"Explain."

"Explain what?"

"Everything."

"That's not very helpful, I'm going to need some examp–"

"Well," Yagami said, "then to start: first of all, how were you not killed by Kira?"

"You'd have to ask Kira that," Katherine said with a laugh.

"You said you knew about Kira."

Katherine sighed and looked around at the investigation team. With the way she was being interrogated, her extreme case of claustrophobia was kicking in, even in that large hotel room. She felt like a criminal, like the walls were closing in around her. It unnerved her worse than a lot of things ever had. She couldn't blurt out that she knew who Kira was, not in front of Yagami. He was Light's father, after all. That would probably make him a little anger. Right now, her main goal was gaining their trust. She knew that was going to be a hard task, and they weren't making it any easier….

"I do know about Kira. I can confirm that he has to know names to kill for all of you. I can't tell you how I know until you trust me."

"But if Kira needs names, explain why he was able to kill Usata," Matsuda said. "Did Kira know his name or our names?"

"It's doubtful. If he did, you'd all be dead. No… I don't think this was the Kira we know."

"Why is that?" Yagami asked.

"If this was the Kira we know, then he wouldn't have been able to kill Usata unless he was connected directly to the police, which is unlikely. Not highly unlikely, but it's still unlikely. If my people could get into the police station, then Kira could probably find a way to."

"More importantly," Aizawa said, "why the hell aren't you dead?"

"Kira needs a name to kill," she said. "If Kira didn't need a name to kill, then I would be dead. I don't make rash decisions. I take actions that people believe are rash to confuse them."

"What's the point in that?"

"It got me this far, didn't it? I think it's a pretty good method."

"Alright," Yagami said. "Why do you believe this isn't Kira? Surely only Kira can predict death as the tapes did."

"Not necessarily. This Kira didn't need to know names, for one thing."

"Then why aren't you –" Matsuda started.

"Let me finish," she said. "This Kira didn't need names because I believe he can see names by seeing people."

"That's ridiculous," Aizawa said.

"Aizawa-san," she said seriously. "Look back at this entire case. Name one thing about it that makes any kind of sense. Just one thing. When's the last time that anyone you know on the police force dealt with a murderer who killed people by giving them heart attacks? You've got to figure, it's unnatural. If Kira can kill people with heart attacks, he has to have some pretty strange power. So, how unlikely is anything at this point?"

"She has a point," Matsuda agreed. "If Kira can kill people he's probably never even come into contact with by means of heart attack, then how unlikely is it that someone could also have a power to see peoples' names?"

"Yeah…" Aizawa said. "That makes it a lot harder to work publicly on the case, though."

"Then let me in on it," she said. "I'm still alive, aren't I?"

"Hold on for a moment," Yagami said. "You may be alive because you are Kira."

"If I were Kira, you'd be dead. Your name is Soichiro Yagami. You're the head investigator of the Kira case. I know your name, I know your face, and I know you're hunting Kira. And yet here you sit, one hundred percent not dead."

"He had a heart attack!" Aizawa said furiously.

"Look back at the Kira victims," Katherine said. "They all had a heart attack and died on the spot. That means that if he's still alive, then I'm not Kira."

"There is a theory that Kira can manipulate death," L said.

"Which is also a true theory," Katherine said. "I was tailing Kira the day he killed Raye Penber. He had his face covered, so I have no idea who it was. He was right on the train with Penber when it happened. They were speaking through transmitters so Kira could keep a safe distance. He didn't know my name and he didn't notice me, so I was safe. The envelope he walked on to the train with and exited without – that envelope had the transmitter in it. Kira had already taken it off of the train, he did that as soon as he got the chance."

"How do you know it was Kira??" Matsuda said.

"Aside from the fact that it was the middle of summer and he was wearing winter clothes to hide what he looked like, he walked right behind Penber and told him who he was, and handed him the envelope."

"How does this prove that Kira can manipulate death, exactly?" L asked.

"This is just my theory, but I believe it to be an accurate one. I'll even back it with facts. On top of tailing Kira, I was keeping track of what the FBI agents were up to."

"How did you know about the FBI agents?" Yagami asked. "The police didn't even know."

"My spies were tailing Watari, I already said that. And I apologize for taking such measures, but it's how I work. It's fast, it's effective, and it works.

"As I was saying, I was keeping track of the agents. I found something rather odd about Penber when one day, he canceled his plans with his fiancé, Naomi Misora, to meet her parents. That was why she had come with him to Japan, so he could meet her parents. He canceled the plans saying that he had to work that day. He'd been looking forward to meeting them. When he canceled, he didn't seem frantic or overly upset about it. It was just a thing. So he headed for the train station. I headed for the train station as well. I got there in time to see Kira walk behind Raye Penber and tell him to follow his orders. How would Kira had known that Raye Penber would be at the train station that day if he hadn't manipulate Penber into going there? I doubt Kira spies at all, because he doesn't need to. If he needs to know something, he'll just manipulate someone into giving them the answers, then kill them.

