After becoming a chaotic daughter

Armed Detective Agency.

It had been raining for several days, and it was not convenient to walk. Nanako didn't go to Hanakou's house to supervise his exercise. After school, she took the bus and went back to the detective agency to do her homework.

There are a total of nine desks in the office area of ​​the detective agency, only two of which are still vacant. Nanako sat at one of the vacant desks, opened her schoolbag, found out the English textbook and vocabulary book, and pushed Gave it to Gogol who was sitting opposite.

"Guo Guoli, copy the words." She said to Gogol who was playing with the puzzle, and tried to give him the homework of copying the words.

"Hey~~" Supporting his head with one hand, Gogol dragged his tune, raised his hand and pressed a piece into the puzzle, "But Mr. Fukuzawa said that you should write the homework by yourself?"

He said this to Nanako, his head shook slightly, and he pulled out a reason that sounded very righteous, trying to avoid the fate of copying words.

"..."

Nanako didn't speak, and there was no expression on her small face, her dark eyes seemed to be soaked in ink.She stared at the innocent and natural Gogol for a while, then lowered her head, buried her head and found the Chinese textbook and vocabulary book from her schoolbag, and stuffed them in front of Gogol without saying a word.

Then continue to stare at him intently.

Gogol: "?"

Nanako: "..."

Gogol: "Huh?"

Nanako: "..."

Gogol: "Hello?"

Nanako: "..."

Gogol: "..."

Gogol raised his hand in surrender. He knew that if he didn't surrender, Nanako would probably be able to stare at him until dinner, and then continue to stare at the dinner table.

Seeing that Gogol "agreed" to do the homework, Nanako stopped staring at him. She looked away and took out the Chinese exercise booklet from her schoolbag, thinking that Gogol was not as easy to fool as she was when she was a child.When she was in elementary school, she asked Gogol to do homework, and Gogol would not make excuses to slip away.But this may also be because there was less homework in elementary school, and he himself had to learn to read characters and the like.

Spreading out the exercise book, Nanako seemed to be reading the article of the question, and Gogol, who was sitting opposite her, also moved the puzzle to the side and took the English textbook.

He reached for the pen, lowered his head to turn to the word list, and saw something between the textbooks, a white paper product, very thin, with a sharp corner protruding obliquely from the top of the textbook.

Grabbing a pen casually, Gogol raised his hand and pulled out this white "paper product" from the interlayer of the textbook.It was an envelope, and brought out with it was a folded note.

"What is this?" He held a corner of the envelope and asked Nanako curiously.

Nanako, who was still reading the article, raised her head and saw something familiar in Gogol's hand. She scratched her head and answered him in a calm tone: "I don't know...the school's shoe cabinet. Take it out."

"?" Gogol raised his eyebrows, picked up the note that fell on the table, and asked Nanako, "Can I read this?"

"Yeah." Nanako nodded, she felt that there was nothing wrong with this.

Gogol opened the note, and saw three neatly written lines on it, which seemed to be carefully written down, stroke by stroke.

【After school tomorrow】

[Cherry tree pavilion behind the teaching building]

【Please come by all means】

A thoughtful expression appeared on Gogol's face: "Is this person asking you to meet?"

"I don't know." Nanako shook her head, "It's not written for anyone."

Naomi passed by them with a cup of hot tea, and when she saw that they seemed to be discussing something, she stopped in her tracks, with a pure smile on her face.The tear mole at the corner of her eye added a bit of charm to her.

"What's wrong?" She turned her head slightly to one side, and asked Nanako and Gogol.

Gogol handed the note in front of her, and smiled with his eyes bent: "Nanako received this at school."

"This?" With just a few lines of words, Naomi almost read what was written on the note at a glance.

The charming smile on her face was suppressed, replaced by a serious look, and her big eyes narrowed slightly as if she was staring at her.

Tanizaki Naomi put the hot tea in her hand on the table.

One minute later, all the investigators in the agency were summoned into the conference room, looking at the envelopes and notes placed in the middle of the conference table with different expressions, as if they were looking at the decisive evidence of some important case , looking as if to nail these two thin sheets of paper to the conference table.

No one opened their mouths to speak, and there was only the sound of eating potato chips in disorder in the meeting room. The silent atmosphere lasted for a full 3 minutes, and Junichiro Tanizaki whispered tentatively.

