Unjust Anime, but with Death Note

There was no point in just pursuing answers unilaterally. If Light Yagami had taken the initiative to contact her after discovering he had been blocked, even Haruno herself wasn't sure what choice she would have made.

It's possible that he would disregard Yukino's wishes for his own sake.

……

……

"Dinner is ready, Yue-kun~"

Miss Makima has become more gentle, and this alone is hard not to notice.

Since that day, Miss Makima has habitually changed her pigtail hairstyle into a side ponytail on her chest. The feeling she gave to Light Yagami was that she had transformed from a queen to a wife.

Light Yagami was trembling with fear and didn't dare to think too much, fearing that he would explode if he thought for even a second longer.

At the dinner table, their eyes met, and it made Light Yagami tremble. As for the reason, it was Miss Makima's sticky, almost stringy gaze, as if she were looking at a beloved pet dog, wanting to strip Light Yagami of his clothes and eat a hot dog made of dog meat.

Why did he have such a look in his eyes? Yagami Light was puzzled.

"Tsukushi, is there something bothering you?" Makima held her head with one hand, her legs wrapped in black trousers lifted upwards at some point. Wearing tiny white socks that didn't quite match her temperament, she unconsciously reached towards Light Yagami's calf.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, she tapped Light Yagami's calf with her toes through her white socks and school pants.

Light Yagami's hand holding the spoon trembled slightly.

Of course, no matter how nervous she was, she couldn't show any flaws on the surface: "Well, because..."

"It's a female classmate, right~"

Makima interrupted, her nose twitching a few times, as if she smelled something extraordinary.

A familiar smell, a familiar girl—this wasn't the smell of an ordinary club activity, Makima was certain. This kind of smell could only be picked up through close contact.

In other words, the puppy ate it behind her back.

"Aha, that's it." Light Yagami was sweating profusely. This was the only thing he absolutely could not confess to Miss Makima.

If I were to think of saying that Yukinoshita Yukino was Kira, my memory would be distorted and tampered with again. Once I've experienced this, I never want to experience it again. That feeling of living the same day every day, peeling back layers of mystery and finding myself back where I started...

He must hold on to this memory tightly in order to have more room for maneuver.

For this reason, Light Yagami quickly changed the subject and said:

"Ms. Makima, has work been going well lately? It seems like the pressure has been building since you were transferred to the Tokyo Anti-Kira Joint Investigation Team."

"This is it~"

Makima leaned back in her chair. "Because of confidentiality regulations, normally we can't tell anyone, not even close relatives. But Yue-kun is different, so it's okay to reveal a little."

"Right now, the police are at a complete loss in their investigation into Kira. They can't even pinpoint a specific group of people."

"Every day, highly paid psychologists come in to profile Kira, but none of their portraits are useful. There are even hilarious incidents where the first expert draws a profile of a man, and the second one draws a profile of a woman."

"Every day is spent in buck-passing and meetings, with no concrete measures being taken."

Makima seemed to have forgotten the scent of Light Yagami. Had she truly forgotten? No, matters between women like this could only be investigated personally. She wanted to see what kind of woman had been so close to Light, leaving behind such a strong scent.

"Let's schedule it for tomorrow~"

"That's it..."

Light Yagami felt a bit heavy-hearted. As mentioned before, regardless of whether this investigation team was truly for the purpose of investigating Kira, the vast majority of those who joined were strong candidates for the top 20 seats in the future.

But while the vast majority of the officers in the investigation team were corrupt and ruthless, there were also some who were transferred in with the true intention of investigating the Kiyomizu incident. Those officers, including Miss Machima, had truly invested their blood, sweat, and time.

But now, under the tyranny of Yukinoshita Yukino, he has to contribute to Yukinoshita Yukino's criminal enterprise.

Guilty...his sins are grave.

With such a mood, no matter how rich the food on the table was, it could not arouse Light Yagami's appetite, and the meal ended hastily with a tasteless taste.

Light Yagami returned to his desk and sat down again.

He did not try to test the truth of what Yukinoshita Yukino said. This was like Schrödinger's cat. He would never know whether the other person was serious or not until he lost his memory.

Having lost my memory, I have no way of knowing the results of the experiment, and I have also lost the memory of doing the experiment.

Based on Light Yagami's understanding of himself, if it were him, he would try to leave clues if there was any way.

But my own room... is as clean and odorless as ever.

Based on his understanding of his own way of thinking, Light Yagami thought of every way and place he could think of, and every way and place he could not think of, to leave clues, but he did not find any clues he had left before.

"So is it that Yukinoshita Yukino is lying to me, or... is there really no possibility of leaving any clues?"

