After becoming a chaotic daughter

A very ordinary business card.

Sitting on the bed in the infirmary, Nanako dangled her short legs, lowered her head and carefully observed the business card Kunikida gave her.

A white slightly stiff card, with a logo printed on the upper left corner, and the company name written in artistic characters, and an obviously female name printed in square fonts in the middle, whether it is a surname or a first name, it is very common. The slightly smaller font on the right is the title of "Technical Director", and the lower part of the business card is printed in sequence with three strings of characters: office landline, work phone, and e-mail.

It is very concise and the design is quite satisfactory. It should be a business card made by the company with a unified template.

Nanako turned the business card over, and on the back was printed a large company logo and company name in full swing. In addition, there was a string of mobile phone numbers handwritten in black pen.She stared at the string of mobile phone numbers for a while, touched her pocket, and wanted to take out her mobile phone to make a call, but she just took out the mobile phone, Nanako thought for a while, and then put the mobile phone back.

"Guoguoli." Nanako turned her head and called out to Gogol who was sitting next to her. Gogol was flipping through a medical magazine he got from the table and heard Nanako He called him, so he stopped turning the pages in his hands, turned his face sideways, and cast his eyes on Nanako.

Seeing him looking at her, Nanako continued to speak slowly: "...the phone."

She held out her hand and asked Gogol for his mobile phone.

Gogol looked at her outstretched hand, then at the business card in her other hand, and immediately understood: "Do you want to use my mobile phone to call that auntie?"

"Yeah." Nanako nodded.

"Why don't you use your own?" Gogol blinked, "Because you don't want her to know your phone number?... If you don't want to answer her calls, you can also ask Huadai to disguise your number so that she can find you It's not you."

"Hmm..." Nanako scratched her head, feeling that what Gogol said made sense, but she used Gogol's mobile phone to make a call, just because: "My mobile phone is out of charge. When I came back, I forgot to go to the convenience store to recharge the call gone."

Gogol: "..."

He touched his pocket.

It's empty, and I don't know where I just dropped my phone before.

It took a full three seconds for Gogol to remember the whereabouts of the cell phone. He pulled his cloak, took out the cell phone in the cloak, and took out the cell phone that he had left on the sofa corner of the reception room. Gave it to Nanako.

Nanako compared the handwritten number on the business card, and pressed the buttons on the phone number by number seriously, entered the phone number, checked it four times, and then pressed the call button again. He put the phone to his ear.

There was a "beep—beep—" sound from the phone. It rang about five or six times before it stopped with a click, and the person on the other side of the receiver connected the phone.

"Hello, who is this?" A woman's gentle voice came from the phone, and the background sound was the sound of pages turning, but it was not noisy, as if the other party was staying in a quiet room, flipping through some documents books.

"..." Nanako didn't know why, and subconsciously turned her head to look at Gogol, but Gogol met her eyes and just tilted his head, with a questionable smile on his face, as if he was looking at her. Ask her "what's the matter".

【... Can't be stuffed into Guoguo. 】

Realizing this, Nanako could only look back in disappointment, lowered her head, and continued to stare at the business card in her hand, looking at the ordinary and very common name printed on it.

She opened her mouth, and replied in a dry tone, a little stammeringly: "I am... I am Nanako."

The other side of the phone was quiet for a while, no one spoke, and Nanako could only hear the slight sound of breathing.She sat motionless, and waited for a while before finally hearing a reply from the phone.

"...It's Nanako." The woman's voice was softer than before, like cotton, making Nanako feel light and soft.She asked Nanako softly, "What's wrong?"

"I want to talk to you." Nanako said this, and after finishing speaking, she felt that something was wrong. After thinking about it for a long time, she asked the woman before she spoke again: "Who are you?"

The woman was quiet for a while, and asked Nanako, "Don't you know who I am?"

After wandering between "knowing a little" and "not knowing at all", Nanako finally answered her: "I don't know very much...Brother Dubu didn't tell me."

