After becoming a chaotic daughter

"It seems to be talking about something very important..."

Sitting on a bench by the side of the road, Sakura looked at the adults talking in the distance, and whispered.

The uncle in the suit seemed to be the person in charge of the festival, and he was talking to Ranpo and Yosano with a serious expression, with a little imperceptible respect in his attitude, as if standing in front of him were not two high school students. They are not just teenagers and girls who are born, but some well-known industry elites.

"After all, he is a detective." Zhishi said to her with a faint smile on his face, "That senior is a very powerful person. I heard from my mother that many consortiums and even the police sometimes You must respectfully ask him for help."

"Has Tomoyo's mother asked him to help?" Sakura asked with her head tilted.

"Yes, he just went to the company and walked around, and helped my mother catch all the commercial spies who leaked the secret."

"Huh?! It's amazing."

Sakura covered her mouth, exclaimed, and asked Nanako who was sitting next to her, "Is Nanako the detective's daughter!"

Purring the raccoon's fur, Nanako, whose name was called, raised her little head in confusion, and looked at Sakura: "Huh?"

"That's the one, Mr. Ranpo—isn't Nanako the daughter of Mr. Ranpo?" Sakura also reached out and touched the raccoon's back, which was so fluffy that she was reluctant to take it back.

"Yeah." Nanako nodded.

"Which school is Nanako a student at?"

"Holy Night Elementary School."

"Ah, it's the private aristocratic elementary school." Tomoyo said clearly, "Nadeko was studying there before, the last time I showed you the competition video, Nadeko, who dances very well, but this During the semester, she went abroad to study dance."

"I remember, it's the senpai who is very beautiful and dances well!" Sakura replied. She saw Gogol who was squatting next to Nanako and playing with the raccoon's tail, and asked curiously: "Is Mr. Gogol also studying at Shengye Primary School?"

Gogol seems to be a foreigner, and Sakura thinks that he might be an international student who came to Japan to study like a coyotes, staying at Nanako's home or something... This kind of homestay model for international students seems to be very popular recently.

Gogol raised his head and answered her with a smile: "No~"

"Huh? That's..."

"Guoguoli, I didn't go to school." Nanako said slowly, "Not going to school."

"Why don't you go to school?" Sakura felt a little strange.

Nanako didn't know why, but Gogol didn't need to go to school, and Ranpo also said that Gogol was in the detective agency, and it was enough to teach knowledge with Yosano, Kunikida, and the president.As for how Gogol is doing, Nanako thinks it should be okay. Anyway, sometimes she doesn't want to do homework after class, so she asks Gogol to do it for her, and Gogol is absolutely right.

She thought for a while and replied, "Because Wang Jiang doesn't have to go to school."

Sakura: "Huh?"

She was stunned for a moment, not understanding what "Wang Jiang" meant.

Nanako hugged the raccoon, purred and touched it, her dark eyes slowly turned around, and finally stopped on the boy standing by the bench, leaning against a tree with arms folded.

The boy's face was that of a normal Asian boy, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and his appearance was upright. Nanako stared at him for a long time, but couldn't tell whether he was Chinese or not. The pronunciation of [honkon] sounds very similar to English in Hong Kong. The pronunciation of [RiSyaoran] is also very similar to Chinese names. It is probably a boy’s name like "Li Xiaolan". After converting it into Japanese, she is not very sure about the original tone.

She kneaded the raccoon lying on her lap like kneading dough, stared at Li Xiaolang silently, and thought about whether to strike up a conversation with him, but it seemed that there was nothing to talk to him, and Li Xiaolang seemed In the fourth and fifth grades of elementary school, even if she came up and said "odd changes and even remains unchanged", Li Xiaolang, who has never learned the coordinate system, probably wouldn't be able to answer the second half of the sentence, and Hong Kong seems to speak Cantonese, and Nanako can't speak it. Cantonese.

"Sakura? What's wrong?" Tomoyo said suddenly.

Nanako withdrew her gaze, turned her head to look at Sakura who was sitting next to her, and found that Sakura suddenly stood up, raised her hand to cover the position of her heart, and looked at a certain place directly in front of her without focus, as if watching Seeing something, but not seeing anything.

Zhishi gently tugged at her sleeves, and she came back to her senses all of a sudden, and found that everyone was looking at her.

"Well, I'm sorry, I... I suddenly remembered something, I have to go first!" She hurriedly grabbed the small handbag on the chair.

