After becoming a chaotic daughter

【Not yet out...】

Sitting alone on the sofa in the reception room, Nanako hugged the pillow and waited for a while, but the president's treatment still didn't seem to be over, and Ranpo didn't come out of the infirmary.

Gogol didn't know where it was, Nanako didn't see him in the detective agency, maybe Kunikida asked him to go out and do some errands, Nanako wanted to ask Kunikida, but Kunikida and the others seemed very busy, Nanako stood Inside the door of the reception room, I looked around several times. Kunikida was either on the phone or typing on the keyboard.

The hour hand of the wall clock on the wall has already pointed to [9]. Nanako, with her schoolbag on her back, left the detective agency quietly by herself and went home to sleep.

The temperature in Yokohama at night is a little lower than that in the daytime, but it is still a bit sweltering. The weak evening wind passes through the streets and alleys, bringing a little coolness to the pedestrians on the road.

Walking from the detective agency back to the apartment where I live, there are wide roads along the way.The nearby area is a commercial area, which is still lively after nightfall, and there are no remote and dangerous paths.The shops on both sides of the street are brightly lit, and the neon lights on the signs flash.

There are all kinds of pedestrians coming and going, some in groups, and some wandering alone.Office workers who just got off work, young people who went shopping, and couples on a date mixed among all kinds of pedestrians, carrying schoolbags and wearing school uniforms. Nanako walked on the street alone, looking abrupt and strange.

Occasionally, passers-by would cast inquiring gazes at her, but they stayed on her for a few seconds before quickly withdrawing them.Everyone has their own things to do, and they don't have much thought to give to an ordinary middle school student passing by.

Nanako, who was walking on the road, smelled the aroma of taiyaki.

The sea bream just out of the oven was delicious. She wasn't very hungry, nor did she feel greedy, but she just wanted to bite something.So she stopped, looked left and right, and saw a small taiyaki stall open by the side of the road.

Nanako trotted over with her schoolbag on her back, stopped in front of the shop, looked up at the various flavors of taiyaki on the signboard, her dark eyes did not blink.

In front of Nanako was a couple. The young men and women got the taiyaki and walked away clinging to each other, revealing Nanako standing behind them.Nanako was short and was completely blocked by them. Seeing Nanako who suddenly "popped up", the stall owner was taken aback for a moment.

Under the eaves of the stall hung a lantern in the shape of a lantern. Under the dim light, the stall owner took a moment to see Nanako's appearance clearly. She was just looking at the signboard very seriously, so she looked a little expressionless. It's just a middle school student, not some strange puppet.

Immediately heaved a sigh of relief, the stall owner quickly put on an enthusiastic tone, and asked Nanako: "Little girl, what flavor do you want?"

Nanako stared at the signboard for a while, then turned her gaze back to the stall owner, and answered him firmly: "Chocolate ones, small ones, I want one."

"Hey, okay, I'll bring you one, little one!"

The stall owner yelled, and immediately cleaned up the stove with his hands and feet. He scooped up a spoonful of batter and was about to pour it into a smaller mold. A boy's voice.

"—No, I want a big one."

Hearing a familiar voice, Nanako turned her head and saw Gogol who appeared out of nowhere.

Gogol looked down at her with a smile, his golden eyes were slightly curved, and his face was smiling as usual, standing beside Nanako.

The stall owner stopped pouring the batter, glanced at Gogol who suddenly appeared, and asked Nanako first with a business spirit: "Little girl, do you want the small one or the big one?"

Nanako thought for a while, but didn't answer the stall owner immediately, but said to Gogol first: "I want to eat the tail."

"Okay." Gogol agreed.

Nanako then said to the stall owner, "I want a big one."

"Okay." The stall owner responded, and with a twist of his wrist, the batter was poured into another larger mold on the side.

The taiyaki was ready quickly. Nanako took the taiyaki from the stall owner. It was still a little hot when it came out of the pan. The skin was crispy and exuded the sweet smell of eggs and chocolate.While Gogol was paying, Nanako carefully broke the taiyaki in half from the middle, and the chocolate sauce inside slowly dripped out.

Nanako herself took the half of the fish's tail and gave the "head" of the sea bream to Gogol after paying the bill, and the two walked towards home together.

Looking down at the taiyaki, Nanako walked slowly and ate very slowly, as if she was grinding her teeth with the taiyaki. After biting for a long time, she snapped off a small piece, and then sucked it slowly. Lick the oozing chocolate clean.

"Kokori." Nanako called out slowly while biting her Taiyaki.

"What?" Gogol had almost finished half of the Taiyaki.

Nanako asked him, "Is the president's grandfather seriously injured?"

"Hmm..." Gogol thought for a while, "It's probably only a little bit away from 'Super Bad'." He said, drawing a short distance with his fingertips, "— — a little bit like this."

"..." Nanako stared intently at the road in front of her, and after a while, she uttered a modal particle as an answer.

"Oh."

Nanako said so.

