After becoming a chaotic daughter

Nanako discovered something.

Oda, a new member of the detective agency, has been hiding in the tea room recently, writing something secretly.

During the lunch break, most of the members went to the downstairs coffee shop for afternoon tea, or took a nap in the infirmary, but Oda Sakunosuke often stayed in the tea room where no one went.

Because she was asked by Kunikida, Nanako always goes to the tea room to feed the flower bag at a fixed time, and also brings some food to the flower bag during lunch break. Sometimes she will see Oda sitting on a stool, leaning against the long square table , holding a small notebook in his hand and writing something, his face was always so calm that it was a little dull, and there was an expression similar to "distressed" from time to time.

Nanako, who discovered this, carefully observed Oda Sakunosuke for half a month. Finally, one day when she was feeding the flower bag daily, she squatted beside the flower quilt of the flower bag, raised her head, and stared at Oda sitting on the stool. After watching it for a long time, he asked in a serious manner, "What are you doing?"

Awakened from his thoughts by Nanako's voice, Oda came back to his senses, and drew a short crooked curve on the small notebook with the pencil in his hand. He looked down at Nanako, hesitated for a few seconds, and finally realized Answer her hesitantly: "...I'm conceiving a novel."

【Concept novel】

Among the people around Nanako, Kunikida was the only one who occasionally used the written language of "idea", so she couldn't understand the other person's meaning at the first time, and it took a second to understand this somewhat unfamiliar phrase.

"After thinking about it, then write a novel?" Nanako looked at him without turning her round eyes.

Oda Sakunosuke nodded.

【……writing a novel. 】

Nanako suddenly remembered something.

It seems that she hasn't urged Luanbu to write a novel for a long time, and she has almost forgotten about it. Only occasionally, she will suddenly think of it, but when she thinks about it, she will ask Luanbu, and Luanbu will only give her A firm refusal answer, it seems that there is no idea of ​​writing a novel at all.

Suddenly hearing Oda say that he was going to write a novel, Nanako felt a little confused in her little head.

Ranpo doesn't write novels, and Nanako doesn't know when "Edogawa Ranpo" should start writing novels, and it's more practical to keep her current job than to write novels, so Nanako always just remembers to let Ranpo Go to work.

While typing on the keyboard, Hanako ate the mochi that Nanako brought, and Nanako reached out and took a mochi to eat.She bit the mochi, lowered her head and counted with her fingers.

One, two, three, four, five.

She has been in the detective agency for five years, and Ranpo has also worked in the detective agency for five years and has not been fired, and now he often goes out with other members to deal with commissions. Although he still often fishes when he is in the agency, but It seems that the president has no plans to fire him at the moment, and he should still work in the detective agency for a long time.

But if he is not expelled, it seems that he will not write mystery novels.

"Ranpo Edogawa started writing mystery novels because he had no job and couldn't afford to eat." Nanako still remembers this point. If the president won't fire Ranpo, then wouldn't he never know how to write novel?

Now the most powerful writer in the field of mystery novels in Japan is a novelist whose pen name is "Kindaichi", whose real name is Henggou Masashi. He has published many mystery novels in the popular magazine "Wild Times", but Ranpo still has a single word I haven't even started writing. If this continues, I feel that the title of "Father of Japanese Mystery Novels" will have to be replaced.

And, having said that, aren't Yosano, Kunikida and the president also writers?But they don't seem to have written anything, and Nanako has completely forgotten that they are also writers.

Nanako struggled to chew the hard-to-bite mochi, frowned, squatted beside the flower bag and thought hard for a long time, unable to figure out what went wrong.

Could it be that because the detective agency is doing so well, they have no plans to write a book?In fact, they should wait until the detective agency goes bankrupt, and then they will write a book?But now there is no sign of the detective agency going bankrupt. Yesterday, the Yasui Police Department sent a letter of thanks to the president, and clients came to the agency to place orders every day.

...So this is a parallel world where Edogawa Ranpo, Yosano Akiko, Kunikida Doppo, and Fukuzawa Yukichi are not writers?

Nanako thought about it suspiciously, but soon she remembered another thing. She tried her best to chew the mochi in her hand and swallowed it into her stomach. Oda asked, "Are you going to be a novelist?"

Oda stopped writing the nib, seemed to think about Nanako's question seriously, and then replied: "Although I have such an idea, I am just trying to write."

He didn't answer Nanako's question directly, but the meaning revealed in the words was very obvious. He wanted to be a novelist, or a writer.

"Then after you become a novelist, will you still be in the detective agency?" Nanako asked him.

"I don't know, but I think it will." Oda honestly gave a sincere answer.

Nanako thought for a while, stood up, and ran from the tea room to the office area of ​​the detective agency, then stood in front of the white wall with the signboard of the members, raised her head, and found the name in the [Investigator] column. [Oda Sakunosuke] stared at the name for a long time.

