After becoming a chaotic daughter

In mid-August, is the annual summer festival and fireworks display in Yokohama.

Relying on compressing the curriculum and increasing the number of weekly class hours, Shengye Primary School ended the course teaching for this semester, and September is the new semester, approaching the summer festival, Shengye Primary School simply closed For ten days, letting the students go to the summer festival is considered a summer vacation.

"...The report card will be sent to everyone's home within a week. Please remember to ask your parents to sign it, and keep it safe so that you don't lose it. It will be handed in when the next semester starts."

On the last day before the holiday, Mr. Koizumi, as the head teacher, held a class meeting as usual, and explained to the students about the final grades, the new semester report, and the safety of the holiday.

Repeatedly, those words that have been said several times, pay attention to safety, do not swim in the river casually, set off fireworks accompanied by parents, protect yourself when encountering violent gangs fighting on the road, and stay away from the game halls on the street.

It was finally possible to have a holiday. A group of students in the classroom were not in the mood to listen to what she said. They were either in a daze thinking about where to go during the holiday, or they were chatting with the students around them. Small notes could be thrown from this end of the classroom. to that end.

Knowing that at this time, the children's minds are full of thoughts about taking a vacation and going to play, Teacher Koizumi didn't nag any more, and condensed more than half of the content of his class meeting, which was not much in the first place, and fast forwarded to the last Homework.

"Because the holidays are very short, there will be no homework assignments this year. Free research is cancelled. After the semester starts, everyone only needs to submit a copy of their summer vacation experience. As in the past, you can write anything from reading impressions, practical experience, and play diaries. Although the summer vacation is much shorter, I still wish everyone a happy holiday, and see you next semester - class is over!"

"Oh--!"

"Great!"

"Goodbye, teacher~!"

The primary school students who couldn’t wait to welcome the holiday cheered loudly. Just as Mr. Koizumi walked out of the classroom, the class became a mess. The students got together in twos and threes and made appointments with each other to go to the summer festival. After packing the schoolbag, the teacher ran out of the class as soon as the teacher left, rushing home to play games.

After studying for more than ten years, this is probably the shortest summer vacation in Nanako's life.The classroom was noisy, she was sitting in her seat, while slowly packing her schoolbag, chatting with Sanwa.

"...The basketball team will go to Tokyo to participate in the competition during the holiday, and I will also go to Tokyo to compete!" Sanlun said with anticipation, "If we win, we will be the national champions! I heard that the national champions The prize money is ten times that of the city champion!"

"Then are you going to Tokyo to watch the fireworks display?" Nanako asked.

"Well... I don't know if the coach will allow us to watch it." It was the first time I went to another city to participate in a game with the basketball team, and I was not sure what it would be like after three rounds, "But I don't have money, It shouldn't be much fun to go there, the most important thing is to work hard to make money from the competition!"

She said, packed her things, got up and put her schoolbag on her back to say goodbye to Nanako: "I'm going to gather for the basketball team, bye~"

"Bye-Bye."

Nanako also said goodbye to her, watching her run out of the class gate like a gust of wind, her long blue ponytail fluttering like a banner.

*******

During the summer festival, many people would change into yukatas, so Ranpo also bought Nanako a new yukata.

The light blue fabric is printed with a hydrangea pattern, which is a common color in yukata worn by little girls.With the help of Yosano and Yosano, Nanako managed to put on the yukata with great difficulty, but she felt that the belt was hard to tie, and the long sleeves and hem were too hot. Moreover, wearing a yukata required wearing clogs, which were uncomfortable for walking long distances. It is easy to fall while running.

"Father." She opened her arms and stood in front of Ranpo like a doll, Nanako's little face showed no expression at all.

Her hair was in a mess, barely reaching shoulder length, no matter how you pressed it, it couldn't be neatly pressed. She squatted in front of her, struggling with her hair with a serious face: "What?"

"Can you not wear this?" Nanako tried to save herself.

"No!" Ranpo dismissed her application without even thinking, and said sternly, "You should wear a yukata for the summer festival!"

The rescue failed.

There was a look of disappointment in Nanako's calm eyes.

Ranbu was thinking about a very serious question - why is his stupid daughter's hair always so messy?

Obviously other people’s daughters wear beautiful braids, but Nanako’s hair is always messy and not neatly combed, like the classmate Nanako who came to work in the detective agency before, the blue hair is straight and long It's smooth and not warped at all.