"...?!" The little wolf noticed her expression and frowned, "Could it be—"

All three of them showed subtle expressions, said goodbye to Nanako Gogol hastily and abruptly, and left in a hurry.

【...Do you want to go to the bathroom? 】

Nanako scratched her head in confusion, not knowing why they all suddenly left.

It shouldn't be going to the toilet, after all, even the boy followed.

Unable to figure it out, Nanako didn't care too much, and chose to forget about it.She and Gogol played with the raccoon for a while, and then she heard Luanbu calling her.

"Let's go down to the mountain later." Ranpo said to her, the raccoon ran over with Nanako, and then crawled into Yosano's yukata and lay down in her arms.

Nanako held his hand and looked up at him: "Why do you want to go to the mountains?"

"Because Kunikida lost his way on the mountain." Ranpo led her towards the foot of the mountain, with clogs clattering on the road, "Let's go to the mountain to find him now."

Nanako felt something strange.

Kunikida, Lost, Ranpo, Find——If you use these four words to make a sentence, it must be "Kunikida is looking for the lost Ranpo", but now Ranpo says that he is going to find the lost Kunikida .

...Won't there really be more and more people who get lost in the end?

After much deliberation, she couldn't figure out the logic behind it, and in the end she could only come to the conclusion that "Sister Jingzi will know the way".

"Why, Brother Dubu is going to the mountain?" Nanako asked Ranpo.

"He went to the mountain to find a suitable place to watch the fireworks." Ranbu replied casually.

"Oh."

The stone steps on the same mountain have only been renovated two years ago, and they are not too steep. They climb up the mountain windingly, hidden among the dense forests.

Nanako hugged the raccoon and followed Ranpo and Yosano, stepping on the flat stone steps to climb up. She always did this when she was walking. When walking up the steps, she was short, and she was always afraid that she would step on the ground if she was not careful.

The raccoon is a bit fat, and it feels heavier than the three-colored cat at the entrance of the coffee shop downstairs in the detective agency. Nanako climbed the mountain with the raccoon for a while, but she couldn't hold it anymore. She put the raccoon down and let it climb the stairs by itself.

She tried her best to follow Ranbu and Xie Ye up the mountain path, but soon felt that she couldn't move anymore. She walked slower and slower with her short legs. The long stone steps seemed to have no end, extending and extending , extend, diverge, continue to extend endlessly...

It was quiet in the mountain forest, there was no wind, and the leaves did not move, only the sound of their footsteps stepping on the stone steps sounded disorderly.

In the dark night, there is only a round moon, and you can’t even see a few stars. The clouds drift slowly past, and the moonlight falls, but it is very blurry. The lanterns hanging on both sides of the stone steps are shining bright yellow. The light illuminated the steps under Nanako's feet.

"Father." Nanako couldn't move anymore, she stopped.

Luanbu, who was walking in front, looked back at her, looking tired too, holding a small folding fan in his hand to fan himself: "What—?"

"...I can't walk anymore." She stood on the stone steps, looked at him, then lowered her head, staring at the steps in front of her, feeling a little listless.

"Hmm." Ranbu uttered a thoughtful tone, closed the folding fan and pressed it against his chin, and sat directly on the stone steps with a thoughtful expression on his face.

He turned his head and looked up the mountain. The forked intersection was zigzag and stretched upwards. It was more like a "distortion" than a "snag". Looking behind her all the way, the road they walked when they came just now disappeared among the mountains and forests, and the lights of the lanterns were dotted like fireflies flying in the mountains and forests.

Luanbu retracted his gaze, took out his mobile phone and glanced at it, then put it back into his pocket, then took out a pair of cheap black-rimmed glasses from his pocket, and put on the glasses.

——Extraordinary ability and super reasoning.

His gaze changed into the gaze of a god, penetrating the silent and dark lush forest, like a god of all beings overlooking the entire land, the flow of clouds, the shift of the moon, the growth of trees, the origin and origin of roads Wherever he went, everything was taken into his eyes, stripped away, and turned into simple and clear conditions and information like "1+1".

In just a few seconds of silence, his brain dissected everything.

"Nanako." Ranbu said.

Nanako looked up at him with her small face up, clutching the hem of her clothes with her hands, with no expression on her small face, waiting to hear what Ranbu had to say.

Ranbu stood up, skipped across the steps, and took her hand.

