After becoming a chaotic daughter

Gogol, who was standing outside the iron fence with rice balls and milk, looked almost like a little brother who came to deliver food.

The detention area where only Nanako was locked up was empty, and the silence was so quiet that a needle could be heard, and there was even a faint echo when she spoke. There is no takeaway brother who is likely to send food to the detention center. Whether it is beautiful ○ or hungry ×, it is the same.

What's more, Gogol is not a delivery man who comes to deliver food. He is wearing a guard's uniform. There is almost no difference between male and female styles, so Nanako didn't even notice at first that the person who came in was not The usual guarding policewoman, but a man.

Standing on the inner side of the iron fence, Nanako stopped her movements and looked at Gogol on the other side of the iron fence motionlessly, like a puppet who forgot to wind up, her dark eyes fixed on Gogol There is a smiling face in the middle, and no emotion can be seen on the small face.

"Are you scared?" Gogol looked at Nanako with crooked eyes, tilted his head to one side, raised the hat in his hand exaggeratedly, and drew a big arc in the air, " Sudden appearance! Isn't it like those saviors who appeared in TV dramas?"

His tone was high-spirited, but Nanako didn't show "surprised", "shocked", or "overjoyed" expressions cooperatively. Her little brows were even furrowed a little bit, and her little face showed a serious thinking expression.

"Guoguoli." Nanako called him.

"What?" Gogol answered.

Nanako asked him sternly, "How did you get in here?"

"Oh, what should I say! Let me think about it—" Gogol seemed to be in a dilemma, and said a few times "uh...", "um...", "well... ", and then answered Nanako slowly: "First, I mixed into the convoy transporting food materials. After entering the detention center, I went to the storage room to steal a set of clothes and change. Because today is the day of the routine weekly meeting, the guards They are not here at this time, only the monitoring room has people on duty staying behind."

"The next thing is very simple, hack into the network of the monitoring room, replace the monitoring of this area with the previous video, and then take the spare key stolen from the warden's office, and come in through the door openly—— That's it! It's a thrilling operation."

Nanako: "..."

Nanako has already begun to think that what Gogol has done is enough for him to be sentenced for several years, and these days are really more and more judges.

"Why don't you ask me what I'm here for?" Facing the silent Nanako, Gogol said with a smile, "For example—to take you to escape from here, or to simply kill people to silence them?"

His tone was very relaxed, but Nanako didn't feel relaxed at all. She had better have Gogol just come to deliver breakfast, otherwise adding the charge of jail robbery would be enough for him to be sentenced for a few more years.Don't let the detective agency release the arrest warrant in the end, but Gogol will have to stay in the police station for a few more years, and then she will give Gogol a prison meal. ... By the way, does this count as Gogol giving her food in prison?

Nanako didn't answer, and Gogol didn't ask her, just asked with a smile: "Do you want to go out from here? There are no light switches, no soft pillows and quilts, no exercise books and books, no mobile phones and small cakes—— It must feel very uncomfortable. While the guards are not here, I can take you and escape from here!"

He put the hat in his hand back on his head, and with a flick of his wrist, he pulled out a key from his sleeve and held it in his hand: "This is the key to the detention room. As long as you want to find it, I will give it to you." I can open the door for you."

Nanako looked at the key he was holding in his hand. It was a brass-colored key, reflecting a little golden light under the bright light.She definitely wants to go out. After all, although living in the detention room is not very uncomfortable, of course it is definitely not uncomfortable, but,

The way of "getting out" probably should not include "jailbreak" or "jailbreak".

She still wants to be released in a normal way, and then ask the law firm downstairs of the detective agency to sue the Yokohama Police Headquarters for bankruptcy, and ask them to pay a large sum of money to enrich her small cash bank. It doesn't matter if you continue to fish at work in the future.

So Nanako thought for a while, and asked Gogol, "Why do they say that the detective agency killed people?"

Gogol blinked his golden eyes, and thought for two seconds with a serious expression before answering Nanako: "Maybe it's because I killed someone?"

Nanako: "...?"

Nanako was at a loss.

However, the expression on Gogol’s face was very relaxed and natural. He didn’t seem to be talking about something as serious as “killing someone” at all, but it didn’t seem like he was joking at all. He said, “That’s it. The saw sawed off several people's bodies, probably into four or five pieces, and when they were dying, they made very—very miserable wailing sounds."

