After becoming a chaotic daughter

When Nanako left school after school, she saw Gogol sitting on a flower bed by the roadside waiting for her.

At 03:30 in the afternoon, the sun is at its best in early winter. Today is a rare sunny day since the beginning of winter. The warm sunlight falls on people, and even the chill in winter is dispelled a little.Scattered students leave school together after school, but more students are still participating in school activities at the moment, so there are not many people coming and going at the school gate. When Nanako turned her head, she saw the "very conspicuous" Gogol.

It's winter, and the temperature has dropped to single digits. Gogol also put on his cloak coat. His silver hair, which is between white and gray, is as smooth as satin, with an elegant and beautiful luster. The back of the head is braided into a fluffy three-strand braid, falling on the dark fabric of the jacket, and the hair rope tied at the end has a bright red pompom, which is as bright as a note jumping out of a musical score .

When the bright afternoon sun fell, his beautiful silver-white hair was dazzlingly bright, as if it would glow, making everyone passing by subconsciously turn their heads to look at him, and then they would notice him and the Asians Obviously different facial features, so I walked a few steps, and couldn't help but turn back frequently curiously, as if I would lose something if I didn't look at it.

Nanako trotted towards him with her schoolbag on her back, stood still in front of him, and found that he was eating a taiyaki.The taiyaki with red bean filling looks like it has just been bought at a roadside stall, and it is warm and exudes a sweet aroma.

"This is yours~" Gogol took out another taiyaki from his cloak, holding his own half-eaten taiyaki in one hand, and the one that was still in a paper bag, "Full head" All Tail" Taiyaki was handed to Nanako.

Nanako took it, and she could still feel the slight heat of the taiyaki through the paper bag. She lowered her head and took a bite. The crispy batter skin was mixed with sweet and greasy red bean filling, and the gongs and drums made her dry as soon as she took it in. My taste buds were awakened.

In winter, it is necessary to eat warm and sweet things to make people feel very comfortable, and the frozen body seems to be alive again.

"Do you want to go back? Or go to Huadai's house first?" Gogol shook his head, speaking lightly.

"I went to Hanako's house yesterday, but I won't go today." Nanako replied without raising her head, took another bite of the taiyaki in her hand, and ate it slowly.

Gogol thought for a while, and then suggested: "Then should I go to Mr. Ranpo?"

"Huh?" Nanako turned to look at him, with a little confusion in her dark round eyes, "Is Dad working outside?"

"I went out in the morning." Gogol answered her, his pale golden eyes curved slightly, reflecting the bright sunlight, they looked like those glass marbles that were randomly put in a box, shining brightly. Bright and clear, "Officer Aoki entrusted him to investigate a kidnapping case, but before lunch, Mr. Ranpo came back. In the afternoon, he read comics for a while, and then went out—— than I went out The time should be a little earlier~~~~."

When he said the last "a little bit", he deliberately elongated the tone, and drew a very small length between the fingertips of his index finger and thumb, and finally added a very "kindly" sentence: "If you want If you go to Mr. Ranpo, I can take you there."

Nanako didn't directly answer him "go" or "no", but asked him while eating taiyaki: "Where did dad go?"

Gogol didn’t hold back, and answered a place name very straightforwardly. It’s a dessert shop in the urban area. As famous as it is, the consumption level of the shop is as high as it is. Nanako only remembers that the chocolate parfait there is delicious—— Also, expensive.

Nanako thought that Ranbu might be secretly going to eat an expensive cake again, but such an idea came to her mind, Gogol seemed to see through her thoughts, and then said slowly: "He I went into the store with a young lady."

"It's a lady who has been to the detective agency before, but she is not the client." Gogol said with a smile, "Her father seems to be an acquaintance with President Fukuzawa... It seems that he came to the detective agency to meet Mr. Ranpo, "

When he said this, he got stuck for a moment, as if he couldn't remember how to say that word for a moment, thought for a while, and then continued: "——Blind date."

Nanako: "...Oh."

She still knows a little about it now.Two days ago when school was over, Dazai she met on the road said a few words, and then returned to the detective agency, and her father also said a little bit to her.

Although she actually doesn't know the details of how her father went on a "blind date", but since she went on a "blind date" once (she guessed it should be once), then there is a corresponding "blind date", that is also true. very normal thing.

"Would you like to take a look?" Gogol suggested again.

Nanako thought about it, then nodded quickly.

After they finished eating Taiyaki, they stopped a taxi on the side of the road and took a taxi to the address of the dessert shop.

*******

Nanako reasonably suspects that Gogol is donking her again.

After spending a total of [-] yen, the taxi stopped at the street where the destination was located, and Gogol and I paid half of the fare, and Nanako's small change purse was mostly empty.But in order to see what her father was doing—whether she was simply looking for an excuse to sneak out to eat cakes, or if she was really serious about finding a wife—Nanako spent a lot of money and chose to take a taxi here.

When they arrived at the destination, Nanako stood outside the French windows of the dessert shop, looked inside for a long time, and saw the whole dessert shop thoroughly, but she didn't see anyone sitting in the shop whose image was her idiot father.

Nanako turned her head and cast a suspicious look at Gogol with no expression on her face.

Gogol looked very innocent. He blinked, lowered his head and looked at Nanako, and quite reasonably proposed another possibility: "Maybe Mr. Ranpo has already gone back? After all, when he came, he was only three years old. Just point."

