L's Case Files: On the Acts of Terrorism committed by C, D and F
As Collected by Nate River, former student at Wammy's House and currently working under the name of 'L'
A few weeks after my trusted colleague (and rival, as he would see it) Michael Keehl--also known as Mello--died, I received a curious package in the mail. The contents of this package? A book, written by him. I deduced that it must have been sent just before he left his apartment and got himself killed, but it had been sent to various different locations around the country, so he must have planned for it to arrive after the conclusion of the Kira Case--which it did, mind you. The book covered in detail a case that I had only heard of in passing--the Los Angeles BB murder case files, one of L's more prominent cases, as it involved a runaway child of Wammy's...
I apologize. My writing style is not particularly enthralling, especially when dealing with a story of this caliber. After reading Mello's book I feel somewhat outclassed--a small victory for him, no doubt.
Well, it would be, anyway, had he lived through this whole Kira ordeal.
When I was a young child I used to wonder what exactly happened after death, but seeing as humans do not know about this during life, I concluded that it was unimportant and that I would have to see for myself when it actually happened. In that case, Mello (I believe the phrase here used is 'may his soul rest in peace') would know by now, which I see as another petty victory on his part. I often wonder if he would think of it in the same light.
But I digress. Returning to the issue at hand.
In his book, Mello appeared to take it as a victory that he knew something about L's past that I did not, and with good reason--he knew as well as I did that any Wammy's child who found anything out about L--anything at all--was put much closer to becoming his official successor, or even defeating him. But in that regard, I'm afraid dear Mello has lost--unbeknownst to him, L once met with me as well. On that occasion, he confided to me a single story--the story of the only case he had ever lost.
I suppose that it was a last-ditch attempt by L to bring us closer together, as our two stories were like two pieces in a puzzle--the perpetrator of the Los Angeles BB murder case files, known to us as Beyond Birthday, was in fact close friends with those involved in the cases of C, D and F. They were all students of Wammy's house, you see--our home-sweet-home, as Mello often called it. They were our predecessors, and were set to replace L in the event of his death--but something drove them to all, in their individual attempts, defeat and humiliate L.
And it is possible, and highly likely, that they were also smarter than any of the students of my generation of successors, including Mello and myself.