After becoming a chaotic daughter

Edogawa Ranpo knew what was going on in his stupid daughter's head.

The blind date is to find a marriage partner, but Ranpo just wants to use this method to find a woman who is suitable to be Nanako's "mother" and then marry her, which is like cheating on her feelings.

Nanako thinks it is a bad thing to cheat other people's feelings, and she doesn't like it. It's like Dazai always deals with many women, but never sincerely gives a certain result to any woman. Nanako pays attention to these things he does It's here, so Dazai is just "Dazai" in Nanako's mouth, and Nanako has never used an honorific title for him.

But Ranpo is different from Dazai. He doesn't have the habit of manipulating people's hearts. At most, he only uses some methods of manipulating people's hearts on criminals.

He likes things that are simple and clear, the word "fancy" is only applicable to dim sum, other than that, "yes" is "yes", "no" is "no", things like "deceiving feelings" It sounds very troublesome. In order to solve one "trouble", another "trouble" is created, which is a situation that he is absolutely unwilling to face.

"I won't receive any weird bombs." After being speechless for a while, Luanbu said firmly to Nanako, "Father will not do such things to deceive other people's feelings."

He wanted to find a "mother" for Nanako, not an indeterminate time bomb to go home.

"The person to marry doesn't have to be the one you want to like, as long as it's the right person. Dad is different from that guy Dazai. It's too troublesome to talk sweet words. Dad will explain this clearly to the other party. If the other party accepts it , Dad will continue to contact her again."

Ranpo said so confidently, picked up the spoon and scooped a spoonful of red bean soup from Nanako's bowl, and just as soon as he finished speaking, he stuffed the full spoonful of red beans into his mouth.

That Ms. Yotsuya, who is the "blind date" he is currently approaching, is now on the rise in her career and wants to concentrate on her career, but because her father, Mr. Yotsuya, is urging her to find a partner, she does not want to be married into a business. That would probably have to marry a man who would interfere with her career.So she acquiesced in the blind date, and she just wanted to take the initiative and find a husband who she had a good impression of and would not hinder her career.

As for Ranpo himself, he just wants to find Nanako a mother who will treat her well, as long as there are no major shortcomings.Miss Yotsuya is willing to contribute in this regard, learn how to be a good mother, and Ranbu will not care about his wife's career and interfere with her, so the two sides acquiesced to continue contact.

But it's still only in the "contact" stage, not even "communication". After all, I have only met twice so far, and there are not many communication contacts.

Holding the bowl in her hands, Nanako thought about what Ranpo said, and probably understood what Ranpo meant.

Blind dates are different from dating. The former focuses more on finding a "suitable" object, while the latter focuses more on finding a "like" object. The specific content of this word is determined by whether it is suitable to be her mother.

but,

Holding the spoon, Nanako scooped up a piece of rice cake, lowered her head and bit it slowly, and swallowed the piece of rice cake into her stomach. Then she raised her head, looked at Luanbu, and asked again the question she had asked just now. problem once.

"Then why do you want to find a mother for me?"

A second thread was torn out of the tangled ball of wool.

This time, Ranpo did not ask her "Don't you want a mother?", but gave a very well-behaved answer.

"If there is a mother, she can take care of you." Luanbu said while biting the spoon.

"I can take care of myself." Nanako answered him solemnly, without turning her dark eyes, "Daddy, you will also take care of me... and Sister Akiko, everyone takes care of me."

She couldn't figure out why her father wanted to find her a mother, even though she didn't seem to be any different without a mother.

But Ranpo answered her: "That's different—'Mom' is different from everyone else."

This sentence sounded a bit familiar, Nanako scratched her cheek, and it took a few seconds before she remembered where she had heard this sentence before.

It was the "auntie" who had the same black eyes as hers.

That aunt also said that "mother" and "dad" are different, and it would be inconvenient for her father to take care of her. If she had a mother, it would be easier and not so hard... Probably something like this These words, the aunt seemed to have said these words to my father when she visited the detective agency.

"It's okay without a mother." Feeling as if she understood a little why Ranpo felt this way, Nanako chewed on the rice cake and said to him slowly, "Now it's like this, it won't feel hard, so it's okay without a mother, it doesn't have to be There is a mother."

Ranbu was silent for a while, he poked the empty bowl in front of him with the spoon in his hand, the porcelain spoon made of the same material collided with the porcelain bowl, making a crisp sound, I don't know how long it took before Nanako heard him answering sound.

"...Father wants you to have a mother." Ranpo said, his eyes only fell on the empty bowl in front of him, and he didn't look at Nanako, "Everyone else's children have mothers."

After he finished speaking, he was silent for a moment before continuing: "Father doesn't want you to be a child without a mother."

If other people's children have it, Nanako should have it too.He also had the love of his father and mother when he was a child, and he knew how different it was to have a mother by his side and not to have a mother by his side, but he was only a father, and he could only give Nanako "father's love", just like a puzzle Only half of it was the same, but the other half was empty.

He wants Nanako to have 100 points of love, not the 50 points that only he can pour out.

Nanako doesn't know why other people's children have mothers, so she wants to have a mother. She didn't have a mother, and she didn't have a father. Now she has a foolish father like Ranpo. ...Although this dad doesn't look very useful.

Nanako scratched her head, thought for a while, and then answered Ranpo firmly: "Then I will be a child with a father, and that's fine. ... Dad, whoever you want to marry in the future, I will be a child with a mother. If you If I don’t want to marry anyone, then I just need to be a child with a father, and that’s fine.”

Compared with reading and writing, she is still not very good at speaking.Because she seldom speaks long sentences and is always used to expressing herself in short sentences, Nanako's sentences are like a child's, breaking a complete sentence into several syllables, and pronouncing each syllable very carefully clear.Coupled with her expressionless, dull little face, it always gives people the feeling that she is speaking seriously.

