The busy Gold Medal Hairdresser left.
He left behind two dumbfounded high school girls, a Fake Elementary School Student with a twitching eye, and another male high schooler who only appeared dumbfounded.
After standing there in a daze for a long while, Suzuki Sonoko looked at Mouri Ran, and Mouri Ran looked back at Suzuki Sonoko, her voice trembling. "Could it be that those secretly taken photos..."
"They weren't taken by the criminal."
"They were secretly taken by Teacher Jodie herself!"
"The reason James helped her cover up the lie..."
"Was because, as an FBI agent, he didn't want the organization to lose face!"
"So Teacher Jodie really is a pervert!!"
The two of them chimed in one after the other, piecing together what they believed to be the truth.
Conan hesitated. He had wanted to say a few words for that unfortunate FBI agent, but after carefully reasoning it through, he still could not figure out what those manga were about.
"It couldn't have been an FBI mission." The Mini Detective scratched his head.
"Or maybe Vermouth liked that stuff, and Teacher Jodie bought those manga too in order to get close to her and cater to her tastes?
"No, that's not right. If that were the case, why would Teacher Jodie have thrown those manga away directly? She should have kept them to discuss shared interests with Vermouth, and perhaps even borrowed books to trick her into leaving fingerprints."
"Strange. What exactly is going on...?"
A baffling new question had suddenly appeared. Though the mystery felt a little odd, Conan still began pondering it with great interest.
Meanwhile, the two high school girls grew angrier the more they talked. Suzuki Sonoko suddenly spun around. "The hospital isn't far from here. Let's go back and demand an explanation from