After becoming a chaotic daughter

Nanako went back to school.

Monday, a day of continuous light rain, the temperature in Yokohama has dropped to [-] degrees in recent days, and you have to wear an extra coat when you go out. The rainy day is even colder. The autumn sea breeze passes through the streets and alleys, wrapping The drizzle was blowing on the face, with a damp coolness.

Nanako has not been back to school for more than half a month, and the weather is not good today, so she was sent to the school gate with random steps. After watching Nanako enter the school gate with an umbrella and schoolbag on her back, she instructed Gogol to stop by the roadside. Take a taxi, take a taxi and go to the detective agency to work.

It was very cold outside, but as soon as she stepped into the teaching building, the warm air warmed Nanako's cold cheeks a little. She put the umbrella on the umbrella stand. After putting on the indoor shoes taken out of the cabinet, he put the small leather shoes he took off into the shoe cabinet, and then closed the cabinet door.

A few laughing and joking boys walked into the teaching building from behind her shoulder to shoulder, talking about strange stories or gossip.

"...There are people on the Internet who say they saw a vampire."

"Really, let's cosplay for Halloween!"

"That's right, some people said that they saw a girl running with a head on her back at the airport! —— the head was still chattering!"

"How is it possible, hahaha!"

"In other words, you can believe that nonsense! Are you an idiot, Ryotaro!"

"That's what people on the Internet say! Besides, I didn't say I believed it, hey!..."

A few boys went up the stairs, and their noisy voices could not be heard, only sporadic low-pitched conversations of some students were left around.Nanako carried the schoolbag that had slipped off her shoulders, and was just about to go upstairs to the classroom when she heard someone calling her:

"... Edogawa?"

It's a girl's voice, a little familiar, gentle and gentle, but very neat, and the ending is not dragging.

Nanako turned her head, looked in the direction of the voice, and saw the girl standing not far from her, still holding the indoor shoes she had just taken out of the shoe cabinet.The girl's face is also very familiar to Nanako, she is one of the few classmates Nanako is familiar with in school, the monitor of the class, Mihara...what is Mihara.

The name seems to be a string of katakana, and Nanako is not very good at memorizing those katakana other than the transliteration of words, especially when it is put in the name, it gives her the feeling of remembering "hjkg", "anskh", "cnalhs" Such meaningless gibberish letters do.

She was still wondering whether the monitor's name was "キソスシ" or "ツケジム", when she heard the monitor ask her: "How are you doing? You still don't seem to be very energetic. Is it okay to come to school now? "

"?" Nanako was stunned for a moment, and it took a while to realize what the monitor was asking.

She didn't come to school for half a month, but few people in the class knew about her relationship with the detective agency. Miwa came to the detective agency to give her homework last week, and told her that Mr. Nakamura said in class, She asked for leave and didn't go to school because of illness, so no one in the class would associate her leave with the "Detective Agency Jedi Turnaround Incident" that has been raging for more than half a month.

But the squad leader should know that her father is an employee of the detective agency.

The class monitor has the family contact book of the whole class in his hand, which contains some basic information about each classmate's parents. Others think that Nanako is sick, but the class monitor must know that she should not be able to because of the incident. Those who came to school - don't necessarily know that she was detained, but at least they should know that she was restricted from coming to school.

Nanako shook her head subconsciously. When she went upstairs with the class monitor and walked into the classroom, she was greeted by several classmates and asked how she was doing. She gradually understood why the class monitor asked him when he was by the shoe rack. "Feel good".

If the monitor hadn't asked her that way first, she would definitely not be able to react immediately when she walked into the classroom and was greeted like this by her classmates, and she would be seen as something wrong.

"Damn it! If it wasn't because of your illness, Edogawa, No. 1 in this midterm exam must still be in our class! Those guys in the fifth group have been so arrogant recently!" Seeing Nanako coming back to class, Horio was immediately filled with righteous indignation He knocked on the table, "That Xiaochi is obviously just picking up leaks!"

"That's right! If Edogawa is here, it's hard to say who No. 1 is!" Immediately, a boy echoed his words and began to boo.

"What do you mean by 'it's hard to tell'! It's clear that we have a sure chance of winning!"

"Be humble, be humble..."

"It's okay! Edogawa is so low-key, we can make her a little higher-key!"

"It's clearly just you wanting to show off! Don't drag Edogawa into the water!"

"..."

A few classmates made a fuss, and Nanako buried her head in her schoolbag, and put the completed homework on the desk. She didn't come to school at the detective agency this week, so she worked hard to make up the homework, although It is said that the pressure of studying in Japanese middle schools is not great, but the accumulation of small things makes a lot of money. It is still a bit tiring to write in 20 days. Fortunately, there are many homework assignments that can be pushed to Gogol and let Gogol write for her.

The first session in the morning is a routine morning meeting class.

The desk in the class that had been vacant for more than half a month was finally sat on that seat again today. Seeing the 24 seats in the classroom filled to the brim, the head teacher, Mr. Nakamura, felt very relieved.

If something happened to a student, he, as the head teacher, of course couldn't ignore it completely, not to mention that even Mr. Koizumi from Shengye Elementary School called to inquire about his situation. How many days Nanako was absent from school, how anxious he was as the head teacher sky.

In middle age, he felt that the already precarious hairline on the top of his head was about to collapse. Fortunately, before his few remaining stubbles were about to fall off, the Armed Detective Agency was released from the wanted list, and he turned around. He has become a national hero again, and his student is going back to school safely.

