After becoming a chaotic daughter

When Oda Sakunosuke came out after completing the notes, he saw the little girl he had rescued in the yard of the police station.

A little over one meter tall girl was squatting on the doorstep, with her little head resting on her knees, holding a box of orange juice in her left hand, drinking it, and holding a twig in her right hand, scratching something on the ground. Beside him, the white-haired boy was also drinking orange juice in the same posture, talking to her while looking at what the little girl was drawing on the ground.

— b, u, r, y

A thin branch scrambled in the soil to write a word, and Nanako put on a small face with no expression, like a mechanical voice, and said without any ups and downs: "Bury... sucking and sucking. "

"Bury!" Gogol, who was squatting next to her, followed suit, with a slight tone of voice. He took a sip of orange juice, then turned his head and asked Nanako who was biting the straw, "What does this mean?"

Translating English words into Chinese and then translating them into Japanese for explanation, Nanako thought for a while before saying slowly: "Bury something, or cover it to hide it."

After she finished speaking, she paused, and thought about the extended meaning of the word: "...Also, after a person dies, burying him means 'burial'."

"Can't a living person be buried with this word?" Gogol asked innocently.

"That's a crime." Nanako answered him with a calm expression.

Gogol said "Oh~" in a tone of sudden realization, and then immediately asked: "So it can be used?"

Nanako has never learned this question before. She thought about it seriously with a stern face, and felt that it should be possible based on the basic meaning of the word "bury", so she nodded her head and said "hmm", Then move on.

"Also, when a person dies, burying him means 'losing this person'." She explained to Gogol sternly, "so there is also the meaning of 'losing someone'."

"It's obviously 'buried', why is this person 'lost'?" Looking at the word written on the ground, Gogol spit out a questioning sentence, but there was a brisk smile on his face, "Buried If you put it in the dirt and hide it, don’t you own this person forever?”

"Because it died when buried in the soil." Nanako answered him.

"Can't you have this person after you die?" Gogol asked.

Nanako scratched her little head, not knowing how to say "soul" and "ashes" in Japanese, she thought for a long time, and finally said to Gogol: "If you die, this person will not exist, only dust will be left .”

[Burned Ashes] and [Dust] should not be rounded too much, anyway, they all melted into the soil in the end.

"Will you leave when you die?" Gogol said, his speech slowed down, as light as a cloud in the sky, "Where will the dead person go?"

After thinking about her experience of sudden death, Nanako said to him, "Go somewhere else."

"Where?" Gogol tilted his head, and followed suit with the braid hanging behind him.

Nanako didn't know how to answer this question. After all, she couldn't say "traveled to another world", so she thought for a while and started talking nonsense: "...Go, where the gods told him to go."

"Will that be the place he wants to go?" Gogol turned his face to look at her, his golden eyes curled into an obvious arc.

Nanako shook her head: "He will go wherever the gods tell him to go."

Anyway, she wouldn't be able to wear whatever she wanted, otherwise she would be the richest man in the world now.

"Дажееслитыумрешь, тынебудеьсвободен." Gogol said something she couldn't understand, and looked at the word on the ground with his eyes half down, and said slowly, "...the god is really annoying. ah."

Having no idea what nonsense Gogol was talking about, in order to prevent him from continuing to ask questions that he couldn't make up, Nanako, who was sucking the orange juice, stretched out her short hand and used a twig to give the [bury] on the ground It was erased, and a new word was written crookedly.

Oda Sakunosuke, who heard all their conversations, said: "..."

Have the children of today started to think about such profound questions?

He didn't plan to stay at the police station for a long time, but just as he was about to leave, he saw a taxi parked on the side of the road outside the police station, and two teenagers got out of the taxi. They didn't look very old, only about ten Seven or eight years old, one wears thin-rimmed glasses and looks old-fashioned, the other looks more casual, even the tie of the shirt is loosely tied, he is a small boy with a baby face—no, it seems that he should It is a "youth".

Because the little girl who was squatting in the yard scratching the ground just now dropped the branch in her hand when she saw them coming in, ran towards the little young man, and called "Daddy" to him. The little boy also ran over, and was hit on the head by the young man.

Holding the little hand of the idiot daughter, Ranbu raised his head as if aware of it, looked in the direction of Oda Sakunosuke, and met the red-haired youth's expressionless eyes.

Slightly narrowing his long and narrow eyes, he stared at Oda Sakunosuke for a while, and there was something that Oda Sakunosuke couldn't understand flashed in his emerald green pupils.

"It's you." Ranpo said suddenly, with an inexplicable clarity and ease in his tone, as if he was greeting an old acquaintance whom he hadn't seen for a long time, but Oda Sakunosuke didn't remember where he had seen him .

He was about to ask the other party, "Have we met somewhere?", when he noticed that the young man's eyes suddenly moved slightly downward.

Those emerald pupils turned around, sized him up, and finally stopped on the right side of his coat. Although the young man's standing posture and tone of voice were very casual, it gave people a feeling of indifference, as if he didn't care about anything. He didn't care at all, but when he was sizing him up, Oda Sakunosuke felt as if he had been completely seen through by the other party.

The young man's eyes were fixed on his coat, and his sharp eyes seemed to be able to see through his long coat and see what was inside the fabric.

Thinking of this, Oda Sakunosuke's thoughts paused.

