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L leans closer.
>“You rely too much on the power of your tool, Light. Regex is only powerful when you know the data. You’ve been playing god with incomplete information.”
Light’s smirk flickers, but he steadies his hand.
>“You’re bluffing. Even if your legal name is hidden, I can still wipe you out with a broader pattern. Something like…”
He scribbles:
/.*(detective|investigator|L).*/
Suddenly, alarms blare. Outside, agents collapse—some of them criminals, but others are Interpol officers, FBI liaisons, and even innocents with “L” in their names.
L watches calmly.
>“There it is. Your hubris. In trying to kill me, you revealed your method—and slaughtered allies unnecessarily. Everyone watching this knows it now. You’re no god. You’re a man wielding a dangerous search string.”
Light’s pen hand trembles. He realizes too late that regex—his ultimate weapon—is also the rope around his neck.
Light (thinking):
>No… I was supposed to create a perfect world… not this chaos…
L rises from his crouch, shadow stretching long across the table.
>“Checkmate, Kira.”