"However, I believe that in order for Kira to manipulate someone, he has to kill them after. I think that's a part of his power. I also think I know how he killed Naomi Misora."

"If he killed Naomi Misora, you mean?" Yagami said. "There's no proof she's dead."

"There could be," she said. "I saw her talking to someone one day – I was keeping my distance, so I didn't see who it was, but I could hear them talking. They were discussing Kira, and all of a sudden, she said she had to go. No reason, but she just took off and left. I believe Kira made her leave and go somewhere that only she knew about to die."

"Then how will we find her to prove it?" Aizawa asked.

"Talk to her parents. Ask them if she had anywhere she ever liked to hide out at, somewhere that only she – and possibly her close family – would know about. We'll tell them that we're under the impression that she may have acted rashly out of remorse from the death of her fiancé. They'll tell us just to get some closure about their daughter. If she did kill herself, I believe it proves that Kira can kill people in ways other than heart attacks. From what I know about Naomi Misora, she would have gone after Kira. She wouldn't have drowned in sorrow and mourning, she would have taken action. I believe she found out too much about Kira, and he killed her. She was an exceptional FBI agent for three years, after all. Surely, there's a possibility she could have found something we all may have missed."

"Hey, out of curiosity," Matsuda said, "have you only been using spies to get our information?"

"Well," she said with a laugh, "indirectly, yes. In the sense that they set up all the cameras and mikes."

"And you expect us to trust you after that?" Yagami said.

"Well, maybe not trust me," she said, "but accept that I would be the best possible option to capture Kira personally."

"How so?"

"Because I have no name," she said. "My parents never bothered giving me one before they chucked me on someone else's doorstep, who then threw me in an orphanage that was too lazy to ever fill out papers about me. By law, I shouldn't even be sitting here because I don't exist. And don't pity me because I'm an orphan," she added. "That just gets annoying."

"What kind of people are your spies?" Yagami asked.

She grinned. "Con artists and suspected murders."

Yagami, Aizawa, and Matsuda all gaped at her, and she couldn't help but laugh a little. L didn't look overly surprised.

"Trust me even less now, don't you?" she said, smiling. "I can understand that. I've been friends with them for years, they helped break me out of that little godforsaken orphanage that I had to live in. I have no identity, they're con artists. Now, I have a fake identity. According to it, my name is Regina M. Locksley. Regina M. Locksley doesn't exist either, but eh." She shrugged. "It got me a house and a drivers' license."

"Y… you do realize you're talking to police, right?" Aizawa said.

"Yeah," she said. "I'm talking to police who want to bring Kira down just as badly as I do."

"How come you're using two different aliases?" Matsuda asked. "Wouldn't just one be easier?"

"Yes," she said. "However, once Kira discovers what I'm doing, it'll keep him running in circles for a while. I can be traced back to about ten different fake names through the internet that have no link whatsoever to the orphanage I lived in. Keeping him running in circles will keep him busy while I figure out exactly who he is."

"Let me ask again," Yagami said. "Why is it you believe there is a second Kira? Isn't it possible the real Kira has been hiding the ability to 'see names' from us just to throw us off?"

"Yes," she said slowly. "However, the Kira I know wouldn't directly threaten the police or kill a news anchor for badmouthing him. This Kira behaves differently. They seem to have a much lower IQ and should be easily traced."

"If this is true," L said, "that means Kira's probably very angry."

"Maybe not." The team looked surprised at the direct contraction to L, who they'd all been completely intent on following since day one. L looked more intrigued. "Obviously, this person supports the real Kira. This person has a power that Kira has. They probably made the video hoping that the real Kira might respond. If that is the case, then Kira probably won't respond, but will find this person, use them to get L's name, and then kill them so that they won't be able to blurt out who Kira really is."

The other three looked at L, who nodded. "That makes sense. They probably idolize Kira. There are a lot of people who do now. If they managed to somehow develop the same ability Kira has, then they would do this to get Kira's attention. Surely, saying 'I am Kira,' would get his attention more than saying, 'I idolize Kira.' There are thousands of people who idolize Kira, and hundreds who think they're Kira, but supposedly only one that can prove it. If Kira sees something like this on television, then he'd want to know more."

"Exactly," Katherine said. She looked at the team. "What're you looking at me like that for?"

"Did… wait, I'm confused here," Matsuda said. "So this Kira is another Kira?"

"Who admires Kira," Katherine said.

"How many Kiras are there?"

"As of right now, you mean?" she said. "Two."

"So, this Kira admires the original Kira, and has some kind of power the old Kira doesn't have?"

