After becoming a chaotic daughter

"In the urban area, there have been rumors of tigers appearing recently."

One day at the end of April, when Junichiro Tanizaki was sorting out the entrustment documents, he suddenly remembered the rumors he had heard in the past few days.

It was a huge tiger, haunting under the moonlit night, it threw several warehouses in the warehouse street into a mess, and the crops in the fields in the suburbs were also trampled to pieces. There have been rumors that it is called a "man-eating tiger", saying that someone has been eaten by this tiger.

But in fact, the military and police have not received any reports about "tiger cannibalism", but "a tiger of unknown origin appeared in Yokohama"-this is indeed true.

"Tiger?" Sitting at the desk, he and Xie Ye put their faces in one hand, casually flipping through the newspaper in their hands, looking uninterested, "Did it escape from which zoo? Or did it escape from the mountains? Ah...it's really boring recently, if only someone who was bitten by a tiger and lost his arms and legs came to treat me, that would be great."

Nanako was biting the dried squid and was playing flying chess with Gogol and Kenji. Hearing what they said, she turned her head a little.

When she was eating lunch with Miwa during lunch break yesterday, she also heard Miwa talk about it. "It's a bit dangerous recently. There are tigers appearing in the urban area. Be careful when you go out at night." Mr. Zhongyuan, the boss at the place where Sanlu works, has explained this to Sanlu.

There were also some posts discussing this matter in the school’s forums. They were dressed with nose and eyes, saying, “A farmer in XX town was found dead in his field early in the morning”, “Half his body was eaten Lost", "An eyewitness who saw a tiger had his arm broken by a tiger", and other unfounded gossip, not even a picture of a field or a tiger.

"Tigers..." Kenji, who was sitting opposite Nanako, was thoughtful, "Are there tigers in big cities?"

"Mr. Xianzhi has seen a tiger?" Gogol showed an interested expression.

"Yeah! There are tigers coming down from the mountains in my hometown sometimes." Kenji replied, "Occasionally everyone will give it a few chickens and ducks to eat."

Gogol blinked: "Doesn't tigers make trouble?"

"If you make trouble, take the things at hand and beat it back to the mountain." Kenji replied in a natural tone.

"I see." Gogol nodded in understanding.

Listening to their conversation, Nanako wondered what Gogol understood. ...Could it be said that in Xianzhi's hometown village, there are three bowls of Wu Song per capita?

"The military and police will handle this matter." Kunikida's subordinates kept typing on the keyboard, without moving their eyes from the laptop screen, and their tone was very calm, "Everyone, be careful when you go out, and Nanako too. Don't hang around too long after school."

"Oh." Nanako answered honestly.

*******

Kunikida told her so, but in reality, Nanako rarely stayed outside after school.

If Miwa didn't have any work, then she might stay with Miwa at the stall at the school gate for a while to buy something to eat, but most of the time, Nanako would pack her schoolbag and leave the school by herself as soon as school was over, Take the bus, or walk, first go to Huadai’s house to supervise his exercise, and then go back to the detective agency, sometimes swinging in a small park by the roadside for a while on the way.

She doesn't have any friends to hang out with, and she doesn't have anything to do if she doesn't go back to the detective agency after school, so she might as well go back to the agency to eat cakes, and play with Gogol or the cat in the coffee shop downstairs.

After school that day, Nanako walked back to the detective agency alone, and when she passed the bank of the river, she saw Kunikida standing under the river bank.

The weather was fine, and the wind blowing from the river was refreshing. She was still kicking stones and walking forward when she noticed Kunikida below. Nanako stopped, turned her head and looked around, and found the nearest He ran down the stairs with his schoolbag on his back.

Kunikida was standing by the river with his back to Nanako, facing the rushing tributary of the Tsurumi River.He folded his arms, the toes of his shoes kept tapping the ground, and looked down at the watch on his wrist from time to time, as if waiting impatiently for someone.

Nanako stopped behind him, stood up and raised her head to call him: "...Brother Dubu."

