[His words hadn't meant to be offensive. No, contrary, he'd meant them level enough. The truth was he didn't believe in all of Ryuuzaki's ways, but Ryuuzaki also believed him to be a mass murderer of ridiculous proportions. Of course, that was ridiculous and any other investigator would have moved on, but as long as the older detective was also willing to pursue other suspects it wasn't a problem what his personal opinion of Light was.

...Well, aside from being frustrating. Why didn't he see how much Light wanted to catch this man too? It should have been obvious from all of his hard work on the case, but somehow he was continuously painted as a villain. Part of the ongoing anger had come from the fact that the investigation had all but halted while Light was locked up. How many days had they wasted?]

Yes, as evidenced by the fact you just told I had to bear with some mysterious cure for a cold despite it's unpleasantness.