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[After a long month spent gathering information, pouring over the guide to the Tower he found, and generally just trying to gather his bearings, Mello decides to turn to the network at long last. He never did like the idea of a completely solitary investigation.]

How's it going, Tower? Everyone been having fun? Great. Down to business.

First off, let me say that you're just about the craziest bunch of kidnapping victims I've ever had the displeasure of living with.

I mean, come on. Weddings? Birthday celebrations? I know that people have an innate need to try and make unmanageable situations as normal as possible, but surely there are better things you all could be doing with your time.

Now, this might come as a shock, but I'm not content to sit here and leave myself to the mercy of my kidnappers. I've already read that guide that some of you have put together, so don't bother explaining how dangerous the place is to me, or how there's no way out, or blah, blah, blah. However, if anyone has info on hand that hasn't yet been added to the guide, feel free to cough it up. If our hosts have allowed you to write up that guide in the first place, I'm sure they won't mind my asking for a little more elaboration, right?

Information is key, especially in a place where nothing seems to make sense. I fully intend to make use of it and find a way out. You're free to join me, if any of you are up for it.

All right, now time for a question.

I've heard that we all come from different worlds. That isn't normally something I'd believe, but since I've arrived here, I've seen a ton of strange things, so I'll bite. In the interest of finding out which "universe" I'm from, give me an answer: have any of you heard of a mass murderer named Kira? He kills people - criminals - with heart attacks. Just in case any of you are from one of those "alternate timelines" and Kira hasn't yet reared his ugly head, have any of you heard of a detective named L?

Regards.

-M

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[Mello gnaws thoughtfully on his chocolate bar, thinking things over. "The human whose name is written in this note shall die..." That's the first rule of the Death Note. But would humanoids be affected, too? There's a possibility that the rule was only worded that way to avoid anyone from getting the idea that an animal or a god of death could be killed with the notebook, but if the notebook truly only worked on humans, then he'd need a backup plan.

If worse comes to worst, at least he'll end up with more information about how the Death Note works. It's not like Sidoh was ever very helpful on that front, anyway.]

All right, I'll give it a shot. Just in case it doesn't work, would you like me to kill anyone who you know is an ordinary human?

If I see a god of death, I'll start working on a plan to get rid of our kidnappers, but until then, I think our best bet would be to focus on figuring out how this place works. Who knows? Maybe we won't even need to kill the administrators in order to find a way out.

[He doubts that, and he'd want to kill the admins even if he couldn't do it with the notebook, but they might as well try to consider other possibilities.]

[Togami thinks back and remembers a certain person he met in the tower earlier this month. While killing him off wouldn't do shit, in fact he would enjoy getting offed, he couldn't think of anybody by full name who deserved a killing. He had some standards to abide to.]

Yes there is. I actually have a picture of him. But I would prefer dealing with this pest first. You've got that? Because I don't want to repeat myself.

That's essentially what I've been doing this entire time.

My name is Togami. Perhaps you've heard of my family or not, it would be nice to know. If you need me, I will be on floor three after breakfast until around lunch on most days or on floor nineteen.

Yeah, yeah, I got it. Catarina Amanto, highest dorm, brunette and tan. Worth a shot.

[He has half a mind to ask what she did to him that's got him wishing death on her, but he doesn't ask. It's not his problem. If killing her will get this guy to trust him, that's good enough for Mello.]

Nope, never heard of ya. I'm guessing this is where that "different worlds" thing comes into play. You can call me Mello.

Seems like it'd be better to talk in person, yeah. I'll find you. Who should I be looking out for?

Mello then.

Just look for a man around the age of seventeen, brown hair, glasses and green eyes. I don't posses any strange features that some of the residents have, but it should be easy enough to spot me.

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