17: This is even better than reality TV.

[scaresplants]

[There's the sound of laughter. It's not exactly happy laughter, or the type of laughter that you have when somebody tells you a really funny story. In fact, it seems to have reached the point where it is exactly directed at everyone else.]

[The screen finally turns on, showing a particular demon grinning at the camera in the tidy location of  a bar. Anthony J. Crowley is laughing at your misfortune, Vatheonites.]

Wow. Wow, this curse is priceless, isn't it? Just seeing all you people squirm when the truth is out...really, you make it easy to tell which confessions are the truth and which are not based on your reactions.

Ooh, and we've got some love confessions in there too! I have to say, watching all of these love triangles and squares and other polygonal figures is probably the best entertainment that I've had in the last several years.

[He snickers slightly, before taking a sip of wine.] And count my lucky stars, I honestly think the curse has passed over me. Haven't had the need to confess anything the last couple of days. Finally this place does something right.

[A pause as his smile widens.] So, don't be shy. Let all your secrets out to me. I'll have you know that I'm actually a pretty honest guy.

[...Wait a second. For a brief second, his smile falters. That wasn't exactly what he was meaning to say. But the smile is back as if nothing happened. Crowley is a pretty hard guy to read, after all.]

So, how about it?

Comments

[scaresplants]

What would it take to get you to listen to me?

[modernholmes]

Why do you want me to listen to you?

I once jumped off Tokyo Tower.

[Conan claps his hands over his mouth too late.]

[scaresplants]

Aren't you a little young to risk your life in such dangerous situations?

[Just being so amused over here.]

[modernholmes]

There were reasons.

[scaresplants]

What reasons would you have for possibly engaging in suicide?

[modernholmes]

I never said anything like that.

[scaresplants]

I don't know, but jumping off Tokyo Tower is not exactly something that people recommend you try at home, if you get my drift.

[modernholmes]

...It was safer than the other option. [Neither of which he wanted Ran to know about. It wasn't a secret. Not really. But it would only make her worry if she ever heard the full story of what happened that night.]

[scaresplants]

And what, exactly, was so dangerous about the other option?

[modernholmes]

...I don't want to talk about it.

[scaresplants]

Awww, why not?

[modernholmes]

Do I need a reason?

[scaresplants]

Usually people have reasons why they don't wish to share things, yes.

[modernholmes]

Here's a reason then. I have never met you before.

[scaresplants]

And? How is that bad, necessarily?

[modernholmes]

I don't feel like saying such things to someone I don't know.

[scaresplants]

Well, you don't have to worry about that. The curse is doing it all for you, anyways.

[modernholmes]

That doesn't mean I have to explain.

A helicopter was chasing me with a machinegun.

[scaresplants]

[Crowley: 1, Conan: 0]</small. Oh? Really? Where do you live, in an action movie or something?

[modernholmes]

[Conan hates this curse so much.]

I live in Tokyo.

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[scaresplants]

Yes, but commonly, little kids don't get shot at from helicopters.

[modernholmes]

It was an unusual case.

[scaresplants]

Which was?

[modernholmes]

A murder case that became complicated. [He had no intention of revealing certain details about that case. And especially about the Black Organization's involvement.]

[scaresplants]

...

You murdered someone?