Hard Run (chapter)



Hard Run (ハード·ラン, Hādo· ran) is the 7th chapter of Volume three and 23rd chapter overall.

Plot
The Kira investigation task force is discussing with L the connection between Kira and Naomi Misora’s disappearance when Watari tells them to turn on the TV

On the channel Sakura TV, a man tells the viewers that Kira sent them a tape to show on their TV station at exactly 5:59 p.m., and for the safety of their workers, they have no choice but to air it. The screen shows handwritten letters spelling out “Kira” recorded amateurishly on a home video camera. L notes that it looks childish. A garbled voice tells them that he is Kira and that he will prove it by having a famous news anchor from another channel die at 6 p.m. They turn the channel and see that the news anchor has collapse. When they turn back to Sakura TV, he says that he will kill other commentators who have proclaimed Kira to be “evil”.

The task force is determined to stop the killings by stopping Sakura TV from airing the videotape. Investigator Ukita gets in his car and goes to the Sakura TV station to personally stop this.

The voice of Kira explains that he does not want to kill innocent people. He hates evil and wants justice. His goal is to change the world into one free of crime. Ukita arrives at the station, and instantly collapses from a heart attack. The investigation task force sees this and is willing to go down to the station. However, L stops them, telling them that they will be killed if they do so. He deduces that, somehow, Kira can now kill people by only looking at their face.

Meanwhile, a recovering Soichiro gets up from his hospital bed and drives a huge police van into the TV station.

Conception
When it came to naming this chapter, Ohba said "What else could I have used for the chapter?".