After becoming a chaotic daughter

The spring rain fell.

When I woke up early in the morning, there was the sound of pattering rain outside the window. Overcast clouds floated over Yokohama, but there was still a bright light from the sky falling from the clouds, illuminating the raindrops that slanted in the wind and drifted to the ground, like fine A curtain made of long crystals.

Humid water vapor permeated the air, whether it was the sky or the ground, it seemed that there was water everywhere, and even the paper on the table seemed to be damp and wrinkled.

The sound of cars on the road was mixed with the sound of rain, blocked by the window glass, and when it reached the house, it was mostly blurred and turned into a chaotic muffled sound.

The detective agency was very quiet, only the sound of the keyboard clicking and the occasional flipping of paper could be heard.Few clients would choose to visit in this kind of weather. After all, no one likes to be soaked by the rain. Storing and drying wet umbrellas is also troublesome. Therefore, the agency is still relatively quiet today, and everyone is dealing with the items at hand. Over the past few days, unfinished work has piled up, and the clerk who has nothing to do leisurely makes tea, reads a novel, or flips through the news on the phone.

Nanako, who finished her homework, was also reading a novel.

As usual, she moved her beloved small bench in the corner to the edge of the chaotic office chair, then took out a novel magazine from the bookshelf, and sat on the small bench to read it.

The magazine's name is "Wild Times", which sounds reminiscent of field shows such as "Animal World", but in fact, this is indeed a magazine that publishes various short and long stories.The magazine seems to have been published not long ago, and the one Nanako is holding is the latest issue, but it is only a single-digit issue.

She was sitting on a small bench, trying to read the novels in this magazine with her elementary school vocabulary, and behind her, Luanbu, sitting in a comfortable office chair, was happily holding a small comb and Rubber band, playing with Nanako's tousled hair.

Nanako's hair is disheveled, not soft at all, like a clump of weeds that grow randomly, even if it is barely combed, it will always become messy again soon, more than Luanbu's own hair messy.

At first, I thought it was due to malnutrition and no one to help her take care of it, so this black hair was so dry, frizzy, uneven, and messed up like a bird's nest, but after so long, her black hair Some of the yellowish hair ends turned black, and the hair grew a little longer. I have been to the barber shop several times, but Nanako's hair is still messy, and it is very troublesome to comb.

Luanbu took the comb, trying to comb Nanako's hair a little smoother, and pulled Nanako's hair several times, but Nanako just frowned, and then continued to bury her head in her magazine.

Most of the articles published in this magazine are popular popular novels, and there are no particularly obscure articles, but Nanako still finds it difficult to read. Unlike the articles in textbooks, the novels always mention some Japanese characteristics Words, such as "common sayings", "special products", "festival customs", etc., but Nanako can roughly know what they mean even with a simple guess, and if they really don't understand, they can ask random steps.

"dad."

"what?"

"What is 'Yosei'?" Nanako lifted up the magazine in her hand and pointed out the word for Ranbu to read, her little head not moving.

Trying to braid Nanako's hair in his hand, Chaospo took a casual look and replied, "It's just a place to watch other people's performances."

"Oh." Nanako put down the magazine and continued to look behind her. After a while, she called again: "Dad."

"Huh?" Ranpo grabbed Nanako's hair, trying to figure out how to braid it.Nanako's hair was a bit too short, and she had only braided a few sections in random steps, and only a small section of frizzy hair was left in her hand.

"What is 'Zihua Gambling'?" Nanako asked.

Luanbu didn't even look at the magazine that Nanako held up, twisted his arms into a twisted posture, grabbed Nanako's little grip, and answered her: "Just write down the Chinese characters, and then cover half of them, let you guess what the Chinese characters are game."

Nanako didn't know what's so interesting about this kind of game, but she still let out another "oh", and tried her best to finish reading the novel, and then turned to the next page.After failing to fight against Nanako's messy black hair, she gave up braiding, and Ranpo has already started to tie her a second hairpin.

The new novel is called "The Murder in the Front", the title is concise and clear, and it is a mystery novel at a glance.

Nanako doesn’t like reading mystery novels very much. Mystery novels always have a lot of scene descriptions. It’s okay to read in Chinese, but in Japanese, Nanako struggles just to understand those words, and finally read a large paragraph of sentences with difficulty. , I have completely forgotten what the scene described in this passage is like.

