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"Bordel, I am never doing cette merde ever again"
Aiber turned up the next morning in a red shirt-jacket with tartan trimming, an orange turtleneck and tan jeans and almost immediately he found himself having to break up L and Light, who were fighting again on the floor. He pulled Light away from L. Light, while struggling to remove himself from the Frenchman's grasp, lifted Aiber's turtleneck over his stomach to reveal a large scar.
"Aiber, what happened to your stomach?" the real Matsuda gasped.
Aiber pulled it down. "Nothing", he said. His scar was the last thing he wanted revealed to the taskforce. He wanted to kill the Yagami child. He had half an urge to strangle him with the chain that attached him to the brains behind the Kira case. He pulled a bottle of Chateau Morello out of his bag and drank it all in one sitting.
"RYUUZAKI-SAN! LIIIIGHT! FORIEGNER-SAN!"
Aiber really wished he hadn't finished that bottle off now that she had arrived. Misa Amane, idol, and contender for "Most Annoying Character Ever", had come to rehearse with him. She was going to be interviewed by Yotsuba, and Aiber, as Eraldo Coil, as John Wallace, a foreign consultant, was going to be on the panel.
"Okay, merd- I mean, Misa. I'm going to be John Wallace, and you're going to be a bitc- um, Misa. Okay? I'm John Wallace, a marketing advisor. Pleased to meet you" He offered his hand. Misa felt cold to his touch, but that was to be expected from someone who was lifeless. He laughed at his pun, and continued rehearsing.
The days went by and it became obvious that Kyosuke Higuchi was the Yotsuba Kira. The meeting went by with nary a hitch, save for Misa accidently slipping out a "foreigner-san" instead of "John Wallace" when addressing the "marketing advisor". Seeing as the "foreigner-san" was an injoke amongst the taskforce, nobody flinched when she said it. Not even the cool-as-a-cucumber cat who she was addressing. Misa made a recording where it was confirmed Higuchi was Kira. Aiber had to concede that she was smarter than she looked.
"She could be the next you" he laughed. He and Wedy were eating in a fine upmarket sushi restaurant one night.
"I don't know about that, Thierry" Wedy replied. "She may be smart, but she doesn't show it. She could never be a master criminal. All I see is a Japanese bimbo"
"Her love for the Yagami kid negates what could have been" Aiber took another swig from the bottle. "Nice and sweet, this one. And besides, she doesn't seem to be aware that the Yagami kid is what we call in France un homosexuel"
"Really?" Wedy choked on her Alaskan tuna nigiri, trying to surpress a laugh. "You think Light Yagami is gay?"
"Yes" he replied in a stern tone. "And my love rival. He's stolen Ryuuzaki's heart away from me. And it's a fact that Kiras don't end up in heaven". Aiber polished off the bottle of sweet Japanese wine, wiped his mouth and give the waiter a good 20,000 yen more than what the meal cost.
The waiter bowed and complimented the foreigner on his clothes- a bright green silk shirt accentuated by a navy blue velvet waistcoat and trouser set, topped off with a gigantic dark green bow tie. As the waiter turned, Aiber could have sworn he'd seen the composed Japanese man laugh.