Without giving Light Yagami a chance to catch his breath, not long after he sat down, his phone vibrated twice in succession. It was as if the mistress hiding outside was notifying Light Yagami to hand in his homework.

Why does it vibrate twice?

The first one was from Yukinoshita Yukino: [Yagami-san, please help me investigate the recent "serial female suicide incident" in the Tokyo area. This case involves a psychic. This is your first mission as an accomplice~]

When being questioned by Hayakawa Aki, one of his words still caught the attention of Yukinoshita Yukino. Although Onoe Nami's death was related to the "petition to Kira", it is possible that she chose to commit suicide by jumping off a building in such an extreme way to attract attention under the influence of other superpowers.

A person will die three times in his life, but before Yukinoshita Yukino dies, Onoe Nami, an insignificant little character, will always live in her heart. For this reason, Yukinoshita Yukino will definitely find out everything about her!

There is no reason to commit suicide, it's just that I didn't fly today——

Yukinoshita thought back to that day, the thought that had come to her that morning when she saw the rooftop. She had a vague feeling that this was the last thought of those who had committed suicide in the series of suicides. This might not be a coincidence, but someone was secretly using their abilities to subtly lure the girls into committing suicide.

Yukino will never tolerate evil acts!

Therefore, she decided to entrust this as the first commission of the "Accomplice Bond" to Light Yagami for investigation. As for why she asked Light Yagami to investigate, no matter how you look at it, Light Yagami should have a channel that is familiar to him.

From what Yukino knew about Light Yagami, she knew this wicked man liked to keep everything to himself and was a complete secretive person. But now, as an accomplice, she had the biggest advantage. All his information-gathering abilities would be used by her!

Thus, the current scene emerged.

"Oh my, you really know how to order people around..." Light Yagami rubbed his forehead in embarrassment, and after giving Yukino an affirmative answer, he accepted this embarrassing commission.

He had heard a little about the serial suicides of women, and it seemed that the Anti-Demon Public Security had taken over the case.

But there has been no news of the case being solved so far.

Light Yagami only considered himself slightly better than the average police officer. His sources of intelligence were limited to Miss Makima's authority. Compared to the best personnel selected from the entire national police apparatus, he was powerless. If even they couldn't crack the case, could Light Yagami definitely solve it?

But no matter what, we have to give it a try.

Then came the second message from Ryougi Shiki:

"Ya Shenjun, please help me investigate the activities of "Asagami Fujino" these days. I know this may be a bit difficult for you, Ya Shen, but since you sent me the information last time, I went to confirm it again."

[Asagami Fujino gives me a very different feeling, a feeling that cannot be described in simple words. So please, Yagami, help me find out more about Asagami Fujino, the more the better.]

If you find any suspicious persons related to the case, please tell me immediately.

"..."

Light Yagami sighed, put down his phone, and pressed the power button on his computer.

But in just a moment, he, who had left an afterimage on the keyboard, used Miss Makima's authority to hack into the Metropolitan Police Department's database again and began to investigate the serial female jumping case mentioned by Yukinoshita Yukino.

He first looked at the family backgrounds of the nine people who had committed suicide, including Onoe Nami, to see if there were any commonalities. But as he looked, Light Yagami realized that the deaths were not completely unrelated, but they were also not related at all.

Therefore, this was most likely a random killing by an evil superpower. Killings without any motive, driven solely by pure evil intent, are the worst and most difficult to solve.

Anyone who reads crime fiction knows that even detectives often solve cases in the same setting as the Snowstorm Manor. But when the hunting grounds expand to encompass the entirety of Tokyo, and the murderer is a supernatural being with abilities beyond common sense...

Perhaps it was the influence of Soichiro Yagami, or perhaps it was just the nature of boys, or perhaps it was a combination of both, but Light Yagami showed an interest in criminal investigation ever since he learned to read.

I have always deeply believed in the "Locard Principle of Material Exchange".

As a material entity, the perpetrator always comes into contact and exchanges with various material entities in the process of committing crimes; therefore, material exchange is widespread in criminal cases and is a symbiotic entity of criminal behavior. This is a law that cannot be changed by human will.

To put it simply: there is no such thing as a perfect crime, only undiscovered clues.

Although not from the mystical side of the world, Light Yagami suspected that this law might also apply to esper beings. The repeated scrutiny of him by the Anti-Magic Police, the "special feeling" Ryougi had for Asagami Touno, and his occasional "penetrating gaze" towards him were probably all ways of confirming his "aura."

It has simply evolved from the exchange of materials in physics and chemistry to the exchange of information in the field of mysticism.

But so far, eight people have been confirmed dead in this superpower serial murder case, which means... the anti-demon police are also helpless against this guy.