Gogol turned his face sideways and looked down at Nanako who was walking beside him.No emotion could be seen on Nanako's face, as if she was just eating Taiyaki seriously, a little light from the street lamp reflected in her dark pupils.

"Don't you want to know what happened?" Gogol asked her.

Nanako shook her head.

It's useless to know anyway, she doesn't know how to do anything, she can only take care of herself at this time, and try not to cause trouble to the adults.Fortunately, although she can't do anything, she can still take care of herself.

The president was attacked and injured. The adults seemed to be too busy because of this. If she asked, they would have to stop their work and take the time to explain it to her, so she had better not ask.

"A powerful assassin appeared." Gogol said, although Nanako didn't know anything, Gogol still knew a little bit, "Mr. Fukuzawa met him on the way back and chased him The opponent entered the alley and was attacked."

He didn't say how he knew it, but only told Nanako the cause and process of the incident. Nanako didn't speak, but just gnawed on the taiyaki. The bag was thrown into the trash can in the lobby on the first floor, and then entered the elevator with Gogol.

*******

"Attack?!"

During the lunch break, I heard about the injury of President Fukuzawa, and Miwa, who was eating bento with Nanako, was so scared that the rice ball in his hand dropped.

She has worked in a detective agency and knows how powerful the president of the detective agency, Mr. Fukuzawa, is.When she was in elementary school, the president saved her once in the Dragon Head War. He was a top-notch swordsman who could chop bullets with a sword. Such a powerful president Fukuzawa would be killed by an assassin, which made Sanwa nervous. He swallowed his saliva.

【Recently, don’t work late at night and go home...】

She thought with a little fear in her heart.

"Is President Fukuzawa okay?" Miwa asked.

"I don't know." Nanako bit the fried noodle bread bought from the cafeteria, chewing something in her mouth, which made her pronunciation unclear, "Dad didn't come back in the morning. When I came home last night, the president grandpa It looks like it's still undergoing surgery."

Nanako had never been in the operating room of the detective agency, and Yosano usually locked the door, probably because there were some expensive instruments inside.Nanako has encountered several injured members who were sent to the operating room for surgery. Yosano's medical skills seem to be very good, and she can complete the entire operation by herself.

However, it may also be because the members usually go into the operating room, all because of wounds such as knife wounds and gunshot wounds. The wounds are treated more, and Xie Ye's medical level in this area has become more and more sophisticated. Will ask her to give lectures.

"I hope President Fukuzawa is okay." Miwa prayed in a low voice, reached out to pick up the dropped rice ball from the lunch box, thought for a while, and then suggested: "Would you like to go to the shrine to ask President Fukuzawa?" Shou? I heard that the shrine near the station is very spiritual.”

Feudal superstition is a bad thing, and asking for a shou is essentially useless except for psychological comfort—although Nanako thinks so, she didn't say yes or no, she just bit the fried noodles bread and said vaguely "uh" With a sound.

When school was over, Nanako had just packed her schoolbag and received a call from Ranpo before she left the classroom.

"Dad won't be going home tonight." Luanbu said to her on the phone, "Someone has picked you up from school, and you will go home after dinner outside. You don't have to go back to the detective agency today."

"Will Guoguoli come to pick me up?" Nanako stood by the desk, holding on to the schoolbag on the table, and asked in a nonchalant tone.

"No." A chaotic voice came from the phone, "It's not Gogol, and it's not from the Detective Agency, you'll know when you get to the school gate. ... and other students, don't go alone The school gate."

Nanako let out an "Oh" and listened to Ranpo explaining a few words to her honestly before hanging up the phone.

I don’t know why Ranpo said that he wanted to go with other students. Miwa has already gone to the club, and Nanako has no one else who can accompany her to the school gate, but school has just started, and many clubs haven’t started their activities. In the past two days There are quite a few students who leave school directly after school.

Mixed with a group of students after school, Nanako walked to the school gate with her schoolbag on her back. Before leaving the school, she saw a group of people blocking the school gate.

"handsome guy!!"

"Still twice as handsome!!"

"The little guy with white hair is so handsome, he's my favorite..."

"Don't mature men with dark hair look good——"

"Wow, this pectoral muscle, tsk tsk tsk!"

"..."

It was the peak period of people after school, a group of students blocked the school gate, and countless "whispers" mixed together, making the school gate as noisy as a vegetable market.There were male and female students surrounding the school gate, and all the students' eyes were attracted by the two men standing in the crowd.

Those were two people Nanako was familiar with.

The fluffy white-haired young man in his twenties standing on the left side of the school gate, wearing a black uniform and self-contained beauty filters, is that... that so-and-so, in short, the very rich one Pillar of the Blind.

The black-haired man standing on the right side of the school gate with a handsome face and a man in his thirties who is as arrogant as a gangster is that...that so-and-so, in short, the one who was fishing at the seaside and broke it. The one who hasn't paid for her mobile phone so far.

Nanako, who couldn't remember a single name, looked to the left and then to the right, and then chose to take a detour. No matter which of these two people she met, nothing good seemed to happen.

