After becoming a chaotic daughter

the third time.

Enter the game.

as a victim.

Although the Aoki Police Department said in a daze, "I will send you back later", as the person involved, Nanako still had to be taken to the police station to make a statement, and she was still underage, so she needed to be accompanied by a guardian.

Nanako has been to the police station in this area several times. As soon as she entered the police station, a police lady greeted Nanako familiarly: "Nanako is here again. What do you want to drink? There are carrot juice and spinach juice." !"

【...None of them want to drink. 】

Nanako thought to herself that she didn't like carrots or spinach.

"Okay, Xixiang." Police Department Aoki waved her to calm down, "This time, Nanako is the person involved, I will take... this Mr. Oda," she gestured to the tall man who was following her, "To make the records, you take care of these two children first, and contact Mr. Luanbu by the way, and then you have to make records for these two children."

"Yes~" The police lady took Nanako and Gogol by the hand, and took a look, but she didn't see the prisoner who was handcuffed behind the Aoki police department, "Did the suspect not be caught?"

"No, there was an accident. The suspect was driving dangerously in the downtown area. The motorcycle he was driving skidded and rolled over. He is now in the hospital. I don't know if he is awake." Only when the suspect was turned over, nothing major happened."

The police lady immediately clapped her hands: "Amazing! Sure enough, you can't judge by appearance, Mr. Oda looks very plain!"

Aoki Police Department: "... Xixiang, if you can't speak, you don't need to say it."

"Is this a personal attack, Senior Aoki! Bullying in the workplace is prohibited!" The police lady immediately changed her face, covering her chest with her hands, with a frail and frightened look.

[Can your play be less like your EQ? 】

Aoki Police Department sighed inwardly tiredly.

She took Oda Sakunosuke to the inquiry room to take notes, and before leaving, she told the police lady to remember to contact Mr. Ranpo.After watching their backs disappear into the corridor, Nanako lowered her head and pulled out her children's mobile phone from her pocket when facing the police lady and asked again "carrot juice or spinach juice", pretending not to hear her question.

"I'll call Dad." She held a small mobile phone, raised her face and said to the police lady.

"Ah, that's right, I have to contact Mr. Ranpo." The police lady nodded in agreement, and didn't ask them what they wanted to drink.

After finding [パパ] among the contacts with only a few names, Nanako dialed the number and put the phone to her ear. After hearing two brief "beeps", the call was picked up immediately.

"Dad." Nanako said dryly.

The two little radish heads went out to eat ramen, but they hadn't come back after the expected time. After looking at the location, Luanbu knew that something had happened again. He asked Huadai to adjust the monitoring of the store in the shopping street, and combined with the recent rumors According to some news, Ranpo has already figured out the whole thing. When Nanako received the call, he and Kunikida were already taking a taxi to the police station.

So as soon as he picked up the phone, he said succinctly: "Dad will be there in 15 minutes."

Nanako: "...Oh."

Probably other small police officers have already contacted it.

Nanako guessed so reasonably.

Although Nanako responded honestly, Ranpo didn't feel anything like "an old father's comfort" at all, and the famous detective only felt very unhappy.

——Anyway, his idiot daughter got into the game too many times!

When I was in first grade, the former black-hearted doctor who met the port mafia on the way from school turned out to be the black-hearted leader.

In the second grade, at the gate of the school, Pan Xingjiao recognized the wrong person and hired a curse master to kidnap him.

Now in the third grade, when I went out to eat ramen, I was involved in a mafia struggle and almost had an accident.

The good news is that she's not the one who's going to do it every time she gets into the game, and the bad news is that she's the one who's almost victimized every time she gets into the game—although that Mori Ogai guy didn't actually treat Nanako ideas for what to do.

"Nanako." Ranpo said with a strange tone while holding the phone, "Do you remember how many times you went to the police station?"

How many times...

Nanako counted on her fingers for a long time in her heart, but found that she couldn't count at all. She followed Luanbu to the police station several times, and she even knew exactly which sensor faucet in the police station's bathroom was broken and hadn't been repaired for three months. .

You know, before crossing over, she didn't even go to the police station, let alone go to the police station. She didn't even know where the police station near her residence was.

Unable to even come up with an approximate number, Nanako had no choice but to answer him slowly: "Many times...uncountable."

