After becoming a chaotic daughter

During lunch break on Monday, Nanako got the papers she had marked after the make-up exam on Saturday.

Although she was the only one to get the paper when she went to work in the morning, several teachers finished marking it very quickly.The difficulty of the papers for the make-up exam is not much different from that of the midterm exam. In fact, it is not as "difficult to die" as spread among the students. At least for Nanako, it is basically a common question type when doing practice questions.

Yumi Hiraga, the study committee member, specially chose a time when there were few people during the lunch break and gave the paper to Nanako, but although many people in the class left the classroom at this time, went to the cafeteria to buy bread or find other places to eat lunch, but There were still seven or eight people scattered in the classroom, sitting in their seats, doing homework, playing with mobile phones, or eating bento and chatting together.

Nanako and Miwa are members of the "Stay in the Classroom and Eat Bento Pie". It's already late autumn, and the outdoor temperature is very cold. Even if the sun at noon will make it warmer, Nanako doesn't want to sit outside, sucking her nose and blowing the cold wind.

Hiraga Yumi, who came back from the faculty office, put the folded papers on Nanako's desk, nodded and smiled at Nanako, and went back to her seat to take a lunch box, but someone in the classroom noticed her action.

"Yumi, what did you give Edogawa just now?"

Hiraga Yumi just walked to the seat and asked curiously at the front table waiting for her to come back to eat bento together.

"Nakamura-sensei asked me to show her some papers...Okay, let's go out and find a place to eat lunch!"

"Oh……"

The two girls took the bento boxes together, got up and were about to leave the classroom, when a boy next to him raised his gossip radar.

"Paper? What paper? Make-up paper!"

Someone soon remembered: "Ah... that's right! Edogawa had a make-up exam last weekend, right?"

"How about it? I heard that the papers for the make-up exam... Uh, no, this should be called a 'spare test paper'? I heard that this kind of spare paper is very difficult!"

"Edogawa, what do you think? Will it be difficult?"

There was a slight commotion in the classroom, and the few students who stayed behind asked each other, even the girl who was about to go out with Yumi Hiraga stopped and turned her face to Yumi Hiraga Asked: "Huh? Is it a make-up test paper? I thought it was Edogawa's homework that hasn't been made up—"

"Okay, okay—let's go eat bento!" Yumi Hiraga pushed her friend out.

Stuffing a cuttlefish sausage into her mouth, Nanako puffed her cheeks and moved her cheeks several times as she chewed, before she swallowed the sausage into her stomach.She put down the chopsticks in her hand, and reached for the test paper that Hiraga had just helped her put on the table. Instead of answering the questions of the other students, she slowly brought the paper in front of her and unfolded it.

"What, how is it?" Sitting on the chair in front of Nanako, Miwa was holding a bento box, sitting face to face with Nanako, and asked nervously.

Nanako looked at the papers she brought back one by one, and after finishing one, she picked up one and showed it to Miwa, and then put it to the side.

The top test paper was in a foreign language, and the whole test paper was filled with bright red circles representing "correctness". The test paper had a 99-point scale, and in the score column was a flamboyant "145".The English in the second year of junior high school is still very simple. Even in China, Nanako scored 130+ in English in the high school entrance examination. It was not until high school that the difficulty increased, and the score slowly dropped to more than [-].

The next one is mathematics, 98 points.

Then there is Chinese, 92 points.

Finally, science, 98 points.

The total score adds up to a total of 387 points.

A classmate who didn't know when came over with a bento box, quickly calculated the score, and gnawed on the carrot while "tsk tsk tsk": "I can still pass the [-] test after two weeks of absence from school, awesome. "

Another student who was eating bread also came over, took a sip of milk, and turned to ask the students next to him: "What is the total score of the small pool in the fifth group?"

"385? Or 386?"

Some students who moved quickly took out their mobile phones and glanced at the ranking list they took, and then replied: "It's 386.5, tsk tsk."

Five or six students started "tsk tsk" one after another, not knowing what they were "tsk tsk".

Although the total score is slightly higher than that of Shota Koike, Nanako feels that the difficulty of the make-up exam papers is actually a little lower than that of the midterm exam papers. The Chinese writing questions in the midterm exam are more difficult. If she went to write that composition question, she didn't know how many points she could get.

