Conan caught sight of Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko's expressions and hurriedly answered before they could: "The victim had recently wanted to resign!"
The two female high school students whose chance to speak had been cut off: "..."
Officer Sato immediately caught the key word. "Resign?"
Jiang Xia nodded. "The victim was a Gold Medal Hairdresser at a beauty salon. Another salon had recently tried to poach her, and she was preparing to change jobs.
"But the store manager of her current salon, 'Midori Beauty Salon,' was clearly very dissatisfied with her leaving—when we went to that salon yesterday, we happened to see them arguing."
Officer Takagi pondered this. "Interpersonal disputes like that really can easily lead to Murder Cases. Things like, 'If I can't have you, I'll kill you'... How about this? I'll call the store manager of Midori Beauty Salon and have her come identify the body. We can ask about the situation while we're at it."
"In that case..." The two female high school students exchanged a glance.
—Come to think of it, the longer it had been since the time of death, the easier it would be for all kinds of traces to be concealed.
Rather than keep agonizing over it here, they might as well have the police summon Teacher Jodie and James while they were gathering suspects.
As for evidence...
Although they still had not found any useful evidence at all, with Jiang Xia here, finding the real culprit should only be a matter of time.
They couldn't wait any longer!
After struggling with it for a long time, Mouri Ran finally spoke. "How about inviting Teacher Jodie and the James nearby over as well?"
Sato Miwako froze. "Teacher Jodie and James? Aren't they F... ahem, they have nothing to do with this case,