After becoming a chaotic daughter

When Nanako returned to the detective agency, the agency was quiet except for the intermittent sound of typing on the keyboard.

The investigator seems to have gone out to work, and he is sitting in his office chair with his head tilted, with a big newspaper covering his face, as if he is sleeping. Oda is sitting on the office seat, watching intently. On the screen of the laptop, I don't know what document I am typing.

Nanako opened the door of the detective agency lightly, slipped in through the crack of the door, and closed the door lightly again.Her footsteps were also soft, without making a sound, she just moved into the office area with her schoolbag on her back, first stood behind Oda Sakunosuke to see what he was doing, and then pushed a sheet of office Chair, sat down at the chaotic desk.

She consciously dug out her homework, wrote math problems for a while, and was still sleeping soundly.The weather was cold in late autumn, and the heating was turned on in the detective agency. It was warm, but not too hot. It was just the right temperature for sleeping, and there was no need to worry about catching cold.

Nanako stopped the pen in her hand, turned her head to look at Oda, the dull-looking man was still groping for a manuscript, as if she didn't even notice that Nanako was back, so Nanako turned her eyes to Oda again. Luanbu crouched in a comfortable soft office chair with his head tilted.

Stretching out the fountain pen in her hand, Nanako poked Ranbu's arm with the pen holder, and called him softly, "Dad."

The arm was poked and moved, and there was an indistinct grunt from under the newspaper, only a short half sound, and then fell silent again, as if he was just talking in sleep, the young man who was sleeping soundly still nestled firmly in the chair There is no sign of waking up.

Nanako stretched out her hand to pull the newspaper covering his face, and with a couple of slams, she tore off the big newspaper, revealing a sleeping appearance like a child walking around.His head was drooping and he leaned against the back of the chair, his black hair was messed up, and there was still an unfinished lollipop in his half-open mouth, as if his saliva was going to flow out soon.

After folding the newspaper and putting it on the table, Nanako stood up again and stretched out her hand to push him. After pushing for a long time, she woke up in a daze after walking around with her head dazed from sleep.Seeing Nanako, he subconsciously opened his mouth to speak, but forgot that there was still a lollipop in his mouth, and almost dropped the candy. He grabbed the candy stick in a hurry, and his mind cleared up a little.

"Have you had dinner yet?" He yawned big, rubbed his eyes in disorder and asked, raised his hand and stuffed the lollipop back into his mouth, half of his cheeks were puffed up by the candy.

"No." Nanako answered him, looked up at the clock hanging on the wall, "It's not five o'clock yet."

Detective agencies usually don’t have dinner until six or seven in the evening, and it’s still a long time before dinner.

Luanbu said "Oh", looked around, found the newspaper that Nanako had taken away on the table, grabbed the newspaper and shook it, and wanted to lie back down: "Then dad will sleep for a while, and call me after dinner." .”

"Dad." Nanako spoke before he lay back to sleep. She was standing on the edge of the desk, holding the edge of the desk with both hands, her round eyes were dark, and she looked at him without blinking. Random steps.

"Huh?" Luanbu, who was about to nestle back into the chair, stopped, biting the candy in his mouth.

Nanako wanted to tell him about her aunt, but she didn't know where to start. If she told Ranpo about her sneaking to meet that aunt, Nanako always felt that she would be scolded.

Although it seems that Luanbu never scolded her, Luanbu always told her "Don't do this!", "Don't do that!", "Tell Dad first!", and then asked her to squat in the corner and think about it .

Thinking of "squatting in a corner", Nanako secretly glanced at the corner.Fortunately, the small bench she put there is still there, and she can be lazy if she wants to squat in the corner.

Scratching her hair, Nanako thought about it, and decided to talk to her father about the "result".

"Dad, I have an aunt now." Nanako said to him sternly.

The crunching sound of biting candy stopped, Ranbu held the newspaper in his hand, did not speak, raised his head and looked at Nanako with half-closed eyes for a while, the air seemed to have been pressed the pause button, only Oda knocked not far away. The sound of the keyboard crackled.

