“I’m just concerned that you might float on up there, Hakuba-kun. What if you were contacted by some cackling bat thing due to your pride? It did that to me, and…”
Whoops, stop. Stop right there.
“Aw, nevermind. You’d never believe me.”
“And just what are you talking about, Kuroba-kun? Try me; you may be surprised.”
“Okay, maybe you are more vain than I thought.” Which was… kinda up there.
"You’d better watch out or that ‘Champion of Justice’ might contact you.”
“I’m simply surprised that you would condescend to give me a compliment, of all people… Forgive me; I’m used to dealing with impossibly inflated egos when dealing with phantom thieves and their supposedly mild-mannered counterparts.”
“For the record… this is precisely why I have an agent. Good publicity means more cases and allows me to pick and choose the ones that are the most interesting instead of having to scrape the bottom of the barrel. Not that I would turn away someone in need, of course, but I do only have so much time per day, so I need to choose my battles carefully.
"If this means having to deal with photo ops and interviews… so be it.”