"You go ahead."

He said.

Nanako: "..."

Not only was her daddy an idiot, he was a useless idiot.

Nanako thought in her heart, raised her short legs resignedly, and continued to climb the mountain with her head down.

She had short legs and was a little weak. She climbed the steps very slowly, like a little snail that was slowly moving slowly on the leaves. After climbing two steps, she was about to stop and take a rest.

After crawling with her head buried for a few minutes, Nanako, who was climbing the mountain without looking up while staring at the stone steps under her feet, bumped her head into someone before a fork in the road.

She raised her head while clutching her hurt head, and saw Sakura, Tomoyo, and Xiaolang who had bid farewell to her not long ago, and it was Xiaolang who stood in front of her. Nanako's head hit his back hard, Like hitting a small tree.

"Na, Nanako—?!" Holding a strange pink bird-head stick in her hand, Sakura subconsciously cried out in surprise.

The little wolf who was hit by Nanako didn't even move. He turned around and saw Nanako covering his head, with a surprised expression on his face. He said "Sorry" and got out of the way.

"Why are you here?" Little Wolf asked, frowning, with a mature tone that didn't match his age.

"Huh?" Standing behind Nanako, he rubbed Nanako's bumped head in random steps, raised his eyebrows and asked him back: "Shouldn't we be the ones to ask this question?"

"—Even during the festival, you children ran up the mountain at night, what are you doing?"

His tone was very blunt. Although it was a question, it made Xiao Lang feel as if he was being blamed unilaterally. He wanted to refute but didn't know where to start.

After all, it is really unsafe for a few children to go up the mountain alone in the middle of the night.

"Sorry..." Zhishi held her video camera in one hand and supported her cheek with the other, showing an apologetic and worried expression, and said in a very embarrassed tone: "We just wanted to come to the mountain to watch the fireworks, but we accidentally lost our way."

[This guy...is really good at acting too! 】

Li Xiaolang thought of his older sisters.

【...Could it be said that this is a common talent of women? 】

He thought suspiciously, and when he turned his gaze, he saw Sakura who was frantically trying to hide the magic wand in her hand.

Li Xiaolang: "..."

Indeed, there are individual differences.

"Really?" He said in a rambunctious manner, as if he suddenly became talkative again, "If that's the case, then come with us, as we are also going to the viewing platform to find someone."

"Thank you very much." Zhishi thanked him with a natural smile.

The team of four people and one raccoon increased to seven people and one raccoon. Nanako couldn't walk anymore. She sat on the steps and rested for a long time before getting up again, and then continued to climb the stone steps at the front.

The little raccoon was right next to her, twittering around her. Nanako climbed a step, and it also jumped up a step, then looked up at Nanako with dark eyes, waiting for Nanako to continue to climb down the next step.

Struggling to lift the short legs that seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, Nanako stepped up another step, and then raised the other leg that was behind, trying to walk up this stone step, but the cement stone under her feet However, she suddenly slipped, as if she had stepped on something sticky, causing Nanako to lose her footing, and she staggered to the side, almost falling down.

Quickly grabbing Nanako by the back collar, he picked up his idiot daughter in random steps, successfully prevented Nanako from hitting her head and turned into a real idiot, and then put Nanako back on the steps.

Nanako stood unsteadily, scratched her hair, then lowered her head to straighten her clothes, stomped her short legs, and just as she was about to continue walking, she saw something lying on the steps below her. It seemed to be a card, probably the thing she accidentally stepped on and almost slipped.

She picked up the card.

[...bookmark. 】

Nanako recognized the card.

The front of the card is a maze-like pattern, and the back is a complex pattern of sun, moon, and stars. It is the card she found in the novel before she went out. Kunikida said to help her keep it. I don’t know why it fell here. .

"Hey, that's..." Seeing the card in Nanako's hand, Xiaolang lowered his voice and talked to Sakura beside him.

Sakura also saw the card in Nanako's hand, but she didn't know what to do.

Under their tangled gaze, Nanako lowered her head and wiped the card with her clothes, then stuffed it into her pocket.

"Father." Nanako reached out to tug on Ranbu's sleeves, drooping her head listlessly, "I can't walk... I don't want to go."

She stood motionless on the steps, like a small sculpture.

"Then dad will carry you on his back." Luanbu said.

Nanako: "..."

She suddenly felt as if she could still walk a few more steps.