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[reviller]

"Just a curious question, but if something ever did happen to me or happened to me-- say, I died mysteriously and all suspicious like. Or went missing. Would you be in charge of my case?" [House loud killing me have a dumb jojo question dhgh]

“That’s a grim thought to be brought up all of a sudden...”

Years worth of cold authoritarian discipline came back to him in a flash. The one rule of thumb that he never forgot throughout his training?

“...Never get emotionally invested,” he muttered. It might have come as a shock to her to hear something so detached, but it was true. “That is the key to perfection, the key to solving a case as objectively as humanly possible. That is why no agency should allow a detective to work a case in which he has personal stakes.” Alto paused for a while, adjusted his glasses, then shot her a reassuring smile. “Perhaps it is a good thing that I am freelancing.”

That was, of course, a yes. He would turn everything upside down and go through anyone that stood in his way for her sake.

“It will never come to that, though. I am an outstanding marksman, you know?” He made a fingergun gesture at her to ease the mood.

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