Thanks for making a thread for the next volume. I started in early, but now I’m stuck and haven’t read the past weeks. So, this will keep the flame going I feel.
Ah, the Raye Penbar/fiancé talk, him basically dismissing her concerns while telling her to just be a good house wife bearing his children. Ugh, it’s as awkwardly sexist as it was the first time I came across this passage in the manga and anime. Well, it’s what it is.
In any case, in this chapter Kira has clearly managed to get rid of the FBI surveillance (though we don’t know how)Next up: fear a grieving woman set on revenge! dun dun dun
Light playing mind-games with L shows how little conscience he has left at this point! It’s all fun and games to Light.
That was so… oooof!
All she did was share advice, help him process what happened. She wasn’t going out and putting herself in harms way. Then it got worse… yipes! And ewwww.
I’ve always liked Ryuk and Light joking to each other.
The 女 is sharp, and what did the real FBI just dismiss? The possibility that Kira killed the criminal, or the fact that FBI rode in the bus that Japanese police would know?
Light already killed Raye one week later?
The fact that える is just L keeps evading me. Normally, I would think of 得る…
A bigger spoiler
Does Light really needs to take the file? For making sure, maybe; but does he really need to use it?
Or just to make FBI and police and L disoriented, but not really using it?
The 女 seems to be a big part of capturing Light, but she just let her guard down…
The grammar of 〜め, like キラめ? I have seen 〜め too many times, but can’t really process it. Also, it is too short to be searched meaningfully. Tendency?
Yeah, but that’s not in an insulting manner. If you just look for 奴 and scroll down you’ll find “damn, bastard”
L is cursing about about Kira playing him mind games by killing criminals to write messages aimed at him. So, he’s very frustrated and angry as he says that line.
L doesn’t come across as someone that loose their temper or use curses, but here he is, because of how frustrated/angry he is.
Well, I can’t answer that without spoilering the plot. But, you’ll know the details soon enough…
I can comment on what’s mentioned in this chapter thought. And I think you might have missed some details about what the FBI director tells L. He doesn’t say that Reye Penbar had the file of all FBI agents and so Kira made contact with him, but that suddenly multiple FBI agents made requests for a file of the others in Japan. And so at some point the FBI director sent ALL agents the same file. He’s saying that they cannot know who Kira made contact with.
More like 4 agents made requests, then the director sent the file to ALL agents, not just those 4. Thus Light covers his tracks as to who’s file he got to see
I think the Raye talk with his wife is a bit weird knowing that he is american, cause while it may be normal for japanese women to drop their careers when getting married (is it normal?), it’s not really a thing for americans. Him being the one that pushes that custom is a bit weird.
I also don’t remember if they ever say how they met, but I would guess it was at the force and them discussing cases together would be the most normal thing honestly (and she also says it’s a habit of hers).
This feels mostly as an excuse to have an FBI(エフビーアイ) agent that goes after Kira and isn’t in the file so they don’t die when Light kills all agents in it. Also revenge