After becoming a chaotic daughter

When it first entered December, it snowed in Yokohama.

The snow fell at night. When I went back to the dormitory the night before, it was just the cold wind howling at night. After drinking a cup of hot milk, Nanako washed up and changed into fluffy pajamas, and nestled in with the little yellow duck doll. into a warm bed.

There was a heater in the dormitory, and the quilt was thick. She didn't get cold at all. She fell asleep until the alarm clock rang. When she got up, she opened the curtains and looked, only to find that the outside was white and covered with heavy snow.

Stepping on the small bench, Nanako lay on the window sill and watched for a while, then ran to push Luanbu out of the bed and woke him up.

The temperature dropped several degrees overnight, and he opened the closet in random steps. After searching for a long time on the side where Nanako's clothes were placed, he finally found the thick winter clothes Xie Ye had chosen for Nanako.

Facing a pile of messy clothes of which he couldn’t even distinguish the material, he sat on the tatami and thought for a while, then put Nanako on a pair of bottoming long sleeves, and then put on a child’s thermal underwear , followed by another fleece shirt.

He looked at Nanako, feeling a little confused, wondering if it was warm enough to wear like this, he hesitated for a while, and put another woolen sweater on Nanako.

Add a loose sweater.

A sweater should also be worn.

It's a bit windy today, so don't be afraid of the wind if you wear a windproof coat.

Wear down jackets to keep warm in winter.

Four pairs of trousers are required: leggings, pantyhose, children's thermal pajama pants, and fleece trousers.

Socks should be fleece wool socks.

Looking at Nanako who had turned into a ball, Ranpo thought about it seriously, and then dug out the scarf, thick gloves, plush earmuffs, and wool cap, and put them on for Nanako.

【...It should be almost like this! 】

Looking at the tightly wrapped Nanako, Ranbu nodded in satisfaction, and with a big wave of his hand, asked Nanako to put on the little boots by herself, and he also went to find his own warm plush cape.

Putting on several layers of clothes, Nanako felt as if she had turned into a chubby snowman. She couldn't walk steadily, and couldn't bend her arms. She walked to the entrance unsteadily, wanting to sit down and put on her boots.

"..."

Nanako found herself unable to sit down.

The pants were too thick, and her short legs couldn't even find her knees. She thought about it, moved to the edge of the floor, jumped onto the concrete floor of the entrance, and put her feet into the little boots with great effort. After kicking on his short legs for a long time, he finally put on the boots.

She opened the door on tiptoe, and the cold air from outside rushed in through the crack of the door. Nanako was dressed thickly, but her cheeks felt a little stiff from the blowing, and she didn't feel any chill on her body.

She pushed the door open and stepped out her short, round legs.

Plop——

Chubby Nanako tripped over the threshold.

******

It was cold and snowing, and the detective agency was deserted. Even with the heater turned on, everyone seemed unable to motivate themselves. Only Kunikida stuck to his post as always, working diligently.

Holding hot cocoa, Nanako, who had changed into a winter coat of normal thickness, sat on a small bench and watched her today's children's program.

When I went out in the morning, I tripped over the threshold because I was wearing too thick clothes. Fortunately, Yu Xie Ye, who just went out in the dormitory next door, rescued her in time, so that she didn't have to continue to wear a ball to the detective agency. I can't even sit on the bench.

Lazily nestled in the office chair, biting the pocky's random steps and tilting his neck, the whole person looked like wax mud melted in a heating room, crookedly slumped in the comfortable office chair, looking at the newly delivered Four-panel cartoon on the newspaper.

Today's weather is bad. Even the newspaper was delivered to the detective agency's mailbox two hours late. It was still snowing outside, and it was difficult to walk on the ground covered with snow and ice. When Nanako came here in the morning, she almost Fell headfirst into a snowdrift.

After watching today's children's program, Nanako turned off the computer, found her children's picture book from the bookcase and looked at it for a while. The content in the children's picture book was very boring, and the characters were basically pseudonyms. She couldn't understand it at all, so she Soon he lost interest and stuffed the picture book back into the bookshelf.

Standing in front of the bookshelf, Nanako tilted her head up and identified the titles written on the spine of the books. Most of them were Chinese characters mixed with pseudonyms. Some of them were comics read randomly, and some seemed to be novels, but most of them were Various esoteric monographs, a large part of which are medical, should be bought with Xie Ye.

Nanako stepped on a small bench, took a manga from the bookshelf, ran back to the reception room, and lay down on the sofa to read it.There are pictures in the manga, and there are Chinese characters in the lines, so Nanako can understand a little bit, at least it is more interesting than children's picture books.

She was hiding in the reception room by herself. She had only finished reading half of the manga when she heard someone coming from outside. After a while, the president brought two dusty men in suits into the reception room. What was it probably? client.

Seeing Nanako lying on the sofa, Fukuzawa Yukichi remembered that Nanako always liked to play alone in the reception room, and would lie down on the sofa to sleep when she was tired.

Before he had time to say anything, Nanako immediately climbed off the sofa, called "Grandpa", and ran out with the manga in her arms.

