After becoming a chaotic daughter

As night fell, the lights in the festival venue were also lit up, and the market soon became noisy. Tourists in kimono or casual clothes came and went, and children holding apple candy in their hands clattered on wooden clogs. Passing through the path paved with stone slabs, there is a lively and joyful atmosphere of the summer festival everywhere.

The girl in the floral kimono has a gentle smile on her face, and holds a small drawstring bag in her hand. Her long black hair is combed into two three-strand braids and hangs on her chest, turning her face to the side The boy smiled and said, "But I didn't expect such a coincidence that I would meet classmate Li here."

"I... I'm just here to take a few photos for my family to see." Wearing casual clothes, Li Xiaolang walked on the other side of Kinomoto Sakura, glanced at various stalls on the side of the road, and walked in between the two girls. Keeping a little distance, pursing his lips, his face is pretending to be stable.

Walking between Tomoyo and Xiaolang, Sakura, who was wearing a light yellow printed kimono, tilted her head and asked doubtfully, "Then why don't you just come out with your family and come to the festival?"

"I live alone." Xiaolang put his hands in his trouser pockets, lowered his head and kicked the stones on the road, "Mom and sisters are both in Hong Kong, and it was the sisters who insisted that I take some photos of the festival for them to see. That's why I'm coming out."

"Huh?! Live by yourself?!...And, sister?!" Xiaoying showed a surprised expression. Xiaolang had just transferred to another school, and this was the first time she had heard about his family.

"It turns out that classmate Li still has an older sister." Zhishi was also a little surprised.

Little Wolf nodded: "Well, I have four older sisters."

"Four!"

"It's a big family."

The two girls sighed at the same time, their eyes fell on him, and he felt uncomfortable watching him, he couldn't help coughing, and turned his face away: "...I'm just here to take pictures, go and play by yourself It's fine, don't follow me."

Zhishi took out the digital camera in his hand, and smiled at him gently: "I have a camera with me. Compared with the mobile phone, the photos taken by the camera should be clearer."

"Yeah!" Sakura also nodded, her beautiful and supple short brown hair swaying slightly with the nodding movement, she showed a bright smile to Xiaolang: "Since we are going to visit the festival, let's go together, Tomoyo He’s good at taking pictures! And festivals need more people to be fun!”

"...Uh," Little Wolf hesitated for a few seconds before nodding, "Okay."

While they were talking, there were more and more tourists on the road, and the flow of people was like a tide. The three primary school students were squeezed to the side of the road, chatting with each other, and walked slowly along the long street.

Three teenagers who looked about the age of high school students walked past them with two children in their hands. Sakura, who was listening to Tomoyo's words, suddenly stopped in her tracks and turned her head knowingly.

"Sakura? What's wrong?" Tomoyo asked.

After hesitating for a moment, Sakura said in an uncertain tone: "Just now... for a moment, I felt like I felt a strange breath."

"Breathing?" Tomoyo held his cheek with one hand, a puzzled expression appeared on his pretty face.

"...that breath." Xiaolang also stood on the spot, looked in the same direction as Sakura, and said vaguely, "Although it is very faint, it seems that it did appear for a moment."

"It's Clow!" A voice with a strong Osaka accent suddenly came from the small handbag in Sakura's hand.

The yellow bear-eared doll with a pair of small white wings on its back squeezed the zipper, popped its head out of the bag, and said firmly: "That breath! It can't be wrong! It's definitely the Clow card!"

"Kuro card..." Zhishi raised his hand to cover his lips, a little surprised, "But where is it?"

"This..." Looking at the crowds on the street, the faint scent of the Clow card has completely disappeared, Sakura said dejectedly: "I can't feel it at all, and I only felt it a little bit ago."

Frowning, the little wolf stared at the passing tourists, and his expression became serious.

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The summer festival is like a popular tourist attraction for fake festivals. At a glance, there are people besides people, people mountain people sea, you can't see the mountains or the sea, only people can be seen.

Holding hands by Ranbu, Nanako tried her best to move her short head, squeezed a gap between a group of tall adults, and kept up with Ranbu's footsteps.Her height only reaches the waist of adults, and she can't see anything even if she looks up. There are only various kimonos and casual clothes in her field of vision.

