After becoming a chaotic daughter

There are two alternatives in front of Nanako.

【A】Walk back to the detective agency, and tell her idiot father about her schoolbag being snatched by a passing raccoon, and ask him to help her snatch her schoolbag back from the raccoon's hand.

【B】Before the raccoon ran away, he quickly chased after him and snatched the schoolbag back by himself.

She took a second to seriously consider both options.She finished her homework today during her lunch break, and it is now lying very safely in her desk drawer, so she doesn't have to worry about any "life-threatening" homework, but her small coin purse and children's mobile phones are all In the schoolbag, and her schoolbag is very expensive, if it is dragged on the ground by a raccoon, it will be broken.

Thinking that buying a new schoolbag would cost a lot of money, Nanako stood up and strode hard on her short legs to chase the raccoon that snatched her schoolbag and ran away.

Dragging Nanako's schoolbag, the fluffy gray raccoon ran out of the park quickly, and Nanako ran behind it all the way.

The afternoon sun was very hot, and she felt stuffy wearing a sun hat. Nanako felt that her school uniform and hair were already sweating, but she still couldn't catch up with the raccoon, and even the sun hat on her head fell off. It was hung around her neck by the tether, swinging back and forth as she ran.

She felt as if she was chasing a dog who had snatched a sausage and then run away.

The raccoon ran into a residential area near the park, as if recognizing its way, and soon ran outside a small Western-style building, biting the strap of Nanako's schoolbag, nimbly climbed up the fence, and turned into the yard inside.

Without catching the raccoon's tail, Nanako stopped outside the yard. Through the gap between the fences, she saw the raccoon turn into the side of the small western-style building and quickly disappeared.

【…】

She silently looked at the fence that was higher than her in front of her, stood motionless for a while, then raised her hand, and with a little strength, she tentatively pushed towards the fence.

With a soft "squeak", a small gap was leisurely opened in the oak-white painted fence.

[It's not locked. 】

Realizing this, Nanako stretched out her hand to push the fence a little further, and then got into the yard.

The yard is very large, there are no flowers and plants, only ordinary lawns that have been pruned, and some sundries are piled up in the corners.Nanako looked around, but couldn't find the raccoon and her small schoolbag, so she searched around the small western building again, and found the footprints of the raccoon on the dirt in the backyard, which seemed to have climbed up the window sill along the water pipe, and then Climbed into the house through an open window.

The window sill was a bit high, and Nanako couldn't reach it at all, so she had no choice but to run back to the door of the small western building, stepping on the wooden steps to climb up, trying to stand on tiptoe, trying to reach the doorbell by the door.

Facts have proved that the designer of this house did not consider the situation if only children came to visit at all, because Nanako kicked her short legs at the door for a long time, but failed to ring the doorbell in the shape of a crow's head.

After running all the way and jumping for a long time, Nanako felt that her legs could no longer move, numb, as if they had become two weak candles.She gave up reaching for the doorbell and stood at the door to rest for a while, then reached out and patted the thick solid wood anti-theft door. She waited for a while, but no one came to open the door.

But the air conditioner in one room on the first floor was still rumbling, so someone should be at home.

Nanako ran down the stairs again, wandered around the small western-style building, and found the air-conditioned room. The windows were tightly closed and the curtains were drawn, so she couldn't see what was inside.

There was a short, small wooden box in the debris pile in the corner. Nanako dragged the small wooden box under the window sill with great effort, then stepped on the small wooden box and climbed up. One, clenched into a small fist, tapped hard on the glass at the bottom of the window—nowhere higher than she could reach.

bang, bang, bang,

The window vibrated slightly after being knocked. Nanako waited patiently for a few seconds, and saw a pale hand stretched out from the gap in the curtains. It seemed to be a man's hand. Even the blue veins on the back of the hand are obviously raised.

The hand stretched out timidly, opened a small gap in the curtains, and opened the window a little, and the cold air in the room rushed out all of a sudden, hitting Nanako's face.Running around under the sun for a long time, the sweaty Nanako shivered from the cold air and shrank her neck.

