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Stop, calme un peu les choses
Là , tu réalises
Que tout n'est pas si rose
T'es parano
Manipulé par un autre
Tu n'es pas si différent des autres
T'as commis des fautes
Chacun ses défauts
T'es parano
_Maître Gims_
July 2011, Tokyo
- Aizawa PoV -
"So what's the big discovery Matsuda?"
I glare at my friend as he collects a ridiculous amount of papers and graphics.
Since the end of the Kira case we all made our way upward the ranks. Being the men who stopped the most dangerous serial killer of all times somehow did good to our careers. I myself can say so, as I became a top head in the force. But there's a difference in heating a seat and feeling like you earned it. In truth we all made very little to deserve this. Most of the merits in stopping Light, namely Kira, belong to Nate. We just played along. Honestly, I cannot help myself from thinking that we actually helped Kira in a certain way. If we didn't insist in believing that Light was innocent maybe things would have finished earlier and in a better way.
However, even if these thoughts hunt me, it doesn't seem to be same for everyone.
Matsuda in primis.
Maybe he learned something from the experience of two years ago, but not enough. He is totally convinced that he is where he is thanks to his own ability. Ok, he put his life at the stake to catch Kira but, being a cop, he did nothing out of the ordinary.
He nonetheless is one of my best friends, but I must hold my tongue when he starts acting like the best detective in the world.
"Thank you Aizawa. I reunited all of us in here because there is an important matter that we shall discuss together"
"What is it. We would like you to say what's this big thing. Quit being so mysterious!"
I smile listening to Ide. He has always been good in speaking his mind.
"Fine. I have just finished elaborating the stats about the first semester of this year. I called you here because the crime rate in 2011 has risen again"
"Matsuda we already expected negative figures. It was the same last year. After that Kira stopped killing, people started committing crimes all over again. The crime rate is going to rise for awhile and eventually it's going to stabilize again. It takes time"
I don't like to speak like a written book, but this is the only way to keep Matsuda at ease in these occasions.
"I know that Aizawa. But the crime rate this year was quite out of the ordinary. And, forgive me for not allowing you to complain again, I considered figures older than November 2003. Namely data regarding the world before Kira"
"Looks like you made your research this time, then. Com'on we are all ears", I joke.
"Compared to the first semester of 2003, the crime rate increased of 514.09%"
The room is filled by a heavy silence. I want to ask Matsuda if he made the right calculations, but I know he did. Maybe his ego is a bit built up, but he is actually good in certain things.
"This might be a counter effect of Kira's disappearance...maybe people feel more free and have less restraints than ever before"
"That's a point Ide. We might have not considered the psychological variables"
I take a deep breath and start to think some way to stop this degeneration.
"I am sorry guys...I... I have not finished yet..."
I stare at Matsuda, unusually hesitant. I am not uccostumed to see him like this anymore.
"Please go on then. I guess that here comes the big discovery you were talking about"
"Sort of, yeah...I allowed myself to do some further research on my own. I analyzed some random closed cases from last semester. Here are three examples coming from the sampling that caught my attention"
I take a look at the papers and the pictures that Matsuda is passing me.
The first file regards a middle aged man guilty of pedophilia.
The second one is about a woman who ran an international prostitution ring.
The last one centers on a young man, a hobos slaughterer.
"I remember these. What is disturbing you Matsuda?"
"You don't really remember these people. Neither I did when I heard about them few months ago"
"What do you mean?"
"When I put the pictures of the first two criminals in the database for facial recognition no interesting data appeared. But the third one committed suicide in jail, after being arrested, and I had to upload his picture on the deceased database"
I don't like the turn this discussion is taking. What the heck Matsuda ran into?
"What did you find out?"
"He died twice. Once this year, but also in 2006"
"Did he fake his death to troll Kira?"
"No. In both occasions he was proved to be dead by the penitentiary authorities"
"There must be some mistake in the software. People don't resuscitate"
"I also uploaded the pictures of the other two. They both died in 2004. But right now they are alive and healthy in jail. I interrogated them in secret. No mistake they are the same persons appearing in the deceased database. Check yourselves if you want"
Matsuda is right. Being sure that they were dead I didn't think about those people. But I remember them now. Light killed them.
"How is this possible?! Nobody noticed that criminals supposed to be corpses are running around doing as they please?!"
"Ide...the workload of the force is unbearable. +515% is no joke. I'm not surprised that nobody ever ran a check in the deceased database"
I have to admit that this is embarassing. But it is also unbelievable.
"I know this is crazy guys, but this time I really am 100% sure of what I say. I didn't believe it myself and waited to collect enough data before stating something so ridiculous out aloud...this is only a sampling though..."
"You did a good job Matsuda. What I don't understand is something else..."
Yes, Matsuda actually made a great discovery. But there is someone else out there who is supposed to have discovered this already...
"You mean Near. I mean...L?"
I turn to face Mogi. He was silent as usual but he's on my same lenght.
"Yes. He's not the kind of guy to miss out something like this"
"Maybe he is so focused in arresting folks left and right that he didn't realize shit!"
Here is Matsuda back for us. His smart parenthesis is already closed.
"I am more than convinced that he wants to leave us out of this"
"But he asked for our support in many occasions lately..."
"This is no regular case. Listen..."
I am in charge now. Despite how unattractive this situation might seem I must take action. Now.
"...I want you to upload all the pictures of all the criminals whose names were written in the Death Note on the regular database. Tell me how many of them seem to have committed a crime after 2010"
This sounds crazy. But three criminals appear to be taken back to life. Even if L doesn't think that this is our business I cannot disregard what's going on. I cannot turn away.