Moreover, in Japanese mystery novels, the text puzzles are also in Japanese. Nanako’s Chinese characters or fifty syllables come and go, and she feels dizzy. Sometimes after reading a novel, she doesn’t know what she wrote. In the story, even the dead are forgotten.

She hasn't even read a few mystery novels in Chinese, and she is even less interested in Japanese, which requires more brain reading. In comparison, things like romance novels and adventure stories seem easier—although It seems that she hasn't read a few Japanese mystery novels until now.

After all, "the father of Japanese mystery novels" is still just a laborer who fishes every day in a detective agency. It is probably normal that the Japanese mystery novel world is relatively desolate at the moment.

Thinking of this, she stretched out her little hand, intending to fold this page, and then jump directly to the next article, and after finishing reading this magazine, she will show this novel to Luanbu to let him read more Accumulate some reading experience, which can be used after being fired.

One corner of the page was folded inward obliquely, exposing a sharp corner above the magazine. The folded page half-blocked the author's name, revealing only a surname.

【Henggou】

Seeing these two words, Nanako thought for a while, and then opened the page a little, wanting to see what the person's full name is. After all, Japan seems to have never heard of any famous writer of mystery novels. There are not many novels, and they can be regarded as rare species.

Then she saw the author's name:

【Official History of Henggou】

[...It seems a little familiar. 】

Nanako stared at the name for a while, but didn't quite remember where she had seen the name before, so she buried her head in flipping through the mystery novel again, moved her eyes down, and found the name of the protagonist detective in a large section of the text. name:

【Kindaichi Kosuke】

Nanako: "...?"

Staring at these three words with her dark eyes for a while, Nanako folded the page back along the creases expressionlessly, raised her head, looked at the desk drawer in front of her, and remained silent for a while. He lowered his head again and turned the pages of the book.

【Kindaichi Kosuke】

Nanako: "...??"

She closed the magazine, her two soft little hands were folded on the cover, her short legs were together, and the chaotic steps behind her had already started to tie the third one for her.

She opened the magazine again, and found the article "Honjin Murder Incident", the page still had the crease just now, and the author's line of black letters neatly printed three Chinese characters:

【Kindaichi Kosuke】

Nanako: "...???"

Isn't Jin Tianyi that one? She remembers that she seems to be the protagonist in a Japanese reasoning anime?He is a high school student or a grandfather detective, he is similar to Akechi Kogoro, and he is also a well-known character—yes, she remembered, "Detective Kindaichi Collection", it seems to be called this name... Wait, Is this anime based on a novel?It seems that the original work is the same as the Akechi Kogoro series, a series of mystery novels composed of many short stories.

But the anime seems to be different from the protagonist in the novel...

Nanako thought hard for a long time, but she couldn't figure out what was going on. Whether it was the anime "Kindaichi" or the novel "Kindaichi", she had never read it, otherwise she wouldn't recognize the name "Henggou Masashi" Can't come out, in fact, she doesn't even know the image of the famous detective "Kindaichi". She seems to be a high school student, a grandfather, and a scruffy young man in kimono. There will be these completely contradictory cognitions.

But there was one thing she was sure of.

That is [Kindaichi], like [Akechi Kogoro], is a well-known "famous detective" image in Japan, and Yokomizo Masashi is also a powerful mystery novelist, which should be only a little lower than "Edogawa Ranpo". The status of Diandian...maybe evenly divided.

Henggou Zhengshi has already started writing novels, but her idiot father is still working in a detective agency to catch fish.

Perhaps this is the "variation of life".

Nanako, who was wearing three little thongs, looked at the magazine in her hand, shook her little head, and lifted the magazine up to show her useless father.

"dad."

"Huh?" Appreciating his "fruits of labor", Luanbu replied perfunctorily, thinking very seriously about how to suppress the stupid hair on Nanako's head.

"When did you start writing mystery novels?"

"I won't write." Luanbu dismissed her words without thinking, "Novels are too boring, why don't you help the aunt at the dim sum shop across the street catch thieves, and it takes a lot of time to write novels, isn't Dad right?" You'd be wasting your time on this sort of thing."

