After becoming a chaotic daughter

Children must not be used to raising them.

Edogawa angrily recorded this important item in his "Good Dad Handbook", determined that tomorrow he must continue to pick up Nanako to and from school, and fundamentally prevent Nanako from picking up things at random. Saying that it's actually a daily commute to and from school might seem more like "habituating".

But a brilliant detective will not be fooled by such a superficial "appearance". On the first day of school, he hid a strange egg in his schoolbag and brought it back. On the second day of school, he dragged a comatose little boy back. Third day of school - God knows what she'll get back to the detective agency again!Anyway, Ranpo will not give Nanako this chance!

"... Severe malnutrition, probably relying on injections of nutrients for a long period of time to maintain the basic needs of the body. Many needle holes left by injections were found on the arms, ankles and wrists They all have signs of being in shackles for a long time, and there are large and small wounds on their bodies that are suspected of being tortured. It looks like they were detained for at least two years."

After the inspection, the little boy dragged back to the detective agency by Nanako, and Yosano gave a brief report.

"One more thing," she added, "the child's actual age should be eight or nine."

But the skinny little body lying on the hospital bed in a coma, looks only five or six years old, and is even more severely stunted than when Nanako was brought back by Ranbu.

Eating cookies, Nanako sat on the stool in the infirmary, listening to what Yosano said with her ears upright. There are too many professional rankings. She has no idea about [malnutrition], [injection], and [detention]. I understand, I only vaguely know that Xie Ye seems to be saying that the "Wang Jiang" she picked up is not in good health.

"Okay, it's okay!" Ranbu looked like he wanted to quickly throw away this hot potato, and impatiently directed Kunikida beside him: "Hurry up and contact the city police and then you can throw this guy to the welfare department." Hospitalized! Or sent back to China for adoption—anything is fine, but you are not allowed to stay in the detective agency!"

【Repatriation】

That's right, ninety-nine percent of the boy Nanako dragged back was not Japanese, or even from this part of East Asia.Even though he is still very young and looks "skinny", the little boy has a very obvious facial features that belong only to European Caucasians. An almost pale tone.

The only problem is that it is not known which European country he is a child who "smuggled" to Japan.

"But the 'experiment'..." The serious and upright Kunikida still cared about the inference Yosano just said, "Could this boy be the victim of some illegal experiment? Maybe it will be involved in human trafficking—"

"That's not our business." Ranbu interrupted him bluntly, "No one entrusts a detective agency to investigate this. If the city police come and ask me to help them, I said Kunikida, don't just give it to the detective. The time of a famous detective is very precious to deal with such troublesome things that are laborious and not beneficial!"

A troublesome thing that is hard work but not beneficial——Kunikida's gaze subtly shifted towards Nanako who was eating a cookie.The biscuit crumbs fell everywhere, Nanako grabbed half of the biscuit, her cheeks moved slightly as she chewed, and her lifeless dark pupils met his gaze blankly.

[No, it can’t be said that “you won’t get benefits”. 】

Kunikida thought to himself.

【At least Mr. Ranpo got the ice cream he wanted. 】

Although the money to buy ice cream is actually out of his pocket.

But no matter what, measuring the "value" of doing something is definitely not a one-sided standard such as "whether it can be beneficial". It doesn’t count if you have an extra little follower who can run errands and buy cakes), but in general, Mr. Ranpo still does his best to take care of Nanako and be a "qualified father".

——As for the specific care, this issue is discussed separately.

All in all, whether to do something or not depends fundamentally on "whether you want to do it or not", that's all, especially for Mr. Ranpo, who is naturally free and loose.

To put it bluntly—it’s not that there is “no need” to investigate, but that he is “too lazy” to investigate.

Fortunately, Ranpo is not the only official investigator in the agency. As a reliable senior, Xie Ye gave a normal answer: "...In short, let's ask the president for instructions."

*****

Nanako was lying on the desk in the infirmary, burying her head in writing today's homework.

The stool in the infirmary was very high, her short short legs were dangling in mid-air, holding a freshly sharpened pencil in her hand, she slowly traced the red fifty-sound on the notebook .

The president of the katakana had already taught her, and she knew how to memorize the more commonly used hiragana, and she could read it immediately at a glance.

If hiragana looks like a simplified Chinese character, then katakana is only two strokes left.It is also [a], hiragana has one [あ] anyway, katakana only has [ア], a group of "イ", "ラ", "ワ" mixed together, a little more, Nanako is Will be dizzy.

Ah - this is a Chinese character.