"And then, after that, the detective agency was wanted as a criminal," he said with a smile, asking Nanako the question he asked a while ago, "Scared?"

"..." Nanako couldn't tell whether Gogol was talking nonsense or telling the truth.Although she thought it was fake, the fact that the detective agency was wanted meant that someone was indeed dead, and the policeman who had interrogated her in the reception room before seemed to have said that someone was "torn apart by a chainsaw".

She didn't speak, she raised her head a little, looked at Gogol's face with the corners of her lips slightly raised, and after a while, she opened her mouth hesitantly, and asked Gogol, "Why do you kill?"

"Yes...why?" Gogol was still holding the plate firmly in his hand, and the rice balls and milk were always in his hands. He seemed to think for a while before answering Nanako, "—— Perhaps for 'freedom'."

Nanako had a bad feeling.

——She felt that Gogol might start to say something she couldn't understand again.That kind of speech is very similar to that of an adolescent boy in the second grade, but because Gogol has read a lot of books, and sometimes he may quote some famous quotes from Latin, French, Italian, and Russian, it is very profound and meaningful. It is reasonable, but in essence it is still "Secondary Two Speech", which is commonly known as "too little homework and too much thinking".

Gogol started his performance...wrong, he started his speech.

"The lowest level of freedom is called 'obedience to desire and instinct', that is, to follow one's inclinations and only follow the goal that one's instinct most wants. On top of this, a higher level of freedom is to break through this kind of instinct, which is no different from animal instinct. Desires, not being shackled by desires, can clearly follow their own reason, from following instincts to breaking instincts.” Gogol said softly, as if he was reciting a poem very patiently , "But on top of these two, there is a higher level of freedom, which is to let yourself do what you don't want to do, break through the shackles set by reason and morality, and not be restricted by them."

"People start to think from birth, 'the cage is the skull', the gods have given human beings the privilege of thinking, but this privilege is also the most solid shackle that imprisons our souls, so if you want to get 'absolute freedom', you must You have to get rid of these two shackles called 'desire' and 'reason' at the same time."

Nanako tried her best to understand what he said, but in the end she still felt very at a loss. No matter how many times she tried to understand it, for some reason, she felt that Gogol's lines were transformed into human words, as if it was a sentence of "I don't want my brain anymore".

[...But is there really someone who doesn't care about their brains? 】

Nanako felt very confused and began to doubt her reading comprehension.

She was confused for a long time, but still couldn't find a new way of thinking to understand what Gogol said, so she could only ask Gogol very frankly with a face that didn't show any expression: "Guoguo... are you... Want to be a fool?"

"...Huh?" The smiling Gogol slowly put out a question mark.

Although it seems that from a certain point of view, it seems to be subtle and similar, but why is it special... "special" when it comes from Nanako's mouth?

Clearly expressing similar meanings, but Tosi's answer is "You are resisting the gods and fighting to lose yourself", such touching words.

But Gogol also knew that Nanako was really thinking about it seriously.

The girl with a doll-like expressionless face in front of her is a girl whose thoughts are sometimes difficult to understand, but at the same time, she is a girl who can easily understand her thoughts.For example, if you want to perfunctory him, Nanako should say "oh", "um" and "uh" at this time. This kind of answer is very serious when you hear it. If you work harder, you may add The sentence "You are right" is only short of writing the sentence "I am seriously perfunctory" on your face.

In this case, it usually means that she didn't understand at all, or she was too lazy to think about it.Such a comparison, at least the answer given by Nanako now, shows that she still tried to analyze his words.

But Gogol still wanted to correct her: "A fool can also think."

Nanako hesitated, and the hesitant Nanako continued to ask hesitantly, "...vegetative?"

Gogol: "..."

Seeing that Gogol didn't speak, Nanako didn't care about this topic anymore. She thought for a while, and said to Gogol in a flat tone: "Next to the detention center is the police station. You can go to Police Officer Aoki and surrender to her. If you surrender yourself, you can get a lighter sentence."

Her tone was dry, with no ups and downs.Not even very good at speaking, Nanako doesn't know how to persuade people at all, and it's a difficult task like "persuading people to surrender".If Gogol really committed a crime, he would have to turn himself in and make it clear that the detective agency did not kill anyone.

Nanako was still standing there with her little head down, trying hard to think about how to persuade Gogol to surrender, such as promising to send him prison meals every day, before she could think about it, she heard Gogol chuckle happily.