"This...could it be a love letter?" His voice was very weak, but it was still very clear in the silent conference room, and while speaking, his eyes subconsciously glanced at Luanbu's expression.

But it's a pity that Ranpo just ate potato chips in a normal way, leaning back on the chair with Erlang's legs crossed, and there was no such thing as Tanizaki's imagination of "jumping in anger when I found a pig trying to push my Chinese cabbage" situation.

"A love letter that doesn't even leave a name?" Yosano said, crossing his arms with his slender legs, "It's so secretive and sneaky. In fact, it's just a time to meet and It's just the location."

"Even if it is indeed an invitation to confess," Kunikida said in very strict terms, and put forward a different view from another angle, "it may not be for Nanako, maybe it is just a wrong shoe cabinet, such a possibility is not uncommon. "

Both Dazai and Oda have gone out to work, and are not in the club.Naomi who gathered the crowd had a thoughtful expression on her face, and her slender eyebrows were slightly frowned: "I don't think it should be a love letter."

As a beautiful girl who has received soft love letters since she was a child, she said with great experience: "Like this cheap envelope, the paper torn from the homework book-not to mention that there is no element of love, even Even the envelope is not glued. Since I can think of wrapping it in an envelope and putting it in the shoe cabinet, I am not a boy who is too careless. In this case, when I write a love letter, I don’t even pay attention to such details. arrive."

"Difficult, difficult—" Tanizaki suddenly thought of another possibility, with a horrified expression on his face, "Could it be campus bullying?!... Like a bridge in a novel and comics, pretending to confess to trick people out , and then laugh at the other party or something..."

Yu Xie Ye disagreed with his guess: "That might be a challenge letter."

"What challenge?" Naomi blinked.

As soon as she asked, the conference room fell silent again.

Everyone was silent, and they looked at Nanako who was sitting on the side, with thin arms and legs, and short stature, she looked as weak as a grass on the side of the road.

Gauntlet?Is there anything you can challenge with Nanako?Is it to compete with one, two, three wooden men?

In the same way, although Nanako is her own child, everyone here knows that Nanako will not be the kind of girl who is popular in school.He doesn't like to make friends, he doesn't even like to talk, and his appearance looks ordinary.

If it is said to be good-looking, it may be sought after as a "high-cold iceberg beauty", but Nanako's appearance is just very thin and delicate, and she doesn't usually dress up very much. Compared with her appearance, her expression is more memorable ——And it is still the kind of memory point that does not make people feel "attractive" at all.

In fact, they all felt that [-]% of the letter would not be a "love letter".

After the silence, Kiyoshi Kunikida, who is the chairperson of every meeting in the detective agency on weekdays, coughed, maintained his normal expression, and spoke to Nanako who was the "participant".

"So, Nanako, what do you want to do with... this?" He didn't know whether to use "love letter" or "confession invitation", or any other term to refer to the letter on the table, and he was also a teacher. At this time, Kunikida calmly demonstrated the quality that a teacher should have when faced with the situation of "students may fall in love".

He calmly said: "Although you are only 13 years old now, you are too young and you don't have enough experience, but if you think about it seriously, things like falling in love are actually... also... also...,"

【——It still doesn’t work, bastard! ! ! ! 】

Kunikida couldn't continue, he didn't know who he was yelling at in his heart.

A student's job is to learn! !study!in love?That's something you should at least wait until you finish middle school!I have just entered the first grade of junior high school, and my body and mind are not yet mature, so how can I fall in love casually!What if something goes wrong? !Casual love is irresponsible to life! !All associations that do not presuppose marriage have impure motives—is it possible to make Nanako into a frivolous and casual guy like Dazai? !Or is Nanako being deceived by a frivolous guy like Dazai!

Thinking of this, Kunikida Doppo had strangled Dazai ten thousand times in his heart.

Seeing that Kunikida had a stomach ache in the middle of his speech, covering his face and stomach with a heavy complexion, Nanako didn't know why he stopped talking, and tilted her head in confusion.

Nanako: "Huh?"

"...No, nothing, nothing." Kunikida raised his face from his palm with an ugly expression, "I mean, what are you going to do with it? Do you need everyone's help?"

Nanako thought for a while, she wanted to ignore it directly, or give the letter to the teacher.But handing it over to the teacher feels like making a small report. If you don't care, if the other party puts the shoe cabinet in the wrong place, the other party probably won't realize it, and it may delay the other party's business.