They stopped in front of a cotton candy stand, squeezed out the crowd, and even the air was instantly freshened.

"Please give me a blue, green, and orange swirling cotton candy!" He raised his hand and loudly ordered a cotton candy color scheme that sounded troublesome to the boss, then turned around and asked, "Nanako, what color do you want?" cotton candy?"

Nanako raised her small head and tried to distinguish the messy colors on the signboard for a long time, but finally chose to give up, and then honestly said the most simple color: "White."

"Boss, please ask for another white one!"

"okay!"

Without stopping, he gave the freshly made marshmallows to the last guest, and the boss poured the blue sugar crystals into the marshmallow machine again, and happily started rolling new marshmallows.

"If all the colors here are poured in, what color will the blown cotton become?" Gogol looked at the dozen or so cans of sugar crystals of different colors on the stand, and set up a conversation with the boss curiously. talk.

Yosano also ordered a pink cotton candy.

Kunikida was not sensitive to this kind of snack with too much sugar, and politely declined the boss's enthusiastic promotion. Although there were lively crowds everywhere, but thinking of the rumor of the festival ghost, he still struggled and said: "Sure enough, I still go back to work... ..."

"It just came out!" Yosano raised his eyebrows and glanced at him, then turned his gaze back to the cotton candy machine, and said in a casual tone, "Don't be so distracting, Kunikida."

"That is to say, Kunikida——" Ranpo also said the same, "The work can be solved at any time, but the festival only happens once a year! What's more, I plan to go to see the ghost in the rumor later the dry well."

"No, the ghost is still..." Mentioning the ghost again, Kunikida's tone became more and more forced, "Hey, what I mean is, compared to unrealistic rumors like ghosts, the entrusted work is more important. It's not appropriate to just leave the flower bag in the club, and anyway, since there are rumors of ghosts, we should avoid the rumored places at this time-of course, I definitely don't want to go back because I'm afraid of ghosts ,I……"

He was so nervous that he even talked upside down, chattering endlessly, and waved hands with Xie Ye amusedly, interrupting his words: "Don't worry, you won't meet ghosts."

"As long as you don't get separated from your companions." Gogol answered the words in a brisk tone. He lay on the stall, shaking his head with a smile, and the little braids hanging behind him also swayed, speaking in an innocent tone The words that made Kunikida's face turn pale, "It's always like this in horror movies..."

"—Only those who are alone will be targeted by ghosts."

He raised his head, looked at Kunikida, and said lightly, grinning the corners of his mouth, his golden eyes curved into arcs.

Kunikida: "..."

His face suddenly became paler.

He tried his best to hide his uneasiness and nervousness, and his eyes quickly swept over the surrounding scenery. He wanted to find some excuse to change the subject, but he saw Nanako squatting in front of the stall studying the color matching of cotton candy on the signboard.

Squatting in front of the booth, Nanako looked at the cotton candy of various colors printed on the photo with her small head turned, looking very attentive, not even noticing a card-shaped card in the pocket of her trousers. The thing, because of the squatting action, was about to fall out of the pocket.

Kunikida immediately bent down and reached out to pick up the card.

Sensing that something was being pulled out of her trouser pocket, Nanako touched her trouser pocket, and found that the card that she stuffed into her pocket when she went out was gone.She raised her head and saw the card Kunikida was holding.

"What is this?" Kunikida asked Nanako, holding the card in his hand, it felt like it was just an ordinary card with a fancy design.

Hearing Kunikida's question, Nanako raised her hand and scratched her messy hair. After thinking for a while, Nanako replied, "I saw it in the book...the bookmark in the book."

"Your pocket is too shallow. I'll keep it for you temporarily and return it to you when I get back." Kunikida said to Nanako, took out his notebook from his pocket, and clipped the card on the inside cover of the notebook .

"Oh." Nanako nodded.

The topic was diverted for a while, and Xie Ye also talked about other things when he spoke again. Several people quickly got a marshmallow each, and even Kunikida was blocked by Ranpo on the grounds of being "untidy". Green marshmallows.

Biting the marshmallow in small bites, Nanako was walking through the crowd holding hands in disorder. Gogol slipped away for a while at some point, and when he came back, he tugged on Nanako's sleeve and handed her a black Nanako couldn't get his hands on the fox mask, so he hung the mask on Nanako's arm. He also wore a white gold fox mask on his face, and walked beside Nanako.

