After becoming a chaotic daughter

At dinner time, Gogol came back.

He changed into clean clothes, and took a shower. His freshly blow-dried hair was fluffy and soft, and a fluffy three-strand braid hung down behind him. The fragrance of body wash and shampoo exuded from his body, completely It can't be seen that just an hour ago, he still looked dirty after "rolling" in the mud.

Gogol came back, but Ranpo did not come back with him.

Seeing Gogol enter the room, Nanako looked behind him, but she didn't see anyone else outside the door. She raised her head and asked Gogol, "Didn't Dad come back?"

"Mr. Ranpo still has work to do, and he won't be back until evening." Gogol answered her briskly with a smile on his face as usual.

Nanako: "...oh,"

Although I don't know why everyone came back, but her stupid father hasn't come back yet, but Gogol said that Ranpo will come back at night, so Nanako stopped asking.

Yosano called her to have dinner from the small kitchen of the detective agency. Nanako grabbed Gogol's cloak and took Gogol to the kitchen to serve dinner.

*******

"Is President Fukuzawa all right?"

Three rounds asked.

It was lunch break time at school. Today Nanako’s bento is made by Kunikida. It has a combination of meat and vegetables, balanced nutrition, and neat and delicate presentation. The only drawback is probably that the nutrition is too balanced, so there are several items in the bento that Nanako doesn’t like. Things to eat.

Seriously using chopsticks to pick out the things I didn't like to eat in the bento box, and piled them all up in the corner of the bento box, Nanako nodded without raising her head, and replied Miwa: "Well, then Dad will come back at night , it’s all right.”

"That's good." Miwa bit her kelp knot and breathed a sigh of relief, "I originally thought that I didn't have to train today, and I would go to visit President Fukuzawa with you. If it's okay, then I'll continue to work today. I won't ask for leave."

They sat on the corridor between the teaching buildings and ate bento together. It was on the shady side of the teaching building, not exposed to the sun, and occasionally there was a breeze blowing outside. Eating bento here was cooler than staying in a stuffy classroom. much.

In addition to Nanako and Miwa, there are also some other students who come here for lunch sitting scattered in the long winding corridor. Nanako and Miwa sit at the corner, a little far away from the others, and stand in the corridor to take a look. In the past, if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't notice them.

"Speaking of which, do you need to dictate words in English class in the afternoon?" Miwa asked Nanako, with reluctance written all over her face, and her slender eyebrows were almost knotted.

"Well, there are also translated sentences." Nanako answered her, uttered the most heart-warming reminder in the most dull tone, awkwardly holding the boiled beans in the bento box with chopsticks.

After hearing the answer that she didn't even want to hear, Miwa immediately put on a sad face: "Ah... I hate translating sentences the most."

Translating sentences is much more difficult than dictating words. She was just about to ask Nanako to lend her a look at the sentence translation for after-school exercises when she returned to the classroom, when she heard a few students walking over from the other side of the corridor, talking Only one meter away from them, he sat down with his back to them.

"...Ah, although they are all No.1, but how should I put it, compared with Mizutani-senpai, I always feel that Edogawa is a bit inferior." A girl's voice sounded, the tone was flat, it was just a simple chat that tone.

Another classmate echoed: "Indeed, how should I put it... that is, it won't be as powerful as people think of it at once?"

"That's right, although Xiaochi in the fifth group is always the second child in ten thousand years, he gives people a very smart feeling." Some students took up the conversation.

"Because Edogawa is too ordinary, he has everything from looks to talents."

"But she studies very well."

"I just don't know why it doesn't give people the feeling of 'learning well'?"

"Maybe it's because you don't know much about things?" The guessing tone was a little hesitant at first, but it gradually became smoother as he spoke, "Although it is true that Mizutani-senpai or Tezuka-senpai are very powerful, But there were some in the past——the kind of No.1 who has "good grades but no special skills", but usually they are class leaders or something. Edogawa just, uh, it seems that there is nothing other than No.1 gone."

Immediately, a voice retorted: "Wait a minute, just being No.1 is very powerful."

"So this is coming back again." Someone said helplessly, "It's obviously No.1 but it doesn't feel very powerful."

"...I said, maybe it's because she's a little bit too withdrawn?" A small voice put forward a new opinion, probably because she thought it was not a good thing to say, so the tone was also very weak.

"Uh, that's true." The speaker paused, "It feels like she doesn't fit in well. Except for the basketball team's three rounds, she doesn't seem to talk to others much."

"It's not that I don't talk at all." Another voice corrected, "That's right, how should I put it... Talking to her always feels a little tired—is it too boring? It's almost like this, just ask a question and say a sentence. If you want an analogy, it's probably the kind of 'boring girl' that boys don't like the least?"

Immediately, a companion retorted in a slightly dissatisfied tone, half-jokingly: "Hey, it's too rude to say that, be careful next time you take the exam?"

"That's right, and what's the point of judging by boys."

The classmate who said the wrong thing immediately apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm just making an analogy..."

"..."

The 12-year-old Milun Xia has never experienced a more embarrassing moment in her 12 years of life.Having lunch with a good friend, I heard other students talking about my good friend behind their backs. Although the wording of a few people's conversations is not very malicious, it can even be said to be a very objective evaluation, but...

awkward.

Just very embarrassing.

The embarrassment reached the point where Miwa wanted to transfer Nanako overnight.

