After becoming a chaotic daughter

At the end of March, pink and white buds appeared on the cherry blossom trees on the streets of Yokohama.

The old school year is over, and the new school year has not yet started. Shengye Primary School held another graduation ceremony once a year.The ceremony was held in the auditorium. There were not many students in Shengye Primary School, so students of all grades would participate in the graduation ceremony to celebrate the success of the seniors in the sixth grade.

At this time last year, among the previous guardians, the students who held the positions of K, Q, and Joker had graduated, and this year, AChair Yuki Miye and JChair Sanjo will also enter junior high school.

The guardians have all been replaced with newcomers. The new K and Q are transfer students halfway through. They are called Ichinomiya Hikari and Hiiragi Tachibana respectively. They are both juniors that Nanako doesn’t know. She was in the same class as a boy named Taguchi.

Nanako didn't know them very well, but for some reason, the three of them often came to see Nanako secretly, grabbing the window sill, the door frame of the classroom, and the tree by the roadside.

Miwa once walked with Nanako after school, and found Taguchi who was sneaking behind Nanako all the way. Although Taguchi swore when he was caught, he said "this is protecting the witch-sama" and so on. Sanlun still beat him very firmly, stopping this Stoka (stalker) behavior.

Nanako feels from the bottom of her heart that Miwa is really a reliable little partner.

Yuki Miya is Nanako’s most familiar guardian. She often comes to play with Nanako. She also studied with Nanako how to use vinegar to soak eggs (although none of the final products were left to Nanako), so she graduated, Nanako At the suggestion of Sanlun, he also wrote her a greeting card to celebrate her graduation, and gave it to Miye at the end of the graduation ceremony.Miya who received the greeting card burst into tears, and Nanako's coat was covered with tears.

Nanako didn't really understand why she was crying like she was dying, she just graduated, and Miya could be like Kukai, running back to Shengye Elementary School to play every now and then, she is the "previous guardian", this kind of privilege There are still.

After the graduation ceremony, Nanako and Miwa left the auditorium together, going to the bulletin board to see the class schedule for the next school year, and then went home separately.

"Even Senior Miya has graduated... It feels like time flies." Miwa sighed with some regret, "When school starts next month, we will be in the fifth grade. In two years, we will also It’s time to graduate. It feels like we’ve only just started elementary school.”

She turned to Nanako and asked, "Nanako, did your father tell you where you are going to study in middle school?"

There are still two years left before entering middle school, Nanako feels that this should be considered a problem that will be considered after a long time, and Ranpo has never mentioned this matter at all, in fact, Nanako is a little suspicious that Ranpo can't even deal with it in what grade she is now Clearly, after all, during the last school open day, Luanbu went to the wrong class and went to her classroom in the third grade.

She shook her head at Sanlun, and replied: "I don't know, I can go to wherever it might be near."

"The nearest school?" Miwa held her hand and dangled it like she was on a swing. "Is it the closest public school? But for middle school, it's better to go to a private or national school." .”

Miwa stretched out her fingers, and counted with Nanako clearly: "Of course the best is the affiliated school that can directly enter the university, so the probability of getting into a good university is relatively high, such as Lihai University Affiliated High School; secondly If so, you can go directly to high school and a school with a relatively high rate of high school enrollment, such as Seagull Academy; and then..."

She talked about a lot of schools, some of which Nanako hadn’t even heard of, obviously she had done a lot of homework a long time ago, but in summary, getting into a good university is more difficult than getting into a good high school, and getting into a good high school is more difficult than getting into a good high school Junior high school is difficult, so it is best to choose a good school when entering junior high school.

"Do you still have to take the exam when you go to junior high school?" Nanako was a little confused. Before she crossed over, she enrolled in the elementary and junior high schools nearby. She remembered that Japan also seemed to have a nine-year compulsory education, so why did the junior high school have to take the exam.

"That's right, you have to pass an exam to enter a good middle school. It's easier to get into a good high school or a good university if you study in a good middle school, so everyone wants to go to such a middle school." Miwa said, "The questions in the exam are all It's hard, many students in our grade have already started going to the cram school to prepare for the exam. Nanako, are you going to the cram school?"

After wandering in elementary school for four years, Nanako knew for the first time that the academic competition in Japan started so early. She thought that elementary school was just for fun, and there would be such things as "study pressure" in junior high school.

"I want to go home and ask Dad." She thought for a while, then asked Sanlun again, "Did you also go to tutoring?"

"No!" Sanlun waved his hand, with a slightly embarrassed expression on his face, "You also know that my grades are only average, and I probably won't pass the private middle school entrance exam, so I'm working hard now Competition, if you win a few more national championships, you can enter the school without taking the test!"

Nanako: ...

Doesn't it sound harder to win a few more national championships than to get into a good school?

Although Nanako doesn't really understand what Miwa is embarrassed about, but there is nothing wrong with her saying that. Miwa's sports have always been much better than her peers, and her physical fitness is also very good. I don't know why, maybe it was a part-time training. , almost every time she goes to compete with the school's basketball team, she can come back with a ranking, and she has won the national championship twice.

Nanako seriously thought about the question of entering junior high school, and after returning to the detective agency, she ran to ask Ranpo.

"Father." Nanako tugged at Ranbu's sleeve.

Sitting in the office chair, Luanbu was eating ice cream while casually flipping through comics, "Huh?"

"Should I go to tutoring?" Nanako asked him without any ups and downs.

"If you want to go to tutoring, then go." Ranpo said indifferently, without taking his eyes off the comic book, "Go and ask Kunikida to find you a private school."

Nanako grabbed his sleeve, thought for a while, and asked him again: "Then what if you don't go to tutoring?"

