After becoming a chaotic daughter

Nanako was sitting on a high chair with a small spoon in her hand, trying to eat her dinner.

This is the first time she has eaten rice since crossing over. Yesterday was Ranpo's birthday, and dinner was also something convenient and delicious like hamburger cakes. This morning, I ate meat buns bought by Xie Ye, and lunch was the policeman's lunch. My sister's pasta also uses a fork.

So it wasn't until dinner, when she sat at the dining table, facing a small rice bowl with a bowl of rice and a side dish specially set out for her, that she discovered something.

She "can't" use chopsticks.

With small palms and soft fingers, she couldn't hold the long chopsticks steadily, let alone put the vegetables into the rice bowl, so she had to change to a small spoon, and scooped up the soft rice stuffed bite by bite. Putting it into the mouth, you have to concentrate on it, otherwise the spoon will be thrown crookedly and hit her face.

A child's body is really difficult to use.

Nanako thought in her heart, as she buried her head in her meal with great effort, her little head was about to be buried in the bowl.His cheeks were bulging from the big mouthful of rice, shaking like a squirrel.

"Nanako—" Ranpo, who was sitting next to her, bit his chopsticks and called her.

Nanako was so focused on fighting against the rice in the bowl that she didn't hear Ranpo's words, and didn't even raise her head.

"Nai, Nai, Zi——" Ranbu called her again. He watched Nanako eat so much that her face was buried in the bowl and she couldn't see it. He thought it was a bit amusing.

Nanako still ignored him, took the last mouthful of rice in the bowl with a small spoon, pushed the rice bowl away, and wanted to drag the small plate with the vegetables over to continue eating, but as soon as she moved the small rice bowl away, she saw The table in front of her was covered with rice.

【…】

She watched the table full of food she ate, and was silent for a while.

Then he decided to pretend he didn't see it, and continued to reach out and drag the plate of vegetables to his face. The round plate perfectly covered the rice that had fallen on the table.

After all, the body is a child, and it's normal to slip up when eating. Nanako found a perfect and reasonable excuse for herself.

She skimmed the green peppers and carrots in the dish to the edge of the plate with a spoon, continued to bury her head in eating the unfinished side dishes, and quickly finished the few vegetables and meat left, and drank a few mouthfuls After the soup, he threw away the small spoon in his hand, crawled down from the chair, and wanted to get a tissue to wipe his mouth.

But before she got off the chair, Luanbu grabbed her by the back collar and carried her back to the chair.

"Children are not allowed to be picky eaters! They will become dwarfs and not tall!" Nanako, who was concentrating on eating, ignored her random steps for a long time, and finally seized the opportunity to show her presence as a "father". The green peppers and carrots that came out moved to the center of the plate with chopsticks, and then put the small spoon back into Nanako's hand.

"Carrots and green peppers, too!"

He educated him righteously.

Holding a small spoon, Nanako sat on a chair. She glanced at the green peppers and carrots on her plate in front of her, then turned her head blankly, staring at the green peppers that had been picked out from Ranbu's plate and thrown away. Carrots and celery.

Nanako: "..."

She dropped the spoon, turned around and continued to climb under the chair.

At least she ate celery.

As a fake child with a "sound mind", Nanako will not be fooled by an old double-standard "adult" like Ranpo. Carrots and green peppers have nothing to do with being tall. She is a good child with a glass of milk a day , it is absolutely impossible to become a dwarf.

The dignity of being a "father" was provoked, and she was about to reach out to grab her in a frenzied manner. Nanako slipped from under the table to the other side, and appeared beside Yosano who was sitting across the table, and turned around. He ran to the counter next to him and took a tissue, wiped his mouth and ran away.

Seeing the whole process, Yosano burst out laughing.

***

There seems to be a little too much for dinner.

Sitting on the sofa, Nanako touched her chubby belly, and it turned into a bulging little ball.

When Ranpo and Kunikida picked her up and returned to the detective agency, the sky was already getting dark. After dinner, it was past seven o'clock at night, and Nanako burped a little. After a pause of two seconds, he opened his mouth again and let out a big yawn.

After spending a day outside during the day, the police station was noisy, and all kinds of people came and went, just sitting, drained most of her energy.Children seem to always have an inexhaustible amount of energy, but they seem to be discouraged for only a moment.

Nanako was sitting on the sofa with her head down, her head drooping, she was about to fall asleep, but Ranbu and the others didn't go back to the dormitory so soon. Although they were off work, they always used to stay until they had nothing to do. Back at nine o'clock at night.

Sitting on the sofa with a thin and small body, Nanako's body swayed because of sleepiness, and she almost fell forward, and she woke up again with a jerk.

【……sleepy. 】

She rubbed her eyes, and sat motionless for a few seconds, her eyes fixed on the empty air, her two short legs couldn't touch the floor, they were hanging by the sofa, shaking slightly.

【Want sleep. 】

Nanako thought.

She turned her head and looked left and right, but she couldn't find anything resembling a quilt, so she climbed off the sofa again and ran to the office area outside the reception room.

Kunikida was writing a report, Yosano and Yosano were reading the newspaper, Ranpo was sitting on the table playing games, with a delicious stick in his mouth, probably his after-dinner snack.

Nanako ran towards Ranbu, stood on the edge of the table and looked up at him.

