did you see my dad

This is the first time Huali appears penniless on a strange street.

She clutched her empty bag and fell into a brief moment of confusion, so now... where should she go to find her father now?

I don't even know the shape and name.

Adhering to the principle that she was taught to go to the police when she needed help, Huali asked the girl on the side of the road how to get to the police station with a cute face, but was asked to take her there.

The group of girls thought she was lost, couldn't help touching her little face and slightly blamed her parents: "It's dangerous for a child to be outside alone, where is your father?"

Huali shook her head honestly: "I don't know."

The faces of the girls became more and more angry.

Fortunately, the police station was not far away. After they sent her in, they couldn't hide their indignation that she might have been lost. The police officer nodded with his notebook: "I see, I will contact her parents as soon as possible."

Huali also bowed to them and thanked them, she was so obedient.

The top of her head was rubbed five times before Huali was hugged by the police on the sofa, stuffed with snacks in her hands, and looked at the female police officer squatting in front of her holding a notebook and asked softly: "So kid, do you remember where home is?" ?"

It was her first time here, so she didn't know where her home was, Huali shook her head and took a bite of the snack.

The female policeman put a question mark on the notebook, and then asked her father's name, Huali blinked her eyes and continued to shake her head: "I don't know."

Policewoman: ...it's a little troublesome.

Seeing that her expression was wrong, Huali added another sentence to avoid the fate of being almost sent to the orphanage like last time: "My things were snatched by the side of the road, can you help me find them?"

"Ah, that's it..." The policewoman finally had some clues, and she immediately asked her colleagues for the surveillance video, "Please help me find out who is the person who stole this child's belongings."

Huali waited there obediently, and when she finished eating the snacks, she vaguely heard that the result of their conversation was not optimistic.

"That's a blind spot for surveillance, and nothing was captured..."

"The other surveillance camera didn't see the face. This thief is very familiar with the location and surveillance here, and he didn't know where he went..."

It's... not a good feeling.

Sure enough, the next second the female police officer squatted in front of her and politely told her that she might not be able to get those things back: "There is little hope, but we will try our best to get them back for you."

"Okay," Huali jumped off the sofa, and when the policeman was going to make her recall the sign of her home address and seemed to want to drive her back, Huali interrupted her just in time, "Then I'll go back first."

She trotted and staggered the people who opened the door and walked in, and ran into the crowd regardless of the shouts of the police officers behind her.

Huali sighed, Mi Ke couldn't be contacted now, she could only determine the target based on her appearance, Huali glanced around, only the old grandpa and grandma with gray hair around, basically no young people.

Is there really no other way?

Huali was kicking pebbles on the road. She had met her father directly in other worlds before, but this time it was so strange, not to mention the photo was stolen, and she was penniless.

Huali subconsciously touched the necklace on her chest, but she only touched the conch pearl that the mermaid gave her, which made her feel unspeakably flustered, Huali opened her collar and looked inside, but there was still nothing.

Huali:! ! !

Recalling the memory, she suddenly remembered that Mi Ke had taken it off because Mi Ke said that the necklace needed to be repaired. As a result, Mi Ke seemed to have forgotten to put it on for her when she went out.

Misfortunes don't come singly...

She was walking so absent-mindedly that she didn't notice that someone's head hit her at the corner, but it was the man's warm palm that hit her. Although she counteracted a lot of force, Huali still staggered back a step, and was grabbed by the man's arm again. Steady the body.

"Be careful," the black-haired man smiled softly, the sunlight projected from behind him, and Huali's beautiful eyes shone like sapphires. Such a silver-haired and blue-eyed appearance made Mori Ogai, who couldn't resist loli, uncontrollably sigh.

Huali seemed to see the little flowers blooming next to the man's cheeks.

"What a lovely child." Mori Ogai's eyes were almost benevolent, and his voice became softer strangely, "Are you lost?"

The blond-haired, blue-eyed little girl who came out of the store happened to see this scene.

