[Due caution but a bit overdone. If Mikami were working with L and possessed the knowledge of the Note he had used to communicate with and lure the boy this far, this would be seen as an obvious late-save throw. Six points, out of ten. It was at least better than the complete ignorance act. Mikami had encountered suspects like this in his work often enough to have a feel for the pattern. That was what Mikami attributed his assessment to, rather than a supernatural ability to identify him as a Note owner and an inexplicable knowledge of the future.
Mikami's expression could perhaps have been read as unimpressed if it had changed at all since their arrival in the abandoned building.
It was possible that this Kira, the first Kira, was not the Kira who had selected him. It was possible this Kira met with an end; several times the patterns of Kira had changed, but there was known to be a second Kira. How long either of them lasted, who was trusted, who betrayed them, whose morals were at work were all unknown variables. It was no time to be grading God on ability. What mattered was his heart. Under these conditions, honest communication was impossible to determine that.
Then the plan would proceed with the assumption this boy was God.]
I work exclusively and gratefully for you. And it is an honor. I don't know how many Notes have come into your possession nor how many lesser gods, that is Shinigami, it is that you nobly administer, but I've made the exchange with one sent by you and named Ryuk.
If I were an enemy, impossible for it would imply an error in your own judgment, I would have established, with certainty, your possession of the Note. I would not need a confession for successful conviction. No, as you are surely aware, I could engineer a confession, determining your guilt by how much you were able to say.
[It was not that God did not know these things, but likely had no reason to believe a man as unimpressive as Mikami was at the moment would have thought of that. Indeed, it was in a suspect's best interest not to confess or give investigators or police anything to work with. 6/10 as better than average, even if it was certain to be the lowest grade Light had likely gotten in his life.
If it were any consolation, the proctor's terrible bias against criminals meant that even a stunning dodge of responsibility and false alibis, so stunning they were ultimately successful even, received assessments as below average. God was not a criminal. Some would say he gave his God unfairly positive assessment.]
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Mikami's expression could perhaps have been read as unimpressed if it had changed at all since their arrival in the abandoned building.
It was possible that this Kira, the first Kira, was not the Kira who had selected him. It was possible this Kira met with an end; several times the patterns of Kira had changed, but there was known to be a second Kira. How long either of them lasted, who was trusted, who betrayed them, whose morals were at work were all unknown variables. It was no time to be grading God on ability. What mattered was his heart. Under these conditions, honest communication was impossible to determine that.
Then the plan would proceed with the assumption this boy was God.]
I work exclusively and gratefully for you. And it is an honor. I don't know how many Notes have come into your possession nor how many lesser gods, that is Shinigami, it is that you nobly administer, but I've made the exchange with one sent by you and named Ryuk.
If I were an enemy, impossible for it would imply an error in your own judgment, I would have established, with certainty, your possession of the Note. I would not need a confession for successful conviction. No, as you are surely aware, I could engineer a confession, determining your guilt by how much you were able to say.
[It was not that God did not know these things, but likely had no reason to believe a man as unimpressive as Mikami was at the moment would have thought of that. Indeed, it was in a suspect's best interest not to confess or give investigators or police anything to work with. 6/10 as better than average, even if it was certain to be the lowest grade Light had likely gotten in his life.
If it were any consolation, the proctor's terrible bias against criminals meant that even a stunning dodge of responsibility and false alibis, so stunning they were ultimately successful even, received assessments as below average. God was not a criminal. Some would say he gave his God unfairly positive assessment.]