The deal doesn’t interest Light, as his goal is to establish a crime-free society and rule like a god for an extended period. Engrossed in justifying his actions as moral and ethical while striving to achieve righteous deeds, he concocts a plan to uncover the identity of the person tailing him in recent days. He refers to his list of potential criminals, which he has compiled for situations like this. Light aims to prove his innocence to the shadow detective and capitalizes on being surveilled, relishing the sinister possibilities.
At the Special Investigation Headquarters, Chief Soichiro Yagami is perturbed by reports of three criminals dying after unusual behaviors. Despite all three cases citing cardiac arrest as the cause of death, peculiar occurrences preceded their demise. One criminal drew a five-pointed star enclosed in a circle with their own blood, another left behind something resembling a suicide note, and the third, in a baffling scenario, managed to escape prison only to collapse in a public toilet just 30 meters away.
This information is swiftly relayed to L, along with accompanying images and notes. L contemplates a note expressing the fear of Kira, wondering whether Kira, aside from controlling the time of death, could manipulate their actions just before dying. It strikes L that this might be a test by Kira to confirm a certain notion. L requests the chief to inform the media that the cause of death for these latest victims was solely cardiac arrest, speculating that Kira could have used these instances for testing purposes. By withholding the truth from the media, Kira wouldn’t know if the experiments were successful or not.
However, Light already has the test results, which he accessed from his father’s computer. Light further explains that all three individuals followed exactly what he had written in the Death Note after specifying heart attack as the cause of death. Conversely, for the other three, Light deliberately inscribed practically impossible scenarios. For instance, one was meant to die in front of the Eiffel Tower, an unfeasible occurrence for a Japanese prisoner in France, resulting in a mere heart attack. Similarly, another was to draw L’s likeness on a prison wall, an impossibility due to not having seen L’s face. As for the last one, Light wrote, “writes I know that L suspects the Japanese police,” but it failed too, revealing that he couldn’t script something he didn’t know or think.
Light concludes that the Death Note cannot enable actions that defy possibility, but it can induce actions that are within a person’s nature. He grins, stating that these six instances served as practice for a genuine test. Light then employs his Death Note to orchestrate the demise of Matsuriho Nakaokaji, a wanted criminal, anticipating the outcome to be in the morning paper. With a sense of assurance, Light believes L will be preoccupied deciphering the seemingly meaningless pictures and notes left by the other victims.
Perplexed by Kira’s actions, L is unable to determine whether this was merely a test or a form of communication. The following morning, news emerges about a convenience store robbery in which the robber, Matasushiro Nakaokaji, was killed by store employees in self-defense after attempting to stab them. Light is amused to see that it unfolded precisely as he had written.
Light anticipates that the individual tailing him might continue on his days off, particularly Sundays. He readies himself for the forthcoming main event, intending to involve a man named Kiichrio Osoreda, whom he saw in the news. Osoreda, a drug addict, attempted a failed bank robbery, injuring a teller and two customers before escaping. Afterward, Light contacts a female friend to arrange a date as part of his plan.