"This is really fun, but my back is starting to hurt," Sayu complained as she hung in midair. She was held up by a cable attached to her waist, facing toward the ceiling. Her body was bent at an odd angle at her lower back. She was about four feet in the air, her head, arms, and legs hung limp underneath her body.
Light grabbed her shoe and spun her. She screeched with delight as her cadaverous blue hair started fluttering as she spun.
"Just give the cameraman a second. I hope you guys aren't prone to seizures," Yoshi warned before the lights suddenly started flickering.
"My eyes hate this," Sayu commented, throwing a hand over her face. The cameraman gave Yoshi a thumbs up and Yoshi swatted Sayu's hand away from her face. "We're almost done. Just let the cameraman film." Sayu groaned, but complied as everyone got out of the way and signaled that they were ready.
When the cameraman was finished filming, they unhooked Sayu. She stretched with her hands over her head. "Man, I should become a contortionist," Sayu commented jokingly.
"You could barely handle bending backwards a little bit. What makes you think you'd be a good contortionist?" Light answered. Sayu stuck her tongue out at her brother. "Like you could do any better," Sayu challenged.
Light merely smirked in response before cracking his knuckles and leaning back until his hands touched the ground behind him. He then scooted his fingers closer to the heels of his feet, raised one of his legs into the air and lifted himself into a handstand before his momentum pushed him back onto his feet.
Matsuda clapped enthusiastically. "Wow! That's so cool! Where did you learn to do that?" Light shrugged. "Preschool gymnastics."
Sayu scowled. "Lies! You can't just learn how to do a flip, not practice for it for ten years, and suddenly do it perfectly again. That's not how it works!" Sayu argued, despite having seen it for herself. Light shrugged. "As long as I stay physically fit and can remember how to do it, sure I can. Besides, I play tennis, which requires me to have flexible wrists and a strong grip, so I didn't have trouble with having to bend my hands so far back." Light started, before Sayu interrupted.
"I can think of a few other ways to get flexible wrists and a strong grip," Sayu wiggled her eyebrows. Light nodded very seriously. "And that's how I'm able to keep up my flexibility in my spine," Light answered monotonously. Sayu groaned in disgust. "Oh my God. You're so gross," She giggled.
Yoshi, Matsuda, and the cameraman all stood uncomfortably as the two siblings bickered.
"Is this your way of telling me you finally got a girlfriend?"
"No."
"Come on. You need to grow up a little."
"Says you."
"I can get a date perfectly fine! You're the one that seems to have problems with social interaction!"
"Please. You only ever hang out with me and I've never seen any date of yours." Sayu crossed her arms, pouting and mumbled under her breath, which Light took as another victory. "Besides, the only girl I want to spend my time with is you," Light added, easily pacifying the younger girl. "You sound like some incestual creep," Sayu commented as a last jab before letting it drop.
They started to move on, having gotten the hardest parts of the video done. While Matsuda tried to put black contacts into a constantly flinching Sayu's eyes, Yoshi started talking about what they were going to do next in extreme detail.
Light groaned internally. All they would be doing was laying down and lipsincing the song. Light on the bed of the small apartment (they'd rented out a whole floor for this video) and Sayu underneath the bed, like a child's monster. He would actually be lipsincing short phrases while he was in focus, but when he wasn't in focus, Sayu would lipsinc with him. And she'd be lipsincing most of it. His voice may have been the main focus of the song, but if a person focused, they could hear Sayu softly singing underneath his voice in a creepy lilting melody throughout the duration of the song.
It actually took a long time (and a few people) to wrestle Sayu's eyes open for the black contacts, which made her eyes look wholly black. The whites of her eyes were completely gone. But once they were done, it was easy sailing for the next part of the video.
Multiple cameras were set up around the room and they started out with just Light in the frame. Light laid down on the bed, with the covers up. The bed was actually rather cheap and uncomfortable, but Light could appreciate the city view from the large window beside it. As the film started rolling, Light laid still before shooting up as if awakened by a nightmare at the same instant Yoshi waved her hand in the air trying to signal him (though his eyes were supposed to be closed when she gave the signal, so he didn't understand the use of it).
He then sank back down into the bed and closed his eyes again.
"Sayu."
They paused the film so that Sayu could crawl under the bed on her stomach and they started filming from the side as the music started up through a small speaker near the same camera, which panned down to Sayu. She had her eyes closed when the camera finally made its way to her, but she opened her eyes as she started lipsincing. The camera then snapped to Light as he lipsinced the words 'come here,' 'listen,' and 'careful.'