Shota Koike is very smart and hardworking. He saw Nanako writing high school questions, so he started to study by himself, and now he started to write science questions for the first year of high school.The kind of super good students with full marks in all subjects are very common only in comic novels. In fact, students like Shota Koike are already very smart top students.Nanako can rest on her laurels and is studying seriously, but Shota Koike is still catching up with her grades bit by bit.

Nanako felt that she might become No.2 next time.

But it's not a big problem, after all, Qingxue doesn't have a scholarship, so there is no difference between the first and the second in the exam.Unlike Holy Eve, there was a difference of 1 yen in scholarship between No.2 and No.20 in the school year exam.

Stuffing the paper into her schoolbag, Nanako picked up the chopsticks and continued to pick her bento.

*******

After school, Nanako wandered back to the detective agency with her schoolbag on her back.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, she opened the door of the detective agency, entered the room without making a sound, turned around and closed the door gently.

About half of the investigators in the office area are here at the moment, arranging documents, writing reports, or reading magazines to pass the time. The office is relatively quiet and does not appear to be busy. Everyone is doing their own things calmly. matter.

Behind the desk that was placed alone in the middle of the office area, there was no figure of Luanbu nestled in a luxurious office chair. Nanako walked to the edge of the desk and looked around, but there was no figure of Luanbu, so He took off his schoolbag and threw it in the big empty office chair.

"Sister Akiko." Nanako called Yosano, who was closest to her, "Did dad go out?"

Hearing Nanako's voice, Yosano put a close-up photo of a bloody severed limb on the desk, and turned around: "Mr. Ranpo? ? He and Kenji went to the next area to deal with a bus bombing, and they probably won’t be back until dinner time... What’s wrong?”

She asked Nanako patiently, but Nanako just shook her head.

"It's fine....I'm going downstairs to eat cake."

"Go, don't eat too much, otherwise, if you can't eat dinner, Kunikida will be rambunctious again."

"Ah."

Looking away, Yosano continued to choose her favorite photos, found a small coin purse from her schoolbag, Nanako went out by herself, and ran to the coffee shop downstairs.

Today is a working day. At this time, there are not many customers in the coffee shop. When Nanako sneaked into the shop through the opened glass door, Lucy and Sigma were practicing coffee latte art skills with the shop manager. There was also a Gogol sitting outside to join in the fun.

Nanako trotted over, stopped behind Gogol, stood behind the high chair he was sitting on, and raised her hand to pull Gogol's braid hanging down her back.

"Guoguoli."

"Huh?" Being pulled by the braid, Gogol tilted his head with the force of being pulled, his golden eyes blinked, and Nanako's expressionless little face appeared in his vision a second later. .

"what?"

he asked innocently.

Nanako's strength in pulling his braid was very light, but Gogol was still very "cooperative", and his upper body was exaggeratedly tilted to her side, as if the whole person was about to be dragged away by her.

Nanako stared at the length of braid she was holding in her hand, then let go of her hand, and the fluffy braid fell back on Gogol's back. Shaking slightly.

"No." Nanako scratched her little head. She didn't know what she was trying to do by grabbing Gogol's braids, but it was like a cat who wanted to push something on the edge of the table. She saw Gogol The dangling little braid thought: "...grab it."

"Huh?" Gogol tilted his head.

Nanako didn't talk to him anymore, and climbed onto another high chair next to the bar with her hands and feet. This kind of high chair placed next to the bar is very high, and the bar of the whirlpool cafe is taller than ordinary bars. It is taller. For Nanako, who is only a little over 1.4 meters tall, the height of the high chair placed in front of the bar is higher than her stomach.

When she was seven years old, she had to use her hands and feet on the ground for a long time to climb up. Now she is 14 years old, and she still has to struggle a little bit, supporting the bar and stepping on the pedals to sit safely on it.

"A strawberry mousse." Nanako stretched out a finger and said sternly to Lucy and Sigma at the bar.

"Yes Yes,"

Flicking her braids, Lucy went into the back kitchen reluctantly. After a while, she came out with a sliced ​​strawberry mousse and placed it casually in front of Nanako, with Sigma's face next to her It was a helpless wry smile.

Nanako didn't care. Originally, things like mousse cakes were made in advance every day, just cut a piece and put it on a plate. Lucy also gave her two cut strawberries.

