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With the power cut, everything in the Mansion was dark save for where natural lighting from the windows provided or wherever one might start a fire.

Well, and one other source.

In the infirmary, where a certain Shinichi was, there was a new light source. A red butterfly that fluttered in somehow. The glow was faint, but with no other light, it was quite bright.

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"And you never will." Up to him if he took that as a challenge.

Conan stared, a piercing look as he looked into his eyes. "Did she now..." He murmured.

Then he smiled mysteriously and moved back flat on his feet. "I am an expert on figuring people out. That's how I ended up like this. You're a very interesting one, you know, if a bit dull compared to her, but...interesting nonetheless."

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"I wonder." Vague interest in the implied challenge, put to the side for now. His thief was more important than making another scream.

"Dull?" murmured Absinthe, amused. "That's a new one. But then, insulting me would only prove to insult yourself at the same time, wouldn't it?"

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"Well, you certainly won't get it the normal ways," Conan said with a shrug. He was getting quite used to torture by this point.

"One, I never said you were right about being a 'Shinichi.' Second, even if you were, that sort of thing is stupid to say. One being that from the 'normal Shinichi,' we'd both be quite different. Two being the fact that Shinichi is pretty dull in himself for what I consider 'interesting," Conan said, with a tilt of his head and a mysterious smile.

"But you...oh, I know that look. You were a tiny big disgusted in what I was describing, weren't you? That wouldn't be such a surprise from 'Shinichi,' but for the Absinthe Shinichi that Kaito supposedly knows...that is interesting."

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Absinthe just smirked, amused. If he wanted to, he was quite sure he could.

"I have no knowledge of what's 'normal'--" and yes, there was a slight sneer to that word, "--And really, do you think I need confirmaiton to know that a guess is as close to the truth as what matters?"

"It's just part of my charm, I suppose," purred Absinthe, not answering the jab in any way that was revealing; except of cours,e that he'd carefully avoided having a reaction to the jab itself.

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Conan didn't seem the least bit doubtful about his own tolerance.

"A straight forward kind of guy whose pretty easy to figure out if you watch for just a little while. It probably wouldn't even take a week to understand him," Conan said with a shrug. "And you could be wrong. That's why confirmation is good, or else multiple truths exist."

Conan raised an eyebrow and chuckled. "But I suppose it depends what is confirmation to a person. So, does that mean I'm might. Does little Absinthe-kun actually have a conscience buried under all of that?"