Oda's name is all composed of Chinese characters. Nanako can easily translate the words "Oda Sakunosuke". She feels that this name is vaguely familiar, but she can't remember where she has seen it before. After all, Oda Tasakunosuke has been working in the detective agency for several months, and this sense of familiarity may also be due to the subtle illusion that he occasionally saw his name in the past few months.

——Should "Oda Sakunosuke" also be a writer?

Five or six years have passed, and Nanako's memory has become blurred, and she can't remember many things clearly. Only the high-level archaeological poems that she has been reviewing all the time can still be clearly remembered, and she can recite them fluently.

She stood in front of the destination card and thought hard for a long time, but she still couldn't remember it.

Although she could still remember that she was doing English homework when she died suddenly, like cloze in a weekly newspaper, but she couldn't remember most of the anecdotes she had read in miscellaneous books before.

Things that I didn’t pay attention to memorize at first, but after reading it, I left them behind, leaving only fragmentary and vague impressions. After so long, these vague impressions are almost gone.

What she still remembers are some particularly famous keywords, such as "Osamu Dazai" and "suicide", or "Kawabata Yasunari" and "borrowing money".She really couldn't remember whether the name "Oda Sakunosuke" had left any impression on her.

And Oda has never done anything strange. The only special thing is that he likes to eat spicy curry very much. However, when he enters the keyword "curry", Nanako can only think of "Ango Sakaguchi and his [-] dishes" curry rice" kind of weird stuff.

Like a little wooden figure, she stood there motionless, deep in thought.

Luanbu, who came back from the coffee shop, passed behind her with a bottle of soda, and patted her fluffy head.After not going to the barber shop for more than a year, Nanako's hair grew a little longer, reaching shoulder length.

Facts have proved that Ranpo's "free-flowing countermeasure" seems to have played a little role. Now Nanako's hair is not as messy as it used to be, but it is still messy when she just wakes up, like a ball caught by a cat yarn.

"What are you doing?" Luanbu asked her casually.

Nanako turned her gaze back from the destination card, and tilted her head for too long, she felt that her neck was a little uncomfortable, as if it would snap off soon.

"Father." Nanako called Ranpo.

"Ok?"

"Can you write mystery novels?"

"Do not write--"

Pulling away his comfortable and luxurious office chair, he threw himself into the office chair in random steps, gave a negative answer almost without thinking, and then lazily took a sip of soda.

Nanako always asks him this question suddenly every once in a while, and Ranpo can’t figure out where her strange obsessions come from. It seems that in Nanako’s cognition, he should write Like a mystery novel, even if you don't write it now, you will "sooner or later" in the future.

But Luanbu is not interested in writing novels, which requires a lot of energy. It would be too embarrassing for him to sit obediently in front of the desk for an afternoon.

Edogawa Ranpo doesn't like "moving", but he also doesn't like "being still".Both will make him feel very tired.

In order to perfunctory Nanako, he even made an exception to subscribe to the magazine "Wild Times", and let Nanako stare at the mystery novels serialized on it in a daze.

"Father is a detective, and a famous detective won't write a mystery novel by himself." Luanbu said casually, "The only thing a famous detective has to do is 'solve the incident', such as 'recording the case', that's all Someone else will do it. Officer Yasui and Kunikida, let them do it."

Sounds like Watson who records the events that Holmes solves.

Kunikida just came out of the president's office with the documents, he pushed his glasses, and was about to go back to the office to work, when he found Nanako staring at him without blinking.

Kunikida: "...?"

"Is there any problem?" He stopped, lowered his head and checked his clothes, and found nothing wrong.

Nanako shook her head, just stared at him, Kunikida was a little puzzled, but didn't take it to heart, and walked back to her office.

[...Kunikida Watson. 】

Nanako stared at him, thinking in her heart, seeing Kunikida sinking her head into work, she looked away.

[Sure enough, it's still a parallel world. 】

Scratching her head, Nanako accepted the setting casually, and then called Ranpo again: "Daddy."

Sitting on the office chair, Luanbu tried his best to reach for the comic books on the bookcase, and let out a casual "huh".

"Then go to work quickly."

Ranbu: "..."

The fingertips reached the sharp corners of the comic book, Luanbu maintained the posture of the upper body almost falling out of the seat, turned his head and looked at Nanako seriously: "Nanako."

Nanako: "Yes."

"Hurry up and do your homework." Ranbu said to her solemnly.

Nanako answered him slowly: "... finished writing."

After she finished speaking, she paused for a moment, then asked Luanbu with a dull face, "Dad, have you finished your work yet?"

"Of course!" Ranbu got the comic book, sat back in the office chair, and replied plausibly, "Dad, there is no unfinished work!"

Nanako didn't believe what he said at all, but she still said "Oh" and ran downstairs to the coffee shop to play with Gogol.