"Teacher Jodie, you've heard of Kamen Rider, right?" Suzuki Sonoko cheerfully introduced this nationally beloved anime to her foreign friend. "Even though it's for children, it's one of our representative works. For a foreigner like you, its figurines must have great commemorative significance! Also, this character is the Assault Captain from Kamen Rider, a very powerful and righteous police officer! You were kidnapped by a bunch of criminals the other day, weren't you? So Ran and I specifically picked out this police figurine as a lucky charm for you. With it around, those criminals definitely won't dare come near you again!"
After a brief silence, Jodie pinched the miniature "police officer" between two fingers and tried hard to keep smiling.
To be honest, compared with criminals, those police officers were no less troublesome. Forget accepting the gift—right now, she just wanted to shout and hurl the thing out the window, so those annoying cases and annoying organization members would all stop bothering her...
Her fingers trembled for a moment. In the end, under James's quiet gaze from behind the door, Jodie painfully suppressed the urge and placed the figurine by her bedside. "Thank you. I like it very much."
Suzuki Sonoko failed to notice anything unusual and waved a hand casually. "I'm glad you like it! This visit was a little rushed. When you go back home, Teacher, I'll give you a whole figurine set."
Beside her, Mouri Ran secretly observed the foreign teacher in the hospital bed, her eyes silently turning wary.
"Teacher Jodie really doesn't like this figurine. Or, more bluntly, she finds it irritating... So what does she dislike—the figurine itself, or the character it represents—the police officer?"
That raised a question: what kind of person would hate the police so much that they could not even