Whoosh—
After school, Light Yagami went to the club room as usual, pulling the door open.
Today was different from before; Yukino Yukinoshita was already sitting in a chair by the wall, waiting.
However, judging by her expression...
She's not here for a friendly chat~
Light Yagami narrowed his eyes and sat expressionlessly in a chair by the window, parallel to her.
"Well, well, I thought Yukinoshita-kun wouldn't come to the club today."
"How was your weekend?"
Yukino Yukinoshita's gaze followed Light Yagami's movements, her eyes cold, remaining silent. She raised one hand and gripped the elbow of her other arm. Through simple body language alone, she conveyed a chilling sense of distrust.
Light Yagami sighed helplessly: "You don't need to be so hostile towards me, Yukinoshita-kun."
"The Araki Financial Company incident, you did it, didn't you?!"
The air seemed to fall silent. Light Yagami's movement of bending down to pick up an extracurricular book froze mid-air. In the world centered around the two of them, only the chirping of birds outside could be heard. After a while, time seemed to flow again. Light Yagami took out the book and spread it open expressionlessly in front of his chest.
Yukino Yukinoshita stared intently at him, sharply admonishing: "Answer me, Light Yagami!"
Light Yagami glanced at Yukino Yukinoshita with the corner of his eye, noticing that the hand gripping her arm seemed to be subtly trembling. Beneath that intensely maintained cold facade was deeply suppressed fear.
Honestly... she's this scared, yet she still dares to question me.
Light Yagami became interested.
Why else would he say that Yukinoshita's soul was brilliant and pure to the point where he just wanted to distort it? Like the light and dark in a taijitu, they were interlocked and indispensable. Essentially, both of them were equally extreme. For the sake of a certain conviction in their hearts, they would sometimes even risk their lives.
Then... I'll scare her a bit.
Looking at Yukino Yukinoshita in this state, Light Yagami couldn't help but recall the national anime Detective Conan he watched in his previous life. The current Yukinoshita was exactly like Conan. Impulsive and reckless, completely ignoring the danger of facing a major villain alone.
"Asking me that... don't you think it's a bit presumptuous, Yukinoshita?"
"We're just classmates, aren't we?"
"Or, Yukinoshita, have you already made up your mind?"
Light Yagami made no attempt to hide his malice. In front of Yukinoshita, he pulled out the leather-bound, gold-embossed Death Note.
Death Note. Upon seeing the stern and mysterious characters on the cover, Yukino Yukinoshita's pupils constricted, and her heart rate uncontrollably accelerated.
"You weren't willing to believe me, you didn't even try when I gave you a page from the notebook. Why now do you question that I did it?" Light Yagami's face was gentle, as if discussing an unrelated matter.
He raised his hand and gently stroked the cover of the Death Note.
Yukino Yukinoshita trembled even more noticeably.
She disliked online commotion and usually only paid attention to NHK, an authoritative media outlet, so she hadn't immediately noticed the Chiba TV exposé.
It was only when her sister, Haruno Yukinoshita, mentioned it.
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[Haruno Yukinoshita: In the central district, a wide-area designated incident has occurred. A serial killer named Kira is active in the central district... Yukino, Mother has ordered you to move back home within half a month. Otherwise, she will cut off all your financial sources and send people to bring you back.]
Wide-area designated incident... This was terrible.
Yukino Yukinoshita knew about the Araki Financial Company incident. But why would Mother use such a method to force her? This was unprecedented... But why hadn't NHK officially reported about the serial killer?
[Yukino: Why hasn't it been officially reported?]
[Haruno: Chiba TV revealed the news during a live broadcast, but it has since been suppressed by the police. If you search for it, you should still be able to see the news from that time.]
And so, with a mixture of skepticism and belief, Yukino Yukinoshita found the live broadcast record from that time.
"Cause of death: heart attack," "Mysterious death," "Declaration challenging the police."
Almost the instant she saw the words "heart attack," Yukino Yukinoshita immediately thought of Light Yagami. The killing technique that transcended time and space, which he had demonstrated in front of her on Friday evening.
[Yes, I just received news that the culprit seems to be dead?!]
[The police emphasized that they did not shoot the culprit. So did he commit suicide because he was cornered? According to hostage testimonies, the culprit suddenly collapsed and died.]
"Suddenly collapsed and died," "heart attack"...
What strikingly similar connections.
Considering Light Yagami's seemingly gentle, humble, and mild exterior, but with a truly arrogant inner self... he was indeed someone capable of such actions.
After reaching this conclusion, Yukino Yukinoshita became afraid.
The page she had overlooked, folded and tucked into her backpack, was now taken out.
That blank page, not yet stained by ink, seemed to whisper a silent temptation.
"Write~ Come, write~"
"Write the names of those you are angry with, those you despise, those who have wronged you~"
"Kira will help you, k-k-kill them!"
"Ahhhhhhh—!!" Yukino Yukinoshita frantically tore at the edges of the page with both hands, wanting to rip it to shreds.
It's real! It's real! It's real! Light Yagami's Death Note is real!
Her hands began to apply more force, and cracks appeared in the middle of the page, revealing the interwoven wood fibers. But at the final step, her movements stopped. She collapsed weakly to the floor, hugging her knees, burying her delicate face deep into the crook of her arms.
If everything Light Yagami said is true, that those whose names are written on it will die... then, can I use this power?
Yukino Yukinoshita calmed down.
She should have blindly torn it to shreds to destroy the source of her fear. But Yukino was, after all, Yukino—independent and full of wisdom.
Procedural justice!
To practice procedural justice, there was an indispensable step: evidence! If Light Yagami's power was real, then this page from the notebook was the most powerful evidence that could point to his guilt!
I must, I must preserve it!
Yukino Yukinoshita carefully locked it in a safe. The safe's password was known only to her and Haruno.
Once her emotions settled.
With trembling hands, she wrote the truth of the matter onto the page and stored it in the safe along with the other page. If something happened to her...
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