As if the anger of being betrayed welled up in her heart, she puffed her cheeks and yelled at Mori Ogai: "Rintaro!"

The man woke up immediately, and ran over in a panic with the bag in his hand: "Alice-chan!"

The little girl named Alice glared at him, and handed him the new clothes in her hand: "Rintaro, you can't do this! Otherwise, I'll be angry!"

Mori Owai hurriedly agreed in a cold sweat, but when he looked back, Huali was gone.

The client he was talking about took the opportunity to run away because of the man's weird style of painting. This person is simply too strange!It was almost the same as the red-haired man she had met before.

She was glad that she ran fast, but when she was tired, she saw a child squatting on the side of the street, so she leaned over and sat next to her, as if she could seek a sense of security.

The child in the patched clothes looked back at her, and his eyes fell on the clean dress on her body, shrinking his neck and moving a little away from her.

Huali moved a little further.

After resting for a while, Huali finally recovered her breathing. She looked at the child's slender wrist, which seemed to be broken if she pinched it.

Remembering that there was still one piece of snack that the policewoman gave her, Huali passed the food over.

The child looked at her vigilantly, but instead of answering, he tucked his dirty hands into his sleeves.

"I'm full." Fortunately, there was still a layer of packaging on the outside of the snack. Huali saw that she seemed to be afraid of her so she didn't pick it up, so she put the snack on the side of her hand, then tucked her hands into her sleeves and looked at the street. The people coming and going sighed with their chins on their hands.

Seeing that Huali had been staying here, the child kept her eyes on the piece of snack, and finally her hunger overwhelmed her self-esteem and vigilance, she silently ate the snack in small bites, quietly, as if she was worried that the movement of eating would be too loud. Looted by others.

And the child who finished eating was also less wary of Huali, and she even said with a dry throat: "It's getting late, aren't you going home?"

Only then did Huali turn her face away, and told her disappointedly: "I didn't find my father, maybe I don't have a house to live in."

"There's a police station there." The child kindly pointed her in the direction of the police station.

"They can't find it either." Speaking of this topic, Huali became even more sad. "I don't know who else I can ask for help."

The child paused for a second, and then pointed her in another direction, which was the direction of the fourth floor of a building: "There is a detective agency over there, they... are very powerful."

Huali's eyes lit up.

It was an office. After Huali saw the five large characters on the door—Armed Detective Agency, although she could only understand the word Detective, she was sure that she had gone the right way.She glanced at her broken bag hesitantly. She heard that the detective needed money, but she seemed to have nothing now.

wrong--

Huali took off the conch pearl she was wearing around her neck, looked at the only valuable thing left on her body, recalled the grateful face of the mermaid, and couldn't make a decision for a while.

This is a gift from someone else, can it be mortgaged like this...

Huali is reluctant.

But she really has nothing left.

At this time, someone came out from the office, and happened to meet Huali who was standing at the door, and both of them seemed to be taken aback.

"There is actually a child..." The yellow-haired young man with glasses came out with a serious face.

Huali was stunned for a moment, then immediately bowed to him, and greeted him angrily: "Hello!"

Milky...

Kunikida didn't play it off just because she was a child, he politely responded with a hello, and then asked if he had gone the wrong way, but Huali shook his head and denied it.

"I'm looking for a detective agency..." Huali pointed at the sign on the wall with certainty, her gaze was particularly firm, "I'm looking for Uncle Detective's help!"

This is still new.

Kunikida hesitated for half a second between sending her to the police station and letting her into the detective agency. The bandaged young man in the room poked his head out: "Ah, what are you doing, Kunikida? Playing with children home?"

Even though he has been pissed off by Osamu Dazai many times, Kunikida still couldn't control his veins: "Dazai!"

"Why?" Osamu Dazai had a bright smile on his face, but Kunikida, who saw this smile, seemed to take a step back, and before he could cover his ears, he heard the young man continue to say, "If you play house, I want to play the role of father, is that okay—Mother Kunikida?"

