Jodie deliberately spoke with a foreign accent, saying in an odd tone:
"Actually, those photos were originally pinned to a board in the living room. But when some local friends came over to my house, they said it looked too strange.
"Since I took them casually, none of you were looking at the camera. My Tokyo friends said it looked like candid photography, and some people might mind, so I moved them somewhere more hidden to fit in with the local customs."
Suzuki Sonoko stroked her chin, feeling that there was nothing wrong with that. "Right. People in American TV shows always like keeping photos of relatives and friends on their desks or in their wallets. The customs really are different."
But Mouri Ran still felt that something was off. She glanced at Jiang Xia beside her, hesitating over whether she should say it.
Then she remembered that there was a large group of police officers downstairs, and that the window in this ward was sealed shut and couldn't be opened—if Teacher Jodie really was some lawless criminal using the FBI as a cover, there could be no better time to arrest her.
Besides, if Teacher Jodie really had been wrongly accused, this was also a good chance to clear things up so they would not keep worrying about it later.
After struggling internally for a long time, Mouri Ran finally took a deep breath and blurted out everything she wanted to say in one go:
"But in every photo Jiang Xia appears in, his eyes have been crossed out with a black marker! If they really were meant to commemorate relatives and friends, you shouldn't treat Jiang Xia's photos like that. It looks simply, simply..."
It looked just like something a pervert would do!
"..."
Under the gaze of