"This..."
After all, they were used to being students, and the person across from them had once been their teacher. Faced with this sudden question, Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran instinctively answered, "Of course we thought of it ourselves."
Only after answering did they begin following Teacher Jodie's line of thought and recalling what had happened when they found the body. And once they thought about it, there really was something that matched Jodie's question.
Suzuki Sonoko said in surprise, "I remember that when no one answered the doorbell, that little brat said, 'Could Teacher Jodie have silenced her?' ...That little brat's deductive ability is actually better than mine!"
Although what she had in mind was completely different from what Jodie was thinking, Jodie and James still frowned when they caught that key phrase.
—That little brat!
James adjusted his glasses. "..." Suzuki Sonoko herself was only a seventeen-year-old high school student. The only one she could call a "little brat" was probably an actual child—the elementary school student with glasses!
Having known the high school girls longer, Jodie immediately knew whom Sonoko was referring to. She murmured, "Conan..."
Unexpected.
Yet somehow, it made sense.
That first-year elementary school student. Had he really become Uzo's pawn completely?
And the extent of the child's influence was probably even deeper than they had anticipated.
Across from them, Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko finally caught on. "Wait, what do you mean by 'guidance'? You make it sound as though Teacher Jodie was set up—when you're obviously just genuinely suspicious!"
Jodie looked thoroughly righteous. "I was merely framed!"
The two high school girls eyed her suspiciously. "Hmm..."
Although suspicious gazes still surrounded her, after all that, Officer Sato's suspicion of Jodie had diminished considerably.
—When Suzuki Sonoko mentioned the manga earlier, Jodie's reaction of