Light's note to Yuri

Ostensibly a reassurance to his companion Yuri, the message declares that Light means to grab the hijacker's arm and pin him so the gun cannot be fired, citing the emergency training his detective father has given him and dismissing the small, frail-looking gunman as easy to overpower. The real audience, however, is the passenger seated directly behind him, the person the note is built to alarm.

Held hostage aboard a Spaceland-bound bus that Kiichiro Osoreda has seized, Light shows the note to Yuri so the man behind will read it, and as intended the stranger urges him not to rush the hijacker. Light then needles the man over his plainly foreign accent until he confesses to being American, and presses further by suggesting he could be an accomplice. To clear himself, the man produces an FBI badge identifying him as Raye Penber, handing Light exactly the name he needs to kill his pursuer.

The note is written and wielded solely by Light Yagami, with Yuri serving as the unwitting prop who holds it and Raye Penber as the intended mark. Having gotten what he wanted, Light agrees not to attack and pretends to let the paper slip from his hand. Penber tenses when Osoreda picks it up, but that discarded slip is a separate decoy meant for an altogether different plan.