When he said the last few words, he deliberately emphasized his tone.

Huali watched a fight for free, and even though it was just lip service, it was breathtaking.

Kunikida was so angry that he supported the wall to stabilize his body, while Osamu Dazai was calm and even in the mood to invite Huali, who was leaning against the wall to shrink his presence, "Cute little girl, do you want to come in and sit?"

Huali felt that this sentence seemed familiar, as if she had entered the stage of seduction where Grandma Wolf wanted to eat Little Red Riding Hood.

She swallowed her saliva, glanced at Kunikida's distraught look, and thought that she might be sleeping on the street, she finally made up her mind and strode in stiffly.

The place where they work is not neat, and some desks are randomly placed with documents, which is quite spacious at first glance.It's just that there are not many people in the office.

Dazai looked at her with a smile.

Huali put her legs together, because it was the first time she came to this kind of place, and she had a lot of cash, which made her less confident when she spoke, and her voice was small: "My name is Huali, and I am almost four years old..."

Kunikida sat next to Osamu Dazai and gave him a puzzled look.

Osamu Dazai didn't seem to notice it, and nodded in agreement after hearing Huali's introduction: "Is there anything we can do to help, kid?"

Huali hesitated again and again, and put the conch pearl in her hand on the small table between them.

"This was given to me by the mermaid sister," she emphasized again, as if to emphasize the preciousness of the thing, but she didn't know that a child's words are full of fairy tales to adults, even if she is telling the truth, but this kind of The mermaid that only existed in the story naturally had no credibility when she said it from her mouth, "I only have this on me..."

"Can I trouble my elder brother to find my father for me?"

Kunikida's attention finally fell on Huali, and he pondered: "For this kind of thing, it might be better to go to the police—"

And Dazai Osamu next to him still nodded. There was no mistrust in his eyes. Instead, he looked at the conch on the table. The pearl embedded in it was full and round, and the color was rare. It was not like a toy plastic, but instead Glows seductively under the light.

It was a precious thing, he could see it.

And judging from the child's eyes falling on the conch from time to time, it can be seen that she regrets taking it out.

Huali didn't miss Kunikida's words, she immediately replied to him: "The police officer sister couldn't find anyone, my photo was taken away by others... I don't know what my father looks like, and I don't know his name... ..."

Kunikida Fu forehead, this is bad.

If you don't know anything, finding someone is harder than going to heaven.

"You haven't seen him," Osamu Dazai tapped his arm with his fingers. A child came out to find a father he had never met, so the motive was easy to guess. "Where's your mother?"

She touched her neck subconsciously, there was nothing there, Huali shook her head: "Mom is sleeping at home."

Kunikida grabbed Dazai Osamu's arm, leaned over and whispered to him, "Let's send her back... a child is outside, the parents must be crazy..."

But in the next second, Huali added another sentence: "She sleeps in a small jar and doesn't talk to Huali."

The man's words stopped abruptly, and he looked at her with complicated eyes, but he quickly stood up and didn't know where he was going.

Osamu Dazai had a smile on his face, and he didn't want Kunikida to react so much. Under Huali's gaze, he picked up the conch and looked at it carefully, as if he couldn't see the child leaning over his upper body nervously.

"It's really beautiful." The young man held the conch up in the air and looked at the light for a while, but he was unmoved, and then returned the conch to Huali's hand.

It's very troublesome...

Osamu Dazai stretched his waist, and at this moment Kunikida came over with a bunch of snacks and put them on the table.

It is said to be snacks, but it is also relatively healthy food, such as cakes and rice balls, all pushed in the direction of Huali, "Are you hungry? You can eat these."

The bandaged young man knew that his partner might have made such a move out of sympathy, but he didn't say anything, but Huali was holding the conch and was still hesitating whether to give it away as a trade. Seeing so much food, he was stunned After a while, he shook his head in embarrassment and denied: "...not hungry."

The next second my stomach rumbled.