Shield



Shield (シールド, Shīrudo) is the 8th chapter of Volume three and 24th chapter overall.

Plot
As Soichiro crashes the van into Sakura TV, the Kira in the videotape asks the police to cooperate with him in building his crime-free utopia. He has sent two additionally tapes to Sakura TV, one to show if the police say yes, and one to show if the police say no.

Meanwhile, Soichiro, with his head partially covered by his coat, goes to where the tape was being broadcast and confronts the director. He demands that they stop the tape and hand in all of the evidence to the police.

L calls Deputy Director Kitamura and asks him to use the police force to stop the broadcast of the tape before more officers decide to go down to the station and die by Kira’s hand.

Soichiro calls L and tells him that he was the one in the armored van, and he has obtained all of the Kira tapes. L instructs him to wait for five minutes inside of the studios and then walk out of the station. Soichiro does so, and a police force with their shields covering their faces escorts him out of harm’s way.

Soichiro gives the investigation team the packages with the tapes. The envelope is sent to the forensic lab for DNA samples.

Meanwhile, L watches the video tape that they were to broadcast if the police were to say yes. Kira says in that tape that not only should the police continue showing the faces and names of criminals, but should also make the top NPA officials along with L appear on TV. In the tape that they were to show if the police said no, Kira threatens that he will either take the life of the Director-General of the NPA or the life of L. If the police is to sacrifice L, they should make him appear on TV for a ten minute period.

Conception
Ohba chose the title "Shield" because of the scene depicting the police officers blockading the Sakura TV offices. When he saw it he said it "looks so great."