Suzuki Sonoko rubbed Haibara Ai's head, then laughed under the other girl's gloomy stare. "Why did you come over this time? Are you elementary school students planning to take shifts staying by Jiang Xia's side?"
Haibara Ai: "..." She really had accidentally guessed half of it right...
Fortunately, the high school girl was only joking and did not truly care why Conan had not come.
She and Mouri Ran pulled out chairs and sat down, ordered coffee, then muttered complaints to their two classmates. "I asked Officer Takagi. The blood found on that clothes hanger really was the store manager's wife's... And Teacher Jodie still didn't go kill the witness."
"Cough, cough... cough." Haibara Ai choked. She had only come to sit around because she had nothing better to do, and had wanted to take the chance to tell Jiang Xia to be wary of Conan lately... She had not expected to hear such bizarre information the moment she arrived.
She could not help asking, "Isn't that foreign teacher with the FBI? Why would she kill a witness?"
Suzuki Sonoko had been about to indignantly say something, but after looking at the child who was not even waist-high to her, she ultimately fell silent for a moment and shook her head solemnly. "This isn't something children should hear."
Haibara Ai: "..."
After thinking it over, she said nothing more. Instead, she made herself less noticeable and quietly listened.
Sure enough, before long, the two high school girls got so caught up in their conversation that they forgot she was there.
The two began discussing it again. Mouri Ran hesitated. "Could Mika's murder really have been just a coincidence? And Teacher Jodie buying that kind of teacher-student manga was also just a coincidence?"
Suzuki Sonoko frowned. "But if that's the case,