Ranbu: "..."

[Is the law and order in Yokohama too bad? 】

——This idea suddenly popped up in Edogawa Ranpo's mind.

Immediately, he rejected this idea in his mind.

--Is not this nonsensical!

The law and order in Yokohama is not only "too bad", but "too bad" at all!Otherwise, how could it be called "the city outside the law"!

"Stay obediently and don't run around. If you want to eat, let Gogol buy it!" Ranbu told Nanako again, and hung up the phone.

He sat in the taxi, put his mobile phone in his arms, and turned his head to look at the rapidly receding street scene outside the window.

A mafia with a gun hidden under his coat came out of the alley, a thief passed passers-by and stole his wallet, a car that was obviously illegally modified and had a fake license plate drove past the next lane... …

【...Ah, the law and order in this city is really bad. 】

I have lived in Yokohama for six or seven years. Although it is not the first time I have seen these scenes, it seems that it is the first time I have such feelings in my heart.

*******

Yokohama City Nishi Ward Police Station, Interrogation Room No. [-].

Oda Sakunosuke is taking notes.

This is not the first time he has come to the police station in his life. In fact, he has been to the police station several times before he became a mafia-as an arrested prisoner, so he is very familiar with the detention center. familiar.

Before joining the port mafia, he was a solitary killer who acted alone. Countless mission targets died under him, because he had super physical skills, super abilities, and super marksmanship... …

【……ah,】

Oda Sakunosuke, who was sitting opposite the Aoki Police Department, suddenly remembered something.

He had two pistols pinned to his body, just under the sand-colored trench coat.

...I hope that the very shrewd and capable police lady in front of me will not find out about this.

"Name?"

"Oda Sakunosuke."

"age?"

"21 is old."

"contact number?"

"..."

It’s the first time to sit in the “interrogation room” as a “witness”—he used to sit on a simple stool in the “interrogation room” with a big light bulb staring at his face——Oda Sakunosuke is honest After answering the basic information carefully, I heard the Aoki police department ask again:

"Occupation and place of work?"

He hesitated.

As the lowest-level member of the Port Mafia, Oda Sakunosuke does not have a fixed place of work. On weekdays, someone from his superiors assigns him something, and he does it. All branches and offices of the Port Mafia Can make him work, so he didn't know how to answer this question for a while.

After seriously lowering his head and thinking for a moment, he decided to try to get away with a rather vague answer: "Employees of the Mori Club."

All the businesses operated by the port mafia on the surface are under the brand of "Sen's Club", covering various industries from accounting firms to supermarket chains. He said that it should not arouse suspicion.

Sure enough, the Aoki police department who wrote the transcript didn't ask any more questions.

[Sen's Club...is that big company that has emerged in the past two years, right? Only Sen's Club is mentioned, so it should mean working at the headquarters? 】

Aoki Police Department thought in his heart.

[Yes, since there is a stable job, the possibility of being a bad person is even lower. 】

After all, if it is 996 during the day and the Mafia at night, it is a bit too hard to live that day. Since there is a stable and decent job, most people will not do that kind of work with their heads tied to their waistbands.

She asked Oda Sakunosuke to describe what happened in detail, and then began to supplement and confirm the details.

"...When the incident happened, why was Mr. Oda in the shopping street?" Aoki Police Department asked this very normal question step by step.

But Oda Sakunosuke was silent, he found himself unable to answer this question.

After all, he couldn't say that he was a mafia, and that he came to the shopping street to get black ledgers, but if he wanted to find a suitable reason, what should he say?

Oda Sakunosuke is not a man with a very flexible mind, so he vetoed his own "buying clothes" - it is too strange for a bachelor to go shopping alone in a busy street like the shopping street to buy clothes, "buying novels" - as long as Looking at the surveillance, it is easy to realize that there is no bookstore or "eating" in that direction - before being brought to the police station, he did not reveal any intention of going to eat first... After a series of excuses such as these, he suddenly remembered the day before yesterday A conversation with a friend while drinking at a bar.

【——"Hey~Odasaku, I assure you! At that moment, I definitely saw the goddess of death waving to me! But it's such a pity, the rope around my neck suddenly 'hissed' The ground broke, so I just fell on the hard marble floor, and my tailbone still hurts like someone hit it with a hammer."

