After becoming a chaotic daughter

"Come on, open your mouth, ah—"

"what--"

Sitting on the stool in the infirmary, Nanako raised her head and opened her mouth obediently.The tongue depressor pressed the surface of her tongue, and the unique smell of wood spread into the taste buds. Nanako sat motionless, letting Xie Ye shine a small flashlight into her throat and sweep it once, then put it away and pressed it on the surface of her tongue. on the tongue depressor.

"It's just a little cold." Throwing the used disposable tongue depressor into the trash can, Xie Ye took off the mask, and said to Ranbu standing aside eating potato chips in a relaxed tone, "These days Be careful to keep warm, besides hay fever, the flu is also prevalent in spring, but now it’s just sneezing when the wind blows, it’s not a big problem, just be careful and it won’t turn into a flu fever.”

Edogawa Ranpo suddenly felt that the potato chips in his hand were not so fragrant.

Nanako was still sitting on the stool with a dull expression, like a little lifeless puppet. She walked around and looked around, but couldn't find anything similar to "coat" or "blanket" around, so she immediately reached out and untied it. The small cloak on his shoulders wrapped Nanako's head like a rice dumpling, only showing her expressionless little face.

Hay fever or flu, in fact, it is hard to say which is more serious, but in Edogawa Rampo's cognition, a cold and fever are a hundred times more serious than any hay fever allergy.

The two clerks in the detective agency with mild hay fever just had a little more paper towels for wiping their noses on the table in spring, but Nanako would turn into a stupid little fool if she caught a cold and had a fever.

I have seen Nanako who has a fever and suddenly feels like a formidable enemy. Nanako usually looks unresponsive. If she has a fever a few more times, what if she really becomes an idiot!

The detective didn't want to have a daughter who really became an idiot, so he thought for a while and took off his vest, covering Nanako's short legs, covering her short legs in a knee-length school uniform skirt. leg.

Let me tell you why the spring school uniforms of elementary school students are also skirts. Spring is still so cold, what should I do if I catch a cold.

Ranpo Edogawa, who had never paid attention to girls' school uniforms since he was a child, suddenly became aware of it at this inexplicable time, and sincerely thought that the person who designed the school uniforms was an idiot, and it was their fault for wearing short skirts in early spring. Figured it out.Ranpo decided to let Nanako wear sportswear to class tomorrow, at least the spring sports uniform is long-sleeved trousers, and he can also ask Nanako to stuff a few more clothes in the coat.

Sniffing her nose, Nanako realized that she had caught a cold and reached a consensus in her heart at this moment.

She has worn the Chinese school uniform for ten years. Although the sack school uniform is ugly, at least it is cheap and warm, and it will not let Lin Nainai, who was six years old, get a runny nose in the cold wind in early spring.

Oh yes, the sack school uniform also has large pockets that can hold A4 Chinese textbooks.

Nanako took out the hidden pocket of her skirt, and took out the little doll she picked up in the goose coop. The palm-sized doll was stuffed into the hidden pocket on the side of the skirt, and a little Cut green lawn hair.

"This is?" Yosano, who was sitting opposite Nanako, saw the little doll in her hand and asked subconsciously.

"I picked it up at school." Nanako said slowly, playing with the little doll's arm.

"Is it someone else's lost property? I have to send it back to the school and hand it over to the teacher tomorrow." Hearing this, Yosano tidied up the medical equipment on the table and casually told Nanako, "If you pick up something on the side of the road, you need to take care of it." Return it to the original owner."

"Oh..." Nanako grabbed the puppet's green hair, and responded indifferently, planning to take this puppet to school tomorrow and hand it over to Mr. Koizumi, the head teacher.

She doesn't have pollen allergies, but she just catches a little bit of cold and sneezes when the wind blows. This should be considered good news for Nanako. After all, if she is allergic to pollen, she may be about to sneeze in spring.

Today's homework was done during the activity class, and Nanako, who didn't need to do homework, was playing alone in the detective agency.The little doll picked up was nothing interesting, and Nanako stuffed it back into his pocket after a while.

She wandered around the office area and the reception room, then ran to the president's office, ate a dumpling given by the president, and when she came out, she saw Xie Ye walking out of the infirmary holding a teacup, So he got in through the open door of the infirmary.

There are three beds in the infirmary of the detective agency. Nanako doesn't know why there are so many beds. After all, there are only about ten employees in the detective agency. Sometimes she will come to sleep on the beds here, and thank you Ye never chased her away, and occasionally read poems to her.

Although Nanako doesn't understand Japanese poetry very well, the soft pillows on the hospital bed are very comfortable, and she always falls asleep to the sound of Yosano's poetry reciting.

But she is still very energetic now, so she doesn't plan to climb into any hospital bed to sleep.Of the three beds, only the middle bed was covered by the curtain.

