[Luck and fortune have graced Niles, all things considered. As vicious and inventive as L can be, those are powerful forces, and when they favor someone, truly? No amount of wit can outmatch them. It's the same fickle brand of fate that let a god of death fall in altruistic love with the woman who loved Light Yagami; it's a reminder that L is just a man, in the end, and can only control so many things, especially when his hands are literally tied.
Well. What's left of them, anyway. He falls back, spent and winded, gasping past the blood drowning his mouth and throat as Niles reels away, smoldering and seizing. It's by this point that he truly has tried everything; every spare drop of blood and magic has gone toward the purpose of killing Niles, and the chimera fucking lives. His vision blurs and dims as the beast rises, then vanishes through a hold in the darkness.]
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Well. What's left of them, anyway. He falls back, spent and winded, gasping past the blood drowning his mouth and throat as Niles reels away, smoldering and seizing. It's by this point that he truly has tried everything; every spare drop of blood and magic has gone toward the purpose of killing Niles, and the chimera fucking lives. His vision blurs and dims as the beast rises, then vanishes through a hold in the darkness.]