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[anpan_tan]

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Characters: Yamazaki Sagaru and whoever wants to beat talk with him

Location: Somewhere in DC. He doesn't know either.

Rating: PG-13 cause you can never tell for sure.

Time: March 31st all day

Description: Yamazaki wants to discover the city with a map, but the map is not too helpful.







Here comes the guy, wearing a pair of black jeans and a t-shirt with the picture of a waving alien on it and he's staring at a map which he holds in his hand. He looks distracted and lost. Do with him what you please.

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[want_the_world]

[Mello will freely acknowledge that the NPA was a good police force, but they were useless against Kira when he was right under their noses.]

The police gave up in my world, or were forced to. That's what having the power of fear over almost the entire population gets you. The only way it was possible to oppose the guy I was after was to be on the wrong side of the law.

[anpan_tan]

So everyone was scared of that lowlife because he could use a pen and he knew how to write...Maybe I'm wrong, but he was worse than everyone else, he was even worse than the ones he killed. What kind of man hides himself behind a book when he wants to finish someone off, He should've give a chance for his victims to fight! He should've show them his face to remember him when they meet in hell!

Or am I wrong?

[Yamazaki's not sure about it. Mello is able to turn the whole world upside down with his words.]

[want_the_world]

[Mello has to smile at how vehement Zaki is.]

You're not wrong.

I'm willing to concede that he might have started with good intentions. Might have.

[He's aware that Yagami's days as Kira began when the bastard was younger than Mello is now, still a student. He doesn't consider that an excuse.]

But being handed that kind of power devolves very quickly into doing whatever you have to do to keep it.

[anpan_tan]

[Seeing Mello's smile Yamazaki's heart suddenly throbs but he ignores it. It's always a good thing for him to hear from someone that he didn't say something stupid. But in his imagination Light is a middle-aged loser who exactly knew what he did and he did it out of pure evilness.]

Would you do the same if you had a book like that? Could you kill people without knowing why did they do what they did, even if it was considered as a crime?

[want_the_world]

[Mello made use of the notebook for more pragmatic reasons--three reasons, actually, since he seldom has fewer than that for the things he does. But he doubts Zaki will appreciate the necessity of what was, at face value, taking out his rival's operatives.]

Only an arrogant child would use it like that. Someone immature enough to think people are good or evil, with nothing in between, and arrogant enough to think he can be the judge of who falls into which category. I may be conceited, but I can see shades of gray.

You don't say Mello's read that book...:P

[anpan_tan]

[No more chocolate for Mello if he tells Yamazaki he used the notebook without any reason Yamazaki could understand himself. He doesn't see the shades of gray, either. his world is too colorful for that.]

A child? Do you mean he's a child? It's...so sad. What kind of world was where you live if a child had to think he'd be the only one who could make that world a better place...?

[For a few seconds he feels sorry for Light.]

Ha, luckily (?) for him, he died before it came out

[want_the_world]

He started when he was still in high school. And he made the world a worse place. There was crime there, of course. Every world has it. I've got no reason to believe it was anything other than average for a modern society. That's why I say he's immature. He thought he could force people to be good. He thought killing every criminal he heard of would mean a world without crime. But all it means is a world where everyone's afraid.

Imagine that you're falsely accused of a crime. In my world, if your name and face appeared in a news report about it, you could die at any moment. No trial, no chance to defend yourself, no evidence needed for Kira except the accusation.

And when someone I care about tried to stop him, the bastard killed him. He's the reason I'm dead, too.

LOL, death was a bliss for him, then!

[anpan_tan]

I see, so this Kira was a silly child who basically want to do something good first and killed criminals, but later, as he grew up his personality went twisted and he used that notebook without thinking and he killed everyone he wanted to, even if their only crime was to try to stop him...Poor guy. I guess an acupuncture expert could have been help him to recover.

[Yes, Yamazaki feels sorry for children who make stupid things because they aren't brought up the way they should.]

But...did he killed someone you liked? I'm sorry for your loss. I...I hope you'll find someone to care about again.

XD

[want_the_world]

[Mello chuckles briefly at the 'acupuncture' comment.]

He was twisted to begin with. The notebook just fed his delusions of grandeur. A normal person who discovered it really was what it said would be terrified, and they'd be right to be.

[Mello's one of the few people he can think of who actually would've put it to use, if he'd been the one to find it. But that's different.]

The person he killed is here.

[He's still paranoid enough that he won't reveal that the person's the same as the great detective he's already mentioned.]

Which is one reason I can't completely hate BREW.

[anpan_tan]

In the world I came from everyone is twisted. But they're not serial killers. Not all of them. Most of them are just idiots, like me.

[He's kind of desperate when he realizes he's trying to explain his world for someone who knows such splendid words like 'grandeur' or 'delusion'. On top of it he uses the as conveniently as they were chopsticks.]

What...You...Do you hate BREW? No, you must not hate him! You'll make him angry, he'll send you back to that world where you're dead! You'd lose everything you got back out of BREW's mercy!

[And Yamazaki would use someone he...

...

...is a buddy with.]

