After becoming a chaotic daughter

Nanako blocked the door of the detective agency with her short stature.

The thick anti-theft door embedded with four layers of alloy plates, the complicated door lock that Dazai would need to pry open in 30 seconds, plus a motionless self blocked behind the door.

Nanako leaned against the door with her back, clutching the cake box and cookie bag tightly in her hands, her small face that was always expressionless was stretched like plastic wrap that had been pulled open, and her dark eyes were watching without blinking. Staring at some place directly in front of her, staring at the empty air, her shoulders shrunk slightly because of tension, like a cat hiding behind a door, if she had a tail, Then her tail will definitely stand up like a radar at this moment.

But Nanako is not a cat, and she doesn't have a tail. All she can prick up is her little ears, trying to hear the voices coming from the corridor behind a door.

The extremely short seconds were about as long as it took for her to sip a sip of milk with her head buried in her head, but in Nanako's senses, Nanako's senses seemed to be stretched infinitely for those few seconds.Something invisible pulled Nanako's nerves, and also pulled the slow time, making everything feel extremely long in Nanako's perception.

--Da da da,

Indistinct and vague footsteps, intermittently, came from outside the door, and it even made Nanako a little confused whether she really heard the footsteps, or the false information conveyed by the illusion of her brain.

The visitor walked through the corridor on this floor, and then stopped at the door of the detective agency.

click...

哒、

The sound of the doorknob being turned was very sluggish. After turning it a little, it couldn't go down any further, being stuck by the lock cylinder.Nanako's brain was stuck together. She held her breath, her ears seemed to be deaf for a second, and across a door, the inside and outside of the detective agency suddenly fell silent. The sound of members rustling through documents in the office area seemed to be swallowed up by some invisible monster.

A huge monster stood outside the door.

Such a thought popped into Nanako's mind.

The "monster" does not refer to the aunt with long black hair, but something that will be brought by the aunt with long black hair. It is just a vague feeling, like when a child who is afraid of the dark sleeps by himself at night , there will always be a voice in my heart telling him "there is a black monster at the door of the bedroom" - not such a creature really exists, but an abstraction of emotions like "uneasy" and "fear" After it was visualized again, it was an idea that was finally left in my mind.

She felt that the knock on the door was about to ring, at the next second, the next moment, the next moment she breathed, so Nanako didn't even dare to breathe, just held her breath for a few seconds, and let her I felt like my face was going to turn pale.

—but there was no knock at the door.

The pressed doorknob made a "click", and as the person outside the door withdrew his hand, he returned to his original position. The person who came seemed to stand at the door for a few seconds, and then walked away lightly.From the other end of the corridor, I vaguely heard the soft "ding" sound of the elevator running.

Nanako still pressed her back against the door, standing motionless, her body was as stiff as a lifeless puppet, and after a while, the shrunken shoulders slowly fell down.

She exhaled a small breath, turned around, opened the door of the detective agency, sneaked through a very narrow door, and looked out into the corridor carefully.The door was already empty, Nanako opened the door a little, poked her head out, and saw above the elevator door at the other end of the corridor, the retro pointer used to show the floor had already pointed back to the leftmost number【1】 .

The aunt left without knocking.

Nanako grabbed the edge of the door, stared at the non-rotating floor indicator right above the elevator door for a while, then slowly retracted her head into the door, closed the door normally, and did not lock it again.

She didn't want that aunt to come in very much. Although the aunt looked very kind and even helped her hold an umbrella by the side of the road in summer, Nanako still didn't want that aunt to come in.

"What's wrong?"

The innocent and flat voice of a girl of the same age suddenly sounded from behind her. Nanako turned her head and saw Kyoka standing behind her holding the mobile phone she never left her body with. There was a hint of questioning in her blue eyes look.

"It seems that someone came just now." Jinghua said in a straightforward tone, without any emotion, just stating a fact, but in the next second she slipped a piece of cloth from the wide sleeve of the kimono. He held the dagger in his hand, and said the most terrifying words in the most flat tone, "Is it the remnants of the enemy?"

