After becoming a chaotic daughter

Edogawa Rampo's daily itinerary——

Wake up, have breakfast, send Nanako to school, go to work at the detective agency, solve commissions in between eating, drinking and having fun, have lunch, continue eating, drinking and having fun while watching two cases, occasionally go out to work, take Nanako back to the detective agency, and have afternoon tea and dinner , watch the latest cartoons, and go back to the dormitory to sleep.

Very leisurely and regular, compared to Kunikida's schedule that races against time, it's almost like a vacation.

As for exercise?what is that?

It is impossible for this word to exist in Edogawa Ranpo's personal dictionary. When he was closest to this word, he probably watched Kunikida being knocked down by the president during training while eating meat buns.

As for his own physical strength, to a certain extent, it is no different from squatting in a flower bag at home. He will immediately choose to take a taxi wherever he walks for more than 15 minutes.

"Walking is too troublesome! Come and carry me!"

This is what he complained the most when he was on the field, and he was very righteous every time.

To sum up, while the famous detective Edogawa Ranpo is a reasoning genius, he is also an out-and-out physical waste material.

"Then dad will carry you on his back."

Standing on the steps, he said this sentence in a random tone, and Nanako responded by loosening his sleeves expressionlessly, turning around like a small spinning top body, then raised his short legs, ready to continue climbing the stairs.

If she fell down on this kind of mountain trail, she felt that there was a high probability that she would fall to her death directly. Nanako, who had already died once, still cherished her little life.

But before she even took a step, Luanbu grabbed her by the collar, picked her up and turned around, squatted down in front of her, patted her back, and said very grandly: "Hurry up!" Come up!"

Nanako looked down at Ranbu's shoulders, which were not broad, and stood motionless for a long time, until Ranbu urged again, then she hesitated and climbed up cautiously, as if grabbing a safety rope Same, hugging Ranpo's neck tightly.

Ranpo stood up with Nanako behind her back.

After three seconds.

Ranpo squatted back with Nanako on his back.

Sensing Nanako climbing down from his back, he stood back on the stone steps, stood up nonchalantly, patted his sleeves, and said to Yosano with a calm expression: "Miss Yosano, call Kunikida Come here, the signal should be connected now."

He held his forehead with Yosano Akiko, sighed, and took out the mobile phone from the handbag.

Stepping back to the ground firmly again, Nanako immediately felt a lot more secure. She stomped her feet and looked at Ranbu with a gloomy expression on her face.Although she is still a dwarf, she is already a dwarf who can't walk in disorder.

She sat down on the steps, and the raccoon ran over and rubbed against her palm.

She and Yosano dialed Kunikida's phone number. When they contacted Kunikida before, the mobile phone's microphone always heard the "not in the service area" prompt tone, but this time, she heard the waiting voice smoothly. There was a "beep... beep..." sound when it was connected.

She nodded slightly towards Luanbu, indicating that the communication signal had been restored, but suddenly there was a loud cell phone ringing in the forest not far above, and someone suddenly screamed out of fright.

"—Ahhhhhh!"

The raccoon lying next to Nanako stood up suddenly, yelled a few times, turned his little head left and right, as if sniffing the smell in the air, and went up the stone steps, moving swiftly towards The voice came and ran in the direction.

Squatting beside Nanako with a displeased expression, Ranbu seemed to be unmotivated about it. He gestured at Nanako's height with his hands, still wondering why Nanako didn't seem to grow much taller, why he couldn't carry it... Even though he seemed to be unable to hug Nanako a few months ago.

"Mr. Ranpo?" Yu Xie Ye was holding the phone, she didn't hang up the phone, and the ringing of the phone didn't stop.

Luanbu raised his head and glanced at the mountain forest shrouded in night above, then turned his head to look at Yosano: "Kunikida is right up there, Miss Yosano, please go up and have a look."

Yu Xie Ye nodded, hung up the phone, and the ringing of the mobile phone from the mountain also stopped.

She walked past Ranpo and Nanako on clogs, and went up the stone steps of the winding mountain path. Soon, there was a scream that was distorted from the silent mountain forest. It seemed to be Kunikida the sound of.

The small voice of the conversation came intermittently through the mountains and forests, and it didn't take long for Yosano to return with Kunikida, who didn't look well.

"Mr. Ranpo." Kunikida's face was pale, but he had calmed down, "I'm very sorry for causing trouble to everyone due to my personal reasons."

"That kind of trivial matter is not important." Ranbu waved his hands indifferently, stood up, and said to him, "Nanako can't walk anymore, you carry her up the mountain....By the way, where is the guy who was with you on the mountain just now?"

"I have already left with the raccoon in my arms." Yu Xie Ye replied, "It seems that the owner of the raccoon was scared when he got lost on the mountain..."

Kunikida, who carried Nanako on his back, staggered and almost fell.

Yosano immediately changed his words: "I met Kunikida."

Yosano Yosano, a colleague who was in danger, did not tell the fact that "Kunikida fainted from fright".

Luanbu let out a "huh".

