After becoming a chaotic daughter

In August, Yokohama ushered in the hottest time of the year.

The investigators of the detective agency are all on a business trip today. The place of business trip is an island. The name of the island is very strange. It seems to be called "standard (standard) island". No matter how many years have passed, Nanako can't understand Japanese English very well. Habit.The content of the commission is to go to the island and help the "captain" capture a gang of thieves who came to the island.

Perhaps it was because the island was a bit big, so at the request of the client, the president sent out almost all the investigators in the agency to fully assist the client in catching or driving away the gang of thieves and protecting some people on the island. A valuable item—what exactly is a valuable item, that word sounds complicated, Nanako forgot.

All in all, early in the morning, the investigators drove to the port in a mighty way.It is said that they first took a yacht, and then took a horse-drawn carriage after going to the island. They lived in a high-end hotel that imitated the architectural style of London in the [-]th century. Start an undercover investigation.

[Is this really not a public tour? 】

Nanako who heard Kunikida's itinerary was very skeptical.

But no matter how much she suspected, this public trip had nothing to do with her.

Because "almost all" investigators were dispatched this time, and among them, the only investigator who was "almost" dropped was her useless one who only knows how to fish all day long. It's really a stupid dad on a trip.

Abandoned by the large forces at the "base", Edogawa Ranpo was very aggrieved. As soon as Kunikida and the others left, he retaliated and turned the air conditioner in the office area to the lowest temperature, and then began to lie down on the office Sighing on the table, muttering or expressing their dissatisfaction loudly.

"Ah... the sea—"

"Ah... I also want to take a boat—"

"Ah... french fries and fruit shaved ice—"

"President...I also want to go to the beach to play---!"

Luanbu yelled as if giving up on himself, and stretched his arms straight on the table, squeezing all the snacks on the table to the edge of the table.

Not at all shaken by the noise of Luanbu, the president was like a rock, unmoved by wind and rain, sitting on the office chair beside him, flipping through the ancient books in his hand.

On weekdays, the investigators who acted as fronts were almost absent, and the only thing left behind was Ranpo who was completely unable to receive the client. Faced with such a situation, even Fukuzawa Yukichi, as the head of a company, had to come forward to come to the office. The office area outside is guarded, so as to prevent the client from thinking that this is a nursery for "older children" when he sees petty random steps when he enters the door.

"Luanbu, this is for work, not for play." The president corrected Luanbu's wrong words for the seventh time, although judging from the results of the first six times, there is a high probability that it will not have any effect.

Sitting at her desk, Nanako is watching this month's "Wild Times".Ranbu turned on the air conditioner and it was too cold, she went to flip out Ranbu's old cloak and covered herself, then found a place to sit away from the air outlet, and then began to concentrate on watching the official history of Henggou—— The pen name I use now is "Kindaichi" - a new work serialized in "Wild Times".

The new work has just been serialized to the second chapter, which is the part where the plot is gradually reaching its climax. Although Nanako knows nothing about solving puzzles and only knows how to immerse herself in reading the plot of the novel, she still insists on reading the works published by Henggou Zhengshi for several years After all, few of the Japanese writers whose names she can recall in her memory seem to be writing books, and there is almost a different group of people who rule the Japanese literary world.Among them, the official history of Henggou, who has been conscientiously writing, is almost as rare as a giant panda.

She read the magazine for a while, and took the groaning noises as the background sound. After reading the latest serialized novel of Henggou Zhengshi, she felt a little hungry.

Nanako looked up at the wall clock on the wall, the hour hand was almost pointing to 【12】, four hours had passed since breakfast, and the sandwiches and milk she ate had long been digested.

"Father." Nanako put down the magazine in her hand, yelled in disorder, interrupting his whining, "What's for lunch?"

He stopped complaining, glanced at the time, and felt a little hungry, so he reached for the landline phone that he had squeezed into the corner of the table, and answered Nanako without raising his head: "Fried chicken for lunch!"