After the song ended, Sayu got out from under the bed and they filmed a short clip of Light laying in the bed by himself, while police sirens sounded in the distance. Matsuda had announced his concerns about the extra sound before being shut down by the cameraman, who said that it was fine in this instance. They then had Sayu stand by Light's bed as she lipsinced certain parts of the song, even going so far as having Light vacate the bed entirely while she stood beside it.
After they finished filming for that room, they went out into the hall and filmed Sayu dancing around the hall. They then started filming some creepier stuff with Sayu being rolled forward on a scooter board (which took multiple times to film as Sayu was having trouble balancing), but only showing the upper part of her body so it looked like she was levitating forward. Then they filmed her feet as she was held above the ground, letting her feet drag behind her. Then they had her stand in multiple spots as lights blinked around her to make her look like she was teleporting around the hall when the video was edited later.
After this, they decided to call it a day since the other parts of the video required a few other people who weren't there that day and they hadn't finished setting up the other room they would be filming in yet.
Sayu skipped happily as the exited the building and started heading toward their chauffeur. The chauffeur was an older English man who didn't speak much named Watari. He stood beside a slick, black limousine holding the back door open for the siblings.
The two entered the vehicle, Sayu heckling Light, who smacked her on the top of her head. When Watari was finally in the driver's seat, he lowered the partition. "Do you two mind if I pick up my son on the way?" He asked. In true honesty, neither of them cared. Watari usually ended up doing extra errands for the two, such as picking up their friends (read: Sayu's friends) and helping them with grocery shopping. He was more of an over-glorified nanny than a chauffeur most of the time.
The two shook their heads in response and Watari raised the partition again as they drove off.
After a quarter of an hour, they arrived at a hotel. The parking lot was rather empty, aside from a few cars (most of the hotel's occupants were probably out and about since it was daytime) and an odd man standing alone at the entrance of the hotel. He slouched and had pasty white skin as well as dark bags under his eyes. He wasn't even wearing shoes, Light noted. The man waved as they slowed to a stop beside the hotel. He then walked up to the car and got into the back with Light and Sayu.
Sayu seemed excited to meet a new person and immediately introduced herself and started asking the man random questions.
"What's your name?"
"Hideki Ryuga."
"We met Hideki Ryuga before and you look nothing like him."
"The pop star? Yes, I suppose we have nothing in common beside our names."
"Why do you sit like that?"
"It increases my deductive reasoning skills."
"Cool! Are you a detective or something?"
"Yes."
"Have you ever been in a car chase before?"
"I'm a private detective, not a police officer. I don't get very hands-on with a lot of my cases."
"Does your job make you good at solving riddles?"
"Not necessarily."
"What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?"
"A penny," Hideki and Light answered at the same time. Sayu made a face at how quickly they answered the question. "Um, what comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?"
"The letter 'M,'" They both answered at the same time again, Light mumbling, while Hideki spoke more clearly.
"What has many keys, but can't open a single door?"
"A piano." Sayu sighed in defeat. "Do you know any good riddles, Ryuga-san?" She asked.
"I know a few. They're all psychological riddles, though."
Sayu nodded. "That's okay."
Hideki cleared his throat a little uncomfortably. "A young boy receives two presents for Christmas; a soccer ball and a bike. But he's not happy. Why?"
Sayu tapped a finger against her chin. "Is he unhappy because he wanted more presents?" She asked uncertainly. Ryuga shook his head slowly.
"It's because he has no legs," Light piped up, surprising Sayu. "Oh, that makes sense since you need to have legs to play with both toys. That's a little morbid though." Sayu hummed in thought.
"You live in a fifth floor apartment. You look out the window to see a man murdering someone across the way. He then points his finger at you and starts moving it up and down. Why?"
Sayu hummed in thought. "Are there other people in the building? Or maybe he's a foreigner and where he's from that's the equivalent of a warning or something. No that's not it..." Her face scrunched up in concentration. "I don't know."
"He's counting the floors."
Sayu whirled on Light with a scandalized look on her face. "You are officially disowned." Light shrugged nonchalantly. "You weren't going to get it anytime soon." Sayu gasped in mock-offense. "How dare you-"
Hideki smiled with some amusement as the siblings bickered, though they quickly calmed down and Sayu started asking him if he knew any more riddles.
"You go to a family member's funeral and you meet a man who you get along with, but he leaves soon after the funeral. You ask around and find that nobody knows who the man was. You then go home and kill your brother, or in Light's case, your sister. Why do you do it?"
"Oh! Light's dating him and I don't want to lose him to the stranger!" Sayu exclaimed, receiving a semi-worried look from Light.
"And this is why I don't date anyone."
"No, it's because you lack basic social skills."
Hideki shook his head, no. "Any other guesses?" Light nodded his head in response. "I kill Sayu so I can see the man again at her funeral."
