After becoming a chaotic daughter

"Come on, open your mouth, ah—"

"what--"

The scene from an hour ago reappeared. Sitting on the stool in the infirmary, Nanako raised her head and opened her mouth wide, asking Yosano to check the gum of her missing front tooth.

"...No bleeding, will it hurt?" Yosano, who was a part-time dentist for the first time, relied on his meager knowledge of dental medicine, and gave Nanako a rough check.

To be honest, it's just the teething period. She doesn't think there is any need for an examination at all. Isn't it normal for children to lose their teeth? After ten days and a half months, new teeth will grow out.

Nanako, who also didn't feel the pain at all, opened her mouth and shook her head slightly. She didn't know how the tooth was stuck by the mochi.

Yu Xieye turned off the small flashlight in his hand, took off the medical gloves and put them in the tray on the table, and said to Luanbu beside him: "It's just a normal tooth replacement, it's not a problem, just don't irritate things recently, Forget things that are too hard, it’s hard to bite if you’re missing front teeth.”

"With Miss Xie Ye..."

"what?"

"How about this?"

Pointing to the front teeth that Nanako had replaced on the table, Ranpo asked with a blank face.

"How to deal with children's replaced teeth" - such knowledge is completely beyond the scope of the detective's understanding. He cried every time he had his teeth pulled out, and he didn't care whether the "bloody" deciduous teeth were put away by his parents or thrown away.

In the blind spot of knowledge, Xie Ye hesitated for a long time before hesitatingly replied: "... Throw it away?"

This kind of replaced tooth should be regarded as "medical waste", right?

She also has no memory of where the teeth she had replaced as a child went.

Reluctantly reaching a consensus, Yosano and Ranpo's eyes focused on Nanako at the same time, and Nanako looked at them with a small expressionless face.

"...Take her out first?" Yosano was not ashamed to throw her teeth into the trash can in front of Nanako, even though it was a little bit more advanced "medical waste" than ordinary trash cans Recycle bin,” but that’s still essentially a trash can.

Luanbu responded twice, picked up Nanako and walked out, walked a few steps and couldn't hold Nanako, put Nanako back on the ground, held her little hand without looking back, walked out with firm steps and majestic momentum , but Yu Xie Ye could barely see from his back that he was nervous about running away.

The door of the infirmary was closed from the outside with a bang, Yu Xieye looked at the small deciduous tooth in the tray, hesitated for a while, put on his gloves, picked up the small medical tweezers, and took the tooth The small front teeth clamped together.

[...In short, let's do a disinfection first. 】

*****

The loss of a front tooth did not cause Nanako any other troubles except that it was a little difficult to eat.

When going to school the next day, Nanako handed over the doll she picked up from the goose house yesterday to Teacher Koizumi in exchange for a reward of choosing an extra cake for tomorrow's afternoon tea.

The little doll was squeezed all the way in her schoolbag, but it didn't become flat. I don't know what material it is made of.When Nanako handed the doll to Teacher Koizumi, for some reason, she always felt that the expression on the doll's face was a little different from yesterday, but she didn't care.

Miwa, who found out that Nanako had already started to change teeth, was very envious. She felt that "beginning to change teeth" was a sign that a child was really going to grow up, compared to things like growing taller, because after all the deciduous teeth had been replaced, she would start to grow up again. The permanent teeth that erupt are the adult teeth.

Changing teeth means starting to grow up, and growing up means that you can go to work in a fair manner, and you can make money by working, and you can help your mother subsidize the family if you earn money.

Nanako felt that there was something weird about this logic, but it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it. In the end, she once again attributed the problem to such unclear things as "cultural differences".

"Have you decided what kind of dog to buy?" Miwa, who was envious of Nanako's change of teeth, asked this matter that she was very concerned about.

Nanako's father is blind. It must be very hard without the help of a dog. If I can buy a dog soon, it will not be so sad.

Not knowing that the idiot father Ranpo has become a "poor blind uncle" in Sanwa's cognition, Nanako also thought about this issue seriously.

Luanbu refused to let her raise Gogol, and said that he would send Gogol to the orphanage called [Secret Service Section]. Nanako had already stamped him with the red seal of "no chance" in her heart.Although she doesn't know when Gogol will be sent away, Nanako can only reconsider raising a dog.

When school was over, Nanako ran to the previous pet shop to have a look while she was still walking in a hurry. The Samoyed, which looked very smart, was tied up in the shop just like a few days ago. Cheerfully sticking out his tongue, the white fur is fluffy and soft.

