After becoming a chaotic daughter

In Japan, it is very popular among teenage female students to turn on the TV and watch today's morning divination program before going out every morning.

——Cancer will have bad things happen today, be careful to avoid places with orange drinks.

——You can go to a flower shop for type A blood, maybe you will meet unexpected little surprises.

——Today's lucky item: Little Frog Pendant.

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Similar to this "day's fortune divination", there are also many boys who secretly pay attention to their "day's fortune" in private, which is probably similar to the "advisable" and "bogey" that always appear on the Chinese calendar.

Nanako felt that if she read "Morning Divination" in the morning, or if she had a calendar at home, then under the column of [Absolute Taboo] today, there would definitely be a line like this:

[Don't get close to the alley, you will become unlucky. 】

Nanako, who was pressed against the back of her head by the gun, thought silently in her heart.

But in fact, even if she doesn't read the morning divination and calendar, she should know that she can't run into the alley alone. After all, "Don't take the lonely path after school"-this kind of safety education, she has read 20 times back and forth. I have been studying for many years, no matter whether it is elementary school or middle school, China or Japan, all the teachers will tell her like this in the class meeting, and Kunikida has given her such advice more than once.

But it turns out that "remembering one thing" and "remembering one thing" are completely different things. Otherwise, Nanako wouldn't have seen the raccoon running into the alley, so she didn't think too much about it and just ran along with her came in.

The quiet alley was empty, and the sound of traffic on the road outside could be faintly heard. Three people and a raccoon looked at each other, but no one (bear) made any movements. The afternoon sunlight that fell into the alley seemed to be condensed Living.

【…】

[I seem to be a little hungry. 】

In the afternoon physical education class, Nanako kicked the ball for a class. Nanako felt that the lunch box had been used up. Now she was motionless and had nothing to do. She couldn't even turn her head. The strength was gradually taken away by the hunger from the abdomen.

[Just now, there seems to be a small stall selling crepes at the school gate... I want to eat crepes...]

His swarthy eyes were still staring ahead, and his eyes seemed to be on Edgar Allan Poe standing at the entrance of the alley, but they seemed to have no focus, as if they were chaotic like a black hole.

No one spoke, Nanako stood where she was, hugging the raccoon, and unknowingly began to wander, the little head under the muzzle of the gun drooped slowly in a subtle and imperceptible way, as if on a slightly inclined table. A piece of cake that slowly slid down, dragging and leaving a long fuzzy cream mark.

"--Hey."

Suddenly, the little bastard behind her who was pointing a gun at her spoke.

Seeing the unknown passer-by who seemed to just barge in by mistake, Tachihara Michizo loosened Nanako's back collar, and touched the other gun at his waist with his free hand.

"Shut up, long bangs. If you dare to shout or turn around and run away, I will kill you." He said fiercely to the young man at the alley, pointing another gun at him, "raise your hands and walk slowly come over!"

The young man didn't move, he just stood where he was, held up one hand, put his thumb on the pad of his index finger, and put it next to his lips, looking thoughtful, as if he was thinking about something.A black cloak was draped over his shoulders, the length of which was just over his thighs. Both the fabric and the cut revealed an expensive atmosphere. He was dressed in a white scarf, three-piece suit, brown boots and black suit pants. Like the young master of a rich family.

His shoulders, which were crouched a moment ago, gradually straightened up, and he muttered something in a low voice, but the volume was too low, Tachihara and Nanako couldn't hear clearly even though they were only a few meters away.

Seeing him not moving, the expression on Li Yuan's face gradually became impatient: "Hey...! You bastard——"

The young man suddenly spoke.

"——the hyena of the mafia." He grinned, showing a smile, his posture changed from awkward to calm, his head was slightly tilted to one side, and there was a strange smile in his words, "It seems that I came from the right It's about time. Well... that's true, holding this girl hostage is tantamount to strangling the lifeline of the Armed Detective Agency, occupying the most favorable position in this war—more deadly than the general clerk. hostages."

"...!!!" Li Yuan tensed his nerves immediately, watching the young man's pupils constrict violently, "You bastard is..."

"This is really rude." The young man raised his left hand and pressed his slender and pale knuckles on his chest, "My name is Edgar Allan Poe, and I am the chief designer of the North American supernatural organization [Guild (combination)]. The next expedition to Yokohama with the group, naturally I don't need to explain the purpose, right?"

There is an imperceptible accent in his tone, the tone is elegant, revealing a little bit of arrogance and conceit, even though the overly long bangs cover his eyes, making Li Yuan unable to see his eyes, but that substantive self-confidence The restraint and arrogance were also conveyed to Li Yuan without any hindrance.

"...combination." Li Yuan narrowed his eyes, like a young but sharp leopard, "You really dare to appear in front of me. Chief designer? Sounds like a good job, if I If you kill you, you can be promoted to another position if you say you can't."

Edgar Allan Poe mercilessly spat out mocking words: "What an unimaginable reckless man."

He reached out and took out a stack of thin paper from his pocket, and gestured to Li Yuan.