"Right."

"Would this Kira really be dumb enough to let the old Kira use him?"

"Considering the tapes… I'd say there's about a 70 chance that he is. Either that or he's using my method: being so smart that he's making us think he's extremely dumb. That's a great method to use, by the way," she added. "Then, no one expects you to really be able to do anything until you do. It's what I'm planning to do when I figure out who Kira is to get him to admit it."

"Isn't that dangerous…?" Aizawa said.

"For anyone else in this room, yes."

"Right, right," he said. "No name."

"Can we take a vote on whether or not I'm Kira yet?" Katherine yawned. "I'm starting to get bored with all the questions. I want to actually start coming up with plans on how to find this Kira."

"Well, I still don't trust you," Aizawa said, "but if you're not Kira, then we need someone else who's actually smart enough to figure this out…"

"I don't think so," Matsuda said. "If she were Kira, then she just gave us enough information on her to prosecute her now."

"Which you couldn't do without physical evidence," Katherine said. "So I could be Kira tricking you into believing I'm not Kira by telling you everything about Kira."

"Well, I still don't think so, but there probably will be newspapers all over saying you're L now."

Katherine laughed. "That ought to be pretty amusing. It will probably confuse Kira, too, which isn't something I was going for, but it'll make him try to figure out who I am and start going in circles really early."

"I doubt she's Kira," Yagami said. "You have proof of when you moved to Japan, correct?"

"Yes. I can even go home and get it."

"You said you didn't move to Japan until after the Kira rumors started spreading."

"It intrigued me," she said. "I had just decided to learn Japanese as a second language a few years before. I had learned it by then, and I figured, 'What the hell. This looks pretty interesting.' So, I moved."

"Then you have proof that you wouldn't have been in Japan the night that Lind. L. Taylor was killed."

"Yep. Very logical thinking," she added. "But remember, when it comes to Kira, we all need to think outside the box. Perhaps Kira has psychokinetic abilities that would allow him to pick up TV stations on the back of his eyelids. I think that's going a little far, though. So I'm probably not Kira. I know I've never wished that any FBI agents would die, so I don't think I'm Kira."

"My suspicions are at about three percent," L said. "You can work with us, but you may occasionally be interrogated."

"Alright," she said. "I can deal with that. Now, let's start the real meeting. First, I think we need to watch the rest of the Kira tapes."

"Definitely," L agreed. "But the copies to begin with. We'll need the originals analyzed for anything that could identify a suspect."

"I specialize in forensics, I can do that," Aizawa said.

"Let me know if you find any of my fingerprints on there," she said. "If I telekinetically sent them in the mail, then I'd really like to know."

"Could you possibly take this any less seriously?" Aizawa asked in disbelief.

"Yes, I could; I could be one of the Kira devotee retards who think that it's all goody-gumdrops that Kira is killing people. However, as my friend is accused of murder, the police could spot him at any time and have his real name and picture put up on a news station, and then Kira could kill him. I'd despise Kira anyway, but as one of my only good friends is currently in direct danger…"

"Only 'accused?'" Aizawa said. "How do you know –"

"Because I know who really did the killing and exactly how they framed my friend," she said shortly. "And I think I know my own friends better than you know them. Don't ask me any more questions about it."

"On another subject," Yagami cut in, "the tapes?"

"Right," Aizawa said, taking the bag with the original copies.


The tapes were fairly interesting. They were set up so if the cops agreed, then Sakura TV would have to play one on the date specified, and they would have to play the other on the date specified if the cops refused. If the cops agreed, then L would have to make an appearance on TV to announce that they would cooperate with Kira. If they refused, then they would either have to offer up the director's life or L's as a sacrifice for their lack of cooperation. If they failed to offer anyone, then Kira threatened to kill a number of representatives from various police agencies around the world.

L had watched all of the tapes. The other four only watched the "I am regretful that you will not work with me," tape – the tape that Sakura TV would definitely be playing in four days. Katherine was thinking of a plan that she was sure would work the entire time she was watching it. It seemed full proof to her. If she went on TV as L, she was a very convincing actress. However, if the new Kira did choose not to believe her anyway, many innocent people would loose their lives. That was a chance Katherine didn't want to take. It was risky… but if this person was looking for cooperation from the real Kira, then there was every possibility that they could send in a fake tape claiming to be Kira. That was a thought.

If L had agreed to let Light into the case, then that would definitely be a good way to unnerve him, the person she knew without a doubt to be the original Kira; to have him be the one to make the fake tape. It would not only make the impersonator cooperate, but it would make the real Kira nervous. She decided not to propose the idea until Yagami talked with the ICPD after the official broadcast of the tape. Proposing ideas before they were needed wasn't her preferred method. She'd only speak if no one else came up with anything better.