No matter how unreliable her father was, he probably wouldn't let one of these two men pick her up.

The two men seemed to be talking, but Nanako couldn't hear the commotion around them.She struggled to squeeze out of the crowd, left the school, stood on the side of the much wider road, looked around, but didn't see anyone familiar, and didn't know who came to pick her up.

Nanako was about to call Ranpo again when a boy in school uniform stopped in front of her.

I don't know which school's uniform it is. The boy's hairstyle is very cool. The black hair is blown up like a sea urchin, which visually gives people a very "hands-on" feeling.Nanako feels that he should be a boy in the upper grades of elementary school. Although he is a little taller than Nanako, the summer school uniform he wears is shorts. Only the summer uniforms of elementary school boys are shorts, and the uniforms of middle school boys are all trousers. up.

There was also a big white dog standing beside the boy. It was fluffy and soft. It was an unknown breed. It looked a bit like a wolf.

"Edogawa." The boy called out to Nanako calmly but with certainty.

"Huh?" Nanako tilted her head while holding the mobile phone, the phone in her hand hadn't been dialed yet.

"Mr. Ranpo asked me to pick you up," the boy said.

Nanako: "...?"

Nanako was very confused. She didn't understand what kind of strange operation it was to ask a boy from elementary school to pick up a girl from middle school. She thought that letting Kyoka of the same age pick her up from school was already the limit. Can it be broken through?

Could it be that Sakule, who just entered the second grade of the Oda family, will come to pick her up next time?

"Oh..." Nanako responded dryly with question marks all over her head. She looked at the boy in front of her and felt that he looked familiar, but she couldn't remember who it was.

She paused, and chose to ask the other party directly: "Who are you?"

"Fu Heihui." The boy answered her question, "We met once when we were young."

Nanako scratched her head and thought hard for a long time, but she couldn't remember when she met a boy named "Fu Heihui". He said "oh" expressionlessly.

After finishing speaking, she felt that such an answer seemed a bit too dry, so she added: "It's you."

There was no wave in the tone, perfunctory that could be heard by the ears, and no distraction at all, so that Fu Heihui in front of him was silent for a second.

[No... You didn't remember it at all, did you? 】

Fuguro Megumi said to Nanako in front of her in her heart.

Although it seems unreliable to let Megumi Fukuro, who is in the sixth grade, come to pick her up, but besides Megumi Fukuro, who she "knows" at the school gate, the only person Nanako knows is the "pillar" surrounded by the crowd behind her. " and "fishing", in contrast, Nanako still chooses Megumi Fukuro in front of her.

The two children who were not much different in age ignored Gojo Satoru and Fuheshier who were still facing each other behind them, and walked towards Edogawa's house together, and the big white dog also stepped on it. Taking small steps, he followed them.

"Did you come here by yourself?" Nanako asked Fukuroe.

"No, I came with Wutiao teacher." Fu Heihui replied, "But Wutiao teacher saw my...'Dad', so they got together and chatted."

A more accurate statement would be "My scumbag dad took the job and wanted to kidnap you, but he met Mr. Wutiao at the school gate, so he started bargaining with Mr. Wutiao, trying to get Mr. Wutiao to offer him a higher price. I’m not kidnapping you, but Mr. Gojo turned his back on the guest and started asking him for my child support”—this is the rough conversation Megumi Fukuro heard 10 minutes ago when he was suddenly carried by Gojo Satoru all the way to Yokohama after school.

As for why his "father" wanted to kidnap Nanako, he didn't know that. He just went to see Mr. Ranpo with Gojo-sensei after he arrived in Yokohama, and was asked by Mr. Ranpo to pick up Nanako. I came to the gate of Qingxue and waited for someone.

Nanako: "Oh..."

She didn't know who his "father" and "teacher" were, but in order to prevent Fukuroe from realizing that she didn't remember who he was at all, Nanako decided to pretend to understand and nodded "clearly".

They walked for a short distance when Nanako suddenly stopped in her tracks.

She turned her head, without blinking her dark eyes, looked at the big white dog beside Fu Heihui, stared at it for ten seconds, and then slowly shifted her gaze to Fu Heihui's face.

"Why isn't the dog on a leash?" Nanako asked Fukuroe.

Walking the dog without a leash is equivalent to walking the dog with the dog.Although Nanako failed to raise a dog successfully, she still knows this basic common sense of social morality.

Fu Heihui: "..."

Although I don't know why Nanako can see his Shikigami Jade Dog, where can he find a dog leash at this time.

After looking at each other for just a second but as long as a century, Fu Heihui, a sixth grader, did not change his face. He heard himself say in a very calm tone:

"It's not my dog."

"Just a dog that happened to be walking side by side with me."

Nanako: "..."

She was a little skeptical, she looked at Fu Heihui, and then at the big dog beside him, but both Fu Heihui and the dog had calmness written all over their faces.

"Oh..." Nanako could only reluctantly believe his words.