Chapter 4
L
I look at my murderer, and laugh. How pitious. His once nice neat suit is in tatters. His hair is a mess. His eyes are haunted, like mine. I hold up my wrist, and the chain hangs down from it. "It seems we are chained together once again. How interesting." I put my finger in my mouth, and begin to think. Why can I speak with him? He didn't personally kill me, he still doesn't know my true name. L Lawliet. How unique, yet monochrome.
"W-why are you chained to me, L? Do you have any idea?" He looks disheveled, messy, not the man he used to be.
A speculation crosses my mind. Fascinating! "Now you're only one year younger than me, Light. Very interesting indeed. And no, I do not know why we are chained together. As I said before, we are in Mu, nothingness. Did your shinigami not tell you this?"
"H-he did, but...That's not the point! I thought you ceased to exist, not that you went to a world of whiteness!" His stutterings show how nervous and surprised he is to see me, definitely not his plan.
"Very interesting. May I guess that you were defeated by Nate River? Mihael Keehl is dead, as you most likely know. He does believe that he was victorious in being the one to beat you, however."
"H-h-how did you…" Light attempts to regain his composure, which is be difficult for a psychopath to do. But he had done it for a long time, so it wasn't difficult to believe that he could continue the act. "I don't need to ask how you figured it out, it is relatively easy once I look at it again. Mello dies, and then later on I die as well. That means Kira is gone, and therefore defeated. You never saw Near die, so you can assume that Near defeated me." He paused, then says, "Who the hell is Mihael Keehl?"
Laughing, I tell him about Mello's real name. "Mihael Keehl is Mello. They are one and the same. As you obviously know, Nate River is Near. Light Yagami is Kira. And L Lawliet is L, or myself. If you had known that yourself, you would have won. Or maybe if you hadn't killed Raye Pember, you would've been cleared."
His fists are clenched, and his face is contorted in rage. I feel a sense of déjà vu as he swings his fist at my face. What Light does not know is that the only real thing to do in this pit of nothingness is to become stronger. I catch his punch, and side kick him under the jaw. He goes flying, but I pull back on the chain so I don't go flying as well. I have learned from our past encounter.
"Please, there is no point in fighting. I am stronger than you are." His face still looks angry, but he accepts this fact. "This is a world of silence and solitude, and there is no escape. Many go insane, and some attempt suicide. You cannot die in the afterlife, though, so there is no point. One of my possible replacements was a girl named Linda. She is one of those who lost her mind, and has attempted suicide multiple times. The only thing to do in here is to watch, and observe. But if you are a murderer, as you are, you may converse with those you have murdered or those whose deaths you caused."
"If that is so, you should be able to speak with more than me. The criminals you have prosecuted over the years, like Beyond Birthday, died because of you. Do not ask, I have looked into the Los Angeles BB murder cases, which included the name of the murderer, BB, or Beyond Birthday. It seems he impersonated you, but enjoyed strawberry jam. Not odd, because we all have our obsessions." He says that last sentence with a smile, and I know that he is thinking about my love of sweets.
Thinking of Beyond is not what I want to do. Just like I am alike with Light, I am similar to BB. And he impersonated me, and had me captured at one point in time. I flash back to that awful time. He embarrassed me, humiliated me, and chained me like an animal. Remembering the torture and pain from that week is not something I enjoy, so I force my mind back to the present.
"Light, we are friends and enemies simultaneously. As a friend, I plead with you not to mention the BB cases again. BB is not a pleasant person to think about. He is like an animal, and born with the shinigami eyes that Misa exchanged most of her life for. He never was cursed with a Death Note, however."
Light looks confused, and asks, "We're friends? I do not remember that happening. The world had us as enemies."
"Our enmity is over. You were caught as Kira, and killed by a shinigami. The L versus Kira battle is over. We are both gone from the physical world, and now our souls will stay in this torturous state of being until the end of time."
Kira looks at me. "Lawliet," he says, attempting the name. "No, L. How do you know that we stay here for the rest of our state of being? Do you have proof, or is it just a theory?"
As I've said before, they're never just theories.