After becoming a chaotic daughter

Early the next morning, Xie Ye took Miss Sasaki away, saying that she was taking her to the infirmary to check her physical condition. Nanako also carried her schoolbag as usual, and went out to school with Gogol biting rice balls up.

After school, Nanako went to feed the flower bag, then walked back to the detective agency with her schoolbag on her back.When she walked to the opposite side of the road downstairs of the detective agency, she saw a group of people gathered in a small open space in front of the red brick building where the detective agency was located.

Today is a working day, and it is just after 03:30 in the afternoon. Logically speaking, it should be a time when there are few passers-by, but there are several people standing in front of the red brick building, shouting loudly, which attracts the attention of passers-by, even the people who come and go When the vehicles drove through this section of the road, they all slowed down in unison, wanting to see what happened.

The number of people gathered was actually not that many, and there were only eleven or twelve in a rough count, but they were huge, some holding cardboards made by themselves, or crying and cursing loudly. It was a very angry expression, as if he was attacking some vicious villain.

"Give me back my son!"

"It's all your fault! If it wasn't for you, how could something happen to them!"

"You murderous bastards!"

"My miserable daughter...what do you want the children to do..."

The shouts of a group of people mixed together and became a mess. Nanako stood on the side of the road in front of the red brick building with her schoolbag on her back and listened for a long time before she understood it.

It seems that someone died, so the families of the victims wanted to "seek justice" and gathered to protest.

In the red brick building where the detective agency is located, the first floor is a coffee shop, the fourth floor is a detective agency, the third and fifth floors are empty, and the second floor is a law office.

Nanako thought about it for a while, and thought that the law firm on the second floor probably screwed up some life-threatening case, so the family members of the parties came to protest.This kind of situation is not uncommon. If the law firm defends the criminal suspect, it will easily arouse the resentment of the victim's family.

If you break into the company directly, you will be taken away by the police, so the protesters gathered downstairs, blocking the entrance and exit of the office building, probably trying to block people.

The main entrance seemed to be impossible to enter. Nanako carried her schoolbag, looked away, walked slowly with her short legs, and walked around to the back door of the red brick office building, intending to take the stairs back to the detective agency through the back door.

The location of the back door of the office building is a bit remote. It is a fire safety passage. No one would go there on weekdays, but probably because the front door was blocked by people today, so today the employees in the building all walked through the back door. Nanako went to the back door By that time, the lights in the dark corridor had already been turned on.

The air in the corridor was a bit turbid, there were no windows for ventilation, and it was only cleaned once or twice a year. The steps and railings were covered with dust. Nanako buried her head and walked one floor, and was choked by the dust and slapped Little sneeze.

Stopping in her tracks, Nanako rubbed her nose with the back of her hand, feeling a little uncomfortable.

【……Itchy. 】

She sniffed, and stood there for a long time with her head sullen. She waited until the uncomfortable feeling in her nose was relieved, and then raised her short legs again, intending to continue walking up.

Footsteps suddenly sounded behind him, the sound of leather shoes hitting the concrete steps, and the next second, Kunikida's voice came from the stairs below.

"... Nanako?"

Having just stepped on a step, Nanako stopped again when she heard Kunikida's voice.She turned her head, looked down through the gap between the railings, and saw Kunikida standing on a flight of stairs below.

She stood in place, waiting for Kunikida to come up, and noticed at a glance that his hand was covering the abdomen, where a large bloodstain had smeared, and the withered yellow vest was dyed into a kind of dark brown. Kunikida's complexion is not very good, a little pale.

Following Nanako's gaze, Kunikida's gaze also fell on the wound on his abdomen. He frowned tightly and said to Nanako comfortingly: "It's okay, it's just that the investigator of the incident encountered a little accident, and he has already done an emergency bandage. It's okay, please treat it with Dr. Xie Ye later."

Nanako looked at the place he was covering for a few more seconds, before she let out a blunt "Oh".

It looks like there is a lot of blood, but Kunikida can still walk like this, which is amazing.

Nanako thought to herself, followed Kunikida up to the fourth floor, and walked into the detective agency.There was no one in the office area at the moment. As soon as they entered the office, they heard a phone on the desk ring.

Kunikida walked over quickly, picked up the receiver, put it back immediately, hung up the phone, and the phone stopped ringing.

