Chapter one:
No one's P.O.V.
The people of the SPK and Task force that survived the Kira case meet but Near is not with them. While walking around they spot Near walking to some place.
"Hey Near!" Geovanni calls.
Near turns and looks to them. "Hey." He greets indifferently.
"Where you going?" Matsuda asks as him and the others go over to Near.
"I am going to where I stayed before Whammy's." Near says and twirls his hair.
"Cool! Can we see?" Matsuda asks excitedly.
"If you want." Near stays emotionless.
Now everyone who survived the Kira case are all walking together and end up at a small abandoned old home still in one piece but boarded up.
Near ducks under the boards on the door still up while the lower ones are broken leaving enough space to walk in if you duck.
The others follow him inside.
Near pulls out a lighter and lights some candles that are in the middle of the very small home.
It's one room and dusty with cobwebs. Theres a few ratty blankets off to one side and a bucket in the far left corner. The walls are old brick's and the place looks so unused it's like no ones been here for centuries. On one wall is a big picture that looks clean and the right half is covered. On the part of the picture exposed is a girl with long white silky straight hair, winter blue eyes, pale skin and she is wearing a black tank top with black short shorts along with a silver princess crown on her head with sparkly diamonds.
"Oh I've seen this painting before." Matsuda says staring at it.
"You have?" Near looks to him.
"Yeah. In an old castle. There was an evil princess which is her." He points to thee girl in the picture. "And theres a whole story around it. They say the princess ruled over the country and no one dared to face her for years. She was very young the age of thirteen and she ruled with her evil ways. No one would do a thing. They killed almost everyone in another country because their princess hated a girl who took someone she loved from her. The princess was content after knowing that the girl and that country suffered even died. She turned fourteen and half way to her next birthday the towns people ganged up and over threw her after two tries. The first time the princess's guards stopped them but then later the servants and everyone working under her ran off. So the second time they succeeded but she didn't give a fight. They locked her away for awhile then killed her in front of the entire country by guillotine at exactly three pm. Since then the one leading the gang up against the princess came to rule and the country has never been under an evil rule since." Matsuda excitedly tells them.
"The story is not all true." Near doesn't look at any of them. "There was a twist no one was aware of."
The others look to Near confused.
Near pulled down the blanket covering the other half of the picture.
Everyone looked and gasped.
The other half of the picture shows Near standing next to the princess with the royal badge on his shirt.
"You knew her?" Halle says surprised.
"We were siblings. Ruling the country was passed onto the sister and the brother became the princess's right hand one. They spent a lot of time together and it was almost like the brother was next in line when everyone knew he wasn't." Near explains.
"So that's the twist? You're a part of the evil royal family?" Matsuda says and everyone looks to Near.
"No." Near shakes his head. "That isn't the twist. This might sound a little complicated but the princess was not killed."
"How did she escape the guillotine?" Rester asks. "A fake? A substitute?"
"You could put it that way. Let me tell you the real story of what happened then you'll understand." Near says. "I'm not who you think I am and how it happened is a story similar to the one Matsuda said."