033. Video

[killswithapen]

[In the park today, a sleeping puppy in his lap, Light looks peaceful, hair lifted by a light breeze. He's out here to get away from everything going on at the house, and the peace and quiet has let him think. The sunshine coming in through the leafy canopy that shades him casts his face in mottled light and shadow, and makes his vermillion shirt

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[zealouspeter]

So you'll be advocating exactly the same thing, only as "Light," and not "Kira?"

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[killswithapen]

No, absolutely not.

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[zealouspeter]

What changed your mind?

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[killswithapen]

I grew up.

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[zealouspeter]

That's a nice way of saying you died.

But is it the truth?

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[killswithapen]

You don't have much faith in me, do you? I suppose that's to be expected.

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[zealouspeter]

I'm more curious, since it's interesting. Those ideals aren't things that change over one month.

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[killswithapen]

I was away for five years.

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[zealouspeter]

I didn't think you stopped being Kira, back at your own world.

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[killswithapen]

I didn't, but I did die.

Have you ever heard the stories of people who were brought back from dying, and having been saved turned their lives around? It happens very often, as a result of human insecurity.

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[zealouspeter]

So insecurity that what you were trying to accomplish would never happen is what made you 'turn your life around?

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[killswithapen]

No. I achieved exactly what I wanted.

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[zealouspeter]

Which was?

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[killswithapen]

World peace, a 70% drop in the crime rate, a huge rise in the economy. The world I lived in was changing dramatically because of what I'd achieved.

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[zealouspeter]

But you didn't give up there.

Since you lost your main way of doing things here, though, you decided to give it up like this and stop, because it was creating pointless danger to you.

Right?

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[killswithapen]

No, because it achieved nothing, ultimately. I died, and it ends. I didn't have anything left, except for the knowledge that I'd achieved something that would fall apart the moment I was gone.