"Ah—!!"
The ticket seller happened to be standing at the very back. When the lights came on, she suddenly saw a corpse hanging right in front of her and let out a terrified scream.
Haibara Ai turned to look over there. "..." Another case, seriously.
Still, it was fine. Today's purpose had been to improve Jiang Xia's relationship with the children—if they saw how impressive Jiang Xia looked while solving a case, perhaps they would go from fearing this detective to admiring him?
Thinking like this, she turned to look at the three children.
Then she found them huddled together like quails again, whispering about something.
Haibara Ai paused, then curiously edged closer and pricked up her ears to eavesdrop.
Then she heard what the children were arguing about:
"From my experience, Brother Jiang Xia is most likely to knock people out when there's a case—stop eating your popcorn! That crunching is way too loud. What if he thinks we're disturbing the crime scene?!"
Kojima Genta sheepishly stopped chewing, and Yoshida Ayumi did not dare keep noisily slurping the cola in her hand. The movie had been so exciting that they had forgotten to eat. Only halfway through did they remember the snacks in their hands, but before they could have more than a few bites, a case had happened.
Although corpses were scary, the three Elementary School Students from Teitan Elementary School had seen plenty. They had long encountered corpses far more terrifying than this one. Right now, compared with the motionless corpse, it seemed more important to deal with Brother Jiang Xia first.
Yoshida Ayumi looked at the cola in her hand, deeply reluctant. "Then should we throw it away?"
"That won't do either." Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, the little strategist, carefully avoided every bad-child trap. "Wasting food is shameful.