On Friday all plans were made, each person made their own preparations, and the group to attend Heretic and L's meeting was selected. L came wearing a rubber cat mask to hide his face as a preparation in case Heretic had the same ability as the second Kira. Light also was chosen among L's ten, and like all others L chooses to attend Light wore a white mask without any design at all.
Light arranged for Misa to be watching from a crack within a room in the warehouse hidden among the shadows of an intensely dark room, which offered as much protection as a mask would, if Heretic had shinigami eyes.
In the main area of the warehouse stood twelve masked figures, giving the meeting a masquerade feeling to the scene. Across from the individual in the cat mask stood a figure in a fox mask with a black cloak touching the floor which covered all view of the figure's features.
A voice chuckled from under the fox mask saying, "Brave but cautious, then again the question is how do we know you are L , and I am Heretic? Are you willing to answer a question to prove your identity?"
The figure in the cat mask leaned forward saying, "You had manipulated a female named Mellisa Ama to leave a message with your own message hidden within before somehow causing her to "randomly" stumble into traffic and die all to get my attention. In the note you used this message: Kira and L you will both die at my hands. Signed Heretic. In the note itself you had every instance of the word heretic capitalized to put more emphasis as it being an identity, a name to one who defies me and Kira, a mortal who stands against 'gods.' Does this cover all you could ask?"
After a moment a voice under the fox mask said, "I'll believe you are who you say. You also proved you have limited knowledge about Kira, because you missed keywords that refer to Kira's ability to kill. L, I am disapproved or… could it be Kira is much more careful, and intelligent then even you?"
L leaned forwards and asked with a voice of enthusiasm, "So, will you inform me in how Kira kills? Will you tell me how one can kill with only a name and seeing someone's face?"
Light stepped forward and spoke through his blank mask using a calm, collected, and cool voice, "How are we even sure this is Heretic? For all we know someone else could have been sent to distract us while he does something elsewhere, or he may have arranged this meeting to fool us into giving out valuable information that would help his true cause, whatever it may be.
Heretic chuckled then commented, "He's an intelligent one L, I understand why you choose him as part of your team. He seems to have caught on that I was allowing you to do most of the talking, without giving any information in return. How does this sound: I will give my name in exchange for that bright ally of yours name. What do you say?"
L flinched and looked Light's way saying, "It's too much of a risk. For a ll I know you may kill him by having his name alone, simply because he can see through your word game."
Light ignored L's words and stepped L's side saying, "I see no harm in giving my first name for his. It's the first chance at his identity we had, and it' is best we found out what we can about him. My name is Light, what is yours Heretic?"
A laugh burst forth from beneath the fox mask as he spoke, "The deal was your name for mine. I hadn't said I would give any information out in exchange for just a first name. But, I'll give you this alone: My first name starts with an 'A.' I do so hope you and L live so that we may meet again." At that moment the sound of a cell phone being hung up on came from the fox mask.
Light cursed and yelled over to L and the others, "We need to get out of here now! Heretic may have…" Light's words was interrupted as the "Heretic" figure cave out an ear splitting explosion of intense heat, fire, toxic gases, and such force that the entire building was demolished.
Heretic watched the warehouse collapse from a hotel room in the third floor across the street and placed his polished silver cell phone on the counted next to his bed. Dara scanned over the telescope positioned toward the window, which had given a clear view through a window of the warehouse into the area that had been in front of the fox masked dummy and said, "A bomb? You shaped the Styrofoam into a human shape, reset the wiring within the remote controlled car and within its wireless controller, placed it within the Styrofoam, and created a costume out of cloth and the mask, while putting a cell phone under the mask. You also had placed liquid within containers resulting in a bomb that seemed as though it was a person… brilliantly planned I must say.
What do you intend to do now, if you have already killed L?"
Heretic shook his head saying, "L would have prepared for his death knowing the risk involved with the Kira case and not the danger with me. He is sure to have some kind of successor lined out. So, it is nowhere near over."
Sirens rang out in the distance drawing Heretic's attention to the window. The debris of shattered glass, chunks of wall, ceiling, piling, with steel of occasional support beams piled together in some random order was where the warehouse once stood. Spectators lined the other side of the street near the hotel sidewalks chattering among themselves, as reporters holding microphones stood between the wreckage and cameramen to give the story.
Heretic spoke as Dara came over to the window, "Do a favor for me." The shinigami gave Heretic a cold glare, and as if reading her mind Heretic said, "I know you must at least be slightly interested in seeing how it goes between me, Kira, and L. All I ask is for you to go down and tell me how many shinigami are over the wreckage, and if they are flying off or staying in one spot."
Dara's expression became one of confusion as she asked, "How do you know there are shinigami down there?"
Heretic ignored her question and said, "There are two shinigami down there, and neither are leaving. Correct?"
She glanced down toward the pile asking, "How do you know all of this? Your just a human, with regular human eyes, are you not?"
He smirked then said, "One is over the area where the other human had moved, next to the one called L. The other shinigami is off to the side away from where the group of humans had been."
Dara cursed in annoyance and said, "How the hell do you know all of this?"
Heretic smiled Dara's way answering, "I know because you just told me. Thank you for letting me know Kira's identity, the fact he works closely with L, and the fact the second Kira works with Kira, and is not a member of L's squad."
She rolled her eyes asking, "How do you know all of that based on the two shinigami's positions? Is this another trick to have me give out information?'
He began disassembling the telescope and put it away in a suitcase with shaped Styrofoam slots scaped snuggly for each piece and responded, "I know the blue prints to the warehouse, in it there is one large square room as big as a home. On the left side there are three rooms, bathroom facilities, and one office. I choose a warehouse with this setup so if Kira had information from L's task force, then he would send the second Kira as a spy to gather names, while looking from one of the side rooms, with little chance for anyone to notice. I choose the position within the warehouse for them to meet far away from the left rooms, but close enough for the second Kira to see, so they wouldn't be noticed, and they would have killed L and his allies, had they not worn those blasted masks. Wit h the location of where they was to meet being so far apart from the rooms where the second Kira could hide it made it easy to know if the second Kira was on the team or not.
Kira's identity is known to me because of L, and Kira's knowledge that you can't kill with the first name alone, nor could you run a search online with the first name to gather the last name and a picture of who you wish.
L had made Kira nervous by asking me to help L capture Kira. He was also nervous that I would reveal the existence of death notes and how to use it, which would give L an edge so he would know what to look for, to prove who Kira was. So, he did what anyone in the situation would do: Change the subject at the right timing in a way that wouldn't bring suspensions onto him. His timing, intelligence shown, and overall poise made me slightly suspect that he may be Kira at the time.
It all came down to you. I needed you in order to gather the information I wanted. I first I had you establish there was at least one shinigami there. Had you not reacted in surprise when I acted as though I known for a fact shinigami was there, it would have told me I was wrong, and that Kira was not there, and hadn't known about the meeting. Next, I had to see if there was only one shinigami or both, then I could the locations to confirm who I believed Kira to be, and confirm if the second Kira worked with L as well."
Dara leaned against the wall asking, "So what now?"
Heretic flashed a smile answering, "We buy flowers, that's what."