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ORIGINAL CONCEPT BY TSUGUMI OHBA &TAKESHI OBATA DE AI H N 0 I E AN(JIHfR f\4(Jlt .' DEATH NOTE ANOTHER NOTE THE LOS .ANGBLES BB IvlURDER CASES Olla'HAL CONCE" IV TSUIUM' O.'A & TAKESHI OBATA BY NISIOISIN ~ TRANSLATED IV ANDREW CUNNINGHAM VIZ MEDIA SAN fRANCISCO DEATH NOTE - ANOTHER NOTE LOS ANGELES BS RENZOKU SATSUJIN JIK~N - © 2006 by NISIO ISIN, Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata All rights reserved. First published in Japan in 2006 by SHUEISHA Inc., Tokyo. English translation rights in the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland arranged by SHUEISHA Inc. Art by Takeshi Obata Original cover and interior design by Akira Saito, Miyuki Yamaguchi [Veial Interior design by Courtney Utt English translation © VIZ Media, LLC No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holders. Published by VIZ Media, LLC 295 8ay St. San Francisco, CA 94133 www.viz.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nishio, Ishin, 1981- [Death note. English] Death note: another note, the Los Angeles 8B murder cases / by Nisioisin ; translated by Andrew Cunningham. p. em. Original concept byTsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Cf. T.p. verso. "First published in Japan in 2006 by Shueisha ... Tokyo"--T.p. verso. ISBN-13: 978-1-4215-1883-1 ISBN-l0: 1-4215-1883-X l. Cunningham, Andrew, 1979- II. Ohba, Tsugumi. Ill. Obata, Takeshi, 1969- IV. Title. V. Title: Los Angeles BB murder cases. PL873.5.184D4313 2008 895.6'36--dc22 2007026102 The rights of the author of the work in this publication to be so identified have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Printed in China First printing, February 2008 INDEX HOW TO USE IT 007 pag•.t T.h. H ••• a g • 013 pa••. 2 R y I Z a k i 041 pa,•.3 0 P po. i t ion 067 pag•. 4 S h n i gam i 091 pag•. 5 C I 0 c k 107 pal'.6 F a l u r • 131 last pag. 157 Cast ot Characters l Detective Naomi Mi,ora fBI Agent Beyond Birthday Killer Raye Penber fBI Agent Believe Bridesmaid Victim 1 auarter Oueen Victim 2 Backyard Bottomslash Victim 3 "The third /lroved /lroblematic. Untit the ca.e reached it. end, I was reduced to nothing but an ab.ent gaze. Think of it this way; I was a /lair of ab.tract eye. walking around wearing my fle.h a. a di.gui.e. living a••uch, there was no point in e)(/lecting any form of .ocietal re'/lon.ibitity or hUman reaction." -Kiyo.hi Ka.ai, Bye-bye Angel W hen Beyond Birthday committed his third murder, he attempt- ed an experiment. Namel~ to see if it were possible for a human being to die of internal hemorrhagingwithout rupturing any organs. Specificall~ he drugged his victim so they fell unconscious, tied them up, and proceeded to beat their left arm thorougW~being careful not to break the skin. He was hoping to bring about enough hemorrhaging to cause death from loss of blood, but this attempt ended, sadl~ in failure. Blood congested in the arm and it turned purplish red beneath the skin, but the victim did not die. They sim- ply shook, convulsed, and remained alive. He had been convinced the blood loss incurred by this would be enough to kill someone, but apparently he had underestimated the matter. As far as Beyond Birthday was concerned, the actual method of murder rated fairly low on the amusement scale, and it was never more than an inter- esting experiment. It did not particularly matter to him whether it succeeded or not. Beyond Birthday simply shrugged, and took out a knife... No, no, no, no, no. Not this style, not this narrative voice-l'n never manage to keep up this arch tone all the way through. The harder I tr~ the more bored rll get and the lazier the writing will be. To put it in terms Holden Caulfield (one of history's most famous literary bullshitters) might use, detailing what Beyond Birthday did and thought does not suit my purposes (even if, in my position, I have a great deal of sym- pathy for him). Explaining the entirety of his murders in carefully phrased sentences does not in any way increase the value of these notes. This is not a report, nor is it a novel. Even if it happens to turn o rn ~ :I: Zo -l rn I 009 I ... %rn ~»I lD lDi n m
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