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Summoned to assist the very team chasing him, Light quickly senses that the meeting is another of L's quiet examinations, staged to see whether he independently arrives at the existence of a second killer. Masking irritation at footage he finds beneath his ambitions, Light volunteers exactly that conclusion, then helps craft a reply broadcast meant to lure the imitator into dialogue. His attempt to slip in permission to kill L is cut before air.

The appeal lands on Misa Amane, who answers despite Rem's warnings and, certain she is speaking with the genuine Kira, lets slip sensitive truths about the eye bargain and the gods behind the notebooks. The disclosure unnerves L, who topples from his chair at the thought that such beings might be real, while Light decides the careless newcomer has become a danger to him.

Back home after a shoot, Misa asks how Rem came to hold a second notebook, and Rem answers with the only known way to kill one of her kind. She recounts Gelus, a shinigami who spent his days watching over Misa and adored her. On the night a knife-wielding stalker meant to end her life, Gelus wrote the attacker's name to spare her, and because extending a human's span is forbidden, he crumbled to dust. Rem inherited what remained of him, the notebook now in Misa's keeping.

The investigators debate whether mentions of gods of death point back to the original Kira or merely describe the killing gift, ultimately choosing to rebroadcast Misa's reply and pressure the first Kira into the open. The chapter ends with Light brooding over how to remove his unwanted ally at the same cafe, unaware she sits a few tables away, still curious about the genuine Kira's nature.