Luanbu, who was addicted to the game, finally looked away from the game console after saving a file, and looked at the little one standing beside him.

"Why?" He squinted his eyes and asked in a fierce tone on purpose. He looked angry. Of course he would be angry. If it wasn't for Nanako's picky eating, he wouldn't have gone to complain to the president. If he hadn't If he went to complain to the president, the president would not know that he didn't eat green peppers, carrots and celery for dinner!

Ranbu, who failed to file a complaint and was forced to finish eating green peppers, was very upset, and blamed Nanako, a naughty little radish!

Nanako was not frightened by his tone at all, she stretched out her hand straight and grabbed his little cloak: "Sleep, I want this."

She didn't know how to say "cloak" in Japanese, so she could only tug at the hem of the cloak vigorously, looking at Ranbu with no expression on her face.

"Call me 'Daddy'!" Luanbu put on an air of an adult, and taught her in a decent manner, "You have to say—'Daddy, I want your cloak', so that I will give it to you !"

Nanako lowered her eyes and recited this sentence in her heart, before stumbling and repeating: "Father, I want... cloak, yours."

"No, it's you who want my cloak, not I!" Luanbu dropped the game console in his hand, lowered his head and corrected her sternly, "'Dad, I want your cloak'—say it again! "

"Father... I want, yours, the cloak." Nanako finished speaking with effort, paused, and continued, "Say it again, again."

Luanbu: "...the 'say it again' in the back, don't!"

"No." Nanako repeated his last two words, then realized something was wrong, shook her head vigorously, and said again: "Dad, I want a cloak."

【Manto】

(cloak)

Nanako tried hard to memorize the word, the pronunciation sounded a little strange, it might be a direct transliteration from English to Japanese, although she didn't know which English word it corresponded to.

Finally, she uttered a fairly complete sentence, and Ranpo nodded in satisfaction. Although Nanako is a little idiot, it seems that she can still be rescued. If she wants to blame her last "father", she is a hopeless and completely This is why Nanako has no one to teach her how to speak.

But it doesn't matter, now that there is a famous detective like him, Nanako will soon learn to speak normally!

Feeling that he had fully fulfilled the duties of a "good father", Edogawa Ranpo suddenly became proud again, and left the incident of picky eaters at dinner behind him, took off his cloak magnanimously, and covered Nanako's head .

Suddenly covered by a cloak, Nanako stood on the spot and struggled for a long time before tearing the cloak off her head, and her dark vision became bright again.

Holding the big cloak in her arms, she yawned slowly, ran back to the reception room, climbed onto the sofa, wrapped herself tightly in the shambling little cloak, fell asleep on the sofa .

Probably because there was too much tiredness accumulated in her body, she slept very deeply, curled up into a small ball, nestled motionless in the corner of the sofa, her small face was buried in the cloak that covered her, it looked like It's a chocolate ball.

Wanting to wake Nanako up and go back to the dormitory, Ranpo squatted on the edge of the sofa, and carefully poked the "chocolate ball" with her finger.

The group of little ones huddled under the cloak moved, but only moved, and then fell silent again, without any reaction at all.

There was a small purring sound faintly under the cloak, mixed with the slow and long breathing sound, intermittently, like a kitten snoring, light and thin, as if it was only his illusion.

It was the first time Edogawa Ranpo heard the sound of a child snoring while sleeping, which meant that Nanako must have slept deeply and was too tired during the day, so she snored a little.

He reached out and grabbed the corner of the cloak.

扯、

pull again,

keep on talking.

He tore off the cloak that covered Nanako's small face, perhaps because the light was too bright, and lost the cloak covering her forehead. Nanako frowned uncomfortably, and bulged slightly in her sleep. She raised her cheeks and lowered her head in an attempt to tuck her face back into the cloak.

But even so, her face was flat, like a doll made of wood, without any anger.

"Mr. Ranpo?" Yu Xie Ye stood at the door and called him, "It's late, we should go back to the dormitory."

Ranpo gave up the "Cheap Daughter Observation Project", just wrapped in a small cape, and picked Nanako up from the sofa.

Nanako is too light. She is six years old, but she is only as tall as a four-year-old child, and she is not as heavy as a four-year-old child. Years of malnutrition has made her as thin as a dog's tail grass, short and small, A gust of wind seemed to be able to blow her down, which allowed Luan Bu to hug her without feeling heavy.

Being hugged roughly, Nanako didn't wake up, her little head drooped on Ranbu's shoulders, and her thin breathing sounded weak as if it could be cut off easily.

Ranbu lowered her head, and saw a section of Nanako's collar protruding from the cloak wrapped around her. She was still wearing old clothes that she casually dug out from "home" and brought to the detective agency. The edges of the collar were worn out. Hairy.

"Miss Yosano—" He raised his hand and pressed Nanako's head into his arms, and pulled up the cloak clumsily, covering the back of Nanako's head.

"What?" Noticing Nanako who was asleep, Yosano subconsciously lowered the volume.

"...Go and buy some clothes for her tomorrow." Luanbu murmured in a low voice, as if he was not used to it.

Dazed for a moment, Xie Ye smiled lightly.

"Buying new clothes for my daughter, that's also the responsibility of 'father'...Mr. Ranpo."