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Watari stopped in to give L the most recent testing scores and the dimensions of psyche of L's three top possible successors. L took hold of the envelopes gingerly. He tucked them into his back pocket for later study.
Before leaving for a meeting at The Interpol, Watari sat and drank tea with his friend, talking mostly of various cases. L decided not to mention the Death Note prematurely. However, L did ask Watari to find a criminal on death row with whom the Japanese -being preferred for obvious reasons- government would allow to have used by L.
"L. It is likely the government will ask why you need to use an inmate."
Before answering, L took a moment to consider his response. In order to give away as little as possible, he replied, "All I need is some documentation on the death penalty. In a case which I found interest with, it is possible a guard tortured someone to death rather than use lethal injection. I would like the inmate to sign his name and then place the paper in an envelope. Once he is in the gas chamber, you should right out the time of death and the cause of death."
"How will this assist in solving the case?" Watari inquired, genuinely interested in the working of L's mind.
"Well, considering the circumstances, I would like you to tell me if the guards do anything cruel or unusual to the inmate as he is taken to be executed. Document their actions as well."
Watari seemed satisfied with the reply. It appeared L wished to look into the treatment of the prisoners by the state, even those who had been damned. As to the case, L had told the entire truth. The case he mentioned may benefit from the results but finding the owner was a case of particular interest to L.
After finishing his tea, Watari took his leave.
With Watari gone, L pushed from his chair and stood in his peculiar manner. He took up the cup of his guest and himself to wash. Though a hassle and waste of time, washing things gave L time to think of cases and other problems. L felt sure that the person who wrote the rules in the note would have to be fairly intelligent. In addition, the person may need a dark nature. This would not be true, however, if the person merely created this as a joke. Again, it would not make sense as a joke with the rules which were scripted in the note were so precise and well thought out. If he were the joking type, would he create rules with such precision. Maybe it is a fool who is also a perfectionist.
L moved from the kitchen to his bedroom. There, the empty room filled him. He took to the floor, stretching out one leg while the other bent close to him. He typed in a search quickly. The results came back almost instantly. The screen read:
Japanese top Exam Scores
Name Grade (in s)
Yagami, Light 100
Ohba, Tsugumi 96
Obata, Takeshi 94
L took out the profiles for each student. Yagami, Light did not just receive a perfect score on the exam, but he also had a perfect score in every class. His father was a detective and according to a report Light had written on future plans, he was aiming to be a detective himself. The other two scorers each aspired to have a job in Manga. To L, the intellect of those two seemed like a waste with interest in that field. Then again, maybe the duo will invent something interesting.
Feeling something foreign overcome him, L realized how tired he was. With weak movements, L made his way to the bed. Not bothering to take his clothes off, L simply slept.
6 hours later, L rose from his the bed and flexed himself with a stretch. He then reverted to his hunched back as he stood. He walked swiftly to the kitchen and brewed a pot of coffee. L enjoyed sweeten coffee with cream almost as much as he loved sweet tasting things. It even amazed him how much coffee he drank.
L prepared a cup and took it with him to the kitchen table. He sat in a crouch upon the wooden chair. Amidst the various cases were piles of foreign currency. The "thank you"s were not demanded by L or his other pseudonyms. However, some governments paid him a small sum anyway.
He searched the piles for an interesting case and found one quickly. He gave case a cursory look over, he decided upon several theories regarding the suspects. after L read about half of the evidence, the most likely of the theories had reached a nine percent likelihood. At that moment, L's thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of his cell phone.
He placed his cup of sweetened coffee on the table and reached with two fingers into his back pocket. With his versatile fingers, he opened the cell phone and held it with seemingly little care between his thumb and index.
"Hello?" L inquired.
"L. It seems the Japanese government has a prisoner to die tomorrow on the 5th to 6th hour."
"Good, tell the government you will only need the prisoner to sign his name in the note. After that, remain there to do the documentation. However, do not tell them what you are documenting or that you will be documenting anything for that matter."
There was a pause before Watari responded, "The government appears baffled by the request but agrees anyway."
L hung up the phone and began thinking again on the reason for this wild goose chase. If the criminal dies of a heart attack, what would that mean about the note? Watari would assume it to be a coincidence and offer to redo the documentation. It would also leave a chance that the heart attack is a mere coincidence. Because Watari would offer to try to document another execution, L could test out the ability to control death, making it too absurd to be an accident. If it happened as he would write it, the Note is 100 percent authentic. However, if the note does not appear to work in the Heart Attack scenario, L could look more into the top exam scorers.
With his plans set, L resigned himself into the cases at hand.
While L continued to work on the unsolved investigations, a black Shinigami sat there, watching the actions of the human who took up the Note he dropped. He planned on coming sooner, but the Note had not even been used once in the weeks since he dropped it. The person who picked it up has not used it in 2 weeks and 3 days according to human time. This seemed odd, but the Shinigami had to appear before the owner at some point in time.
The Shinigami rose up and headed for the portal to the Human world. As he passed, a Shinigami asked, "Ryuk, Where're you going?"
"To get my Note." Ryuk answered honestly.
"Where did you put it?" The other asked, surprised a Shinigami would leave their Death Note lying around.
"The Human World." He answered curtly. His wings manifested themselves and he took flight into the human world.