After becoming a chaotic daughter

At the end of April, Japan ushered in Golden Week.

From the last day of April to the first ten days of May, there was no holiday, just a pure holiday. Qingxue gave students a nine-day holiday, and the teachers did not assign much homework, fully allowing this "golden school" "Zhou" has truly become "golden" in Nanako's eyes.

It took one day to finish her homework, and Nanako began to squat at the detective agency's house.Although schools and many companies are on holiday, the detective agency is still operating as usual during the Golden Week. Investigators come in and out every day to solve the incident, and the clerks are still sitting in front of the computer and typing on the keyboard from nine to five. Nanako, who has things to do, is occasionally called to help run errands.

"Nanako, can you help me buy two bottles of detergent?" Standing in front of the open locker, Yosano looked at the locker that hadn't been cleaned for a long time, and frowned slightly, "...take time to clean the locker today. Just clean it up."

Lying on the only vacant desk in the current office area, Nanako raised her head, looked at Yosano, and pushed the "Wild Age" she was watching to the side, said "um", and pulled out her own Purse, get up and go out.

She took the elevator downstairs, and when she walked out of the exit of the red brick office building, she saw the three-flowered cat lying lazily basking in the sun on the flower bed.

The Sanhua cat has lost weight recently. I don’t know if it was lost by the original owner or what happened. One day, the collar it was wearing around its neck disappeared. Ms. Chunye took it back home to raise it. Ms. Chunye would lead her around for a walk. Ms. Chunye was worried that it was too fat, so she put on a cat tag [Please do not feed it] and began to control its diet.

If the cat is too fat, it seems to be sick, just like a human being. If a human is too fat, the organs will be crushed by fat, so the members of the detective agency and the aunts in the coffee shop will not feed it. up.

Nanako trotted over and squatted in front of the flower bed purring the cat. In early May, the sun in Yokohama was warm, making both the cat and the cat feel very comfortable.Being stroked by Nanako, the three-flowered cat purred comfortably, and gently rubbed its head against Nanako's hand.

"Meow." Nanako whispered to it.

Sanhuamao dragged its tune, and responded slowly: "Meow~woo~"

Nanako broke a long grass from the flower bed, squatted by the flower bed and began to play with the cat. The cat looked lazy, lying on the flower bed, with only one paw stretched out, and slowly patted the grass leaves. I took pictures here and there, like a grandfather who dozed off and played with his children perfunctorily.

As if completely unaware of the cat's "sloppy coping" attitude, Nanako teased the cat seriously for a while, completely forgetting that she still had to buy detergent.

From the coffee shop a few meters away, there was the crisp sound of wind chimes colliding, and someone pushed the door and came out.

Nanako stopped teasing the cat in her hands, turned her head, and saw Atsushi coming out of the coffee shop, holding a document in her hand, probably after going to the court or somewhere to pick up the document, and then returning first I drank a cup of coffee at [Whirlpool] and took a rest.

Atsushi who came out of the coffee shop also saw Nanako squatting in front of a flower bed by the roadside playing with cats.It was as if the internet speed of his life had suddenly slowed down. His steps faltered, and both his expression and his movements suddenly became stiff. He didn't know where to put his hands, or where to move his feet. step on.

"Good afternoon, Nanako."

The tone of greeting was equally stiff.

Atsushi wasn't quite sure what attitude he should take towards Nanako, if he had to use a word to describe it, it would probably be "confused".

"The child of a senior in the company" - logically speaking, he should treat each other with a gentle and friendly tone, ask questions about studies, talk about hobbies, and so on, but Nanako doesn't seem to be a very communicative child, and Kenji, who is also 14 years old but cheerful and optimistic, is completely two kinds of children, and Kunikida also explained that he should pay attention to "property" when getting along with Nanako, what should be said and what should not be said, which makes Atsushi "treat Nanako kindly". " and "Keep a distance" between the two options, I don't know which one to choose is the right one.

Faced with greetings from new members who are not very familiar with them, Nanako gave him the same response as others without discrimination.

Nanako looked at him, without any ups and downs in her tone, and replied dryly, "Good afternoon."

"..."

Silence is the sunny port of Yokohama this afternoon.