Although he doesn't know how to do beautiful braids, Ranpo still wants Nanako to be able to do all kinds of beautiful braids like other daughters. He thought about it for a minute and thought the problem might be It's because of the length of Nanako's hair.

Before, he always thought that cutting off the hair that would stick up would make Nanako's hair tidy, but it turned out that it seemed useless.

Therefore, Ranpo has now made a new decision. He is going to adopt the "letting go" method, and will not cut Nanako's hair for the next year, to see if the messy hair will become smooth naturally.

After thinking of a solution, Ranpo gave Nanako an ugly little prick and sent her to play.

After dinner, the detective agency has already entered a state of closure. The president gave all the members a holiday. During the summer festival, they don’t have to continue to work at night, and they can go to play freely. Most of the members are already preparing to go to the festival after dark. Many members changed into the bathrobes they brought.

There is only one person, still sitting at the desk, working conscientiously and conscientiously.

"Kunikida? Aren't you going to go out later?" After changing into a pink striped yukata, I came out and saw Kunikida, who was still sitting on the office chair with his back straight, typing on the keyboard. Raised eyebrows in surprise.

"No, everyone is going to the summer festival, and someone in the club needs to stay on duty to deal with emergencies, so I won't go." Kuniki Tanagi refused without raising his head.

"Hey——" He had already changed into his bathrobe, and the passing Luanbu let out a hey, and sat down on his desk, playing with a small folding fan in his hand, "The summer festival is a time to relax and go out to play, right? Didn’t the president say the same thing? Speaking of which, Kunikida, you’ve had enough work these days, so you should go out and play at times like this. If you’re working and working every day, be careful when you’re young Wrinkles!"

"Mr. Ranpo...!" Hearing Ranpo's sudden opening, Kunikida immediately stopped the movements of his hands respectfully, turned to him and replied: "...No, please don't be careful, I am concerned about my body The situation has been well planned, and there will be absolutely no such thing as overloaded work. There are also things like exercising, eating a balanced diet, getting enough sleep, and things like getting wrinkles. In my plan, it should wait until..."

"The so-called 'relaxation', Kunikida—!" A flower bag wrapped in a quilt quietly appeared from under the table, and said to Kunikida earnestly, "It is very important to always strictly follow the plan. That’s good, but occasionally you need to relax, don’t worry, I’ll be on duty! For me, as long as I can love each other with Yoshiko, it’s the same anywhere!”

Kunikida: "... I think you need to go out more because you are squatting at home."

"I said Kunikida, are you going to disobey the president's order!"

"No, I just..."

"Sitting for a long time is not good for the spine, or rather than going out for a walk, Kunikida, do you want to sit in my operating room?"

"This is not..."

"Kunikida, don't worry, the duty..."

A group of people began to persuade Kunikida to put down his work and go to the summer festival. Sitting on a small bench, Nanako in a yukata was still immersed in reading novels with Gogol.

The novel seems to be bought when I went shopping with Yosano. It is a horror novel called "Black Cat". The original work seems to be written by an American author, and it has been translated into Japanese. They are all katakana, which fully reflects the Japanese plastic English pronunciation, and Nanako can't tell what the correct pronunciation of the name is.

On the girdle of the book, it is written that this is a best-selling "horror novel" all over the world, with cumulative sales exceeding tens of millions of copies.The whole book is full of inner monologues and emotional catharsis of various protagonists. It is upside down, and it is No.1. Nanako read it a bit hard. It took me a long time to translate it into Chinese to understand the plot, and I didn’t feel the horror. I just feel that it is very tiring to do translation questions, and I have to work hard to organize sentences and explain to Gogol the words he does not understand.

...Gogol doesn't need to wear a bathrobe, and Nanako wants to change clothes with him.

She struggled through more than a dozen pages, and then heard Ranbu calling her, "Nanako, Gogol, you're leaving."

Nanako raised her head and saw Ranpo standing beside Kunikida's desk, waving the small folding fan in her hand.Kunikida seemed to have been convinced, although he still had a look of disapproval on his face, he had already stood up, and Yosano and Kabuki were talking to him with relaxed smiles on their faces.

