After becoming a chaotic daughter

At the beginning of December, when there was only one week left before the final exam of this semester, Echizen, who took most of the semester's leave, came back.

Nanako came to school as usual in the morning. As winter entered, the temperature in Yokohama dropped twice again. The weather has been very cold recently. It was too cold to get up early in the morning. Nanako also slept a little longer this morning before crawling out of bed. out.

She missed a bus, and she arrived at the classroom later than usual. As soon as she stepped into the door of the class with her schoolbag on her back, she saw a group of people around her seat—or, to be more precise, It was the seats around the table behind her.

"Echizen! How's the game in America?"

"Is there a big difference between playing tennis in the United States and Japan?"

"Are all American players tall?"

"I heard that you stayed in the United States to train, so is your training over now?"

Several students in uniforms gathered around the desks, and you asked questions one by one. There were both boys and girls, and the words were mixed together, which sounded a bit noisy.

They gathered around Echizen's seat, which also covered Nanako's seat. Nanako tried her best to squeeze away the classmates who blocked the road, stuffed her seat, and moved her head in the crowd for a long time before someone finally found out. her presence.

"Ah, Edogawa—I'm sorry!" Nanako pushed twice, and the boy who blocked her seat noticed Nanako behind her.

The boy quickly apologized to her and moved out of the way, and the others also moved aside one after another, allowing Nanako to sit in her seat.

She put down her schoolbag, stuffed the scarf and beanie she had taken off into a drawer, the students next to her couldn't continue to surround her, and it was almost time for class, so she greeted Echizen and said hello It's all gone.

She dug out the exercise book that was due today from her schoolbag, and Nanako went to hand in her homework. When she returned to her seat, Echizen, who had just returned from the back table, was reading a Chinese textbook.

I haven't seen him for a few months, and Echizen doesn't seem to have changed much, except that something like a Band-Aid is stuck on his nose for some reason.However, Nanako's impression of him was originally vague, as long as there was no obvious and sudden change, she probably wouldn't be able to notice it.

Noticing Nanako who came back from handing in her homework, Echizen raised her head, shifted her gaze from the textbook to Nanako's face, her expression was still calm, and a pair of amber cat eyes only glanced at Nanako briefly.

"Morning." He said casually, and before he finished speaking, his gaze had already returned to the textbook.

Nanako let out a "huh", nodded, and sat back in her seat.

It is now December, but in fact, Echizen had already returned to Japan in November. Nanako saw the airport photos he sent when he returned to China on SNS, but he did not go back to school. After returning, it seems I went directly to some "U17 training camp" and never came to class.

Horio went to the training camp to see him a few times and brought him some things. When he came back, he talked about the u17 training camp, such as "winner's group", "loser's group", "first army", "expeditionary team" Nanako doesn't understand tennis games, and she doesn't quite understand what he said.

Today is just the turn of Nanako and her group to be on duty. After three months, their group gathered four people to clean the duty area after a long absence, although the duty area to which their class was assigned was not very tiring. The area for people, but there are always only three people, and occasionally there are three rounds to participate in the competition, only Nanako and Horio are left, and it takes a lot of time to clean up.

Standing on the steps, Nanako took the broom and buried her head in sweeping the fallen leaves on the stairs of the overpass step by step. She could still hear Echizen talking to Horio below who was cleaning.

"...Speaking of which, I said Echizen, I wanted to ask in the morning." Holding a broom in his hand and sweeping the dust on the ground carelessly, Horio asked Echizen carelessly, "Why did you come back so early?" By the way, didn’t you say that it should be another week? Could it be that——you found out that you’re going to fail the final exam, so you came back early and crammed into your books!”

Cleaning laxly, Echizen didn't care about Horio's arm on his shoulder, and said calmly: "The training there is over, so I'll come back naturally."

What he said sounded a bit strange, Nanako didn't quite understand what "training is gone" meant, Horio who was talking to Echizen didn't notice it at all.

"So that's how it is!" Horio directly interpreted Echizen's words as "the training camp is over", "In this case, the list for the World Series must have been released, right? Who is it? Our school's main selection How many did you get on?"

