It had been a year since the Kira case and Mello had been lucky enough to survive it based on the fact Takada had been caught by him while she was trying to use the blanket. He had expected her to have something but the notebook pages in strips and stuffed in her bra made him confirm his gut feeling. It also made him shake his head at Light's skill at choosing pawns. Both were beautiful, influential women. It was in his mind like James Bond should have done. None the less, he had stopped her and she was killed. He even got to be there for the grand finale of Kira's demise. It felt thrilling to be praised by Near of saying that because of him the case was solved but he was used the entire time. He was still used as Near made him pay for his crimes by forcing him to be another of the SPK his own version of Wateri as a matter of fact.
Mello how about this one?"Inquired Rester as Geovoni handed Mello a file wich had another lame case that Near would dismiss the second Mello told the summary. He took a chocolate bar and bit it. He heard the satisfying crack sound and taste the cocoa. He looked forward to only two things in this hell hole. The first was his food addiction, the second was getting a case to solve where he had to be out in the field. Another was tossed his way by Lidner and he flipped it over. There it was, the case of the Ace assassin. He opened the file and saw that it was going to be a tricky case with no leads, a trail of bodies a mile wide and a card that was an Ace next to each dead body. There was no fingerprints on the cards and the bodies were in such a way that they were all bruised or cut not one death was like the other as they were all poor, rich, black, white, criminals, civilians, old, young, women, men, short, tall, in the United states and foreign soil. The only connection was the Ace card.
"This one will work" He said raising the file he closed and had caught. He passed the other file face down to Rester. "sorry but Near wouldn't like that one he'd find it too boring" he replied. He walked to where his old rival now his boss was making a replica of the Yellow Box, the building Near had Light convicted as Kira in. Mello didn't care as he put the file on the desk. "Near we got something" he said as Near turned to look at him.
"I see," the man said twirling an ivory lock around his finger. Mello then summarized the case before giving the file to the pseudo albino. The detective looked into the details before looking at Mello. Aside from the kira case this might be the biggest and most complex case. "This killer is all over the place and this is only what we know" he said pulling the papers out. Mello's eyes widened the information in the file was a mess. There was no way for Near to even begin. He or Halle would have to organize it in some way.
"I'm going to compile a list of names of the victims first Halle can get us a list of locations that have been hit" Mello said picking up some of the victim reports. Of course these were only scans making him itch to get copies of the real ones. He spent his time collecting all of the ones with the victims names. Eventually, he went to her with the papers.
The two sorted papers compiling their lists and found out that a majority of the deaths were in Mello's old territory of Los Angeles. He even recognized a few names he used to work with or heard about back when he was head of the mafia. He started to highlight those in his head. He would look at their sites first. He could almost feel his leather and gun back on his skin rather than the itchy,non flattering, white, loose shirt and dress pants. His boots were even gone showing how caged he was being stuck in the SPK. The only thing he got to keep was his chocolate as even his hair was changed but it was now grown back to how it looked in Japan. This was the first time he would be out and he'd not look weird as he would demand his cloths back or buy them back except the rosary.