Although there are many forks in the mountain trail, the road up and down the mountain is actually the only way they are walking now. Luanbu didn't care how the "owner of the raccoon" was going to bypass them and "leave" after walking so far He was also a little tired after a long journey, if it wasn't because Kunikida wanted to carry Nanako, he would have asked Kunikida to come and carry him quickly.

He complained dissatisfiedly and loudly, "Why is there no elevator on the mountain", but he could only climb the mountain honestly, and the viewing platform on the mountainside was not far away.

Hiding in the woods with the raccoon in his arms, and watching a group of people finally go away, Edgar Allan Poe came out slowly, and walked down the mountain in the opposite direction to them.

As a novelist, he heard that Yokohama's summer festival had a legend of "ghosts in the forest", so he came to the venue of the festival to collect materials, but he lost his cute raccoon Carl first, and lost his way on the mountain. A person hesitated to go up to ask for directions, but the other party suddenly fainted when he saw him.

Fortunately, his Karl is back, but there is a face he is very familiar with.

——The detective who possesses the miraculous ability of [Super Reasoning], Ranpo Edogawa.

Not long ago, he was completely defeated in the reasoning contest with this young man.

Self-proclaimed as a "giant of knowledge", no one has surpassed him in solving puzzles or writing mystery novels.Unprecedented setbacks made Poe doubt himself for the first time, so that he never stepped out of the door for several days. Until today, when he heard about the summer festival, he reluctantly walked out Residence, avoiding the crowd, came to the venue...

in the woods.

——But unexpectedly met Edogawa Ranpo again!

Edgar Allan Poe didn't know how to face this fateful enemy, so he subconsciously chose to hide, especially when he found that his raccoon seemed to come with Ranpo and others.

Along with the failure, it was a sentence that Edogawa Ranpo said to him after the case was over——

"Here's a check for ninety-nine thousand dollars. Keep an eye on your raccoons next time."

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Nanako climbed off Kunikida's back and yawned after being carried to the viewing platform halfway up the mountain.

It was already time for her usual bedtime, and Nanako, who had a good schedule, always went to bed at noon, so she already felt a little sleepy.

After walking around the festival for a long time at night, the bustling crowd was noisy and crowded. She climbed the mountain for a long time just now, and all her strength was exhausted. Now she is listless and unmotivated, like melted ice cream. Soft.

The viewing platform is a semi-circular flat ground surrounded by a guardrail. The terrain is high and the view is wide. It is very suitable for watching fireworks, but now Nanako has no energy to watch fireworks.

She hangs her head and sits on a bench, with Ranbu on the left and Gogol on the right. Yosano and Kunikida sit on the other chair. Sakura and the others stand by the fence watching the night view.

The fireworks show hasn't started yet, and Nanako doesn't know how long she will have to wait, she just feels sleepy, her little head keeps drooping, her eyelids are about to close, she's sitting on the bench dangling, It seems that it is about to fall like a radish that is upside down, and it will fall forward with its head.

"...Dad." She grabbed the sleeves of Ranbu with a sleepy face, her mind was so dizzy that she couldn't even hear what she said, "I want to sleep."

"Then go to sleep—"

She heard a chaotic reply from above her head, and it fell into her ears a little bit hazy.Something wrapped her up, like a cloak, but Ranpo was wearing a bathrobe when she went out today, without a cloak.

Nanako's consciousness was hazy, and she didn't want to understand what was going on, and her vague thoughts were covered by sleepiness.

After nightfall, the mountain is much cooler. The mountain wind passes through the viewing platform, taking away the sweltering heat, and you can faintly hear the chirping of insects.

Nanako leaned against the back of the chair, tilted her small head to one side little by little, and finally leaned against Ranbu's arm with her tilted head. She was covered with Gogol's cloak, and she undulated slightly with the rhythm of her breathing.

Like a little puppet placed on a chair, she fell asleep crookedly, and at some point she was bitten by a mosquito on the mountain, and raised her hand in a daze in her sleep because of itching. I scratched, but I didn't have the strength. I didn't scratch twice, and the raised hand dropped again.

The fireworks rose, and when they flew into the night sky, they made a sharp cry. Even though it was far away, the sound was not so loud, but the harsh sound made Nanako sleep uneasy. She frowned and her face moved. He moved, wanting to bury himself in the gap between Chaos Bu's arm and the back of the chair.

Luanbu pulled up the cloak a little, covering half of her face, and covered her ears just before the fireworks exploded at the highest point.

"It's so beautiful—"

The exclamations of the little girls came from the fence in the distance.

Huddled in Ranpo's arms, Nanako was awakened a little by the roar of the fireworks, but soon fell asleep again in a daze of consciousness.

Didn't see the fireworks, woke up, and when Nanako opened her eyes, the detective agency's dormitory was already in sight.

She didn't know who carried her back, but she guessed it was Kunikida.

Nanako crawled out of the bed, turned off the alarm clock, and ran to the bathroom to brush her teeth. Gogol also came in yawning.Two people, one tall and one short, squeezed together in front of the sink. After brushing their teeth and washing their face, Nanako managed to smooth out her messy hair with a comb, while Gogol was still braiding his little braid slowly.