After a long time, Luanbu lowered his head, continued to unfold the newspaper in his hand, and replied without any ups and downs: "Oh."

His reaction was as flat as a glass window, without any fluctuation at all, as if what Nanako just said to him was just ordinary words like "I'm going to eat cake".The big newspaper was opened, and he leaned back chaotically, trying to cover his head with the newspaper, but Nanako grabbed a corner of the newspaper and held him back.

"It's over...and then it's gone."

She said something like "it's the same as if you didn't say it", then let go of the newspaper she was holding, slowly sat back in the office chair she pushed over, picked up the pen, and started to bury her head in her homework again.

Holding the newspaper in a hurry, Nanako stopped pulling the newspaper, but he didn't continue to put the newspaper on his head. He stared at the small piece of densely packed words on the newspaper, which was a speech about a congressman. Reports, all in all, are boring, and in his eyes, they are as uninteresting as small advertisements on the side of the road.

He moved the newspaper spread out in his hand to the side, half of his face was exposed from the edge of the newspaper in disorderly steps.

He looked at Nanako who was slowly writing homework. Nanako's little head was almost lying on the table, and the pen in her hand was drawing numbers stroke by stroke on the draft paper.If Kunikida sees this look, Nanako will definitely be nagged by him again, "The eyes are too close to the textbook", "Be careful of myopia".

Edogawa Ranpo watched Nanako doing her homework like this, and felt as if she was watching a little snail crawling across a leaf.After watching for a while, he recalled what Nanako had just said in his mind.

That's it.

And then no more.

Nanako met her "auntie", she now has an extra "auntie", and then there is nothing else.Edogawa Ranpo used his extremely clever brain to understand the logical relationship in this passage three times over and over again, and finally came to the final conclusion with certainty, certainty, and certainty.

——Nanako will still be his idiot daughter from now on.

With two clatters, Luanbu suddenly folded the newspaper in his hand indiscriminately, and threw it on the table casually.

"Go! Dad will take you to eat cake!"

Suddenly jumped up from the chair, and slapped the table with random steps. The loud sound was like a phone ringing suddenly, breaking the quiet atmosphere in the office area at once, and the pens Nanako was holding were all on the draft paper Draw a crooked line.

Ignoring Oda Sakunosuke who was coming over, Ranbu reached out and picked up Nanako by the back of the collar, picked up Nanako who was still sitting in the office chair doing homework, and led her straight to the outside of the detective agency.

Nanako who was suddenly picked up and still a little confused: "??"

【……What's wrong? 】

I don't know why Ranpo suddenly became full of energy, Nanako's face showed a little bewildered look, and she was dragged out of the gate of the detective agency by her idiot father.

*******

At nine o'clock at night, Nanako, who had just taken a shower, was sitting on the carpet in the bedroom, counting her small cash deposit.

She has saved a lot of money now, New Year's money, and pocket money. She has saved it scattered for seven or eight years, and all of them have been exchanged for [-] yen bills, which are neatly tied into bundles with paper seals. , and put it in her little box.There are a hundred bills in a bundle, and she now has five bundles of ten thousand yuan bills that are tightly bundled.

Nanako, who was counting the banknotes, felt that she was really rich. She felt like she had become a little rich woman. Even if her father was fired now, so much money would be enough for them to live for another year.Moreover, Dad should not be fired. If Dad continues to work, he can continue to send her pocket money, and she can continue to enrich her small coffers.

After counting the banknotes carefully, Nanako went to look through her piggy bank again.Coins poured out of the belly of the piggy bank and scattered on the furry carpet, shining under the light, like the surface of the sea shimmering in the sun.

Just as she was about to continue counting coins, Nanako heard a knock on her door.She pulled the coins that were rolling everywhere on the carpet together and formed a small pile, then got up on hands and feet, and ran to open the door stepping on plush slippers.

