After thinking it over, Mouri Ran added, "If you don't mind, before calling the police, I'd like to investigate it myself first, so that..."
She trailed off halfway through. After all, in this voyeurism incident, compared with herself—who had clearly only been caught on camera by chance—Jiang Xia and Conan seemed to be the real victims.
If Jiang Xia was unwilling to take that risk and chose to call the police directly, that would actually be perfectly reasonable.
But that did not happen.
The kind Detective quickly understood her intentions and continued for her, "So there won't be any misunderstandings, and an innocent foreign teacher won't be wrongly accused? To be honest, I think so too—Teacher Jodie doesn't seem like a bad person. If we don't give her any chance at all and just let her suffer social death, then this friendship would be too fragile."
"Jiang Xia..." Mouri Ran looked deeply moved. Then she clenched her fist and said earnestly, "If Teacher Jodie really does turn out to be a bad person, that's okay too. I'll protect you! Though you might not need it..."
Jiang Xia smiled and began helping this female classmate, who was becoming more and more like a Detective, prepare for what came next. "I do have Locators, but I got them all from Professor Agasa. Why not ask Professor Agasa for one?"
Mouri Ran glanced at the Agasa Residence in front of them, looking a little helpless. "The Professor is too close to Shinichi. If I ask him for a Locator, he'll definitely tell Shinichi.
"Isn't Shinichi busy with a case somewhere? He won't be back anytime soon, and if this distracts him, he might run into danger while investigating—better to keep it from him for now. If we can solve this ourselves, that would