Seen by Nanako like this, he propped his head in random steps, looked at the empty bowl in front of him, stopped poking the bowl with a spoon in his hand, and sat motionless by the dining table. After a long while, his voice became very quiet He muttered softly: "...then you don't have half the love of 'Mom'."

Nanako didn't speak, she stretched out her hand in silence, pulled the empty bowl in front of him to her, then picked up her own bowl, poured the red bean rice cake soup in her own bowl into his empty bowl He poured almost half of it before he stopped, put down his own bowl, and slowly pushed the chaotic bowl back in front of him.

There was a small half bowl of warm red bean rice cake soup in the empty bowl.

Nanako put her head down and began to drink the sweet soup with a sigh of relief, and stopped talking to him.He walked around looking at her, then at his extra half bowl of red bean and rice cake soup, took a spoon, and continued to eat.

After finishing the sweet soup, she swallowed all the tasteless rice cakes, and finally filled her mouth with the remaining sweet red beans. Nanako chewed with puffed cheeks, and soon finished the red beans too.She put down the spoon and pushed the bowl aside before raising her head and talking to Ranpo again.

"dad."

Ranpo had also finished the small half bowl of red bean rice cake soup that Nanako gave him, he turned his head and lowered his head to meet Nanako's dark round eyes, too dark to see the figure reflected in the pupils.

"Will you not love me?"

Nanako asked him.

—Will you not love me?

——Will you not love me

——あなたは私を爱しないのか

If it is in Chinese, Nanako will feel weird and unable to say such a sentence, but in Japanese, she can say it.

It's not just Japanese, as long as it's not the Chinese she's most familiar with, she can switch to another second language, English is also fine, it seems that it won't feel so awkward to say such words.It seems that there is a layer of gauze and an extra layer of distance, which makes people feel that they don't care so much.

She stared at Luanbu, no emotion could be seen on her childish little face, her thin and soft ponytail hung behind her head without shaking, her round eyes were like cat cubs, An Jing Watching Luanbu quietly, like a kitten looking up at a big cat with its head up, even its meowing is weak.

Luanbu slowly raised his hand.

Then he slapped her fluffy little head again, and rubbed it vigorously. The hair that was originally tied into a ponytail was scrunched into a mess by him within two slaps, and the hairpin almost broke. Falling out of hair.

He pressed Nanako's small head, looked at her, and said in a tone that sounded very casual, as if it was a matter of course:

"Even if you are stupid, Dad will always love you."

Nanako shrank her neck from being pressed by him, but she still tried her best to look up at him, opened her mouth, and said seriously in a flat tone:

"It's okay without the half of mother's love."

"When Dad, you get married with the person you want to marry, then I will have my mother's love, and that will be fine."

Luanbu looked at her, not knowing what he was thinking, his expression was so flat that no one could guess his thoughts, and after a few seconds, he suddenly said again: "Then what if Dad never has anyone who wants to marry?" ?”

Nanako thought for a while and replied, "Then I'll recognize Sister Akiko as my godmother."

Ranbu: "..."

Hearing Nanako's words, Edogawa Ranpo's mind froze, and he deduced all the ins and outs of these words.He felt that there was a big problem, probably similar to the fact that he was setting up a grill to eat barbecue, but when he turned around, he found that the meat on the table was taken away with the table.

——What happened with Yosano-san! !This is an acquaintance committing the crime! !Naked acquaintances committed crimes!He's going to report her to the president!

"I'm not going on a blind date!" Luanbu shouted righteously and confidently.

He himself was not interested in blind dates, and now Nanako said that he didn't want him to find her a mother like this, so of course Luanbu gave up his burden. After two more blind dates, he still hasn't found Nanako a mother, and Nanako might do it again and again. I have recognized a bunch of them!

If she accepts Yosano as a godmother, is Kunikida still far behind?If Kunikida recognizes it, how far is Oda?After that guy Dazai encouraged Oda, he must want to come too!Although Nanako will definitely reject him, there will be Hanako and Miss Haruno in the future... By the way, the owner and the couple of the coffee shop downstairs don't have children yet... All in all, we must not start with this and let Nanako recognize a bunch of god-in-laws!

...The most I can recognize is Yosano!As for Kunikida, for the sake of his tutoring Nanako's homework, Ranpo can reluctantly give in and let Nanako recognize him as a teacher!

In just a second, the calculations in Luanbu's mind had already been completed, and he slapped the table, thinking that what came out was what came out, and ran out the door like a gust of wind, and went to the president to file a complaint—by the way, he pushed About the next meeting with that Yotsuya-san.

Nanako's outstretched hand was empty, but she failed to grab Ranpo's sleeve.

【…】

She also wanted to tell Luanbu that although he was not looking for a mother for her, he could also find a wife for himself.

But her father ran away immediately, and Nanako looked at the door of the kitchen that was slammed open by chaotic steps, and was still shaking at the moment, and thought about it very carefully.

【……never mind. 】

[It's better not to let Dad harm other aunts. 】

I always feel that if the current father is looking for a partner, he is not looking for a partner, but a mother.

She stood up, picked up herself and the empty bowls and spoons that Chaobu had eaten, ran to the sink, turned on the tap, and started washing the dishes.

Standing by the kitchen counter, Tanizaki Junichiro, who had listened to the conversation between the father and daughter, held the spoon stiffly, kept stirring the warm red bean and rice cake soup in the pot, and continued to pretend that he was just a background board and hadn't heard anything just now.

...I always feel that if he leaked the conversation just now, Mr. Ranpo, who became angry from embarrassment, might give him a "perfect crime".