Light was trying to study to distract himself and take his mind off what had happened these last couple of days. He didn't want to think of the death of the FBI agents; he didn't want to think of Kira and he didn't want to think about that night, but alas nothing ever went his way. His nightmares were getting worse by the night this time he saw Raye Penber trying to protect him from his stalker, but the stalker gets the upper hand and kills Raye before catching Light.
"Light, I've had the bestest idea in the world" Sayu shouted, throwing Light's bedroom door open and flopping down onto his bed. A grin stretched out on her face and it took all of Light's strength to not roll his eyes. Sayu had been doing this the past week, telling him she had come up with an idea to catch Kira, but all her ideas were childish at best.
"Hyuk Light-o doesn't look very impressed" Ryuk laughed, floating through the door after Sayu. Light raised his eyebrow as he looked at his sister then to Ryuk then Rem who had stayed with Sayu and Ryuk whilst Light tried to study, keyword tried. It's not like he didn't know this by heart already, but his parents would be disappointed if they discovered he wasn't studying in his free time whenever their mother came into his room unannounced.
"What's your idea this time, Sayu?" Light asked, "It has to be better than that Kira meet and greet you thought up yesterday?".
"Wasn't one of my strongest ideas I admit but I promise this one is way better" Sayu said dropping her ordinary notebook down onto his bed and opened it up to a note scribbled page, Sayu believed it was better to keep all the information they had learned on the Kira Case in a singular notebook which remains hidden with their death notes whenever they left the house, they couldn't risk wandering around town with classified information on the Kira Case and the Death Note just in case they get stopped and searched by the police.
"What if we pretend to be another Kira to draw the first one out? We could make it a spectacle stunt, just like L did with the whole Lind. L. Tailor thing. Using your eyes, we could find people who are meant to die on the same day around the same time maybe like two people to make it look like we are using the death note but we aren't. It would have to be someone that could quickly be identified as dead so maybe someone on TV," Sayu started, "I even have a few ideas for what this Kira could say, about creating a new world free from evil. We should also play up Kira's power, so the real Kira believes that the Kira we created is infatuated with them and would be willing to do anything they say,".
"Hyuk, I don't mind writing their names down," Ryuk said, "It's not like I'll be doing it to save someone else's life, and being down here for so long it won't hurt gaining a few extra years,".
"That's actually not a bad idea, Sayu. If the first Kira believes that there is some else with their power who will follow their cause, and since we both have a death note, then we can prove to Kira that we have a Shinigami. It might take a while, but we could find a couple of people who will die on the same day," Light said, Kira might be smart but if they could imply that they have the Shinigami Eyes then they might be more desperate to get in contact with their version of Kira especially if they make their Kira look stupid, "Ryuk lets have you writing names as a last resort, we don't need to kill anyone who isn't destined to die just to draw out Kira,".
"Great, we should get to work straight away!" Sayu beamed. She couldn't believe it: they were one step closer to catching the real Kira.
"We shouldn't air it right away, we can prepare everything, just wait until the right time maybe in a couple of months to make sure we cover all our bases," Light said, they couldn't risk L getting suspicious and ruining their plan.
"Oh, because of the recent FBI agent's deaths," Sayu said and Light nodded.
"It's better we draw no more attention to ourselves, L might get suspicious that someone among the NPA families is Kira or the second Kira if we rush. We need to make sure that nothing leads back to us," He said.
"It's wise, Ryuk, and I won't let anything happen to you, but we can't risk the death note or the existence of Shinigami's being discovered by you humans," Rem said.
"Okay, I'll prepare a script and you can prepare the tapes then we will decide when we will air this second Kira," Sayu said jumping off Light's bed grabbing a pencil from Light's desk, and got to work.
L sat on his chair reviewing Raye Penber's death once more. Something was wrong with it. Something obvious. Raye Penber was the only FBI agent to die in an unsecured place surrounded by a crowd whilst the other agents died in their hotel rooms.
"So, based on the records I have here, Raye Penber comes through the West entrance of Shinjuku Station at 3:11 pm. Then at 3:13, he boards a train on the Yamanote Line. But even if he was following someone at that time, I think it's going to be very difficult for us to draw any real conclusion from this blurry video. Then at 4:42 pm um… he exits the train at Tokyo station and dies on the platform," Matsuda said… that it! That's what wrong with this picture, the timings and the disappearance of the envelope Penber was carrying before boarding the train.
"It's quite strange, don't you think?" L said before accepting his ice cream from Watari.
"I'm sorry? What do you find strange?" Chief Yagami asked, looking from the pieces of paper in his hand to L.
"We know that Raye Penber got on the train, and then an hour and a half later he got off and died on the platform but the Yamanote Line only takes an hour to complete its circuit and more importantly there's the envelope" L explained, the one time he is forced to work with others face to face and they are a bunch of idiots, L really shouldn't be surprised no one is ever at his level anymore only the children at Wammy's would ever notice something like this but sometimes it would be nice to work a case with someone competent.
"Um, what do you mean?" Aizawa asked, looking at the paused tape of Raye Penber walking through the ticket gate.
"He's holding what looks like an envelope when he passes through the ticket gate," L said, pointing at the small brown envelope tucked under Penber's arm.
"Oh, you're right! It's there, but in the footage right before his death, it's gone," Aizawa shouted.
"Well, I don't see an envelope on this list of his personal effects," Chief Yagami said looking down at another piece of paper that listed everything found on Raye Penber after he had died.
"Which means it was left on the train, and if you watch closely the very end here, it seems like he's straining to look inside the train before the door's close. You can see right here," L said fast forwarding the tape to show the task force Penber's movements just before he died.
"If that's the case, do you think it could mean something?" Chief Yagami asked.
"Wouldn't it be interesting if Kira was on that train?" L theorised, "I admit I find it hard to believe, there is no reason for Kira to come to the scene of his own crime when he can kill from a distance. Well, maybe he was counting on us to make that assumption and figured he could get away with such a bold move,".
L went quiet, he knew there was something about Penber's death which bugged him, "Everyone, at this point I'd like to focus our investigation on only those people who Raye Penber was tailing. In particular, he was assigned to two police officers and those closest to them,".
"Very well, who are these two individuals he was investigating?" Chief Yagami asked and L almost dreaded telling him the answer. That was if he really felt any emotional empathy, which L knew he didn't.
"Deputy Director Kitamura, along with Detective Superintendent Yagami and their families. At this stage, I'd like to place wiretaps and surveillance cameras in both households," L said. And silence fell throughout the task force members.