[Chapter Eleven]
"Don't be silly… L is dead!"
That morning, Isamu had returned and informed you that it was the very same L was before. The previous L was indeed L Lawliet.
"No! I talked to him on the phone last night!"
"YOU WHAT?"
You explained the situation.
"You can't be serious!" Light seemed overwhelmed.
"Now we'll know what L is up to… He doesn't suspect a thing! We met on the plane by chance."
"He could have set it up!"
You scowled. "I doubt it."
"That's what he wants you to do."
You got up and put on your jacket. "You aren't making this decision. Just look where your last decision got you."
"And it got me there because I met with Near."
"Shut up."
You walked out the door.
* * *
"Greetings, Miss Bourne."
L's robotic voice came through a speaker on the metal detector. You smiled.
After removing your metal items and walking through the metal detector, you headed for the elevator. A man was waiting for you inside the elevator, and pressed one of the buttons upon your entering. Before you knew it, you were sitting in a bleak room in front of L. The room had a table, two chairs, a television screen, and a large mirror.
"Hello, Ryuzaki!"
He smiled vaguely.
"Sit please. I need to catch you up on what we know about Kira."
You sat.
"Currently, we are unsure of where Kira is… we know that it's Light Yagami."
He paused, waiting for a response.
"No. I'm not believing anything until I see evidence."
"Before I share evidence with you, I'm going to need you to agree to keep everything that is said in this building, from this minute on, strictly private and only between taskforce members."
"I agree."
He looked at you for a minute, before turning, remote control in hand. A clip played… and you knew it was the scene that had taken place before you had saved Light. You saw only Light—everything else was blurred out.
"That's right. I am Kira… So then, what will you do? Kill me here? Listen…! I am not only Kira… but God of the new world! Kira has become law in the world we now live. He's the one who is maintaining order. I have become justice; the only hope for mankind… Kill me? Is that really the right thing to do? Since Kira's appearance six years ago, wars have stopped… and global crime rates have been reduced over seventy percent! …. But it's not enough. This world is still rotten! …With too many rotten people. Somebody has to do this! When I first got that notebook, so many years ago; I knew I had to do it. No! I was the only one that could! I understood that killing people was a crime. There was no other way! The world had to be fixed! A purpose given to me! …Only I could do it. WHO ELSE COULD HAVE DONE IT? AND COME THIS FAR? WOULD THEY HAVE KEPT GOING? The only one… that can create a new world… is me."
The clip went off.
"And you see… Light is Kira."
You shook your head.
"If you know that Light is Kira, surely you know how he kills."
"Yes… we have some idea."
You knew he wasn't going to tell you.
"So based on this… all I can conclude is that Light isn't Kira."
"Explain your reasoning."
"Well… What if Kira is someone else… controlling Light? It makes sense. Why else would Light admit it like that? It's the perfect way to frame someone. For all you know, the real Kira could be getting exactly what he wants: you focused on Light… While as we speak, he gets away with murder."
L stared at you, completely unanimated.
"And furthermore… why would the son of a police chief do it…? Because he has access to police records. What else would Kira need? Light would have been… the most obvious person— so stupidly obvious! —To use. Are you really that gullible? Another part of me thinks that Kira was waving a red banner right in front of your face…. Kira was sending you—no! the world—a message: Don't be so quick to judge."
L's eyes slightly widened.
"Then again… the likelihood of all that happening is extremely low… but hell, the likelihood of any of this happening in the first place is extremely low."
L resumed his normal composure.
"Right."
You smiled.
"Was I helpful?"
"Yes… I suppose you could say that."
He looked to the side, hand at his chin, deep in thought.
At last he looked up.
"How much longer can you stay here?"
"I've got all the time in the world."
He got up and led you through a door and into a new room. There were a few men sitting around, and a window in the wall that looked into the now empty room you had just been in. The mirror had actually been a two-way mirror. The men greeted you as you entered, and you were introduced to each one of them.
L spoke.
"We are going to tell this girl everything we know about the Kira case… from the beginning to now."
After about an hour or so, you knew everything. It all fit perfectly with what you already knew, so it wasn't a lie.
"I have only one question," you said, "why are you in America?"
They all looked at each other. L spoke.
"Near is in America right now. If Light is still out there, we know that one of his first priorities is to kill Near."
"I see."
"What do you think?"
You frowned.
"Did it ever occur to you that Kira might be a shinigami?"
"Well… The one that we talked to… is no longer around… Near can see the one that Light can see… But no. That has never occurred to me."
"I want to meet a shinigami."
Another one of the men spoke up. He was younger than the rest. Matsuda, was it?
"Why would you want to do that?"
"I want to find out what would drive them to do such a thing to the human world. I want to know everything about them."
They all stared at you.
"I see," said L.
"Anyway, I should probably get going."
L nodded.
"We'll see you another day."
You gathered your belongings and left.
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