After becoming a chaotic daughter

Edogawa Ranpo held a box of hot octopus balls and pushed open the door of the detective agency.

"I am back--!"

It was another day when a detective perfectly rescued the Yokohama police. The prisoner was successfully arrested, and the bomb was accurately found with the help of his strongest ability [super reasoning]. Although he was too useless because the bomb disposal team It was a tiring day after running around, but Officer Yasui promised that he would write a letter of commendation to the detective agency in the future, so he reluctantly endured it.

He doesn't care about the commendation letter from the police. As a famous detective, being commended by a group of idiots, is it something worthy of special concern?It's just that after receiving the commendation letter from the police, he can be praised by the president, which is worth a little hard work for him.

"Kunikida, I entrust you to write the report!"

As soon as he stepped into the detective agency, he immediately left the finishing troubles to the newcomer, rushed to his luxurious office chair, went inside, picked up the comic book on the table that he hadn't finished, and prepared to... Watch the next episode with the delicious octopus balls.

Kunikida, who was one step behind him and entered the detective agency, stood at the door, pushed his glasses, and replied sternly, "Okay, Mr. Ranpo."

Compared to Ranpo who just drove back and forth to different places, Kunikida, who also ran with the city police for a day and had to buy snacks for Ranpo's errands, was obviously more tired, with a tired look on his face.

Sitting at the desk, Yosano Akiko raised his head from the computer screen and greeted them: "Welcome back, thank you. Is the matter resolved?"

"Of course—" Luanbu said, stuffed an octopus ball into his mouth, uttered a few vague syllables, and finally swallowed the whole ball with great difficulty, and said carelessly: " With the help of a famous detective, is there any unsolved incident?"

"It's Mr. Ranpo after all."

Yu Xie Ye praised him proficiently, as an old employee, she is already handy with this kind of necessary skills for members of the detective agency.Even Kunikida, who has just been here for a few months, after seeing Ranpo's superb "supernatural ability", he is completely convinced by this extraordinary ability that is like a miracle.

"Indeed, thanks to the presence of Mr. Ranpo, we were able to resolve this incident within a day." The serious and serious boy said without hesitation, "With extraordinary intelligence like Mr. Ranpo, finding There is no other way in the world.”

As he spoke, he returned to his office, turned on the computer, and began to write the commissioned report.

The empty office area soon became quiet again, only the sound of typing on the keyboard, and the sound of flipping through comics and eating octopus balls.

Yosano also turned her attention back to her work.

"..."

"Say,"

Her fingers on the keyboard stopped suddenly after pressing a few syllables.

"hold head high?"

"Any questions?"

Ranpo and Kunikida responded to her with their own tones.

She stood up with Yosano, her eyes turned twice in the office area, and then cast her eyes on the door that Kunikida had just closed, and after taking it back, she paused for two seconds on Kunikida's face, and finally turned around and landed in the chaotic door. Bu's body didn't move.

"Where did Nanako go?"

she asked.

The two teenagers she questioned froze at the same time.

Kunikida pressed his fingers on the keyboard, and a string of garbled characters slid out of the document on the screen.

Sitting chaotically in the office chair, half-chewed octopus balls stuck in my throat, unable to swallow or spit them out, the comic book held in one hand loosened due to the force of the spine, and the pages of the book clattered went back.

Looking at their expressions, Yu Xie Ye had a bad feeling in her heart, she was silent for a moment, and said with difficulty: "You won't..."

"--No!"

Ranbu immediately interrupted her, refusing to admit her major mistake.

It is absolutely impossible for a famous detective to forget about people and don't know where to throw them!Absolutely, yes, no, can, can!

The dignity of a famous detective is on the verge of crumbling, if the president finds out about it...

Kunikida had already grabbed the phone on the table to contact Officer Yasui.Putting the comic book in his hand and the bamboo stick with half a octopus on it back on the desk, he turned around the office chair he was sitting on and turned the back of the chair towards Yosano and Kunikida, Then he took his glasses out of his pocket.

He forced his glasses on calmly.

[Extraordinary ability-super reasoning! 】

The super-smart and extraordinary brain was spinning rapidly, and all the information that happened when I took Nanako to the scene in the morning were all mobilized from the corners of the brain, reintegrated, and unraveled. In just one second, he deduced where Nanako is now .

"Kunikida! Take me to the police station quickly!"

He jumped off the chair, grabbed Kunikida who hadn't put down the phone, and rushed out of the detective agency. Before going out, he didn't forget to turn his head and yelled "Don't tell the president!" to Xie Ye.

"……Ugh."

Yosano sighed and held his forehead.

*******

Forgetting Nanako was an accident, an absolute accident, really just a small accident, as small as a icing on a donut.

Because he has always been too arbitrary in doing things, in Edogawa Ranpo's cognition, there has always been only "others to accommodate him", and there is no such option as "he to accommodate others".