"Huh?" Hearing the voice behind him, Kunikida turned his head and saw Nanako who was expressionless. The impatient expression on his face softened, "Is it school after school? Didn't take the bus today?"

"When I came out, the bus drove away." Nanako answered him without any ups and downs. After finishing speaking, she paused, and then asked Kunikida, "Brother Dupo, what are you doing?"

Kunikida suddenly showed a headache as if it was about to explode, raised his right hand to his forehead, and gnashed his teeth, "That bastard, Dazai, disappeared again. The phone can't be connected, he was still here just now , In a blink of an eye, he disappeared again!... Huh, I'll wait for him here for a while."

Looking at Kunikida who was trying to calm down with deep breaths, Nanako thought for a while, then shifted her gaze a little, and looked at the river at Kunikida's feet.

She stared at the gurgling river for a while, Kunikida also noticed her gaze, and turned his gaze to the river next to him.

"... Are you in the river?" Nanako asked Kunikida seriously.

"No..." Kunikida said with a slightly uncertain tone, "Probably not. I've been standing here for so long, and I haven't seen him floating in the river."

Nanako thought for a while and came up with a new idea: "It may have sunk."

Kunikida: "..."

If it's Dazai...it doesn't seem impossible?

Kunikida's heart was slightly shaken.

He looked at the river, looked at Nanako, then turned his head to look at the river, then turned his head back to look at Nanako again.

Nanako always kept a expressionless, serious face, as if what she said was not a guess, but some objective fact, which made Kunikida's heart shake even more violently.

Kunikida hesitated, hesitated, hesitated, and looked at the river at his feet for the fourth time.

There was a very tangled expression on his face, comparable to Ranpo who was faced with strawberry daifuku and matcha daifuku at the same time but could only choose to eat one of them.

The breeze on the broad river makes people feel refreshed.

After a short ten seconds of silence that seemed to be stretched extremely long, Kunikida squatted down by the river. He stared at the river, which was slightly rushing in spring, hesitated for a moment, and then stretched out his hand to take off his eyes. took a deep breath—

Then plunged his head into the river.

A minute later, he lifted his head out of the river.

Wiping the river water from his face, Kunikida put on his wet hair, put on his eyes, and spoke with a much firmer tone: "No, I didn't see Dazai at the bottom of the river."

There was only a pile of rubbish at the bottom of the river four to five meters deep. He felt that it was necessary for him to take time to find someone from the River Management Bureau and mention the timely cleaning of the river this year.

The wet braid was a bit troublesome to stick to his neck, Kunikida raised his hand to keep the braid at the back of his head away, and wanted to stand up, and turned around to talk to Nanako: "That guy really went somewhere to be lazy again, You go back to the agency first, I will go to other places to find—”

Half squatting by the river, Kunikida supported his legs, before he could stand up, his feet slipped suddenly, and before he could finish his words, he fell to one side because of his unstable center of gravity.

- Pfft!

The turbulent river splashed half a person's height in front of Nanako's eyes.

"Grumbler rumbler..."

Something was washed away down the river.

Nanako froze in place with her schoolbag on her back: "..."

Seeing the outstretched hand on the river getting farther and farther away from her, Nanako's head suddenly got stuck.

At this time, we should save people first—no, she is too short, and her swimming skills are also very poor. It is not a matter of whether she can come up after going down, not to mention saving Kida, she should call the police first...not right, wait. When the police arrived, Kunikida’s seats were already warmed up, and as expected, we still had to save people first—twigs, are there any sticks? ...nowhere! !Where did the branches come from beside the cement embankment! ——You should still call for help! ...what should I shout?Help?

The spring water was very fast, Nanako just stayed there for a while, and Kunikida was left with only a small black spot.

——"Ah! It's Nanako, is this school over?"

Behind Nanako came the frivolous voice of a young man.

Nanako reacted a little slow, then turned her head and looked at the person behind her. Standing behind her was Dazai who logically said "should sink in the river" at this time.

