After becoming a chaotic daughter

summer vacation.

Cotton-like white clouds are slowly floating in the clear blue sky. There is no wind in the air, and the sun is shining warmly and brightly. The incandescent lamp like a super-large tile hangs brightly in front of people's eyes. Even if you close your eyes, you can't completely Cover up the blinding light.

The traffic flowed back and forth, and hot air evaporated from the concrete road. The heat image expanded like fermented dough, and even the air was distorted.

"Okay—this is Xiao Nanako's chocolate cake, and this is Gogol-kun's apple soft cake, please take it well." With an amiable smile on her face, the aunt in the coffee shop said the two packaged desserts and handed them over. I gave it to Nanako and Gogol who came to buy cakes, and I reached out and touched their furry heads one by one, "This is the change."

"Thank you, auntie~" The golden eyes were bent into crescent moons very obediently. Gogol thanked auntie in his Japanese with a slightly strange accent. He looked like an obedient and sensible boy. In fact, he was serving In Auntie's eyes, she is indeed a sweet, talkative and lovable child. She looks thin and small, which just rightly arouses the "Mother's Heart" of the waiter's auntie. For this reason, even "soft apple cake" This kind of Russian specialty dessert that is not on the menu of the cafe has been given a special treatment for him.

——What a poor child, it would be too pitiful for him to leave his hometown and live alone in Yokohama, and not even be able to eat desserts from his hometown.

Facing the aunt's loving and compassionate eyes, the smile on Gogol's face did not change for a moment. Standing beside him, Nanako also said "thank you" to the aunt sternly, and stuffed the [-]-yen coin she received into her pants She put away her cake in her small pocket, and then pushed open the glass door of the coffee shop with Gogol.

The sweltering heat rushed over the moment the glass door was pushed open, quickly eliminating the cold air left on them by the coffee shop, and the glass door was also covered with a thin white mist in a short second, but after closing The moment quickly dissipated again.

Step by step with short legs, she moved down the steps at the entrance of the coffee shop. Standing on the concrete floor that had been exposed to the sun for a long time, she could feel the scorching heat of the ground through her small slippers. Nanako hugged her cake and was thinking About to run back to the office building, there was a sudden rustling sound from the green belt on the side of the road.

In the lush green bushes, the luxuriant green leaves trembled slightly, with a sound of "swish", a few green leaves scattered on the ground, and a shadow mixed with black, white and yellow jumped out from among the branches and leaves, and landed on the flower bed in the shadow

is a cat.

Nanako has seen a three-colored cat that often haunts the neighborhood several times, and even saw the president feeding it dried fish.

The thin black pupils that form a vertical line seem to be a slit. Sitting in the shadow under the flower bed, the three-colored cat is raising its round head, and its slender vertical pupils are staring straight at the girl standing at the door of the coffee shop. Nanako and Gogol.

Nanako also stood there motionless, staring at it intently with her round black eyes, like a dumb doll.

"Meow~" Sanhuamao let out lazily.

"...Meow." Nanako called after it.

Tilting his head, Gogol turned to look at Nanako, then at Sanhuamao, the little pigtails hanging behind his head shook slightly, and followed suit for some unknown reason: "Meow?"

"Hoo meow..." The cat wagged its tail lazily and yawned lazily. The sharp teeth in its bright red mouth were exposed and then closed, and its triangular furry ears trembled slightly. His eyes moved away from Nanako and Gogol, as if he had lost interest in them.

Nanako's dark eyes stared at it for a few more seconds, and sweat began to flow from her forehead.Sweat stained her eyelashes, causing her eyes to blink a few times in discomfort

Compared with the cat, she still wants to go back to the detective agency to turn on the air conditioner, so Nanako turned around, stepped out her short legs again, and wanted to run into the office building, but the moment she turned around, , the cat sitting in the shadow of the flower bed suddenly arched its back and jumped towards Gogol.

