Facade | Near

Chapter 24: Kira's New Spokesperson

"This is Near. I want to speak to L." The other line spoke. This time, without a voice masker.

"This is L. What is it you want from us?" Light immediately responded.

"I'm following through with my goal to arrest Kira. And that's why I'm in Japan now." Near started.

'He's in Japan? Why tell me? He's up to something.' The careful and suspicious side of Light thought.

"L. I presume you already contacted Takada for the purposes of your own investigation?" Near confirmed which made the task force wonder how he knew it.

"That's right. In fact, I already started my investigation about Takada at the moment." Light replied.

"I see. For the time being it's given that if we want to get any closer in capturing Kira we'll have to keep an eye on Kiyomi Takada. I want you to pass on a message, inform her that as of now. Several SPK members entered to catch and arrest Kira."

"But. Why do that?" Light replied, he was now definitely confused about what Near's tactic is.

"To lure Kira out of hiding." Near blankly responded, raising his hand-made tower.

"Now I want you to mention the following to her so she'll relay it to Kira; In total, there are only 5 members of the SPK that includes myself. Kira won't be able to resist such an opportunity, knowing Kira he won't run meaning he'll try to kill us before we get to close. That's where we'll beat him in his own game." Near confidently yet blankly stated which got Light narrow his eyes.

'Beat me in my own game huh? Alright Near. If that's how you want it, I'll accept your challenge.' Light thought, glaring daggers at the screen.

"I am in Japan as we speak," Near said, suggesting a hidden idea to Kira.

"I am in Japan as well." Light spoke.

"Then we're quite close to each other. Who knows we might even get the chance to meet face to face."

"I hope so." Light replied to Near's double-meaning sentence.

"Well, that would be something to look forward to." Near blankly said, a faint smirk tugged his lips yet he quickly masked it. There's still people in the room.

"Yes."

"When that time comes, we'll finish this Kira battle once and for all."

"Definitely."

With that, Near had ended the call.

'It's all becoming clear to me, from the very beginning until now it's been a one-on-one fight against L. And even though he's dead, it just shifted to his heirs. Very well Near, fine I'll come to play your game. It's only fair after all. And when we meet, we'll find out which of us is truly prepared to win and who's wits will prevail. When that happens, this long battle will finally end and I can finally begin my reign at the top.'

Near's Hideout/Basement

"Let's see what we know so far," Near spoke out loud to the SPK members that are both on-screen and physically there.

"This current L is Light Yagami and he's also Kira. For now, we'll call him L-Kira. There's also another one, someone who has the notebook and is currently using it. We'll call him X-Kira. Based on the pattern X-Kira is killing, he had made the deal and acquired the Shinigami Eyes. L-Kira and X-Kira can't communicate directly, they must be planning to communicate using Takada as a goal between them. So, given the circumstances. There are two ways to win against Kira."

"One; The simple way," Near said and shot the two Kira Legos with his realistic-looking toy gun. "We arrange to kill both L-Kira and X-Kira then confiscate the notebook."

"However no matter what might happen, it will never resort to that."

"Why not?" Rester asked.

"That's not the way we work commander."

"We, sir?" The blonde responded.

"Yes that's right, we kill those two and the murders stop. Such expose fact of justification will not be tolerated. That's not the way L and I do things because that will be an insult. Don't forget, no one trusted this case to those who came after L."

In the next few days, a lot has happened. Light had arranged meet-ups with Takada every night and because the Task Force is only listening to audio. He can pass notes to her. Mikami had already sent Takada 5 pages of the notebook so that she can judge criminals with it, Mikami on the other hand, stopped using the real notebook and wrote names on a fake one. He is to act that he's killing people on it as a decoy.

Takada also gained 4 female bodyguards which Halle and Y/N infiltrated under the names of Hal Lidner and Crimson Michaelis. Since Takada would know your appearance, you wore a disguise containing a wig, eye-contacts and (Opposite/Skin Tone). Light also guessed that there's an SPK member in Takada's bodyguards on which he -after a lot of thinking- confirmed that it is only Hal Lidner.

On the other side, Near who thought a lot about who X-Kira would be had finally known that it was Teru Mikami. Near saw that Mikami fits the profile X-Kira would have, with that, Near commanded Gevanni to follow Mikami's tracks and report anything, suspicious movements or not.

Takada and Misa also met in which you used your pro-skills to pin Misa and prevent her from 'hurting' Takada. The two also engaged in a private meet-up but it ended out as an unpleasurable conversation.

Near had also asked Aizawa about the meet-ups of Light and Takada, it seems like they're only recording the audio and that gave Near the idea that they're passing notes to each other. Near had also included that Takada and Amane would not betray him easily due to their previous meeting.

For now, it would be hard to determine who would succeed at the end of it all.

Sorry for the 3-day wait. Circumstances went back to normal and now I can update kinda easily.