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Chapter 26 - Gaze
"I'm sorry for the questioning all of you like that, but I'm afraid I had no other choice", Ryuuzaki said. "I've determined that Kira isn't amongst us." The whole task force sighed in relief. "Ryuuzaki how can you be sure that we're all innocent", Yagami-san asked. "Well to be honest. From the begining I set up a number of traps that would reveal if any of you was Kira, but after speaking with you one on one I don't feel the need." Then Ryuuzaki's phone began to ring. He answered it holding it between his forefinger and thumb.
"Undertood. I'm about finished here. You've got the key so let youself in." Then he ended the call. "Watari's on his way", he said. The task force was taken by surprise. Chanel whom was standing next to the armchair Ryuuzaki was seated at was not. "I haven't seen Watari in awhile it'll be nice to see him again", Chanel thought. Less than an half an hour later Watari came in through the door. Chanel smiled at him as he did and Watari returned her act. "Gentlemen it's an honor to meet all of you", Watari said. "Um, what about your usual outfit", Matsuda asked. "If I dressed like that I would be announcing to the world that I was Watari. That's all it takes to give away our headquarters and Ryuuzaki." "Oh, I see", Matsuda said.
"Ordinarilly I would never show my face to any of you. The fact that I'm here is proof that you've won over Ryuuzaki's trust", Watari explained. "Now that you mention it I do feel honored", Matsuda said scratching the back of his head sheepishly. "Well then. I've brought those items you've requested, it's all here", Watari said to Ryuuzaki. "Could you please pass them out to everyone", Ryuuzaki asked. "Yes. Gentle men these are your new police I. ds", Watari said displaying the that were in the case. Then handed them out to everyone. "Our names and ranks our false", Yagami-san pointed out. "Why did you give us fake ", Matsuda asked.
"As you know Kira requires a name and face to kill", Ryuuzaki said taking a sip of his coffee. "We will confront him with that premiss in mind. It should be obvious why." "Yes, but of all people the police shouldn't use fake I. ds", Ukita said. "Enough", Yagami-san said. What choice do we really have, given the capabilites of our enemy. As long as your working on this case I think we need all the protection one can get. It would be foolish not to use them." "Yea you've got a point."
"When is all the fun gonna start", Roki whined. Then his eye caught sight of some of the sweets that was placed in front of Ryuuzaki. Chanel glaced over to Roki just as soon as he was about to grab the cupcake on the plate. "Don't", Chanel shouted to Roki. Then suddenly everyone in the room stared at her. "Is there a problem Miss Tailor", Ryuuzaki asked. "No..it's just..that..I wanted to remind the task force to be careful not to display thier I. ds to fellow police officers. Cause that could cause problems for us." While everyone was staring at Chanel, Roki to the oppurtunity to grab Ryuuzaki's cupcake and eat it whole. "Yes", Ryuuzaki said turning back to the the task force. Chanel then made a mental note to scold Roki when she was in the privacy of her room.
"Very well then", Watari said. "I'd like to request that you wear these at all times." Watari opened another case that had belts in them. "Uh belts", Matsuda said getting up. The rest of the task force doing the same. "Each one has a transmitter in the buckle", Watari said. "This will allow Ryuuzaki to moniter your where abouts, and when you press the buckle twice my cell phone will ring displaying your name, and I will call you back emidiatly. Though you won't see my number displayed. In the morning all of you will go to the police station as usual, and later om in the day we will use this method to confirm the name of Ryuuzaki's hotel and his room number. please use this for admergencies aswell."
"No way this is totally cool. I feel like some secret agent going after Kira", Matsuda exclaimed. "Quiet Matsuda, this is not the time to be fooling around", Yagami-san scolded. "Knock it off!" "Yes sir", Matsuda said putting his head down. Chanel silently giggled at this. Matsuda noticed and blushed a bit. Ryuuzaki then made a mental note to always think of Matsuda as an idiot.
