November 10. 9:45 AM. Channeling Tanakabara.
This is Bigwiggins with a special emergency bulletin.
Those who attended Daikoku Private Academy between the years of 1999 and 2003 – those who attended To-Oh University in the spring of 2004 – and anyone otherwise acquainted with the person formerly known as Light Yagami – all are now advised to seek changes of identity by any means necessary. Your life, with one hundred and thirty-six others, has been actively threatened by the self-styled “one and only God,” who, we can confirm, is not Kira.
[The invitation, complete with the actual names.]
This is the first and only invitation this studio has seen. But our Observer scouts have found no reason to believe the others in circulation are like it. The emphasis on Light Yagami is almost certain to be stronger than any other--
[A picture, smudged slightly around the edges from being glued into a middle-schooler's scrapbook: Light, Sayu and Soichiro posing for the camera on a forest trail in the summer of 2003. Sayu's and Soichiro's faces are blurred.]
--because this was Light Yagami.
He is, we can confirm, alive. Plainly, the proxy Kira is aware of this. As of this invitation, we have no remaining concern that we are endangering his life by publishing his photograph. But the nature of the photograph should be striking – except, perhaps, to Daikoku alumni, who would remember firsthand the humanity in this person.
Kira's body is alive. Kira, however, isn't in that body.
By means still unknown, he was released by Kira on the night of the fourth in order to destroy us. The attempt failed on the sixth, and he is under our protection.
[Kira at the press conference where he threatened world politicians.]
He is under our protection from this. From the celebration of his return, which would be the celebration of his destruction. Not only that, of course, but it has an impact.
Our remarks regarding the notebook's effects on Lady Phantasme were not conjecture. They were supported, primarily, by our acquaintance with the real Light Yagami.
He's pictured here last night, after he and I learned of Montag's death. There are actually unwitting witnesses, who might remember that afterward, we went to sing karaoke. Though only I actually sang, because he had a mild case of stage fright.
There are many more complimentary things to say about Light – he was instrumental in saving me from Lady Phantasme, he's a genius, he's a heroic and compassionate soul – but none of them could impress on our audience his distinction from Kira any more firmly than the stage fright. Personality factors aside, consider all the things Kira could have done in his place last night.
[September, 2003. Light and a blurred Sayu making rabbit ears at the camera against a red brick wall.]
The fact that he was sent as a weapon is proof that he's made of better stuff. The weapon was his affection for his sister, and his desire to be a hero. She was the hostage. Montag was the target. Lady Phantasme was baited into the bargain, and Light – he was the ultimate quarry.
Based on this transcript taken from Nobu Orochi's phone, Kira's intent was to kill Light's sister, and their parents, by means of his enemies, in order to manufacture an excuse suspend phone and internet service. Purges would no doubt follow, and it's largely accepted at NHN that this was Kira's intent for the trial.
Note that, in the invitation, the threat has been repeated. The “one and only God” – unlike Light – is unaware that they are under our protection and safe from his reach.
He is, himself, in an undisclosed location. Without specifying further, suffice to say that NHN, as a whole, is better protected than we have let on.
[Kira, watching Katsu Tanakabara ascend the stage.]
Those who received formal invites: whether you say yes or no, you are the target this time around. As intended, it's meant to be a question of whether you'll be killed now, or later.
But fortunately, there's a way out.
[The above still, juxtaposed with Light on the nature walk.]
This is a party held for the express purpose of celebrating Kira's return and triumph, and we can say here and now that there is no need to attend. The party will be a bust. The guest of honor and master of ceremonies will not be present. If anyone the proxy Kira has threatened indeed ends up dead, they will have been murdered for no reason at all. As we know, Kira never issues threats except as a gateway to more effectual murder down the road. This time, it's simply particularly obvious.
We at NHN inform Miss Takada that Kira will not, in fact, be attending his celebration. He will, in fact, remain suspended in liminal space until such time as the question is moot, so that Light Yagami, one of the most admirable men I have ever known, will live in peace to the end of his days.
Bigwiggins at NHN Reborn. Over and out.
