Hearing Jiang Xia mention Jodie, Suzuki Sonoko realized later and smacked her fist into her palm, remembering something. "Now that you mention it, it has been a while since we went out alone with Teacher Jodie. I think the last time we ran into her was on Valentine's Day, and there were a whole bunch of other people with us then..."
Thinking about how clingy this teacher had been when she had first come to Teitan High School, then thinking about her strange quietness now, Suzuki Sonoko could not help feeling a little guilty. "Do you think Teacher Jodie feels like we don't welcome her, so she hasn't been looking for us much anymore?"
...She, well, she had muttered some bad things about that foreign teacher in her heart for a while, but that was only because some of Teacher Jodie's actions had looked too strange.
But suspicion was one thing. Seeing that Jodie really no longer took the initiative to approach them now, Suzuki Sonoko could not help worrying and began reflecting on whether she had unknowingly bullied this poor teacher—she used to be such an outgoing person, and now look at her...
At the mention of this, Mouri Ran also remembered something. "Have you noticed? Teacher Jodie doesn't seem as enthusiastic about teaching anymore either. I remember when she introduced herself, she said she came to Tokyo for sightseeing—do you think she finds this place boring and is planning to go back to her country early?"
"How could this happen!" Suzuki Sonoko's heart jolted. "Going home is fine, but at the very least, she should go back without regrets... No, we can't let this go on like this—come on, let's go ask Teacher Jodie if she has time on her day off. If she does, we'll invite her