Nanako only locks the door when she is sleeping, but she is a girl, so no matter it is Ranpo or Gogol, she will not just enter the house casually.Luanbu didn't bother to knock on the door, and even before he reached the door, he howled and asked Nanako to open the door. Only Gogol could knock.

Opening the door, Nanako saw Gogol standing outside the door.

Gogol held the warmed milk for her and a bag of small bread in his hand. This was Nanako's bedtime snack today.

Nanako took the milk, and the warm temperature of the milk stuck to her palm through the cup, making it warm.The bread was sandwiched with applesauce. Nanako didn’t want to eat this kind of jam bread, so she struggled for a while whether to go out and replace it with orange jam. Then she heard Gogol ask her:

"Are you counting coins?"

He blinked his golden eyes with a curious look on his face.

Gogol was a head taller than Nanako. When Nanako stood in front of him, she could only see his chest without raising her head. Gogol could easily see through Nanako's hair and see what was behind her.

He saw in the bedroom behind Nanako, a few steps away, the coins piled up on the pink-gray carpet looked like a hill, and on the side of the hill was the piggy bank that Nanako usually put on the cabinet.

"Yeah." Nanako nodded, and immediately forgot about wanting to change the bread, "Counting the pocket money I saved."

"Why not put it in the bank?"

"In the bank, there are only bank cards and passbooks, and you can't count money."

Nanako replied solemnly, as if "not being able to count money" was a very serious matter. Gogol also compared "a thin bank card" with "a thick pile of money", and it seemed that It is true that the latter seems to be more, so he also accepted Nanako's answer very well.

"I have money there too, do you want to count it together?" Gogol suggested.

Nanako stared at Gogol with her dark eyes, trying to express her doubts to Gogol with her eyes. She had reason to think that Gogol wanted to prostitute a human money counter for nothing.

"If you give me the count, I will count together." Nanako replied him.

"Well……"

Gogol put on a thoughtful look, as if he was seriously considering this issue, but Nanako ignored him, she took the milk and bread, and wanted to turn around and go back to the room, eating snacks while continuing to count her coins , but before closing the door, Nanako heard Gogol say:

"Have you talked to Mr. Ranpo?"

"?" Nanako stopped moving back to close the door, tilted her head in confusion, not knowing what Gogol was talking about.

"About that aunt." Gogol added.

Nanako thought for three seconds, and felt that she should have told her father about it in the afternoon, so she nodded her head: "Yes, I did."

"What did Mr. Ranpo say?"

"Daddy said to eat cake."

Gogol:?

He reasonably suspected that Nanako was trying to fool him again, as Nanako had always done.

Nanako, who was standing in front of him, had already begun to sip milk, and Nanako waited for Gogol to finish speaking, and then went back to count her coins.

"When you went to school yesterday," Gogol continued, still smiling, his eyelids drooping slightly as he looked down at Nanako, "a banker came to the detective agency—with him The む..."

——Om,

There seemed to be a small sound from nowhere, and the whole apartment suddenly went dark, the lights went out, the air conditioner stopped working, the TV in the living room also went dark, and the vision fell into darkness, as if the whole world was silent down.

【……power cut. 】

Realizing this, Nanako stood still and took a sip of milk in the dark.

Nanako: "Gudong Gudong..."

Faint human voices came from upstairs and downstairs. It should be that the residents who discovered the power outage were asking about the situation. Gogol stopped talking and did not continue to speak. It was dark and Nanako could not see his face.

"Gogol——!!!"

Dissatisfied shouts came from the bathroom.

"flashlight--!!"

Gogol's voice sounded in front of him: "Where is the flashlight?"

Nanako: "...I don't know."

Gogol hesitantly went to search for a flashlight in the dark, and Nanako also turned around, holding the milk carefully, and fumbled for her mobile phone in her room.

It's dangerous, but fortunately she took a bath early today, otherwise she would have to take a bath in the dark.