The following day, Light again spent most of it in his room. Typing away at his computer as he investigated the sudden deaths of those Japanese businessmen, they all seemed to be the CEO or higher-ups in their companies who over the past few months that Merikh had been killing, they had suddenly died in accidents. From the little Light knew about Merikh's kills, he always uses a heart attack from his first victim up to present day like it was his calling card, unless punishing criminals is a diversion from the fact that Merikh is also killing businessmen.
Then that would mean some company had to be benefiting the most from these deaths. Opening another tab, Light brought up the information for the recent stats for the market. As expected, there's been a general downturn for every company except for Yotsuba. If Merikh is supporting Yotsuba, then he had to be someone working on the inside of the company, and they must be a higher-up. No newbie would do this much for their company that they might leave or get fired in the next few months.
It was easy hacking into Yotsuba's systems as Light started searching for their potential Merikh suspect. Light doubt it was the CEO as he had no connection to the police or any computer skills that meant he could hack undetected into the NPA's servers which left the eight executive members of Yotsuba, Higuchi Kyosuke, Mido Shingo, Namikawa Reiji, Takashashi Eiichi, Shimura Suguru, Kida Masahiko, Ooi Takeshi and Hatori Arayoshi. Entering their names into a software Matt designed only for the Merikh Case which would search the internet for any link between the police and a Merikh suspect. Which only brought back two results. One for Namikawa who had a brother working for the NPA and Higuchi whose boyfriend was a prosecutor. Although a further inspection into Namikawa's brother showed that he died two years ago, and Light doubted that Namikawa would have any contacts at the NPA after his brother's death.
Which only left Higuchi and his prosecutor boyfriend Teru Mikami. This worked for Light theory that Merikh might be two people, Higuchi would probably finish around five on a workday whilst for a Teru his workday would vary depending on when the court concluded for that day. But Teru filled that link to the NPA. A prosecutor would have access to cases and the names and faces of criminals. And now he thought more about it, Light had considered previously that Merikh might have been a lawyer or someone connected to the courts.
He needed to show L this.
"L, you need to see this," Light shouted running down the stairs and heading over to his husband who paused from typing on his keyboard to look up at him, "We've hit a halt in the case, so I went back over everything from the start to see whether we've missed something, and I found this. During the three months, Merikh has been killing 13 prominent Japanese businessmen have suddenly died in an accident, there being three already this week,".
"And you believe this has some link to Merikh?" L asked and Light nodded his head, showing L the sudden decline in the stock market for all companies expect one.
"Look whilst other companies are experiencing a general downturn in the market apart from Yotsuba. Their sudden deaths have worked in Yotsuba's favour. Based on this, we can conclude that Merikh is supporting Yotsuba," Light explained, and L nodded his head.
"Could be. But if what you're saying is true, we can assume that punishing criminals is not Merikh's actual intent, and from Miss Misora, we already suspected that Merikh could kill in other ways. Naomi, what are your thoughts on this?" L said, looking over at the ex-FBI agent.
"From what Kira has said, it sounds like killing criminals is a diversion from keeping the police from noticing the other deaths and if there have only been thirteen businessmen dying over the last few months, it isn't more obvious than the thousands of criminals which have died daily," Naomi said, "We'll need to look into Yotsuba,".
"I have. According to Matt's software, there only two people in Yotsuba who have connections to the NPA. A brother for Namikawa and a boyfriend for Higuchi," Light said, pulling up the pictures of the two men, "I've ruled Namikawa out because his brother died two years ago. Higuchi's boyfriend is the criminal prosecutor Teru Mikami, he works on high-profile cases and has access to other ongoing investigations before they get to court,".
"Teru would have been the prosecutor assigned to the Merikh Case when it goes to trial. This means he would have had access to our information before the task force started working with me directly. Now how to get him to confess?" L pondered.
"Easy big brother," Beyond said walking into the room after listening to everything that L, Naomi and Light had said in the last ten minutes, "If Amane's right and everyone who owns this death note doesn't have a lifespan then I can use my eyes to confirm whether both Teru and Higuchi are involved or at least one of them is using the death note. All I need to do is meet with Teru and Higuchi and we'll find out,".