A somewhat gloomy and withdrawn face appeared behind the curtain.It was a young man, who seemed to be a foreigner, with dark brown hair that was curly like seaweed, and his bangs were so long that they completely covered his eyes.

"Yes, who is it...?" The man asked in a weak voice, turning his face slightly, but he didn't see anyone in his field of vision.

"...?"

I have only been in Japan for a few days, and I don’t know if this is a common situation in Japan—such as crows knocking on the window. The man named Edgar Allan Poe felt a little strange. He just wanted to close the window again, and he lowered his head. , and met Nanako's dark round eyes.

"...Wow!!"

He was so frightened that he almost pulled down the curtains. Poe let out a cry of fright, but soon found that there was just an ordinary little girl standing under the window sill. The position gasped for breath: "Hoo hoo... so it's just a little girl... I was scared to death. I shouldn't have watched Japanese horror movies with Karl last night..."

Nanako tilted her head: "?"

He said a few words to himself, calmed down his emotions, and opened the curtains a little, revealing most of the person, and asked Nanako through the window: "How did you run into my residence?"

Leaning on the window sill, Nanako looked at him expressionlessly, and replied dryly: "The fence is not closed, just push it and you will come in."

"Is that so? I see..." Poe obviously breathed a sigh of relief, and began to whisper his own words again.

"My generation didn't check whether the doors and windows are locked. It's really careless. I have to check it again later. If some vicious criminals break into my residence, it will be too bad... Ugh , but if this is the subject matter, the protagonist lives alone in an old old house..."

He muttered to himself for a long time, completely immersed in his own world. Nanako looked up at him, feeling that her neck was about to break off like a boiled carrot, and Poe finally remembered. , there is a little girl knocking on the window looking for him in front of him.

"Is there something you came here to find me on purpose?" Edgar Allan Poe asked.

Nanako scratched her little head, organized her words, and answered him: "On the way, one schoolbag was caught by one..."

【How to say raccoons in Japanese? 】

Suddenly, she found another vocabulary blind spot. Although the man in front of her seemed to be a foreigner who might understand English, Nanako had no idea how to say raccoons in English.

So she thought about it, and said: "On the way, I met a dog and snatched my schoolbag away. The dog ran in, and I couldn't find where the dog was."

"Dog?" Edgar Allan Poe showed a puzzled look on his face, "But I don't have a dog."

Nanako stood on the small wooden box and gestured to him with open arms: "That's right, this big, gray one, with such a long tail, fluffy..."

Before she could finish her sentence, the phone rang suddenly in the room. Edgar Allan Poe, who lowered his head and listened carefully to Nanako's description, was shocked again. With a trembling hand, he opened most of the curtains.

He turned his head, looked in the direction of the phone ringing behind him, and saw his pet raccoon Carl, dragging a blue schoolbag, slipping in through the open door of the study.

The ringing of the phone came from the schoolbag.

"That schoolbag...is mine." Nanako pointed at the schoolbag and said to Edgar Allan Poe with her finger.

"I'm sorry, that's my pet, it's called Carl, but it's not a dog, it's a raccoon..." Realizing that the pet had caused trouble, Poe answered Nanako weakly, "I'm going to get my schoolbag and return it. for you."

He said, walking towards the raccoon dragging the schoolbag, trying to take the schoolbag from the raccoon's paw, but the raccoon's paw stuck to his head.

"Carl—that's someone else's property, return it to her!"

"Choo Choo Choo!"

"If you like schoolbags, I can go and buy them for you, don't steal other people's..."

"Chirp, chirp, chirp!"

"Robbery and theft are bad behaviors, Carl, I will prepare fresh clams and beef for you for dinner... It hurts! Carl, don't bite me! Ah, it hurts!"

Nanako opened the window a little bit more, then lay on the window sill, blowing the air-conditioning leaking from the room, and watched as Edgar Allan Poe, who was bitten several times by Carl, had a fight in the room for a long time. Finally got the small schoolbag from the raccoon, and returned the schoolbag to Nanako with injuries all over her body from being beaten by the pet.