After he finished speaking, he was about to call for takeaway, but before he pressed the button, he was immediately stopped by the president.

Seeing that Ranpo was going to take Nanako to eat this unhealthy fried food again, the president sighed in his heart: "There is no need to order takeaway, I will cook."

Fried chicken, and the meal made by the president——Edogawa Ranpo struggled for a second between the two, but chose the latter, anyway, fried chicken can be secretly called for supper after returning home at night.

Seeing that Ranbu put down the phone obediently, the president also closed the book in his hand, put it away again, got up and went out calmly.As a single man who has been single for many years, and has taken care of two children, Ranpo and Xie Ye, the lone swordsman Silver Wolf is not only good at martial arts, but also good at cooking.

The president just went out to the small kitchen on the opposite side of the front foot, and then scrambled to wake up his stupid daughter.

"Nanako, go and help Dad buy a bottle of soda!"

"……Oh."

Gogol didn't know where to go to play again, so Nanako could only honestly run errands by herself.She stood up, took two steps, and stopped again, trying to fight for it again.

"Dad, drinking soda will cause tooth decay." Nanako said to Ranpo with a serious expression and tone.

Luanbu remained unmoved: "Then just brush your teeth after drinking."

"You'll gain weight." Nanako said again.

Luanbu is confident and confident: "It is impossible for a famous detective to gain weight!"

Nanako was silent for a while, and then answered him: "But Dad, you have a belly."

Ranbu: "...No!"

"Have."

"no!"

"I saw it before." Nanako reasoned with him, "When I was sleeping on the floor in the living room."

Luanbu sleeps poorly, and the pajamas are turned up so that the belly is exposed.

Ranbu: "..."

Ranpo: "... Nanako, if you don't buy soda, there will be no cake in the afternoon."

Nanako succumbs to her authority.

So it is really troublesome to have a father, and he is also an unreliable and stupid father who is always squeezed.Children don't like being supervised, especially adolescent children. As a "child", Nanako doesn't like being supervised a little bit, but she doesn't dislike it very much.

Resigning himself to his fate, he left the detective agency and left the air-conditioned room, and the sultry air outside the room suddenly rushed towards his face.Nanako trotted into the elevator stepping on her slippers, and the elevator quickly went down to the first floor. With a clear ding, she slowly moved out of the elevator.

Standing at the entrance and exit of the corridor, Nanako looked out with her head probed.Today is a sunny day, the sun outside is very strong, and it is close to noon, the sun hangs brightly in the middle of the sky, the scorching eyes are so bright that she can't help squinting, the sky is so blue that it looks like it has just been brushed The paint is as brand new.

[...forgot to take the parasol. 】

Seeing the big sun, Nanako remembered this.

It is very hot without an umbrella, but it is troublesome to go back to get an umbrella. The convenience store is just around the corner across the street, and it takes only 1 minute to get there. Nanako is a little too lazy to run back upstairs to get an umbrella.

She struggled for a while, but finally her laziness prevailed, and she wanted to run over quickly so that she wouldn't get too sunburned.

Lifting her short legs, Nanako ran across the road as fast as she could, got into the convenience store, and lingered in the store for a while, blowing on the air conditioner for 5 minutes before taking the soda she bought And ice cream came out.

Standing in front of the convenience store, she tore off the wrapper of the ice cream, ate the ice cream, and ran to the side of the road. The traffic lights across the zebra crossing were still counting down the red numbers.

Nanako raised her left hand holding the soda, and put it in front of her head. The cold soda bottle was attached to her arm. It made people feel very comfortable in such a sweltering weather, and the ice cream she swallowed made her feel less tired. hot.

It was too hot outside, and there were no pedestrians on the road. Nanako was standing in front of the crosswalk. Apart from her, there was only an aunt holding an umbrella waiting for the traffic light.After looking around for a few times, Nanako focused her attention on the signal light on the opposite side, staring at the slowly beating numbers with her dark pupils, standing under the sun, her cheeks were tanned red and a little hot .