Sayu gasped. "This is betrayal of the highest degree. I think I'm going to have to kill you again for that nonsense." Sayu mimed stabbing Light in the stomach, to which he just laughed.
"A murderer stabs someone five times and leaves them in an elevator which has windows on all sides. As the elevator descends, the murderer watches the elevator. Why does he do this?"
Sayu appeared to think for a moment. "Um, because he's a creep? I've heard that serial killers have weird obsessions with the people they kill," She answered uncertainty.
"He watches so he doesn't look suspicious. If there was a dead body in a windowed elevator, everyone would be watching, so it would be considered strange not to," Light explained. Hideki nodded in response.
"Remind me not to get on your bad side," Sayu commented jokingly.
"A man wakes up in the middle of the night and gets up to get a glass of water from the kitchen. While he's in the kitchen, he sees a robber, then runs and hides in a closet. You're the robber and you have a knife in your hand. What do you do?"
Sayu laughed. "I get the hell out of there. No way am I waiting for the cops to show up."
"If I were the robber, I would walk past the closet, open and close the door, and quietly sneak back toward the closet and wait for him to come out so I can kill him. Can't have any witnesses to link me to the crime," Light smirked slightly. Hideki nodded quietly.
"I should tell you now that the riddles I've been sharing with you are meant to indicate if a person is a psychopath. Of course it doesn't mean with absolute certainty that you are, but answering in a certain way can indicate that you may have psychopathic tendencies."
Light's eyes widened in surprise and Sayu nudged him in the ribs. "See, I knew you were crazy," She joked.
Hideki nodded. "Do you still want to try to guess the last two riddles I have?"
Sayu nodded her head enthusiastically while Light shrugged nonchalantly.
"This one starts out with 2 questions leading up to it." Sayu nodded in understanding, urging him to continue.
"A runaway trolley is about to run over and kill five people, but there is a fork in the path where there is one person on the other tracks. You're the conductor. Do you choose to stay on track and kill 5 people or turn and kill one?"
"That's easy. You turn and kill the one. Five lives are more valuable than just one." Light didn't answer.
"A runaway trolley is about to run over and kill five people, but there is a fork in the path where there is one person on the other tracks. This person on the other side is someone you know and love. Do you choose to stay on track and kill 5 people or turn and kill the person you love?"
Sayu seemed to think hard over this one. "I let the five die. I can't let Light die." She mumbled, receiving no answer from Light. Hideki nodded again.
"A runaway trolley is about to run over and kill five people and you are standing on a footbridge next to a large stranger; your body is too light to stop the train, but if you push the stranger onto the tracks, killing him, you will save the five people. Would you push the man?"
Light's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "Is that even physically possible? I mean, a trolley usually goes at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour and weighs a little over 31,000 kilograms when empty and about 37,500 kilograms with an average amount of passengers. You'd have to weigh a lot to stop it, especially considering how frail the human body is compared to a trolley."
Hideki smiled slightly. "Yes, I'm aware that the physics is rather dubious. You're just supposed to ignore that part."
Light rolled his eyes as Sayu gasped in horror, her answer already obvious. "I could never kill someone like that!"
"Well I guess those 5 people are going to die, then," Light commented, making her feel a tiny bit guilty for her choice. "But he didn't do anything. He's not part of it."
"In the first example, you were willing to kill the one rather than the five. He wasn't part of it either." Sayu groaned in frustration. "It's different!" Light shrugged. "How? You have to deliberately kill a person to save the other five in both examples." Sayu threw her hands in the air in frustration. "It just is! Why do you have to question everything?"
Hideki cleared his throat in an attempt to distract the bickering siblings. "Last one: You're in a dark forest, alone at night. You hear a noise behind you and turn to see what it it. What exactly did you see? The opposite sex, nothing, a ghost, a dog, or a wild animal?"
"A ghost," Sayu replied immediately. "That would be super scary."
"A dog," Light answered instead.
"Why a dog?" Sayu asked. Light shrugged. "I don't know. They're not as scary as the other options. Why would I want to put myself in a situation like that?"
"What's so scary about girls, huh?" Sayu snapped with her hands on her hips. "It's not girls in general that I'm worried about. Just creepy stalker girls following me into a dark forest," Light answered. "What about a wild animal? It could be a cute little bunny," Sayu asked. "Or it could be a mother bear." Sayu narrowed her eyes. "And you're afraid of there being nothing?" Sayu asked. "If there's nothing there, then what made the noise. The appearance of nothing would just make me even more suspicious that something dangerous was near." Sayu sighed in defeat.
The car suddenly stopped and Light blinked, looking out the window to see that they were home already.
"See you later, Ryuga!" Sayu called, excitedly bouncing out of the limousine. Light merely waved as he exited the vehicle and followed Sayu into the house.