Leaving the hut for the first time in two days, Raito had scanned the landscape in the direction from which he had heard the explosion, but he found no sign of any body. Because the collar was still tracking his movements, he had chose not to investigate and instead follow the instructions he had been given. Along the way to the school, he came across several unscathed bodies--it was possible that they might have died of heart attacks.
Arriving in the classroom, he was frisked and his collar deactivated by armed guards, who then told him to remain in the classroom before leaving him alone, where he had been waiting since. After roughly five minutes, Raito heard the doorknob click, and turning to it, he saw a guard peer in, then swing the door open to let someone through.
In the doorway stood Hideki Ryuuga (Male Student No. 12), his face grim.
Making his way slowly to another chair in front of Raito, Ryuuga spun it around gingerly with his fingertips, and then stepped up on it into a crouch, his dirt-covered toes gripping the edge of the seat.
"I know you're Kira," Ryuuga said pointedly, after a pause. "I'm L."
Raito didn't reply.
"None of your classmates were called out by their actual names," L continued. "The ones before you, at least. I knew you probably would not have known them well enough to realize that I'd altered their names. It was a risk I chose to take, and it worked. After you left, I had them secretly called back before they strayed too far from the building, and had their collars deactivated.""That doesn't prove anything."
"I know," said L. " I had to place several teenage criminals in the student list, and they were called out by their actual names. They died in the game without us interfering; I've confirmed that they did die of heart attacks.
"To be sure, the students that I called back were put under surveillance, but it would make no sense for them to kill the criminals since they knew it was a hoax. In any case, they did nothing suspicious, which raised the probability of your being Kira.
"But one more thing. I have news that pop idol Hideki Ryuuga has died of a heart attack. That cannot be a coincidence..."He nodded.
A guard burst in through the door, pointing his machine gun at Raito. Raito heard Ryuk chortle behind him. L stepped off his chair and backed away, out of the gun's range, all the time facing Raito.
"Yagami Raito... it ends here."