Kunikida only gave her a business card, and didn't tell her who this auntie was. Nanako just now remembered that she forgot to ask.

The person on the other end of the phone seemed surprised by her answer, paused, and then smiled lightly.

The woman replied patiently: "I am your mother...your biological mother's sister. In other words, I am your aunt."

[Oh, so "auntie" is still "auntie". 】

Nanako thought to herself.

"I want to talk to you." Nanako repeated this sentence again, she is not very sure whether this aunt is "Nanako"'s "aunt", "aunt", "cousin", or some other relative, yes To her, there is actually no difference, "Can you meet me?"

The woman pondered for a moment, as if she was thinking about it, she didn't agree to Nanako immediately, but asked first: "You have peace... your father, did you tell me?"

"No." Nanako answered her, with no emotion in her tone, "Dad doesn't know, so don't tell my dad."

"Children should not secretly contact strangers they don't know without their parents' back." The soft voice of the woman passed through the receiver and reached Nanako's ears, "It's easy to run into danger, you should Just talk to the adults first."

"I've said it." Nanako didn't know why this auntie's focus was so strange, "Brother Dubu knows, he is also an adult."

The woman was not impatient at all, and still had a gentle tone: "This is different. That 'Brother Dubu' is not your father, if you haven't told him, just contact me, if your father knows He might be upset."

"It won't be sad."

Nanako answered her.

"If I didn't go with you, Dad wouldn't be sad."

The big deal is that she has to squat in a corner to "face the wall and think about her mistakes", which may take 10 to [-] minutes.

The woman was silent, and she didn't speak. Nanako held the phone and pressed it against her cheek, waiting quietly. After an unknown amount of time, she heard the woman's soft answering voice from the receiver of the phone.

"Well, that would be nice too."

*******

When Edogawa ran back to the detective agency, he saw that his luxurious office chair had been taken away.

A fluffy little black head was lying on the desk, and Nanako, who was wearing a green school uniform, was holding a pen and writing homework slowly.

She used to find a vacant desk to do her homework, but after Luanbu took her home from the detention center after the Five Decays incident, Nanako began to sit at his desk and do her homework.

Originally, she just dragged an empty office chair over and sat there while doing homework. Today, Luanbu went out to settle the commission, so she directly requisitioned Luanbu's office chair.

Although I really wanted to pick up the idiot daughter and put it on another chair, but seeing Nanako concentrating on calculating the math problem, I had no choice but to give in reluctantly, dragging away the nearest Kunikida office chair, and sat down on the edge of his desk.

Skillfully reaching out to open the cabinet under the table, he took out a bag of wafer biscuits in random steps, tore open the package, and began to gnaw, gnawing, while watching Nanako do her homework.

What Nanako is writing is not those somewhat complicated Chinese high school practice questions, nor is it the paper that Kunikida occasionally finds for her, but ordinary after-school homework.

They were all questions for the second grade of middle school, they were very simple in Ranpo's eyes, and the answers could be found at a glance, but for Nanako, they were also very basic questions.

She wrote down one question after another smoothly without any pause, but she always gave people a "slow" feeling when she wrote stroke by stroke.Not long after Ranpo sat down, Nanako turned the pages "slowly" before even eating a wafer.

Strolling around to look at Nanako, then at the wafer biscuit in her hand, without saying a word, handed over half a wafer biscuit, Nanako didn't lift her head, opened her mouth and bit the biscuit, took it away After eating a few mouthfuls of the ground, I just focused on doing my homework the whole time, without even looking at Luanbu.

"Nanako—"

"..."

"Nana———"

"..."

"Na--na--zi--"

"..."

"Nai..."

Nanako stopped doing her homework, put down the pen in her hand, turned her head, and said to Ranpo, "Dad."

