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Inside the spacious car, a low mechanical hum underscored the silent tension. Near, just eleven, was lost in an intricate Lego sprawl, his pale hair tousled. Opposite him, L—twenty-two—nibbled a piece of hard candy, his dark gaze pinned to the landscape rushing past the window. The air felt dense with coiled intellect. They had retrieved the boy from Wammy's House, where you, too, had been trained under Watari's guidance. The mission was precise: to expose Near to the investigation into Kira, the shadowy assassin who killed by what seemed like magic, a case that demanded the most incisive minds alive.