Nanako let out an "oh", stood up from the small bench, closed the book, put it on the table, and ran over with Gogol.Ranpo took Nanako's hand and led her towards the outside of the detective agency, casually chatting with others.

"...Speaking of which, during the summer festival last year, I heard that someone heard a woman crying in the forest, but when I went to the forest to see it, I only saw a white shadow. Isn't there a forest in the festival site? A well? That’s why there are rumors that it was the female ghost who died tragically in that well alone, because she heard the excitement of the festival, so she came out to take a peek with nostalgia!”

Ranpo told scary ghost stories in a brisk tone, saw Kunikida's face turned pale, and deliberately said: "Miss Yosano, why don't we go to that well to have a look later!"

"Is Mr. Ranpo interested in ghosts?"

"Because it sounds interesting!"

"Oh, Kunikida, your complexion doesn't look good. Are you feeling unwell? Do you need my concubine to heal you?"

"No, no need! Nothing, nothing—"

[As long as you stop talking about ghosts and ghost stories...! 】

Kunikida thought about it in his heart, but he would never say it out loud, after all, it seemed like he was afraid of ghosts...

No!He is not afraid of ghosts!How could there be ghosts in this world! ...but that woman crying in the well... No, no, the tourists must have misheard!That's right!That's it!The tourists got it wrong!It must be just the wind!

He was full of cranky thoughts and walked out of the gate of the detective agency.It had just fallen into the night, and the corridor was filled with the heat accumulated during the day, rushing straight towards them, which made Kunikida's cold hands warmed up by the air conditioner all afternoon, as if the ghosts had dissipated. The coolness brought by the story——

"dad."

A voice without ups and downs suddenly sounded from the side.

Kunikida's sensitive nerves were frightened instantly, and he took a step to the side.

"?"

Everyone was confused by his sudden movement and gave him a strange look.

Tilting her little head, Nanako looked at him with dark eyes just as she yelled in disorder, not knowing what he was doing.

"... Cough, it's nothing." Realizing that he was overreacting, Kunikida coughed pretending to be calm.

Nanako shifted her gaze from him to Ranpo's body: "Father."

"Huh?" Luanbu looked down at her.

Wearing a yukata, she felt stuffy and hot as soon as she stepped out of the air-conditioned room, and she began to sweat. Nanako tugged on the belt of the yukata, and immediately a few wrinkles appeared on the flat yukata, she said dryly to Ranbu :"……hot."

Tilting his head, Luanbu stared at Nanako motionlessly for a long time, narrowing his long and narrow eyes, his face between a teenager and a young man tensed up, expressionless, making it impossible to see what he was thinking in his heart.

Random step: ...—_—

Nanako: ... ●. ●

Finding that Nanako is really hot, Ranpo reluctantly gave up the achievement of unlocking [Daughter Yukata (Summer Festival Limited)], and let go of her hand: "Forget it, then go change clothes gone."

Successfully getting rid of the fate of sweating in the yukata, Nanako ran into the detective agency, found the clothes she wore to the detective agency in the morning in the infirmary, and quickly changed the yukata back to the refreshing short-sleeved and shorts.With her arms and short legs exposed, she immediately felt much cooler, and her sneakers were more comfortable than clogs.

After closing the door of the infirmary, Nanako ran to the office area. Just as she was about to go out, she saw a book spread out on the chaotic desk.

It was the novel she read just now, but she had obviously closed it just now, but for some reason, it was opened again.

Nanako ran over, trying to put the book away, but found a strange card between the pages of the book.

The card is rectangular and feels a little hard, as if it is made of paper. The pattern is beautiful.

On the back is a complex pattern of sun, moon, and stars, like a magic circle. On the front, there is a strange building with twisted and bent walls, which looks like a maze. The upper, lower, left, and right borders are painted with the sun and the moon respectively , the pattern of stars, and in the middle of the flag-like graphic at the bottom, there is an English word written:

【THEMAZE】

Nanako thought about the meaning of this word.

did not remember.

It seems that she has never learned it, or she may have learned it but this word is not important, so she forgot it.

"Na-na-zi-!"

Ranbu's voice calling her was heard outside the door, Nanako stuffed the card into her pocket casually, put the book back on the shelf, and ran out quickly.

The author has something to say:

The novel was written by Poe, and it is a printed version that does not trigger the ability.

The word means "maze", and the flower bag left on duty in the agency is almost trapped in the maze.