"This is the proposal that Mr. Francis asked us to send to the Mafia." He said, holding the thin bound document in his hand, "The detective agency will get in the way. If the team wants to station in Yokohama, there is They are here, and they will inevitably be hindered, but the port mafia is different. It is enough to get a license for the opening of the ability, and there is no reason for us to be enemies of the mafia.”

"You mean...the group wants to join forces with us?" Li Yuan showed a suspicious look.

"No." Poe vetoed him. "It's just a 'non-intervention agreement'—a proposal like that. . . . Would the Mafia be willing to cooperate with us? Of course it's impossible, Similarly, the group does not intend to cooperate with you."

Li Yuan still didn't relax his vigilance because of his few words: "So you want to have an interview with our leader?"

"Of course not. In places like the headquarters of the mafia, members like us who have no fighting ability, don't plan to take the risk. My task is to convey the proposal to the mafia members." Edgar Allan Poe replied road.

【Just to hand over the documents...? 】

The gun in Li Yuan's hand was still pointing at the opponent's standing position impartially, and he was thinking about the current situation in his mind.

【If you refuse, I'm afraid you won't be able to take this brat away smoothly.But if you agree, if there is something wrong with that document, for example, the paper is smeared with poison or has some special ability attached, if the leader touches it...]

"Put the things down, you can go." Li Yuan quickly made a decision, "I will pass on the content of the proposal to the leader."

Poe made a "please" gesture: "Please."

The wind was a bit strong today. Poe looked around, but couldn't find a suitable place to put the documents. Finally, he had to turn around and pick up a stone from the flower bed outside the alley, and then pressed the documents against the wall at the entrance of the alley.

"Then I bid farewell."

With that said, he turned and left.

There were only two people and a bear left in the alley.

Nanako didn't understand what the two members of the organization were talking about in the confrontation. Nanako just felt that she was even hungrier after standing with the fat raccoon for a while.

But she won't have to hold the raccoon soon, because the gangster who held her at gunpoint threw the raccoon aside from her arms, then took the rope from his pocket and tied Nanako's wrists and ankles , and finally sealed her mouth with tape, and then put her in the deepest part of the alley, and went to the alley to get the document that was pressed by the stone.

The little bastard went out.

But the little gangster didn't come back.

With her hands and feet tied, Nanako sat in a dirty alley, waiting for a minute, but she didn't wait for the little gangster who just went to the alley to pick up a document to come back.

Obviously when the little gangster went out, she could still see half of the little gangster bending over to pick up the documents from her angle, but she just stared at the red bean bread on the vending machine in the alley and swallowed, and waited to think about it again. When I turned my head to look, the little gangster was gone.

A few scattered manuscript papers fell on the concrete floor at the entrance of the alley.

"Grumble~"

Nanako heard her stomach growl.

She had thought that she might be kidnapped. After all, the work of a detective agency is obviously easy to make enemies with bad guys, but she never thought that after she was kidnapped, she would be sent pigeons by the kidnappers.

——The kidnapper left her and ran away! !

Realizing this, Nanako's pupils trembled.

Already starting to think about how to move out of the alley in the posture of a caterpillar, another figure who went back and forth appeared at the entrance of the alley.

It wasn't the little bastard who let her go, but the young man who appeared at the alley 5 minutes ago and had an unexplained conversation with the little bastard. The schoolbag and mobile phone stolen by the gangster.

He stood at the entrance of the alley, looked around for a while, then bent down and picked up the manuscript paper on the ground, sorted it out a bit, pressed it with stones and put it back in its original place.

The young man walked into the alley, knelt down in front of Nanako, put down Nanako's schoolbag, took out a utility knife from his pocket, and helped Nanako cut the rope that bound her wrist.

"I'm sorry, it took a little longer for me to go to a nearby store to buy a utility knife." Poe said, he only helped Nanako cut the rope in his hand, and put the utility knife in Nanako's hand, letting She continued to untangle the rope tied to her feet by herself, "You are the daughter of Ranbu-kun, I still remember you."

She tore off the tape on her mouth, and Nanako stared at Poe for a while, and then at the raccoon that climbed onto his shoulder for a while. She felt that this man seemed familiar.

Nanako is not very good at remembering people, but she remembers raccoons. There is only one "raccoon owner" she has ever seen. When she was in elementary school, a raccoon snatched her schoolbag during an outing. Later, the raccoon The owner lost a check to her.

Nanako is not sure if they are the same person, after all, almost all raccoons in the world look the same.

After looking at it for a long time, Nanako couldn't tell the difference. Nanako looked back, said "um", then lowered her head and began to sharpen the rope on her ankle with a utility knife. The blade of the newly bought utility knife is very sharp. She has to sharpen it carefully, otherwise You might have cut your ankle.

"...We are here to fight Ranbu Lord." Poe said, "Six years ago, we were defeated in the duel with Ranbu Lord, so we specially participated in the expedition of this group, just to fight again. When I came to Yokohama, I used the brains that I have honed over the past six years to compete with Ranpo-kun again! However, I have not yet figured out how to challenge Ranpo-kun, whether it is a challenge letter or a duel venue The layout must be perfectly prepared..."

