"You'd already figured most of it out, hadn't you?" Jiang Xia was very pleased with this classmate's sharpness. It saved him a great deal of explaining.
He then briefly told Conan about the gist of last night's conversation and nodded. "That's about it."
But Conan was already frowning deeply. "Teacher Jodie..."
Though there were plenty of suspicious people around him, to Conan, this foreign teacher who had suddenly arrived at Teitan High School was clearly near the top of the list.
"That is a little strange. No wonder my clothes had been rummaged through last night." Conan sighed, his feelings complicated. "Ran can actually look for listening devices now. She really has made remarkable progress as a detective..."
It was all Sonoko's fault. It was one thing for her to play detective games every day, but she had to drag Ran into them too... Still, was this a good thing or a bad thing?
After agonizing over it alone for a while, Conan finally remembered the important matter and asked Jiang Xia, "What do you think of Teacher Jodie?"
"She's a good teacher," Jiang Xia said. "I think she's a good person."
Conan received this answer with a mixture of surprise and utter lack of surprise, and could not help sighing. "..." Forget it. Asking Jiang Xia about this was pointless. He had even thought Gin was a good person before—just because that outlaw had helped pin down a criminal's gun? That guy had clearly been eliminating dangers around himself, yet in the eyes of people who knew nothing, it somehow became acting righteously.
Shaking his head, Conan decided not to bring it up again. He would investigate it himself when he had the chance, lest Mouri Ran and Jiang Xia be dragged deeper into the abyss—though those two Little