What a bunch of hopeless fools, thought L, who was watching Aizawa and Detective-Superintendent Yagami go over the security tapes. Didn't they see the man in the white hat? It's as if I have to tell them everything, L thought. You'd think they would want to find out who gave Raye the envelope in the first place.

As a matter of fact, they didn't seem to be noticing the envelope either. At first, L decided to test them, to see if they noticed it, but after waiting patiently for a while, pretending to think aloud as they followed along, he grew tired of waiting and decided to help them out. " What happened to the envelope?" L yelled, trying not to sound sarcastic.

For some reason, they seemed pretty impressed that L had noticed the bright yellow envelope that was given to Raye by the man dressed entirely in bright white clothing. If anyone was impressed, it was L, who was more impressed at their ignorance than they were at him noticing the manila envelope.

It didn't matter to him, though. He knew the man in the white cap was KIRA. Just one more clue, and L would be able to figure out KIRAs identity. All he would need to do after that is prove it.

Something was strange about these tapes, though. It was as if any important shots of Raye or the man in white had been erased…

-A few days earlier-

"Kiyomi, you have to believe me, I saw him!"

"I do believe you, but there's nothing I can do!"

Kiyomi and Kyoko had been arguing for five minutes now. Kyoko was the woman in the white coat who had seen me die. Apparently, she was a junior in high school and the younger sister of Kiyomi.

And, as luck would have it, she was part a family who supported KIRA fiercely.

"Please sister," said Kyoko. "If your friend doesn't agree to help us out, KIRA will be caught." Kyoko put her head in her hands.

"Kyoko…" Kiyomi rolled over to her sister in her office chair. "Don't worry, Taro is in charge of maintenance at the station, they won't suspect a thing. Plus, he owes me a favor. If he's even slightly honorable, he'll do this for us." Kiyomi smiled.

It was painful, watching two sisters worry over KIRA as if he were a hospitalized relative. I knew that KIRAs influence would eventually spread, but I didn't realize that there were already people out there who considered him a messiah.

I had haunted her all the way back to her house, thinking that the female witness would be the first person they contacted. But as it turned out, she and her sister were about to destroy my last hope for salvation, likely before anyone else knew about the 12 FBI agents that were about to die. L would probably only find out about this after most of the other agents were already dead. My only hope now was the chance that Taro would instead give the recordings directly to the police.

A few minutes later, Kiyomi received an email from the elusive Taro, explaining how he had destroyed the tapes. And it only added insult to injury when I realized that Taro had stupidly attached copies of the files to the email, and Kiyomi had, in an equally as stupid notion, pulled them up.

I leaned in closer, as the sisters continued talking. There weren't too many files that had to be deleted, since Light had done a fair amount of research on the cameras in he subway area. The last shot was one directly on his face, during the last few second of my life. And the last few words I had ever heard.

"Goodbye, Raye Penber."

Static.

Then it repeated. "Goodbye, Raye Penber."

Over and over again, I heard it, each repetition ringing in my ears. "Goodbye, Raye Penber. KHHCHKHCHKCK. Goodbye, Raye Penber. KHCHCKHCKHCK. Goodbye, Raye Penber."

KHCKHCHKCKCH.

"Goodbye, Raye Penber."