"Then don't go." Never having attended a cram school, Luanpo completely responded to this matter with an overly casual attitude. For him, such things as grades and studies are not a big deal. He didn't even graduate from middle school, and his educational background is not something he needs to care about, as long as he has enough "knowledge" in his mind.

"Then what if you can't get into a good school in junior high school?" Nanako scratched her head.

"Then go to an ordinary school, or if you want to go to another school, just ask the president to find a relationship." Ranpo said something in a very indifferent tone, "You didn't Did you not take the entrance exam? That kind of thing is not a big deal.”

Nanako: ...

So it turns out that even elementary school in Japan has to take exams!

Compared with "trusting relationships", Nanako thinks it is better to take the exam honestly, if it is not possible, she can still go to a public school, but she still has no idea whether she should go to a cram school or not.

I heard that the tuition fees for this kind of cram school for the entrance examination are very expensive, and as a primary school student who is essentially a high school student, it is strange to go to a cram school in order to pass the junior high school exam. Attended cram school.

She stood beside the office chair that was walking around, her face was paralyzed and she was lost in thought.

Kunikida, passing by with the documents, stopped and asked, "What's wrong?"

Nanako raised her head to look at him, and replied slowly, "You have to take an exam in middle school."

"Nanako wants to go to cram school." Ranpo said to Kunikida vaguely while biting the ice cream.

As a person who has fully experienced the education system, Kunikida quickly understood what they wanted to say: "Are you worried about the entrance exam?"

"Yeah." Nanako nodded.

Kunikida subconsciously wanted to say "don't worry, I can help you with tutoring if you have any questions", but before he could say anything, he remembered something - Nanako was already doing his middle school physics exercises.It's just the entrance exam from elementary school to middle school, which shouldn't be a problem for Nanako. He thinks that Nanako may not need tutoring.

He hesitated for a moment, and said, "In this case, why don't you make a set of papers first and see how it goes."

After dinner, Kunikida found a set of test papers somewhere and gave them to Nanako to make.

The paper was much more difficult than Nanako imagined.Although it doesn't seem to involve secondary school knowledge points such as quadratic functions and chemical formulas, it is much more difficult to do than the usual elementary school exams, and it is not the kind of basic examination questions she thought.

The math questions gave her the feeling of being an elementary school Olympiad. There were also some science and common sense questions, such as identifying different insects. She also struggled to do it. Chinese is all complicated long sentences, and the simplest is English. , probably at the level of the first grade of junior high school, she finished writing soon.

After finishing the paper, Nanako wondered if she would not be able to pass the junior high school entrance examination.

She took the paper to Kunikida for correction, and Kunikida took out a red pen from the pen holder on the table, pushed his glasses, and began to correct the paper with his head bowed.

Nanako stared at Kunikida with her dark round eyes for a while, then turned her head and talked to Ranpo next to her, "Dad."

"What?" He also took a blank paper, squatted on the chair, propped his head with a bored face, and scribbled on the paper with a pen.

"Brother Dubu is like a teacher." Nanako said.

He replied casually, "Kunikida is the teacher."

Nanako: "...?"

"He was hired by a nearby middle school as a math teacher two months ago, and now he only works part-time in the detective agency—no, I was wrong, he also worked part-time in the detective agency before, but he started from 'half-time "Reading" has become "half work, half work"." Luanbu turned the paper over, glanced at the questions scribbled, wrote down the answer casually, and looked at the next question.

Nanako didn't know that there was such a thing. She always thought that Kunikida was working in the detective agency. After all, when she came back from school every day, Kunikida would return to the detective agency soon. When she didn't go to school on weekends, Kunikida has been working normally all the time, as if he is no different from other members.

Ranpo glanced at Nanako, and saw what she was thinking: "That's because when Kunikida was 'attending' at school, you were also 'attending' at school."

Nanako was in awe of Kunikida for continuing to work at the detective agency after get off work.

But Nanako's respect for Kunikida quickly disappeared without a trace like the morning mist.

Because Kunikida finished correcting her paper.

"How?" Luanbu asked.

"Biology is too weak, and there are some problems with mathematics." Kunikida frowned slightly, feeling very puzzled. He didn't understand why Nanako could calculate conic curves, but he couldn't understand the water storage of a swimming pool that can be filled with water and drained at the same time. "But overall it's okay, there is no problem in getting into a good middle school."

Nanako picked up Kunikida's paper on the table and looked at it. As Kunikida said, almost all the mistakes were concentrated in biology and mathematics, which were also the most difficult topics for her when she was doing it.

Luanbu reached out to take her paper, glanced at it twice, and said, "So it's okay if you don't need to go to the private school."

"If you don't plan to enter the top middle schools." Kunikida answered him carefully.

Nanako breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.

Fortunately, there are books to read, and she thought she was going to become a child without books like in the fruit.

It's really hard to go to school in Japan.

The author has something to say:

Public middle schools in Japan adopt the principle of enrolling nearby, but private, national and some public schools adopt the method of entrance examination. This kind of school is generally better, and some can go directly to the middle school, such as the affiliated middle school of the university. University is relatively easier, so many primary school students start tutoring in the fourth and fifth grades. They want to be admitted to this kind of good middle school. After all, the difficulty of entering junior high school is easier than that of junior high school. department

The most basic part of the entrance examination is Chinese and mathematics. Some of them can take English, materialization, biology, politics, history, and geography. It depends on the situation of each school (yes, Japanese junior high school may test these things), and the questions are quite difficult. It is a partial Mathematical Olympiad question, and Nanako has never trained in elementary school Mathematical Olympiad, so she is not very good at doing it (the Olympiad question is different from the regular one)