She raised her head and saw Gogol with curved eyes, fluffy and beautiful silver-white hair falling on her cheeks, and he said with a smile:

"—What you just said is a lie!"

Nanako: "...!"

"Bad kids can tell lies. It's like they haven't come home for several days because of being playful. Isn't it normal for a disobedient bad boy to tell lies? So you can't take everything the bad boy says to be true." Gogol's upper body leaned forward slightly, and his face moved closer to the cold iron fence, so that Nanako, who was inside the iron fence, also got a little further away.

He raised his index finger and said with a smile: "Then it's time for questions, where did the words I just said start to be lies?"

Nanako: "..."

She looked at Gogol, then looked down at the rice ball and milk that he was still holding in his hand, then raised her finger to the rice ball, and said slowly: "...This is not tuna mayonnaise."

Although it is packaged with tuna mayonnaise, it does not smell the slight fishy smell of rice balls reheated for the second time. Nanako does not like tuna mayonnaise rice balls because the fishy smell of tuna mixed with sweet and sour mayonnaise after heating makes her There is no way to accept it.

"Bingo☆~!" Gogol said lightly, "That's right! It looks like tuna mayonnaise, but it's actually roast beef rice balls——! As a reward, I'll give you rice balls and milk together!"

The rice ball and milk passed through the gap between the iron bars and were handed to Nanako. Nanako caught it with her hand, and could still feel the warm touch of the milk and rice ball through the packaging, not yet cold.

"This is the first 'lie'." Gogol withdrew his hand, snapped his fingers, then raised his tone, and continued: "The second 'lie' is——! No one died! The corpses of the so-called officials are all fake, they were all replaced with fresh corpses of similar stature, and the real officials are still in a safe place."

"Although it is said to be a locked cage, it can still be regarded as a 'safe' place!" He added.

The so-called "safe place" is actually a place that will never be discovered in the supernatural world of Edgar Allan Poe's novel by the former member of the group.

Nanako was silent for a moment, then repeated a word he had uttered: "...fresh corpse."

"That's not important." Gogol replied quickly.

"A fresh corpse is also murder." Nanako grabbed the rice ball in her hand and did not open it.

"It just 'coincidentally' had such a few corpses, so it was 'reasonable use'!" Gogol explained.

Nanako wanted to say that insulting a corpse is also illegal, but she thought about it,

She thought twice,

She thought about it three times,

Nanako remembered that she also wanted to do "destroying corpses and eradicating traces" before, so she shut up and didn't speak.

Gogol: "?"

Without waiting for Nanako to continue talking, Gogol also continued: "Although Tuosi—a member of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, a good friend I know—Tuosi is very interesting, and chatting with him is also very interesting. People are in a good mood, and his proposal is so exciting, but, "

Gogol's tone changed suddenly, and changed into a very regretful tone: "Because Mr. Ranpo found out, there is nothing we can do about it. And Mr. Dazai's proposal is also very touching—" To send a super surprise for Tuosi that made him jump. So, we completely dropped the plan of the five declines of heaven and man."

And the purpose of all this is to find out the person who is hiding behind the scenes within the government and wants to use the power of the five declines of heaven and man to destroy the detective agency.

Nanako could also hear what Gogol said about the surging passion and ups and downs... Hearing...

Nanako didn't understand.

Although she tried very hard to understand, she still couldn't understand.

Who is Doth.

What are the five decays of heaven and man?

What did Dazai propose?

And what did Dad discover again—could it be that he discovered Gogol's rebellious period?

Nanako tries to understand Gogol's words according to her own thinking.Probably the criminal (should be the "Tuosi"?) wanted Gogol to help frame the detective agency, but Dad found out that Gogol had made bad friends, so...

So what the hell did dad do?

Nanako still couldn't understand.

Gogol saw Nanako's bewilderment.He replied simply and clearly: "In a nutshell, Mr. Ranpo and Mr. Dazai planned to use the trap set by Tosi to find out the mastermind behind the scenes. But there was a little mistake in the middle. That's why you, like Ms. Zhimei and the others, were temporarily detained in the detention center."