Nanako felt a little strange, it was the office phone, and the people who would call were the people who were entrusted with the consultation. If it was normal, Kunikida would answer the question immediately and patiently, but now Kunikida hung up the phone immediately.

Before she could figure out why, she heard the phone rang again, and the rapid ringing made people's heads buzz.

Kunikida repeated what he did just now, and hung up the phone.

He looked down and saw Nanako's dark eyes staring at him intently, coughed lightly, and explained: "The detective agency has encountered some difficult cases these days, there will be many calls like this, if you encounter them, don't answer them Just get up, just hang up. The matter has almost been resolved, and it will be fine in two days—”

Before he finished speaking, the phone he was pressing rang again, and the loud ringing caused a vibration, as if it was directly transmitted from his hand to his brain, making his whole body tremble.

Immediately, he wanted to hang up the phone again like just now, but before he raised his hand, the shrill ringing stopped abruptly.

Standing beside Kunikida, Nanako who unplugged the phone line held a thin white soft cord in her hand, raised her small face, and met Kunikida's eyes expressionlessly.

Kunikida: ...

It does seem to be faster this way.

Holding the phone cord, Nanako felt something was wrong, she was thinking about a question that might be a little serious.

She looked up at Kunikida, her round eyes were dark, like a deep well without any light.

She asked in a flat tone, "Are those people downstairs also looking for the detective agency?"

Kunikida was silent for a moment, then nodded.

Just now, she thought that the law firm downstairs had screwed up the case, but Nanako remained silent.

Gah, so the clown is actually me?

Burn down the house and burn down to your own home.

"Some are the families of the victims..." Kunikida was about to explain the situation to Nanako, but he stopped mid-sentence.

He suddenly realized that it didn't seem appropriate to talk about these things with children.

Last night, he and Dazai went to investigate the "continuous disappearance of travelers" that happened in Yokohama recently, and found an abandoned hospital where several missing persons were imprisoned, but in the end they only rescued Miss Sasaki, and four others The missing person who was found died on the spot in front of them.

The photos of the scene were circulated somehow, and since this morning, both the news and the newspapers have been reporting the incident.

Because of a wrong judgment, the detective agency fell into the trap of the prisoner, and caused four victims to die from poison gas, thus attracting accusations from the society and the relatives and friends of the victims. It may be too early for children to understand the complicated human relationships and sophistication.

He dismissed Nanako's idea of ​​explaining the situation in detail, and said to her: "In short, let's go to the president's office to do homework for now."

Nanako still knows that the detective agency often helps the police investigate cases.Compared with law firms that are only responsible for defense, detective agencies that directly intervene in handling incidents are indeed more likely to face the situation of "not doing a good job and being protested".

Although she had never seen such a situation before, if it happened, thinking about it carefully, it didn't seem so strange.

Thinking of this, Nanako didn't have any other thoughts, she carried her schoolbag and entered the side door together with Kunikida.Kunikida went to the infirmary to find Yosano, and she went to the president's office to do her homework.

When she walked into the president's office, the president was on the phone with someone, and when he heard Nanako coming, he nodded slightly to Nanako, and Nanako went to find a place to do her homework by herself.

The president's office is very large, and the entrance is clearly divided into three areas from left to right, the desk on the far left, the reception sofa in the middle, and a Japanese-style wooden couch covered with tatami mats on the far right.

In the middle of the wooden couch is a solid wooden low table with a chessboard engraved on it. It is a place for playing Go. Nanako also lays on it to do her homework.

The sixth grade already had an English class, Nanako traced the words in the exercise book, and heard the president calling her after the phone call.

"Nanako."

Nanako stopped the pen in her hand and turned to look at him.

The president pondered for a moment, then asked her, "Did you see those people gathered downstairs when you came back just now?"

Nanako nodded.

"Some of those people are family members of the victims of an incident." The president looked calm, "Because of the death of relatives and friends, their emotions will be more agitated, and they may do hurtful actions. When going in and out these days Go through the corridor at the back door, and if you want to go out, call Gogol to go with you."

He also didn't tell Nanako exactly what happened, he only told her to be more careful when going out.

Nanako let out an "oh", thought for a while, and asked the president, "When will daddy come back?"