"Huh? What are you doing?" Dazai asked enthusiastically, as if he wanted to find something interesting to mix in, "Is there anything in the river?"

Nanako was silent for a moment, then said dryly, "You're not in the river."

"Me?" Dazai pointed at himself, and then said in a nonchalant tone: "Ah, I originally wanted to float in the water for a while, after all, the weather is so good, and in this kind of good weather, you should be in the river with the wind blowing." Go with the flow', this is life in vain. ——But one second before I was about to enter the water, I suddenly felt a little hungry, and Kunikida-kun was always nagging, so I slipped to eat dumplings first gone."

"What's wrong?" he asked Nanako.

"..." Nanako was silent for a while before answering him, "Brother Dubu is in the river."

Dazai rested his index finger and thumb on his chin, pretending to be in deep thought, and after a few seconds, he slapped his thigh and said indignantly, "——Kunikida-kun is too cunning! He even deliberately distracted me with a 'long-winded plan' How can you enjoy the beauty of diving alone! I never thought that Kunikida-kun, who always accused me of diving into the water as a waste of time, would have such a hobby himself!"

"No, I have to hurry up and catch up with him!" With integrity written all over his face, he extended an invitation to Nanako angrily, "Would Nanako join me in condemning Kunikida-kun?"

【... Dazai, it's so noisy. 】

Nanako thought silently in her heart.

She was so noisy that she almost forgot about Sokunikida.

Kunikida had disappeared, and Nanako became calmer when she couldn't see his "victimization". She could think about the problem normally.She thought about it seriously, and felt that Kunikida would be fine. Dazai often drifted in this river, and Kunikida's swimming skills should not be bad. If Dazai could raft, he should be able to do so.

So Nanako shook her head at Dazai, "No."

"Really." Dazai showed a "this is such a pity" expression on his face, "Then I'll go after Kunikida by myself, see you later."

"Goodbye." Nanako also said goodbye to him.

Dazai turned around, waving his hands high on the bank of the river where the afternoon sun shone, and ran towards the direction where Kunikida was washed away, accompanied by his "twists and turns" and "mellow and melodious" shouts:

"Country~wood~~field~~~jun~~~~"

Nanako looked at his receding back, and for some reason a sentence popped up in her mind.

—Run, Mellas.

【…】

[By the way, who is "Meles"? 】

Nanako thought about it, but couldn't think of it, so she turned around and left with her schoolbag on her back.

*******

When Nanako returned to the detective agency, the first thing she saw when she opened the door was Kenji who was moving things.

"Ah, welcome back!" Holding two large boxes stacked together in his hand, Kenji had a pure and cheerful smile on his face.After greeting Nanako, he casually put the box on the corner of the wall. When the box fell to the ground, there was a dull "bang".

Nanako nodded to him, walked into the club, closed the door, and heard Kenji say again: "It's so strange, Kunikida and Mr. Dazai haven't been in the club all day today, and they haven't come back yet at this time." .”

"I'm looking for a tiger." Sitting on the office seat, Tanizaki said in a good voice, "I don't know if Mr. Kunikida and the others have found any clues about the commission sent by the military and police yesterday. I went out early in the morning. When I came to the club, I didn’t see them anymore.”

"I see." Xianzhi suddenly realized.

Nanako walked to the vacant office chair, took off her schoolbag and put it away, and said in a calm tone, "I see."

"What?" Tanizaki couldn't hear what she said, Nanako's voice was always very soft.

"When I came back just now, I saw it by the river." Nanako said a little more completely, "Brother Doppo and Dazai."

Sitting on the desk, walking around with Erlang legs crossed, pressing the buttons of the game console in his hands, with a lollipop in his mouth, he said vaguely: "Which river are you drifting in again? .”

Nanako thought for a while, if it was Dazai, he should still be drifting at this time, but Kunikida,

"—climbed up."

Nanako said.

If it was Kunikida, he should have crawled out of the river by this time.