To be more precise, it wasn't a small mistake, but because Tuosi was on guard and didn't disclose the specific time of the plan's start in advance, but suddenly announced the start of the plan directly.However, Mr. Ranpo probably had a relationship with that police officer Yasui... now it should be the deputy director Yasui, and he got through with the deputy director Yasui, so that Nanako, who couldn't be hidden in the supernatural space for protection, after the incident broke out In the shortest time possible, he was placed within the range of protection that Deputy Director Yasui could reach out to take care of.

Although Tosi is a good person to chat with, it seems that Tosi does not completely trust him.

Gogol can understand Tuosi's "distrust" very well. After all, he is a very "disobedient" bad boy. Faced with what an untrustworthy bad boy says, adults always have to be extremely vigilant Yes, this is also a kind of "common sense".

This time, Nanako basically understood.After thinking about it, she still asked Gogol, "Who is that Tuo... Tuosi?"

"You know." Gogol blinked his golden eyes.

A small question mark popped up in Nanako's head.

Gogol took out his mobile phone from his arms, and turned the screen of the mobile phone to Nanako. On the screen was the interface of the e-mail.

Nanako is a little familiar with this Russian word, because she has seen Gogol send emails with this name.

She felt as if she knew how Gogol was captured by her father.Gogol always throws his mobile phone everywhere, and Nanako can often pick up the mobile phone he left behind at the detective agency or in a corner of the house, so it is even more likely to be picked up by Luanbu in the detective agency every day.Although she can't read Russian, she can understand Luanbu, and she probably discovered it when she picked up the phone.

"Tuosi is a very interesting person." Gogol put the phone back into his arms, and the smile on his face became shallow and peaceful, "He can understand my thoughts, talk to me about "freedom of birds", and he will Come up with a lot of excellent ideas, although he and I are two completely different types of people, but in the world, there is a person who can understand the essence of what you are looking for, isn't that a very gratifying thing? , facing such a precious friend, who can refuse his invitation?"

Nanako automatically translated what he said, which was probably "I met a good friend on the Internet, and then accepted the invitation to have a face-to-face meeting with him."

In fact, it is a very common thing. The only problem is probably that this netizen is a terrorist, and he is also a terrorist who wants to deal with the detective agency.In this case, Nanako thinks that the best place to meet up may be the police station, and Gogol can go to deliver food to the other party.

"—But," Gogol changed the subject, "Although Tuo Si is a rare friend, if he is the only person in this world who understands me, I will surely help him without hesitation. However It's a pity, human beings are such cruel creatures, when there are more people who can understand themselves, then one of them will not be particularly special."

He sighed very sadly, and said in a tone like reciting a eulogy: "This is really a sad thing."

He and Tosi could have become the best friends. However, before Tosi, there was Mr. Ranpo who could see through everything, and after Tosi, there was Mr. Dazai who was very similar to Tosi. A multiple-choice question that is difficult to choose.So Gogol had no choice but to send Tuo Si on the road very reluctantly, regretfully, and happily.

After all, for a domesticated "pigeon", if you want to be free, you don't need to kill the pigeon trainer, as long as you flap your wings, you can leave the warm "pigeon coop".On the other hand, in order to pursue freedom, if you insist on killing the pigeon trainer with such a purpose, wouldn’t you be restrained by the idea of ​​"to prove your determination to pursue freedom"? ?

The so-called "destroying the detective agency" is not so much an action he must take in pursuit of freedom, but it is simply a "help request" entrusted to him by Tosi as a friend.However, as I said before, Tuo Si is not the only person in the world who can understand him. Maybe there is such a "possible future" in an unreachable parallel time and space, but it is a pity that at least in this time and space, He wasn't "the one" who was "the only special" anymore.

Then under such circumstances, he would not assist Tosi in killing those officials.

【"If you don't kill, then you still have the freedom to choose between 'kill' and 'not kill', but if you kill, then you will lose the freedom of 'not killing' forever. As long as some thresholds are crossed, the door will be closed behind you forever, and you will never be able to step back. This threshold is neither law nor morality, but a way out—a kind of energy Let you have more 'freedom of choice' retreat."]

Nanako didn't know why he was sad, maybe she was sad for the netizens who were destined to go to prison after him, so she didn't bother Gogol, she silently unpacked the rice balls in her hand, and was about to start eating balls, after all, she couldn't go out yet , I have to ask Gogol to take the packing bag out and throw it away later.

She worked hard to gulp down the rice balls and drank a bag of milk. She ate too much and felt a little full.

