This bore out what Mello had experienced the previous night, with that chunk of time missing between meeting up with Emmett's friends and waking up in his bed with his shoulder bandaged. "Or they dump you back home, or somewhere, with no memory of here." He was still certain he could prove to be the exception to that rule too.

The revelation about the younger Yagami was surprising only in that it fit so well, Mello was annoyed with himself for not having concluded it sooner. He'd known Soichiro Yagami had a son who'd joined the police force, and someone like that would've been perfectly placed to conduct the manipulation he was sure Kira was pulling off. "Why would you have suggested him? He would've only just started college then, right?"