After becoming a chaotic daughter

Nanako was sitting alone in the office area of ​​the detective agency, lying on the table and reading manga.

Most of the members went out for business, and Gogol didn't know where to play. The clerks were all working in the office inside, so the office area outside was quiet and deserted.Nanako felt a little bored, so she dug out a manga from Ranbu's desk and read it by herself.

Her hair has grown slightly in the past two years, and it has also become much softer. The thin and soft ponytail is tied high and hangs down behind her head.Slightly longer black hair scattered around the cheeks, not long enough to tie up, but always easy to fall, blocking Nanako's vision.Especially when doing homework, if Nanako lowered her head for a while, the hair that was pinned behind her ears would fall off again, blocking Nanako's sight and making her have to raise her hand to stroke again.

Nanako was lying on the table reading manga, and from time to time, she wanted to brush back the broken hair on her cheeks, but she couldn't hold it firmly, but Nanako felt that it was troublesome, she grabbed the ends of her hair, and wanted to use scissors to cut these strands of hair cut it off.

Just as Nanako was struggling with her hair, the door of the detective agency was opened from the outside.

Still pulling her hair by hand, Nanako turned her head and looked in the direction of the door.Yosano was the first to enter, followed by Kenji with two people on his back.

Although he was carrying two people on the left and right, Kenji's movements seemed very relaxed. After he entered the detective agency, he closed the door with his feet with a "hey".The two people on his shoulders, one is Atsushi and the other is a girl Nanako doesn't know, both of them are in a coma, their clothes are a bit torn and wrinkled.

He casually parted the smooth short dark red hair with his hands, and Yosano's frown was slightly relaxed when he saw Nanako. She was not wearing the same outfit when she came to work early in the morning, but a new set of clothes, Nanako Never seen her wear it before.

She asked Nanako, "Is the president or Kunikida here?"

Nanako, who was crookedly sitting in the office chair, straightened up a little, shook her head and answered her: "The president's grandpa is off to play chess, and Brother Dubu said he would go to the supermarket to grab discounted eggs."

"yes……"

Yosano showed a bit troubled look, but she soon sighed softly, put her slender fingertips on her forehead, stepped on her high heels and walked into the office area, murmuring to herself something similar to complaining .

"...It's really bad luck. It's rare to go shopping once, and you will also encounter incidents. The newcomer is really troublesome... At that time, it was really too light. Before the limbs ×××, you should first give ○○ to ××× That's right, ah, that's right—for such a guy, an organ like ×× is actually completely redundant..."

After mumbling to herself for a long time, Xie Ye remembered that she was following behind her with two wounded people hanging on her body. She turned her head and told Kenji: "Please help me put these two wounded people in the infirmary." Go to bed, Kenji-kun."

"Okay~" Xianzhi walked briskly towards the infirmary with two people on his shoulders, as if he was carrying only two breads.

"Nanako, call Kunikida and ask him to come back." Yosano told Nanako again, then took out something from his pocket and handed it to Nanako, "And this."

"Although it's a bit unlucky, it's okay, this one is not bad."

What she held in her hand was a very small hairpin with the word Yao.There are no fancy decorations, just three connected metal "×" characters, very slender, so it doesn't weigh much, the hair clip is a bit dark gold, similar to the metal butterfly hair clip worn by Xie Ye himself tone.

"If the hair is too long, it will block the line of sight. It is inconvenient and not good for the eyes. Use a hairpin to fasten it." She put the hairpin in Nanako's hand, "This is Mr. Ranpo asking me to help you." bought."

"Yeah." Nanako nodded her head, grabbed the hairpin in her hand, and saw that Xie Ye had also entered the infirmary, and then found the mirror from the drawer. Pin it with a bobby pin.

With less hair falling down her cheeks, Nanako felt a little better.She reached for the office landline on Kunikida's desk next to her, and called Kunikida's cell phone.

After the phone rang three times, it was connected immediately, and there was a noisy background sound from the handset, accompanied by Kunikida's calm question: "This is Kunikida, what's the matter?"

"Sister Akiko asked you to come back." Nanako said firmly.

"Nanako?" Kunikida asked subconsciously, and randomly uttered an unknown particle word similar to "Goo!", as if being squeezed by someone.The background is filled with shouts of "Give way!", "I'll come first!", "Is there any more onions!" and so on, and the simple breath of life seems to rush to the face even through the phone.

"Happening, what...uh, what's the matter, please?—Please weigh me!"

Kunikida's words were scattered, but Nanako still accurately discerned what he asked her.She thought for a while, and then answered Kunikida: "Just now, sister Akiko and Kenji came back, Kenji was carrying brother Atsu on his back, and there was a girl, both of them fainted."

"Girl...girl, uh-girl? Ha...ha... finally squeezed out..." Kunikida on the other end of the phone was panting.

"Well, it seems to be a girl as old as me." Nanako answered him, recalling the girl's appearance again, and then gave Kunikida a very dry description, "The hair is very long, it seems to be about the same height as me, Wearing a red kimono."

"A young girl in a kimono...?" Kunikida repeated Nanako's description, paused for a few seconds, as if thinking about something, and then said, "I understand, I'll be right back."

