Oda Sakunosuke was walking on the streets of the shopping street.

He is a member of the lowest level of the port mafia. He usually does some chores. Today he helps a store under the mafia to mediate disputes with customers about returning goods, and tomorrow he will find him for an accountant who has lost his pet and has no intention of working. My cat, come to the office of the branch the day after tomorrow to get their arms purchase application form for this month, such chores that have nothing to do with "important" at all, can be done by anyone.

I came to the shopping street today because last night, a robbery occurred in a store in the shopping street. The criminal has not been found so far. He came here to investigate the situation.

The shop that was robbed was a pawn shop owned by the Port Mafia. The pawn shop operated independently on the surface. Only a few people knew that standing behind it was the Port Mafia. The store is also doing money laundering business in private. With this, it can collect a lot of important information for the port mafia.

I heard that two clerks died in the store. In addition to asking the store manager about the situation, Oda also needed to retrieve a secret account book and send it to another office of the Port Mafia for safekeeping, so that the account book would not be robbed. During the investigation of the incident, it was obtained by the police or others.

Today is a rest day, but it was probably because it rained in the afternoon, and there were not many pedestrians on the road in the shopping street. He strode across the puddles of rainwater on the wet road and walked towards the pawn shop. , when turning a corner, a little girl squatting in front of a certain shop appeared on the deserted street in front of her.

It is a ramen shop. It can be seen that the shop is not big. There are Japanese-style cloth curtains hanging on the eaves at the entrance of the shop. There is also an advertising stand with plastic sheets in an iron frame on the ground. It is about half the height of a person. .

The little girl was squatting on the side of the half-person-high standing sign, hugging her knees, looking at the road under her feet, she didn't know what she was looking at, a small ball, like a tree emerging from the corner after the rain Small mushroom.

The street is quite spacious enough for two cars to pass side by side. The little girl squatting at the door of the store is actually quite inconspicuous. If you glance at it, you will be ignored directly, and people will not realize that there is a little girl like that here. At first glance, the sense of existence is as weak as a mass of air.

But Oda Sakunosuke still saw the little girl at a glance.

He looked at the quiet, expressionless little girl, and felt a sense of familiarity from her small body.

Oda Sakunosuke slowed down, and his eyes stayed on the little girl for a few more seconds. The little girl stared at the ground under her feet expressionlessly, her dark eyes were emotionless, and he took two more steps forward before finally She saw what she was staring at intently—just a line of ants out for food after the rain.

The little girl just stared at the group of ants in silence, as if she was observing something serious and great, and did not move. On such a young and expressionless face, it looked solemn and dull. , making it impossible to guess what she was thinking.

——[I’m so hungry, why haven’t the ramen been cooked yet. 】

Nanako, who was squatting in front of the store waiting for Gogol to tell her to eat ramen, thought to herself.

The air conditioner and exhaust system in the store are broken, and the maintenance man has not yet come. Although it is still a bit cold in spring, the ramen noodles are steaming hot from the pot, which still makes people feel stuffy, especially in such a rainy day. After wet weather.It was too uncomfortable to stay in the store, so Nanako squatted at the door of the store and counted ants, and asked Gogol to wait in the store, and told her to go in to eat when the noodles were ready.

Oda Sakunosuke didn't know that Nanako's little head was filled with such an unpretentious idea, he just looked at the little girl with a little more concern, then looked away, wanting to continue walking forward.

But at this time-

The roar of the locomotive came from the other side of the street, and the next moment, a black motorcycle appeared at the corner at the end of the street.

Almost without a second of hesitation, the front of the car turned around, the body of the car poured almost close to the ground, and after a sharp drift, the black motorcycle rushed into the street where Oda Sakunosuke was now, and there was no way to avoid it. Meaning, even turned down the accelerator to speed up and rushed straight forward.

It will hit—Oda Sakunosuke judged it almost immediately.

Such a straight approaching trajectory will inevitably knock the little girl who is squatting at the door of Lamendian into the air, but the man driving the locomotive does not change direction to avoid it at all, it seems that he only wants to pass here at the fastest speed .

The man driving the locomotive was wrapped tightly around his body, and the helmet he was wearing made it impossible to see the expression on his face. This kind of attire was obviously intentional.

At this moment, Nanako, who was squatting in front of the ramen shop, raised her little head when she heard the roar of the locomotive, and turned to look at the situation over there, but the locomotive was no more than ten meters away from her. .

Oda Sakunosuke took a big step almost subconsciously, rushed towards the little girl, stretched out his hand suddenly and dragged her into his arms, threw her on the ground with her in his arms, and rolled out twice, Only then stood up on his legs.

The locomotive passed the place where Nanako was standing just now, and continued to drive forward without stopping. Oda Sakunosuke picked up the advertising stand of the ramen shop next to him, and aligned the corner of the iron frame with the sign on the locomotive. That figure threw it with all its strength.

