Understood. [And with nothing else to add--that was the only proper response to an order, the conversation moved on. Despite being in private, his level of formality lowered, as if seeking out that ground; or maybe it was again a matter of wanting to give him the information without all the trappings of formality.] The 98th percentile, for the Bar Exam and Kyoto Entrance Exams. It's not worth mentioning to one who's made perfect scores.

[That wasn't knowledge of the future speaking so much as a simple expectation that he failed to realize the absurdity of. Teenaged boy or not, God must have been perfect; while he may have heard of a perfect score entrant--two, wasn't it?--several years ago, that particular information was never pertinent enough to really stick in his mind, not even with ToOh in the Tokyo region L would determine Kira to be from tomorrow if nothing changed. Even now talking of scores, the idea that it must have been him doesn't really connect. Admittedly, with all of the information taken in in his life time, it's too much, too remote, too far fetched, what with ToOh attracting applicants from far beyond the Tokyo area, beyond national borders, with the idea of Kira being a student never crossing his mind. It was little limits to his thoughts like that, a mortal but not-infinite and constant grasp of all possibilities and tentative connections, that left him at the mere 98th percentile.]