After becoming a chaotic daughter

[...People who have met. 】

With her head raised, Nanako sat on the bench, her dark eyes staring intently at the young man standing in front of her.

She has a very rare and beautiful face, with facial features somewhat resembling those of Europeans. She has a slender figure, and her figure is straight and elegant when standing, but she is not aggressive. Most importantly, she has long hair with a strange color.

The last time I saw this young man in front of me was less than half a month ago. Although Nanako is not very good at recognizing people, she still remembers some iconic characteristics of such an eye-catching appearance. .

Nanako still remembers the last time she saw each other. It was on the way back to the detective agency after school with Miwa. They met this young man on the road, and the other party asked them for directions.

She didn't really want to talk to a stranger, but the other party spoke politely, and Nanako could only answer him dryly: "... hello."

As if seeing Nanako's reluctance to speak, the young man gave her a comforting smile, and then asked again: "I accidentally dropped the coin, can you pick it up for me? ... It's right next to the chair. under."

As he spoke, he stretched out his slender white fingers, and pointed slightly under the bench where Nanako was sitting.His actions and tone of voice are polite, keeping a proper distance, and his soft voice can easily make people put down their guard.

coin.

Following the direction he pointed, Nanako lowered her head and looked around the bench, and soon through the gap between the wooden boards of the seat, she vaguely saw a round object with metallic luster under the bench, as if It is a 500 yen coin.

A 500-yen coin can still buy a lot of things, such as a crepe or two ice creams. Nanako stood up, squatted down next to the chair, and stretched her hand to reach the coin that had rolled under the bench. , Fumbled twice before picking up the coin from under the chair.

Holding the coin, Nanako stood up again and looked up at the young man standing in front of her. She stared at the strange-colored hair exposed under the brim of his hat for two seconds before reaching out and handing over the coin lying in the palm of her hand. in front of him.

"Here you are." She said without any ups and downs, her round eyes didn't move, as if she was staring at Sigma, but her attention was completely drawn away by the strands of hair looming under the brim of the hat, White and pink-purple are mixed together, no matter how many times you look at it, you feel very strange.

"Thank you." The young man thanked her in a soft voice, and reached out to take the coin from her hand.

His fingertips touched Nanako's soft palm, and he left it very lightly, like a swallow skimming the water, leaving only a small circle of water ripples, and it returned to calm in an instant, almost Nanako didn't feel anything.

——An idea popped up in Nanako's mind out of nowhere.

Like a bamboo shoot after the rain, a pointed head popped out of the soil with a puff. This idea appeared suddenly, without any warning, and Nanako baldly uttered a sentence:

"A band."

Sigma, who had just picked up the coin from Nanako's hand, suddenly stopped in mid-air with the hand that picked up the coin.

"...Huh?" He couldn't understand what Nanako was saying for a moment.

Nanako immediately covered her mouth and shook her little head. The ponytail hanging behind her head was like the tail of a puppy wagging fast.

She didn't know what she was talking about, she was just thinking "why does this guy dye his hair such an amazing color", and suddenly "because he's in a band" - such a strange thought , his head was in a trance, as if he was distracted, and accidentally said this sentence.

Sigma wanted to ask Nanako "what's the matter", but his ability had already taken effect, and at the moment of physical contact, "the information he most wanted to know" and "the information Nanako most wanted to know" had already quietly disappeared from the minds of both parties. exchanged silently.

He didn't know what kind of information Nanako had exchanged from his mind, but facing a "stranger", at the moment of physical contact, most of the things subconsciously wanted to know were just irrelevant things, even Most people don't even have the consciousness of "I want to know...", a blank thought, and the exchange is naturally a blank answer.

The brain starts to accept and process the information with a little delay. Sigma has experienced many times of supernatural power activation. Even if a large amount of information floods into his mind in a short period of time, his consciousness will not be interrupted due to the huge amount of information. Still able to maintain a clear mind.

But staying awake does not mean that he can spend more energy on other things, and can continue to have a normal conversation with Nanako. Countless memories are poured into his brain like a silent tide flowing in the dark night. In the process, his pupils lost focus for a brief moment, and his breathing also stagnated for a moment, as if his soul was pulled out of his body, and then slowly returned to its place.

In just a few breaths, his brain had already received these memories and reorganized them into an orderly collection, so that they would not be confused with his own memories.

Most of the jumping time points are just fragmented patterns like symbols, connected with some words that do not completely correspond to the picture, flashing like fleeting images, like countless scenes in a movie, which cannot be connected into a complete picture. fragment.

In these memories, Sigma saw every member of the Armed Detective Agency, the boy he knew who always wore the silver and white three-strand braid, and other things.

The girl with sky-blue long hair, the densely packed exercises, the carrots I don’t like to eat in the lunch box, the boy who speaks fluent Chinese, the small box full of ten thousand yuan banknotes, the gorgeous teaching building like a castle, the small box full of complicated Chinese characters. A notebook, colorful eggs falling in the flowers, a children's program with cartoon images of frogs and rabbits, a desk that is about the same height as me, a small bench placed in the corner carefully, a box of cakes that are a little bit collapsed...

Broken frames flew by quickly, and moving forward, the most vague memory was the chaotic and noisy crowd, the policemen coming and going, the cordon being pulled up, the old apartment with narrow corridors, and the sound coming from the stomach. The taste of hunger and milk.

