丅ᕼᗴ ᒪ ᔕɊᑌᗩᗪ - L x OC -

Preparations for the dodgy meeting...

"I have successfully touched the notebook."

"Woohoo!"

Gevanni looks petrified.

Oh.

"And I haven't had any sign of a shinigami."

Yay!

Nate tells Gevanni to keep a close eye on Mikami and to get himself checked over for signs of disease or anything from the notebook.

I wonder if that's how Naomi died...

It's the only way one can be controlled for longer than 23 days.

"So we are going to face L... if Gevanni is alive 24 days from now," Nate says very gravely.

I feel emotional about that.

There are only 24 days to go...

wOw.

"But I am going to move the plan ahead under the assumption that he will be alive," he says.

"Cool, I like plans!" I chuckle darkly.

【L】

"HaPpY nEw YeAr!" I slap L in the face.

He looks dead.

I sigh deeply. "Where is Matsuda...?" I wail.

I miss my BFF.

We would be jumping around like lil stupid fleas right now celebrating.

Seriously, Christmas was dull enough...

I got some things.

All my children got more toys from the SPK members who are kind kind kind fellows.

But I just got more pairs of socks.

That isn't terrible, it's actually quite good, but no one really cared that it was Christmas and they didn't celebrate.

I'm not religious, so that isn't what bothers me.

It's just that Christmas is a time for family and... FRIENDS!

Yet the atmosphere was almost as if it doesn't only come once a year and everyone had more important things to do.

This case is draining my energy.

I want more food.

And more freedom.

【L】

"How's it going, Gevanni?" Rester asks.

"Well, I haven't been able to confirm the presence of a shinigami for the past week, and Miami's still on his regular routine."

There's a pause.

"I think it's safe now..." Nate says myStErioUslY. "I want you to get your hands on the notebook when you go to the gym tomorrow... and this time, take photographs of all the pages."

Rester and Gevanni are quite intrigued. "Photographs?" Rester stammers.

"Yes, I want to see for myself what kind of notebook it is... if there are any rules to the way he writes names down... if he has any habits..."

That's all very wonderful and dodgy, but this can't be the only interesting thing to happen today...

【L】

We all stare at the photographs of the notebook.

"What do you think, Near?" Rester asks.

Nate is staring more intently than me.