Kira's Secret Revealed - Chapter 3
"This is obviously some sort of drama." L said, dismissively. "With poor writing and even poorer actors. I don't think it's worth our time."
"Oh, come on, Ryuzaki. You have to admit, this is pretty funny. Even if the joke is on you." Light chuckled. "And what a brilliant detective he is. Very lifelike."
L shrugged. "If you insist. I don't think it will lead to anything new."
The L on screen dramatically put on his brown checkered cloak and grabbed a ridiculously huge magnifying glass, as if it was not yet clear enough to the audience that he was a detective. L sighed. He had never seen a more cliché interpretation of a private eye.
Fake L was shown wandering some random streets while the sun set.
"Why is he going out now? If May 5th is tomorrow in this movie?" L complained.
Light shrugged. L seemed like one of those people that couldn't watch a movie without picking it apart.
"Alright," he said, with a hint of disappointment in his voice, "There doesn't seem to be happening much. We can turn it off."
"Not so fast." L waved a bony index finger. "The video was titled 'Kira's Secret revealed'. So there must be Kira in it somewhere. If we got to see 'me', I want to see how they depict you."
"I'm not Kira!" Light snapped.
"Still, I want to see the film Kira."
They kept watching film L walking a few more lonely streets when suddenly the shot started burning and the picture transferred to a dark room with a pair of iron handcuffs hanging from a stone wall in the background. A blackish figure jumped into focus, laughing hysterically at the camera.
Light covered his mouth with one hand. Was this really supposed to be him? A slender young man with painted nails who wore a shiny black latex waistcoat that only covered about half his torso? To make things worse, he was also wearing latex shorts, more like a broad belt than trousers. When the camera zoomed out to show a full body shot, he groaned. The guy was not actually on high heels, was he? Black, thigh-high boots completed an outfit Light was convinced would give him nightmares. This was not a fashion faux-pas anymore, it was an abomination!
"Ha ha ha, L is walking right into my well-planned trap!" gloated Kira. "But how could he foresee my brilliance - there has never been a second Kira! It's all me, me, meeehehehehehe!"
Light cringed in spite of himself. This was just too terrible.
"You've seen Kira now. Let's turn it off."
L shook his head: "You were right. This is pretty funny."
"And when L gets here, I'm going to make his worst fears reality. He will wish he'd never been born! I'm gonna make him beg and scream. Ahahahaha! These shackles aren't here for show, you know."
"Who is he talking to?" asked Light.
L shrugged.
"Does it matter? It's exposition." he said. "L was not talking to anyone either."
Light opened his mouth, but Kira in the video interrupted him:
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's the baddest of them all?!" he asked, gesticulating wildly to a big, golden mirror that had suddenly appeared on the stone wall behind him.
"Kira, you are the baddest he'e. But these criminals are a thousand time worse than thee."
A weird sound from L made Light turn away from the screen. Was he... laughing? It sounded a bit like a cough, so Light decided that it was probably a cough.
The mirror's reflection of Kira changed, showing a hooded figure skulking dark streets. A name appeared at the top of the mirror. Kira cackled and touched the figure on the mirror with his long-clawed index finger. The surface flashed red and the criminal instantly clutched his chest, dropping to the floor, wheezing.
"Kira appears to be killing criminals so that he will be the most evil being left on Earth in this movie." L observed. "That's an interesting motive, considering that this is a Kira supporter website."
"Maybe they are panning the video rather than praising it," Light scoffed, "I hope that no one is praising his motives OR his portrayal."
A harsh chord of music rang out. "He's dead." declared the mirror in a solemn, melodramatic tone.
Again, L laughed. This time it was unmistakable.
"He didn't even see his face! It's like the writers did absolutely no research on Kira," Light complained over the exaggerated laughter from the speakers, suddenly becoming as harsh a critic of the movie's flaws as L had been.
"I have to say, this is an interesting interpretation of Kira's murderous power," said L, as he finished the last box of cookies.