Seeing Nanako running to find Ranpo, he nodded slightly to the two clients and apologized: "...I'm sorry, this is a child from the club, I forgot to let this child stay away."

"No, no, it's okay, it's just a child, don't worry about it."

The client—an official from an important department in Tokyo waved his hand humbly, expressing that he didn't care. They came to ask the detective agency for help, and they didn't care about this little episode.

"This child looks really good, sensible and smart, really worthy of being the granddaughter of President Fukuzawa." Another official also praised, although he didn't know that Fukuzawa Yukichi had such a "granddaughter" beforehand, But anyway, it's just a few good words with closed eyes, as long as the detective agency—mainly the detective boy in the detective agency can help solve the trouble, why not do it.

"At this age, should I be in kindergarten?" one of the officials asked again.

"No..." Fukuzawa Yukichi subconsciously answered his words, paused, and then said, "It's time to go to elementary school in spring."

"So that's the case, after a look, he is also a pillar, hahaha..."

Haha, the topic was duly brought back to the entrusted matter, Fukuzawa Yukichi calmly discussed important matters with the two, but thought of the few chats just now in his mind.

Indeed, Nanako is already six years old, and after the beginning of spring, it is time to send her to school.But before Nanako came to the detective agency, she was locked up at home by her original "biological father". No matter what, according to the information, she almost never left the house, so she couldn't even speak. Obviously, it wasn't until I came to the detective agency that I gradually learned how to speak.

Can Nanako like this be sent to school?

The two officials left after discussing matters, and Fukuzawa Yukichi returned to his office. After thinking for several hours, he searched through the documents and policies for enrollment in Yokohama Elementary School, and finally asked the secretary to call Nanako over.

Still holding the unfinished half of a biscuit in her hand, the tiny Nanako stood in the big office, looking at Fukuzawa Yukichi sitting behind the desk expressionlessly, her dark eyes There was no wave in his face, no emotion could be seen, his cheeks were still shrugging, chewing the unswallowed biscuits in his mouth.

"Nanako." Fukuzawa Yukichi spoke after deliberating.

"Hmm." Nanako swallowed the biscuit hard, and replied vaguely.

"From tomorrow..." Fukuzawa Yukichi changed his words after a little thought, "No, starting from this afternoon, come to my office for an hour each in the morning and afternoon to learn how to read and count."

Nanako stopped eating the biscuit, and she blinked blankly, not understanding what Fukuzawa Yukichi meant.

"It's time for you to learn how to read and write. If I don't have time, Kunikida or Yosano will teach you." After making the arrangements, he hesitated for a moment, and then he taught Nanako dryly: " Learning is very important, to gain a foothold in this world, you still have to learn at all... Luanbu has been studying for a long time."

But that was when she was 14 years old. Facing the six-year-old Nanako, Fukuzawa Yukichi was not sure if she could understand these words, or she would cry because she didn't want to study.

Before establishing a detective agency, he was still in the bodyguard business, and he had seen many children from rich families, because their parents doted on them, they made noise and didn't want to study, didn't want to go to school, and spent their days in ruins.

Before the beginning of spring, teach Nanako some basic words and calculations, so that she can adapt to the days of "study", so as not to be unable to adapt to the sudden change of life when she was in school-Fukuzawa Yukichi made this decision with such considerations in mind.

Nanako stood motionless in front of the desk like a piece of wood, she seemed to be thinking, but also seemed to be simply distracted, after all, children always have difficulty concentrating.

Fukuzawa Yukichi didn't urge him, but patiently waited for Nanako to absorb and digest what he just said. After a while, he heard Nanako's characteristic, very slow answering voice.

"……Oh."

After learning how to read, she can understand comics. She really doesn't want to continue reading children's picture books.As for the calculation, it shouldn't matter, it's probably just addition and subtraction within a hundred, and it's not asking her to find a conic section.

Thinking about it, Nanako accepted the matter with a good attitude, and slowly took a small bite of the half biscuit in her hand.

Fukuzawa Yukichi let out a sigh of relief.

Nanako ran back to the office area, stepped on a small bench, took a new biscuit from the chaotic desk, continued to nibble on the biscuit and read comics in silence.

On the side, Luanbu, who was so lazily baked by the heating, was slumped in the office chair like a big cat, and had already fallen asleep soundly.

****

Three in the afternoon.

It was the time when Luanbu had afternoon tea desserts every day. It snowed today, and the ground outside was covered with thick snow and thin ice. If you walk on it, you will slip.Therefore, as a good father, Ranpo decided not to let Nanako run errands today, he was going to hold Nanako and go directly to the cafe downstairs to eat cake.

He put on his fluffy little fleece cape, but noticed something.

"Miss Yosano—have you seen Nanako?"

"Nanako? She's at the president's place... The president said that he will teach her how to read from today, don't you know, Mr. Ranpo?"

Ranpo: ...What is that? Why does he seem to be the only father who hasn't heard anything.

A strange sense of crisis suddenly rose in Edogawa Ranpo's heart.