"Hm? Oh!" Mouri Ran came to her senses and quickly patted her bag. "Of course I brought it!"
Normally, she definitely would have been even more excited than Suzuki Sonoko. But now, looking at this unfamiliar station, Mouri Ran had absolutely no interest in getting a tennis star's autograph.
—Because this place was less than three kilometers from somewhere Teacher Jodie often went.
Unfortunately, the signal in the suburbs was poor, and the location was not precise enough, so she was unable to check the situation there directly on the map. However, if she could go near the signal point and take a look, she would definitely gain more.
And the closer she got to the truth, the more uneasy Mouri Ran felt—Teacher Jodie had been going back and forth here late at night so often. What exactly was it for?
"If she's just looking at the scenery, that's fine. But if some dirty secret is hidden here..."
Thinking of Hattori Heiji and Conan, who had gone in and out of Teacher Jodie's apartment at night, Mouri Ran felt a headache coming on. She muttered softly, "I hope it isn't what I'm thinking."
Beside her, the three elementary school students did not have that many worries.
Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko looked at the tennis players appearing one by one on the electronic screen and said excitedly, "Mabuchi Kyohei is so cool!"
"Yeah!" Yoshida Ayumi sighed. "He's handsome and so athletic. Someone like that, I've only seen on, um..."
She had just wanted to say she had only seen someone like that on tv, but suddenly she remembered that there really did seem to be someone like that beside her—Brother Jiang Xia was handsome and athletic too, specifically in how smoothly he struck people down, able to easily stomp one to N strong