After becoming a chaotic daughter

This is Nanako's fourth day in the detention center.

The room of about ten square meters was empty, except for a hard single bed and a small bathroom that was separated, there was no other decoration.The overhead light is embedded in the ceiling, and it is turned on 24 hours a day, even when it is sleeping time, it is still bright, probably for the convenience of guarding the detained suspects.

The single bed is a bit hard to sleep on, the pillows are not too soft, and the quilt is a thin blanket, probably because it is just the beginning of autumn, and it is not a bad room, but Nanako is a little uncomfortable with the bed, plus Maybe it's because she doesn't have the little yellow duck doll to hold in her hand when she sleeps at night, so she hasn't slept well these days, and the lights above her head that never go out are also a bit annoying.

The biggest good news is probably that the detention center is air-conditioned, which maintains a just right temperature throughout the day. It won't be too cold, and it won't make her sweaty when she sleeps in the middle of the night.

Nanako was locked in a separate room.

The rooms on the opposite side and on the left and right were all empty, and it seemed that she was the only one locked up in this area, other than that, there were only the guards who were shifting day and night at the door not far away, so it was quiet from morning till night. In the coffin with a big mouth, all the sounds were made when Nanako occasionally bumped into something while moving.

In the early morning of the day she was locked in, she changed into a special prison uniform, and the handcuffs were also removed when changing clothes, which prevented her from being restrained when she raised her hands.If it were someone else, staying in such a dead, empty, small room for a few days without any communication network and without any chat partner would probably feel like years, and the pain would be unbearable, but Nanako did not how do you feel.

She is a person who has almost no "social needs" and can stay in the room "not going out for a month". She doesn't need someone to talk to, although she doesn't have the Internet or books to pass the time, which makes her feel It's a little boring, but it's okay, it's only been four days now, and this level of "boring" is still within her acceptable range.

And it's not like she didn't have anyone to talk to. During these two days, the police would come to interrogate her every day, two or three times a day, each lasting an hour or two.

Almost all the same questions, asked over and over again, like a dish that was not finished the night before, adding something over and over again, frying it again, and then it will be served to her again in the next few days It was fried until it turned into a lump of paste, which made Nanako, who "eats vegetables", chew numbly, and couldn't taste any flavor.

Lying on her back on the hard bed, Nanako stared at the ceiling above her head, thinking about things in her head.

Today is the fourth day, that is, Thursday. Originally, she was supposed to take the midterm exam at school today, but it is no longer possible. Now she can't even touch the textbook, let alone go to class.

She didn't know what happened to Miwa and Echizen either.There should be nothing wrong with Echizen. Although he hit the police officer with a ball at that time, as long as he said "I thought you were kidnappers" or something like that, he would probably be taught a lesson, and his family members would be punished. I took it back.

But three rounds can be a little dangerous.

Miwa wants to run away with her, and she also worked odd jobs in a detective agency.Although this point may not be found out, but for some reason, the police seem to be determined to convict the detective agency, and they may also detain Sanwa for questioning and not let her go home.

【At that time, I should let go first. 】

Nanako thought about it in her heart.

If she let go of Sanlu's hand, Sanlu would not want to drag her away, and would not be pushed into the police car together.

There was the sound of the iron door being pushed open outside the guard room. In order to prevent low-level but fatal mistakes such as "forgetting to close the door", the doors in the detention center will automatically spring back and close without support. That kind of sound is loud every time the door is opened and closed.Hearing such a voice, Nanako knew that she was going to be taken to the interrogation room to speak again.

There was a sound of footsteps, and soon, the door of her room was also opened. A guard in police uniform held the door and called out Nanako's name: "Nanako Edogawa, interrogation."

She has never been handcuffed again, probably because she has already been locked in, and she cannot be beaten at all, and she is still a minor, so there is no need for that.

After walking through the long corridor, Nanako sat down on the only chair in the interrogation room.

A room of seven or eight square meters, separated from the middle by cement and glass walls, turned into a "day" pattern, and the cement walls were covered with cushions to prevent the suspect from hitting the wall and self-harm.Nanako was sitting inside the glass, and the police officer who came to ask questions sat outside, and the glass window was equipped with a microphone for dialogue.

The questioning was not much different from the previous few days.Basic information, do you know what the detective agency does, what you usually do at Hanakou's house, what is the relationship with "Edogawa Ranpo"... I asked repeatedly, and Nanako gave the same answer as the repeater. The last few transcripts, and even all the answers are exactly the same. When looking through the transcripts, it makes people wonder if the police who are interrogating are lazy. A copy of a transcript has been used several times in a row.

Even the policeman who was questioning him was unconsciously tired. This was the eighth record and the fifth record he was in charge of. He agreed, but he actually felt in his heart that the little girl in front of him probably really didn't know anything.

Although it is true that the detective agency is a group of "villains", they were caught when they murdered important government officials again, and there are as many surveillance videos and witnesses as evidence-but maybe?

Maybe Mr. Ranpo... Edogawa Ranpo, is a man who left his only conscience to his daughter, and really didn't let his daughter get involved in these things.

According to the regulations, during the interrogation, he is not allowed to disclose the information of the case to the person being interrogated, so as to prevent the other party from making a false statement through the information. I feel a little pitiful for her.

Her father was a wanted criminal who was on the run, but she didn't know anything, so she was caught in such a daze, she didn't even dare to speak, and when she answered the question, there was no emotion on her pale face. He must have been too scared to even react.

He still couldn't help but reveal a little bit of information to her that wasn't really important: "Ranpo Edogawa hasn't been arrested yet...he stabbed the farming chief of the Secret Service and escaped."

"Hey!" The colleague on the side scolded him in a low voice, reminding him not to say too much.

