Slots



Slots (スロット, Surotto) is the second chapter of Volume two and 9th chapter overall.

Plot
L ponders that if Kira can control a victim’s actions before their deaths, he must have come into contact with the FBI agent who first received the file.

At dinner, Soichiro formally tells his family that he is in charge of the Kira investigation in Japan. Even though some of his task force has quit from fear of what Kira could do to him, he vows that he will continue his investigation and stand up to evil. Light tells his father that he is proud of him and that if anything should happen to his father, he will make sure Kira gets the death penalty. Ryuk amusingly remarks on Light’s acting skills.

In a flashback, a day earlier, Light is dressed in a beanie cap and hooded sweat-shirt and is walking in the underground Shinjuku station with Ryuk. He reveals to Ryuk that he has been performing a couple of experiments and has found out that if you write the cause and details of death in advance and then, write a name in front of it later, the person dies that way. Light sees Ray Penber and approaches from behind him. Flipping his hood farther down his eyes, he follows him and tells him, "If you turn around... I will kill you."

Light reveals to Penber that he is Kira and proves it by telling him that a coffee shop employee will die within two minutes. When he drops dead, Light tells Penber that he was a rapist that did not go to jail because of insufficient evidence.

Penber tells Light that he believes him. However, Light threatens Penber by telling him that he is holding someone he loves dearly hostage. Penber thinks this is his fiancée so he tells Light that he will do whatever he wants as long as she remains unharmed. Light gives him a large file containing a transceiver along with several large envelopes. He orders Penber to put on the earphones and get on a train. He warns him that he is still watching him from afar so he better not try to defy him.

While Penber sits nervously on the train, Light asks him to call a lower rank FBI officer and request that he send the names and faces of all agents working on this mission. Penber does so, and the officer tells him that he should get that information from the director. Light instructs Penber to tell the officer that there was a glitch in the e-mail attachment that he received from the director, and it was better if he received the file through someone else’s computer. Light then tells Penber to open the large envelopes, and take out a ball point pen and five smaller envelopes inside. All five envelopes are sealed with the exception of opens slots on the front of them. He instructs Penber to look at the photograph of every FBI agent from the file he received and write down their names in each slot. After he is done, Light tells him to put the envelopes back into the large envelope which he should place on the overhead rack. He orders Penber to remain on the train for thirty additional minutes, and then get off the train. When he does, he collapses and dies from a heart attack in front of Light Yagami who is standing back in the train grinning devilishly.

Meanwhile, L is still investigating the order which the FBI agents received the file. However, Light reveals that the times of death and order they receive the file were completely randomized.

Conception
The title "Slots" refers to the holes in the envelopes featured in this chapter. It also refers to L trying to find weaknesses in Light's plan.