The iron frame flew out of the air and hit the driver's shoulder hard. The front of the car lost control, and the whole locomotive tilted to one side. Just as Oda Sakunosuke was about to take advantage of the victory, he grabbed something and threw it out to make the locomotive fall. but before he could hold on to anything, the locomotive more than ten meters away suddenly skidded and fell to the ground. Finally stopped.

The man driving the locomotive seemed to have been knocked unconscious, lying on the side of the street, motionless.

The customers and employees in the shops on both sides of the street walked to the door of the shop because of the huge movement. Oda Sakunosuke put down the little girl in his arms, trotted over, and checked the fainted driver.

Under the helmet is a young man about 30 years old, his eyes are closed tightly, and the wound on his forehead is slowly bleeding.

Oda Sakunosuke found a document bag on his body. He opened the document bag and found that it contained the account book that he planned to go to the pawn shop later.

This man was not a member of the Port Mafia, Oda Sakunosuke could be sure of that, but if so, why was the ledger in his hands?Is he someone sent by that organization?

He wondered what was going on.

Was the robbery of the pawn shop last night also related to this incident?

Not long ago, a certain supernatural person in Yokohama died. Such things often happen in Yokohama, but the problem is that this dead supernatural person left a huge property of 5000 billion yen, converted into US dollars There are also more than 40 billion.

This property has now become ownerless, causing shocks in the underground world. All illegal organizations are coveting it, and they have launched open and secret battles to get the money. The port mafia is no exception. The reason why he was specially sent to retrieve the ledger today.

Hiding the account book in the windbreaker, Oda Sakunosuke was thinking, while trying to find something, tied up the man lying on the ground, and handed it over to the superior, but he didn't think about the reason yet, and he didn't After finding a suitable "rope", I heard the flat voice of a little girl behind me.

"Is he dead?" the little girl asked, just a question that was almost "straightforward", without any emotion mixed in, as if she was just asking him "what time is it now".

"No, just passed out." Oda Sakunosuke replied, also in a similarly dull tone, "and breathing and pulse."

"... Oh." The little girl stared at the man lying on the ground for a while, then took out a small children's mobile phone from her pocket, and pressed a few keys.

Oda Sakunosuke saw her movement from the corner of his eye, so he turned his face, looked at her and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Call, 110." Nanako answered his question in a somewhat procrastinated manner, without moving her dark eyes, she just looked directly at him, and at the same time put the phone to her ear.

Oda Sakunosuke: "..."

He wanted to reach out his hand to stop Nanako's movements, but Nanako had already dialed the phone, and if he hung up forcefully at this time, it would be more troublesome.

As a low-level employee of the mafia, unless it is a task such as attacking the police station, it is probably not appropriate to deal with the police for any other reason. Oda Sakunosuke wanted to leave, but there was still the man driving the motorcycle lying on the ground men, and there are more and more people watching around...

Seeing Nanako finished explaining the situation to the police officer on the other end of the phone in very short sentences, Oda Sakunosuke felt that he might not be able to leave today. Just as Nanako hung up the phone, the boy's immature voice suddenly rang out behind them up.

"What's wrong with this man?"

The tail is slightly raised, and it sounds like a rather brisk tone, reminiscent of a bird singing on a branch in the morning.

Oda Sakunosuke looked behind him, and saw a slender boy about ten years old. The boy had very beautiful long white hair, which was braided into a thin three-strand braid and hung on his shoulders. The European face is obviously different from the Japanese, holding two tricolor balls in one hand, one left and one right.

He handed one of the dumplings to the little girl standing next to Oda Sakunosuke.

Biting the dumpling, Nanako answered him slowly: "Driving, then flew, and fell unconscious."

The succinct narrative uses only short sentences, but it directly and clearly explains what happened, and just ignores some "small details" that are "not so important".

"Did it fly like a bird?" Gogol also took a bite of the dumpling and asked with interest.

Nanako thought for a while, then shook her head: "Like a fish."

She used a metaphor that seemed very strange at first, but Oda Sakunosuke carefully recalled the situation when the man fell from the car, but she found it very subtle. It looked like being thrown to the ground A bouncing fish?

Gogol let out a "huh", as if he was thinking, before replying after a few seconds: "Forget it."

"Forget it" means to forget what?

Oda Sakunosuke didn't understand the boy's words, but he still kept his original expression—that is, no expression. He borrowed a nylon cable tie for binding things from the staff of the nearest store, and tied the man's hands and feet. got up, and began to inspect the locomotive.

A modified locomotive, because it flew several meters away, had several collision dents on the body, but it was not seriously damaged. The main parts such as the engine were normal, and it was still able to continue driving.

After a careful inspection, Oda Sakunosuke also found out the reason why the locomotive suddenly skidded and overturned.

The locomotive's rear tire blew out.

A piece of bamboo stick was stuck straight into the tire, half of the head was still exposed. He held the head of the bamboo stick, and with a little force on his wrist, he pulled the bamboo stick out of the tire.

It was a complete bamboo stick nearly fifteen centimeters long.

