Hitoshi Demegawa was drunk. He could barely believe his success since he had acquired the Death Note. He had managed to accomplish what would have seemed impossible to him only a few weeks before. Now, with the original Kira out of his way—he had lain waste to all of his rivals. Though he continued to work at the television station to avoid suspicion, his messages were infused with a new vigor, making his ratings better than ever before.
Now, as he drove through the dark streets of Kantō—consumed with a drug-induced euphoria, he failed to stop at an intersection and collided violently with another vehicle. His vision flickered as he felt his body crushed beyond recognition.
Touta Matsuda—the very man who Demegawa had just crashed into—emerged from his vehicle virtually unscathed. He couldn’t believe the bad fortune he had been experiencing lately. As a personal assistant to the Chief of Police, Soichiro’s suicide had come as a great shock to him—and now this had happened. He jogged over to the other car to check on the driver. Matsuda found the man gasping for breath, his torso completely crushed between the seat and steering column.
Then, something silver flashed from the man’s jacket, catching Matsuda’s eye. He leaned in and pulled aside the cloth to reveal a Death Note. The Death Note. The very one that had gone missing the night that they had discovered the Chief’s body in the office. Matsuda quickly pulled the Note from the man’s body and slipped it into his jacket. He walked away from the accident, whistling as the first police sirens sounded through the night.
Teproc is the new Notebearer.
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