[want_the_world]

Relax, I don't hate BREW.

[What an odd guy Zaki is. But, given the time he comes from, Mello can understand regarding whatever mix of technology and magic BREW is with awe; he's guilty of attributing emotions and intent to it himself.]

But I don't think it was mercy that brought me here. BREW decided, based on some criteria I can guess, and some I haven't figured out yet, that I'd be useful in the war. I'd like to know what benefit it sees to sending people away, and to bringing some of them back without their memories of Death City. It's hard to see how that accomplishes anything except fucking people over.

[anpan_tan]

Yes, it is, but that's why we'll go to the library, to find out how it works and why does he...it do what it does. But there can be a very good reason for sending away people then bringing them back without their memories. You're not good at understanding emotions, are you? So...do you want too know what I think of it?

[want_the_world]

What? I'm really good at understanding emotions.

[He's slightly offended at the suggestion otherwise. Near's the robot, Mello's the one who feels. That's how it's always been.]

BREW brings someone in, lets them get attached to people here and vice versa, then switches them out for someone who doesn't remember any of it. How the fuck is there a good reason for that? All it does is make people's friends not even know who they are.

[anpan_tan]

Yes, yes, you are, you just...[Yamazaki's just confused and doesn't get what's happening to him. Why is is so important to him to be on good terms with this Mello guy?]

Maybe being attached to people turns to someone BREW can't use for its aim anymore. There can be friendships and other relationships more important than fight for a city you hardly know. Like that friend of yours who was killed by Kira...What if you could be more useful if he wasn't here?

[want_the_world]

[Mello doesn't stop walking, but a stillness overtakes him all the same.

He hasn't thought about it that way until now, having always assumed BREW deliberately brought in people with connections to those already here, to give the more sentimental among them something to fight for.

He hasn't thought of it, but he should have, and he gives Zaki a keen look tinged with surprise that the kid thought of something Mello didn't.]

You're right. It can be a distraction. But that's more subtlety than I've given BREW credit for.

Thank you for making me use the dictionary so often! I must learn new words XD

[anpan_tan]

[Yamazaki does notice that he did said something with he gained some moment of respect of the blonde. It's such a good feeling, just like being beaten up very badly by his Vice-Commander or the Captain of the first squad. But now Mello wants him to think more and being smart again...Do these geniuses have any idea about how hard to be smart?]


What if you just found the proof of the existence of a god?

I was an English major, I can't help it! XD

[want_the_world]

[Mello gives Zaki a skeptical look, one eyebrow quirked, that's not without humor.]

I still say BREW's not a god. Technology, or magic, far beyond what either of our worlds have, sure. But it's a tool that was created by someone, and as much as it seems like it thinks for itself, I'm not positive it does.

But I didn't complain, I liked it :P

[anpan_tan]

[Mello gets a delighted blink from Zaki, just like he'd say: "Yeah, let's have a fierce and hot argument!"

But why would anyone create such a whimsical machine when the existence of the world he lives in is on the stake?

OK then! :D

[want_the_world]

[This is why Mello likes Zaki. There aren't many people who'll debate theories like this, and even fewer who actually seem to enjoy it.]

One person created a lot of demon tools, and it's hard to find out about him. I assume a big reason he made them was just because he could. I doubt he anticipated BREW being used like this--and it's less being used than that it flipped itself on.

[anpan_tan]

Did you notice you're talking of a machine which flipped itself on? What kind of machine do something like that? Machines must be turned on by humans or pets, they do it accidentally, though...

[Zaki lets himself lose in his thoughts for a moment before he takes a kind of scared look at Mello.]

You don't want to say that BREW is just a malfunctioning machine, do you? It's...

[want_the_world]

Blasphemy? [Mello asks, with half a sly grin.]

Death the Kid activated BREW accidentally. Technically, I suppose it was on ever since it was created.

And what if I do say it's malfunctioning? It's not going to send me home for insulting it. I can't hurt its feelings; it hasn't got any.

[anpan_tan]

If blasphemy means badmouthing of a god then yes, it is.

[For some reason Yamazaki feels he's mocked by Mello.]

Would you bet on this? Would you risk your staying with saying that BREW is just a lame, broken machine?

[Yamazaki could never do something so brave and reckless thing like that! Mello's really on a different level if he's not afraid of calling out a...god?]

[want_the_world]

What I say about BREW doesn't have a thing to do with whether or not I stay here. But even if it did, I'd still say it.

[He sounds almost indignant at the idea he could be intimidated into silence by something that would fit in the palm of his hand.]

You shouldn't be afraid of it, either.

[anpan_tan]

Why?

[No, this is not what he meant to ask.]

Why do you think the world is against you, Mello? Just because some people and some notebooks and some buildings hurt you in the past, it doesn't mean that everyone and everything exists only to torment you.

[want_the_world]

I never said anything about people hurting me.

[He realizes as he says it that this instinctive denial is wrong; he did say people he cared about died.]

All right, maybe I did. But I don't think the whole world's out to get me. It's not like I sit around being fucking miserable all the time.

[Does he seem like that? He'd be genuinely shocked if that were the case.]