Performance

The Yotsuba board reviews a report suggesting Misa be hired as their public face so she might leak details about L, and they accept Aiber's offer, in his Coil guise, to run her interview himself. Among them, Higuchi privately concludes Misa must be the second Kira and resolves to wed her, seizing through marriage the wealth and standing he craves. Sickened that the human she adores might be wed to such a man, Rem tears loose a fragment of the notebook.

During the interview, with Mogi installed as an awkward stand-in manager, Higuchi steps out, and Rem brushes Misa with the scrap. The touch lets Misa perceive Rem without restoring her lost memories. Rem warns her about Yotsuba, discloses that both she and Light once served as Kira, and steers her toward the killer in the room, revealing him as Higuchi, the same man who had leered at her earlier.

Studying the recent pattern, Light notes that this newer Kira condemns anyone with even a trivial or unwitting offense, unlike the original's focus on hardened criminals. Misa reports that three directors have already asked her out and plans to probe them on dates, and when Light cautions her against digging too hard, the remark sharpens L's suspicion of him. Slipping her handler at a hospital, Misa swaps into a borrowed nurse's outfit and steals away with Higuchi in his sports car.

Testing her claim of being the second Kira, Higuchi announces himself as Kira and proposes, then asks her to prove her power first. He has her target a corrupt executive, Ginzo Kanabochi, and Rem secretly does the writing since Misa's paper is ordinary. Satisfied, Higuchi presses his suit, and Misa suggests he halt the televised killings as his own proof, to which he agrees. She returns having captured the entire confession on her phone, and while the team applauds, Light catches L staring ahead with quiet suspicion.