While talking, he tried to flatten the messy hair on the top of Nanako's head, but he just pressed it down, and when he raised his hand, the messy hair immediately curled up again, fluffy.

No matter how you look at it, it is not pleasing to the eye. Luanbu rebelliously pressed it with his hands a few times, but the hair on the top of Nanako's head was still not flattened. Hanging on the tip of the hair.

He grabbed Nanako's hair and wanted to make two braids for her again. Nanako wanted to show him the magazine in her hand, but she couldn't turn her head, so she had to hold the magazine and sit on the small bench, waiting for the chaos. Bu ties her up with a small stalk, and wants to wait for the scorpion to be tied up before showing the novel to Luanbu.

The official history of Henggou has already started to serialize long mystery novels in the magazine. She is a little worried that if Luanbu stops writing, what if she changes from "the father of mystery novels" to "the grandson of mystery novels".

"Dad, when will you be fired?"

Clutching the magazine in her hand, she asked dryly.

"It's said that Dad will not be fired!"

Luanbu tugged at her little toe, feeling that her disheveled hair was too troublesome, he wanted to shave Nanako's head bald.

But Nanako is a girl who can't shave her head. If she shaves Nanako's head, his hair may also leave him.Although Luanbu felt that combing his hair every morning was a bit troublesome, he still didn't want to be bald.

A famous detective with a bald head - that sounds too bad.

The spring rain outside the house was pattering, beating on the glass windows of the detective agency, and the falling rainwater dripped water marks, like scars carved on the windows.

Stepping on a small bench, Gogol leaned on the window sill with his head propped up, looking at the hazy street view outside the window, holding a green leaf of a potted plant in his hand, with the white three-strand braid hanging behind him, quietly, motionless, with his shoulders Wearing a dark cloak coat.

Those strange golden pupils stared out the window without blinking, as if they saw something that interested him.

On the other side of the city, somewhere far away from the detective agency, in the continuous spring rain, a wisp of black smoke that was so faint that it was almost invisible rose slowly.

The author has something to say:

Edogawa Ranpo, Matsumoto Seicho, and Yokomizo Masashi are collectively known as the "Three Peaks of Japanese Reasoning Literature". Ranpo and Yokomizo knew each other three times, and Ranpo introduced him to work

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Regarding the reason why Nanako can't remember the image of "Kindaichi":

① "Kindaichi Kosuke" described by Yokomizo Masashi is a rough young man in kimono who is the protagonist of "Kindaichi Detective Collection";

② There is a manga called "Kindaichi Juvenile Case Book", the protagonist is "Kindaichi", a male high school student, the authors are Yosaburo Kanari and Seimaru Amaki;

③Kindaichi in the manga, the manga author set him as the grandson of Kindaichi Kosuke, because of this setting, Henggou Masashi’s family had a dispute with the manga author, thinking that the manga was infringing, and later reconciled, so Kindaichi is now The setting is the grandson of Kindaichi Kosuke;

④ Nanako confuses these two people. She has never read the manga and the novel, so she thinks the manga and the novel are the same story series (that is, she thinks the manga is adapted from the novel), and she thinks that the two "Kindaichi" are one person, both horizontal The "Kindaichi" described by Masashi Mizo, so I thought of three different images: "kimono man", "high school student", and "grandpa (Kindaichi Kosuke is the grandfather of Kindaichi)"

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In terms of setting, Nanako’s original world does not have animations such as Fumino, Conan, and Guardian Sweetheart. Knowing the animation of the image of "Kindaichi" is because this image is related to the novel, which is equivalent to a derivative work of a mystery novel, so the original world exists. Kindaichi Boy Case Book" this animation

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The magazine "Wild Age" should correspond to the "Wild Age" in reality, and many mystery novelists have published novels on it.

In Fumino manga, the cover of this magazine says "Wild Times", so Nanako reads "Wild Times" in the text.

Wen Yeli, Henggou Zhengshi wrote novels under the pseudonym "Kindaichi". I set it up privately here that he wrote mystery novels at the beginning, that is, he wrote the Jintian series. He used his real name during this period. Later, when he wrote other mystery novels, he used The pen name of Kindaichi.