After becoming a chaotic daughter

In early October, the weather in Yokohama gradually cooled down.

The temperature dropped slowly unconsciously, and the sea breeze changed from engulfing the heat to a refreshing air flow. It's not yet time to change into long sleeves, but when staying indoors, you don't need to turn on the air conditioner to survive Life is over.

Nanako was lying on a desk in the detective agency, slowly writing down the science practice questions Kunikida assigned her.

It's already October, and half of her life in junior high school has passed, and in less than half a year, she will be promoted to the third grade.What comes with the third grade is the entrance examination.

Just like entering junior high school, when entering high school in Japan, you have to choose a good school and take the entrance examination.There are both private and public schools, a bunch of schools in a mess, and the exam time will collide. You can only choose a limited number of exams to take. If you fail the exam, you have no books to study.Even a student like Nanako who doesn't like to deal with people knows vaguely that some students in the class have already gone to private schools to study for exams.

Nanako doesn't want to go to cram school in a private school. She is already very tired from school, and she has to go to cram schools from 03:30 p.m. to 09:30 p.m., dealing with a bunch of teachers and classmates she doesn't know. Anyway, she has been studying hard all the time, and with the help of Kunikida, a very good Tokyo University graduate, she just needs to do a good job in the detective agency.

Beep beep beep beep beep beep—

The office phone on Kunikida's desk suddenly rang.

It is now a weekday afternoon, and most of the members have gone out to work. At the moment, only Tanizaki and Oda are in the agency, and they are crouching next to the bookshelves and lockers to pack up files.

"Na, Nanako! Please help me answer the phone—" Holding several heavy file boxes in his arms, Tanizaki shouted in a hurry.

Nanako let out an "oh", slipped the office chair she was sitting on, moved to Kunikida's desk, and then answered the phone.

"Hey... this is the detective agency." Nanako said dryly, "Kunikida Doppo is not here, do you want to find someone else?"

"Nanako?" A young man's voice came from the other end of the phone. It was Nanako's voice that sounded a little familiar. "I'm Yasugo Sakaguchi from the Secret Service. Has President Fukuzawa gone out too?"

Ango Sakaguchi of the Secret Service.

Nanako knew him, and he often called the detective agency. Nanako answered his calls several times, but never saw this person once.

"The president's grandfather and Taneda's grandfather went fishing." Nanako answered him honestly. Taneda's grandfather is also a big leader of the secret service department. He is a bald grandfather in a kimono. Sometimes the president will drink tea and play chess with him. "I haven't come back yet, it seems that I will come back at night."

"Ugh...is it actually the farming chief...I said I went to his office just now..." Sakaguchi Ango sounded like he was having a headache, as if his stomach was hurting too.He murmured a few words in a very low voice, but Nanako couldn't hear them clearly, but they were probably just complaints. After saying a few words, he said to Nanako again: "Is there anyone else in the club at the moment, such as Tell the secretary, Ms. Haruno."

"Brother Tanizaki is here."

Nanako answered him, before saying that "Uncle Oda" was also there, Ango on the other end of the phone replied: "Please ask Mr. Tanizaki to answer the phone."

Holding the microphone, Nanako looked up at Tanizaki, who was completely overwhelmed by the file box, and Oda, who was holding a stack of honorary certificates in his left hand and a bag of unknown knives in his right hand. Telephone.

She thought for a while, put down the microphone, and pressed the loudspeaker button on the landline. The calm and rational voice of Ango Sakaguchi rang out in the office area.

"Mr. Tanizaki?" The electric current distorted his voice.

"Yes, yes! I am here! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhly And barely grabbed a pile of filing boxes full of documents.

The other side of the phone was silent for a moment because of his screams: "...the government's internal meeting has been passed, and the document is being drafted. In order to commend the detective agency for its achievements in arresting Dostoevsky and other criminals, The central government has decided to award the detective agency the [Exorcism Azusa Bow Medal], which represents the highest national security contribution medal. Please report this matter to your agency... Forget it, I am afraid that Chief Farmer will tell President Fukuzawa when he is fishing... Sigh...so I'm doing something useless again..."

"All in all." He finally concluded, "Let President Fukuzawa get ready to accept praise and doubts. After all, there has never been a precedent for awarding the Azusa bow award to a private society before. I am afraid that trouble will be inevitable."

"Ah... yes! Thank you for reminding me." Tanizaki replied loudly.

There was another weary sigh on the other end of the phone, followed by the beep of the call being cut off.

Nanako covered the microphone back, walked around the desk, and ran over to help Tanizaki pick up the two file boxes he wanted to pick up from the ground, and under Tanizaki's command, put them in the correct place.

