Chapters 3517 and 3529 [Game Strategy]
After a pause, Conan casually emphasized, "There are no ghosts in the world, and people don't turn into such things when they die—it's definitely not the supernatural, but someone playing tricks behind the scenes."
Ran Mouri: "..." Conan really pays close attention to his detective senior; he says almost exactly the same things as Jiang Xia...
Beside her, Jiang Xia asked, "What exactly happened with the paranormal events at school?"
Conan: "Anyway, it'll probably be something like Hanako after school, 13 steps, a music room where someone plays the piano, or something like that."
"No, that's not true!" Ran Mouri's expression turned serious when the topic of paranormal events came up.
"Unlike rumors from other places, the paranormal events at our school all happen in the morning."
"It's said that two years ago, a student arrived at school early in the morning but died unexpectedly for some unknown reason. So every morning, his ghost wanders around the school..."
"Two years ago?" Conan stroked his chin. "I am now... cough, Ran-neechan, you are only in your second year of high school, and you have only been in school for less than two years. That means this accident happened before you entered school... No wonder I have never heard of it."
Ran Mouri tilted her head, momentarily unable to grasp the connection between the last sentence and the preceding ones.
However, it's normal for kids to talk nonsense, so she ignored Conan's strange logic and continued, "Next week morning, it's my turn to be on duty. If that day happens to be a ghostly day..."
She shivered and hugged herself tightly.
Jiang Xia glanced at the creaking backpack in her arms and said, "If you really encounter a ghost, you can try using your karate; it might have a miraculous effect."
"Using karate against ghosts?" If it were anyone else, Ran Mouri would think they were talking nonsense, but Jiang Xia said it...
She tried hard to remember: "I, I'll try my best."
As they were chatting, a surprised voice suddenly came from the intersection ahead: "Jiang Xia? You're actually going to school today?"
The three of them looked ahead and saw Sonoko Suzuki hopping and skipping towards them.
Then, just as she was about to meet up with them, the careless high school girl belatedly realized something and suddenly froze: "Wait, is there an exam today? I don't remember at all!"
“There are no exams,” Ran Mouri comforted her. “Didn’t we say last time that Jiang Xia doesn’t come to school every time for exams?”
"Haha, that's good." Suzuki Sonoko's mood, which had plummeted, rose again. She then asked Jiang Xia curiously, "So what are you doing at school? Could it be... to see me!"
Jiang Xia said expectantly, "Let's see if there are any ghosts."
"..." Suzuki Sonoko swallowed the rest of her words with a sense of vicissitude: Jiang Xia in real life is indeed quite different from the one in the game.
However, the theme of a famous detective and ghosts in school... seems like it could be made into a new story that will stir people's hearts!
A game designer stroked his chin, ready to launch into his imagination.
However, after glancing at the two classmates next to her, Sonoko Suzuki considered her ability to manage her expressions... and finally decided to put the matter aside for now, and do it when she was alone.
...
Before long, the group arrived at the entrance hall.
There were no classes today, and only a few students were on campus. Jiang Xia and his friends took the opportunity to bring Conan, an "outsider," to the entrance.
You need to change into indoor shoes before entering the school building, and there are rows of shoe cabinets in the entrance hall. Remembering that Conan had never been to this building before, Ran Mouri carefully explained, "You can put your shoes here after you change them—how about it, it's much bigger than the entrance hall of your school, isn't it?"
Conan nodded, unable to refute: Although strictly speaking, this is also his school, after shrinking and looking at it again, both the entrance hall and the shoe cabinet have really enlarged a lot.
As Jiang Xia was changing her shoes, two high school girls in school uniforms walked over. After a quick glance, they exclaimed in surprise, "Jiang Xia! There are no exams today, what brings you to school?"
Then they noticed Conan standing nearby and exclaimed with curiosity, "Is this the little boy you always take with you when you solve cases? Haha, he's even shorter in real life than on TV."
Conan's eyes twitched: "..." Tashiro and Hidaka... those two guys are still so talkative.
"Huh?" Hidaka Megumi looked at him in surprise, then laughed at Tashiro Hanako beside her, "Look at the way he's looking down on us, doesn't he look like a mini version of Shinichi Kudo?"
Conan: "...!!" You can't just say things like that!
Tashiro Hanako looked her over carefully and hissed, "It really is! Kid, you better watch out in the future, don't turn into one of those idiots who can only deduce—seriously, you're always by Jiang Xia's side, how come you're more like Kudo? That expression of yours really makes you want to punch me."
Conan rolled his eyes even more: "..." Who's the one who deserves a beating here?!
He wanted to argue, but he worried that saying too much would make him seem more like Shinichi Kudo. So in the end, the guilty fake elementary school student could only remain silent, which was very out of character for him, and pretend that he hadn't heard anything.
Fortunately, the two high school girls were only interested for a short while before their attention quickly returned to Jiang Xia. They asked curiously, "Why are you at school? Did you get the date wrong?"
"Of course I'm here to solve cases with you!" Sonoko Suzuki ran up to Jiang Xia, draped her arm over his shoulder, and proudly raised her chin. "With the two of us working together, there's no case we can't solve!"
Tashiro Hanako: "Hmm..." That's not entirely wrong...
"Investigating a case?" Two more high school boys passed by and chimed in, "Are you investigating that paranormal incident?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "You've heard of it too?"
“I’ve heard of it,” the high school boy hissed. “But it’s a waste of your talent to have you investigate this kind of thing—in my opinion, it’s probably just some guy making up nonsense out of boredom.”
The other person looked at Suzuki Sonoko suspiciously: "Suzuki, did you make this up—to create some danger and then have Jiang Xia play the hero and save the damsel in distress or something?"
"What nonsense are you spouting, you brat!" Sonoko Suzuki said righteously. "Do you think I'm that kind of person?!"
The four students who were passing by all nodded in unison.
"..." Sonoko Suzuki felt even more wronged than the suspect who was caught in a three-way selection process while just passing by. "You don't understand me at all..."
Tashiro Hanako chuckled and tapped the watch cover on her wrist: "Club activities are about to start, we have to go now—if you find out what happened with the paranormal event, remember to tell us later."
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