Kuwa-ki High School.
The school sat on the outskirts of Tokyo and did not cover much ground. A crude area had even been set aside at the edge of the sports field for fencing.
Suzuki Sonoko stood on a raised spot nearby, watching the club members facing off in pairs. One of the girls wore low twin ponytails. Sonoko's eyes lit up when she saw her, and she waved. "Yumi-senpai!"
Jiang Xia looked over and saw the girl turn around, remove her helmet, and gaze back at them in confusion, revealing an unfamiliar face.
Sonoko froze. "Sorry, I mistook you for someone else."
She hurriedly pushed her two companions away, making an embarrassed escape.
The three of them quietly slipped into the school. It was not until they reached the bottom of the activity building that Sonoko sighed. "Yumi-senpai fences too, and she likes wearing low twin ponytails like that. I never thought there'd be someone else at school dressed the same way..."
Just as she spoke, a voice suddenly came from upstairs. "Sonoko?"
Jiang Xia looked up and saw a girl poking her head out from behind a window. The high school girl wore thick glasses, blunt bangs, and low twin ponytails. At first glance, she looked like an ordinary student who would fade into the background.
But in the next instant, that ordinary student became anything but ordinary—her body suddenly jerked backward. With a scream, she vanished from the window as though someone had grabbed her from behind and forcibly dragged her back into the room.
"Pfft—!!"
Conan had just been glumly drinking juice when the scream startled him, and he choked on it. Why was something happening again?!
Jiang Xia reacted quite like a Detective this time. He was already hurrying up the activity building with Mouri