It seems that as long as Nanako says "yes", she will immediately chase him out and make the other party "headed to death".

Nanako: "..."

She immediately shook her head like a rattle.

——Why hasn't Brother Dubu confiscated Jinghua's knife yet?

This question has puzzled Nanako for more than four months, and it still puzzles Nanako today.

She just peels apples with a fruit knife in the kitchen, and Kunikida has to give her some "safety education", but Kyoka walks around with the knife hidden in her sleeve every day, and Kunikida doesn't say anything, which is unreasonable .

Mirror flower: "?"

She didn't know what Nanako was thinking, but she noticed that Nanako was staring at the knife in her hand, so she passed the knife in her hand, and immediately got Nanako's shaking head Erlian, Jinghua He didn't mind at all, and with a flick of his wrist, he hid the knife in his sleeve again.

Nanako stared at Kyoka's kimono sleeves that looked like Doraemon's different-dimensional pockets, her dark eyes didn't blink, and she still hasn't figured out how Kyoka managed to get such a long sleeve. The short knife is hidden in the sleeve, but it can still move as usual.

It's really amazing, as expected of a "social person" who can come out to work at the age of 14, maybe this is what the white-haired policeman said before. stab yourself" or something.

She was still thinking about Jinghua's "extraordinary ability", when she heard Jinghua ask her again: "Who was that outside the door just now?"

Nanako: "..."

She didn't know how to answer Jinghua. After "uh" and "um" for a while, she barely made up an answer, and with a small face that couldn't see any emotions, she talked nonsense to Jinghua who was also expressionless. : "It sells insurance."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Kyoka's face suddenly showing a clear expression of "I see", "I understand", and "That's it", as if she completely believed Nanako's answer, and even He also nodded, as if agreeing to Nanako's behavior of locking the door and shutting the other party out just now.

Guilty Nanako: "..."

With a guilty conscience, Nanako carried the cake box and ran into the office area to deliver the cake to her father.

Ranpo seemed to be concentrating on playing the game just now, and didn't notice Nanako's strange movements when she was standing at the door, and didn't ask her anything.Nanako put down the cake and went to Gogol's side. She took a closer look this time. Gogol was indeed helping her copy the words well, and she was almost done.

"Is anyone outside just now?" Gogol's subordinates fluently wrote a string of neat words, propped his head on his left hand, and asked Nanako with his face turned sideways.

"Insurance seller." She told a nonsense once, and when she said it a second time, Nanako was not so guilty, and her tone was serious, as if she was telling the truth.

Gogol let out a "huh" and didn't ask any more questions.

*******

To be honest, Edogawa Ranpo has not been in a very good mood recently.

Although the "Five Decays of Heaven and Man Incident" was successfully resolved, all the people who should be sent to prison were sent to prison, and those guys in the government who targeted the detective agency were also caught out, " The "page" was safely sealed again, and the detective agency once again became the "hero" of the world. As the "protagonist", he also received countless praises from "mortals", and was also praised by the president—— —

But he just couldn't feel better.

Because his only stupid daughter was visibly terrified by this incident.

Nanako has never cried before, and her emotions have very few ups and downs, which not only means that she is not very good at laughing, but also means that she is very difficult to be scared, and she usually freezes because she is "shocked" and so on. Nanako would also have the same reaction, but she had never been so frightened to the point of almost fear. If a more accurate adjective were used, it would probably be "uneasy".

Nanako felt "uneasy" because she was frightened.

She would shed tears unconsciously, her face was full of tears, but she didn't realize it, she was still standing blankly, completely unaware that she should "cry loudly" at this time.

But things like "wailing and crying" will not happen to Nanako. She will just bury her head and drag the cloak of Luanbu, shedding tears all the way, silently all the way, and wipe the tears quietly by herself after crying Lost, even Luanbu didn't know when she stopped crying.

She will also unconsciously stick to Luanbu's side, just like when she was a child, even more clingy, following him every day, moving a small bench and sitting next to his office chair, like a puppy The dog clung to her father, and she ran wherever she went, as if she was afraid that she would be lost, and she talked less than usual, and she didn't want to go anywhere.

