"Who else alive knows about that anymore? I had to make sure." Mello knew, and suspected L did too, though they'd never had an opportunity to talk about it, that B had died of a heart attack in custody. He also knew that Misora had vanished from the public record around the same time. However the hell they'd done it, the evidence and Mello's gut feeling now agreed this was L.

"November fifth," he repeated, flatly, afraid something of his visceral reaction to that date would come through in his expression. L's death had been covered up, but Wammy's had made the newspaper, and once he could stand to think about it, it had been child's play for Mello to connect the dots. But he'd never figured out what had changed. L had been in Japan for almost a year, with Kira trying to kill him from day one. What had let him succeed when he did?

"Do you know about the eyes?"