After Lesna sent Wallace home, she hitchhiked to find her two best friends.

Ten minutes later, the car stopped next to the bustling Shanta Loye Avenue in Cross City, the whole street and the huge LCD screen were playing the Girls' Day product promotion advertisement, immersed in the festive atmosphere, Lesna got out of the car, put her hands in her pockets, and began to move towards the snack street behind the high-rise buildings of the commercial street.

She came to a small oriental-style shop at the end of the snack street, and looked at the words written on the wooden plaque on her head: Ordinary ramen shop, she pushed open the wooden door and walked in.

The store is small, but the décor is very neat and exquisite, with wind chimes and red lanterns hanging from the incandescent lamps overhead, and the afterglow of the setting sun spilling into the store through the wooden windows, and the faint smell of meat and sesame oil wafts in the air.

There were no customers in the shop, so Lulu and Eiko sat at the innermost wooden square table, waving at Lesna, and she hurried over to sit with them, the only sound of the TV and the sound of the kitchen fire and chopping vegetables.

As soon as Lesna sat down across from them, Lulu lay down on the table and said, "We ordered tonkotsu consommé ramen, and Aunt Li Shulan made it for us in the back kitchen." She nodded in response.

While they were discussing their holiday plans, the news on TV caught their attention: "... The little lady thief has issued a notice of theft to steal the cherry blossom gems from the Cross exhibition hall the day after tomorrow, and high school detective Maine Jacente will arrive in Cross City tomorrow to participate in the capture of the little lady thief..."

"You've got a match, Lulu." Lesna poured her tea and lit the TV with her chin.

Yongzi whispered close to her ear and said, "Maine Jacente is Lulu's childhood sweetheart and one of the Tarot Apostles. ”

This sentence startled Lesna to stop pouring tea and stared at Lulu who was sitting in the seat drinking tea with wide eyes.

Seeing Lesna's surprised expression, Lulu playfully stuck out her tongue and whispered: "But my brother and I asked Commander Bessen to keep it a secret from Maine, we are Tarot Apostles, after all, strange thieves and detectives are natural enemies, do you want to go to the exhibition hall the day after tomorrow to see how I show my skills?" With that, Lulu winked at the two of them.

"No problem, but... Jacent, this surname seems to have been heard somewhere. Lesna put down the teapot and thought with her chin in her hand.

"The Jason family is also a well-known magic family, Maine's father is a famous modern magician and private detective, and the great magician Ellen Jason of hundreds of years ago is their ancestor." Yongzi woke her up with a word.

"Wait... I remember that the magician card Catu in the hand of Commander Bessen was not Alan...? Main is his descendant, right? Why didn't the Magician card pick him? Lesna frowned slightly, looked at Lulu, and realized that something was not quite right.

Lulu propped her cheeks on her cheeks and looked at the ceiling with her eyes, thinking for a while before replying, "That's right, but it's not like having a descendant relationship to have the cards of the ancestors, and my brother and I should be exceptions." ”

The words made Lesna and Eiko look at each other, and they both pouted and shrugged their shoulders.

At this time, the shopkeeper Li Shulan also had a simple smile on her face and brought ramen to them on a tray: "Come, girls, your ramen is here!" ”

"Thank you, Aunt Shulan!" The three of them suddenly had their eyes lit up, and they hurriedly brought the steaming and fragrant ramen to them and began to gobble it up.

After eating the ramen, the three of them parted in front of the store and went home contentedly, agreeing to meet in two days.

Two days later, in the evening, Lesna and Eiko arrived at the entrance of the exhibition hall in civilian clothes, and the entire exhibition hall was illuminated as bright as day, and the crowd outside the door was crowded, and several helicopters were hovering in the night sky, and the scene of the hall was heavily guarded on the big screen, and the noise was mixed with various lights.

"This is the staff of the Public Security Bureau, please let me go." Behind the tidal crowd came a burst of young male voices, and people spontaneously stood on both sides, making way for a road leading directly to the exhibition hall.

