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The day Near discovers his favourite book is a Thursday.
It’s two weeks to the day since the death of Kira- since justice was murdered and reborn on the damp concrete floor of a disused warehouse. Near doesn’t particularly care about all that, anymore.
What interests him now are the two hand-typed manuscripts hidden in Matt and Mello’s Kyoto apartment. One is an account of the LABB murder case. The other documents the L.A. underworld through the eyes of a teenage genius… and a long-ago meeting between Mello and Beyond Birthday- the precursor to an obsession with both the world’s greatest detective and his murderous doppelganger.
“Matt, I figure my odds are fifty-fifty (in the sense that I either make it back, or don’t). In the event of my tragic, yet doubtless thrilling, demise- because you never stopped needing to know, and because it’s too long and difficult a story to tell aloud- this is what happened in the mafia.”
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Mello’s memoirs in third-person, Another Note style.