Beika Town.
After school, Mouri Ran did not head straight home. Instead, she instinctively wandered over to another street.
After aimlessly circling the area a few times, she spotted someone in the distance. Her eyes lit up. "Jiang Xia!"
Jiang Xia paused with his hand on the door, turning to examine the classmate running toward him. "Did Teacher Jodie send any news?"
"How did you know?!" Mouri Ran was surprised at first, but remembering Jiang Xia's powers of observation and deduction, she quickly found it normal.
Putting that minor matter aside, she took out her phone and showed him the email on it. "Teacher Jodie said her condition has been fluctuating a little, so she needs to rest another day tomorrow. If I want to visit her, I can go the day after tomorrow. Do you... want to come with me?"
Though she had no evidence, she thought of Teacher Jodie's strange behavior before, then the miserable state that foreign teacher had been in when she was carried out of the Basement not long ago, as well as the string of cases that had happened that night...
Mouri Ran always had the faint feeling that things were not so simple.
If Teacher Jodie really was not a good person, then if she and Sonoko went there alone, they might very well be deceived and unwittingly become her accomplices, bringing unforeseen danger to those around them.
But if Jiang Xia went too, there would be no need to worry about that—this Great Detective was best at exposing all sorts of criminals. Though Jiang Xia did not currently seem to intend to expose Teacher Jodie... perhaps that was because he rarely went to school and had too little contact with her.
But now, everything had come to light. If Jiang Xia took