Tip: There is a supplementary episode this morning at the end of the last chapter.

Nanako just came out of Hanabou's house.

After school today, she went to Huadai's house to supervise him to lift a hundred dumbbells as usual, and then she came out of his house with her schoolbag on her back and walked slowly all the way back to the detective agency.When I passed the small park, I saw a swing swinging alone in the park.

She stopped and looked around. At this time, there were very few passers-by on the street, and the park was empty, with no one there.

Carrying her schoolbag, Nanako walked into the park and played on the swing by herself.

The height of the swing was just right for her, and when she got on the swing, Nanako stepped on the ground, and the swing immediately led her to swing slowly.

She has never played on a swing before, there are only slides in the kindergarten, and she doesn't like to go out to play, so she has never seen a swing. After passing through, Luanbu often took her to the park to play, and she knew that there was only one person , It is also possible to swing the swing very high.

But Nanako still likes to swing slowly.

The swing swayed slowly, and Nanako sat on the swing, looking down at the school forum with her mobile phone.

Tomorrow is the physical fitness test. Many people in the forum are talking about it. Most of them are complaining that they don’t want to run long distances. Nanako thinks that she will fail the physical fitness test tomorrow, but she still doesn’t want to move at all. I feel tired when I think about the "physical fitness test tomorrow".

In fact, her physical performance is much better than before. In the past, the physical education classes in school were warm-up activities, jogging for two laps, and then free activities. The most complicated events were probably the standing triple jump and volleyball. Nanako is not good at it Volleyball, but the physical education class is not strict, so I can fish in troubled waters and pass the exam, and sometimes I can get a good grade.

The physical education class in Japan is very troublesome—maybe the physical education class in some schools in China is also this troublesome, but Nanako has never experienced it—all kinds of sports, and even four or five sports in one semester, now she She already knows badminton, tennis, three-step layup, football slinging, vaulting, swimming... a bunch of messy sports. Although she doesn't even know the rules of most of the sports, and she doesn't learn them well, they are still considered After learning, at least you can hit the ball with a tennis racket.

It's just that she doesn't like to exercise, so it's still difficult for her to pass the basic physical fitness test.

She sat on the swing in a daze, and after an unknown amount of time, she heard the swing next to her suddenly creak.

Someone sat down on the swing.

Nanako, who was in a daze, came back to her senses, she turned her head and glanced at the person sitting on the swing next to her.

It was a young man wearing a thick windproof cloak. For a man, his black hair hung softly on his cheeks, his face was as white as porcelain, his bloodless lips were thin, and his eyelids drooped slightly, as if he had no The spirit, right now, is faintly black and blue due to lack of sleep.

On his head was a thick, fluffy hat with ear protectors, the kind that Northeast or Russian people would wear in winter. Nanako didn’t know what the name of this hat was, only the white ear protectors Looks like bunny ears.

The young man is dressed in winter clothes, but now it is late spring and it is time to enter summer.Although Nanako herself was still wearing a spring long-sleeved uniform, most of the students had changed into summer clothes, and no one would wear such thick clothes.

Nanako just glanced at him, then looked away.

Probably sick.

Nanako thought about it in her heart.

That's why I'm not in good health, I can't blow the wind, and I have to wear such thick clothes.

The young man sat quietly on the edge, swinging slowly like Nanako. The park was very quiet, except for the creaking and shaking of the swing they were sitting on.

Nanako was still looking down at the forum. Among the various posts about physical fitness tests, midterm exams, and home visits, there were many messy posts.

Someone posted a post begging for the name of "the first-year selection of the women's basketball team" - "the girl with blue hair and a super cute smile!";

Someone is asking for the math midterm papers from previous years - "a set of 2k yen!";

There are also various posts such as Echizen's true love post.

She tried to use the search function of the forum and searched for "Physical Fitness Test", and soon a bunch of posts popped up, but after searching for a long time, she couldn't find any post that would allow her to pass the physical fitness test tomorrow.

The button of the flip phone was clicked by her, and she checked the title all the way down the posting time. She had already turned to the previous year's post, but she still couldn't find anything useful.

A young man's voice suddenly sounded from the side. The young man's voice was not the same as his somewhat sickly appearance. It was soft and clear, reminiscent of a clear spring hitting a stone. The articulation and pronunciation had an elegant charm, as if playing piano.

"Are there any troubles?" He asked Nanako in a slow tone.

Nanako turned her head to look at him, but kept her mouth shut and said nothing.

There was a faint smile on the young man's face, he didn't seem to mind Nanako's silence, and he said calmly, "You seem to be troubled."

