After becoming a chaotic daughter

Edogawa Ranpo, male, 26 years old, single mother and child, love history is blank, compared to "falling in love with someone", in his 26 years of life, more often in "sixteen different There are 26 boats between the flavors of candy (the extra ten boats are four flavors of soda and six flavors of potato chips), and they are proficient in eating, drinking and having fun.

Busy all day eating, drinking and solving a few incidents, the famous detective has never thought about "finding a partner". The world falls under the unparalleled super-reasoning of a famous detective”—this kind of worship.

In the current era when celibacy is becoming more and more popular, a 26-year-old youth can't be called an "older" bachelor, not to mention that Edogawa Ranpo has a very deceptive baby face, and he puts on school uniforms and sneaks into the school pretending to be an adult. Middle school students have no sense of disobedience, so no one will care about whether he has a partner or not.

The president himself is a man who is over [-] years old and has no family. Although there is still a childhood sweetheart, Miss Jin, in his hometown, but this does not change the fact that he is indeed still a bachelor. The so-called "I can't do it myself" You can't force others to do things." Naturally, the president would not open his mouth to urge Edogawa to find a partner indiscriminately.

The only "guardian" in the detective agency who can control Ranpo has such an attitude of turning a blind eye, and the members below who have always regarded Ranpo as a "standard" will never think of this, Kunikida will be deliberately teased by Dazai to some extent talked about the topic of "lovers", but for Ranpo——

Either because his words and deeds always make people ignore his real age, or because what a famous detective does is right, in short, until he mentioned this "similar" topic one day, everyone even Never thought about it.

However, Edogawa Ranpo, a single young man who no one cared about his single nature, mentioned this matter himself.

Naturally, his original words are neither Dazai-style "I hope to find a beautiful lady who is willing to die with me", nor Kunikida-style "I listed 58 conditions for a lover to choose a spouse", It's a simple, bland, and ordinary sentence that makes people stunned for a while, but after thinking about it, they feel "ah, logically speaking, it seems normal to think so."

"With Miss Xie Ye."

One ordinary afternoon, Edogawa was sitting in his office chair with his head propped up in disorder, holding an ordinary newspaper and reading it in an ordinary way, when suddenly he called He called Xie Ye on the side.

Sitting at the desk with Xie Ye and sorting out the documents, he replied in a accustomed manner: "What's the matter, Mr. Ranpo."

Get a soda, buy a cake, order a takeaway, ask if there is any case commission to pass the time at the moment, it’s nothing more than these things, everyone in the detective agency is familiar with it, and meeting the requirements of a famous detective is all members of the agency. A necessary skill.

"Nanako," Ranpo's tone sounds normal, but it is because it is normal that it reveals a trace of "unusual". After all, his usual tone of speech is either straightforward and high-spirited, or Bored and careless, it is rare to be like Dazai who is so plain and indifferent as if he suddenly started to work seriously.

Luanbu spoke slowly and said:

"...Is it better to have a mother?"

With Xie Ye: "..."

Yosano, who couldn't understand the situation in front of him for a while, fell silent.

The other investigators who are still in the office area are also silent.

All the club members who heard the words of Ranbu stopped their movements, as if they had been pressed by some invisible pause button, and turned into sculptures frozen in place, not in the mood to continue their movements. He wanted to turn his head to glance at the person who was speaking, but he didn't have the courage.

After a full ten seconds, the other party in the conversation finally spoke.

"If Nanako doesn't reject it," as an old man with seniority second only to the president and Ranpo in the club, Yosano and Yosano answered Ranpo's words calmly and calmly under the nervous eyes of his colleagues, "as long as it's not Women who are not suitable may indeed be better."

Ranbu seemed to have listened to her words, but didn't seem to. A few seconds later, the sound of a newspaper turning over a page resounded in the silent office area.

The short conversation just now seemed to be turned with a "crash", the tense air gradually loosened, and the members with different expressions continued to do their own things.

Ranbu stared absently at the newspaper in his hand, thinking about his stupid, stupid daughter.

Nanako doesn't have a mother, this kind of thing is so obvious that it doesn't need to be mentioned at all, but Edogawa Ranpo didn't think it was a big deal before.

When Nanako was still a little radish, his father also raised Nanako carelessly in a muddle-headed way. He would ask the president about important issues, leave daily trivial matters to Kunikida, and call urgently if there was any problem. Yosano, "Miss Yosano!!" was so proficient as if he was calling his mother—not Nanako's mother, but his own mother.

When Nanako grew up, probably when she was promoted from elementary school to junior high school, the inconveniences gradually increased.

First of all, three people, one big, two small, can no longer be squeezed together in the one-bedroom dormitory of the detective agency. Nanako has some things to put away by herself, and Gogol is getting old. I also know that it is not suitable for a girl of this age to live with the opposite sex, and the dormitory of the detective agency is crowded with people, and the living environment is not good, so I ran to buy a new apartment in a random way. It was Nanako who had her own room.

But this is just the beginning.

