind Cheruth trying to reduce his presence, and couldn't help but forget about the name at once.

"Nanoha, did you finally agree to sign a contract with me today?"

Throwing Cheruth aside, the hilichurls ran to Nanoha's side as if they had seen a bait-eating critter, clasped their hands together on their chests and tiptoed their dirty little faces in front of Nanoha's eyes, as if she would pounce on Nanoha as long as she opened her hand slightly.

Of course, whether it was because of her natural reserved personality or out of her obsessive resistance to some aspect of the little girl in front of her, Nanoha would not give her a chance to do any further physical contact.

"Well, that, no, I'm just accompanying Ruth over with you......"

"Anyway, it's here, isn't it, it's a rare opportunity, do you want to consider signing a contract with me to become a magical girl now?"

"No, no, I ......"

"There are many, many benefits to signing a contract to become a magical girl, and if it's Nanoha, I can also give you an extra kill to die-"

"Hey, hey, hey!" Cheruth, who was decisively ignored because of Nanoha's presence, puffed up her face slightly and interrupted Qiuqiu's persuasion, "Nanoha said not to sign a contract with you, and I have something serious to say about coming to you today!"

"What I'm doing right now is a very serious thing, Chelus, don't get in my way!"

"No matter how you look at it, it's a forcible sale, and doing it as a serious thing will bother others!"

"Well~well~" Seeing that the three of them were about to be watched by the surrounding neighbors, uncles and aunts, the tender-faced Nanoha hurriedly started a round, "Anyway, let's go to Qiuqiu's store first." ”

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Hillhill's home is in the middle of that small and exploded alley, the first floor is a small and small magic guide accessories store, and it also has a business of repairing household magic guides, and the second floor is where to live.

Chuqiu's parents seem to have died of illness when they were young, and she was raised by her grandfather, who opened a magic guide accessories store, but this only relative also died when Qiuqiu was less than ten years old, so the 15-year-old Lori, who claimed to be a year older than the two Cheruth but had no real age at all like Cheruth, became the only occupant of the place and the owner of the shop.

Right now, in the living room of the house on the second floor of the small shop, which had been temporarily closed due to an accidental explosion in the experiment, the three of them, no, to be precise, Chelus and Nanoha, who were guests, were in a somewhat subtly strange situation.

Pale pink delicate princess dress with white over-the-knee socks, long milk-white hair tied into a double ponytail with a slight pink color at the tips of the hair, washed off the dust on the body and changed into clean clothes to restore the cute Lori image of the Qiu Qiu maintained a sitting posture and knelt on the floor on the second floor of his house, three fingers on the floor, bowed slightly with his little head, and solemnly spoke.

"Please sign a contract with me and become a magical girl!"

"Hey, wait a minute!"

Without waiting for Nanoha, who was flushed, to speak, Cheruth couldn't help it first.

Raising his head awkwardly, Hilichurl glanced at Cheruth with displeasure.

"Don't get in the way here! it's a big time for hilichurls!"

"It's just that you just want Nanoha to be your exclusive magician experimenter, don't you!"

"It's rude, I'm serious about signing a contract with Nanoha and then providing the best magic guide items in order for her to become the strongest magical girl. ”

"But it's all about proposing, you pose!"

"Then it's no problem to marry Chuqiu directly, as long as you can sign a contract. ”

"Eh, get married, get married, no, no, no."

Nanoha quickly got up from her chair and waved her hands desperately because of a word that was really strong for a 14-year-old innocent girl, but Chuqiu spoke without hesitation.

"Please marry me and sign a contract to become a magical girl!"

"Dismissed!"

Hilichurl looked up again, revealing two small tiger fangs towards Cheruth.

"Why did you answer!"

"Because Nanoha is mine!"

With that, Cheruth jumped up from her chair as well, and at once hugged Nanoha, who was a little stunned by her shocking speech, from the side, and made a face at the equally stunned hilichurl.

Quiet――――

"Ah, I see, then there is no way. ”

"Eh, eh!"

