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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CRIMINAL-MISCHIEF. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 110.14.968.12 * CRIMINAL-MISCHIEF has joined 110.14.968.12 <LindenTailor>** I'm in need of someone who is both skilled and discreet for future investigations I cannot personally attach myself to. Do you fulfill both requirements?

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Considering our choices of professions, that would be the natural assumption, wouldn't it?

It could be, if one made the choice to see it that way. But I maintain that it does not need to be so.

...You're a strange one.

Well, for obvious reasons, there is no chance of seeing you as a colleague... But I can't wholly consider you as a friend either.

You are something in-between.

Not so strange, surely. You can undoubtedly realize what could be gained by two separate skill sets joining to work together toward a common goal; I've never shirked it just because morals might not perfectly align.

[It helps that L's morals aren't particularly upstanding. Quite a lot. He's worked with career criminals before many times.]

Let's not worry about labels at present.

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Hah. If you say so.

You wouldn't happen to be from England, would you?

[ No basis for this question - just a point of amusement depending on L's answer. ]

I lived in England for about five years when I was younger. Why do you ask?

Your words reminded me of someone. That's all.

Maybe that country breeds a certain kind of lawman, hmm?

Not someone I know, I assume.

If you didn't know me then you certainly wouldn't know him. He's made quite a name for himself in the police force.

If he ended up here, I could have met him independent to his association with you. That's really what I was trying to gauge the potential for.

Ah, I see.

No, he isn't here. If he was, I would know by now.

[ One way or another... ]

Perhaps you wouldn't know, if he's as good at what he does as you say he is.

[ That honestly causes him to burst out laughing where he is. ]

He wouldn't have hidden from me when I introduced myself. The urge to keep an eye on me would have been too overwhelming.

You mean the urge to be close to you. You don't have to make contact with a person to monitor them, and sometimes, it's actually more illuminating not to.

Hahaha, he's not like you, Tailor. He likes to stick his nose into business personally.

He once handcuffed me to his side in order to prove who I was.

You're right. That's certainly nothing like anything I'd ever do.

[ ~~Liar, you detectives and your handcuff fetish.~~ ]

He's like a desperate lover trying to keep me close. It's both endearing and a little irritating.

That sounds entirely irritating. What a strange relationship.

Isn't it?

Your turn: what's the strangest thing you've done to catch a criminal?

My "turn?" I wasn't aware reciprocity was expected.

Isn't reciprocity natural in normal conversation? I can't be the only one revealing snippets of my life~

That's true, but it's also true that this sort of thing is highly subjective. What might be strange to you might not be strange to me, and vice versa.

Hmm, well, you ARE a detective so I suppose you're more used to drawing out information from your conversation partners than the other way around.

Then allow me to rephrase: I am intensely curious to know the most extreme lengths you've gone to apprehend a criminal, if you're willing to share.

I can think of multiple instances that I would grade on different scales. This is really a lot more complicated of a question than I believe you realize.

Pick the most interesting one then!

[ Like that makes it any easier... ]

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