Tsubasa Rohrbach looked at the building in front of which she was standing.

Looking at the sign and asking around a bit, it was seemingly some sort of private eye firm. However, considering the existence of a bounded field around the building, Tsubasa was quite certain that the owner of the establishment was a magus of some sort.

After making an appointment, she was instructed to wait in a waiting area just outside the consultation office.

If she had to guess, this 'private eye' most likely dealt in the supernatural, providing services for those dwelling in the 'World of Magecraft' or perhaps even common citizens who had inadvertently got wrapped up in some sort of supernatural incident.

As Tsubasa understood it, it was a common enough business for spellcasters, though mainly in the United States, the 'backwater wild west' of the Magecraft World. Though she supposed, given how mysticism still had its place in Japan, such a business would make sense. There was even a rumour that a certain Grand-rank puppeteer had once set up a similar business in Japan.

At the very least, a business investigating the supernatural would make sense as to why the fortune-telling she had done through her magecraft had led her here.

Originally, she was going back home to Japan as part of her travel to encounter all sorts of magi. Especially one that was hard to encounter in the Clock Tower. Japan, with its own unique brand of magecraft that made use of Divine Bodies at its pinnacle, was one of them.

Plus, it had given her an excuse to visit her home country. She had been missing some taste unique to Japanese cuisine, among other things.

Of course, since there was minimal contact between the Shinto Temple—where most practitioners of Japanese Magecraft were—and the Clock Tower, setting up a meeting was difficult. Especially since her family was also not of the calibre that would be able to demand a meeting with most of the established sects of Shintoism that practice Japanese Magecraft.

Thus, she had to settle for meeting the monks of the Shinkoji Temple in Yomisaka. Who, though practitioners of Japanese Magecraft, were a minor one, as they do not even possess a Divine Body of the kami they worship, that of Inari.

Nevertheless, they did practice some form of Onmyodo and made use of [i]kashiwade[/i] to invoke the blessings of Inari.

Her meeting with the monks of the temple had been quite fruitful in facilitating her desire for discussion. However, she ended up agreeing to do a favour for the head monk.

Apparently, a few of the people who often visited the Inari shrine at the temple had disappeared a few days ago. Their own investigation had led to an excavation project for a subway system that had since been scrapped from any reports, as well as being covered up through magecraft.

The monks knew enough that this was beyond their own capability as merely minor practitioners, especially as there had been some indication that there had been Clock Tower involvement.

Thus, they were hoping that Tsubasa would help them with the investigation, to which she agreed.

Of course, with almost no lead, she had to resort to her magecraft to create one.

In this case, by using herself as a spirit medium to be possessed by one of her angel familiars.

Ieiael. Its name meant the Right Hand of God. Under the quinance of Cancer, its ruler was the Moon, which was presided over by the Archangel Gabriel.

Governing over fortune and discovery, by invoking the name of Archangel Gabriel, who was the one who brought the news of God's plan to Mary, as well as the one who appeared before Daniel to explain his vision, Tsubasa aligned herself with 'God's revelation'. Thus, by then projecting the image of the angel possessing her over a ball on a chain, a pseudo-holy relic bearing the authority of Iaiel was created.

After that, it was a simple matter of holding the chains and hovering the ball above a map of the city before asking the question of 'Where shall I go to investigate the cover-up of Yomisaka's subway?' before the ball hovered over a particular area of the map.

Repeating the process after Tsubasa arrived at the area—using the ball as some sort of a 'dowsing rod'—led her to this building.

Tsubasa watched two men come out of the office before a buzzing sound that indicated 'next customer' could be heard.

Entering the room, she found herself face-to-face with a pale young man, seemingly a few years older than her from appearance alone.

"Good morning," she greeted the man, "You are the 'investigator', I presume? I would like to request your service in investigating the disappearance of some workers on an excavation project for Yomisaka's subway."