"It's okay Ran," Conan spoke into his cell phone, "I'm with Sera and the others. B-because I wanted to ask if they wanted Uncle Kogoro to help with the case. N-no, that's fine, Sera promised to bring me back home, you don't have to come by."

Conan continued to talk to Ran, while Able, peering at him from over a document, and Sera looked on.

"What is she, his mother?" Able muttered as he looked on.

"When did I promise that?" Sera asked.

Able and Sera continued to watch as Conan kept making up excuses for why she didn't have to come pick him up and why he'll be late. Meanwhile, Near simply sat on his feet, knees to his chest, in another part of the room as he sifted through various documents.

"You know," he spoke up, "this would go by much faster if you three would actually help."

"Well, have you managed to get a hold of Roger yet?" Able asked.

"Yes, but he said he didn't have anything on Coil or Danuve working a case," Near replied.

"Which means whatever they were doing was being held close to the chest," Able said.

"Or maybe this Z guy was just yanking your chains," Sera grumbled.

"Doubtful," Able told her, his eyes focused back on the file in his hand, "Z wants us to find him, that way he can prove that he's better than us even when he's helping us. So telling us about Coil and Danuve wasn't a lie."

Able's tone said that there wasn't any room for argument, and Sera grunted as Conan made his way back to the group.

"Hey, what are you guys talking about," Conan asked quizzically.

"Able here thinks that we should just roll over and wait for this Z person to jerk us around some more," Sera stuck her nose up.

"That's not what I meant and you know it," Able raised his voice, "We have jack shit to go on besides coil and Danuve. And unless we can figure out what they were doing before he found them, we don't have any moves to make!"

"Then start playing by your own rules instead of his," Sera shouted back.

"And how exactly am i going to do that with no leads," Able asked.

The two continued shouting back and forth at each other, as Near and Conan looked on. Near twirled his hair, content to let things play out, at least for now. Conan on the other hand was trying his best to get them both to calm down.

"H-how do you know these people were even looking into anything Able," Conan asked timidly, "m-maybe this bad person was the one investigating?"

This caused Sera and Able to stop their shouting match, for now at least, and Able thought about what Conan had just said.

"Near, I know Roger said they weren't working any cases, but did he at least say where the last place they were was?" Able asked.

"Yeah," Near answered, grabbing a file off the floor and flipping through some pages before holding it up for able to grab, "He said they were in New York. Apparently they were on there way here, to Japan, but he doesn't know for what."

"Both of them in New York, and both of them coming here. Those two haven't worked this closely since they went up against L," Able said.

"And even then they still lost," Near spoke up.

"What are you two talking about," Sera finally chimed in, "Why did all of you keep going after this L character? I thought you said you were supposed to replace him."

"Everyone had different ways of trying to surpass him," Able answered her, "Coil and Danuve went against him in a detective contest, when they lost L got free reign to use their names whenever he was investigating something. Then there was Beyond, who went against him as a criminal, trying to create a case that L would never be able to solve."

"And what about you," Sera eyed him, "What was you're big plan to surpass him?"

"Didn't have one," He told her nonchalantly, "Didn't want to."

"W-what do you mean you didn't want to?" Sera asked.

"L was a one of a kind individual. Trying to replace him would be impossible. When he died that would be it, I wouldn't be L just by plastering it on a monitor. I was A, and I wanted to work with...my friends," Able paused on the last line, "I was never trying to replace him or surpass him. I was Me, not L."

"Only a select few know that L is really dead," Near finally spoke up, "As far as the rest of the world is concered, I am L now Ms. Masumi. I do hope you and Edogawa will keep that in mind after you leave here."

Conan and Sera smile nervously and nod their heads.

"Hey, something is going on on tv," Conan points to one of the monitors.

The other three look towards the monitor he points too, and see's a news report at the air port that was bombed, and an blood red 'Z' was plastered on a white background in the corner.

"Quick, turn it up," Sera shouted.

Near grabbed a remote and pointed it at the monitor, increasing the volume.

"That's right sir, it seems the person responsible for the air port bombing last night has decided to broadcast a message. We are patching the feed through for the views now."

With that, the entire screen became a giant white back ground, save the letter A spread across it.

"Ah, hello there everyone. Having a pleasant day are we," a distorted voice came through the speakers, "Last nights event was a terrible tragedy. It pains me that such violence and blood shed was needed t-to..to draw out a certain individual w-who...AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA." The voice suddenly burst with laughter.

"You bastard," Able clenched his fist to the point that his knuckles became white.

He felt a hand hold his and he turned to see Sera standing next to him, staring at the monitors, her face in a scowl.

"I'm sorry," Z finally spoke again, "I wasn't able to keep a straight face trying to say that. In fact I positively LOVED all the carnage. Ahehehe. Allow me to introduce myself to all of you, my name..."

The screen darkened slowly before becoming quickly black, only for the logo to show back up...only this time the image was different.

On top of the cloister black A on the screen, another letter was on top of it. Messily scrawled across it.

"is..."

The color was blood red, drops scattered around the image like a crime scene. The letter...

"Z. And I've come to Japan to play a little game. And all of you...have just become my new pawns. Ahaha. ahahaha. You are all going to help me figure out...L's Legacy."

The screen cut back to the film crew at the air port as they recapped what just happened. Near, Able, Conan, and Sera stood in the room, staring at the monitor but not really listening, and Able clenched his fist even tighter. A few minutes pass in silence.

"Able," Near looked at his senior, "Do you know what he meant by "L's Legacy?"

Able finally managed to calm down and looked at Near.

"I don't. But my guess," Able turned to look back at the monitor, Z's image still plastered beside the news caster, "Is that Coil and Danuve were trying to figure it out. And that's why Z went after them...Damn you Z."