After handing over the finished packaging bags from the iron bars, Nanako heard Gogol say again: "Besides, only this problem, even Tuosi, can't give me an answer." Answer."

"...?" Nanako's dark eyes blinked slowly, "What answer?"

Gogol's voice is very light, like a falling feather, so light and unreal: "Where do people go after death? Can they be free there?"

I don't know if I can get freedom, but I should be able to get a father.

Nanako combined her own experience and thought silently in her heart.

"Do you know the answer?" Gogol asked Nanako with a smile.

I don’t understand why Gogol cares so much about what will happen after death. Obviously they are still just children and they haven’t lived enough.But thinking about life in adolescence seems to be a routine operation. Nanako thought for a while and asked him: "Do you want to die?"

"Who knows." Gogol replied.

"If you die, you will lose everything," Nanako said to him.

"Are you like this too?" Gogol asked curiously, "—if you die, you will have nothing."

Nanako kept her mouth shut and didn't answer.

After she died she had more than she had before, but she still didn't want to die... wanted Daddy, but she didn't want to die.

Gogol slightly lowered his eyes, but the smile on his face remained unchanged: "What is at the end of death?"

"..." Nanako felt that he had a lot of questions, but she still answered him casually, "Nothing."

She didn't get her father because she died, but because she was still alive, so she got her father. If she just died, then there would be nothing.

"Is there no restraint?" Gogol asked.

Nanako shook her head.

"Is there no freedom?" Gogol asked again.

Nanako still shook her head.

She didn't think so, but she didn't know, after all, she actually passed through as soon as she opened her eyes after her sudden death, so she just shook her head.

Gogol was thoughtful: "Then I have to think of other ways."

In other ways, you can chat with Tuosi, but only death, you can only ask Nanako.

Because people only regard what they have experienced as "common sense" and then tell others about "common sense".

But those things can be thought about slowly later, and now we still have to deal with the problems in front of us, he asked Nanako again: "Don't you want to go out?"

Nanako shook her head.

Going out means breaking out of prison, and there must be more people hunting down by then, and since there is a plan, then when the detective agency clears up the suspicion, she can also be released.

She asked Gogol, "When will Dad pick me up?"

Gogol said "Hmm", thought for a while, and replied, "About three days later, maybe five days later."

"Yeah." Nanako nodded.

Gogol looked at her. Even with Deputy Director Yasui and Police Officer Aoki taking care of her, the detention center is still a detention center. Nanako is short and looks small. Get used to it, and it doesn't look very spiritual.

"Do you want to go home?" Gogol asked.

Nanako lowered her head: "...um."

Gogol reached out and touched her head, feeling like he was touching a small mushroom nestled in the corner.

"Did Miwa and Echizen go home?" Nanako asked Gogol.

"They went back. They had nothing to do with the incident, so they were sent back after being questioned routinely," Gogol replied.

Nanako let out a soft "hmm" again.

Gogol left, and his figure disappeared at an angle that Nanako couldn't see.Nanako also walked back to the bed, climbed onto the hard bed and sat down.

She was in a daze for a while, and she didn't know how long it had passed. The real policewoman came in and took away the plate, and the sound brought Nanako back to her senses.

Nanako suddenly felt a little strange, she found something.

Gogol said that he stole the key to come in, but when he came, and when he left, Nanako didn't hear the sound of the heavy iron door creaking open.

【...Could it be that Gogol is especially good at opening doors? 】

Nanako scratched her head.

The author has something to say:

In short, it is because this Tuo Si is not the "only understander" to Gogol, and his status is down, so Gogol's friendship with him is a bit plastic (bushi

In addition, the detective agency affected his thinking on the concept of "absolute freedom".

The littering of mobile phones is also a bit deliberate, because they know that they will be discovered by Luanbu.In the case of the same amount of information on both sides, Ranpo is yyds, plus Dazai teamed up, so this incident seems to be a trap for the detective agency by the five declines of heaven and man, but in fact it is Ranpo + Dazai teaming up to counteract Tosi , the main purpose is to tick who the "enemy in the government" is (that is, to tick the blessed land)

Nanako was put in the detention center because she couldn't get into Poe's novels and Lucy's supernatural room, and she could be killed with just one bullet, so I talked to Officer Yasui beforehand. Tell Gogol the specific time when the project started, concealed Gogol, the friendship is very plastic), Yasui immediately fished Nanako to the range he can protect