Was that...something other than a neutral expression or that smirk? It'd been difficult to tell, especially once Mello started studying him, but it certainly seemed like it. Huh.

Matsuda stared right back, trying to figure out just what might be going through Mello's mind and coming up with...nothing, really, other than how bad he was starting to feel for the Chief's wife. The poor woman had been through more than enough before having her son go missing in a place like this.

"I don't think it was his roommate, but someone mentioned it on the bulletin board." And there was a shinigami here, and L had died from them once, and why wasn't he anywhere to be spotted? It was making Matsuda nervous. Maybe he should ask Naomi if they could go check on L tonight...