Lesna looked curiously and saw that the leader was a young police officer in a gray-blue suit, with short tan hair and black eyes, who looked about the same age as Bessengret, and she remembered that this officer was called Zax, who was in charge of the theft of the little lady, and Zax was followed by a teenager.

His short blond curls, magenta eyes, and elegant face are unforgettable, and his open navy blue trench coat swaying in the wind accentuates that he has the elegance of a high-class man as a high school student.

Amid the camera's flash and buttons, Eiko lowered her black beret to cover her face, and when she saw the two enter the exhibition hall, she whispered to Lesna, "The boy behind Zax is Maine." ”

"It's just a high school detective, and the pomp is really big." Lesna saw Zax and Maine talking on the screen in front of the Sakura Gem's display case, and she replied flatly with her arms folded.

Hearing this, Yongzi poked her with her fingertips: "Don't underestimate him, that guy is a foreign student, and he has solved many cases abroad, and Commander Beisen specifically asked him to return to China to investigate Azkeret's affairs." ”

"Wha-" Before Lesna could express her surprise, the crowd erupted in a scream of surprise, and the two immediately focused on the screen.

The little lady of the strange thief sat on the display case with her wand in both hands in full view!

"Good evening, gentlemen, this beautiful cherry blossom gem has been taken by my little lady who blames the thief!" Lulu blinked and threw a cute smile at everyone in the hall when she raised her wand when a poker knife with magic power sent her wand out of her hand!

Oops! Lulu immediately retracted her expression and looked at the culprit, finding Maine standing not far away, a playing card between her right fingers, and a confident chuckle on her face.

This scene made Lesna and Eiko's hearts grip tightly.

"I'm not interested in thieves, but I've heard that the little lady is a cute girl, so I made a special trip to see it, and it's as cute as Officer Zax said." Main slowly approached Lulu, keeping a distance of about two meters from her.

In his slender and melodious voice, there was a hint of persuasion belonging to the victor: "It's not my style to attack women, is it okay to surrender to me before you are injured?" ”

This made Lulu very angry, even her childhood sweetheart would never forgive, she was so angry that her cheeks turned red, and she shouted at Maine: "Don't underestimate me! You pretentious detective! With that, she snapped her fingers, and several huge balloons appeared on the ceiling!

Main reacted quickly, and immediately shot a poker knife to pierce the large balloon, and the water wrapped in the balloon poured down like a waterfall, and in the panicked screams of the police officers, everyone was drenched from head to toe, Lulu took the opportunity to pick up the wand and waved, and the gem suddenly burst through the display case and flew into the palm of her hand.

"Good guy, bye-bye, Mr. Detective!" Lulu smugly waved at them and threw down a smoke bomb, filling the hall with candy-scented pink smoke.

Just the next second that the strange thief erased his figure, the miniature walkie-talkie in Maine's arms sounded the loud voice of the policeman: "Detective Maien, as you expected, the little lady of the strange thief appeared on the rooftop!" After receiving this news, Maine, who was drenched in soup, did not change his face and gave them an order: "Then act according to the plan." ”

"Understood!" Officers piloting helicopters on the rooftop shine their lights on Lulu.

"It's so bright!" Lulu was so blinded that she hurriedly covered half of her body with her cloak, and when she raised her wand to shatter the glare white lights, she suddenly turned her head from the cloak, ignoring the light, and found several small missiles coming towards her!

"Ahhh——!h Lulu's face turned pale and let out a burst of screams, she quickly jumped into the air to avoid the attack, and the missile fell to the ground and popped out not gunpowder, but several huge silver-white nets!

Countless nets covered Lulu, and she suddenly lost her balance and fell to the rooftop, letting out a muffled grunt of pain, and her wand spun and fell to the feet of Maine, who had already appeared there.

Damn it! Lulu tried her best to break free from the silver net, but it was extremely solid.

It was only when the magic of the net was transmitted to her through the palm of her hand that she reacted: it was a web made of magic!

"Looks like my guess was correct." With a light smile on his face, Main bent down to pick up his wand, slowly walked over to Lulu who was struggling in the net, knelt down next to her on one knee, bowed his head and whispered to her, "In your body... There's magic too...? ”

Finished...! The words froze Lulu in place, and she looked up at Maine.