He swiftly took away the soft apple cake in Gogol's hand, and the three-flowered cat moved lightly in the air and turned over. The soft pad stepped on Nanako's head and landed a few steps in front of her. far away.

The three-petal cat has a packaging box with the logo of the Vortex Cafe in its mouth. The cat turns its head to look at the two children who were suddenly attacked behind it. Its yellow, white, and black tail is raised upwards, swinging in mid-air go.

"Meow~"

Putting down the cake box and making a light cry, Sanhuamao lowered its head and picked up the apple soft cake again, and ran across the road with cheerful small steps.

[... cat. 】

Nanako hugged the cake and subconsciously followed the cat, but she was short and ran slowly before crossing the road. The three-flowered cat with the apple cake in its mouth did not know where it went. Even Gogo Li also chased after the shadow.

Gogol is not tall, his arms and legs are thin and thin, and he looks in poor health, but after staying in the detective agency for several months, although he only gained a little weight, he is still Already able to wander around energetically, Nanako can't catch up with him when she runs like a little carrot.

Standing by the traffic light, Nanako raised her short hand and scratched her hair, hesitated for a moment.

【……So hot. 】

The big sun hanging above her head was about to dry her into a radish, wiped the sweat off her face, Nanako turned around slowly, waited for the signal light to turn back to green again, and held the cake again. He ran back across the road, climbed up the steps in front of the coffee shop, and pushed the glass door open again with his shoulders.

The cool air blew from head to toe in an instant, blowing away the heat on her body in one breath.

Nanako shook the sweat-soaked clothes sticking to her body like a kitten, stomping on the brown-red wooden lacquered floor, ran to the bar, which was much taller than her, and stood on tiptoe He put the melted chocolate cake in his hand on the edge of the bar, then grabbed the high chair, climbed up with hands and feet, and sat down carefully.

Both the hair, the eyebrows and the beard are combed neatly and meticulously. The elderly store manager is standing behind the bar, lowering his head and cleaning his beloved coffee pot. Although he is just the owner of the coffee shop, his words and deeds Always like a nobleman, a gentleman is elegant and unhurried.

Seeing Nanako's little head popping out from behind the bar, he was not surprised at all, but slowly put down the coffee pot in his hand, turned around and cut a slice of lemon and lime for Nanako, and served her a cup Iced lemonade, decorated with beautiful lemon slices, inserted a colorful spinner straw, and pushed it in front of Nanako.

"Please use."

he said politely.

"Thank you."

Nanako also had a dull face, and answered him very politely.

The auntie waiter lifted the curtain from the back kitchen, saw Nanako sitting on the bar, and asked in surprise: "Oh, why are you back again?—Still alone, where is Gogol?"

"Guoguoli," Nanako thought while biting the straw, and then replied, "Guoguoli, I went to fight the cat."

"This is really..." Holding the wooden tray, the aunt covered her mouth in surprise, and quickly said to Nanako, "Boys are naughty. The weather is too hot, and Nanako is eating cakes in the shop." Just wait for him, at least there is air conditioning in the shop."

Nanako responded, reached out and opened the cake box, leaned her arms on the bar, holding a small plastic spoon in her hand, and began to eat her chocolate cake hard.The soft piano sound was flowing in the coffee shop, and the guests at several tables subconsciously lowered their voices and chatted softly. The small chocolate cake was quickly dug out in half by Nanako with a small spoon and ate it. inside.

--jingle,

The wind chime hanging behind the store door suddenly rang. Someone pushed the door and came in. Nanako was still burying her head in eating the cake when she heard footsteps coming from the door and stopped beside her.It seemed that a tall person was standing beside her, and the shadow almost covered her whole body.

"Excuse me. I'm Kinomoto, the student who agreed to work in the store last week." The slightly hoarse voice of a teenager who was still in the stage of changing his voice sounded beside her. Nanako bit a small spoon and raised her head to look Looking at it, it was a tall boy with black hair. He seemed to be about the age of junior high school. The expression on his face was as smooth as his voice. The first impression he gave was "cold" and "difficult to contact". , although there is no stinky face, it seems that the words "Don't mess with me" are written on the face.

