Conan fell silent for a moment. They had investigated this long, yet they did not have the slightest clue about the case. The details about the Ghost, on the other hand, were becoming more and more complete?
Just as he was trying to steer his thoughts back on track, a terrified scream suddenly rang out from the Art Room beside them. "Ah!!"
Suzuki Sonoko had been chattering outside the Art Room about the psychology of ghosts and monsters. Startled by the sudden noise, she let out a shriek of her own.
"Don't panic. That was a living person screaming." Jiang Xia stepped past her, pulled open the Art Room door, and called inside, "Are you okay?"
Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko nervously peered into the room. The senior who had just complained that they were too noisy was now sitting before a canvas, his face utterly ghastly.
As the door opened, the paintbrush slipped from his hand and clattered to the floor. Trembling, he said, "It seems Hosaka really died unable to rest in peace... These supernatural incidents at the school really are his Ghost causing trouble!"
Jiang Xia looked at this third person, after the senior from the Karate club and the senior lying around like a corpse in the Infirmary. "You knew that deceased student too?"
"...I did." The painting senior pushed up his glasses and steadied himself. "Before he fell down the stairs two years ago, he was a member of the Art Club, just like me."
"The Art Club?"
Suzuki Sonoko turned to look at the stairs outside the door, suddenly realizing something. She looked back at the painter. "That senior who died fell from this stretch of stairs, and the Art Club is right next door... Were you there when he fell?"
The Art Club