Opens his mouth, about to say something about being a ‘tantei’ and yet still being given flowers by the other ( and a kiss to his wound before, can’t forget that ). “…”
Should probably be a little more bothered by the gesture than he was. Closes his mouth.
“Has anyone ever tried to figure out why our worlds overlap?” Or rather, how them overlapping could be beneficial. Figure out the why, and then the how. Not that he really wanted to have that power, just that it’d be way too much fun to mess with the detectives’ heads like that. Keke~ the inspector and Jii-chan’s too. Though he’d make sure not to let Jii-chan worry too much. “I’d rather not have to deal with anymore reptiles or bugs though.”
Hmmm… there wouldn’t be any alternates of himself that were dangerous, would there be? Felt like it’d be a silly thing to ask. “…Is it ever hard to tell us apart?”
“I’ve never had too much of a problem keeping people straight, but that might be because I’m normally the one visiting people. The ones who come to me on a whim tend to make it obvious which one they are, but… well, either way, it doesn’t seem difficult for most of us. As for why we can see our other selves like this…”
“…I havethought about it before. Never really came to a definite answer, though, it was all just guessing and thinking. Some of the worlds have more differences than others, like on the ‘reptiles and bugs’, I think the former’s in all of the ones I’ve seen. The latter sometimes is sometimes isn’t.”
“By making a show, a notice, left, you’re assuring I’ll go.” A pause. “A theft in the night, away from my shoe, hidden from sight, would be better for you.”
“…True that it’d make my job safer, with less projectiles to fear. But a show needs some audience, tantei-kun, I’d have thought that was clear.”
“…My roses are red, the skies a deep blue, but both images are ruined by a boy and his demonic soccer-ball-hitting shoe…”