"I don't know, the list hasn't come out when I leave." Echizen answered him.

Nanako and Miwa cleaned up the upper steps together, carried the trash can and broom, and walked down the stairs together.

"Have you cleaned up yet?" Miwa asked Horio and Echizen.

I was busy chatting with Echizen, and there was still about half of the place left uncleaned, Horio responded immediately: "Immediately!"

He swept through the rest of the place randomly, and his actions were so perfunctory that he didn't know what to say to dissuade him after three rounds.

"If you are so perfunctory, what if you get deducted points..."

"It's okay! Anyway, the wind has been so strong these two days, if it is found out, it will be said that we were blown by the wind after cleaning!" Horio waved his hand, and he had already found an excuse.

While he was talking, he had already picked up the trash can and was walking towards the garbage disposal behind the teaching building. Sanlu had no choice but to keep up.Nanako took a broom and followed behind them. After taking two steps, she found that her shoelace had come off.

The shoes are new lace-up shoes bought last month. Although they look good, the laces are always easy to loosen.Nanako wanted to put the broom on the ground to tie her shoelaces, but Echizen, who had already walked a few steps away, realized that she hadn't followed, stopped and turned to look at her.

Seeing that Nanako's shoelaces had fallen off, he walked back, took the broom she was holding, and stood beside her with two brooms, waiting for her to tie her shoelaces.

Nanako squatted down, tied her shoelaces again, and when she stood up again, Miwa and Horio had already walked to the edge of the teaching building, and they were standing by the flower bed waiting for her and Echizen.

Nanako slowly said "thank you" to Echizen, took back the broom from him, and walked towards Miwa and the others with him.

When walking halfway, Nanako remembered what Echizen and Horio had said just now, she thought about it, and asked Echizen: "What does 'no more' mean?"

With a thoughtless question, Echizen turned his face, glanced at her, and then turned his gaze back to the road ahead.

"It means 'because I violated the regulations, so I was kicked out from there'." He said lightly, and there was no emotion in his tone.

"Oh." Nanako replied, she thought it was the "U17 Training Base" that closed down.

The tone of her response sounded very ordinary, as if she just heard "the weather is very cold today" and nothing worth paying attention to, but Echizen didn't think it was a big deal.

Nanako doesn't know anything about tennis, and she doesn't know the meaning behind such a short sentence of "being kicked out of the U17 training camp", so she naturally doesn't think there is anything.

In fact, Echizen felt that even if she knew what this sentence meant, she probably wouldn't care much.There was a school league defeat three rounds ago, and Echizen heard her talking to Nanako about it, Nanako just listened quietly at that time, and didn't show any special reaction.

This is the same treatment for three rounds, not to mention that he is a classmate who actually doesn't know Nanako very well.

Nanako didn't take the fact that he was kicked out by u17 to heart, nor did he take Nanako's reaction to heart. They quickly walked to Miwa and Horio, and the four of them went to take out the trash together.

He didn't come to school for three months. Although he also studied after training and competitions, Echizen still missed a lot of homework. Nanako and Miwa lent him the notes to copy.

After taking the final exam in the second week, Echizen went to the United States again.This time he didn't post on SNS, he was going to Hokkaido to participate in the competition in the third round, and he happened to meet him at Narita Airport, and then he knew that he was going to the United States again, as if he was going to participate in some kind of world championship.

Another semester is over, winter vacation is coming, the weather in Yokohama is getting colder and colder, and the cold sea breeze is blowing from morning till night.

On Christmas Eve, there was a sleet in Yokohama.

The light rain mixed with snow fell at night, and there was no snow on the road.When Nanako woke up the next morning, she opened the curtains and saw a thin layer of frost on the window. If she breathed out towards the window, white water mist would be left on the cold glass.

It's already a holiday, she doesn't have to get up early, she found the remote control of the air conditioner among the pile of little yellow duck dolls on the bed, Nanako turned on the heater and the humidifier, and lay down in the bed for a while before crawling I got up, wrapped in a long coat of coral fleece pajamas, stepped on plush slippers and went out to wash.