A few days later Chanel was sitting on the floor of a dark hotel room. Roki was in the corner of the room looking task force was there as well. They were looking through surviellance tapes. "That was footage from the surviellance cameras at the station", Aizawa said. "The death of one of the F.B.I agents are captured on here." The whole task force was exhausted. They had all been working hard. "Let's see the following scenes again. Ray Penber passing the ticket gate on his way in, boarding the train, and then finally the part where he dies on the platform." L said then licked his icecream cone. Aizawa then began to search for the tape.
"Ugh, this so boring", Roki exaspperated. "Ryuk is having all the fun with Kira and I'm stuck here." Chanel rolled her eyes at the shinigami. Then returned to her paperwork. "Um so based on the records I have here; Ray Penber comes at the entrance at shinjoku at 3:11 p.m. Then at 3:13 he board at train at the yamata line, but even if he was following anyone at that time. It would be hard for us to draw a conclusion becuase of this blurry video. Then at exactly- oh thank you Watari", Matsuda said recieveing an icecream cone from Watari. Than Matsuda continued to read; "At 4:42 p.m he exists the train at tokyo station and dies on the platform.
Watari continued to go around handing icecreams to the rest of the task force and then Chanel. "Thank you", She said with a small smile. "That's quite strange don't you think", Ryuuzaki said. "I'm sorry what do you find strange", Yagami-san asked. "Yea what is it, did you notice something", Matsuda asked. Ryuuzaki licked his icecream and then spoke; "We know that Ray Penber got on the train an hour and a half before he got off and then died on the platform, but the Yamata line only takes an hour to complete it's curcuit. More importantly there's the envelope." "What do you mean", Aizwawa asked.
Ryuuuzaki then rewinded to the part of the tape he wanted. "He's holding what looks like an envelope when he passes through the ticket gate", Ryuuzaki pointed out. "That's right", Aizawa exclaimed. "It's there under his arm, but in the footage of his death it's gone. I can't believe you actually caught that." "Well I don't see an envelope on the list of personal effects." "Which means it was left on the train, and if you look closely here you can see he's straining to look inside the train before the doors close." "Could Kira have been on that train", Chanel thought. "If so why would he when he can just use the death note to control the actions of death before the victim dies." "If that's the case do you think it could mean something", Yagami-san asked.
"Wouldn't be interesting if Kira where on that train", Ryuuzaki said. "That's impossible", Yagami-san said. "I admit, I find it hard to believe as well. There's no reason Kira would be at the scene of the crime when he can kill at a distance. Well maybe he was counting on us to make that assumption and figured he could get away with such a bold move." Chanel went into a bit of thought. "That's not it", Chanel said. The whole task force turned to her. "The only reason Kira would be at the scene of the crime would be because he didn't know the rest of the F.B.I agents identies, but somehow only found out of Ray Penber's identity. So Ray Penber became Kira's pawn unwillingly. So in anycase Penber killed his colleages without knowing."
"That is a good thoery Ms. Tailor, but how do you suppose Penber got ahold of Kira's power to kill", Ryuuzaki said. "Damn. He probably wouldn't believe me if I told him how Kira could kill.", Chanel thought. "Wait what am thinking if I just willingly came out with how Kira can kill I would be a suspect in this investigation. Which would only make it more difficult for me to catch the real Kira." "I'm not sure", Chanel said. Then the task force turned from her. "So your afraid that they'll think your Kira if you just told them how he killed. Am I right?" Roki said. "Don't you think it would be interesting if they suspected you of being Kira." Then Roki began to laugh hoarsly. Chanel through him a menacing glare, but he didn't seem to notice.
The following day Chanel was seated on one of the couches. This time the hotel room was filled with the light of the sun. "Yes would you please hold for a moment. Ryuuzaki it's Ukita at the N.P.A", Watari said. "He says he on the phone with someone from the P.I.P line, who says he has some information for us." "Yes right. Then give him the number to line five, and ask him to tell the informant to call that line. It'll be safer that way." Then Watari did as Ryuuzaki instructed. "Mr. Matsuda it's alright for you to turn on your cell phone now. Actually please turn it on right away." "Oh sure", Matsuda said retrieveing his cell and turning it on.