"I'm sorry, Karl seems to have scratched your schoolbag." Passing the schoolbag to Nanako from the window sill, Poe stood in the room with his shoulders hunched, "How much is this schoolbag worth? We will pay you back."

Nanako took her small schoolbag from him, stood on the small wooden box, and looked at it deeply.The surface of the leather schoolbag was scratched, and some places were scratched off, revealing white silk, the inside of the schoolbag was also messy, and her water bottle was also knocked.Fortunately, the coin purse and the mobile phone were placed in a separate compartment, and they were not damaged or lost.

The kettle can still be used, but the schoolbag has to be replaced with a new one. If it is marked like this, it cannot be repaired under warranty.

Holding the small schoolbag, Nanako raised her head and said to Edgar Allan Poe, "Schoolbag, one hundred thousand."

"One hundred thousand..." Poe hesitated.

He thought for a while, then found the checkbook from the desk drawer, wrote a check for 10 yuan, tore it off and handed it to Nanako: "Sorry, I don't have that much cash on hand."

It was the first time to see a check before and after time-traveling, but Nanako didn't feel the smell of money that should accompany the word "cheque" at all.

She doubted whether the check could be cashed. After all, 10 yen in cash would cost 1 yen in RMB, but in Japan, it was only ten [-] yen bills, which she could even take out by herself. , How can someone's family not have this amount of cash?

【Shouldn't be squatting at home with no money...】

Nanako looked at the check that was handed to her, and was a little slow, not reaching out to pick it up.

Edgar Allan Poe thought she didn't know what it was, so he explained: "This is called a 'cheque'. You can take it to the bank and change it into cash. Give this to your parents and they will know how to cash it."

"...Oh." Nanako hesitantly accepted the first check she had received since she had grown up...for so many years.

She climbed out of the small wooden box, sat on the wooden box and began to pack her small schoolbag. From the room behind her, there was the sound of the pet being bitten by the youth education pet.

The phone rang again, and the caller displayed on the screen was 【パパ】, Nanako answered the phone.

"Nanako—" Ranbu's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Why haven't you come back yet, where did you go? You are not allowed to run around after school, and you must tell Dad first when you go to play with your classmates."

"Didn't go to play." Nanako replied slowly while tidying up the messy schoolbag, "The schoolbag was snatched by ... the dog."

She forgot how to say "raccoon" in Japanese again. Poe said it just now, but she didn't remember it.

Luanbu let out an "oh", clicked, as if he was eating potato chips, and he asked casually, "Did you get it back?"

"It's back."

"Then hurry back to the detective agency, the president said we'll go out to eat sukiyaki tonight!"

"Oh."

After hanging up the phone, Nanako buried her head in packing her things, carried the tattered schoolbag on her back, pushed the small wooden box back to the original corner, then left the yard and closed the fence, and walked slowly all the way back to the detective agency.

She took the check out of her pocket and handed it to Luanbu who was sitting on the office chair reading a magazine.

"Huh? What's this?" He turned his eyes away from the funny comics in the magazine, looked at Nanako, and glanced at her little schoolbag that was tattered after going to school for a day.

"The schoolbag was worn out by the dog, and the owner of the dog lost the money." Nanako answered him.

"Next time, I have to go back to the detective agency to find my father, otherwise if the dog chases you, you will be bitten on the ass." Luanbu said to her, took the check casually, and glanced at the amount on it.

Six figures, five zeros, 10 yuan.

It's exactly the price of a schoolbag.

Nanako nodded her head and ran to the infirmary to play with Gogol.

Luanbu was still looking at the check in his hand. He narrowed his eyes and frowned, suddenly realizing that things were not simple.

Six figures, five zeros, 10 yuan.

These are all right.

Move your gaze to the side.

The unit of this 10: US dollars ($)

Edogawa Ranpo slowly typed out a "?".

The author has something to say:

For things like checks, one must dare to write and the other dare to accept.

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10w yen = 6000rmb = 920 US dollars

10w US dollars = 65 RMB = 1100 million yen