[L's own gaze is fixed and wistful as he watches Mello start to chip away at the chocolate. Not only is he a vampire, but he has lost his taste for everything he used to enjoy. Often he can put it from his mind and forget the absence of the old comfort and habits, but when it's right in front of him and in such a familiar context, it's difficult not to mourn it as something well and truly lost to him.]

Yes, I thought as much. I remember Watari's death, but not my own... I take that as confirmation that it did in fact happen.

[The other one, anyway, that hasn't left him looking frost-touched, pale and gaunt. His tone does sound regretful, not so much for the opportunities his lost life robbed him of, but because of the mess his game became as a result of his passing.]

If I could have done it any other way I would have tried. You understand.

[Probably better than Near ever could, actually. Final rash and risky decisions have always been more Mello's bag.]

Was Kira captured and convicted? And what happened to...?

[He touches his own cheek, indicating the burns on the other man's scarred face.]