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[You can smell smoke.

This is not usually a good development, so it's natural that no matter where you are in the mansion, you'd stop what you're doing and look around. Maybe glance towards the open window and catch sight of a plume of grey smoke in the distance. Glancing out of the window, you can see that there is a small -- shed? shack? At this distance it's hard to tell -- building erected on the lawn.

In front of it a small campfire is burning brightly. There's no sign of anyone tending it. Do you invest--

Sorry. Silly question! Forgot who I was talking to a moment there.

Of course you investigate.]

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Not if you don't want to.

[...wh...at... slowing even more at all that]

Centaurs with claws? And— nurses?

That's the names people gave them, 'cause they had to call them something. I think there might be other types too, only not everyone gets to see them.

I don't know why though. Spiders make sense -- they're little and have lots of legs too, and they climb anywhere. But I haven't seen a real nurse, and Kaito-nii says that centaurs aren't real.

What in below are they?

Isn't that rude?

They don't sound even remotely human, or like anything else I've ever heard of!

But when I asked Ran-neechan, she told me off!

[props free hand on her hip!]

I still look like a lady, don't I?

Very much like a lady! You've even got a bonnet.

[Shyly]

It looks really nice!

[mollified! good going, conan]

And that's why it was rude to ask.

[continues on to the dining room]

... [Conan's still unsure about this logic Ran.]

I'm not.

It's not rude to ask what something is if it doesn't look human and you are wholly unfamiliar with their species.

[come on, basic etiquette. most people don't give the rubbery men even that much[

But what about things that look human but aren't? That's when you need to ask the most.

Look human but aren't?

[Conan nods.] Like me.

[visibly surprised!]

Then what...?

And that's not rude?

I hadn't thought such a thing was possible. Even devils have their differences.

What's a devil?

A creature of Hell. We often do business dealings with them. They can be very suave and polite... but they aren't to be trusted with souls.

That seems logical.

What's a soul?

[...how does one explain souls...]

A soul is the core of yourself; what makes a person a person. It's also the part of you that ascends to Heaven or descends to Hell upon your death. Without it you are little more than a husk of your former self. It's a tragic condition to be soulless.

What makes a person a person ... ?

[Something smells delicious . Could it be the drawing room? Bumping into Ran again goes here.]

Yes, exactly. It's rather difficult to explain.

[smiles, amused, at the bumping[

But it can wait until after we've had something to eat.

[opens the door to the dining room!]

Is it only people?

[The dining room. Conan holds tightly on to Ran's hand as they enter, but the expected scolding doesn't come. Instead he slowly weighs the amount of food spread out in front of them with a distinctly troubled air.]

Devils certainly don't have them. It's fairly certain that clay men don't. Rubbery men... mm, there's some debate there.

...Is something the matter?