After becoming a chaotic daughter

On the fourth day of the holiday, it was supposed to be the most leisurely time during the small long holiday. Most of them were on vacation, but the detective agency was extremely busy. The members of the agency walked quickly through the office area. There was a gust of wind, and everyone was busy with the urgent commission received in the afternoon, preparing for the escort work of a high-ranking government official.

But at this moment, the door of the detective agency was pushed open from the outside with a bang, followed by Tanizaki's panicky shout:

"—Everyone! It's bad! Don was taken away by the mafia!"

Sitting at Ranpo's desk, playing cards with Ranpo and Gogol, when she heard Tanizaki's call, Nanako subconsciously turned her head to look at him with the poker cards in her hand, and the members also They all stopped their work at the same time, and turned their attention to Tanizaki who was standing at the door.

Nanako didn't know why, but a sentence popped up suddenly:

【Big brother!Oh no!Master was captured by monsters! 】

"What's going on?" Kunikida frowned enough to strangle Dazai to death.

Tanizaki hurriedly trotted into the office area, and explained the situation to Kunikida. Nanako heard something intermittently. It seemed that Atsushi who took the girl in kimono out to play in the morning was met on the street for some reason at noon. Arrived at the mafia attack and got caught.

Nanako was still listening to Tanizaki's words, and threw away the cards in her hand in a random step. A few poker cards were mixed in the pile in the middle of the table, and they couldn't be distinguished at once.

"I won't play anymore—it's too boring, I've already played so many games, Nanako, help Dad go to the coffee shop to buy cakes." With his hands behind his head, he leaned back and leaned back on the office chair On the soft back of the chair, there was a lack of interest on his face.

"... Oh." Nanako also put down the cards in her hand.

Although before Ranbu came back, she and Gogol went to the coffee shop to eat cakes, and now she couldn't eat any more, but Ranbu said she wanted to eat cakes, so she went to buy cakes honestly.

She grabbed Gogol's cloak and went out with Gogol. When she left the club, Tanizaki was still talking to Kunikida about Atsushi.

The work of a detective agency is always about dealing with criminals. It is not just once or twice that a member of a detective agency is held hostage. It was easy to come back safely, so she didn't care much.

Maybe it's because the criminals in Yokohama are too good.

Nanako played with Sanhua Mao at the entrance of the coffee shop for a while, and when she entered the shop with Gogol, she saw a familiar boy sitting in front of the bar.

It was a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old, about the same height as Kenji, wearing a very ordinary white T-shirt and sweatpants, with fluffy hair curled up, looking like a hedgehog.Nanako thought he looked familiar, but she couldn't remember who it was or where she had seen this boy.

—Maybe a frequent customer of the cafe.

Thinking of this, she took a second look at the boy, then looked away, didn't look at him again, and sat on a high chair in front of the bar.

"Auntie, I want chocolate mille-feuille and pack it for Dad."

She raised her hand, as if she didn't see the boy, and ordered a cake with the waiter aunt who just came out of the back kitchen. As soon as the flat voice fell, the boy next to him was like a big cat whose tail was stepped on. His hair was raised: "Hey - you are too rude! Are you pretending not to see me without even saying hello?"

Nanako was still raising her hand, she didn't realize what he said, she turned her head after half a second, and looked left and right.There are some customers in the store at the moment, but besides the boy, the only ones sitting near the bar are her and Gogol.

【……do not know him. 】

Nanako made a definite judgment in her heart.

So she turned her head, pointed at the boy with her finger, and said to Gogol sternly: "Guoguoli, he wants you to say hello."

Since it wasn't someone she knew, it must be someone Gogol knew, Nanako thought of it as a matter of course, logical and well-founded.

But the boy suddenly became even more furious. Between a child and a teenager, his voice, which was undergoing a change of voice, sounded a bit like Donald Duck: "It's not Brother Gogol—I'm talking about you!"

"?" Nanako was a little confused, do they know each other?

She closed her mouth, remained silent for a few seconds, thought about it seriously, and went through the boys of the same age she knew in her mind.

Still can't remember.

So she asked the boy very honestly with a small expressionless face: "Who are you?"

"Xingsuke! Oda Yusuke! We only met during the Chinese New Year!" Oda Yusuke, the oldest boy among the orphans raised by Oda Sakunosuke, was very surprised that Nanako had forgotten who he was. dissatisfaction.

——He clearly remembers Nanako's appearance and name!Just now he was ready to respond to Nanako's greeting, but Nanako sat down and ordered cakes by herself, completely ignoring him!

【Oda Kosuke】

【I only saw it during the Chinese New Year】

Nanako thought for a while before she remembered who Kosuke was.Xingsuke is a child adopted by Oda Sakunosuke. Although they are similar in age, they have not met a few times. Oda has adopted too many children, so he does not live in the dormitory of the detective agency, and Oda is also basically They will not be brought to the club, so Nanako rarely sees them, and the last time they met was during Chinese New Year.

It's almost like a child from a distant relative's family. Because there are a total of five children, Nanako can't even remember the names clearly-after all, she is really not good at remembering people.

"Oh." Nanako responded when she remembered, thought for a while, and added: "Hello."

Yukisuke: "..."

Although it was a greeting, why did he feel even more aggrieved than before.

But as a "man" who (thinks) has matured, since the other party knows the mistake and corrects it, he shouldn't care about it, so Xingsuke shook his head and put the matter behind him, stretched his neck and sat down with Nanako. Gogol on the other side said hello.

"Brother Gogol!"

