[He does recognize it but instead of being impressed, he's annoyed. That had been humiliating, being called out on television and not being able to counter attack. It has been a while so the feelings aren't fresh, but he has an idea as to why it was chosen.
Light is still fairly sure L could prove nothing, but in this place, did it matter? He had never killed anyone here, but he wasn't sure what their policy for handing over criminals was. Admittedly, there would be a lot of pressure from the rest of the world if they knew Kira was here, and many countries would cave under that pressure. For him to have never even hard of the city he was in, it was probably small enough that it wouldn't hold out long.
There would always be games the two could play. They were too much alike while being too different for anything else. Their history was too sordid, too ripe with pushes and pulls for them to put it aside and be anything other than rivals. Could they work together through the rivalry? They had. But that didn't mean at the end of the day that need to win was gone.
As L speaks, his frown deepens, though it's entirely real for now. Teeth, claws, wings, antlers, any number of things? That was both disturbingly specific and horrifyingly vague. What would count as all numbers of things? It would have been easy to think L was exaggerating if one wasn't looking at him.
Uncomfortable, embarrassing, and degrading for many. Is that your hope for me, L?]
The investigation? [That was a bit harder to focus on for now. But, it wouldn't be a problem if he made it home quickly enough, would it? It was all the more incentive to be proactive.] We had just captured Kira. You don't remember? Did something else happen when you changed?
[There's no reason to lie and every reason not to. L may know people come from different time periods, but Light had no access to that information and assuming as much would be too outrageous. Until he knew the rules of this place, he had to be careful.]
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Light is still fairly sure L could prove nothing, but in this place, did it matter? He had never killed anyone here, but he wasn't sure what their policy for handing over criminals was. Admittedly, there would be a lot of pressure from the rest of the world if they knew Kira was here, and many countries would cave under that pressure. For him to have never even hard of the city he was in, it was probably small enough that it wouldn't hold out long.
There would always be games the two could play. They were too much alike while being too different for anything else. Their history was too sordid, too ripe with pushes and pulls for them to put it aside and be anything other than rivals. Could they work together through the rivalry? They had. But that didn't mean at the end of the day that need to win was gone.
As L speaks, his frown deepens, though it's entirely real for now. Teeth, claws, wings, antlers, any number of things? That was both disturbingly specific and horrifyingly vague. What would count as all numbers of things? It would have been easy to think L was exaggerating if one wasn't looking at him.
Uncomfortable, embarrassing, and degrading for many. Is that your hope for me, L?]
The investigation? [That was a bit harder to focus on for now. But, it wouldn't be a problem if he made it home quickly enough, would it? It was all the more incentive to be proactive.] We had just captured Kira. You don't remember? Did something else happen when you changed?
[There's no reason to lie and every reason not to. L may know people come from different time periods, but Light had no access to that information and assuming as much would be too outrageous. Until he knew the rules of this place, he had to be careful.]