"...There are too many people this year." Ranbu complained, biting the marshmallow.

"Really?" Yosano didn't feel much about it, "But speaking of it, Mr. Ranpo hasn't been to the Summer Festival for two years, right?"

"Indeed." Kunikida nodded, and reluctantly took a bite of the marshmallow in his hand, "After all, Nanako was too short and in poor health two years ago, and she wasn't very good at communicating with others. It’s too easy to get lost or knocked over if you bring it to a festival.”

"There are a few cases of children getting lost every year at festivals." Stepping on wooden clogs with Yosano, his figure is elegant, "Mr. Ranpo, please hold Nanako tight."

This matter has been explained several times, and I looked around and looked at the surrounding scene in disorder, and replied impatiently: "Got it-... huh? It seems that there is something interesting over there! Let's go over there have a look!"

He took Nanako by the hand, pushed through the crowd, and half-pushed Nanako to a goldfish stall, found a seat and sat down, only to find that there were only two children left behind. Kida and Yosano seemed to be scattered by the crowd.

Anyway, the two of them are not children, and they won't get lost. Ranbu didn't care about getting separated from them at all, and started fishing for goldfish with Nanako and Gogol.

100 yen for a small bowl and a small net spoon covered with paper. As long as you can use the paper net to fish the goldfish from the pool into the bowl, you can take the goldfish home. The rules are very simple.

Nanako has never fished for goldfish before. The paper net is so thin that it seems that it cannot support the weight of the goldfish at all, but most of the people sitting around have one or two goldfish in their bowls. I saw an uncle whose bowl was almost full of fish, at least seven or eight.

【...It should be possible to catch it. 】

Nanako held the small paper net in her hand, sat on the small bench, and carefully extended the paper net into the pool, but before she caught a goldfish, a gap opened in the middle of the wet paper net , and then quickly folded and curled, and the entire paper web was broken.

It's too slow, you have to pick a good fish, and then move faster to catch it directly.

Having learned her lesson, Nanako picked up a new paper net, picked a black goldfish closest to her, lay down on the edge of the pool, held a small bowl in one hand, and clutched the paper net in the other, and slammed it towards the black goldfish. Goldfish catch.

wow-

As soon as the goldfish was picked up and brought out of the water, the paper net immediately broke a big hole, and the goldfish fell back into the pool with a splash, splashing water on Nanako's arm.

【Too hard. 】

Nanako thought about it, and decided to move lightly next time, to be light and fast.

In the third paper net, the goldfish punctured the net by flicking its tail so much that it was necessary to choose a quiet goldfish.

In the fourth paper net, another goldfish is on the side. It broke the net while swimming, so pay attention to the goldfish next to it.

The fifth paper net failed to hold the small bowl firmly, and the small bowl fell into the pool. It was too late to catch the fish, and the paper net couldn't support it and broke again. Be careful to hold the bowl well.

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After breaking ten paper nets in a row, Nanako didn't want to play anymore.One paper net is 100 yen, ten is 1000 yen, converted into soft sister coins, it is a full 60 yuan, and it takes an hour to earn three rounds of part-time jobs, but Nanako didn't even catch a goldfish, and was splashed His face was covered with water, and his clothes were wet.

As soon as she put down the torn paper net in her hand, she heard Gogol next to her say "Pow~", scooped up a white-red goldfish, and poured it into a small bowl.A white goldfish with a red spot on its head swims in the water, waving its translucent fins and gurgling bubbles.

Holding the small bowl, he watched the goldfish swim in the bowl for a while, then raised the bowl above the pool, as if he wanted to pour the goldfish back into the pool.

Nanako was staring at the goldfish in his bowl, but Gogol suddenly stopped, checked his face, and cast his eyes on her.

"Want it?" he asked, with a faint smile on his face.

Nanako shifted her gaze from the fish that was about to fall from the bowl to his face, looking at him with dark and dull eyes, her expressionless little face showed no emotion at all, like a doll, she clicked head.

"Well……"

After thinking for a while, Gogol withdrew his hand from above the pool, poured the goldfish from the bowl into the transparent bag containing the fish, tied the rope, and handed it to Nanako.

