"I don't forget my own birthday," corrected Shinichi with a purr, sounding amused as he idly corrected Conan. "I simply never celebrate it. And I'm not fond of most things. They just bore me so."

A slight pause, and the amusement in his tone grew as pieces fell into place. Close to him, and with every right...? Hah. Almost too simple.

"Since this place seems to have different laws of time, expanded laws of the universe seem to follow. So I wouldn't sound too smug, Shinichi-kun."

A gamble. But then, that was the truly thrilling place to balance, where boredom fell away and the knife-edge of intellect took it's place.