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L finds himself in the French Riviera investigating an unusual string of deaths. Then a strange boy drops onto his balcony, and both L and the case change irrevocably.
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“You know,” says L, “you’re trespassing.” His French is rusty. How embarrassing.The boy smiles. It’s an extremely polite smile, and L is sure it has worked on many people in the past to soothe ruffled feathers. It does not work on him.
“I thought this room was empty,” he says, in flawless French, which is even more irritating. “It usually is, so pardon me.”
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29 Nov 2024
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After the warehouse — it will always be "the warehouse" to him, a vague noun as a substitute for years of betrayal — Matsuda wakes up the next morning faced with a second chance. One day to fix everything, one day to build the January 28 he wants. And that day will repeat for as long as it takes to get things right.
He knows that he can't save everyone. But it would be nice if he could just save someone.
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Matsuda gets stuck in a time loop and the situation quickly gets worse.
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29 Nov 2024
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Reigen has never told anyone about it—not even in passing, not while drunk or tired or too upset to care, not as an icebreaker or as a sometimes-I-hurt-too outstretched hand of sympathy. Twenty years he’s kept it locked away like an old family heirloom and now he’s presented it to Mob like a pathetic, poor dowry, dusty and frayed and aged, sickly-yellow.
Mob. He’d almost forgotten. Before this Mob had been staring at him with barely-contained curiosity and enthusiasm. Now that expression wilts, melting like sugar in a hot pan, and Reigen has never seen anything so gut-wrenching. Now Mob slowly sits back, slowly pulls his hands into his own lap, and slowly blinks. "... What?"
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24 Nov 2024
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Ritsu doesn't trust their newest arrival.
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- Part 1 of Dyspnea
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24 Nov 2024
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A dance between three people over the course of three days.
January 28th is fast approaching. A premonition of their deaths sits heavy in the air, and Ide can’t ignore it when Aizawa seems certain of it and Light practically dangles it in front of their faces. Their days are numbered, and in these last precious scraps of time left together, Matsuda’s the one person he’d like to hold close. But he only ever seems to slip away— right into Light’s grasp.
Light’s plan is underway, each piece falling flawlessly into place and the New World brimming on the horizon. All this biding his time for years and years will finally amount to his proudest achievement yet. As Matsuda lies next to him in his bed, a lingering thought creeps in the back of his mind that dares to wonder if he’ll join him. Matsuda happily follows the script he writes, playing his part, chasing his touch, pliant as ever. He’s not a lost cause. Whether he’ll make the necessary sacrifice to stay by his side, however… is a different story.
It’s Matsuda’s choice to make.
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11 Nov 2024