It's the same when he goes out to work, he runs around according to his own mind, and the people who travel with him can only follow behind him bitterly, or he tells others to lead him the way, only at this time, He will become the one who "follows others", and in essence, it is his thoughts that dominate everything.

In other words, in his subconscious mind, there is no consciousness of "going back to find someone".

And, on the other hand, he has been going out with Kunikida recently, and after arriving at the scene, he was separated from Nanako for a day. Out of habit, he accidentally forgot that he had brought an extra little one with him today.

But no matter what, as Nanako's "father", he forgot about the cheap daughter and didn't bring it home. Ranpo Edogawa felt a little guilty.

If it was an ordinary child, she would definitely cry at the police station at this time, but Ranpo thought, Nanako probably wouldn't cry, after all, she didn't react at all when she saw her biological father's body, Aoki Police Department said She was frightened and stupid, but Edogawa Ranpo knew that the truth of the matter was not like this at all.

Nanako has no [feeling] for her biological father.

This is an inference that Ranpo can easily draw. It is not because the biological father is not a good father, so she simply does not have the love for her biological father as a daughter. Nanako's eyes are full of "disgust", "hate", "anger "There is no such negative emotion.

She's just "emotionless," as if she's dealing with a stranger.

So Edogawa Ranpo doesn't really want to be her "father". After all, this daughter is neither cute nor affectionate. Although it is a bit beyond the detective's imagination to suddenly pull him to be her father, Jiang Togawa Ranpo did not intend to be "taken advantage of".

It was as if when he met the president when he had nowhere to go, he just wanted to meet an honest man and solve the survival crisis of starving to death without a job.Nanako reached out and grabbed his cloak, just wanting to take advantage of him and solve the crisis of orphans who are about to enter the orphanage without a guardian, that's all.

Edogawa Ranpo didn't think how much she really wanted to be her "father".

They took a taxi all the way to the police station, and it was dusk when they stood under the shining police badge at the gate of the police station.

In the nearby residential buildings, the smell of food wafted from the windows. Passers-by who were about to go home hurried along the street, and students who had finished their work carried their schoolbags and laughed and played past them.

The sun was setting, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone goldenly on every piece of land in the city. The birds returning to their nests crossed the sky together, and a few black crows were parked sporadically on the telephone poles, making ugly hoarse calls.

He strode wildly, and walked straight towards the police station. He has been here many times, and he walked in the door with ease. Kunikida followed behind him, his face still so serious and rigid, but Deep self-reflection has begun in my heart.

Forget about Nanako, as a cautious and meticulous person, this kind of low-level mistake should not have happened to him. If the fault of this incident is three points, then he thinks it is seven points. After all, it is Luanbu's task to solve the case, and he, as a junior, should be responsible for these chores.

Stretching out his hand to push open the glass door, his wandering eyes swept across the empty and quiet hall. At this point, most of the staff had already gone to eat, and there was no one to do business.

The rows of chairs for those who came to do business to rest while waiting were empty, only a small figure was sitting in the farthest corner. He was short and almost blocked by other chairs. will be ignored.

"Nanako!"

He yelled, breaking the silence in the hall.

Leaning against the back of the chair, looking up at the wall clock on the wall, Nanako, who was in a daze and was about to fall asleep, was startled by his sudden voice, and her drowsiness was immediately driven away.

She put the cake down, turned around and grabbed the back of the chair, knelt on the chair and straightened up, looked towards the door, and finally saw the chaotic steps who came to pick her up.

"father!"

With a cry, she climbed off the chair clumsily, picked up the cake, ran towards the door, stopped in front of Luanbu, and looked up at him.

"Daddy, cake."

She held up the cake in her arms for Ranbu to see.

The cake followed her for a day, dangling, and already a little collapsed. The white cream was stained on the transparent box, the delicately decorated chocolate ornaments were sunk in the cream, and the cake embryo was tilted to one side.

After sitting in the police station for a whole day, all kinds of people came and went around her. Even though she didn't do anything, Nanako, who was still a child, couldn't take it anymore. She always showed a little tiredness on her expressionless face. , looks like he wants to sleep.

But she didn't cry, she didn't make a fuss, she just tried her best to lift the cake to Luanbu, her dark pupils were lifeless, she stared at Luanbu intently, without any expression, even a little dazed.

Edogawa looked at her randomly, and remembered what he said to her in the morning - "I will be your father only if I have cake".

【…】

[Not cute at all. 】

He thought so, but stretched out his hand, took the cake in Nanako's hand, then hugged Nanako up, and said loudly:

"Let's go, go home!"

The author has something to say:

Feng Shui rotation

【President four years ago】

At the beginning: This child is really noisy, I have to find a way to get rid of it

Result: ...forget it, he's still a kid

【Four years later, Ranpo】

At the beginning: This daughter is not cute at all, I have to find a way to get rid of it

Result: ...forget it, for the cake's sake