Who else could have done it?

"About Hiro and Souta and Hokuto and Midori."

"Why would you tell him about those people?" Rem asks. "They aren't criminals and he doesn't know them."

Four people is a short list of exes, Misa is sure. She wasn't even dating Midori, but she was her best friend when they were in their third year of middle school and they held hands enough times and told each other enough secrets that Misa thought she'd better count her too, to be safe.

"I did it for him," Misa says, can hear the whine in her voice while she's saying it. "So there wouldn't be anyone else on my mind. Not that anyone else could ever be on my mind now that I've met Light... but I wanted to show that I'm - that I'm serious. That nobody else exists to me now. That they really are dead to me. Dead..."

"You've already promised to do whatever he asks," Rem says. "I'm sure he's convinced of your loyalty —"

"That's not what I'm talking about, Rem," Misa huffs. "It's already done anyway. I can't go back in time and un-kill them. You told me that there's no way to erase what's written in the Death Note, remember? I do pay attention when you talk to me, you know." Well, mostly.

"What difference does it make if you tell him or not, then?" Rem asks. Misa rolls her eyes. Shinigami don't understand anything.

"What I mean is, I probably shouldn't tell him, because..." Misa hesitates. "Because he might get upset with me."

"Because they were innocent?" Rem asks.

"Don't say that," Misa squeezes her eyes shut, turning the corner toward the bus stop. "I don't know why, okay? If he did the same for me I'd think it's so romantic. But Light, he... I don't know. Maybe I should wait until he loves me to tell him something like that. He's just a boy now after all. He only recently graduated from high school. They say men mature slower than women, right, Rem? Maybe he's just too young to understand the nuances of the human heart. He still lives with his parents and everything."

"I don't..." Rem starts.