As a school doctor stared at the disconnected call, he fell into deep thought.
Meanwhile.
Once Dr. Araide had gone far enough away, Suzuki Sonoko rubbed her chin. "You know, Dr. Araide was really kind of strange today."
Mouri Ran nodded. "I thought he'd come eat with us, but maybe he really did have something urgent to deal with."
Conan quietly wiped away a bead of cold sweat and discreetly tried to smooth things over for the unfortunate real school doctor. "His family's case must be going to trial soon. He's probably been so busy lately that he's started acting a little strange."
"Is that so?" Suzuki Sonoko came up with a new route. With a snicker, she suddenly began reciting in a narrator-like tone, "After a long day, the protagonist believed that the supernatural incident at school had come to a perfect end. But what she didn't know was that the school doctor who had helped them with the case was no longer himself."
Conan: ...That was pretty scary. I mean, the truth you accidentally brushed past.
Mouri Ran, on the other hand, was genuinely startled. "Don't say that!!"
They had finally managed to ask Jiang Xia to resolve the supernatural incident, and she had finally been able to look forward to going to school for morning duty a few days later without worry... She didn't want all that effort to go to waste!
"Hahaha, don't worry, don't worry. I was just describing one possibility." Suzuki Sonoko took out her little notebook and scribbled away while muttering to herself, "It looks like the main route, but it's actually a Bad Ending side route... It won't be easy to make it to the end and unlock a romantic CG with 'Detective Jiang Xia'!"
Mouri Ran caught sight of her childhood