And a dull pain spreading from the back.

At the very beginning of the memory, there was a dull pain mixed with a cold touch, as if someone hit her back heavily with a hammer, and then threw her into the cold and wet bottom of the water.

In the deepest part of the water, there is darkness where nothing can be seen.

In the sweltering heat of late summer, standing on the bustling street where the sun was shining brightly and people were coming and going, Sigma shivered suddenly.

He wore a long-sleeved jacket, put on a hood, and wrapped himself tightly. A moment ago, he was sweating thinly, but in just two seconds, all the sweat turned into Cold sweat soaked the T-shirt he was wearing underneath.

Those noisy human voices gradually returned to his ears and became clearer. It was only two seconds since he picked up the coin from Nanako's hand. In Nanako's eyes, only It's just that after he took the coin, as if he suddenly remembered something, he lost his mind for a while, and then came back to his senses.

Sigma withdrew his hand as usual, put the hand holding the coin back into the pocket of his coat, and put a gentle smile like the evening breeze on his face again: "Then I'll go first, goodbye."

He bid farewell to Nanako. Nanako felt very satisfied with this stranger who didn't talk nonsense and left after saying thanks. She didn't have to try to hold back a few words, so she also said the "band" that popped up in her mind "Throw it aside, nodded to Sigma, and said to him: "Well, bye."

Sigma also nodded to Nanako with a smile on his face, and turned to leave. His figure was mixed into the flow of people passing by, like a drop of water falling into a river, blending into this ordinary and ordinary world.

Walking along the flow of people, he passed a young man with a cape on his shoulders.The boy has a rare silver-white long hair, which is tied into a beautiful three-strand braid behind him. He holds a small ice cream in his hand. The semi-circular ice cream ball is pink. Some melted.

The golden eyes were bent, and the young man had a faint smile on his face, and walked lightly towards the direction where Sigma came, without stopping for a moment.

Sigma stopped under the eaves of a store on the side of the road. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket, opened his email, found an email address, and sent a new email to the other party.

【"What is the end of death?"】

The boy's golden eyes stared at him, the corners of his lips gently raised, but there was no trace of warmth in his eyes.

Sigma pressed a button, a cursor flashed on the phone's screen, letters formed words, and words formed sentences.

[to Гоголь:]

[I can't see, there is only darkness there. 】

He closed the phone, put it back in his pocket, raised his hand to lower the brim of his hat, and lowered his head to blend into the crowd again.

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"The ice cream you want~"

A small strawberry-flavored ice cream was handed to Nanako,

A very small ice cream, about two-thirds the size of ordinary ice cream, is very light to hold in the hand. The semi-circular ice cream ball is covered on the crispy cone with sharp corners. The pink spherical surface has melted a little.

Holding the ice cream, Nanako lowered her head and sucked the melted buttermilk in small mouthfuls. The taste was cold and sweet.Eating too much ice cream will cause a stomachache. Now she only dares to eat such a small ice cream.

She ate the ice cream slowly, the speed of eating was not much different from the speed of melting, and it took a long time to finally suck up the ball of ice cream, and then began to gnaw on the crispy cone.After eating the ice cream, Nanako took out a tissue from her pocket, wiped her hands carefully, ran to the convenience store on the side of the road, found the trash can and threw the tissue, and then moved back.

"Go back and take a nap," she said to Gogol.

Being dragged out of bed early in the morning, Nanako, who didn't get enough sleep, was still thinking about going back to sleep, since she was supposed to take a nap in the afternoon anyway.

"Aren't you going back with Mr. Ranpo?" Gogol asked, but he was already following Nanako in the direction of going back.

"Let's go back by ourselves." Nanako answered him, reaching out to grab his cloak so as not to get lost.

Gogol tilted his head and asked, "What if Mr. Ranpo gets lost?"

"..."

Nanako's footsteps holding Gogol stopped suddenly.

She stood still, staring at the street in front of her for a while, then turned around, dragged Gogol back, walked to the bench where she was sitting just now, and let go of Gogol cloak, and sat down.

Not wanting to go to the police station to pick up her lost and stupid father, Nanako took out her mobile phone from her pocket expressionlessly, then found [パパ] in the contacts, and dialed the number of Ranpo.

The author has something to say:

What Gogol showed Sigma was Nanako's "end of memory".

Because what you want to see is the "end of memory", so the other pictures are quickly retraced to the past, and all you see are the pictures that are impressive to Nanako, just like the fast-forward pictures of the movie, and finally freeze in the The scene is "the end".

For example, Sigma will have an impression of Miwa's appearance, and you can guess that she has a good relationship with Nanako (because of the high frequency of appearance), but I don't know the specific relationship.

It's like seeing the table of contents, confirming which page the last part is on, and then directly flipping to that page, all the content in it is turned over with a bang.

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In other words, it is not just copying and pasting all the memories directly, in this case, it will probably be finely divided

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The band stalk comes from the manga

Passerby A: Your hairstyle is very cool, what did you do before.

Sigma: (Thinking about the career that is most compatible with my hair color) Playing in a band.

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Sigma is a product of [book], so I privately set his [self] priority equal to the page (it is his [self] existence rather than his ability)

That is: book > page = Nanako = Sigma