The store manager put down the coffee cup in his hand, poured a cup of lemonade with sugar for Nanako, and put it in Nanako's hand.

Picking up half a strawberry on the mousse, Nanako swallowed the strawberry in one gulp. She ate the strawberry, stared at the three strawberries left on the mousse, thought for a while, and suddenly asked Gogol:

"Guoguoli, do you know who your mother is?"

Her tone was dry, as flat as a brick, and a word came out abruptly.

Gogol was slightly stunned, but it was only for a short moment, not even a second, and he gave Nanako an answer with a smile on his face: "Maybe she knows—but, I think she probably knows about it now." It's dead."

"So, where is your father?" Nanako asked him again.

This time Gogol answered very readily: "He should be dead too."

Nanako remembered that when Gogol was dragged back from the side of the road by her, he seemed to be only eight or nine years old. Like her, Gogol "had no father or mother", which made Nanako give up and ask him " How to talk to relatives who are related by blood” thought.

Two failed students cannot make up a 60 points, and two children without parents cannot make up a pair of parents.Nanako felt that she shouldn't have chosen Gogol as the subject of questioning, but if he had any relatives, the Edogawa family should only have two members today.

But she still wants to ask someone how to talk to "relatives who are related by blood".

On Saturday, she made an agreement with Kunikida that she should seriously consider what to say to the aunt she didn't know after seeing the aunt who had the same black eyes as her, but the problem now is, She had never spoken to a "blood relative" before. ... It's not that there is no such thing. It should be said that she had talked to such a relative a long time ago, but now she has no memory of it at all.

Probably a long time ago, when she was in the lower grades of elementary school, "Lin Nainai" still communicated with some relatives, because there were some things that she didn't know how to do as a child, so she had to ask an adult.

But later, when she got older, she was able to figure out everything by herself, and even if she couldn't, she could learn by herself. Those relatives would not take the initiative to come to her, and she would not look for those again. Relatives, so gradually, those relatives became as if they didn't exist, and she didn't remember seeing them once.

She didn't like to talk, and she was not good at dealing with others. Speaking itself was a bit of a laborious task for her, and she didn't know how to talk to "relatives related by blood", and she was still about "elders". "Same people.

Nanako thought about it in her head, her eyes wandered aimlessly, she looked here and there, and then saw Lucy standing at the bar.

Lucy seems to be only two or three years older than Gogol, and is also an age closer to a "child" than an "adult". Rounding off, Lucy should also be regarded as her "peer".

"Sister Lucy." Nanako bit the fork, staring at Lucy with dark eyes, "Did you..."

"No!" Lucy answered bluntly and without delay, "Where are the father and mother in the orphanage? It's not just a play."

[...Sister Lucy is an orphan. 】

Not knowing about this before, Nanako silently updated her "character archives" in her heart.

Her gaze shifted a little, from Lucy to Sigma, the young man with strange hair noticed Nanako's gaze, and a somewhat embarrassed look appeared on that beautiful face.

"That... I'm sorry." Before Nanako could speak, Sigma turned himself in. "I don't have any relatives either. Since... I was born, I have been unaccompanied."

——?

——Didn't his family run a casino in Russia?

Nanako doesn't know how a person who was "unaccompanied" from birth managed to "open a casino at home". Could it be that he opened a casino by himself at a young age and then closed down overnight? ?

Nanako was a little confused, but Sigma's attitude of admitting his mistake was very sincere (although Nanako didn't know why he had to admit it), so Nanako could only shake her head to express "it's okay", and then shifted her gaze a little——

The only ones standing at the bar were the store manager in his fifties.

The store manager, who was cleaning the coffee cups, seemed to be aware of it, raised his head, and smiled at Nanako, as gentlemanly and refined as a European aristocratic butler.

【…】

【never mind. 】

Nanako lowered her head and poked Mousse, choosing to give up.

She always felt that asking the store manager "how did you talk to your mother" sounded strange no matter from which angle.

It was her mistake.She and Gogol are nothing if they can't make up a pair of parents.Even with the addition of Lucy and Sigma, the four of them couldn't make a pair of parents.

Well, fortunately, at least she still has a father, although it is a stupid father, or a fake father, but it is a father anyway.

[Sure enough, the most important thing in life is contentment. 】