As soon as he did so his phone began to ring and Ryuuzaki snatched it out of his hand, holding between his index finger and thumb. Matsuda looked clearly peeved by this. "Yes. Hello, this is Suzuki of the Kira investigation public information division.", Ryuuzaki said disguising his voice. "Ray Penber's fiance? Niaomi Misora." Ryuuzaki looked over to Watari, and Watari nodded knowingly. Then began to look up the name on his computer. Chanel thought for a moment; "Where have I heard that name before? Niaomi Misora..that's right. The L.A.B.B murder case. Though it can't be the same woman." Then Watari turned the laptop to Ryuuzaki.
Niaomi's picture was right there on the screen. "So it is her", Chanel thought. Ryuuzaki stared at the laptop for a few minutes in thought. Then hung up the phone. "Well apparently she's been missing since the day after her fiance died", Ryuuzaki informed. "Well I'm sure anyone in her situation would be pretty depressed", Matsuda said. "Was it-" "-suicide", Aizawa said finishing Matsuda's sentence. "Don't you think it's odd Ryuuzaki", Chanel said speaking up. "The Niaomi Misora that we knew was much stronger to let depression take over her. She would never take her life so easily. It's a possibility that she might have had information on Kira. Which would probably make her a prime target. Also we know Kira can control how his victims die, so it is a possibility that it could have been his doing."
"Hm", Ryuuzaki said then went into a bit of thought; "If Chanel is correct.." "Everyone. At this point I want to focus our investigation on only the people Ray Penber was tailing. In particular he was assigned to two police officers and those closest to them." "Very well who were these individuals whom he was tailing", Yagami-san asked. "Deputy directer Kitamura along with his superintendant chief Yagami, and thier families", Ryuuzaki said. Yagami-san had a shocked look on his face. "At this point I would like to place survielance cameras and wiretaps in both house holds."
"Surviellance cameras, Ryuuzaki", Matsuda shouted. "I don't see how you can even consider this", Aizawa said. "If word got out we'd have a civilrights scandal on our ands. We'd all lose our jobs." "You told me you'd all be willing to risk your lives for this investigation, but you wouldn't risk your jobs?" Matsuda and Aizawa both kept quiet. "Ryuuzaki what are the chances that Kira is in one of those house holds", Yagami-san asked. "Maybe ten percent. No it's closer to five percent", Ryuuzaki said. "Seriously", Matsuda said. "I'm sorry, but it's not worth the risk."
"No. Of all the people we've investigated so far non of them was even close to suspision. Even if there's a one percent chance we can't afford to ignore it.", Yagami-san said. "I can't tell you how offended I am to learn that my family is under suspision. Having said that just go along with it, and make sure you install them everywhere. I don't want any blindspots and that includes the bathroom." "Thank you very much that was my intention", Ryuuzaki said.
"Come on chief. You can't agree to this", Aizawa said. "He's right. Think about your family you have a wife and daughter at home", Matsuda said. "Yes Im fully aware of that, but there's no point in doing this if we can't be thorough! So I suggest you keep quiet", Yagami-san exclaimed. "I'm sorry." Then Chief Yagami began to rub the bridge of his nose. Ryuuzaki walked over to the sofa and sat down. "As a curtecy to the chief and is family only he and I will conduct surviellance of thier home. Watari how long will it take to prepare the wiretaps and cameras we need?" "Well starting tommorow I can set them up anytime. Provided we know when both houses will be empty."
"Good. Chanel you will go with Watari and help prepare the wiretaps and cameras", Ryuuzaki said. "Alright", Chanel said. Chanel wasn't so sure she liked this idea about the cameras. There was after all a little girl in the home, but she didn't object to it. "This is the only way. Besides what if Kira is in one of those homes." "Hey I'm coming aong with you.", Roki said. "It's getting bored just sitting around here all day." Chanel sighed and then leaned her head against her hand.
End of Chapter 26 - Gaze
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