He looked at the bamboo stick he pulled out from his hand, and for some reason, it felt a little familiar, but before he remembered where he had seen something similar, he heard the sound of a siren from a distance.

A police car soon appeared on this street, and the first to get out of the car was a young female police officer, with a neat demeanor in every move, quite in line with the public's perception of the heroic appearance of a "police lady". Know.

"Nanako?" When the police lady saw the two children, her face was obviously surprised.

It was one of the policemen Nanako was most familiar with, the Aoki Police Department, so she nodded her head "uh", then bit the dumpling, and pointed to the man lying next to the fire hydrant: "Prisoner, this is it."

I have heard that the prisoner was driving dangerously in the shopping street and almost hit someone, but was stopped by a "passerby who was brave enough to see justice", and he overturned the car and fell unconscious. After handcuffing the person, the contact person was prepared to send him to the hospital. Other police officers also methodically began to protect the scene, inquired about nearby stores, and began to call the surveillance cameras at the entrance of the store.

"Who was the victim who was almost hit?" Police Department Aoki asked the little policeman behind him.

Little police officer: "According to eyewitnesses in surrounding stores, it seems to be..."

Nanako tugged at the corner of Police Department Aoki's clothes.

The Aoki Police Department patted her on the head, and coaxed casually: "Hey, my sister is investigating the case, you go to the side to play first." After speaking, she asked the little police officer: "Who is the victim?"

"Uh...that's her." The little police officer gestured to Nanako who was standing next to the Aoki Police Department, "According to the customer in the toy store, the child was squatting in front of the ramen shop and the suspect was driving a motorcycle from the street. The other end rushed over and almost ran into the child, but a man passing by rushed over to save her, and at the same time grabbed the billboard in front of the ramen shop, knocking the suspect unconscious."

Aoki Police Department: "..."

She lowered her head and patted Nanako's little head again, very loving and gentle.

Nanako also bit the last dumpling into her mouth. The dumpling was sweet and a bit sticky. She had to chew hard several times before swallowing it.

"Is there any injury? Or where does it hurt? Did you hit it?" Aoki Police Department asked.

Nanako shook her head, and while chewing on the dumpling, she stretched out her short hand, pointed at Sakunosuke Oda who was being questioned by a police officer, and said, "That uncle, pick me up and run away."

The members of Ranpo and Detective Agency were not there, and I felt that I and Nanako were somewhat destined to be guardians. The people's good policeman Aoki Police Department immediately strode over and held the copper-haired man's hands, full of sincerity. Said: "This gentleman, thank you very much for your brave actions and saved the life of a child. I am the Aoki Police Department of the Yokohama Nishi Ward Police Station. Your just act is worthy of the police pennant..."

"... Zhang."

The Aoki Police Department suddenly realized something was wrong.

In the palm of this man's hand, there were calluses that would only be worn out by holding a gun all year round.But in a place like Yokohama, those who hold guns all year round are either the police or...

【mafia】

A mafia who saved a child.

pennant?Or handcuffs?

Looking at the man with a dull expression in front of her, a fierce battle between heaven and man broke out in her heart, and before the result was reached, she felt that the corner of her clothes was being tugged again.

She lowered her head and met another little face that was a little dazed.

"What's wrong?" Police Department Aoki tried to make his tone appear more natural.

Holding the bamboo stick after eating the dumplings in her hand, Nanako raised her head and said to the Aoki Police Department: "I'm going over there to eat ramen."

She pointed to the ramen shop not far away.

"Ah, okay, don't run around after eating, and I'll send you back later." Police Department Aoki almost didn't even know what he said, he opened his mouth instinctively, told Nanako a few words, and then Watch her walk into a ramen shop with another little boy who is always at the detective agency.

The Aoki Police Department turned their eyes back to the "unfathomable" man in front of them, and found that the man was also watching Nanako's back as she entered the store. From that wooden face, no malice could be felt.

She weighed it over and over again for three seconds, but in the end she didn't reach for the silver handcuffs around her waist. After all, she didn't have any evidence to prove that this man had done anything illegal. On the contrary, in this incident, he was still a brave man nice guy.

The Aoki Police Department finally decided to send this man a pennant after returning to the police station, the biggest one, hoping to remind this man to do good deeds in the future and wash his hands in the golden basin - of course, it would be even better if he was a good person in the first place up.

"Excuse me, is your name...?" Aoki Police Department asked.

The man seemed to be distracted. When asked by her like this, he reacted a little too slowly before answering: "Oda, Oda Sakunosuke."

After he finished his answer, he glanced in the direction of the ramen shop with some concern.

[...that bamboo stick. 】

The author has something to say:

The bamboo stick that burst the tire was made by Gogol with his supernatural power.

In fact, even if Oda Saku didn't rush over at that time, the car would not be able to hit Nanako, and Gogol would be sent flying by using his supernatural power.

This cub has already mastered the homework of "How to use supernatural powers under Nanako's nose".

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