His goofy daughter was terrified.

His stupid daughter wasn't bouncing around like she used to.

There are three direct culprits causing this crisis.

The first is Asuka Kawabe, who detained Nanako. He used to always attack the "disgusting guy" of the detective agency, and now he has been transferred to Kenji's hometown, Ihatbo Village.I hope that guy will refuel and plow the land there. After all, it is a "self-sufficient" remote mountain village, and he is still living in the era of "barter exchange". He doesn't even have the concept of "money". Even if he has a salary, he can't buy it. For food, if you don’t want to starve to death before being transferred back, then farm well.

Second, Jono Caiju, who interrogated Nanako, and Yosano had already "entertained" each other. She gave the evaluation of the Hound member's body after surgery as "a bit hard" and "not easy to cut." It's too smooth", "It feels terrible", and I'm very disgusted.

And the third - is himself.

It was because he was too slow to react at the beginning of the incident, and was one step behind the "devil", so he couldn't place Nanako more securely, and Nanako was "scared".

Nanako didn't like to cling to him when she was a child, which made Ranpo feel very dissatisfied as "father", but now Nanako is even more clingy to him than when she was a child, and Ranpo still can't be happy.Being a "father" is much more difficult than being a "famous detective". After all, he has been a "famous detective" for the past 12 years, but he has been a "father" for the past seven or eight years. question.

The case can always be solved, but he can't solve his daughter.

With the title of "Father" that has made him no longer in the mood to show off to others in a complacent manner, Edogawa Ranpo dug out the parenting guidebook that Xie Ye bought for him several years ago, and babbled all night. After finishing half of the book, I combined the "experience" of being a father in the past few years, combined theory with practice, and fed small cakes every day. It took a week to comfort his stupid daughter and go to school.

But a new problem came again.

A brand-new super big question that has no answer to copy even in the "Guide to Parenting" and is enough to shake the entire "Edogawa family".

On Thursday, at ten o'clock in the morning, Edogawa Ranpo opened the door of the detective agency, and was about to go to the cafe downstairs to fish, when he saw the black-haired woman who had just stepped out of the elevator.

A woman in her thirties, with ordinary appearance and clothes, gentle temperament, a pair of dark eyes without any light, which makes people feel a little familiar.

Edogawa Ranpo took a step back.

The foot he had just stepped back into the door, stretched out his hand, closed and locked the door, then turned around, and put his back against the door of the detective agency.A set of movements is smooth and flowing, without hesitation for even half a second.

"Mr. Ranpo?" Kunikida passed by holding the documents, with a puzzled look on his face, "Is someone here?"

"No!" Edogawa Ranpo denied it with a firm tone.

"...?"

Kunikida was a little skeptical about Ranpo's answer, but the person standing in front of him was Edogawa Ranpo, not Dazai or Atsushi.

If it was Dazai or Atsushi, Kunikida would definitely say "What the hell are you doing!" at this moment, and directly stretch out his hand and throw him away.

However, in the face of "Mr. Ranpo", and firmly adhering to the basic principle of the detective agency that "what Mr. Ranpo says is correct", Kunikida instinctively wanted to extinguish his doubts, but this The action of blocking the door was too obvious, which gave Kunikida's rationality a little bit of the upper hand.

"Is there no one coming outside the door?" Kunikida still asked, frowning slightly.

Ranpo narrowed his eyes and looked at him without saying a word. After a while, he stretched out his hand suddenly and pressed Kunikida's shoulder.

"Kunikida is just a salesman selling insurance, don't care so much." Ranpo said with a serious face.

Kunikida: "..."

If they weren't the Armed Detective Agency, maybe he would have believed it.

The work is high-risk, highly destructive, and at the same time has the ability with Yosano.The members of the club are seriously injured every now and then, and they can be recycled to get more insurance money; the mafia often visits the door unexpectedly, and on average, it has to be redecorated every month because of the attack.Regardless of whether it is buying personal insurance or property insurance, no matter how you look at it, the insurance company will lose money.

——Which insurance company is so overwhelmed that it will come to sell insurance to them.