Light Yagami rested his chin with his hand, squinted his eyes, and tried to put himself into the role of the criminal.

"What if, the other party is testing something... What if, these are all bait, the purpose is to lure out something..."

Seducing Kira, seducing the Antima Public Security, and even seducing esper like Ryougi who has a confidential file kept by the official authorities... On the big stage of Tokyo, there seem to be too many people and things that can be seduced.

Light Yagami couldn't figure out anything for a moment.

He had no choice but to take out another laptop, call up Asagami Fujino's daily movement trajectory, and then check the surveillance footage of the streets along the way one by one, intending to use the simplest method to see if he could find any clues.

The desktop monitor was showing street surveillance footage of Onoe Nami's life trajectory starting from a week ago, while the laptop monitor was showing street surveillance footage of Asagami Fujino within the past week.

Fortunately, both of them are students, and their life trajectories basically follow a straight line between two points, so it is relatively simple to retrieve the surveillance footage.

After increasing the speed, Light Yagami began to enter a state of multitasking.

High-speed images appear to flash to the average person, their brain likely skipping to a few frames after just processing the previous frame's information. However, in Light Yagami's field of vision, he not only accurately captures each frame, but also extracts useful information from it...

Everything seemed so smooth, and his brain showed no signs of CPU overload. It was as if... Light Yagami was born with this supernatural ability.

Through the surveillance cameras along the street, one can clearly feel the moods of the two women.

Beneath Asagami Fujino's calm exterior, she seemed to harbor a deep well of anger and resentment. Meanwhile, Onoue Nami had been in a dazed, hopeless state since a week ago.

Suddenly, Light Yagami sat up straight and pressed the pause button with both hands at the same time.

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A very blurry shadow appeared in the surveillance video.

I don’t know if it’s because the surveillance camera itself is a standard-definition camera and is old, or because the man himself has the ability to distort and blur his vision, but the man’s blurry shadow was still noticed by Light Yagami.

The same person appeared in two surveillance videos, one on the left and one on the right.

The man wore a thick black coat and had long curly hair. Around his neck hung what seemed to be a string of pitch-black... Buddhist beads? His face, which couldn't be seen clearly, seemed to reveal an expression of deep resentment and bitterness.

What kind of attire is this? A monk?

Light Yagami frowned, turning the surveillance video back to normal speed, and closely watching the man's movements. It was very ordinary, very common. His interactions with Onoe Nami and Asagami Fujino were limited to passing by. It was as if he had merged into time and space, existing as the average of the masses.

"Am I overthinking it?"

"wrong……"

"Anyway, running into two people I noticed is quite a coincidence."

Although both happened in the Chiba area, it is hard not to suspect that it was intentional as they encountered each other twice within a week.

Light Yagami looked at the list of eight victims of the serial falling case and retrieved their life trajectories one by one. However, perhaps because it had been more than half a month, most of the surveillance footage had been lost, and Light Yagami could no longer find any useful clues.

To be cautious, Light Yagami decided to keep his sights on the strange man. The surveillance camera followed him all the way until he disappeared into a chaotic shantytown. During this time, Light Yagami managed to capture a relatively clear photo of the man's face, which he entered into the police database for facial comparison.

The computer screen flashed hundreds of facial photos per second, matching them, but until the end...

"No such person exists?" Light Yagami looked at the result in front of him in some surprise, and his heartbeat quickened instantly.

It was originally just a casual investigation driven by my suspicious nature, but I didn't expect to find out the problem.

Under what circumstances would there generally be no record in the Metropolitan Police Department database?

Light Yagami could only think of three possibilities.

First, the target was high-ranking personnel within the Metropolitan Police Department whose information couldn't be accessed even by a Superintendent. There weren't many of these people, but there were certainly plenty. Secret police from the Public Security Bureau, or even the Anti-Demon Public Security Bureau, even if their ranks weren't high, held a high level of confidentiality.

Second, the target is an illegal immigrant who has never left his or her information with any official agency.

Third, the target's face was disguised, and the face captured by the surveillance camera was not his real face.

The first possibility can basically be ruled out. If they were targeted by high-authority personnel before the incident, the authority of the Demon Police should also be at the top level within the police system. It makes no sense that no results have been found until now.

So only the latter two possibilities remain.

Now, Light Yagami was 100% or even 90% certain that the person who had passed by Asagami Fujino and Onoe Nami in the downtown area of ​​Chiba and who also met the above two conditions must have something very problematic.

The key now is -

find him!

Light Yagami's spirits were lifted. He quickly exited the monitoring software with his fingers and clicked on the Chiba map in his favorites.

"That building near the shantytown... Ogawa Apartments?"