A/N: Written for the Death Note Flash Bingo, #054 – "Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science." Henry David Thoreau
No Other Explanation
L couldn't understand it; no known fact in the world could explain the phenomenon known as Kira. He was killing using heart attacks. Worse, he was doing it without leaving a shred of evidence behind.
Which meant the explanation had to lie elsewhere, outside the realm of science and set knowledge, inside murkier areas: myth, superstition, the supernatural…
He wasn't particularly fond of that idea. But what else was there? There was no known weapon that could kill by inducing heart attacks. Especially not so indiscreetly. Which meant it was something beyond human acceptance, perhaps even beyond understanding. Something they lacked proof about, lacked knowledge about.
But it was an explanation, and a plausible one. Far better than no reasoning at all.