Nanako lifted a corner of the curtain, poked her head in, and saw a small bag rolled up on the hospital bed.Nanako got into the curtain, ran to the bed, stood on tiptoes, leaned on the edge of the bed, and looked towards the hospital bed.

The "Wang Jiang" she dragged back yesterday was facing her, curled up in the quilt, as if sleeping, with white braids hanging down from the pillow, fluffy, Nanako stretched out her short hands to reach After a while, she caught the end of the braid, and just as she was about to pull it, the braid slipped away in her hand.

The little boy on the bed turned over, and the little braid was pushed to the other side.

He seems to be still sleeping, with his eyes closed, the corner of his mouth still has a slight smile, as if frozen in this expression, his pale face is thin and scary, his chin is sharp, and his eye sockets are unnaturally sunken. It looks like a child who feels abnormal.

Nanako stared at his face for two seconds, then walked around the bed, ran to the other side, stood on tiptoes and lay on the edge of the bed, reaching for Gogol's braid again.

Just as she grasped the white braid, Gogol suddenly turned over on the bed.

Nanako's little hand was empty again.

She was a little suspicious that Gogol was pretending to be asleep.

Fei Li stretched out a finger, and Nanako poked Gogol's cheek on tiptoe. There was no flesh on his face, and Nanako felt as if she had only poked a hard bone.

She poked again, this time hitting the corner of Gogol's curled mouth.Nanako was a little unsteady, she crooked when poking her fingers, the corners of Gogol's smiling mouth were dragged down by her fingertips, and turned into an arc of curled lips in frustration, Nanako curled her fingers back , the drooping corner of the mouth slowly changed back to the raised one.

【...Like a spring. 】

Nanako stared intently at the corner of Gogol's miraculous mouth, her swarthy eyes were expressionless.

She poked Gogol for a while, and when she had had enough, she finally withdrew her finger, and then slipped out from under the curtain, scaring Yo Xie Ye who had come back from serving tea and sat at the desk.Yosano fed Nanako a mochi, watching Nanako biting the red bean-stuffed mochi, slowly vacated like a little snail, picked up the tea, and continued to eat her refreshments.

"……Um?"

Looking at the two small mochi dumplings left on the plate, Yu Xie Ye was slightly taken aback.

【Did I... just brought back three mochi? 】

She thought with some uncertainty.

***

The mochi with red bean filling is sweet and a bit sticky.

Nanako struggled to bite the glutinous rice skin of mochi, mixed with a little bit of sweet red bean paste, she still felt that the cake was more delicious, or the simple meat buns were fine.

She wandered unsteadily out of the infirmary, walked through the short corridor, then tiptoed to open the door at the end of the corridor, returned to the office area, moved her beloved small bench and sat down beside Ranbu.

"dad."

"What~what~?"

There is a stack of mochi like a small tower on the table, holding a big newspaper, Luanbu is lying leisurely in his office chair like an old man, reading the newspaper while biting the red bean stuffing in the mochi (top four-panel comic).

"Why is Wang Jiang, um, sleeping all the time?" Nanako bit the mochi, and her words were a bit vague, but Ranpo could still understand Nanako's strange and broken sentences as usual.

"It's not 'Wang Jiang' but 'Gogol'!" Ranpo first corrected Nanako's words, and then answered her question, "Because I'm too tired, I want to sleep."

Nanako asked again, "Why are you tired?"

"Because he was arrested to do experiments before, he was beaten, and he couldn't sleep every day, so he was tired. So you can't run around when you go out, or you will be arrested by bad guys like him. Experiment, if there is no cake to eat, you will be beaten." Luanbu stuffed a mochi into his mouth, plausibly scaring Nanako.

After understanding the general idea, Nanako automatically filled in the small piece of content that she didn't understand.It seems to say that Gogol is a child who was trafficked. The people who trafficked him beat him every day, didn't give him food, and had to work from dawn to dusk.

【very pitiful. 】

While eating mochi, Nanako thought sincerely in her heart that the expression on her face was still like a log, without any emotion.

"Dad, will he go to the orphanage too?" The mochi was too sticky, and Nanako chewed hard. Every bite, the upper and lower teeth had to be separated and then closed again.

He ate mochi in big mouthfuls, and Ranbu muttered something indistinctly. Nanako didn't hear his words clearly, and felt as if there was something hard in her mouth.

"Hmm... that brat... those idiots in the secret service department are too troublesome..."

"dad."

"Ok?"

Ranbu subconsciously looked down at his side.

Then he saw Nanako's soft little hand protruding from the armrest of the chair, holding a small white thing in the little hand.

"Tooth time, it fell out."

Nanako, who was missing a front tooth, raised her small head, stared at him blankly with dark round eyes, and looked a little stupid.

Ranbu: "..."

After staring at the teeth in Nanako's hand and being silent for tens of seconds, Ranpo, who hadn't completed the lesson of "Good Dad Basic Course", turned his head decisively and chose to ask for help outside the venue.

——"With Ms. Yosano!!!"