On the right side of his coat, what was hidden inside was the black account book he found from the motorcycle man.

—Has the young man discovered this?

His muscles tensed up immediately.This is the police station. Although it is not difficult for him to get away, if the incident becomes serious, the police will definitely investigate the pawn shop. If that happens, the pawn shop will be completely abolished, and it will be impossible to operate in private in the future. The business of laundering money will not be able to play the role of intelligence gathering.

But after the young man stared at his coat for a while, he looked away without saying anything, and then let out a "hum", with a look of disgust on his face - not the kind of disgust with malicious intent, It's more like the expression of a child when facing a vegetable he doesn't like, a kind of dislike from the bottom of his heart, which makes people feel naive and willful.

"I said you—"

Ranbu raised his right hand, pointed at Oda Sakunosuke and said, this is a very impolite gesture, if an ordinary person makes this gesture, it will definitely make the other party feel that he is deliberately provoking, but Ranbu will only make people I think he is simply "not knowing how to be polite" and "very willful".

He said to Oda Sakunosuke who was standing in front of the glass gate of the police station a few meters away: "For the sake of this second time, this time it has nothing to do with you. I will give you a piece of advice. About 5000 billion If you don’t want to cause trouble, you can stay as far away as you can, and if you really can’t, you can apply for a business trip to another city for a few months.”

【the second time? 】

Oda Sakunosuke keenly captured this strange word.

Does it refer to the number of favors?But if you want to talk about favors, he saved the young man's daughter. Isn't that the only favor?

It is not surprising that the young man knew about the "unowned 5000 billion yen". After all, this matter has almost spread in the underground society. The little girl he rescued is very familiar with the police department in charge of handling the case. It is not surprising that the young people in this group have relations with the police, and it is only natural to know the news.Shocking the mafia's 5000 billion yen will be a big trouble. Oda Sakunosuke can understand his statement, but why do he avoid it to the extent of "going to other cities for a few months on business"?

"This matter is not just a dispute between the mafia." Fully seeing Oda's inner thoughts, Luanbu said, his tone was still so nonchalant, but it made people feel a calm temperament, "If the flames of war really If it is ignited, it must not be easily extinguished, and by then, 'something else' will appear in Yokohama."

"Anything else?" Oda Sakunosuke asked subconsciously.

"——do you know the 'curse spirit'?"

Ranbu said in an understatement tone

Realizing something, Oda Sakunosuke's heart shuddered.

"If you have any troubles that can't be solved, then come to the Armed Detective Agency to find me. Of course, you still have to accept commissioned detectives."

Talking in disorder, he led Nanako into the police station, and passed him by. The little boy passed him briskly, and the boy wearing glasses nodded slightly to him, and followed quickly .

Oda Sakunosuke stood outside the glass door of the police station, thinking with his head down motionless, like a sculpture standing upright here. After a few minutes passed, he seemed to just wake up, and gently " "Ah," he raised his head and looked back into the police station.

In the police station, Kunikida was talking to the Aoki police department, while Ranpo was squatting in front of Nanako and Gogol, posing as a majestic adult, routinely admonishing the two children who were involved in the accident again, but The cause of the accident really had nothing to do with the two little radishheads, so after he said a few words, he felt that it was boring and a waste of time, and it was useless at all. I read a newspaper and folded a paper airplane with the two children.

——youth, a young boy with a smile on his face, and a little girl with an expressionless face.

He seemed to have seen a similar situation before, but it was completely different.My lord, a child who talks a lot and is energetic, and another child who is silent and emotionless, the only one who was taken away was the child who talked a lot, and he was the only one who was a child of few words.

But now the two children are brought together by an adult, and even the "adult" obviously prefers the taciturn child.

Oda Sakunosuke suddenly realized where the familiarity of the little girl that made him feel familiar came from.

He thought of himself in his teens.

The author has something to say:

【Fruit (Valley) Fruit (Song) Li Brand Translator】

Дажееслитыумрешь, тынебудешьсвободен. →Even if you die, you cannot be free.

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Odasaku, the president, and Ranpo first met on the same occasion

①The secretary of the boss of a certain company killed the boss, and tricked Odasaku into coming to the company that day by saying "I want to entrust you to kill, please come here and talk to me in detail", so Odasaku was framed and became the murderer.

②The deceased was the president's bodyguard object, but the deceased died before the president started work, so after the president came to the company, the secretary told him "Your commission has been changed to escort the murderer (Odasaku) to the police station ".

③ Ranpo came to this company for an interview, but the boss died, so he revealed the truth, and learned that it was the secretary who framed him. Odasaku still killed the secretary under the obstruction of the president, so Odasaku was still killed because of the murder. The president was sent to the detention center.

④According to the description of the plot: Odasaku met the president, Odasaku has never seen Ranpo (but heard the voice of Ranpo), and Ranpo may have seen Odasaku (there is no clear description, when inferred from the plot I should have seen Oda Tsukuru who was knocked out by the president)

⑤ After Ranpo was held hostage by a criminal gang, the president went to the detention center and heard information about this organization from Odasaku (Odasaku indirectly helped Ranpo).

⑥Because the president of Odasaku is willing to violate the principle and wants to save Ranpo (on the condition of lying and testifying to get Odasaku acquitted, I hope Odasaku will tell him the information), so he said, "To be honest, I envy him a little bit. (random steps)" and so on.