"Ah..." After a lot of chaos, Tanizaki finally put away the file box in his hand, and Tanizaki let out a long sigh of relief, and wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Thanks for your help, Nanako."

Nanako was helping Oda Zuku sort a stack of certificates of honor by year. Nanako was working hard and didn’t answer Tanizaki’s words. In the locker with Yosano's name on it.

After helping to tidy up the bookshelves and lockers, Nanako asked Tanizaki and Oda, "Exorcism... what is it?"

It sounds like the exorcism props in the animation, but just now Ango Sakaguchi said that this is a medal representing "something like the national balabara"-probably a medal, something like this.

"That... is a medal that the government uses to recognize those people or organizations that have made great contributions to the protection of national security, and then award them." Tanizaki explained to Nanako in this way.

Nanako can basically guess the meaning of what he explained from Ango's words, but what Nanako cares about is not this. What Nanako cares about is: "Is that a medal with a bow drawn on it? Or is it a real bow?"

Tanizaki: "It's a bow, a bow made of catalpa."

"Then is there [Exorcism Azusa Arrow Chapter]?" Nanako asked him with her face up.

"Uh, it seems that there is not." Tanizaki replied hesitantly.

The taciturn Oda on the side also asked seriously: "Why is there [Exorcism Azusa Bow Badge], but no [Exorcism Azusa Arrow Badge]? If there are no arrows, can only a bow be able to exorcise demons?"

"But... maybe it's because it's just a symbolic meaning? Bows and arrows are all the same? It just happened to be a bow?" Tanizaki worked hard to make up an explanation, trying to answer their questions.

"Since they are all similar, why didn't you choose 'arrow'? Even if there is no bow, only arrows can be used to repel evil spirits." Oda further raised his own doubts.

Nanako scratched her head, and then said, "Arrows look better than bows."

"This, this..."

Tanizaki was sweating profusely from being asked by them, while the two people in front of him, one big and one small, were still sitting very seriously, as if they were discussing academically.

"Could it be that the arrow may scratch the person receiving the award?"

"You don't need to sharpen your blade."

"But how can an unsharp arrow exorcise demons?"

"Knock the opponent's head."

"Since this is the case, it seems that a heavier bow is more lethal."

"Ah."

"I see."

The two completed self-persuasion inexplicably, and then went to do their own things. Nanako went back to write her practice questions, and Oda went out to the supermarket to buy limited-time special eggs according to Kunikida's instructions.

Tanizaki who was forgotten by them: "..."

*******

The president received the [Exorcism Azusa Bow Badge] from the government award ceremony a week later.

It was just a bow that was packaged in a fancy way, and it was placed on the shelf in the president’s office for medals. Nanako lay on the back of the chair and looked at it for a long time, but she didn’t see anything special about this bow. The two tachi on the knife stand look formidable.

Although this Azusa bow is nothing special, the government's award ceremony is still quite impressive, and it was even featured on the TV news. Yokohama's local channel spent a full 3 minutes on the evening news, showing the video of the award ceremony, as well as internal affairs. A long passage of the award speech read by the provincial officials.In just one night, the detective agency changed from a "small well-known local agency" to a "well-known detective agency that has gained fame nationwide".

Before the morning meeting, the topics discussed by the students in the class naturally followed the hot spots and talked about "that armed detective agency in our city".

"It seems to be in the next door."

"Do you want to go and see after school? It just so happens that there is no work today."

"This detective agency, I remember it seemed to be in the news two years ago, it was that... It seemed to be the year before last? A hostage died due to an employee's mistake, and then he was scolded for a long time, and then a hijacking was prevented. To save the one that got the bad reviews?"

"It's not an employee's mistake, it seems that the prisoner did it on purpose, no matter whether the detective agency pressed the button at that time or not, there will be poisonous gas coming out."

"There is a part-time teacher in my sister's university, who seems to be the doctor in this detective agency."

"A math teacher in the private school my neighbor's friend attended. I heard that he is an employee of the detective agency. He went to the private school as a part-time job."

"The president—the one who received the award on TV! My grandpa said that he met him several times when he went to the chess hall to play chess!"

"Really, is there such a small one in Yokohama?"

【...That's really quite small. 】

Listening to the chatting of the students around, Miwa who had just entered the classroom silently put her schoolbag on the desk. When she passed by Nanako's desk just now, she saw Nanako still holding a pen, burying her head in the corner of the extracurricular exercise book. Cats, as if these topics have nothing to do with her at all, cats draw a litter.

