#-matsui

Hey, Matsui here: Sorry for taking so long to answer this question... There were a few unexpected twists and turns in the investigation! Involving handcuffs and such! Haha. We’re actually getting new headquarters prepared for us to move into (exciting right?!), so I assume the situation will change when we’re all settled. I will update this post.

But, right now… yeah we eat lunch together. Sometimes I convince the gang to step out of the building to grab a bite at a bar or something, but mostly my effort goes for naught. My fellow task force members are very hardworking and don’t wanna waste any valuable investigation time going back and forth places… Sometimes I insist so much that they tell me that, if I wanna go out so badly, I should go get food to bring back for everybody. And I don’t even mind because I get to breathe some fresh air and move my legs, so joke’s on them!!

Anyway - in the evening, some people - like me - go home to have dinner and sleep… but many of the others don’t really go back to their own houses for days a time. I’ve been doing the same thing lately - things are rough, and what’s the point of going home to an empty house, anyway? Haha. Anyway, I’m sure I won’t mind staying at the HQ anymore with our new facilities. I think I basically get a new, cooler apartment. Thank you, L! 

I’ll be updating you guys on the situation at the new HQ. Kinda wish I could do a tour for you guys, but of course that’s totally confidential information. Nobody call me out, I know it is!!

Oh, yeah, and... what do we talk about? Earlier in the investigation, we used to be so excited... well, not excited, Aihara wouldn’t like me calling it excited, but we used to be so eager to catch Kira, so brimming with ideas, that we would always discuss the case while we ate lunch, but these days...

Mostly we’re tired. So we eat in silence. I try to bring up the case, because I hate being in the HQ, where we’re supposed to be working to catch Kira, but instead be sitting in silence doing nothing. They won’t engage. That’s when I try to bring up lighter topics… Between you and me, I think it helps them.

Speaking of all this, it’s about lunch time. We’re getting takeout! See you guys. We’ll catch Kira, I know it.

(Just kidding haha)

-Matsui

Matsui: Ah, what a good question, better directed at my fellow task force members, haha! It is super time consuming, but I wouldn’t have it any other way, because what is life without a purpose? And what purpose is there of more amazing proportions than catching Kira?! I honestly prefer it to being home. I live alone − I’m afraid I don’t have a romantic partner, haha, and my family is… I don’t really talk to them much about anything that isn’t the basic ‘How have you been doing, have you been eating well’ questions… (I have been eating well…) We’re distant enough that I prefer a meeting with L to an awkward family dinner. Then again, because our phones always have to be off during meetings with L, sometimes I’ve gotten my mom or my grandma asking me why I wasn’t picking up their calls… Anyway… I’m just honored and happy to be here! 

Mochi: Um… Not sure what to say. Hello, Mochi here. I am another member of the task force who doesn’t have a wife or children to go back home to. I can’t imagine how difficult that is. I haven’t told my family I’m working on catching Kira, and I don’t think they’ve noticed. I asked my mother if she’d noticed me working longer hours and she said I always work hard. ‘That’s my son,’ she said… 

Ryuzaki: You are supposed to be Moji, Moji. What is this ‘Mochi’ business?

Matsui: Sorry, Matsui here explaining. I forgot Moji’s codename and I only remembered ‘Mochi’, because um, let’s say someone that we know calls him that way, and

Ryuzaki here, interrupting Matsui. Okay. That was enough of an explanation.

Moji: I don’t mind Mochi, but Ryuzaki has told me I should be Moji, as it is more serious. I am Moji.

Aihara: My turn now? Well, great question. It’s really difficult. I’m starting to have too many arguments with my wife over it to be able to count them… Working with L means what we do is top secret, so I can’t explain my absences to her and my small daughter. It would only put them in danger if they knew what I’m doing. I would urge you all to consider that when you post online about how ‘cool’ Kira is. 

Matsui intermission: Surely our followers aren’t doing that, Aihara!! 

Aihara: Sure. Anyway. I need my family to live in a world without Kira, and that’s why I do what I do.

Matsui: People like Aihara are really inspirational… I really can’t relate to this whole ‘having a family to take care of’ thing… Speaking of which, I’m passing this to chief Asahi…

Asahi: Like I’ve told Matsui before, I am not anyone’s chief in the context of the task force. But yes. It’s hard. I have a wife and two children myself. Lucky for me, my wife is an angel… 

Matsui: No offence to Aihara and his wife, eh, chief? No, sorry, sorry. He’s telling me about he didn’t mean that at all, obviously he didn’t. Leaving him to use the computer and shutting up now!!!

Asahi: Like I was saying… My wife is an angel who insists on granting me kindness and understanding that I understand less and less the more time passes and I neglect her and my daughter. My daughter isn’t as young as Aihara’s, but let’s leave it there and not mention any identifying characteristics… But what I mean is she understands more than a younger girl might, and sometimes I forget she is strong too. She will complain, but never too seriously; she stops when she picks up on the fact that I can’t do anything to help not being home for another long stretch of time. I raised my children to withstand the difficulties of life, and they haven’t disappointed me. And, deep down, I think my wife is the same as me.

Light: Ah, hello. I definitely don’t have a wife and children either. I think Matsui already mentioned that I’m young? So much for avoiding identifying characteristics, right? Haha. I’m joking. Anyway, I do have a family, even if it’s not that kind of family… But whatever difficulty is derived from being away from them is nothing I can’t withstand. We have to do what we have to do, right? I was always taught that; there’s really not much more to it.

Though I miss my little sister.

Matsui: I think the chief, sorry, Asahi, I think Asahi finds it harder than he lets on, and so does his family. Me and my family definitely aren’t the type to withstand difficulties with quiet honor or whatever − what a dream! haha! My grandma wishes… 

L: ‘My family and I’, Matsui.

Hello. I have just been told by Matsui that, apparently, people would be interested in how ‘L’ personally feels about this question; him, and not any intermediaries. Therefore… L here, disappointing you all with the answer that family is no item to me. Especially when it comes to catching Kira. This is the end of my communication. 

Matsui back here real quick to say: I do wonder about L’s family… Um, and Ryuzaki’s. And Watari’s… who doesn’t want to say anything either about how he feels about the question. Says he’s busy… I guess being in the ‘L’ circle means there’s no room for family? Do you guys think you have to give up all your earthly attachments to BECOME L, or something? Kidding!! Just kidding!!!

Ryuzaki: You should all be working.

Asahi: Good evening. I am available if anyone has any urgent questions. Please, let's take this seriously. Kira is a mass murderer and he must be condemned.

Aihara: Hello... Matsui put me in front of the PC and I'm not sure what to say. RIP Ukita. He was the police officer killed by the fake Kira in front of the Sakura TV building. He was a brave man.

(Matsui: You guys know who's going to be great for lightening up the mood?)

Light: Hi all, you can call me Light and I am happy to be helping in the Kira investigation. 'Asahi Light' was a very funny pun from Ryuzaki, by the way. You have him to thank. And Matsui is evidently very funny too. Hopefully I will be on here more to make sure Matsui doesn't lose control of the account. Haha!

Mochi: Hello! It's good to see L supporters on-line! Goodbye.

Watari: Greetings.