She came out of her room, Luanbu hadn't gotten up yet, but Gogol had already woken up, was digging through the refrigerator in the kitchen to prepare hot breakfast, and the heater in the living room had already been turned on.

Gogol was wearing pajamas, and he threw the cloak on the sofa in the living room.He always likes to wear capes and things like that, usually a thin cape in summer, and a warm cloak coat with a fleece edge in winter.

Nanako finished washing in the bathroom. When she came out, she saw the cloak that Gogol had left on the sofa. It was a long one. She walked to the edge of the sofa, grabbed the cloak, looked at it, and then put it on herself. .

The windproof and fleece cloak was warmer than her coral fleece pajamas, and it was so long that the hem covered her calves, and the sleeves hid her fingers.Nanako felt that Gogol's cloak coat would be more comfortable, so she took off her coral fleece pajama coat and requisitioned Gogol's coat.

Wearing a cloak and jacket, Nanako entered the restaurant and sat at the table waiting for Gogol to give her hot milk and rice balls.

She lay on the dining table and played with her long sleeves a little bored for a while, but she soon felt bored and sat on a chair with her legs crossed, wrapping herself into a warm ball with a cloak coat .

Gogol was heating milk in the kitchen. Nanako stared at his back for a while, feeling that he seemed to grow taller again.Gogol has been growing obviously every year, and now he is taller than Luanbu, looking like a high school boy.

【High school boy】

Nanako thought for a while, and called Gogol, "Guoguoli."

"What?" Gogol took out the milk from the microwave, stirred the unevenly heated milk, and responded briskly.

"How old are you now?" Nanako asked him.

"Hmm~~" Gogol thought for a while before answering, "After the new year, he will be 16 years old."

16 is old.

An age that makes Nanako feel a little familiar.

Hearing his answer, for some reason, Nanako remembered that she was 16 when she died, and Gogol was almost as old as she was before.

This age, almost the age of high school, is still in puberty.Boys seem to grow later. Gogol is now more than 1.7 meters tall, and he should grow even more in the future.

Nanako calculated her current age again, and in a few days after the new year, she would be 14 years old.Two years younger than Gogol.

She thought about Gogol's height when she was dragged back by her, and compared her current height with Gogol's, and had to admit a very cruel reality.

——It seems that she is the only one, and she has been as short as ever in the past few years.

【…】

I always knew that I was short, but when I compared it with Gogol, the gap became more obvious, and Nanako's mood suddenly became heavy. Maybe this is the so-called "don't worry about being few, but about unevenness".

"Guoguoli." Nanako called him again.

"What?" Gogol came out of the kitchen, and he put the warmed milk and rice balls on the dining table.

Two rice balls, two cups of milk, each of Nanako and him.

Nanako brought two glasses of milk and a rice ball in front of her, then raised her head and spoke to him in a serious manner: "I want to drink two glasses of milk, and you don't want to drink milk in the future."

Gogol:?

"What about Mr. Ranpo?" Gogol asked.

Nanako thought about Ranpo's height surpassed by Gogol. Although the idiot father is probably past the age of being tall, maybe?

So she said to Gogol, "Daddy also drinks two glasses of milk."

Gogol:?

Gogol strongly protested against Nanako's discriminatory treatment.

He turned and went into the kitchen,

Then I heated up four cups of milk for myself.

The author has something to say:

When I wrote the article and used the dice to cast the hero Gogol

I never thought he would have more

"Guoguoli" - a name written on a whim when I checked the Japanese translation halfway through the code

"In the dog" - whenever I see this name in the comment area, my pupils are shocked. It is clear that Nanako is talking about the very cute "Wang Jiang"

"Quaguali" - a traveling frog that wanders outside every day (by a reader in the comment area)

"Hot Pot Chicken" - I don't know how a new breed appeared in the comment area

so many strange nicknames

In the beginning, he was obviously just a simple civet cat! ! (shock