He was talking ramblingly, Nanako was cutting the rope while listening to him, although she didn't understand the meaning of some words in the young man's words, such as "combined expedition", "chief designer" and so on , but she still understood that the young man seemed to have lost something in the previous game with Ranpo, so this time she wanted to come to her father to compete again.

As for what the game is about.

It only took Nanako a second to come to a conclusion.

[I'm talking about playing games. 】

With that in mind, she cut the rope binding her ankles.

Putting the blade of the utility knife back into the protective case, Nanako returned the utility knife to Poe and asked, "Are you going to the detective agency to find my father?"

"...!" Edgar Allan Poe, who was still chanting non-stop, immediately stopped what he was saying, like a faucet that was tightened after hearing her words.

he thought.

He hesitated.

He was very troubled.

Although he said that he really wants to meet his old enemy of fate as soon as possible, but he is not yet fully prepared. Facing Ranpo who possesses the miraculous ability of "super reasoning", he hastily and When he met again, it was as if a soldier went to the battlefield without his gun, and a writer wrote his pen without dipping his nib in ink.

After brushing off the ashes from her schoolbag, Nanako stood up with her schoolbag on her back and looked at the time. It was only 15 minutes before school ended, which was still early.

She raised her head and said to Edgar Allan Poe with an expressionless, serious face, "You can compete with Dad in the detective agency."

Anyway, the detective agency also has game consoles.

Poe: "!"

An invitation from the daughter of an old enemy, what does this represent?Could it be that Ranbu-kun actually always remembers the duel with him? !Mr. Ranbu had expected that he would come to "revenge" long ago, and he was ready to welcome this day at any time!He has already set a puzzle in the detective agency, just waiting for himself to solve it? !

He looked at Nanako's calm and serious expression, and even though he was kidnapped by the mafia just now, he didn't change his face at all. It really is that person's daughter, so extraordinary! ... No, how could Mr. Ranbu let his daughter fall into the trap so easily—could it be that this "hijacking by the mafia" was actually a test for him!

In turn, he took advantage of the mafia's actions and set up the first hurdle as an "invitation letter" for him? !

【……I see.As expected of Ranpo-kun, my destined opponent. 】

Seeing through all the "truths", Edgar Allan Poe was greatly shocked.

His mind, which is smarter than ordinary people, replayed his previous actions in an instant, set a trap for the mafia, and successfully rescued the "hostage", which can be described as an impeccable "break".

Edgar Allan Poe was suddenly confident.

"Although I have also prepared puzzles for Mr. Ranbu, since Mr. Ranbu challenged us first, then we will not be respectful." Poe stood up, his movements were solemn and solemn, but also with reserved pride , "This time, we will definitely let Mr. Ranbu take back the check for one hundred thousand dollars!"

Nanako: "...?"

what a challenge.

What a hundred thousand dollars.

Is it some game term she doesn't know.

Although she didn't understand it very well, Nanako still took Poe towards the direction of the detective agency, leaving behind a few boys in the alley who had been knocked out by Li Yuan before and who were still lying dead at the moment.

The alley fell silent.

……

A boy wrapped in a cloak appeared on top of the wall.

The young man sat on the top of the wall, leaned down and looked down at the few boys lying in disorder in the alley, and then jumped down from the top of the wall lightly like a bird, without even making a sound, and floated lightly. fell to the ground.

He raised the cloak casually and shook it, and the boys lying on the ground disappeared without a trace as if they had been erased from the paper. There was a dull sound.

Humming a nonsense tune, he threw a [-]-yen coin into the coin slot. Gogol bought a red bean bread from the vending machine, and then walked out of the alley.

The author has something to say:

Nanako’s perspective: An unknown member of an unknown mafia organization suddenly appeared and kidnapped herself → another member of an unknown organization (likely called a combination) suddenly appeared → the two negotiated an armistice agreement, and then left with long bangs Got it → The mafia gangster went to pick up a deal and never returned → An unknown Long Liu Hai went and came back, and came back to untie the rope for himself → Long Liu Hai is a good person → Long Liu Hai said he wanted to find Luanbu duel → Luanbu can Is there anything worthy of a duel→Understood (?), it’s a game netizen who came to Mianji

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It’s not that I don’t understand Japanese, it means that I don’t understand what kind of non-interference agreement the two people are talking about. Is it a fight, or is it grabbing territory, or dividing the business, or what?

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She can speak Japanese, really, but she doesn't like to talk.If you don’t understand, it means that you can’t understand the specific meaning because of the lack of relevant information. It’s like reading a fan without reading the original work. You may not understand many settings (for example, someone asked Pan Xingjiao to kidnap astral body before What is it for, what is Dong Shilang, the god of death, what is the egg that guards the sweetheart)

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Nanako is not very clear about the work of the detective agency. This situation can be brought into the child of a policeman. The child will know that his parents are catching bad guys, and he may also hear some cases from the parents, but it is impossible to be against the crimes in the city because of this. The organization is very clear.Moreover, the job of the detective agency is not to fight with gangsters every day, but to deal with the commissions they receive, and gangsters are just enemies they occasionally encounter in their work. 100 things may not even touch one Hong Kong｜black.The frequency that Nanako would hear about Minato|Kuro from the detective agency is not very high.