Matsuda (chapter)

Matsuda (松田, Matsuda) is the 7th chapter of Volume five and 41st chapter overall.

Plot
Matsuda has been working undercover as Misa Amane’s manager on a movie set that is close to the Yotsuba company building. Feeling like he has been unproductive on the case, he decides to sneak into the building and find out more information.

Back at headquarters, Light wonders why he can’t seem to remember his conversations with Raye Penber and Naomi Misora. L comments that with Light’s hacking skills, he could probably have easily had access to his father’s task force information. Light responds once again that he is not Kira, and L should concentrate in catching the new Kira. Watari calls them with the news that a member of the Yotsuba group, Masahiko Kida, has just asked Eraldo Coil to uncover L’s identity. L reveals that Eraldo Coil, the world’s 2nd greatest detective, is just another one of his aliases. L instructs Aiber to get close to Masahiko Kida and find out about his actions. He also instructs Wedy to find a way to get around the security cameras and systems at Yotsuba. Then, L tells the team that their task will be to investigate Yotsuba without letting them know that they’re being investigated.

Matsuda, now in the Yotsuba building, follows a group of men dressed in suits going into a meeting room. He listens intently outside the door waiting for the men to say something incriminating. Matsuda hears the words “kill him” and gets excited until the door is opened by one of the members.

Watari tells the team at headquarters that he received a distress signal from Matsuda’s belt buckle coming from the Yotsuba Tokyo office.

Conception
The chapter's title "Matsuda" relates to Matsuda running around everywhere in the chapter. Ohba said that when the editor saw the planned title name "Matsuda," the editor laughed and then gave the okay.