One day, Ranpo discovered that Nanako was squatting in the sweltering bathroom early in the morning, locked the door, and secretly washed the clothes and sheets that were accidentally soiled due to her menstrual period. , Edogawa Ranpo had such a clear understanding for the first time:

[Father and mother are different. 】

Nanako felt a little uncomfortable, but she had to secretly wash the clothes that were difficult to wash by herself, and then ran to the balcony to dry the clothes and sheets before he and Gogol got up, and then pretended nothing happened As usual, he would come out of his bedroom at the time of waking up, warm up milk and have a meal, then run to wake him up, and finally go out with them as if nothing had happened when he went out.

What can Ranpo do as a "father"?

He can only throw an extra bottle of laundry detergent for menstrual periods into the shopping cart the next time he goes shopping in the supermarket, so that the "difficult to wash" clothes become "a little difficult to wash".Moreover, the detergent should be placed "casually" next to the laundry detergent "as if nothing had happened".

Because Nanako is a child in adolescence, adolescence is about equal to the rebellious period. Although Nanako is not rebellious, she is just very "rebellious". Every day, she asks her father to work like an adult who asks a child to do homework, but Edogawa Ranpo thinks that he still wants to protect Nanako's "face"—yes, that's right, it's Nanako's face, not his father who is embarrassed.

The grown-up Nanako is not as easy to raise as a child. When she was young, Nanako only needs to eat and drink enough to not get sick, but when she grows up, Nanako has all kinds of things.

These things are a little troublesome. Most of the time, the super reasoning of a famous detective is completely useless. At critical moments, it is better to call Xie Ye.But it's just a little bit troublesome, Ranpo thinks he can still raise Nanako well.

After all, although his stupid daughter is a bit stupid, she is much smarter than children of the same age, and she can do a lot of things by herself. It can be said that she has very good "self-management skills".

But no matter how Nanako can take care of herself, she is still a child.

14 years old, half a child.

Nanako is different from children of the same age. Although sometimes she looks a little clumsy, making people wonder what is going on in her little head, but she has always been self-reliant and does not need adults to worry about it at all, like a flower growing in the corner The little mushroom, even if no one cares about it, it can concentrate on absorbing the nutrients in the soil and grow up earnestly.

But Nanako is not a little lonely mushroom growing in a corner.

She was a child, a weak, immature, and somewhat clumsy child.

He was suddenly locked up in the detention center and couldn't see his father. He stubbornly insisted on his own ideas in the face of interrogation. Even if he was locked up for more than ten days, he didn't waver at all.But when she left the detention center and saw her father, her tears would still come out all at once, and she didn't even know that she was crying, she just stood there looking a little blank, falling silently. with tears.

The little mushroom can grow up alone, but Nanako will feel scared if she is alone, leaving her alone, and she will wonder if she was abandoned by her father.

When the woman with dark eyes similar to Nanako visited the detective agency, she said "it would be inconvenient for Nanako to live with a male elder", so she wanted to take Nanako away.And Ranpo knows that what she actually wants to say is "staying in the detective agency may be dangerous for Nanako", because she is afraid that Nanako will be in danger, so she wants to take Nanako away.

But when the woman left, Luanbu looked at the closed door of the detective agency, and what she thought was that when Nanako was locked up in the detention center, if there was still a "mother" with her, what would she do? Wouldn't it be less scary?

If Nanako had a "mother", she might be able to be a little more "relaxed" when she grew up.

Even if Ranbu is not by her side occasionally, she will still have her "mother" by her side, so she won't feel that she might be abandoned.

It seems that all the troubles that arise as Nanako "grows up" can be solved as long as Nanako has a "mother".

In the eighth year of becoming "Nanako's father", Ranpo Edogawa's clever mind, which has always only had "eat, drink and play", "case puzzles", "praise from the president" and "stupid daughter", ventured for the first time. I came up with this idea—or find Nanako a mother.

He thought about his age, 26 years old, it seems that it is not too early or too late to find a partner.

The detective agency has a very wide network of contacts, and the president's personal network is also very wide. It is not too difficult to find a suitable partner, so "naturally", a banker's regular customer used the pretext of business contacts, Visited with my daughter.

We've met twice so far.

The first time we met was to talk about work in a business-like manner, and the president and the banker exchanged a few words.

The second meeting was in a tea room near the detective agency. The two elders drank tea and had an elegant conversation. Luanbu and the young lady sat face to face on both sides of another coffee table, and the atmosphere was quite casual and casually said something.

Ranpo's impression of that lady is not bad, at least not bad. As a detective, knowing people is the most basic skill, and he can tell what kind of person this lady is just by meeting her face.

To be honest, she is an "excellent woman" generally recognized by the public.Beautiful in appearance, gentle in temperament, well-spoken, well-educated, and has his own job, some minor shortcomings are only innocuous, and he has shown great kindness to Nanako and even Gogol—— From the heart, not the kind that pretends to be.

"How are you getting along with Ms. Yotsuya?" After leaving the tea room, on the way back to the detective agency, the president thought about his words and asked Ranpo.

"It will be the type that Kunikida appreciates." Ranpo Ngyu replied in a wrong way.

President Fukuzawa was silent for a while, and finally sighed, and said, "As long as you have a sense of importance in your own heart...don't reverse cause and effect."

...He just wanted Nanako to have a mother.

Luanbu lowered his head and kicked the stones on the side of the road, and stopped talking.

He just didn't want Nanako to be like him, a child without a mother who loved her.