"Then I'll give it to you," he said to Nanako.

He gave the goldfish to Nanako, and went to catch the goldfish again.After getting the goldfish, Nanako stopped fishing, took the small bag containing the goldfish, and turned to look at Ranpo who was sitting on the other side of her.

Even more "heroic" than Nanako's achievements, Ranpo has fished out more than 20 paper nets, and the broken paper nets are piled up in a small recycling basket, thickly piled up in a small pile, but it is still a fish. Didn't catch it.

Holding another torn paper net in his hand, still dripping wetly, he sat on a small bench with his head propped up in disorder, with an unhappy expression on his face after successive failures, with one cheek puffed out, narrow and long He narrowed his eyes and stared at the goldfish swimming happily in the pool, as if thinking about how this happened.

Nanako looked at him, then at the small bag in her hand, a goldfish was swimming back and forth with its tail wagging in the small transparent plastic bag.

She handed the goldfish bag in her hand to Ranbu: "Father."

Sitting on the small bench staring at Yuchi's sulking Chaos, he said "Huh?", turned his face slightly, and turned his pupils to look at Nanako.

"I'll give you the fish." Nanako said in a nonchalant tone. Gogol actually gave her the realization that there was no fish at all, as if she had fished out the goldfish herself. If she wanted to give it to anyone, she could just Take it to the other party.

Gogol, who was sitting behind her, was still holding a tissue net, burying his head in the water to fish for goldfish, as if he didn't hear what Nanako said.

Ranbu turned his head to look at Nanako, stared silently at the fish bag in her hand for a while, but didn't reach out to take it.

"Daddy." Nanako handed him the goldfish bag a little more.

Ranpo felt that he was even more unhappy. He was already very depressed if he couldn't catch the goldfish. Even Gogol caught the goldfish, which made him a little bit more depressed. Now Nanako gave Gogol her goldfish Showing it to him made Luanbu feel that his face as a "father" was completely gone.

Nanako always looks like this, looking stupid, handing something to him, Ranpo didn't reach for it, she just stayed there motionless and looked at Ranpo, waiting for Ranpo to reach for it, like an input command Afterwards, the little robot will only follow the instructions and execute it dully, and will get stuck there if it does not receive a feedback signal.

Ranbu stretched out one hand, took the fish bag in Nanako's hand into his hand, then stretched out the other hand, grabbed Nanako's other hand, and stuffed the fish bag's string Into Nanako's hand.

"This is yours."

Luanbu put her fingers together, made her clenched the rope of the fish bag tightly, and said to her in a preaching tone: "Father is a grown-up!——whatever you want, you can get it yourself. Useless adults will grab things from children. You are a child, and a child only needs to make a wish with an adult and tell the adult what you want!"

"……Oh."

Although I don't quite understand Ranpo's words - he usually talks to himself like this sometimes, and talks about strange things that Nanako doesn't understand at all - but in a word, it should mean that he doesn't want goldfish, what else is there to "make a wish" "Something like that... Do you want her to make a wish now?

Nanako took the goldfish back according to her own understanding, thought for a while, and then said, "Dad, I want you to write novels."

"This won't work." Ranpo rejected her wish.

So Nanako thought about it again, and said again: "Dad, I want you not to play games when you go to work."

"That's not okay either, it's too boring not to play games at work." Ranpo rejected her again, "It's the same for reading comics, playing flying chess and eating snacks, it's not okay."

Nanako: ...

She wondered if Luanbu was intentionally donkeying her.

So she rethought very seriously: "Dad, can you go to the cafe to pack cakes by yourself in the future?"

"No!" Luanbu turned his head.

【... Adults are all liars. 】

Nanako was clearly aware of this, she moved her buttocks, and stopped wandering. She untied the string of the fish bag in her hand, turned over the bag, and dumped the goldfish back into the pool.

The goldfish fell from the narrow plastic bag into the small pool, swung its big tail like gauze, and swam away quickly.

"Huh?" Gogol watched her movements, and broke another net in his hand, "Why do you go back?"

Nanako turned her head and asked with a dull face, "Do you know how to raise fish?"

Gogol tilted his head and thought for a while: "No."

Nanako: "Me neither."

"I see."

Gogol accepted this answer very well, and continued to fish through the net.

If you catch one, you put another one back.