Dun was sweating all over his head, searching for topics in his heart, trying to make the conversation continue, or end a little more naturally, but the social level he had developed in the orphanage for 18 years was obviously not enough to let the conversation continue. He thought of a perfect reply in just ten seconds.

So in the end, he could only continue the conversation between them with a sentence that was not nutritious: "Did Nanako come out to play?"

Nanako paused for a moment before realizing that she was out to run errands instead of teasing cats. She blinked her eyes very slowly, and answered Atsushi with a blank expression: "...No, I'm helping Sister Jingzi buy detergent."

"Ah... that's right." Dun's answer was very dry, and the smile on his face was also quite difficult to persist.

Not knowing how to continue the topic, he tried to grab the key words from Nanako's short answer and find something to say.

The words related to the characters - "Akiko", Atsushi naturally think of "Dr. Yosano", "Operating Room", "Ability", "Dismemberment", these words are like packed into a compressed package. , Turn out one, and the others will immediately jump out of his mind.

What jumped out at the same time were some inexplicable psychological shadows.

Dun shuddered, and gave up searching for topics with this keyword in just a second.

Another noun - "cleaner", along with this word, what he can think of is "cleaning", "cleaning", "dirty", "mess", and the first few words that pop up in his mind The Sky Detective Agency was in a mess after being attacked by [Black Lizard].

But this is something that cannot be said, and Dun can only choose to shut up.

[Any other keywords?Key words that can bring topic?There must be, there must be such a word somewhere...! 】

The brain, which was neither extremely smart nor sharp, was spinning desperately. Dun felt like a car whose engine was already heating up, and his brain was on the verge of exploding due to overload.

Suddenly—he had a flash of inspiration!

right!One more word!In this sentence, there is still a word! ——Dun suddenly realized this.

With relief like the rest of his life, Atsushi breathed a sigh of relief, and the stiff smile on his face naturally relaxed. He asked Nanako, "Why would Nanako call Dr. Yosano 'sister'? Speaking of it , Nanako called Kunikida-san is also called 'brother'?... Obviously, she is a colleague of the same generation as Yosano-san, Kunikida-san, and Ranpo-san?"

"Sister Akiko" - in addition to Miss Yosano's name, there is also the word "sister".

Nanako glanced at him, put down the blade of grass in her hand, and began to snore Sanhuamao again: "Sister Akiko is 25 years old, and I am 14 years old, so I am an older sister."

The difference is only 11 years old. If you want to call them auntie, the difference is probably more than 20 years old, and 25 years old is still very young.

Dun Ruo thought: "...so she is about the same age as 'mother', so that's why she is called auntie?"

Nanako nodded.

"So that's how it is... Speaking of which, I haven't even met Nanako's mother." When "Mom" was mentioned, Tun suddenly realized this. He has been in the detective agency for a week, although he is still not very familiar with his colleagues. , but Nanako comes to the club every day, but has never seen her mother, which makes Atsushi feel a little strange.

[I don't know what kind of person Mr. Ranpo's wife is, and she looks very young like Mr. Ranpo? 】

Dun thought in his heart.

Nanako is 14 years old, but Ranpo looks as young as a 20-year-old boy, but since he has such a big daughter, Mr. Ranpo should actually be in his thirties, so young OK.Although Dun is only young now, he has already begun to feel envious.

"What kind of person is Nanako's mother?" The topic became much smoother. Aton held the document, his tone and movements gradually became natural. He also walked to the edge of the flower bed, squatted down beside Nanako, and watched Nanako stroking the cat.

Nanako focused on stroking the cat's warm back, and answered him without changing her tone: "There is no mother."

Dun: "... what?"

"I don't have a mother." Nanako repeated, adding a subject to answer him.

Dun: ...

Oops, I said the wrong thing as soon as I relaxed.

Is it divorced?Or widowed?Without a mother, it means that you did not have a mother when you were young. Could it be that you had a dystocia at birth? !

——It doesn't matter which one looks the same! !It is a topic that should never be brought up!

