A bully or reckless... I see. [That answer is a little satisfying. He hid whatever he got from the situation before, but his childish smile is on full display now. Light is being defensive. Touchy. It isn't the same head-on determination he'd had before his imprisonment and his faux execution, but it's something. If he'd thought it was an empty attempt to make him uneasy, Kira would have met him head on to call his bluff. No, probably so too would this Light. But if Light really thought of him as someone who would do something truly unreasonable or harmful to another person without just cause, he would likely refuse to work with him... If he didn't have reasons more important than anything to work with him. For example, because he was Kira.]
Is that the kind of person you see me as?
[When imprisoned for a few days Light had suddenly broken character, saying such inane things as to look into his eyes and to believe in him in spite of strong circumstantial evidence against him. As frustrating as that was, not because it was effective by any means but because it had been unpredictable and that isn't an adjective L ascribes to many things, it's admittedly entertaining to play with his "first friend" on that subjective plane of feelings and character. Light, as Ryuuzaki knew him, that is to say as Kira, had only considered them veneers. Tools for manipulation.
Light's new-found stake in that kind of tripe had supposedly lead to their first physical altercation. L seeing him as, wanting him to be Kira was offensive. But he had once been the one to add a line about having L appear on TV as a "joke" in a Kira letter, had been the one to casually declare that if he were Kira he wouldn't bother as he had known Ryuuzaki as the type who would ultimately not risk his life by going on TV even if the entire police force--the entire world were taken hostage. Was he still the type who could flippantly declare his dear friend morally questionable when suddenly taking such insult at it himself?
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Is that the kind of person you see me as?
[When imprisoned for a few days Light had suddenly broken character, saying such inane things as to look into his eyes and to believe in him in spite of strong circumstantial evidence against him. As frustrating as that was, not because it was effective by any means but because it had been unpredictable and that isn't an adjective L ascribes to many things, it's admittedly entertaining to play with his "first friend" on that subjective plane of feelings and character. Light, as Ryuuzaki knew him, that is to say as Kira, had only considered them veneers. Tools for manipulation.
Light's new-found stake in that kind of tripe had supposedly lead to their first physical altercation. L seeing him as, wanting him to be Kira was offensive. But he had once been the one to add a line about having L appear on TV as a "joke" in a Kira letter, had been the one to casually declare that if he were Kira he wouldn't bother as he had known Ryuuzaki as the type who would ultimately not risk his life by going on TV even if the entire police force--the entire world were taken hostage. Was he still the type who could flippantly declare his dear friend morally questionable when suddenly taking such insult at it himself?
The anticipated answer is yes.]