Chuqiu, who nodded helplessly in agreement, and Nanoha, who was so blushing that she almost steamed.

"Cheche Che Ruth, no, you can't say anything like this, we're all girls, get married or something......"

"Huh? I mean Nanoha is already my exclusive magician tester, what are you talking about?"

Holding Nanoha's arm, Cheruth looked at Nanoha with a very innocent and cute look - of course, it is difficult to say what she thought in her heart - and the hilichurl had already understood the meaning of Cheruth's words, and stood up from the ground with regret.

"Yes, it's a pity, but since Nanoha has signed a contract with Cheruth, there's no way to do it, but when Nanoha doesn't want to partner with her, remember to come to me. ”

Nanoha looked at this and that, and the flush on her face not only showed no sign of abating, but became even better.

What, what, she was just misunderstood like a fool, isn't that an easy way to misunderstand......

Looking at the red-faced tyrant-chan who was huddled in the chair with her head in her arms, the corners of Cheruth's mouth curled.

On the other hand, Chuqiu seemed to be a little disappointed that his favorite experimenter had been taken away, and he glanced at Cheruth with a smile on her lips, her eyes like that of an aggrieved little girl who had been robbed of the toy she wanted.

"Okay, okay, don't be unhappy, obediently ~ drink juice ~"

With a grin, Cheruth took out a large bottle of apple juice from the magic cooler in the kitchen, poured three glasses, and handed it to Nanoha, who was still shy, and Chuqiu, who was depressed.

“...... This is what my family is right about. ”

"Oh, don't be so outside, Kewpie-chan~"

"No, that's what the owner of this family should say...... Anyway, I said don't change other people's names, my name is Qiuqiu!"

"You like the name so much, I think it's much cuter than a certain black and fat penguin......

"What does my name have to do with penguins......"

Muttering discontentedly, Hillhurl took a sip of juice and then looked at Cheruth with wide, red eyes.

"Okay, tell me, what's the matter with coming to me today?"

"It's nothing.,I just want to ask if the parts of the magic vacuum cleaner you ordered before have been completed?I'm almost done with the main code.,If you can, I want to test whether the core rune code of the wind pressure manufacturing can work normally.。 ”

There are many branches of magic engineering, strictly speaking, Cheruth has been learning for two years in the rune coding of magic engineering, and in order to make a complete magic guide, in addition to the internal rune coding, it is also necessary to have a special magic guide circuit structure that can execute the magic energy instructions contained in the rune code, and this is the reason why Cheruth came to this hilichurl.

This Lori, who resembles a cuppie's mother, has an amazing talent in the production of magic guides, although her own magic energy perception is below that of normal people, but she can only rely on brain power to design and make shells and physical magic crystal circuits that fit the functions of magic guides. If you take electronic devices as an example, most of the software part of the program software is designed, and most of the hardware structure is completed by this Lori.

Of course, it is precisely because hilichurls do not have magic energy sensing power that she often fails to sense the magic blockage caused by the misconnection of some subtle magic guide circuits in the process of manufacturing magic guide components, and the things she makes often have magic explosions that are not lethal but scary enough, which is why she is obviously a magic guide technician who is very good at hardware design, but she is not very recognized.

Hilichurl raised his hand and gestured to the stairs on the second floor.

"Let's go down and see later, let's do it according to the design requirements you gave me, but you have to take it back and try it yourself, after all, my magic energy perception is too poor, and if you don't rely on magic crystals, you can't test the operation of the magic rune at all." ”

"Allah, is it okay to be so modest, Master 'Qiu'?"

Hilichurl gave Cheruth a blank look.

"Just telling the truth, Master Deed. ”

"Qiu Qi",It is the code name of the rookie magic master who has been continuously launching a variety of practical new magic guides in the Seagull Chamber of Commerce in the past two years,Few people know,The so-called genius magic guide technician "Qiu Qi Master"The main body,It's just two Loli who are too lazy to make up names。

[It is said that at this time, it is not considered a small death to write the fat penguin ball ball as a stalk......(:з"∠)_]