[It hasn't been bought yet. 】

Nanako stood at the door of the pet shop, poking out half of her head, her dark pupils staring at the big white dog without turning.

An uncle passed by her, walked into the store, stood beside the Samoyed, and chatted with the clerk in a familiar way. He seemed to be a regular customer.

"...Ah no, I was just a little surprised. After all, you returned it before. I thought it was because you didn't get along well."

"Hahaha... It's true that we didn't get along very well before. After taking Taro home, Taro always liked to grab food at the table. There was really no other way, so I had to return it."

"So now this is...?"

"Oh, my son has always been a picky eater and doesn't like to eat, but during the few days when Taro was there, his appetite was very good, and he almost finished every meal."

"That's right. Indeed, with pets, the children's mood will be happier, and they will be more motivated to eat."

"Ah no, it's not because of that."

"Ok?"

"My wife found out that kid just likes to fight people for food—oh, and dogs too."

Clerk lady: ...

Standing at the door of the pet shop, Nanako couldn't hear their conversation clearly, only saw that after a while, the uncle who walked into the shop took away the Samoyed she liked.

One person and one dog walked out of the gate of the pet shop from Nanako's side with cheerful steps.

Nanako, only (ten) sixteen years old, felt the grief of losing a loved one, even though it was just a dog.She walked back to the detective agency with heavy steps and chaotic steps. After finishing her homework, she ran into the infirmary, lay down on the edge of the hospital bed, pulled Gogol's pigtail, and woke him up.

She wanted to talk to Gogol, but just as she opened her mouth, she remembered that they didn't understand the language.Nanako scratched her little head in distress, wondering why the two of them could speak four languages ​​together, why couldn't one overlap.

She thought for a long time, and then said another sentence:

"Wang."

Sitting on the hospital bed, the little boy with silver-white long hair tied into three braids tilted his head, with a smile that wasn't very large on his face, but his golden eyes were deeply curved into crescent moons: "Wang ?”

Unlike last time, this time he took Nanako's "talk" naturally.

But still can't communicate.

"Тыдействительнопохожнащенка."

Gogol murmured to her, his tone as light as a bird chirping on a branch.

Nanako couldn't understand what he was talking about at all, and Gogol knew that Nanako couldn't understand what he was talking about, but he still smiled happily, half-bent his eyes, and continued to say to her: "...запертамаленькаясобачка. Давайтерадостнопообщаемсявклетке."

[... Let's go buy a dog. 】

Nanako didn't understand the whole series of obscenities at all. Nanako felt that dogs might be better at communicating, but Gogol tried so hard to talk to her so much, so she should respond politely. .

So Nanako recited two passages of "The Difficult Road to Shu" for him in Chinese, and then ran away quickly. When talking to Gogol, she always had the feeling that she had strayed into the listening scene of the eighth English test, although he didn't seem to speak English. But in short, in any country in Europe, everyone is relatives.

The first week of school passed in a muddle, except for picking up an egg, a Gogol, and a doll, there was nothing special about it, and the egg was eaten by Chaobu, and Gogol died in a few days. She was thrown into the [Secret Affairs Division], and the doll was also handed over to the teacher, so in short, it can be assumed that none of these things happened.

The homework for the first grade is very simple. Although Nanako still can't keep up with the teacher's Japanese speaking speed, she can barely make up for Chinese and other courses by reading the textbooks.

"Father." Carrying a small schoolbag, Nanako took Ranbu's hand and followed him slowly on the way back to the detective agency.

"What?" Biting a lollipop, Luanbu answered vaguely.

"Wang Jiang... Guoguoli, when will you go to the orphanage?" She asked this question again, because when she asked last time, Luanbu didn't answer her.

"Hmm..." He bit down on the lollipop, and walked around err, er, ah, and didn't answer for a long time.

"Father?" Nanako called him again, raising her expressionless little face, her dark pupils couldn't even reflect the afternoon sun, like a deep dry well.

"Nanako."

"?"

"Do you want to keep a dog?" Ranbu asked in a nonchalant tone, throwing all the "no dogs allowed" words he said before into the sewer.

"...?"

Nanako was thinking about a question seriously.

When he said "dog", which "dog" was he referring to?

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【Gogol Translator】

"Тыдействительнопохожнащенка."→You really look like a puppy.

"...запертамаленькаясобачка.Давайтерадостнопообщаемсявклетке." →...a puppy locked in a cage.Let's chat happily in the cage together.