But the words had already been spoken, and even if she wanted to swallow them, she couldn't swallow them back. Nanako had already heard what he said.

This is the first time Nanako has been told the details of this incident in the past four days. Before that, all she knew was the vague sentence "the detective agency killed someone". Who, why, how, and who was killed—she didn't know anything about these things.

【...Are you serious? 】

Nanako's dark eyes were like dried ink, staring at the police officer who was talking to her unwaveringly.

She couldn't imagine how her father, who found it troublesome to walk, managed to stab the big, "volcanic head" farming grandfather—although his name was "Shantouhuo", but Nanako is always regarded as a "volcanic head" - and then she can run away successfully.

But the two policemen stopped talking, the interrogation in the morning was over, the guard opened the door, Nanako stood up, left the interrogation room, and walked in the direction of the detention room.

*******

Lunch is pickled radish, vinegar kelp, and boiled chicken. The taste is very ordinary, but it is full. It is probably prepared according to the meal size of an adult woman. Nanako only ate two-thirds, put down her chopsticks, and the rest The food was put on the plate and was quickly taken away by the guards.

Of course, there is no afternoon tea and small cakes in the detention center. Nanako walked around the room for a while, feeling that the feeling of fullness in her stomach was not so obvious, and then climbed onto the bed, lay down, pulled the quilt, and began to take a nap.

The afternoon nap was very uncomfortable. Nanako seemed to have a few dreams in a daze, intermittently, but after waking up, she forgot all of them. She just felt that she didn't sleep well, her head hurt a little, and she was hit by the hard bed. My back also hurts a bit.

After waking up, she sat on the bed, hung her head in a daze for a while, thinking about what Kawabe Asuka said before, and now there are more words that the police officer who came to interrogate in the morning said, but no matter what she thought, She still doesn't feel like detective society is committing crimes.

In addition to "illegal employment of child labor", the only place where a detective agency may violate the law is "tax evasion and tax evasion". In the worst case, it may also be "illegal possession of firearms".She couldn't figure out how the detective agency could "murder", "steal secrets", and "endanger the country". After all, in her eyes, there were only four types of employees in the detective agency.

Brother Dubu who works overtime until he has no time to break the law,

Dad, Dazai and the others, who are always fishing at work or even skipping work, how can they still have time to commit crimes?

Sister Oda and Akiko who use their working time to do their own things (such as writing novels and researching medicine),

as well as--

Illegally employed underage members ABCD, for example: Atsushi Naka, Hana Izumi, Junichiro Azaki, etc.

If she wakes up and someone tells her that "the detective agency has closed down", Nanako will probably be able to accept it very reluctantly, but if she wakes up and someone tells her that "the detective agency has killed people", Nanako will only want to tell the other party "Spreading rumors and breaking the law."

But the person who told her that "the detective agency killed people" was the police.

Nanako thought of a sentence his idiot father often said when referring to the work related to the case:

"—the police in this city are really incompetent."

The heavy iron door squeaked and was pushed open from the outside, and the guard who had just seen it this morning shouted to the only detention room where people were locked up: "Nanako Edogawa, the interrogation has been made."

Nanako slowly followed the guard to the interrogation room, and sat down on the chair she had sat on several times.It was an iron chair, which was directly welded to the ground and could not be moved. It was fixed at a slightly forward position in the center of half of the interrogation room, allowing the police interrogating on the other side of the glass to see all the movements of the interrogated.

Before the interrogating police came in, Nanako lowered her head, pulled the hem of her clothes, folded the hem of the clothes like lace, folded them up one by one, and waited for the "incompetent policeman" "Let's ask her the questions that she has already memorized.

[... I want to go home a little bit. 】

Nanako thought in her heart, staring at the hem of the clothes in her hands with her dark eyes, and after a while, she blinked very slowly.

Although staying in the detention center is not uncomfortable, she doesn't want to stay here either. She wants to go home quickly. The fresh milk in the refrigerator is about to expire, and the pajamas she hung on the balcony on Saturday night have also been confiscated. After finishing the weekend homework, the schoolbag has not been packed yet.

But Dad didn't know where. They said that Luanbu "run away", and Guoguoli, he didn't know where he went several days ago.

She can't go home now, and she can only stay here by herself, and everyone is away.

Nanako scratched her hair, and her hair tie and hair clips were also taken away. The untied hair was a bit messy and hung loose on her shoulders.

For some reason, she had been waiting for quite a while, and the police who were questioning in the afternoon hadn't arrived yet. Nanako stood up and wanted to press the call bell on the wall, but her finger hadn't touched the button yet, and the iron behind her The door rang suddenly and was opened.

Nanako thought it was the guards who came to take her back, but when she turned her head, what she saw was not the guard policewoman in uniform, but a young man in a green military uniform.

The man has short, delicate hair like a girl's. The soft white hair has a touch of vermilion at the end, like some kind of animal's tail, fluffy.The vine-green cloak on his shoulders was as long as his calves, vaguely revealing a white sheathed western saber pinned to his waist. He leaned against the iron gate with his eyes closed, as if he was a blind man, but his delicate face was facing exactly Looking in Nanako's direction, a faint smile appeared on the corners of her slightly curved lips.

"Good afternoon, miss the suspect's family."

"Let's have an 'open and honest' talk."

Nanako: "..."

This is the women's detention area.

And she is an underage little girl.

No matter how you don’t know about the detention center, an adult man suddenly appeared in this kind of place, alone in the same space as her little girl, and this adult man obviously didn’t come to release her or come to “rob prison”. No matter how you look at it, this situation seems very wrong.

Nanako maintained the posture of turning her head back, looked at the man for two seconds, then turned her head back, and firmly pressed the call bell on the wall.