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[So people were turning into various cliche horror movie monsters. Once, Conan would have been determined to find the reason, to disprove the whole thing as a hoax and find the true culprit behind it.

But that had been before three years in that cursed castle and more than a year in Genessia. That was all it had taken for him to become accustomed to such nonsense. When the news of the changes came out, Conan had only sighed and checked the calendar. A few weeks to Halloween.

He'd start worrying if it lasted more than a week. Unless that happened he was determined to ignore the whole thing. If he was fortunate, he'd make it past the holiday without any of his acquaintances realizing that he had entirely avoided the humiliation of costumes and candy so far. Conan would be perfectly happy to completely ignore the entire holiday.

So he just goes about his days as normal. He sits through the tedium of a first grade school day, and spends most of the time ignoring the teacher. He stops and spends some time at the agency in Genessia City, and he spends some time at the library checking to see if there were any classic detective novels he hadn't read yet.]

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[Conan's plan of ignoring the holiday insanity has a small flaw in it. Namely that his roommate and adoptive little sister has gotten caught in it and refuses to sit this out alone.]

[While he is going through the library collection, a face suddenly phases through the shelves. Dairine pokes her head out, the books behind her only slightly obscured by her presence.]

Conaaaan...

[Her voice is far too whiny to be scary.]

[Conan was unimpressed.]

What do you want?

[She frowns at him.]

How long are you gonna take? I've already picked out the books I'm getting.

[He sighs irritably and picks up his selection. ]

I'm done.

[With that, Dairine finally moves out of the bookshelf. Instead she hovers a foot off the ground next to Conan.]

Great. Let's check out already. We still gotta figure out what to do about dinner.

Have you figured out how you're going to eat yet?

Not really. Honestly, I haven't felt hungry yet. 'Is weird, but I guess ghosts don't exactly require an appetite.

Pretty sure I'll be famished once I switch back though.

[After all, she's still been using spells. Mostly to get around the whole "can't touch stuff" thing.]

Has there been any information yet on how long this will last?

Nope. I imagine it'll end around Halloween, but I'm not sure if it'll be before or after the holiday's done.

[She gives an annoyed huff.]

Guess I'll have to think of how I'm gonna go trick-or-treating this year.

Why would you even want to? You have the perfect excuse to avoid it.

[Dairine stops in midair.]

Avoid? Trick-or-treating?

Are you insane? Who would want to do that?!

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I would. Its an annoying and pointless activity.

[Dairine is staring at Conan like he just said something blasphemous.]

Excuse you? It's a chance to get free candy. Just for dressing up! And it's the fun kind of dressing up, not being stuck in fancy social event clothes.

How is that pointless?

I don't like candy. And you have seen the kinds of Halloween costume they make kids wear?

You're the worst at being a kid, have I said that already? How can you dislike all candy?

I've seen all sorts of Halloween costumes. Which ones don't you like?

You don't want to know how many cases with poisoned chocolate I've seen.

The ones adults think are cute on first graders. Which is all of them.

[Dairine pinches the bridge of her nose. Poisoning chocolate... Is nothing sacred?]

And how many people do you think want to poison you?

Wait, do I even want to know?

You could pick out something you like though! A favorite character, hobby, interest...

Besides the people who already did?

[He sighs.]

I'm not fond of sweet things to begin with. Seeing people die because of chocolate didn't really help.

Why would I want to? I already told you I'm not interested in this holiday.

[Dairine gives a long sigh. Of course he would bring Them up.]

Those people didn't bother trying to hide the poison, far as I understand.

Look, I get that you deal with a ton of death and crime on a daily basis. Guess it does makes sense that would rub off on little pleasures and make them less appealing.

But I'm still judging your tastes.

[Honestly, disliking sweet things... The horror.]

It would help you seem more child-like. You know, just in case.

And if you don't want your sweets, you can just give them to me.

Fortunately there are very few people inclined to insist on kids eating sweets.

Apart from Sonoko.

Sonoko, huh? Remind me to thank her if she ever gets here.

[Good job getting Conan to expand his horizons.]

Your uncle doesn't find it strange?

She better not end up here. [Life would immediately get more irritating. ]

You really think he's that observant? When we go out to eat anywhere he mostly looks for the beer.

Oh come on. It couldn't be that bad if she did.

[Dairine's eyes narrow.]

Oh right. This is the same guy that lets a seven year old wander around crime scenes. What was I thinking.

[Her impression of this detective he lives with only gets worse with time.]

You've never met her.

[Conan eyes her.]

What's with that look?

No. But it can't hurt to hope.

[Dairine would be more than happy to meet more people from Conan's world. Even the terrible ones. (So she could drop kick them.)]

Your uncle doesn't seem very responsible for an adult.

He is an adult, right?

He isn't actually my Uncle, you know. And of course he's an adult. He's as old as my Dad.

He just isn't a very responsible one.

[Good to see they can agree on some things.]

Then why call him Uncle?

It's expected of a kid. In Japanese, I call him oji-chan, which is what a kid uses to refer to unrelated middle-aged men. Uncle is the closest equivalent in English.

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