She still felt that this letter was not for herself. After all, in school, besides Sanwa, she was only a little familiar with Echizen and Horio in the same group. There are very few people.

Maybe put it in the lost and found.

Nanako thought about it in her heart.

She hadn't thought it through yet, and seeing her hanging her head in thought, everyone didn't rush her.

Naomi said: "Sure enough... you should figure out what this letter is first, right? It would be fine if it was a 'love letter', but if it's really a prank or something..."

Although Naomi didn't continue to finish this sentence, everyone in the room showed a deeply appreciative expression on their faces, but how to find out what this letter is...

Everyone unconsciously turned their attention to the young man who was eating potato chips beside Nanako.

"Mr. Ranpo?" Yu Xie Ye raised his eyebrows slightly.

Luanbu let out a "huh", raised his head, and crushed a piece of potato chips in his hand.He didn't seem to care much about this matter, and he was slow to realize this, and everyone felt a little surprised.

"Since you're invited to meet, why don't you just go?" Luanbu said casually, "Whether it's an appointment with the wrong person, or something else, we'll know when we meet."

Nanako: "...Oh."

"Bring the three rounds." Luanbu said again.

Nanako nodded, waited for a while, and saw that everyone seemed to have nothing to say, so she took Gogol out to do homework.

********

The next day was Thursday, another rainy day.

The basketball team had a rest today and didn't have to go to practice. After school, Nanako packed her schoolbag and left the teaching building with Miwa.

Holding up the umbrella, Miwa was about to walk towards the school gate, but Nanako stopped her.

"Three rounds."

"Huh? What?" Miwa turned her head and looked at Nanako before her raised leg touched the ground.

Nanako said to her calmly, "I'm going to the gazebo."

Although she didn't know what Nanako was going to do, Miwa's footsteps turned in a different direction: "Okay.... Is there something wrong?"

Holding an umbrella, she walked towards the cherry tree behind the teaching building together with Nanako.Nanako fumbled twice, took out the note she got from the shoe cabinet yesterday from her pocket, and handed it to her.

"I got it in the shoe cabinet yesterday after school... I don't know who put it there." Nanako walked slowly, carefully avoiding the puddles that had accumulated on the ground.

Miwa took the note from her hand, unfolded it and glanced at it.

In the next second, her shoes stepped into a large puddle, and the splashed water wet half of her socks.

[Love, love, love—a love letter? ! ! 】

Three rounds of pupils trembled, maintaining the posture of stepping into the puddle, turned his head stiffly, and looked at Nanako.

She stammered and asked Nanako: "Then, are you, we, that, going to meet this person now?"

Nanako also stopped, nodded, and then took out a pack of tissues for Miwa from her pocket.Sanwa said thank you blankly, mechanically pulled out a paper towel, wiped off his calves and socks that were splashed with sewage, and then followed Nanako numbly.

She looked troubled.

This letter looks like an invitation to confess. If it is really a confession, wouldn't it be a shame for her to go together?If someone wanted to confess, it would be strange to see her as the "third person" standing beside her!

But she was a little worried, maybe someone was playing a prank on Nanako, she had heard about some students with bad conduct who pretended to confess and wrote anonymous letters, and invited them to remote places to bully them.

She didn't know whether she should go with her or not, and before she could come to a conclusion, the cherry forest was close in front of her eyes.

Sanlun immediately retreated: "Otherwise, I'll wait outside..."

"Mirwa." Nanako stopped in her tracks, turned her expressionless face to look at Miwa, the ponytail hanging behind her head swayed slightly, "Which side is the gazebo?"

She has never been in the cherry tree grove, and her range of activities has always been only near the teaching building, gymnasium, and sports field. A little further away is just an artificial lake. Sometimes she will eat bento by the lake with Miwa during lunch breaks. Nanako has never been to any place.

【...Sure enough, let's go with Nanako. 】

Miwa silently swallowed what she wanted to say.

They walked through the cherry trees together and walked into the pavilion. There was no one in the small pavilion, probably because the other party hadn't come yet.

Nanako put the umbrella away and sat down on the stone chair in the gazebo.

It's already late autumn and winter is coming, the cherry trees have lost their leaves and become bare, and the forest in spring is very bleak at this time of year.The cold wind mixed with rain blew past, making people shrink their necks. The stone chair was not warm at all. When she sat down, Nanako shivered from the cold.