"Don't be surprised, based on Officer Zax's description, I deduced that you are also a person with magical powers like me, so I tried to weave a web of magic to see if it could affect you, and it seems that my reasoning is quite reliable." With that, Maine set his wand aside and gently took Lulu's slender right hand.

He looked at Lulu with loving and gentle eyes, and his voice was as low as a whisper: "Little lady, stop here, okay?" At this moment, you are trapped in a web, but you are just a butterfly that has fallen into a spider's web. With that, he dropped a kiss on the back of Lulu's hand.

Lulu stared at his water-soaked face, and at the golden strands of her hair that reflected softly in the light, and she blushed and retracted her head and hands, and did not respond.

Lesna, who saw Lulu being captured on the screen, was overwhelmed.

"I'm going to help her!" After giving this sentence to Yongzi, she rudely pushed away the crowd and ran into the alley, using the queen card to perform tarot arming, this time transforming, with a mask painted with golden stripes on her face, and the yo-yo also stretched out its handle, turning into a long black whip.

She swooped onto the rooftop like an arrow from a string, sending a rain of black roses in the night sky, and the helicopter lost control in the rain of flowers, and to everyone's amazement, the rose petals cut through the net like a knife, and Lulu saw the opportunity to jump to the side, scoop up her wand and hide behind Lesna.

"Who are you?" The unexpected caused Maine to stand up and face them, and he could restrain his smile.

Lesna's face was expressionless, and she lowered her voice and said her name with red lips: "Strange thief black beauty." ”

After saying that, she waved her whip, and the entire rooftop set off a storm of black roses, blowing everyone unable to open their eyes, and when the wind dissipated, they found that the two had long since disappeared.

Amid the frantic cheers of the crowd, Eiko picks up Lesna and Lulu in an inconspicuous uninhabited alley.

"Woo woo, thank you Lesna! I almost got caught! It's the first time I've lost so badly! I had asked my brother to come with me! Lulu wept bitterly and wrapped her arms around Lesna's thin waist, her cold hands still shaking.

"Are you stupid! That guy is also a Tarot Apostle, and he has quite a bright head! You can't be loose anymore when you play against him, this is a lesson! Lesna was so angry that she preached Lulu and comforted her by patting her on the back.

"But I managed to steal the gem, you see—" Lulu didn't heed her anger and pulled the gem from her cloak and handed it to Lesna.

A pink cherry blossom wrapped in a crystal that looked like a flower blooming in a drop of water, and Lesna gently rubbed the gem with her fingertips, the surface smooth and cold.

"This gem is a treasure that belongs to the country of Yongzi, but it was stolen by people with ulterior motives and sold to the country of Criton, and Yongzi is also concerned about the whereabouts of this gem." After Lulu finished speaking, she looked at Yongzi beside her.

Naiko just pouted and shrugged her shoulders, "So that I can get in touch with the higher-ups of Matsukoku." ”

Hearing this, Lesna slapped the gem into Yongzi's hand, raised her chin and smiled relaxedly: "Okay, the mission is complete, let's go back." ”

The three of them hooked their shoulders and walked down the silent alley to their way back in the midst of the boiling hustle and bustle.

When they arrive at the classroom after the holidays, they find that the whole classroom is full of new thieves, and everyone in the class is discussing the connection between the little lady and the black beauty.

When the bell rang and everyone reluctantly returned to their seats, Susan walked up to the podium and said, "Students, tomorrow we are going to have a joint spring outing with the second grade class!" But until then, today we have another excellent transfer student in our class, come in. ”

As soon as the new students walked into the classroom, the girls suddenly let out a burst of exaggerated screams, and Lesna, who wanted to take a nap, saw the new students, her eyes widened, and every nerve in her body tensed.

"I'm Maine Jacent, and I'm a detective by profession, please advise." With that, his eyes swept over everyone in the class, and finally his gaze rested on Lesna, a faint smile on his face.

The expression made Lesna sit on pins and needles, her brow furrowed, her upper teeth biting her lower lip, her eyes shooting a hostile look at Maine.