Chapter 3: Case Studies!
For three months Choko had to go through the torture she considered L! They had been working together for several months but L found it too exhausting to go back and forth to and from the restaurant day after day, and he knew it was too risky to let her walk back and forth to and from his headquarters day after day; so they convinced her parents she had gotten a scholarship at a school of business (her parent were ecstatic because they assumed she was learning to take over the restaurant). Choko felt like she was in a worse hell than before. L ate nothing but sweets day in and day out, he never slept, and his monotone voice annoyed her to no ends!
"I'm telling you, this is not a regular case! Children just don't wake up and murder their parents on such a massive scale, besides no child could clean it up so fast!" Choko was constantly screaming at L.
"And I'm telling you, I've ran background checks on the kids, they're all in advanced classes, plus I noticed all the children have an extremely odd home life. Like this girl Miki Nakamura from Nagasaki. She's 10 years old and an only child. Her family owns a toy store, and all her life she's been homeschooled. I read an article her parents sent into the newspaper when the store opened they said "Our little girl Miki will take over the business one day!" but upon home inspections after the murders I noticed Miki had no interest in toys but more in education, however her parents refused to put her in school." L said with that serious face he always had on.
"So what you're saying is that the kids who killed have a dream that their parents refuse to help bring to life? Man I remember that feeling." Choko said with a sigh.
After seeing the look on Choko's face L decided it was break time, he walked into the kitchen and prepared himself and Choko dough-kabobs (the one dish Choko had grown to enjoy in the 3 months she had been there.). Choko couldn't be sure but she wondered if L had stopped working just because she felt bad.
However she quickly tossed that notion aside and gnawed at her kabob. However while Choko's mind was off in another world L's thoughts were, oddly enough, not on the case but on Choko. In the 3 months they had been working together L had developed a strange feeling for the girl, despite her attitude and general sense of carelessness, but he knew the odds of Choko having the same unknown feeling were so small they weren't even worth investigating.