—and it's almost four o'clock now.

Nanako understood the second half of the sentence he didn't say.

In all fairness, it's not impossible. One hour, whether it's to talk about things or eat dessert, should be able to solve it.

Although Nanako really wanted Gogol to pay her the [-] yen fare, she agreed that the person who would come to see her was herself. To save up the money without eating cakes tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, my heart is as heavy as a strong man cut off his wrist.

She turned around slowly, with her schoolbag on her back, and was just about to bury her head and walk back to the detective agency (in order to save a taxi fare), but after taking two steps, she felt something was wrong again.

Stopping in her tracks, Nanako turned her face and looked at Gogol, staring at him with a pair of unwavering black pupils.

Gogol's face had the same smile as usual, he tilted his head, as if he didn't know why Nanako looked at him suddenly: "What's wrong?"

"Who did Dad come out with?" Nanako stared at him intently.

I don’t know the way, I can remember only a few roads that I often walk, anyway, it does not include the journey from the detective agency to this dessert shop, even if I take a taxi, I can only go to the fixed drop-off point near the dessert shop Stop, it takes a little distance to walk to the dessert shop from there, if Luanbu is allowed to go out by himself, he will definitely get lost.

But Gogol only said that Luanbu "went out", but did not say who went out with him.

Gogol met Nanako's swarthy eyes, blinked his golden eyes, and exaggeratedly said "Hey", as if he was surprised that the lie was exposed, but his tone was not sincere at all.

Nanako knew that her father came out with him. Dad entered the dessert shop, and then Gogol went to the school gate to wait for her after school... Thinking of this, Nanako lowered her head, pondered for a while, and then raised her head. He nodded, and said to Gogol in a firm tone:

"Daddy asked you to pick me up."

Ask Gogol to bring him to the dessert shop at three o'clock, and then Gogol just picks her up from school, and then takes her to the dessert shop. It's about an hour, and it's almost time for Dad to finish talking with the other party, and then he can talk to him. She went back together.

"Bingo~☆!" Gogol snapped his fingers, bent his eyes and smiled, "Answer is correct, plus ten points! The reward is... No reward! Because I took a taxi back and forth, my wallet is already empty, so I just ate Take the taiyaki as a reward!"

Nanako looked up at his smiling face, then looked down, and saw Gogol's leather shoes and her own.

She raised her foot and tapped her little brown leather shoes, leaving a clear shoe print on Gogol's black leather shoes.

"Where's Dad?"

"there."

Gogol, who was stepped on, was honest, or "cooperatively" honest. Facing Nanako's question, he raised his hand and pointed to the house across the street...

Fried chicken shop.

Nanako: "..."

She felt that her father must have seen a ghost if he could have a successful blind date.

Holding Gogol's cloak, Nanako crossed the road and ran into the fried chicken shop, and the rich aroma of fried chicken hit her face.Standing at the door of the store, Nanako looked around, and this time she easily found the familiar figure from behind, and sat with her back facing her, by the window.

"dad."

Nanako, carrying her schoolbag, poked her head out from behind Ranpo, and saw that in front of Ranpo was a fried chicken with only a pile of bones left.After drinking the remaining Coke in the cup in one gulp, Luanbu burped, full of carbonated soda and fried chicken.

...Only Dad is there.

There was a glass of lemonade in the next seat, but the seat was already empty. Before she and Gogol came, the people sitting there had already left, but it seemed that they had just left.

Noticing that Nanako was looking at the glass of lemonade that was half left, she stretched wildly, then pushed away the plate in front of her, lay lazily on the table, and said, "Miss Yotsuya has already left... Unless there is something like a commission, she will not come again in the future."

Nanako was silent for a moment, then asked him, "Dad... have you been dumped?"

That's what happens when you meet a blind date at a fried chicken joint.

Ranbu: "..."

"Nanako, Dad didn't date Yotsuya-san." Ranpo corrected her wrong wording rigorously, "So it's not like I was dumped."

He lay on the table, and continued to speak righteously: "Dad just told her that Dad doesn't plan to go on a blind date. Please let her find other suitable people, and Ms. Yotsuya also agreed—so that's it, this one." That's it. It's over! Let's go to the sukiyaki next door for dinner!"

"No more blind dates?" Nanako scratched her head.

"No more blind dates!" Ranbu replied without thinking.

Nanako "um..." and "uh..." After a while, she hung her head and scratched her head: "...then how are you going to find a wife, Dad?"

Ranbu: "..."

Good question, but he doesn't know the answer, and he doesn't know whether it can be deduced by "super reasoning".

"Can't Dad not get married?"

He whimpered.

Nanako thought about it.

Then I found out that it doesn't seem to work.

"Then I'll support you a little bit more in the future, so you don't have to get married." She said to Luanbu, her tone didn't fluctuate at all, her small face was expressionless, her dark eyes didn't even blink, she looked a little dazed Stay, like a little doll.

Ranbu stopped talking, he leaned his face on his arm, narrowed his long and narrow eyes, and looked at Nanako's immature face.Even though she was 14 years old, but when he looked at Nanako, he still felt that she was the same stupid child as when she was six years old.

After a while, he stretched out his hand and patted Nanako's head vigorously.

"—I'll talk about it when you grow up."