I have made angst out of playboy... How awesome am I?


070. Playboy

After Soichiro Yagami had witnessed his son, thanks entirely in part to Ryuzaki's video surveillance on his family, looking at "gravure model magazines" – he refused to use the word "pornographic" – he didn't think he could look at Light the same way again.

His cheeks flushed and he stammered unintelligibly, mumbling out a "I never imagined my son had those kinds of magazines!" to Ryuzaki, watching impassively beside him. Ryuzaki's monotonous and nonchalant response of "it's only normal, he is a seventeen year old boy, Yagami-san," only served to add further to his embarrassment. He was infinitely grateful that he and Ryuzaki were the only ones allowed to see the tapes, knowing full well that he'd probably die of embarrassment if the other task force members caught wind of it, even if it was "normal".

"It does seem a little contrived, however. Too normal." Ryuzaki mumbled from his spot in front of the screen, fiddling with his lower lip with one hand and holding a cup of sugar – or something, Soichiro wasn't entirely sure what it was – with the other.

Soichiro found it a little bit odd, months later, years later, that he never managed to find the magazines once Ryuzaki had removed all the surveillance equipment from the house despite the fact that he had seen where Light had stashed them. He couldn't help but bring Ryuzaki's words to mind whenever he thought about it and even though he never openly questioned his son, he wondered if everything was nothing but an act.

He was all too relieved when he never got the chance to find out.


Since I like to be all correct and technical and stuff, gravure models, or gravure idols do NOT actually pose nude or perform sexually explicit acts. They're more or less swimsuit models (more or less, because they also model clothes, lingerie, etc). The reason I used that terminology was for two reasons: 1. Soichiro is a little naive when it comes to his son (even though Light was faking it with the magazines) and he's a bit old fashioned. And, 2. the magazines that Light was looking at in the anime/manga were not actually sexually explicit (this is probably due to content ratings). Either way, it's not necessarily meant to be the correct usage of the word on Soichiro's part.