"Probably in a day or two." The president answered her, "It won't be too long."

After getting the answer, Nanako continued to do her homework.

It took her 10 minutes to finish today's homework. When she went out, Kunikida and Dazai were discussing something in the office area, and Gogol went somewhere.

Since she couldn't go downstairs and couldn't go to the coffee shop to eat cake, Nanako ran to the tea room.After the flower bag was moved out from here, the tea room became deserted, and only Oda Sakunosuke would write novels here during his lunch break.

Nanako entered the tea room. At this point, there was no one in the tea room. She ran to the refrigerator to get a carton of milk, sat where Oda usually sat when writing novels, biting a straw and drinking slowly. up.

The milk was half drunk, and there was a faint buzzing sound in the tea room.

It seemed to be the sound of a mobile phone vibrating, Nanako looked around, and finally saw a mobile phone on the kitchen counter next to the cabinet.

She took the milk and trotted over. The gray flip phone was lying on the kitchen counter, still buzzing and vibrating. The notification light on the edge kept flashing brightly, indicating that someone was calling.

[...The phone in Guoguo. 】

Nanako recognized it immediately.

It was the mobile phone that Ranpo bought for Gogol two years ago, but Nanako rarely saw Gogol use the mobile phone. He didn't seem to care much about the mobile phone, and often left it indiscriminately.

Probably put it here when I came to the pantry to get some snacks, and then forgot to take it away.

Not knowing who called Gogol, Nanako reached for the phone and picked it up.

Nanako: "..."

On the phone: "..."

Nanako: "..."

On the phone: "..."

Nanako: "..."

On the phone: "..."

There was a 30-second silence. The milk was almost finished, and the other party still didn't speak.Nanako took the phone away from her ear and looked at the phone screen. The caller was unknown, and the duration of the call was still beating.

Nanako thought it might be a wrong call.

Just as she was about to hang up, she heard a vague voice from the other end of the phone: "...Го...ль?"

It seemed to be the voice of a young man. Nanako's ear was not on the receiver, and she couldn't hear what the other party said. She stopped the movement of wanting to hang up the phone, put the phone back to her ear, and slowly asked, "もしもし?"

The person on the other end of the phone was two beats slower before answering: "Гоголь?"

【Гоголь】

【Gogoli】

(Gogol)

He seemed to be asking about Gogol, but the pronunciation was a bit strange. Nanako answered him: "Guoguoli is not here...he didn't have a mobile phone."

"So that's the case." The young man quickly picked up Nanako's words, and said in an unhurried manner. He didn't know where the accent came from. It sounded a bit strange, "Then I'll contact him later."

Nanako let out a "hmm", and was about to hang up the phone when she heard the man ask in a calm tone, "Is Miss Gogol's family?"

Nanako sucked on the milk, thought for a while, and didn't know how to answer this question, so she said to the man, "I don't know."

The man paused for a few seconds, smiled lightly, and then replied gently to Nanako: "Then goodbye."

"Bye." Nanako hung up the phone.

She stuffed Gogol's mobile phone into her pocket, threw the finished milk carton into the trash can, and ran out of the tea room.

The author has something to say:

Miss Sasaki's way of revenge is to destroy the reputation of the detective agency

[Plan A] Guiding greedy taxi drivers to take advantage of their jobs to kidnap travelers who came to Yokohama, sell their organs, and create a "serial disappearance of travelers".During the investigation by the detective agency, he pretended to be the victim and was rescued. At the same time, the other four real victims died due to the mistakes of the detective agency.

Specific operation: lock four people in a cage, and set up a device next to it that seems to open the cage, but in fact, when the device is opened, poisonous gas will emerge from the cage, poisoning the four people

Posting photos of the detective agency’s mistakes that lead to the death of civilians to the TV station, leading public opinion to attack the detective agency, the reputation of the detective agency will decline, and it will not be able to continue to operate

[Plan B] Set up a bomb and ask the detective agency to find it and dismantle it. If the detective agency fails to dismantle it in time, many people will be killed. She will publish the video of the detective agency's failure, and the detective agency will be attacked by public opinion.

The above plans are all made by her to induce those who already have a criminal heart to do it, not by herself, so even if it is found out that she is actually a victim in disguise, she will not be punished by law