Realizing that he had said something wrong, Atsushi's fluent words suddenly stuttered again, and he tried hard to make up for it: "Well, I mean, although there is no..., Mr. Ranpo is also to you, Nanako. Very good, Mr. Ranpo cares about you very much, as a father, uh, I mean, as a father, Mr. Ranpo raised you Nanako alone, he must have worked very hard in the past ten years."

【…】

Nanako feels that it is not very hard for Ranpo to raise her. She can basically take care of herself, and there are Yosano and the others. ... She may have to work harder to raise this father,

And Nanako counted silently with her fingers in her heart.

"Not more than ten years." She replied to Dun, "Only eight years."

Dun was taken aback for a moment: "Huh?"

Although it didn't seem as obvious as before, Atsushi vaguely felt that he seemed to have said something wrong again, and he asked Nanako cautiously: "Why is it eight years?"

Nanako took the three-flowered cat down from the flower bed, lowered her head and held it in her arms to purr, and said firmly, "Because my father was my father when I was six years old."

"?" Don didn't quite understand.

Nanako turned her head and looked at Atsushi, feeling that he didn't understand. She thought about it and patched it up: "The previous 'father' was someone else."

"??" Dun didn't understand.

Nanako had to think about it again, and then told him: "The previous 'father' died."

"???" Dun asked with question marks all over his head.

Nanako pursed her lips, not knowing where to start, the matter was so complicated to explain, she was a little too lazy to say it.Feeling a bit troublesome, Nanako scratched her head and rubbed the cat's head with her expressionless cheek.

【ah,】

Halfway through the rubbing, Nanako suddenly remembered that word.

She said to Dun solemnly: "I was adopted by my father."

That's right, it's "adoption." If you use this word, you can skip all the complicated pretexts.

The question marks all over Tun's head suddenly fell down, and his brain was stunned. He felt as if he had done something very wrong. Although Nanako didn't seem to care at all, when it comes to this kind of thing, the average child It must be very hurt!

Before his brain could react, his body had already moved, put down the document in his hand, and faced Nanako with a standard Dogeza:

"Yes, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to mention this, please forgive me!"

When apologizing, he even used the formal and solemn wording of "Please forgive me", as if Nanako would immediately apologize by cutting himself to death if he said a word.

Nanako: "..."

Nanako didn't quite understand why Atsushi, who was born in an orphanage, wanted to apologize to her.

Being adopted and being kicked out after growing up in an orphanage, no matter how you look at it, the latter is the worst. After all, she also has a stupid father and Guoguoli, but Dun has nothing, and almost starved to death by the river.

...Thinking about it this way, it seems that he is even more pitiful.

Nanako suddenly felt very pity. She reached out her hand silently, and patted Atsubai's head. It was a different white color from Gogol's, with a light gray tone, which looked a bit dirty.

Gently placing the three-colored cat in her arms in front of Atsushi, Nanako got up and went to the convenience store across the street to buy detergent.

Going to an orphanage would result in being kicked out when she grows up, and starving to death on the street. Thinking about it this way, when she was almost sent to the orphanage, it was really wise to grab Ranpo and call her father.

Although Ranpo raising her is actually not very hard, but Nanako thinks that Ranpo is still a very good father-although in fact she has no comparable reference object, at least she thinks that Ranpo should not be like She was kicked out like an orphanage.

After crossing the road, Nanako went into the 24-hour convenience store across the street, wanting to buy detergent quickly and go back.

But she just walked into the store,

Then I saw Luanbu secretly hiding in the convenience store behind her back to buy ice cream.

Nanako: "..."

Ranbu: "..."

Luanbu stuffed the remaining half of the ice cream into his mouth, swallowed it all in one go, then pretended nothing happened, and wanted to walk away from Nanako swaggeringly.

"...Dad." Nanako grabbed his little cloak.

Ranpo was forced to stop, turned his head, and said to Nanako righteously: "It's not summer yet, so I can't eat ice cream!"

"But you ate."

"Dad didn't eat!"

"...you have ice cream next to your mouth."

"..."

The father and daughter looked at each other for three seconds, remembering that Luanbu had diarrhea half a month ago because of drinking cold milk in the middle of the night, Nanako took out her mobile phone from her pocket, and lowered her head to make a small report with her grandpa.

[This father is really difficult to raise. 】

she thought to herself.