Nanako was only going to wait for 5 minutes. If the other party didn't come within 5 minutes, she would leave a note and go back. Otherwise, she would not be able to catch the nearest bus, and she would have to wait in the cold wind for another 15 minutes.

But after sitting in the gazebo for a minute, Nanako changed her mind.

[Just wait for 3 minutes. 】

[...It's so cold. 】

Nanako shrank her hands and put on the hood of her windbreaker jacket, like a little squid sitting on a chair.

After waiting for the third minute, there was finally the faint sound of running footsteps in the woods, from far to near, and the sound of rainwater pattering on the umbrella surface.

A boy wearing an autumn uniform held an umbrella, hurried to the gazebo, and then stopped.

It was a thin boy wearing glasses, probably because he was running too fast, he was tired and out of breath after he stopped, and he saw Nanako sitting in the pavilion, with a surprised expression on his face .

"Yeah...ha...sorry...fu...I'm late...fufu...Edogawa-san..."

He was still panting, speaking aloud intermittently.

It doesn't look like a classmate who wants to play a prank or bully Nanako. He also has a good attitude of apologizing for being late. When talking to Nanako, he will look at Nanako's face, and his tone and expression are very sincere.

Miwa felt like a big light bulb, she stood up tiptoely, trying to walk a little further, to give them room to talk, but the boy didn't seem to care about her existence at all, after closing the umbrella, he just took a stride Stepped into the gazebo.

He stood in front of Nanako, his eyes only fell on Nanako's body, the expression on his face was serious and solemn.

[...It's not that I stuffed the wrong shoe cabinet. 】

Hearing the boy calling her, Nanako silently crossed this situation out of the small notebook in her heart, but she still didn't know what the boy wanted to do by asking her out.

Sitting on a stone chair with her schoolbag in her arms, Nanako stared at the boy with a blank face.

"Well, I—I'm sorry to ask you to come out!" The boy held the umbrella in his hand, and he seemed to be holding a breath in his chest when he spoke, full of breath.

"Student Edogawa, I have been paying attention to you for a long time, and I also know that you usually don't like to talk, always sit in your seat and study, and rarely deal with people. Although everyone says you are ordinary and not eye-catching at all, but I have always cared about you since last semester!"

He finished the series of words loudly in one breath, and he didn't have any scruples that there were still three rounds on the side.When Miwa had already started to retreat silently, and was about to sneak out of the gazebo to retreat, he suddenly bowed at ninety degrees to Nanako, and a resonant voice burst out from his thin body that seemed lack of exercise.

"So, so——!"

"Can you tell me, what kind of teaching aids are those exercises that you always write?"

Since the entrance examination, he has been the second grader four times in a row. Koike Shota closed his eyes tightly, and his loud words resounded through the cherry tree forest with a radius of 20 meters.

Half a foot had already stepped out of the gazebo, Sanlun heard what he said, staggered and almost fell out.

Nanako: "..."

She lowered her head and took out her mobile phone, and found [Li Xiaolang] in the address book.

[Nanako]: Can I buy the yellow ○ secret paper for the senior high school entrance examination?

Probably because school was over, a few seconds later, the other party sent a reply.

[Li Xiaolang]:?

[Li Xiaolang]: This one?

[Li Xiaolang]: [A volume of mathematics yellow ○ is spread out on the table.jpg]

【……Oh. 】

Nanako remembered,

Li Xiaolang is in the third grade of junior high school this year, and he is about to take the senior high school entrance examination.

"Do you want to buy it?" she asked the boy standing across from him, looking up.

"Yes!" Xiaochi Xiangta answered her loudly.

Buying a set for this boy, buying a set for myself, and then buying a set for Miwa, and Gogol also wanted a set, Nanako counted on her fingers in her heart, and then replied to Li Xiaolang.

【Nanako】: I want four sets

[Li Xiaolang]: ... [OK]

Sending Li Xiaolang an emoticon pack of [Hamster Jumping Says Thank You.jpg], Nanako stuffed the phone back into her pocket, and said to the boy, "Buy it."

Koike Shota: "Huh?"

"It will take about half a month to arrive."

Koike Shota: "...Huh?"

"It should be 3000 yen."

Koike Shota: "???"

Nanako felt as if she had finished what she wanted to say. She stood up, carried her schoolbag, held up her umbrella, called Miwa, and walked towards the school gate together with Miwa.

When she was about to walk to the school gate, Nanako suddenly remembered something.

【…】

【Can he understand Chinese? 】