Light:

No...way...

"Is this a joke?"

That synthetic voice... How can it be?

"No, it isn't Superintendent Yagami-san."

The only person who calls my father like that is...

"L?"

A pause.

"Asahi. You want the ladies or not?"

Time to play it his way.

"I do. Where are you now?"

I swear I felt him smile.


It was 11:15 by the time I reached the hotel. Please, god, I don't want it to be him.

He's back, huh?

"Yes, Ryuk." I whispered."I think so, at least."

Okay, can you just explain something to me?

"Shoot"

What exactly did you do after killing of everyone on the SPK and the Task Force?

I smiled. For an apple addicted shinigami, he isn't so bad.

"I lied. I said that the Task Force had given up the investigation."

Why did you say that? Why couldn't you just say, 'Kira killed them'?

Okay, I take whatever I said back.

"Ryuk, you idiot. That would mean I'm the only survivor. Don't you think that is very weird?"

He's thinking. Finally.

Room 221B. That is extremely weird.

But Light... You wouldn't have come up with that plan. You're not...that evil...

"You're right, Ryuk. I didn't. A guy who calls himself JM helped me to escape. Apparently, he knows that I am Kira, and he said that he will protect my secret."

In exchange for?

"I have to do something. Something for his friend. But I didn't get most of it. He just said, I want to burn him. Help me."

Okay... that's insane. Even for you.

"Tell me about it."

Finally I reached the room. I really hope it isn't...

I knocked the door.

"Come in", said a voice. Surely that wasn't ... who I thought it was...

"It's Asahi"

"Come in", repeated the voice, only this time, it was a tad sterner.

I slowly opened the door. He wasn't here. He wasn't. Thank god. But instead of him, there was, this guy...

Messy hair, blank eyes, tall, possible addiction to drugs. He looks very English.

"Sit down, please.", he said, with his hands positioned right under his lips. "Ryuuzaki will be here in a moment."

Shit! Shit! ShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShit!

"Uh..thanks..."

"My name is Webber Holmes. Nice to meet you."

Remember the name...

"Nice to meet you, . My name is Light Y_"

"Asahi, isn't it?"

"Yes, Asahi."

For some unknown reason, he was staring at me, smiling from time to time. It was creeping me out.

The door opened.

He came.

He. Came.

I killed him.

He shouldn't live.

I killed him.

How.

HOW?

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

"Ryuuzaki! What the hell?"

L smiled. The smile. The smile that makes me want to punch his face.

"Nice to meet you too.", he replied.

I have to act. This Webber might be good. There is no reason why L had to expose his secret to a random Englishman.

"L, what the hell? You we_ you we... DEAD!"

He calmly sat on the couch, in his usual crouched posture. "Webber. Care to make some tea?"

"Certainly," he nodded. "The usual?"

"The usual", L nodded.

I was still gaping open my mouth.

"L..."

"Alrighty, Light. Time to explain things."

And then he told me. Everything. Stupid L. Stupid. He doesn't know that Ryuk is on my side now.

Eventually, an hour later, he finished the whole explanation of how he found out that he was going to die.

"Any questions?"

Webber was looking at me. I knew what I had to do now.

"L, you idiot! Why couldn't you just tell me?"

"You would have just gotten in my way", he replied, bluntly.

I bent down, so that he wouldn't see my face. Ryuk was lying on the floor, laughing.

"Oh, how rude of me.", L exclaimed. "Light? This is Webber. Webber Holmes. He was at my orphanage."

Orphanage. No way. I thought I killed everyone at the orphanage. How can this guy live?

"He is a genius, like me.", he bragged.

Webber frowned. "Like me?"

L sprang up and got right under Webber's nose. "Oops. My mistake. A tad below me."

I couldn't help but laugh. If I didn't, then my cover would blow.

"Webber here shares my thoughts. He also suspects that you are Kira."

"Ryuuzaki, seriously? You know that I am not!"

"Why?", Webber took over. "The 13 day rule?"

Okay. This guy is not just, he's very good.

"It's fake, you see", he continued. "It's as simple as that. There is no such rule as the 13 day rule. Nate, my foster brother, handled the book for greater than 13 days. He is didn't die after that. A month after that? Yes, he then died because of Kira."

L motioned for him to stop. "Besides, do you remember the prisoner who was to be executed in 13 days?"

I nod.

"He didn't die. At all. I sent the message after B died. And I kept a close watch. The prisoner didn't die."

Webber smiled. "So you see. The only thing holding you away from our suspect list, is the 13 day rule. Now that we know it's fake, we know that you might be Kira."

I had no time to think. Ryuk was dumbstruck.

"Besides," L said, "I don't think the Task Force quit. I think they all died. Webber made the suggestion. A highly possible suggestion, that was. It would be idiotic for Kira, who is Japanese, to aim an international organization, rather than focusing himself on a local police force, who are on his tail almost ever since he began. All of them died."

"It would be very flimsy.", Webber said. "The Task Force, obviously joined hands with the SPK, because they knew that Near was also a Wammy. They would trust him more than the acting successor. You."

I realized my time was up.

"The problem is, Light," L said, with cold eyes, "is that unless you have the shinigami eyes, you cannot trust a shinigami of lower intellect to kill me. Had you done the shinigami eye deal, I was dead for good. But you wouldn't do that, at all. Hence I survived. "

"Hold on a sec.", I said. "Me?"

"Yes, you. You are Kira.", Webber concluded, with a very loud clap.

"Fine. L. I am Kira. What are you going to do now? Arrest me?"

L smiled. "Nope. We are not going to do that. In fact, the Kira case has become..."

"Boring", Webber concluded. "We have a very interesting case at hand"

"And we need your help, Kira."

I stood up. "I can just kill you here. I can just..."

"Sure you will", Webber said. "JM will kill you next."

JM? Oh, no...

"Wait, how do you know about JM?"

"James Moriarty," L explained, showing a data file on his laptop. "Consulting criminal. The main reason why there are so many criminals who exist in today's society"

"What does he do?", I asked. Though I admit, I seemed pretty stupid when I said that.

Webber laughed. "I'll tell you exactly what he'll do."

I turned around to look at him.

"He'll burn you. He'll burn ... the heart ... out of you."

To be continued...