After becoming a chaotic daughter

"Nanako—get up quickly! Dad will take you out to play today!"

On Saturday morning, it was just after eight o'clock, when it was time to sleep in. Ranpo Edogawa pushed open the door of his idiot daughter's bedroom early in the morning, and dragged Nanako who was still sleeping under the covers from the bed stand up.

Got up in the middle of the night yesterday and unplugged the network cable of Luanbu several times, and was dragged up by Luanbu in the early morning, Nanako's head was still sleepy, she was pressed by Luanbu in front of the sink, brushing in a daze He had a tooth, dropped the toothbrush in his hand several times, and almost fell his head into the sink.

It took twice as long as usual to stumble, Nanako finally managed to finish brushing her teeth, grabbed the towel and wiped her face indiscriminately, then her little head paused, and she was dragged to the dining table by random steps sit down.

With a rice ball stuffed in her hand, Nanako, who was sitting at the dining table, instinctively brought the rice ball to her mouth, took a few bites, and gradually regained consciousness.

Gogol next to her handed her a cup of warm milk. Nanako lowered her head and took a sip. Then she held the cup and sat motionless on the chair for a long time. She blinked her eyes hard several times, feeling less confused. Only then did he raise his head, and asked Luanbu slowly, "...Are you going out today?"

Sitting on the opposite side of the dining table, holding half a rice ball in his hand, Facing Nanako's question, Chaobu's eyes drifted slightly.

He didn't meet the dark eyes of the idiot daughter who was still sleepy, turned his face away, and while munching on the rice balls, he replied loudly: "I went to the shopping street today, and there is a regular customer shop with a detective agency. Promotions! Let's go shopping!"

Nanako felt like she already knew what was going on.

She asked Ranbu without any ups and downs, "Are you going to buy some snacks?"

Ranpo didn't make a sound, and gnawed on the rice balls, which made Nanako even more convinced that she guessed it right, and today she went to "enrich" Ranpo's snacks inventory again.

Although the cabinets at home are full of snacks, Ranbu will always look for opportunities to buy more snacks. The reasons include but are not limited to "this is a new flavor!", "The bonus cards haven't been collected yet!", "Spring-limited packaging!", "The little toy I gave before is broken!"——in short, as long as he wants to buy it, he can always make up a reason.

Thinking that Ranpo was looking for a reason to buy snacks this time, Nanako was very careless while worrying about her idiot father's salary this month, and followed Ranpo to the shopping street.

——However, it turned out that as a minor, she was still too naive.

[Adults are liars. 】

Putting on a headband with bear ears and standing behind the counter, Nanako numbly repeated the action of putting the checkout snacks into paper bags and sealing them, thinking this in her heart with a deadpan face.

Together with her, Gogol, who was brought to the shop by random steps, was standing outside the counter, with his cape raised, doing magic tricks for the children who were pulling the adults into the store.A group of children gathered around Gogol and let out a series of exclamations, so more children were attracted by the movement here.

There were more and more customers in the store, and more and more paper bags Nanako packed. The boss standing beside the cash register was full of joy, and his subordinates quickly settled the bill quickly, without closing their grinning mouths.

Where is her idiot father?

Numbly, she folded another paper bag, and then nailed it with a click. Nanako asked herself with a small face, and then asked and answered.

Oh, her stupid father sold her and Gogol to the boss after entering the store, and then put on the mascot bear doll headgear himself, and ran away with the sample snacks the boss gave him—that would have been It is a sample snack that should be given to the customers by the "mascot bear", not a sample snack for the "mascot bear" himself.

Waves of customers came and went, until it was close to lunch time, when the store was a little free. The boss in a cartoon apron stood by the cash register, looking at the half-day turnover this morning, with a smile on his face. It was brilliant, so he waved and called another clerk, and sent someone to the restaurant next door to buy some better box lunches.

"Mr. Fukuzawa is as reliable as ever!"

