I did it. I wrote the line about the hakuba being dead. And now clover is flailing at me. 

Clover: his LIFE is more important than Conan having an epiphany o____o

well, yes, but the whole point of this fic is to explore this concept of making conan serious it up. 

thank goodness this isn’t what happens in Call of the Raven… otherwise it would be frown town all over the place. :’( 

still ow 

hakubby why can’t you read all of the kanji??? it might have saved your life