"Good afternoon~" Gogol answered him with a smile. His beautiful silver-white hair is fluffy and sticks to his cheeks, making him look like a well-behaved and docile boy. "Xingjie-kun is here to find Mr. Oda Is it?"

"No." Xingsuke immediately shook his head vigorously, clenched his fists, and his face was full of righteousness, "Brother Oda always refused to let me come to the detective agency, so I kept it secretly by myself! I want to hide in the Observe secretly, learn every move of the members of the detective agency, work hard to become stronger, and one day, I will be able to join the detective agency just like Oda-san!"

"Huh?" Gogol seemed a little interested, "Then what have you learned so far?"

Xingsuke put on a "serious", "mature" and "serious" look, and after a short thought, replied:

"You must always remember your identity as a member of the Armed Detective Agency, and you must not shame the Detective Agency!"

Nanako remembers that this seems to be something Kunikida would often say, mainly when Dazai "humiliated" the detective agency again, such as Dazai getting credit in a coffee shop, Dazai picking up beautiful women on the street, and Dazai trying to use the traffic lights on the road to hang himself, etc. situation.

"When facing gangsters, punch them down with one punch!"

This should be what Xianzhi said. The original words seem to be "beating if a cow is disobedient, and punching if a person is disobedient".

"Anyone who can't stand pain is a cowardly man!"

Yu Xie Ye often complained like this, because every time a few men in the agency came into her operating room, they cried very loudly.

"When you see a crying woman, you should use 'gentleness, smile and tolerance' to attack, attack..." Xingsuke was halfway through speaking, but he suddenly got stuck and couldn't remember what the word was. After a few seconds, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "— — come and attack them!"

Nanako guessed that what he wanted to say might be "strategy".This sentence must have been said by Dazai, because he always does this, and the result is that he provokes all kinds of women. On weekdays, women often come to the door and have to hide.

Gogol stretched out a hand from behind Nanako, and patted Kosuke on the shoulder.

"You will definitely become an excellent member of the detective agency in the future." Gogol said to Xingsuke with a smile.

Xingsuke, who is in the middle and second stage of youthful vigor, got "big brother's approval", and immediately became excited: "Really!"

Gogol smiled, but didn't speak.

Chocolate Melaleuca was packed very quickly. When Nanako and Gogol returned to the detective agency, the members had already returned to their busy work, but the content of the work had changed from "guard officer" to "Rescue the newcomers".

Covering his face with the spread newspaper, Luanbu nestled in his luxurious and comfortable soft office chair, idly controlling the seat to turn around.

"Ah——I'm so idle——" His unmotivated words came from the bottom of the newspaper, dragging the tone, sluggish, and compared with the busy others, it seemed out of place.

Nanako put the packaged mille-feuille on his desk.

"Dad, cake." She yelled Luanbu.

The office chair that was dangling from side to side suddenly froze, and a carp walked around and sat up straight, throwing the newspaper covering his face, and when the cake came, he immediately cheered up.

"It's finally here!"

Seeing that Ranpo stretched out her hand and began to unpack the cake box, Nanako looked up at the other people who were too busy spinning around, and then looked down at Ranpo who seemed to be so idle that grass would grow on top of her head. She asked Ranpo: "Dad, Why don't you work?"

"Everyone is busy looking for new people, and the president said that all business is suspended, so Dad has no work to do right now." Ranbu replied casually.

Nanako tilted her head slightly to one side: "Then why don't you ask Brother Atsu, Dad?"

"Because he was taken away is his own problem." Throwing away the paper shell that wrapped the cake, he dismantled the plastic packaging of the small spoon, "It is neither the entrustment nor the responsibility of the detective agency, so it does not belong to It's within the scope of Dad's work."

He said, picked up the spoon, and was about to scoop a piece of cake, but before the black plastic spoon touched the layer of chocolate on the surface of the layered layer, a hand stretched out from the edge of the cake, silently Dragging the mille-feuille from under the scrawny spoon.

Luanbu raised his head in the direction of the cake's "escape", and saw his stupid daughter standing by his desk with dark round eyes staring at him without blinking.

And the piece of chocolate mille-feuille that the idiot daughter took away.

"If you don't work, you can't eat cake." Holding the chocolate mille-feuille, Nanako said to him with no expression on her small face.

Ranbu: "..."

"This is not a job." Ranpo tried to correct the misunderstanding of his stupid daughter.

"It's work." Nanako thinks so firmly. Since it is a task assigned by the president, it is work. Otherwise, is it still a team building activity?

"No!" Ranpo firmly refuted his daughter in this way. This kind of thing is a non-business extra labor, just like Kunikida went to Tsurumi River to fish Dazai.Since Dazai who got into the water is not considered a job, it is certainly not a job to find "Atsushi who was captured by the mafia because of his own problems".

Ranpo retorted confidently, refused righteously, and firmly defended her right to "not do extra labor" with a spoon. Nanako held the chocolate mille-feuille in her hand and stared at him for a while with a blank expression.

Then he took the cake and left.

"Guoguoli, eat cake."

"Hmm? Can't you finish eating?"

"Well, I can only eat half of it."

"Okay, then I'll eat the other half."

Nanako and Gogol began to share the cake while talking, and Edogawa Ranbu felt bad, seeing that the cake he got was about to go into other people's stomachs—Nanako didn't care, but his half would Eaten by Gogol! ——He grabbed the armrest of the office chair with both hands, stretched his neck and shouted quickly:

"Nanako——No, Kunikida! Hurry up and give me the information!"