Kira's Secret Revealed - Chapter 2
"I've just been given the link, but there's a lot of buzz about it on in the Kira supporter communities. I was just finding out what it is."
"It's what you've been working on, isn't it?"
"Well, I didn't know if it was worth bothering you yet."
Matsuda had a point, but the speakers were already on, and the video was loading.
Familiar grainy footage of the word 'Kira' in English Manuscript lettering showed on screen as a robotic voice read:
"Dear Kira, thank you for your message.
Please don't worry, I will do whatever you say."
L leaned in, "This was the message to Kira that played on Sakura TV."
"I guess it's nothing then," Matsuda apologized, pausing the video, "I'll turn it off."
"Wait, there's another fourty-five minutes," L said, unpausing.
"I really want to meet you.
I don't think you have tits, but you don't have to worry."
"What?" Matsuda sputtered.
"I will never try to kill you.
That's a promise.
Here is how I can meet you without the police knowing: We can confirm identities by showing our cocks to each other underneath the Hinomaru in Kabuki-chō.
Be sure to bring your carp."
"What are you two watching?" Light asked, strolling over.
"Some sort of Kira supporter video," Matsuda said.
"Hinomaru," L drawled in his slow, captivated tone.
"Ryuzaki! Hinomaru is a 'Pink Salon'... A blow job parlour."
"Yes. And Kabuki-chō is the red light district in Tokyo," L answered.
Light laughed uncomfortably. "What does such an establishment have to do with Kira?"
The video appeared to pause itself and rewind with exaggerated VHS tape-spooling and high pitched backwards-talking sounds.
"I will never try to kill you."
The video on their computer repeated,
"That's a promise.
Here is how I can meet you without the police knowing: We can confirm identities by showing our cocks to each other underneath the Hinomaru in Kabuki-chō.
Be sure to bring your carp."
The scene zoomed out slightly and it appeared that the video was being watched within an old picture-tube television.
Slowly, it was revealed that the scene was a small, dark, cluttered office. The figure at the desk was cloaked in heavy shadow as the video ended and the television screen switched to static. His face was obscured by shadow and the extremely outdated deerstalker hat that he wore.
The frame was filled by the dark figure as he hoisted his feet onto a desk. He flicked a zippo lighter in front of his face and the shot cut to his pipe being lit, zooming out to reveal the man in all his brown checkered, Sherlock Holmes-inspired glory, then out to a full shot of the office as light background music began to play.
The text on the door showed in backwards print the words, "Private eye", over a logo of a magnifying glass encircling a capital letter L.
Light laughed.
"That's supposed to be you, Ryuzaki," he said.
"Hm..." The impostor L on the computer screen said, smoking his pipe, "Carp."
L was not impressed.
The actor that they picked to play him was extremely attractive, though stupidly dressed. But from the amateur way that he carried himself to his daikon-delivery of his first lines, he appeared to be just terrible at his craft.
"A carp would be quite impractical to carry. Perhaps a picture or a carp flag? Why yes! That's it, by Jove," the actor said, with horrible delivery, absolutely bludgeoning a British accent as he spoke in his native Japanese. He grabbed his desk calendar and looked at it.
"May 5th is children's day! That's tomorrow! Carp must refer to the flags that people use to decorate, the Koinobori."
"Wow, brilliant deduction, L," Light sarcastically complimented the fake detective on screen.
"This is probably supposed to mean that he plans to meet the first Kira there on May 5th, but little do they both know, I've deciphered their message as well, and I'll be there to capture them!"