あ——This is cursive script.

ア——This is the case written by the doctor.

After carefully writing three pages of large characters, Nanako closed the notebook, then took the arithmetic book on the table, and continued to do math homework. Arabic numerals look much more friendly than pseudonyms. This kind of addition and subtraction within ten , she can write eight questions in three seconds.

She opened the arithmetic book and accidentally dropped the eraser on the floor, so she had to use all her hands and feet to carefully climb down from the high stool, crawled under the desk, and picked out the eraser. She wanted to climb back on the stool to do her homework, but she couldn't get on the stool after climbing for a long time.

It was Yu Xie Ye who carried her up before, but Yu Xie Ye just went downstairs to buy something, and she hasn't come back yet, Nanako looked at the stool in front of her, scratched her little head, and wanted to go out to move her beloved little bench .

"Привет, мисс."

Suddenly there was a gurgling sound from the hospital bed behind her, the tone was a little weak, but the tone was very cheerful, like a bird that had just died and was still jumping on the branches.

Nanako turned her head and saw the puppy dragged back by her... The little boy sat up from the hospital bed at some point, his bloodless face was pale, but he seemed to be in a happy mood, with a smile on the corner of his mouth. It was a big smile, and the eyes were half-bent.

Although it was several steps away, Nanako still clearly saw his open eyes.

【……Golden. 】

Nanako stared intently at his strange-looking pupils. For some reason, she always felt that his pupils were different from normal eyes, but she couldn't figure out what was the difference.

"Можномнестаканводы"

The little boy spoke again. He was terribly thin, and when he spoke, he moved the almost non-existent muscles and skin on his cheeks and neck, giving people the feeling that a dead mummy was speaking.

Nanako couldn't understand what he said, not even what language it was.

"Japanese, で, 话し, ます."

(Speak, Japanese.)

She said to the boy without any ups and downs, but the boy tilted his head slightly, maintained a smile on his face, and expressed the meaning of "I don't understand" with his movements.

【…】

Nanako was a little troubled.

"Hi, do you speak Chinese?" She changed to the language she was most familiar with and said smoothly.

The boy's head was tilted a little bit more, and there seemed to be a big question mark on his white hair.

"..."

"Canyouspeak English"

The little boy continued to smile and typed out: "?"

Nanako scratched her messy hair, not knowing what to do, she could only speak these three languages ​​now.Holding the eraser in her hand, she thought hard for a long time, and finally popped out a sentence:

"Wang."

The smile on the little boy's face hesitated, and he vaguely spit out a particle word similar to "uh", as if thinking for a while, then hesitatingly said:

"...Wow?"

Nanako stared at him for a while without blinking her dark eyes, then grabbed the eraser and ran out of the infirmary, left the little boy in the infirmary, and ran into the office area.

In the office area, Luanbu was nestling in his big comfortable office chair with a bag of potato chips, watching cat and mouse with his office laptop, and laughing without hesitation when he saw something interesting.

Nanako ran to his side and tugged at his little cloak: "Father."

"Huh?" Ranpo looked away from the stupid cat on the screen, and looked down at Nanako.

"Dog... Wang Sauce,"

"It's not 'Wang Sauce', it's 'That Guy'! That, a, home, dude—or 'That Person', whatever you want to call it, you are not allowed to call it 'Wang Sauce' or 'Dog Dog'. Even if you call him 'Wang Sauce', Dad won't really think he's a dog and let you keep him! —Dogs are forbidden, and no other pets are allowed!"

He spoke very quickly, as if he had thrown out a series of sentences in one go, but the pronunciation of the key points was deliberately emphasized, so Nanako could probably understand what he said.

When Ranbu finished speaking in one breath, Nanako said slowly, "Wang Jiang, you've spoken."

"Huh? What did you say?" He asked carelessly, stuffing a piece of potato chips into his mouth.

"Wang."

"?"

"Others, I don't understand."

Ranbu: "..."

His stupid daughter really didn't pick up a dog, did she?

Edogawa Ranpo suddenly became a little uncertain.

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Because some readers may not understand, so add an explanation.

Nanako didn't really think that Gogol was a dog, she just thought that raising a Gogol was similar to raising a dog anyway, so she just picked up a stray dog ​​and brought it back to raise it, and it didn't cost any money.

[Just, when, as, is], not really think it is.

So instead of calling her "Dog Dog", she changed her name to "Wang Jiang".

All in all, [Nanako knows that Gogol is human], she just has a strange brain circuit, not stupid OTZ