"What!" Luanbu, who had already been paralyzed more and more like a ball of sucking cold, immediately sat up straight with a "whoosh" and responded angrily. In the next second, he became unreasonable. With a strong tone, he said with a smile: "Nanako, Dad will take you to the park to play on the swing~"

"I don't want to play on the swing, I want to do my homework." Nanako refused with a straight face, "Dad, you want to write a report."

"Kenji-kun would write that kind of thing." Ranbu said nonchalantly, "Then let's go to the park to play on the seesaw."

"Don't play."

"Slide!"

"Don't play."

"Solve the murder!"

"No wa... Dad, there are no murders in the park."

"No, yes." Luanbu said with a confident face, "The status of a detective is determined by the number of murders around him. Dad is a detective. Of course, if you want to find the incident, then you can find the incident." .”

[...It's not a cartoon, where the detective goes, people die. 】

Nanako complained silently in her heart.

As the saying goes, "if there is no incident, then create an incident", if there must be a murder incident——

"Dad, are you going to throw me off the slide and solve the murder?"

Ranbu: "..."

What exactly is Nanako's little head filled with?

Nanako: "The one who surrendered himself can't be called 'resolving the incident'."

Ranbu: "..."

Nanako: "Even if you say that, the incident can be resolved."

Ranbu: "..."

Nanako: "But I was also dealt with."

Ranbu: "..."

"Nanako, your pocket money for this month was taken care of by your father."

Ranpo said to her with a serious face.

Nanako looked at Ranpo, then lowered her head and opened a drawer next to the desk, took out Ranpo's coin purse from it, and stuffed the coin purse into her pocket in front of Ranpo.

Nanako sat down again and picked up the pen: "Oh."

Edogawa Ranpo has already started to think about what he should call at this time: "Nanako!!!"

Still: "With Ms. Yosano——!"

Or: "Society—the chief—"

The.

But before he decided which one to call, he heard Nanako call him again: "Daddy."

The girl raised her head, no emotion could be seen on her expressionless face, and her round dark eyes stared at Luanbu's face without blinking, like a living doll sitting on an office chair.

If someone else is looked at by her like this, they will definitely feel intrusive and want to walk away quickly, but Luanbu will only think that she looks stupid, and wants to slap her on the head with his hands.The principle may be similar to "shooting watermelons". It doesn't matter whether you can judge whether the (little head) melon is good or not, the main thing is to hear a "ring".

"I want to talk to you," Nanako said.

"Huh?" Luanbu fell back into the office chair, Kunikida's office chair was not as comfortable as his, it was just enough to sit on, "What's the matter?"

Nanako thought again.

"Don't say it."

Ranbu: "..."

Edogawa Ranpo felt that it was necessary for him to emphasize his authority as "father" to Nanako.He took out the old black-rimmed eyes from his pocket and placed them on the bridge of his nose. His long and narrow pupils opened, looking at Nanako's "flawless" reaction.

"Nanako." Ranpo stretched out his finger and pointed to her pocket, "Give the phone to Dad."

Nanako looked left and right, then raised her hand and scratched her cheek, then took her mobile phone out of her pocket and handed it to Ranpo.

Luanbu took the phone from her hand, and after opening it, there was no further action facing the lit screen.Nanako looked at him, sitting motionless on the office chair, her little face had to be raised a little so that her eyes could meet Ranpo's face, and she looked at Ranpo's face and talked to him.

"ゴ..." Luanbu opened his mouth, he was about to say "Gogol's cell phone is brought here too", but he stopped after uttering one syllable.

With a straight face, he and the equally expressionless Nanako looked at each other for a few seconds, but in the end he still didn't say what he wanted to say, but took out his wallet from his pocket and took out two [-]-yen bills. The banknote, together with the mobile phone, was slapped in Nanako's hand.

"Go charge the phone bill!"

Nanako took the mobile phone and money, and immediately slipped away, and ran downstairs to the convenience store across the street to recharge her mobile phone that was already in arrears.

Edogawa Ranpo even suspected that Nanako might have sent him as a phone bill.