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?

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[scaresplants]

So you want to grow up to be like them. How nauseatingly cute.

[modernholmes]

Of course! When I grow up I want to be just like Shinichi-niichan.

[scaresplants]

[A slight groan. This is one of the reasons he doesn't like kids- they're just too innocent for their own god. Which is why Crowley doesn't tempt them all that much.]

Yeah. Good for you, kid. What's so special about this Shinici guy, anyways?

[modernholmes]

[Conan was entirely aware of the irony of this conversation, as he deliberately draws up childish enthusiasm about growing up to be himself.]

He's a well known detective even though he's still in high school. The police ask for his assistance all the time and there's no case he can't solve. He'd even been called the modern Holmes by the newspapers.

[scaresplants]

Uhuh. They'll do that. Well, your modern Holmes isn't here, is he? What are you going to do now with your idol gone?

[modernholmes]

Be a detective, of course. [I'm right here.]