[Are you suggesting that I know of the Note and identified you as an owner through some other means? Much less through some means the world's police forces and greatest detectives couldn't? It couldn't be helped, however; by this point it was likely that he had never heard of L. Mikami certainly hadn't. Whether L had made any real headway or not was unknown, but that many world organizations were allegedly going to coordinate against Kira until, one by one, they backed into submission to order, reason and justice; that was a known. But only to himself, at this point, Mikami realized. It was more sensible to say "I don't know how" than to say "time travel." The pause was brief, the answer simple and unflinching.]

It will be as you order.

[He reached to take out the Note, speaking in the same tone as a very polite salesman may have said "How many can I put you down for?" once a sale was confirmed.] Whom will you allow me to eliminate for you today? I assume that you'll be unable to confirm the results very quickly, but...