Looking at Nanako, who was immersed in writing extra-curricular exercises and ignoring the morning class as usual, although Mr. Nakamura's hairstyle has not become a monk, after such ups and downs, his mentality is only one step away from becoming a monk.

It's ok, it's ok, it doesn't matter.Just write and write, if you get distracted during the morning meeting, you can just distract yourself, as long as you are fine, then everything is easy to talk about.

He thought so tolerantly, and then he said:

"Edogawa,"

"Get up and summarize the precautions for next month's cultural festival that I just mentioned."

*******

On the first day of resuming school, I was caught on the spot because I secretly wrote May [-] in the morning meeting class and didn't listen to the teacher. With the help of Miwa, Echizen, Horio, and the kind-hearted classmates nearby ABCDE, I finally answered Nakamura. Regarding the teacher's question, Nanako felt that her road to returning to school was very bumpy.

As a light squatting at home adhering to the ostrich spirit, Nanako still misses the days when she was nested in the detective agency last week, just like every child who starts school will miss the summer vacation that just passed, from the kid in kindergarten to "Mature" college students are nothing like that.

——Especially after Teacher Nakamura told her that she would come to school to make up the exam on weekends, her willingness to drop out became even stronger.

"Just take the test! Just let the guys in the fifth group know who is the real No. 1!" Standing on the stairs, Horio said loudly, waving the big broom in his hand.

Today happened to be their turn to be on duty. They had to sweep the duty area just after returning to school, and it was still in autumn when there were a lot of fallen leaves. Nanako was even more wilted, like a small rapeseed in the field short of water, shaking Hugging the broom swayingly, he feebly picked at the fallen leaves piled high on the steps.

It rained in the morning and didn't stop until the afternoon.Wet fallen leaves are more difficult to sweep. They are wet and heavy. After being soaked in water, they "stick" to the concrete steps. It takes several strokes with a broom to get them into the dustpan.

"It's not just a test paper, how can you tell who is No.1..." Miwa complained, helping Nanako sweep her leaf, "Also, the spare test paper is said to be very difficult, okay?"

Horio was like a duck being choked, and suddenly fell silent, before saying dryly after a long while: "Ah...haha, is that so..."

He subconsciously looked at the only person present who had taken the spare test paper.

Sweeping all the piles of wet fallen leaves into the bucket, Echizen raised his head and glanced at him, then looked away, and said lightly, "Well, that's right."

Even Echizen, who had good grades and took the spare paper, said so, but Horio was completely silent. If the paper is difficult, it will be difficult for Edogawa's total score to surpass that of Koike in the fifth group. Togawa is No.1." If everyone took the exam together, he would be able to hold his head up and say confidently, "Edogawa in our class is No.1!", but the difficulty of the papers is so poor. Big, he doesn't have the confidence to say that anymore.

If it is true that Edogawa's total score is not higher than Koike's midterm grades, then if he continues to make such a publicity, it will cause trouble for Edogawa.

——As long as the spare papers are difficult, even if Nanako falls too much in her homework this time, if she fails the exam, no one will gossip about it.

Sanwa, who lowered his head and seemed to be cleaning seriously, thought this in his heart a little guilty.

——Because of the competition, I missed a lot of homework, so when I came back for the exam, I really found it difficult to prepare the spare papers.

Echizen casually shook the water off the broom, not feeling that there was anything wrong with his answer.

Although the fallen leaves on rainy days are a bit difficult to sweep, Nanako finished her duty work half an hour later. The steps full of wet fallen leaves were cleaned up, and the cleaned fallen leaves were poured into the garbage disposal behind the teaching building At [-]:[-], several people returned to the classroom with cleaning tools.

The ground is still very wet after the rain. Most of the sports clubs have suspended their activities. The same goes for the tennis team. The three-round basketball team did not practice today. They put away their brooms and buckets, packed their schoolbags, and went out together. school gate.

Echizen and Horio's house were in the opposite direction of the detective agency, and Nanako and Miwa bid farewell to them at the school gate.

Echizen was still carrying his big tennis bag, Nanako watched him turn around to leave, thought about it, and called him anyway.

"Go ahead."

"?"

Echizen stopped in his tracks, turned his head, and turned his gaze to Nanako. His expression was still calm and cool, and he asked Nanako "what's the matter" with his eyes.

Three rounds came to the Detective Agency and Nanako "tear-eyed" last week.But Nanako saw Echizen for the first time after being taken to the police station, until she came out of the detention center, and until she came back to school today.

Nanako took off her schoolbag, hugged it in her arms, opened the schoolbag and looked through it, and then found a tennis ball from the schoolbag.Holding her schoolbag, she handed the tennis ball to Echizen.

"Here." Nanako said to Echizen.

"..." Echizen paused, and his eyes fell on the tennis ball that Nanako handed over. It was a brand he had never seen before, with a red "NO.1" printed on it.After a brief hesitation, he reached out and took the tennis ball from Nanako.

It's just an ordinary tennis ball, and there's nothing special about holding it in your hand.

"Goodbye." Nanako said goodbye to him again.

Echizen, who didn't quite understand why Edogawa gave himself a tennis ball: "...ah, see you tomorrow."

Nanako turned around and walked towards the detective agency with Miwa.

Miwa whispered to Nanako: "Although Echizen helped us! But Nanako, you didn't even give me a gift!"

Nanako couldn't see any expression on her small face, and answered her seriously: "I'll give you tutoring."

Three rounds: "..."

The author has something to say:

Miwa: Thank you, huh?

Nanako: You're welcome ●. ●