Only a few people in the class know that Nanako's father works in a detective agency, and these few people also have a personality that doesn't talk nonsense, such as the monitor who is very reliable in doing things, and the study committee member who is very strict in tutoring. They would not do this kind of thing if they talked about other people's situation, so no matter how heated the discussion was with other students in the class, Nanako would not be involved.

What's more, in fact, this is not very interesting news, but because the detective agency happens to be very close to them, so everyone is interested in discussing a few more words.

The class bell rang, and the chatting students returned to their seats one after another. The head teacher, Mr. Nakamura, walked into the classroom with the materials for the morning meeting.

"Next week is the midterm exam..."

"I hate exams."

With the sea breeze blowing and the green leaves fluttering, 12-year-old Sanlunxia stood at the gate of the Youth College with her schoolbag on her back. Looking up at the blue sky, she sighed long, melancholy and bewilderedly.

Nanako next to her was eating the small octopus balls she just bought from a roadside stall. She felt that the boss had sprinkled too much sauce today, and it was a bit salty.

"Miwa, do you want to eat?" Nanako handed the small octopus balls in her hand to Miwa.

"Eat." Sanlun Miaosu switched expressions, and a mouthful was a small ball.

Seeing that this semester is about to pass halfway, compared with the entrance exam a year later, the midterm exam that is just around the corner is more important. In the several exams after entering the second year of junior high school, the final questions of mathematics are getting more difficult every time. Nanako started to have a bit of a hard time doing some topics, and she didn't know when she would change from the first in the grade to the second in the grade, and then began to fall all the way down, re-enacting the Yokohama version of "Shang Zhong Yong".

To be honest, she has never been No.1 in grade before, and now she is going through primary and middle school again, relying on her old book to be the first in grade, this "No.1" contains too much water, and Nanako has never been What kind of real feeling, she doesn't know her real level now, what is it like in the difficulty of the Japanese exam, so she has to write papers every day, so that even if her ranking drops later, at least it won't fall too badly .

"Why is there such a thing as an exam in the world?" Miwa complained listlessly.

"If you don't take the exam, you can only draw lots." Nanako answered Miwa sternly, "If you take the exam, if you study hard, you can get into a better school, but if you draw lots, if you study hard, you may only be able to go to a poor school. "

Miwa choked on Nanako's honest answer.

Three rounds: "...you are right, it is better to take the exam."

They walked towards the detective agency together. There was no work for three rounds today, and the mid-term exam was coming soon. Nanako and she went back to the detective agency to review their homework.

Familiar road.

Familiar street scene.

And a familiar open-air cafe passing by.

There was a white round table in the open space in front of the store. A small young man in a black suit and vest was sitting on a chair. He was looking at his mobile phone while picking up the coffee on the table and taking a casual sip. A black round hat lay quietly by his hand.

Nanako noticed that Miwa beside her suddenly stopped, and raised her hand to say hello to the red-haired young man who was sitting at the table drinking coffee in the fence.

"Mr. Nakahara, good afternoon."

"?" The young man turned his head, and the first thing he saw was Sanlun with conspicuous hair, and he quickly waved his hand casually, "Ah...it's Sanlun, good afternoon."

He noticed the schoolbag on Sanlun's back and asked, "Are you ready to go back after school?"

"I'm going to go to my classmate's house to do my homework together." Miwa answered him.

The young man noticed Nanako who was standing beside Miwa, she had a very ordinary appearance, but her eyes didn't seem very agile, her eyes were swarthy, like a dark night where no light could be seen.He looked at Nanako a few more times, feeling a little familiar, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

The coffee was almost finished, so he stood up, summoned the waiter to pay the bill, and casually asked Miwa: "Where is your classmate's house? I drove here, and I will take you there on the way and then go back to the company."

"Will it be too troublesome... It seems that the way from here to the office is not smooth." Miwa hesitated.

"It's okay, it only takes a few minutes to drive." The young man waved his hand, settled the bill, and walked towards the place where he parked across the street. When he passed by Nanako's side, he didn't pay any attention to Nanako. Which neighborhood?"

Miwa pulled Nanako and followed behind the young man.

Nanako raised her head and stared at the young man's back.The young man is not tall. Although he is taller than her, he does not seem to be as tall as Sanlun. However, his walking steps are very vigorous and sensitive, light but very steady and powerful. It reminds Nanako of the three-colored cat walking across the flower bed downstairs in the detective agency. The way you walk.

"It's on the side of X Machime." Miwa replied, "We're going to the detective agency. Nanako's father works there, and we'll go there to do our homework—that's the armed detective agency that was on the news last night."

Zhongyuan Zhongye paused.

"……what?"