Nanako stared at him with dark eyes for a few seconds, then immediately lowered her head in disinterest and continued to dig her cake to eat.

"Ah, is it Taoya-kun?" The waiter aunt who heard the noise immediately came out of the back kitchen, "The shop will have to trouble you a little bit later, these two months happen to be summer vacation, and there are a lot of students among the customers. "

"No, it's nothing." The boy whose full name is Momoya Kinomoto lowered his eyelids halfway, his tone was not enthusiastic but also with proper etiquette, "Since it is a part-time job, you should do what employees should do."

"Then let's get acquainted with the store first, and start working again tomorrow. I'll show you first. This is the door of the staff room and the back kitchen..."

Seemingly not surprised by the young man's attitude, the auntie led him towards the back kitchen with a friendly smile on her face, and the large shadow covering Nanako's head disappeared with it.

After devoting herself to eating the chocolate cake, Nanako sipped the lemonade, and then there was another knock on the glass door at the coffee shop.Nanako turned around holding the empty glass, and saw Gogol lying on the glass door with one hand raised high and the other holding a fat three-colored cat. Seeing Nanako finally looked over, With a big smile on his face, his fluffy white three-strand braid hanging loosely over his shoulders, he waved his hand at Nanako through the glass door with great motion.

Putting the cup back on the bar, Nanako carefully climbed off the high chair, then ran to the door, slipped through the squeezed crack of the door, the wind chime hanging on the edge of the door shook lightly , hardly made any sound, and fell silent.

Only the cat, did not see the apple soft cake that was snatched by the cat.Nanako's gaze stayed on the unknown crumbs on the cat's whiskers for a second, and she felt that Gogol's soft apple cake was probably eaten by the cat.

Not only that, but he presumably got into a fight with the cat, and only narrowly won.

Nanako looked at Gogol's loose braid, then at Gogol's torn short-sleeved shirt, and finally at the few white scratches on the back of his hands, and she was convinced that think.

"Nanako Nanako!" Without paying attention to his appearance at all, Gogol hugged the cat in his arms enthusiastically, and asked in a very high-spirited tone: "I heard that three-colored cats for 'boys' in Japan are very expensive, right!? "

As if he was afraid that Nanako might not hear him clearly, he asked "Are you right?" several times in a row, looking at Nanako brightly as if there were light bulbs in his golden eyes.

——['boy''s three-flowered cat]

Nanako guessed that he might mean "male three-coloured cat", she thought about it, and remembered that there seemed to be such a saying, which probably means that three-coloured cats are almost all female cats, and the probability of male cats is about the same as that of the mutated four-leaf clover The same low, so male Sanhua cats are very expensive.

So she nodded.

Gogol immediately picked up the Sanhua cat in his arms, revealing its belly...

and ○○.

The cat struggled with a "wow", but couldn't get rid of Gogol's thin but powerful arm.

Nanako blinked slowly.

She felt as if she saw a piece of breathing gold.

The author has something to say:

About Japanese ability

① Nanako's reading and writing are better than Gogol's, and now (the first grade) is roughly equivalent to the students in the fifth and sixth grades of elementary school.

②The listening ability of the two people is similar, but because of the difference in the practice environment, Gogol understands the common words used by the detective agency better than Nanako (entrust, military police, □□, etc.), and Nanako’s vocabulary is more biased towards normal students (homework , handmade paper-cut, cafeteria and other words).

③Gogol’s speaking ability is better than Nanako’s, because he always babbles, even if he has an accent, he can chat with anyone and practice a lot; Nanako is not used to speaking Japanese, and does not take the initiative to practice a lot, but chooses Before she speaks, she thinks about how to express the complete meaning with the fewest words. This kind of laziness is enough to cope with communication, so she has very little speaking practice, and her speaking ability improves very slowly. Long, I thought fifty sentences in my heart, but only one sentence came out.