"The speed of the swing has slowed down, and the sound of pressing the buttons on the phone is much faster than when I was just sitting here - and, it has been a long time since school, no club activities, no fun, and no going home .” Clearly stated the basis of his guess, the young man thought for a while, and then asked: “So, is there any trouble that you can’t tell your family?”

Nanako didn't answer him.

She didn't know this person, and she didn't have any interaction with him at all. She didn't really want to talk to strangers. Nanako looked away, pretending that she didn't hear what he asked.

The young man seemed to have seen her thoughts, and chuckled lightly: "...Maybe I can help you solve this trouble?"

Hearing his words, Nanako turned her head a little bit, and looked up at his pale face and tall but thin body.

Nanako: "..."

"No." She said to the young man sternly.

The young man seemed to be stunned for a moment, and seemed to be simply understanding what she said, but his tone was still very good: "Why do you say that?"

Nanako was silent for a while, and then answered him: "Tomorrow, the school will have a physical fitness test, and you will have to run, so you will fail."

The young man in front of her seemed to be someone who never failed in physical education when she was in school. Nanako didn't think that a person who failed could help another person who failed to pass.

The young man showed a little thoughtful expression, but replied after a few seconds: "Maybe."

Nanako looked at him. Although they were all sitting on the swing, the young man was much taller than him. He even had to fold his calves when sitting. Nanako had to raise his head to see his face.

【...Looks as tall as Dazai. 】

Nanako made a comparison in her heart and thought so.

The young man closed his eyelids halfway, with a faint smile on his face, and spoke to her patiently and meticulously, as if he was explaining a calculation problem to a primary school student.

"There are three ways to pass the physical fitness test."

"The first way, and the best way, is to allow yourself to run with a passing grade, but this requires regular training, and it's too late now."

"The second method is to buy the recorder or tamper with the timer so that the recorder can modify your score while recording. However, the physical fitness test should be a school-wide test. If the recorder is randomly assigned on site, you want to buy all the recorders. It is unrealistic, and this method will not be implemented at that time. The timer is the same, and if you tamper with the timer, everyone's results will change, and the risk of being discovered is too great."

"The third method, which is the most suitable method for you now, is to falsify your grades on the record after the grades are recorded. The safest method is to modify the handwritten paper records together with the electronic version, but the paper records are not It will be kept for a long time, and there are too many records of thousands of people, even if they are inconsistent, it is not easy to be found, so it is enough to change the last step in the computer to determine "qualified or not".

In a very gentle tone, he methodically stated more and more outrageous plans.

Nanako thought about what he said, and soon understood.

--understood.

——As long as Huadai helps her hack into the school's system and tamper with her grades.

It is indeed a good idea. The school will not publish the results of the physical fitness test. Only each student knows whether he passed or not. Therefore, even if the records on the computer are tampered with, no one else will find out.

But she slowly swayed on the swing, and after thinking about it, she felt that this seemed a little bad.

She has always been an honest student. At most, when the textbooks are distributed at the beginning of each semester, before the teacher has time to tear up the answers in the workbook, she secretly copies the answers and saves them for later copying. She didn't even copy other people's homework.Doing this kind of thing always feels a little awkward.

And she always felt that the flower bag might not help, and she might tell Ranpo directly.

"Failed the physical fitness test" and "discovered tampering with the grades", these two sounded like the latter was more serious.

Thinking about it this way, Nanako felt that failing the physical fitness test was not a big deal, at least it wouldn't be a major demerit.

After convincing herself from a strange angle, the swing that was swinging slowly came to a complete stop, and Nanako stood up with her schoolbag on her back.

"Do you need help?" The young man sitting on the swing turned his head slightly to one side, the smile on his face seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, vague and light, and his eyes moved with the movement of her getting up.

Nanako shook her head and said to him, "I'm going home."

"Then what are you going to do about tomorrow's physical fitness test?" the young man asked in a very considerate tone, as if he was putting himself in Nanako's shoes.

Nanako scratched her head and replied, "...run by yourself."

If Luanbu wanted to scold her or ask her to go for a run every day if she failed the test, she would tell the president's grandfather to tell Luanbu to go for a run every day.

The swing that had stopped at the side creaked again.

The young man also stood up. He looked very thin and hunched, but he was still much taller than Nanako when he stood up. The wind blew from Nanako's back, and the hem of his cloak was blown up a little, revealing his Inside was a white thick coat and trousers that looked very warm, and leather boots wrapped around the calves.

