[Slow nod - oh, it is quite familiar, even if the context and details are different.] I imagine that wouldn't - yet another thing they'd see as something to be jealous of without thinking about why it was necessary, or what went into it, or how much trouble it could be. [And there's just a slight frown.] I nearly died on my first case - in better moods I've said that I found the killer with my face - and he was ... The sort of criminal that turns up maybe two, three times in a century, if the world is unlucky; nevermind the sort where half the cases like his go unsolved for generations. I was thirteen, and most of the scars I have are from that one incident.

You know, I still get a lot of people in both active law enforcement and academic criminology who resent me for it, as if it's some kind of trophy to be fought over.

[Chime also happens to be a nice ... something that's not entirely srs bizness right now...which is why he's holding out another of the ten-yen coins he'd had in his pocket.]