After becoming a chaotic daughter

Ranpo has been on a business trip to Kyushu for the past few days.

A high-ranking government official named him to go there to solve a murder case of a white-haired ghost who "resurrected from the dead". In addition, this case sounds really interesting, so Ranpo went to Kyushu with a clerk.

I thought that the incident could be resolved in just three to five days, but there were some accidents in the middle, so that it had been a week and Ranpo hadn't returned from Kyushu, and Nanako had lived a life of "no adults at home" for a week.

She took Gogol to the supermarket to buy some ingredients, stuffed them into the refrigerator of the dormitory, and then dug out the kitchen utensils that were barely used from the kitchen of the dormitory, and cooked noodles for supper for several nights in a row.

Nanako knows how to cook, although she can only cook a few simple dishes, and the taste is very ordinary, but compared to Ranpo who can burn the bottom of the pot, her cooking level can barely score [-]%. It's not very tasty, but it's not bad, just enough to fill your stomach.

Luanbu didn't let her touch the kitchen utensils, and Nanako, who was not tall enough and hadn't cooked anything for several years, was a bit unfamiliar. After cooking noodles that were "too salty", "too bland" and "too oily" for three days in a row, she finally It returned to the normal level. On the fourth night, I cooked two bowls of "ordinary" and "uncharacteristic" noodles, the kind that tasted bland and would be completely forgotten after eating, and then went alone with Gogol A bowl was eaten as a midnight snack.

At this time, Gogol was still researching which recipe on the Internet made the authentic borscht.

The time to return from the business trip was delayed for several days, so Ranpo called Nanako a few more times, and in addition to the exhortations from previous business trips, he also emphasized that she should stay away from the newcomer from the detective agency.

Nanako didn't know why Ranpo kept telling her to stay away from this person, she didn't have any feelings for Dazai, she just thought he was a little noisy, and he made Kunikida a little noisy.If Ranpo is usually just fishing in the club, then Dazai is like a walking accident maker, always making Kunikida go crazy, and even Oda is always taught by Kunikida.

The night outside the dormitory was dark.

It's almost ten o'clock at night, and I have personally experienced the dangers of staying up late, so Nanako has developed a good work and rest habit now, and usually goes to bed on time at nine o'clock, but after returning to the dormitory in the past few nights, she has been cooking I ate noodles for supper, went to bed a little later than usual, and just started laying bedding.

She has grown a bit, but she still uses the old quilt. The biggest difference is that she can spread the quilt easily now, unlike when she was in the first grade, she always made the quilt crooked, and sometimes I want to mess around to help her clean up.In contrast, Gogol has grown a lot in size, but the closet is still big enough for him to sleep in, so he just got a new set of bedding.

Nanako had just spread the quilt and was about to pick up the little yellow duck that fell beside her, when she heard a knock on the door of the dormitory.

There was a very light and rhythmic knock on the door, followed by a young man's voice: "Nanako, are you asleep?"

It was Dazai who was told by his father to "stay away when you see it".

Dazai also lives in the staff dormitory of the detective agency. The staff dormitory of the detective agency is an old two-story single-person apartment. Ranpo, Yosano and several clerks live here. Dazai's dormitory is on the first floor The room farthest from the stairs is just below the random step dormitory.

After he moved to the dormitory, the few times he came to the door were to borrow things, such as soy sauce, can openers, electric mosquito coils, and even washing powder. Nanako wondered if he had nothing but clothes when he moved in. bring.

Holding the little yellow duck's butt, Nanako got up from the tatami and ran to the entrance to open the door.

When they came back, she and Gogol locked the door.Nanako turned on the light in the entrance, stepped on her shoes with bare feet, and unscrewed the door lock, but did not remove the anti-theft chain hanging inside the door, only opened the door with a gap of ten centimeters, and looked out from the gap.

"Hi~" There was Dazai's smiling face outside the door, he waved to Nanako, wearing only a shirt on his upper body, he looked like he just came back from outside, "Good evening, Nanako."

Nanako looked up at him, blinked her dark round eyes slowly, and waited for him to speak without answering.

Dazai stepped aside a little, revealing the person standing behind him.It was a young woman who looked to be in her twenties, wearing a simple white dress and a long sand-colored windbreaker, which seemed to be Dazai's coat. You can see her thin figure.

Her face was very pale, as if she had just experienced something terrible, and her expression was not very good, but when she saw Nanako in the crack of the door, she tried her best to pull the corners of her mouth and smiled at Nanako.

"Kunikida-kun and I went to investigate an incident at night, and we just came back." Dazai explained to Nanako in this way, and it was true, Nanako remembered that they were not in the club at dinner time.

"This is Miss Sasaki." Dazai introduced the young woman standing beside him to Nanako, "She is the victim of the incident and has nowhere to go for the time being. Can I stay with you for one night? Although I don't mind Spending a good night with a beautiful woman, but spending a night with a lonely man and a widow, if I let Kunikida-kun know, he will definitely be nagging in my ears tomorrow—and I don’t have any extra futons in my dormitory.”

Not to mention "excess futons", even if Dazai said that there were "no futons" in his dormitory, Nanako thought it was normal.Yosano went to the hospital to investigate what happened tonight, otherwise, Dazai would have brought Miss Sasaki to ask Yosano instead of her, after all, they still have Gogol in their dormitory.

After thinking for a while, Nanako removed the anti-theft chain, opened the door a little, let Miss Sasaki come in, said "goodbye" to Dazai, and locked him outside.

"My name is Nanako." Nanako said her name to Miss Sasaki.

Miss Sasaki was slightly taken aback, and introduced herself softly: "Hi, I'm Nobuko Sasaki, sorry to bother you."