I don't know where the "bookmark" I picked up on the mountain yesterday went. When Nanako threw the clothes into the laundry basket, she searched her pockets but couldn't find it. Maybe she didn't know when she left it on the mountain. After all, her The pocket is shallow enough to hold such a long card, and the "bookmark" can easily fall out of the pocket.

Nanako didn't care, changed her clothes, and ran out to buy milk by herself.

She is still on vacation, so Luanbu doesn't need to take her to school, so she can sleep for an extra half an hour.I ran out of milk in the refrigerator, went to the festival last night, and forgot to go to the convenience store to buy new milk.

The convenience store is not very far from the dormitory, and it takes a long time for Gogol to braid his hair. Nanako didn't want to wait for him, so she went out by herself.

She bought milk at a convenience store, opened a carton and drank it herself, and carried the rest home in a bag.

The sun had already risen, and Nanako felt a little sunburned. She carried a big plastic bag, walked and ran for a while, and wanted to go back to the dormitory quickly.

When passing by the park, there seemed to be a person sitting on the swing in the park. She didn't care, and wanted to run straight there, but before she ran past the park, she heard the person sitting on the swing calling her:

"……Hey!"

Nanako stopped in her tracks, sucked her milk, turned her head to look left and right, there seemed to be no one else nearby, only she was there, so she bit her straw and turned her head slowly, looking at the swing in the park.

The sun was a bit bright, and the golden sunlight in the early morning was very dazzling. She couldn't see who the figure was. She moved around, moved under the shadow of the tree, and finally saw who the person calling her was.

It was the boy I met at the festival yesterday. I don't know if he is a primary school student from "Hong Kong". I don't know why he is here.

Nanako remembered that he and the other two girls were both from Tomoeda Elementary School. Tomoeda Elementary School was on the other side of Yokohama, very far away, about an hour by subway.

Nanako was sipping milk, staring at him expressionlessly, without blinking her dark eyes, waiting for him to speak.

"That..." Li Xiaolang stood up, with a hesitant expression on his face, as if he hadn't figured out what to say, and the swing swayed behind him.

"...Do you know the 'Kro card'?" He couldn't help asking at last.

It's really weird, she just walked over like that, and the [Miscellaneous] card directly changed back to a card, he had never seen such a situation.If this girl has extremely powerful magic power, it is not impossible for this to happen.

But the weirdest part is here.

This girl has no magical power at all, neither he nor Sakura can perceive even a trace of magical power from this girl, even Kerberos said so.

Nanako didn't understand what he was saying.

...【クロウ】Does it mean cola?But isn’t the pronunciation of cola [コーラ]? What is "Cola Card"?A new brand of Coke?

She sucked the milk, a little confused, and shook her head at Li Xiaolang: "I don't know."

Hearing this answer, Li Xiaolang's mood was a bit complicated, he didn't know whether to feel "surprised" or "natural".Maybe it was just because the magic power of the [Magic] card was unstable, so it suddenly turned back into a card.

The [Maze] card was finally conquered by Sakura. Before the fireworks show was over, Nanako and the others left. For some reason, the card was left on the chair they sat on, and a new maze was about to be created, Sakura Discovered this matter first, and changed the card back to its original state in time.

His thoughts suddenly became messy, he couldn't find a clue, and struggled for a long time, but finally he was discouraged and sat back on the swing: "Forget it. I'm sorry, it's nothing, you can go."

To put it bluntly, he was just thinking wildly, just because of a little intuition, he ran here early in the morning to find someone. This kind of behavior, no matter how you look at it, is stupid and a waste of effort.

Nanako didn't move, just stood there watching him, and drank the milk slowly.

"Can you speak Mandarin?" She suddenly asked in Chinese with a perfect accent.

The speed of speech is a bit slow, but it is different from the slowness caused by the pause between syllables when speaking Japanese. It is just the slowness of purely speaking slowly, lukewarmly, and a little dragging the tone.

A Japanese girl suddenly uttered a sentence in fluent Chinese. Li Xiaolang, who was sitting on the swing, froze for a moment, raised his head, and looked at Nanako.

It’s not a standard broadcast Chinese, the Chinese is so big, people from different places speak Chinese, they all have different pronunciation habits, such as Erhua, flat tongue, front and back, h and f... But with such a little bit of region Accent, but a very fluent accent, it is more like an ordinary, native Chinese speaking.

Just like himself, the Li family moved to Hong Kong from the mainland. He can speak English and Cantonese commonly used in Hong Kong, but his family also taught him Mandarin, which is also mixed with the accent of his ancestral home. Cantonese accent.

He looked at Nanako, and then nodded his head a little too late.

"Can you say a little bit?" Nanako asked him, speaking slowly, without any ups and downs, and her tone was very flat.

Li Xiaolang hesitated for a moment, but also asked in Mandarin: "What do you want to say?"

Nanako thought about it, but couldn't figure out what to ask him to say, and finally could only say to him: "Anything is fine."

Li Xiaolang hesitated for a while, not knowing what to say, it seemed strange to memorize an ancient poem or the nine-nine multiplication table, and he didn't know what Nanako really wanted to hear.

He finally said the most common words:

"morning."

"Well, morning."

Nanako also answered him in such a normal way.