"Sybil, are you feeling okay?" Matsuda asked the quiet young woman, who sat on the floor of headquarters with her back to the wall.
Her hat covered her green eyes, which were focused on nothing particular. Just her hands
"Yeah. I'm fine." She raised her hand and smiled at the novice police officer.
"Thanks for being concerned, though. But, there's no need for it." Then, she stood up and moved to stand beside L, who was staring at his computer, as usual.
Sybil glanced over her shoulder at the others.
Aizawa was working, as well as Ukita, Ide, and Mogi. Soichiro was in the hospital because he suffered a heart attack, seemingly not related to Kira. He was alive after all. Kira actually killed his victims with heart attacks. It was just her and Matsuda who weren't doing anything without a reasonable excuse like the Chief of Police. In a way, Sybil began to feel rather useless.
The only time she ever that way. Useless.
Maybe the only reason L kept her around was because of her looks. Well, not at first. At first it was for an actual reason. She was doing something. However, now was a different story. Sybil was now doing very little to help with the investigation.
L glanced up at her and saw the solemn expression on her face.
She had been that way ever since returning from the university. It was rather unnerving and he didn't like it at all.
"Sybil, if you feel the need to go home, you can do so." He looked back to the computer only briefly before looking back towards her.
She was tense. Very tense.
"That's not necessary. Besides, I'm getting used to the company. If I go home now, not even my cat will be there to greet me. Just the silence of an empty home." Her voice was quiet and L had to look away.
There was that expression again. The one she always had when she was upset and depressed. It meant that she'd end up leaving shortly. Where to? That was a question to be yet answered.
Her eyes were once again concealed by her cap and L sighed quietly before looking back towards her and flicking it from her head.
Sybil glanced towards him and then smiled weakly.
"You know, that gets annoying."
"I enjoy seeing your face." The young man replied as he took a forkful of cake.
"Ryuuzaki, there's something on that you should take a look at." Aizawa said suddenly and Sybil watched as L turned to face the police officer, who was pointing the television remote to the box as he turned it up.
She felt a little ignored, but she, in turn, ignored the feeling. She'd deal with that later.
Sybil watched the television with intent. It was Sakura T.V, broadcasting a message from Kira. Immediately upon hearing the first few words, a red flag was raised.
Her green eyes widened and she glanced towards L, who was as interested as she was. The investigators constantly changed the channels and the eight watched as spokespeople died.
Sybil's stomach churned in disgust at the thought that someone could do this.
"This is disgusting! We've got to get this off the air!" She snapped.
L looked to her before pressing the button for Watari.
"Watari! Contact Sakura T.V and demand them to take the tape off the air! This is evidence!"
"I can't get through, Sir!" Immediately, Ukita had his coat on and was at the door with Sybil close behind him, flipping a hood on to cover her face.
"We're going to stop this!" Ukita stated.
"I'll kick down the damn door if I have to!" L wanted to respond to her, to attempt to stop her, but by the time he opened his mouth, they were both gone.
He refocused on the television and frowned.
This was not bound to end well.
His prediction was correct, for a few minutes later, both Sybil and Ukita appeared at the entrance to the station, based on the live feed after all.
L watched intently as Ukita banged on the door of the building, demanding entrance. The redheaded young woman just stood beside him, soon beginning to back away.
***
"Ukita, this isn't such a good idea. I'm getting a bad feeling about this. We should've stayed back home." She told the officer.
"We've got to stop the broadcast!"
"I-" Suddenly, the officer felt an extreme pain in his chest and he grasped it with both of his hands.
Sybil then watched as the officer fell at her feet and she stumbled backwards.
"Ukita!" Her immediate reaction afterwards was to kneel down beside the man and begin CPR, despite the fact that it was completely useless.
"God damn it!" She stood up and grasped her chest instinctively, awaiting her own death to come.
However, it didn't come. In fact, the only thing that came was the screeching sound of an armored vehicle. Before she could even think, Sybil quickly grabbed Ukita's body and dragged him out of the way, just as the armored van crashed into the Sakura T.V station.
"Wha-?!" She gently placed Ukita on the ground before she peered into the large hole, just in time to see Soichiro Yagami jump out of the vehicle.
Not that the cameras could. It was only her that could see him, as well as the people inside of the building.
Sybil jumped to her feet and ran into the building as Soichiro grabbed the tape, as well as many others.
"Chief, you're supposed to be in the hospital." She stated worriedly, as the police officer stared at her, rather shocked.
"Sybil? What are you-?"
"We'll ask questions later. Call, Ryuu and let him know that we got the tapes. I would, but I was in such a hurry to get here that I forgot to grab my cellphone. I'm sure you thought of that before I did." Soichiro nodded and soon pulled out his phone and dialed for Watari.
Then, after a few spoken words, he hung up.
"What do we do? If we head outside, we'll probably end up like Ukita." Sybil said as she looked downwards, trying not to remember the sight she had seen.
Soichiro placed his hand on her shoulder and she closed her eyes tightly.
"Ryuuzaki has contacted the police. We'll be safe. He has an idea."
"I'm supposed to be a genius. A detective. Why couldn't I have seen this coming? Ukita." Sybil kept still and Soichiro kept his hand on her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her.
Sort of like a father. Like her father did when he wasn't drunk out of his mind.
Immediately upon realizing this, she pulled herself away.
"Th- thank you for trying to cheer me up. However, it- it doesn't make much of a difference to how I feel."
"Poor girl. You really must have seen a lot of death in your childhood." She closed her eyes and soon heard the sirens.
However, even that wasn't enough to tear her from her misery and guilt.
"Unfortunately, Sir, you don't know that half of it." Sybil raised her head just as Soichiro began to walk from the broken building.
However, he first thrust the bag full of tapes into her arms.
"Here. It will probably be best for you to have these, Sybil." She blinked and then nodded.
"Thanks, Chief. But, what about Ukita?" The police officer didn't reply and he didn't have to.
Sybil already knew what was going to happen. He'd be taken away by the coroner to be autopsied and it would be proven to be an evil doing of Kira. Ukita truly gave his life to stop Kira and now, he'd give his body for the same reason.
She sighed quietly and stepped out of the building, blinking when she saw that both she and Soichiro were surrounded by police shields. Not only that, but each of the officers had their faces covered as well.
This was a bit unnerving.
It seemed to be that there was a Kira that could kill with just a face. Oh how glad she was that she had worn a hood. Now, she only felt guilt that she hadn't told Ukita to do the same.
"I'm so stupid."
***
Sybil and Soichiro entered headquarters.
Her face was still covered with her hood as she dropped the bag of tapes down onto the table.
"I'm going home now." She spun around, but soon felt a hand grasp her wrist gently.
"I'm afraid I can't allow that. You have just recently gone through a traumatic experience. You may be inclined to do something you will eventually regret." L told her calmly.
The young woman pulled her wrist free from his grasp and sighed.
"Either way I'll end up doing something I'll regret. It's part of life." She closed her eyes and then continued on her way.
"You know where to find me." And then, she was gone.
L felt his gut wrench with concern, but he'd knew that it'd have to wait.
Right now, there was much more to worry about. Take Ukita's death, for instance. Ukita died and Sybil lived.
Kira didn't have either of their names. However, Sybil did wear that hood while Ukita had his face exposed. Did that mean-?
L frowned.
It was the only thing that made sense.
There was a Kira that could kill with just a face and, judging by his tactics, it wasn't the same Kira as before.
No. This was an entirely different Kira. A more deadly Kira. A second Kira.
He'd have to make time to inform Sybil of this. Then, he'd get her opinion on the matter.