He stretched out his hand, that slender, white, slender and thin hand, under Nanako's gaze, slowly lifted like a long motion deliberately slowed down in a movie, and moved to the top of Nanako's head.Nanako couldn't see his hand anymore, she only felt a very light touch on the hair on the top of her head, and then put it down with a little force.

"...What a good boy." The young man said as if sighing.

His hand landed on Nanako's head and rubbed it lightly.

【good boy】

What he said was very strange.

Not only the words, but also the movements. Although Nanako is still very short, she is more than 1.4 meters tall. She is not a person who can rub her head easily. Moreover, she is wearing a middle school uniform, which is obviously not the style of elementary school students.

The ones who rub her head now are only adults she knows, not strangers of the opposite sex. For example, when Teacher Nakamura asked her to go to the office to talk, he would keep a distance of one meter away from her. In the office There must be other teachers or students there, and even the door of the office will not be closed, and even Police Officer Yasui will not touch her head now.

Nanako suddenly remembered what Police Officer Yasui had said to her when she left the detective agency last week - "Recently there has been an incident of abducting a girl in the city".

Just now this man took the initiative to sit next to her, and even started talking to her, asking her "do you need help?" It's just that he has always been very gentle, so he doesn't seem so aggressive.

But it's not normal for an adult man to strike up a conversation with an underage girl for anything other than asking for directions.Although the school's safety education did not mention this situation, Nanako, who had surfed the Internet, still thought of something.

There were only the two of them in the park, and there were no pedestrians on the side of the road. Nanako lowered her head, thought for a while, and then took out a small water bottle that was on the side of her schoolbag.

"...Do you want a drink?"

She asked this very abruptly, and unscrewed the lid of the kettle a little with her hands.

The young man glanced down at the water bottle in her hand, withdrew his hand, as if realizing something, politely rejected Nanako: "No need, thank you, but I'm not thirsty yet."

Nanako raised the water bottle in her hand a little, as if she wanted to hand it to the young man to drink.The young man raised his hand to push the kettle back to Nanako, but he suddenly noticed that under the lid that had been unscrewed and half covered, the inner tank of the kettle was not empty.

It's some kind of metallic material with a circle of silver.

He wanted to press the cover back in Nanako's hand, but Nanako's hand was loosened immediately, and the cover fell to the dirt in the park. At the same time, the self-defense spray in the shape of a kettle exposed the pressure nozzle, and the compressed anesthetic gas was released from the bottle. It spewed out, and the light gas floated and diffused upwards, covering the young man's face head-on.

The young man fell to the ground.

Nanako picked up the lid that fell on the ground and closed the "kettle".She wanted to spray a little more, but the anesthetic gas would only float upwards, and when using it, it would not affect her as long as she raised it above her head. Now that the young man fell to the ground, she couldn't continue spraying.

She texted her dad and called the police.The park was not very far from the detective agency. After she finished talking with her sister who received the police, Gogol had already appeared at the entrance of the park.

Crouching beside the fainted young man, Gogol picked up a branch on the ground and poked the young man's arm.The "efficacy" of the anesthetic gas is very strong, and the young man shows no signs of waking up. This is a by-product produced during the research of the Supernatural Secret Service Division. Not only Nanako, but the children raised by Oda also have a bottle .

Seeing that the young man was still dizzy, Gogol thought for a while and arranged the young man with folded hands in front of him, looking very peaceful.

Then he took out his mobile phone, took a photo, found an address from the recent contacts in the mailbox, and sent the photo.

The cell phone in the pocket of the young man lying on the ground rang.

Standing in the park, Gogol and Nanako looked at the Aoki police department leading the subordinates and carrying the young man into the police car.

"A kidnapper was caught just the day before yesterday, and another one appeared today." The Aoki police department frowned, looking a little unsightly. This young man seemed to be a foreigner, and he hoped that he would not be involved in the concession, at least He should also be deported.

Nanako, who was listening to Ranpo's lesson on the phone, heard what the Aoki police department said, and felt that something was wrong.

"...the day before yesterday?"

"Yes." The Aoki Police Department was still very patient with Nanako, "The day before yesterday, Yasui-senpai arrested the kidnapper who kidnapped several girls a while ago, and it seems that he went to the detective agency to find Mr. Ranpo for help."

Nanako: "..."

She probably accidentally injured an "enthusiastic passer-by who just talked a lot".

Thinking of this, Nanako suddenly became worried.

——Does knocking someone out with anesthetic spray count as intentional injury?

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Question: Was Tosi abducted?

Answer: No, but he stowed away

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