[Mello is reading it exactly half-right, as one might expect from an individual who is half-L. Because L never said he wasn't helpless, just that everyone else was just as helpless in different ways, and to different degrees. But L communicates obtusely, and one has to be listening carefully and without agenda to catch some of the subtler things. Endlessly frustrating, surely, to Mello, if he were told in such terms.
But for now, it seems to suffice. The facade can hold up for just a little longer, and maybe L can limp on as some semblance of adequate in his successor's admiring and highly critical eye.]
You see it that way? As an insult?
[His tone is hollow, aloof.]
It's something I don't have to think about, at least for a little while. Nothing more or less.
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But for now, it seems to suffice. The facade can hold up for just a little longer, and maybe L can limp on as some semblance of adequate in his successor's admiring and highly critical eye.]
You see it that way? As an insult?
[His tone is hollow, aloof.]
It's something I don't have to think about, at least for a little while. Nothing more or less.