Qian Qian's Brilliant Idea and the Gensokyo Tour Group

When Alice held the Enrollment Advertisement drafted by Qian Qian and felt that she had found her direction in life, everyone who knew her or me thought that this poor witch had been sold down the river. But a researcher's zeal was impossible to stop, just as I could never stop Tawell from building her fourth branch laboratory in the shape of a European-style Coffin. Marisa's earnest attempts at persuasion could not possibly make Alice abandon her plan to study alchemy at the Imperial Military Academy—after seeing a lively doll with her own mind, as well as the larger-scale doll army controlled by that doll, the girl named Alice Margatroid had thoroughly, decisively, unquestionably, irredeemably fallen into the pit.

"I smell a conspiracy in what you're doing."

Marisa stared into my eyes with great seriousness, then warily eyed the flyer in my hand. "I absolutely won't sign any contract to become a Magical Girl, daze!"

Tch, sensitive Girl.

I clicked my tongue in dissatisfaction, then suddenly noticed that the surroundings had grown as dark as near evening. Looking up, I realized that Atlantis had almost completely emerged from the Space Rift and was hovering over the prairie, blocking out the sky. We were only at the edge of the floating island's shadow, yet it was already this dark. The very center of the Yin Shadow Area was probably as black as midnight by now.

We still had to figure out how to deal with the floating island's location first. I had already promised that the people of Atlantis could live in Avalon, and that definitely could not be changed. But if the floating island was going to remain in the sky, it would inevitably block sunlight. We could not exactly dig a massive depression hundreds of kilometers wide and dozens