— “Yeah, that does sound like a pain.”

——"Pain is really the thing I hate the most. If I can find a good quality rope, even if I have to pay [-] yen to buy it-as long as it is strong enough to let me go smoothly If you successfully complete your suicide goal..."]

"I'm here to help my friend buy hemp rope." Oda Sakunosuke said to the Aoki police department without changing his face.

"Hemp rope?" Aoki Police Department asked with some doubts. Few people would need to buy this kind of thing these days. "Do you need to bundle boxes or something?"

"No." Oda Sakunosuke paused and replied, "I have a friend who wanted to try to hang himself, but because the rope he bought was not strong enough, it broke halfway, and he wanted to buy a better quality one. hemp rope."

He said in a declarative tone, with a straight line and no ups and downs, and he didn't seem to think that "suicide" was a word that would make people frightened.

Aoki Police Department: ...

She looked at Sakunosuke Oda with suspicious eyes, and suddenly felt that the man in front of her had always had a dull face, which seemed to have some other meanings, such as "I have lost hope in life", "I have no hope in my heart." Positive thoughts", "The soul is silent and becomes a pool of stagnant water"...

The Aoki Police Department suddenly became a little nervous.

——Is that friend you mentioned really yourself?

She stopped writing, stretched out a hand, hesitated for a moment, then leaned forward and patted Odasaku's shoulder: "Life...is still very long, don't give up lightly. "

"?" Oda Sakunosuke didn't get what she meant, but this sentence didn't sound like a bad word at all, it was obviously comforting, so he also nodded and thanked, "Thank you."

For some reason, he raised his head after thanking him, feeling that the Mu police department looked at him even more strangely.During the next period of transcripts, from time to time, she would come up with a few words such as "after the storm, there will be a rainbow", "someone will stand by your side", "don't make those who care about you sad", "find the police if you have difficulty". kind of strange words.

There are a few points that Odasaku still thinks are very reasonable. For example, he still has a friend like Dazai, so don’t ignore his friends’ thoughts at will, but things like "finding the police if you have difficulty" are probably not suitable for him as a mafia of.

After finally finishing the record, a bright red pennant was stuffed in Oda Sakunosuke's hand, and after being dragged to take a photo with several police officers inexplicably, the pennant was taken away again.

Oda Sakunosuke looked at his empty hands, and for some reason, felt that he had lost the pennant, and felt a little empty in his heart.

The little police officer who took away the pennant folded the pennant and stuffed it back into the cabinet, while explaining to him: "This flag is for group photos, and the pennant awarded to Mr. Oda by the police station will take a few days to make. Alright, when the time comes, should I contact Mr. Oda and pick it up at the police station, or send it to you?"

Oda Sakunosuke, who didn't really want to come to the police station again, chose the latter.

The little police officer brought him a pen and paper and asked him to leave an address.

As a mafia, it is obviously inappropriate to disclose one's address to the police, so Oda Sakunosuke held the pen in his hand, faced the blank paper in front of him, and after a short thought, left Mori's club The address of the headquarters.

Then a few more words were added.

【Recipient: Osamu Dazai】

Although a grassroots employee like him doesn't work at the headquarters, it doesn't matter. He has a friend who works at the headquarters.

The author has something to say:

Odasaku's idea: buy a hemp rope for a friend, and let the friend collect the courier by the way

Odasaku's action: After giving Dazai the hemp rope he bought, he forgot to talk to Dazai about express delivery

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a week later

Suddenly received a courier from the police station Dazai:?

Mori Ogai who came to take a peek when he heard that Dazai had a courier:?

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There are two main police officers in the text

①Officer Yasui

It's Fuminori, the city policeman who used to work with Ranpo before Police Officer Minura

In the Five Declines of Heaven incident, he became the main supporter of the detective agency. At that time, he had already held the position of deputy director of the Metropolitan Police Department (analogous to the position of the deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security in our country)

Wen Yeli did not describe his image, only appeared twice in the form of his name, so the age and personality are all set by me

② Police Department Aoki (original character)

The lady from the police department who was at the scene when Nanako first passed through was set to be a young and promising policewoman (in her twenties), who was responsible for the cases of ordinary people who were basically non-supernatural beings, as well as sporadic mafia crimes.