A shadow suddenly fell on his head, blocking most of the blazing sunlight.

Nanako sucked on the half-melted ice cream, raised her head, and saw the aunt who was also waiting for the traffic light approached her a little bit, standing beside her, holding a parasol in her hand just to help her block the sun .

Without blinking her swarthy eyes, Nanako stared straight at Auntie with no expression on her little face.As if noticing her gaze, Auntie lowered her head, met Nanako's gaze, and smiled kindly at Nanako.

She is an auntie with long black hair. Her hair is very fluffy, and there is a bit of curvature that I don't know whether it is natural or permed. Her eyes are black, very dark, and she looks like a passer-by.

Nanako looked at her and blinked.

The traffic light across the road turned green.

Auntie crossed the road holding an umbrella, and Nanako also walked over in her slippers, rubbing against the parasol for a short distance.After crossing the road, Auntie walked towards the coffee shop downstairs of the detective agency.Nanako ran to the entrance of the office building, and was still trying to compete against the rapidly melting ice cream in her hand along the way, sucking it continuously so as not to let the melted butterscotch water get on her hands.

As soon as she ran into the office building, Nanako saw Gogol who was also eating ice cream. It was a double-ball ice cream cone. Nanako's appearance was very familiar, and she knew that she bought it in the whirlpool cafe.

Gogol obviously saw Nanako, so he stood here waiting for her.

"Are you going to have lunch?" Gogol asked while holding an ice cream.

Nanako gave a vague "uh" and was still concentrating on fighting the ice cream.Gogol poked his head over, glanced behind her, and quickly looked away.

"Is that someone you know?" Gogol asked curiously.

"Huh?" Nanako looked a little confused, not knowing what he was asking.

"It's the aunt who crossed the road with you." Gogol said, walking towards the elevator with Nanako, "Do you know her?"

Nanako, who was trying to sip ice cream, shook her head, unable to tell the answer to his question, or simply too lazy to speak.

"Suck, suck, suck..."

After pressing the elevator button, Gogol said, "I seemed to see her when I was in the coffee shop just now."

"Hmm... suck, suck..."

"Are you waiting for someone?"

"Hmm... suck..."

"But it seems more like looking for someone."

"Click, click, click..."

"Maybe he is hesitant to come to the detective agency to entrust the client?"

Gogol was still guessing, the elevator door opened, and he was about to go in when he heard Nanako calling him: "Guoguoli."

"Huh?" Gogol turned his face sideways and looked down at Nanako.

"Aren't you going to eat it?" Nanako stared intently at the ice cream in Gogol's hand after finishing eating the ice cream in her hand.

Gogol: "..."

The elevator rose slowly and stopped on the fourth floor.

With a ding, the silver metal door slowly opened.With only a bottle of soda in hand, Nanako and Gogol got out of the elevator and went back to the detective agency together.

"Dad, soda." Nanako stretched out the soda she bought in front of Ranpo, but Ranpo didn't take it immediately.

The famous detective scanned Nanako up and down with his "wisdom eyes" of "seeing everything clearly", and then said in a firm tone:

"—Nanako, you stole ice cream behind your father's back."

Nanako maintained the movement of holding the soda, with no expression on her small face: "No."

"No, you have." Luan Bu didn't believe her words at all, "Stop pretending! Dad has already found out!" written all over his face, his tone was as if he had seen it with his own eyes, "And he even ate two!"

[No two. 】

Nanako thought so carefully in her heart.

[Probably only 1.8 sticks. 】

After all, Gogol had already bitten the one she took away from Gogol, so she could only unfortunately put aside the ice cream ball that Gogol had bitten, so she only ate about half of the ice cream.

All in all, it is impossible to admit it. The correct response strategy at this time is to pretend to be stupid, so Nanako's tone did not change at all, and she answered Ranpo again without any ups and downs:

"No—um...um..."

Nanako couldn't finish her sentence.

Because she couldn't go on.

She found that her stomach seemed to start to hurt a little suddenly.