The smiling boss praised so generously that he had completely forgotten about the random steps that slipped away when he first arrived.The older boy would become good at magic tricks, which attracted him a lot of guests. Although the younger girl was not very good at talking, she was very satisfied with her hard work and would not be lazy.

Mr. Fukuzawa is very reliable, but Dad Ranpo is not reliable at all. Nanako, who was tricked into working, just wants to call the president when she goes back today, shake out all the places where Ranpo hides snacks, and tell The president's grandfather "Dad was still playing games at midnight last night, and even secretly ordered a fried chicken takeaway."

Sitting with Gogol in the rest room at the back of the shop, Nanako held the boxed lunch in one hand and buried her head in picking up a few mouthfuls of food. She puffed her cheeks like a hamster, and while chewing the rice in her mouth, she asked Gogol: "Guoguoli, why are we here to work?"

Coming out to work on the rest day, there is no doubt that this is definitely not an overtime application made by her idiot father. After all, Luanbu was still secretly staying up late in the bedroom playing games last night, and he has no consciousness of working today.

"Because Mr. Ranpo disobeyed the president's order." Gogol answered her lightly, with the usual smile on his face.

Nanako: "?"

Nanako didn't know what Gogol was referring to by "violating the president's order"—or rather, which one she was referring to.Does it mean sneaking to the coffee shop to eat cakes with pay during working hours?Or are you trying to bring a puppy you met on the side of the road into a detective agency?Or is it that the document was folded into a paper airplane structure and dropped into the dirty ditch downstairs?

The mess may seem a bit too much. If I have to say it, it was dinner time the day before yesterday, and Luanbu secretly ate half a bag of potato chips behind the president's back. As a result, his stomach was too full and he didn't finish dinner. This seems to be considered " Violated the order of the president", after all, the president said very clearly "random steps, don't eat too many snacks before dinner".

As if seeing Nanako's confusion, Gogol gave the answer very considerately: "Because Mr. Ranpo took everyone to plan to assassinate the leader of the port mafia last week."

[...The Port Mafia. 】

Nanako scratched her head.

[Which criminal gang is coming. 】

She thought for a few seconds before she remembered that [Port Mafia] seemed to be one of the famous gangsters in Yokohama. The employees of the detective agency mentioned it a few times when they were working.

However, it is probably because Yokohama’s customs are too lax—although they are always very precise in the matter of "Tanako’s May [-]rd"—Yokohama often has criminals who smuggle in, and there are many local illegal organizations, so All kinds of fancy names are also varied.

This arms dealer, that smuggling gang, and all kinds of resellers, gangsters, killers, mercenaries, fish and dragons mixed together, even Nanako, who couldn't remember the names of her classmates, was even less likely to remember the names of these organizations.

She can think of the name [Port Mafia] because among a bunch of unknown names such as "ヌスヒ", "Tianhuangyuan Lion Tiger Gang", "YKH Merchant Group", the name [Port Mafia] is the only one. It seems very unpretentious, just a simple and clear location plus organizational nature.

Recalling what [Port Mafia] was, Nanako picked up the rice and continued to ask, "And then."

Although Gogol's answer sounds ridiculous, but because her father is too unreliable, Nanako thought about it for a while, and felt that Ranpo proposed to do this on a whim, but was rejected by the president and eventually punished as a mascot. Such a development seems reasonable.

If what Gogol said is true, then Nanako is not very surprised. If what Gogol said is false, then she will stand up and kick Gogol's ass, lest Gogol will gradually learn to run the train and talk nonsense .In the second term, there can be speeches in the second term, but it is wrong to talk nonsense with your eyes open.

Nanako was ready to "educate" Gogol, but Gogol cleverly avoided these two endings.

He just said to Nanako: "Then there is no after."

"...Oh." Feeling a little disappointed, Nanako replied dryly, lowered her head and continued to pick her lunch box.

*******

If Sanwa's physical strength is 100, then Nanako's physical strength is probably only 5.

