Hi! Catching Kira must be super timeconsuming. What do each of the members' families/partners think of them being gone all the time? Good luck catching Kira by the way!
Matsui: Ah, what a good question, better directed at my fellow task force members, haha! It is super time consuming, but I wouldn’t have it any other way, because what is life without a purpose? And what purpose is there of more amazing proportions than catching Kira?! I honestly prefer it to being home. I live alone − I’m afraid I don’t have a romantic partner, haha, and my family is… I don’t really talk to them much about anything that isn’t the basic ‘How have you been doing, have you been eating well’ questions… (I have been eating well…) We’re distant enough that I prefer a meeting with L to an awkward family dinner. Then again, because our phones always have to be off during meetings with L, sometimes I’ve gotten my mom or my grandma asking me why I wasn’t picking up their calls… Anyway… I’m just honored and happy to be here!
Mochi: Um… Not sure what to say. Hello, Mochi here. I am another member of the task force who doesn’t have a wife or children to go back home to. I can’t imagine how difficult that is. I haven’t told my family I’m working on catching Kira, and I don’t think they’ve noticed. I asked my mother if she’d noticed me working longer hours and she said I always work hard. ‘That’s my son,’ she said…
Ryuzaki: You are supposed to be Moji, Moji. What is this ‘Mochi’ business?
Matsui: Sorry, Matsui here explaining. I forgot Moji’s codename and I only remembered ‘Mochi’, because um, let’s say someone that we know calls him that way, and
Ryuzaki here, interrupting Matsui. Okay. That was enough of an explanation.
Moji: I don’t mind Mochi, but Ryuzaki has told me I should be Moji, as it is more serious. I am Moji.
Aihara: My turn now? Well, great question. It’s really difficult. I’m starting to have too many arguments with my wife over it to be able to count them… Working with L means what we do is top secret, so I can’t explain my absences to her and my small daughter. It would only put them in danger if they knew what I’m doing. I would urge you all to consider that when you post online about how ‘cool’ Kira is.
Matsui intermission: Surely our followers aren’t doing that, Aihara!!
Aihara: Sure. Anyway. I need my family to live in a world without Kira, and that’s why I do what I do.
Matsui: People like Aihara are really inspirational… I really can’t relate to this whole ‘having a family to take care of’ thing… Speaking of which, I’m passing this to chief Asahi…
Asahi: Like I’ve told Matsui before, I am not anyone’s chief in the context of the task force. But yes. It’s hard. I have a wife and two children myself. Lucky for me, my wife is an angel…
Matsui: No offence to Aihara and his wife, eh, chief? No, sorry, sorry. He’s telling me about he didn’t mean that at all, obviously he didn’t. Leaving him to use the computer and shutting up now!!!
Asahi: Like I was saying… My wife is an angel who insists on granting me kindness and understanding that I understand less and less the more time passes and I neglect her and my daughter. My daughter isn’t as young as Aihara’s, but let’s leave it there and not mention any identifying characteristics… But what I mean is she understands more than a younger girl might, and sometimes I forget she is strong too. She will complain, but never too seriously; she stops when she picks up on the fact that I can’t do anything to help not being home for another long stretch of time. I raised my children to withstand the difficulties of life, and they haven’t disappointed me. And, deep down, I think my wife is the same as me.
Light: Ah, hello. I definitely don’t have a wife and children either. I think Matsui already mentioned that I’m young? So much for avoiding identifying characteristics, right? Haha. I’m joking. Anyway, I do have a family, even if it’s not that kind of family… But whatever difficulty is derived from being away from them is nothing I can’t withstand. We have to do what we have to do, right? I was always taught that; there’s really not much more to it.
Though I miss my little sister.
Matsui: I think the chief, sorry, Asahi, I think Asahi finds it harder than he lets on, and so does his family. Me and my family definitely aren’t the type to withstand difficulties with quiet honor or whatever − what a dream! haha! My grandma wishes…
L: ‘My family and I’, Matsui.
Hello. I have just been told by Matsui that, apparently, people would be interested in how ‘L’ personally feels about this question; him, and not any intermediaries. Therefore… L here, disappointing you all with the answer that family is no item to me. Especially when it comes to catching Kira. This is the end of my communication.
Matsui back here real quick to say: I do wonder about L’s family… Um, and Ryuzaki’s. And Watari’s… who doesn’t want to say anything either about how he feels about the question. Says he’s busy… I guess being in the ‘L’ circle means there’s no room for family? Do you guys think you have to give up all your earthly attachments to BECOME L, or something? Kidding!! Just kidding!!!
Signed, the task force! Thank you for your good luck, by the way! We’re feeling it already!!!
