If you accepted it so quickly I would be uneasy. Unfortunately, [He starts while picking up his suitcase again.] I didn't plan for this business trip. I'd find it hard to believe it was your doing either, leaving me unprepared as I am but...
[Some small degree of the formality shifted with the initial explanation out of the way, a feeling not unlike moving from the opening statement to the trial phase itself. He still stood straightly, still continued to use careful and formal keigo, but Mikami was aware that at this point to be too caught up in formalities would only complicate an what was already doomed to be a mess of a palaver.]
I'm hoping that you will be able to determine terms that would make you comfortable with employing me in your strategies. Despite being mocked after killing Tailor, you remain active for six years to come. If you opt not to play into L's hand tomorrow, things may change in ways I can't predict. But third party elements such as the false Kira are likely to come at the same time. There are also periods during which you cease to operate, but these are all developments half a year or more away. My finances won't hold out that long. I exist concurrently with a present version of myself. I can't very well work in his name without causing a tax problem that would draw attention to us.
[Rather, with his purchases of cameras and the like to better survey Tokyo, he wouldn't likely make it to New Years even if he did live frugally. But there was no reason to trouble God with that. If he weren't useful by then...]
There is of course the possibility that you'll kill me and take this second Note. It's possible I'm a madman. I'm repaying the gamble you'd taken in placing your faith in me by returning that faith in you now; but a declaration of sentiments is hardly proof. I still present it for your consideration. If it's madness, I'm not presenting according to typical patterns; the grandeur doesn't apply to myself. You are God.
[And Mikami was just the very special one chosen by God and given the right and the power to mass murder. That wasn't symptomatic of some kind of potentially criminal insanity at all.]
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[Some small degree of the formality shifted with the initial explanation out of the way, a feeling not unlike moving from the opening statement to the trial phase itself. He still stood straightly, still continued to use careful and formal keigo, but Mikami was aware that at this point to be too caught up in formalities would only complicate an what was already doomed to be a mess of a palaver.]
I'm hoping that you will be able to determine terms that would make you comfortable with employing me in your strategies. Despite being mocked after killing Tailor, you remain active for six years to come. If you opt not to play into L's hand tomorrow, things may change in ways I can't predict. But third party elements such as the false Kira are likely to come at the same time. There are also periods during which you cease to operate, but these are all developments half a year or more away. My finances won't hold out that long. I exist concurrently with a present version of myself. I can't very well work in his name without causing a tax problem that would draw attention to us.
[Rather, with his purchases of cameras and the like to better survey Tokyo, he wouldn't likely make it to New Years even if he did live frugally. But there was no reason to trouble God with that. If he weren't useful by then...]
There is of course the possibility that you'll kill me and take this second Note. It's possible I'm a madman. I'm repaying the gamble you'd taken in placing your faith in me by returning that faith in you now; but a declaration of sentiments is hardly proof. I still present it for your consideration. If it's madness, I'm not presenting according to typical patterns; the grandeur doesn't apply to myself. You are God.
[And Mikami was just the very special one chosen by God and given the right and the power to mass murder. That wasn't symptomatic of some kind of potentially criminal insanity at all.]