As a child with very good physical strength, Nanako couldn't stand still after standing for half a day in the morning. It was just after two o'clock in the afternoon.I had expected that a child who had never experienced hardship would not be able to stand for a day like ordinary shop assistants, and noticed that Nanako began to stomp her feet secretly, with her short legs dangling back and forth, the store manager quickly released Nanako and Gogo back in.

Unable to stand or walk, Nanako sat on a bench on the road to rest, feeling a little pain in her calves and feet when she left the dim sum shop.

Today is a day off. Although the weather in Yokohama is still a bit hot in mid-September, the shopping street is still very lively, bustling with tourists everywhere, shopping, watching movies, eating, hanging out, all kinds of people, There are even unlucky overtime workers with briefcases in a hurry.

Nanako sat on the wooden bench for a while, staring at the people passing by on the street, her eyes were soon attracted by the ice cream in the hands of passers-by.

"... Guoguoli." Nanako, who was also craving ice cream, called out.

Gogol, who was leaning on the back of the chair, tilted his head: "Huh?"

"I want to eat ice cream." Nanako stared at the passers-by in front of her without blinking her swarthy eyes.

Gogol let out a "huh", but didn't move. He just casually pulled up the cloak that was about to fall to the ground.

Nanako turned her head, turned her upper body sideways, stared at him, continued to talk to him sternly, and raised her hand to gesture with him: "Small, strawberry-flavored ice cream, with a sharp pointy cone under the cone. Kind of."

The dark round eyes and the golden narrow pupils looked at each other for a few seconds, Gogol blinked suddenly, then bent his eyes, showing a faint smile.

"Want to eat?"

"Ah."

"Very -- want to eat?"

"...I want to eat a little bit."

"Do you have to eat like 'I want to eat a little'?"

Nanako: "..."

Nanako stopped talking, and Gogol kept asking, but he didn't ask to buy it for her. She felt that Gogol probably didn't want to help her run errands to buy ice cream.She lowered her head, scratched her hair, and said after a while, "...then don't eat it."

She is still more lazy to move than to eat ice cream.

Nanako lowered her head and stared at the little leather shoes she was wearing today in a daze. After a few seconds, she heard Gogol reply as if talking to herself:

"Okay, let's go get some ice cream."

Nanako turned her head and saw Gogol standing up, the soft silver-white three-strand braid hanging down his back shaking slightly.The boy walked slowly towards the cold drink shop.

Nanako watched as Gogol's back gradually moved away, and soon blended into the passing crowd, completely invisible.

She looked at the direction Gogol left for a while, blinked slowly, then looked away, and sat obediently, waiting for Gogol to buy ice cream and come back.But she didn't know if it was because there were too many people on the rest day. She waited for several minutes, but she didn't see Gogol.

After sitting for almost half an hour, Nanako also felt that her feet were not so tired, and she did not see Gogol returning. She wanted to go to the cold drink shop to find someone by herself, but before she could stand up, her side suddenly fell down. cast a shadow.

Where the shadow came from, stood a young man wearing a light gray hooded cardigan.

Nanako looked up at the young man who had stopped by the bench.

The young man has a slender figure, and he has put on the hood of his coat, and a section of the brim of a baseball cap is exposed under the brim of the hat.

Although it looks very tight, it is not uncommon to wear this kind of casual sports style on the street. Some young people will wear it like this when they feel the sun and are too lazy to open an umbrella.

Nanako noticed a few strands of long hair faintly protruding from the brim of his hat, pure white mixed with pink and purple, a color that seemed very strange but also very gentle.

At the same time, it is also a color that Nanako finds very familiar.

"Hello." There was a smile on the young man's beautiful face.

He looked down at Nanako, with his back to the sun, his fair face was shrouded in the shadow under the brim of the hat, but there was still a kind of luster with a cool temperature floating in those lead gray pupils, like a moonlit night. On the surface of the lake, the dark lake water reflects the bright moonlight and sparkles.