"Father said Dazai, not Kunikida." Ranpo answered her in a casual tone.

Nanako: "...Oh."

If Kunikida climbed out of the river and Dazai jumped in again, that's true.

Tanizaki didn't understand their conversation, and repeated Ranpo's words in doubt: "Not Kunikida?"

"Those are trivial things, not important."

Ranpo waved his hand casually, and responded perfunctorily to Tanizaki. As soon as he finished speaking, the mobile phone in his pocket rang.Ranbu ignored the non-stop ringing mobile phone until he finished playing the game, finally put down the game console in his hand, and took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

"Hello?" His tone was very lazy, and he picked up the call without even checking who it was.

On the other end of the phone was Kunikida, who said that Dazai had a clue about the "tiger", and hoped that everyone would go to the West Warehouse on No. 15 Street at night to help round up the tiger.

"At night? No, I'm not going!" Ranpo refused without even thinking about it, no matter how sincerely Kunikida asked him, he was still unmoved.

"Even if you say that, Kunikida, that's not okay—you and Dazai can find a way to solve it by yourself, or you can call Kenji-kun and the others, anyway, I won't go! Oh, yes, with Yosano-san Didn’t He Oda come back just yet, just call them over!”

"...Why? Needless to say! If I go, will Nanako go back alone at night?"

Ranpo confidently ignored the existence of Gogol, and found a very reasonable and well-founded reason for his laziness to work overtime and go out. At this time, he had to speak firmly and decisively, and lead him away before Kunikida could react. The firmer his thoughts and tone, the more he can fool Kunikida.

Ranpo didn't expect it at all, when he mentioned that Nanako should not be allowed to walk alone at night, Kunikida hesitated almost immediately, and soon, he made a concession, withdrawing his hope that Ranpo would also come to help.

"That's right, Kunikida! You're not three-year-olds anymore, you have to stand on your own feet, and don't rely on me, a famous detective, for help with any trivial matters! That's it, hard work!"

Before Kunikida could react, Ranpo hung up the phone neatly, threw the phone on the table, picked up his game console and continued playing games.

"What's wrong?" Tanizaki asked.

Facing Tanizaki's question, Ranpo thought about it for 0.1 second, and then gave his answer in a succinct manner: "Kunikida asked you to go out to work overtime at night!"

"Eh~~?" Xianzhi blinked when he heard the words.

Luanbu shrugged: "All in all, that's it. Work hard, Nanako, let's get off work early at night, and eat fried chicken when we go back!"

Without giving other people a chance to ask, Ranpo made his decision in a very arbitrary way.

"Father, you have to work overtime too." Nanako looked at him with dark eyes without blinking.

Luanbu refused: "No, Dad wants to go home with you."

"I can go home with Guoguoli." Nanako said firmly.

"No, Gogol has to work overtime." Luanbu opened his mouth to take a mouthful of overtime pot, and firmly clasped it on Gogol's head. Anyway, Gogol was still wandering outside at the moment, so he didn't know what Luanbu said. what.

"Dad, you work overtime." Nanako insisted as if she didn't hear what he said.

"Gogol works overtime!" Ranbu resolutely refused to back down.

"Dad works overtime."

"Gogol is working overtime!"

"Dad works overtime."

"Gogol is working overtime!"

"dad."

"Gogol!"

"..."

After working as a repeater for a while, Nanako was a little tired talking, she pursed her lips, lowered her head to think for a while, and then changed her words and said: "Then I'm in the detective agency, after you and Gogol finish working overtime, we can work together again." go home."

Ranbu: "..."

Ranpo finds that he can't escape the fate of working overtime, and his stupid daughter firmly wants him to work overtime no matter what.

"Forget it, then dad works overtime." Luanbu gave up and decided to eat fried chicken after working overtime.

Having successfully urged Ranpo to work, Nanako felt satisfied: "Yeah."

"But you have to go home and sleep." Ranpo said again.

Nanako nodded.