Nanako said "goodbye" to him, and just after putting down the phone, Kenji, who helped carry him to the infirmary, came out.

The innocent boy with a childlike expression greeted Nanako, sat down on his desk, patted his chest and said, "It's really scary——I was helping Mr. Shibayama dig up the vegetable field at home, After receiving a call from Dr. Xie Ye, I went to help her. When I arrived at the station, I realized that the entire train had been bombed to pieces!"

"Did it explode?" Nanako asked Kenji with no emotion on her face.

"Hmm..." Kenji recalled what he heard at the scene, and replied to Nanako: "It seems like a bomb maniac who attacked the train with a lemon-shaped bomb--big cities are really different, not only bombs, but also lemon-shaped bombs." The bombs... don’t know if there are carrot-shaped or onion-shaped ones.”

When he was talking, he held the potted radish on his table in his arms, and gently stroked the green leaves of the radish.Recently, he is studying how to grow vegetables in potted plants. It is not easy to find fields in big cities, and there is no place for him to grow vegetables in the detective agency, so Kenji had to study potted plants.

Kenji is very good at growing crops, even better than Kunikida. He is taking care of the pot of green onions in the president's office. The pot of green onions has been planted since Nanako Elementary School. After Kenji's "professional care", it is now It's more "lush".

The detective agency often helps the city police deal with various violent crimes involving murder and explosions, and Nanako is used to it.

At the beginning, she thought that the detective agency alone would receive several commissions to assist in solving cases every week, as if Yokohama was a very chaotic city, and crimes would happen every day.But then she found out that the students in the class didn't seem to think much about it, and Yokohama was safe and sound on SNS, and there would be many tourists visiting during the holidays, so she felt that a normal city was originally Like this.

A hundred incidents occurred, but only ten may be reported by the media in the end, and only one may be seen by many people.Thinking about it this way, this situation seems normal, and Nanako got used to it over time.

There might be a little more in elementary school, but now, she hardly encounters any dangerous things when she goes out by herself.

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The girl Yosano brought back was a child about the same age as Nanako.

It seems that because the train exploded, she fell into the river, so she was brought back fainted.Nanako sneaked a look at the infirmary, and found that the unconscious girl was lying quietly on the hospital bed, as delicate as a doll, with her eyes closed, which reminded people of the word "Men り Hime (Sleeping Beauty)".

"What about her name?" Sitting on Kunikida's office chair, Gogol was peeling an apple, his head tilted to one side.

"I don't know." Nanako shook her head, she had never spoken to that girl, Yosano called that girl "that child", and Kunikida called her "Hi", so Nanako didn't know her name.

Nanako said again: "Brother Dun seems to have taken her out to play."

"Do you want to go out to play?" Gogol asked Nanako. He was holding a fruit knife and an apple, and he peeled the apple very steadily. "It's a holiday now, isn't it a good time to go out and play? There are a lot more people on the street outside."

"..." Nanako lay on the table, buried her face in her arms again, only showing a pair of dark eyes, "...don't want to move."

She replied slowly, and watched as Gogol peeled the apples, then cut the apples into small bunny shapes, and placed them in small plates on the table.

Nanako reached out and took a little rabbit, gnawed it in small bites, and then went to get another one. Soon, she ate up the whole plate of little rabbits.Her hands were a little sticky, and she grabbed a piece of tissue paper. Nanako was lying on the table to wipe her hands, when Gogol next to her asked her again:

"Is that hairpin new?"

It took Nanako a half a beat to realize what Gogol was asking. She wiped her hands earnestly while answering him: "Sister Jingzi bought it."

"Then do you still need hairpins?"

"Well?"

Nanako didn't understand Gogol's second question, and turned her face to look at him. There was no light in her dark eyes, like the dark night before sunrise.

Being watched by her without any expression, the smile on Gogol's face did not change at all.With bright golden eyes bent and a brisk smile on his face, he said in a voice as light as a feather: "It's nothing~ Do you want to go to the coffee shop to buy cakes?"

Nanako wiped her hands clean, crumpled up the paper towel, threw it into the trash can, and then touched her stomach, feeling that she could continue to eat. Although she was not hungry, she was not full either.She nodded her head, said "um", and stood up.

In late spring, the weather was neither too hot nor too cold. Nanako was wearing a gray sweater with a big pocket on her stomach that could hold a lot of things.

Nanako put her hands into her big pockets, followed Gogol, and walked towards the outside of the detective agency. After walking a few steps, she felt that her hands in her pockets seemed to touch something thin.

It is a little hard metal touch, but very thin and thin.

Nanako fumbled in her pocket twice, grabbed this thing in her hand and took it out.

A dark gold three-shaped hair clip, which is similar to the hair clip Xie Ye gave her, and the color is the same, but it is a little smaller. The Yao-shaped hair clip is already a very simple style, but This bobby pin is even simpler, just three thin, short parallel strands.

I don't know where the hair clip came from, maybe when it fell into the pocket, Nanako took the hair clip, slowed down a little, gestured intently, and then fixed the hair scattered on the other side of the cheek stand up.

There was no hair falling down in her field of vision now, Nanako felt much more comfortable immediately, she trot forward a few steps, and followed Gogol again.