“Oh? Is that why you have such an odd catchphrase? Because it’s a bit strange for a detective to trap others, and then ask why they committed their crimes…” The assassin chuckled some and brought his arms down to cross over his chest.
“Feel free to try and find reasons and motivations all you like. Telling, however, would be making your job too easy, detective. Not exactly something I’d like to do.”
“I assumed not,” Hakuba said, tilting his head at the man with a sort of pensive hesitation. “But I do always like to ask. After all, a lie or even a refusal to answer is more data for me to collect and analyze, and one cannot draw any sort of useful conclusion without that.”
He shrugged, then, looking content as he turned his head away, smile smug as if he’d already won some sort of game. “I must ask if you truly feel trapped by me, however. You can give me that at the very least, can’t you?"