Nanako led her into the living room and instructed Gogol to bring out a spare quilt. It seemed that she didn't expect that there was a boy in the room. When Miss Sasaki saw Gogol, her face turned pale He showed a slightly surprised expression, but soon greeted Gogol in a gentle tone.

"You sleep here." Nanako dragged the little yellow duck doll in her hand, pointed to the vacant tatami mat, and then pointed to the futon she had just laid, "I sleep here. ...... Guoguoli Closet, won't come out at night."

Ms. Sasaki is not picky about anything, she is like a pure and soft lily, from appearance to voice, to the temperament revealed in every move, all are clean and weak, with a lovely feeling.

She thanked Nanako and borrowed the bathroom again. After taking a bath, her face looked better, and her pale face was a little more bloody.

"Do you want to eat?" Nanako asked her while sitting on the futon, hugging the little yellow duck doll, staring at her without blinking her dark eyes.Miss Sasaki stood at the door of the bathroom, her figure was so slender that a gust of wind could blow her around. Nanako didn't know if she was hungry, but she looked as if she hadn't eaten for three days, and she was weak.

"No, no need." Miss Sasaki shook her head, "I ate a little something on the way here, sorry, I don't have much appetite now... Maybe it's because I was frightened before, my health is not very good, Please don't worry about it."

The sliding door of the closet was ajar, and Gogol propped his elbows on the pillow, propped his head and asked her curiously, "Why are you frightened?"

"I was attacked by gangsters." Sasaki sat on the tatami, and while spreading out the quilt Nanako gave her, he replied in a very soft voice, "When I woke up, I was locked in a glass that was being filled with water. In the sink, the water quickly submerged me... If the two detectives from the detective agency did not arrive in time, I would have almost drowned."

While she was talking, she had already laid out the quilt. Although her arms were slender, she didn't seem to be a person who didn't do housework.

"So you were kidnapped?" Gogol asked her.

Miss Sasaki nodded slightly: "It should be like this."

"Then why don't you go home?" Gogol said as if he was simply curious, "Since it's so dangerous, shouldn't you go home quickly? Why do you want to stay outside?"

"I'm a teacher at a university in Tokyo. I came to Yokohama for something, but I was kidnapped as soon as I arrived in Yokohama." Miss Sasaki didn't seem to feel offended, and she still answered him patiently, but her face was faintly tired , "I don't have any relatives or friends to rely on... so I am very grateful to you for allowing me to stay for one night, and the two detectives who rescued me..."

"Why don't you have any relatives or friends you can rely on?" Gogol tilted his head as if he didn't understand what she said, "Since you are a teacher, do you have no colleagues? Or are you a good student? Family, friends, lovers —Aren’t these people who can rely on?”

"...There used to be." Miss Sasaki bowed her head in silence for a while, and then replied, "I used to have a lover I could rely on, but now he is gone."

【いなくなる】

(absence)

This word has two meanings in Japanese, long separation, or death.

Nanako thought for a while and asked her, "Is he dead?"

Miss Sasaki didn't speak, she sat quietly on the quilt, like a portrait of a beauty, her fair skin revealed an almost transparent texture under the light, so fragile that it would break if touched lightly.

During those long minutes, she seemed to suddenly lose some vitality and become silent.

The hour hand of the alarm clock beside the quilt was gradually approaching "11". Nanako felt a little sleepy, and she didn't get an answer after waiting for a while, so she hugged the little yellow duck and nestled into her quilt.

The lights were a little bright, but Miss Sasaki didn't seem to be going to sleep yet, so Nanako could only bury her face in the bed.

It was already very late, and her consciousness soon became a little dazed. After an unknown period of time, there was a sound of getting up from the side, and the lights in the room were turned off.

Miss Sasaki lay down not far from Nanako, and in the darkness, her answer sounded so soft that it seemed to melt into the air.

——"He died on the road to realize his ideal."

The author has something to say:

Nanako: I died on the way to make up homework

Author: I died on the road of life and death

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Ms. Sasaki is the young lady in Dazai's entrance examination, the lover of King Ao, and the girl Kunikida (probably) has been attracted to.The animation corresponds to episodes 6 and 7 of the first season. This incident originally happened when Dazai joined the company.

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The reason why Dazai felt relieved to let Sasaki stay overnight:

(1) Sasaki will not do anything to Nanako

① Sasaki is a weak woman with anemia and infirmity. She has just drowned herself. It is difficult to kill without tools

②She is pretending to be a victim, and doing something to Nanako is tantamount to self-destruct

③ There is Gogol in the house, this is the dormitory of the detective agency, you can’t escape with your hands

④ Sasaki has always been "providing help to others and teaching them to commit crimes". She has never done anything herself, and she will not kill herself unless it is critical (so she is "innocent" during the investigation)

(2) Don’t be afraid even if you do something, with Gogol’s insurance

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The reason why Dazai put Sasaki Castle in Nanako's dormitory:

Sasaki is wearing his coat with a bug inside

① Facing the two children, Sasaki may leak some information because he is not so vigilant

②The intelligence of Nanako and Gogol is seriously insufficient. The information of the former is hidden in disorder, and the latter "appears out of thin air" only known as a child of the detective agency, without leaving any traces.The two of them can't install bugs on their bodies. It just so happened that this time they smuggled in one of them by means of Sasaki City. Just listen to it. If you hear it, you will make money. If you don't hear it, you won't do anything.

③I really don’t have a room to sleep in. In the novel, Dazai didn’t live in a dormitory at the time. After taking Sasaki back, there were more rooms for her to sleep in. But now Dazai lives in a dormitory, and the dorms of the detective agency are all one-bedroom