Chapter 3516-3528 [School Paranormal Events]
Mihana Town.
After school, Ran Mouri didn't go straight home, but instead unconsciously wandered to another street.
After wandering aimlessly around the area for a while, she spotted a figure in the distance and her eyes lit up: "Jiang Xia!"
Jiang Xia stopped opening the door and turned to look at the student who had run up to her: "Is there any news from Ms. Judy?"
"How did you know!" Ran Mouri was surprised at first, but then she remembered Jiang Xia's observation and reasoning abilities and quickly realized it was normal.
She put this trivial matter out of her mind and showed Jiang Xia the email on her phone: "Professor Judy said her health has been fluctuating a bit, and she needs to rest again tomorrow. If I want to visit her, I can go the day after tomorrow. Do you... want to come with me?"
Although there was no evidence, recalling Ms. Judy's strange behavior before, the pitiful state of the foreign teacher when she was carried out of the basement not long ago, and the series of incidents that happened that night...
Ran Mouri had a nagging feeling that things weren't as simple as they seemed.
If Ms. Jodie really isn't a good person, then if she and Sonoko go alone, they might be deceived and unwittingly become her accomplices, bringing unexpected danger to those around them.
But if Jiang Xia goes along, there's no need to worry about that—this famous detective is best at catching all kinds of criminals. Although Jiang Xia doesn't seem to have any intention of catching Ms. Judy yet... but that might be because he rarely goes to school and has too little contact with Ms. Judy.
Now that everything has come to light, if Jiang Xia were to take a look at the situation, the truth might just come to light!
"Visiting someone..." Jiang Xia recalled his schedule and realized that there didn't seem to be anything too important happening these past two days.
In that case, I should definitely visit that FBI agent. Maybe I can take advantage of her emotional outburst and pack some extra fries to kill her.
Thinking this through, Jiang Xia nodded: "Okay, we'll go together then."
With this capable helper, Ran Mouri felt a sense of relief. Thinking about the recent chaotic days, she couldn't help but sigh: "There have been so many strange things happening lately—Ms. Jodie was inexplicably arrested, there was a gunfight and explosion at the port, a senator died at the tennis court, and the school keeps being haunted..."
"Haunted?" Jiang Xia's ears twitched. "I've never heard of that."
"It happened in the last few days." Before Ran Mouri could even begin to explain, goosebumps had already risen on her arms. Looking at the darkening sky around her, she crossed her arms. "Well, you should ask Sonoko for the details. I'm afraid I'll have nightmares tonight if I tell her, and what if that classmate hears about it and comes after me..."
She shivered, wanting nothing more than to get home and into bed as quickly as possible: "Tomorrow afternoon, I plan to go with Sonoko to buy some gifts to visit Ms. Judy. You can come find us after school! ...I'm off now!"
She waved hurriedly to Jiang Xia, and before it got completely dark, she ran towards the Mouri Detective Agency, as if she was worried that if she ran too slowly, she would be caught by something terrible.
Jiang Xia waved to her, then thoughtfully pushed open the door and went home.
...
The quiet of the early morning.
Inside the teaching building of Teitan Junior High School.
Ran Mouri was on duty this morning. She walked down the empty stairs, one step at a time, and just as she reached the corner, she suddenly heard someone walking upstairs.
The sound of leather shoes clicking down from above her head stopped on the platform diagonally above her.
Ran Mouri turned around and, across a flight of steps, saw a boy with only two legs walking out from around the corner.
"..."
"…………"
"ah--!!!!"
Looking at his translucent face, Ran Mouri suddenly sat up, then happily realized that it was just a nightmare.
but……
...
"Speaking of duty, it seems like it's almost my turn to be on morning duty." As she finished washing up and prepared to go to school, this high school girl thought of something with a sense of unease:
"What if, what if that wasn't just an ordinary dream, but a precognitive dream... what should we do?"
Thinking this way, her legs, which had just stepped out of the house, suddenly seemed to take root and remained firmly rooted to the spot.
Just as Ran was pondering 100 ways to deal with encountering a ghost, she saw a person wearing a Teitan High School uniform walk past her and head towards the school.
She was startled at first, but then realized that it wasn't the ghost from her dream, but rather...
"Jiang Xia!!" Ran Mouri rushed over, looking like she'd seen a family member. "Why are you wearing your school uniform? Could it be...?"
As expected, Jiang Xia gave her the answer she wanted to hear most at that moment: "The mock exam is coming up soon, I'll go to school to get some materials and take a look at the paranormal events you mentioned."
Ran Mouri: "!" Great!!
Jiang Xia is so good at solving cases, he should be good at catching ghosts too, right? But Jiang Xia always seems to say that there are no ghosts in the world, only people who pretend to be ghosts...
Never mind, as long as it solves the paranormal incident, it's a good thing!
"Let's go!" someone encouraged, and Ran Mouri was finally able to take a step. "I'm actually kind of looking forward to the ghost appearing."
Just then, another person came running down from upstairs: "What are you talking about!"
Jiang Xia and Ran Mouri turned around and saw Conan rushing towards them.
"It's nothing." Ran Mouri wasn't sure if she should tell a child about ghost stories. "You should get ready to go to school too."
"Ran-neechan, are you still half asleep? Today is a rest day, there are no classes at school, only club activities." Conan said with a straight face, "What's wrong? I can help."
Ran Mouri was still somewhat hesitant.
Jiang Xia, on the other hand, seemed quite welcoming of this mini assistant: "The school has been haunted lately, I'm going to go see what's going on."
"Haunted?" Conan paused, then realized, "No wonder..."
No wonder Xiaolan seemed so strange. No wonder Jiang Xia went to school today even though there was no exam. It turns out there was a supernatural event.
He scratched his head and glanced at Jiang Xia: "You're still researching these things?"
As far as I can remember, a year ago, when Jiang Xia's parents had just had their accident, this neighbor frequented libraries, bookstores, and cemeteries, borrowing a lot of books on the supernatural, looking like he really wanted to see ghosts.
This made Conan very worried about his mental state, and even more worried that one day he would wake up and find that his neighbor was creating a ghost... Fortunately, later, as Jiang Xia began to shine in his detective career, he seemed to be less fascinated by ghosts and monsters, and no longer needed a psychologist.
But now it seems...
This hobby doesn't seem to have completely disappeared.
After thinking for a moment, Conan said, "Since I'm free anyway, I'll go take a look."
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