Although I want to stand up and stop those students from continuing to talk, Miwa also knows that it is best to pretend not to hear at this time. If you stand up, things may go in the direction of "super bad" if you are not careful. As it developed, a few classmates who were just "chatting casually" really started to "hate Nanako" because of the embarrassment.

Miwa wants to say something to Nanako, but at such a close distance, as long as she speaks, those classmates will notice that the party involved in the "discussion" is at the scene. Nanako conveys her support as a "good friend".

But Miwa just raised her head, and before reaching out to hold Nanako's shoulder, she found that Nanako sitting opposite her was hanging her head, holding the chopsticks in her hand with a serious expression and concentration, and was focusing on... roasting in a bento The bone of saury.

He was so focused that he didn't hear what those classmates said at all.

Thinking of my good friend who has been a child who has been "mature" far beyond his peers since elementary school. When other children were crying for Transformers to eat, Nanako was writing complicated Chinese characters; other children were listening to the teacher When telling the story, Nanako was reading a very complicated reasoning magazine; when other children were worried about failing the exam, Nanako was helping her with homework——Miwa suddenly felt that she understood Nanako's thoughts.

Other people's comments are just pebbles on the side of the road, and there is nothing to care about. In contrast, the most important thing is to have enough food for yourself.

The very down-to-earth Sanwa "understands" Nanako's equally "down-to-earth" way of life, and decides to emulate her good friend.She stretched out her chopsticks and helped Nanako pick up the carrots and celery that she didn't like.

Nanako, who was picking fishbone, stopped picking the fishbone, picked up the last remaining crab meat roll, and continued to pick fishbone while eavesdropping on the conversations of the students behind her.

It always feels like she is the only one in the whole school who can't recognize all the classmates. When everyone chats, they just say "XXX in the third grade", "XXX in the sixth group", "□□ who just entered school", a bunch of Nanako. No name at all.

[It's amazing. 】

Finally picking out the fish bones, Nanako bit the grilled saury, silently sighing Kenji-style in her heart.

She couldn't recognize the name completely, and she couldn't even eat melons clearly, so she could only eat some of her own melons.

"—But speaking of boys," the conversation behind him continued, "It seems that Edogawa has a boyfriend."

"what?"

"what?!"

"is that a lie!"

"who is it--?"

It was as if hot oil had been poured into cold water all of a sudden. Just now, they were talking casually and lazily, but now they realized that there was gossip to listen to. Several students immediately became excited, and started asking the girl who was talking.

"—I guessed it too! Guessed it!" The girl who spoke at the beginning hurriedly added insurance to herself.

Suddenly someone calmed down and said, "Wait, I seem to have an idea."

"...I seem to have an idea too." Another classmate also slowed down.

"Could it be possible..." Another voice hesitated.

"Could it be,"

Nanako gnawed on the saury, and listened to her (even she didn't know) gossip very seriously.

Everyone seems to know who her boyfriend is, except herself. This feeling is like the author facing the article printed on the examination paper—the article is familiar, but the answer to the question is unknown.

There was no expression on her small face, Nanako heard the unanimous answer from behind:

"Echizen!"/"Koike!"/"Miwa!"/"The elementary school student who came to pick her up from school two days ago!"

Nanako: "..."

Mistake, this wave is unanimous.

Sanwa, who was also eavesdropping with ears pricked up: "..."

What did she hear?

The air suddenly fell into silence.After a few seconds of long silence, someone tremblingly raised a question.

"No, did some strange answer get mixed in just now?"

"...Why are there three rounds?"

"Simply..."

"Speaking of 'elementary student' who is it?"

"No, no, no! Not at all!" The girl who first brought up this topic quickly vetoed these messy answers.

She explained: "I saw Edogawa go home with a boy before - he was a handsome guy. He was tall and thin, his hair was a little fluffy, he looked a little fluffy, his skin was very white, and he was very handsome. Looks good, when talking with Edogawa, there is a smile on his face. ... Yes, Edogawa also talked to him, it looks like they are chatting."

【Ah...it's Mr. Gogol. 】

After hearing these descriptions, Miwa thought in her heart, and forcibly ignored the matter of "Why am I in Nanako's boyfriend's candidate guess", recovering from the pupil earthquake.

【Oh... it's Guoguoli. 】

Nanako who heard these descriptions also thought so in her heart.Before, the class monitor thought that Gogol was her boyfriend. After all, she looks nothing like Gogol, and Gogol would occasionally come to pick her up.

Qingxue does not catch puppy love, middle school students fall in love is very common in Japan, a opposite sex who is obviously not a relative but is similar in age, plus occasionally picks her up after school, or more precisely, Japan does not even need parents for elementary school students Therefore, in the eyes of peers, Gogol should be "waiting" for her after school, more like a "boyfriend" in the general sense.

However, Gogol is not her boyfriend, and he does not look like a relative at all, and it is simply because the three members of the "Edogawa family" are assembled, not original.

"I, I heard Edogawa call the other party's name." The girl continued.

"What is it called?"

Although most of them didn't know each other, but it didn't cost money to be curious, a few classmates chased her and asked.

The girl put on a mysterious and inscrutable tone, lowered her voice, and whispered to her companions: "Edogawa called him..."

"Dazai."

She spat out the answer.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough——! Cough, cough..." The choked three rounds coughed violently.

Nanako chewed the last piece of fish tail expressionlessly.