I'll Wait For You

L Lawliet

"Did I answer your question?" I asked. 

"Yes, but-"

"Good, now you can answer mine," I interrupted, my impatience growing harder to mask.

"Wait I'm not done, you told me how you would react in the likely event of Kira's fate being with the police and whatnot, but hypothetically if you caught him and you had full control over what would happen to him without any consequences, would you still not sentence Kira to death?"

"Criminals belong in jail or should be put to death by law not someone's unlawful judgment. And it goes without saying that innocents should be free to live their lives, the fact that people from both parties were dying so rapidly I knew that we had to find Kira and put him away. We'd have to go to sometimes extreme measures to successfully do so because that's what it took, but if and when we finally catch Kira what will be the point in still taking extreme measures after everything we've already had to do? How are we any better if we take a life even if it's to "protect society" or give justice? Isn't that the exact same thing that Kira's doing? Since the beginning I never wanted Kira dead, I just wanted the world to be safe again."

"Me too... My father raised me to be aware of all the monsters in the world even though he explained it gently I still took it as I wanted. He always told me how his job was important because he made sure that the criminals couldn't hurt anyone anymore, that he took them all to a special place where they could change and be better. But if that were true there wouldn't have been anyone who was guilty and walking the streets freely for me to kill. The legal system is flawed. Some get released just as quickly as they're sentenced, some commit despicable crimes without a speck of remorse, some criminals are never found, and some are let out after years just to commit the same crimes again. We're all aware of the absence of justice in this rotten world and we don't do anything or at least not enough. But imagine a world where no one ever gets hurt again? Only, kind-hearted people walk upon this planet and everything around us is safe and peaceful, there are no more wars, no more attacks, no more hate. No more monsters, or at least that was the plan. I know that I've done bad things and I know that I have hurt and lied to people close to me. I just wanted- I just wanted to make the world a better place," He said, struggling to keep a steady voice.

"Just like me... But you're the last person in the world I would want to be like."

"Is that because I'm a bad person or because I've done bad things?"

"...We've both done things others would see as bad," I muttered.

"That's right but the difference between us doing bad things and being bad people is that we have remorse and a good reason, we just wanted to make the world a better place, but I get it I went about it the wrong way, I've been on the wrong side since this all started and, I'm nothing like you... I was so stupid to think I'd actually be happy after all this. I'm sorry for everything."

"That may be true however, imagine the innocent still fearing for their lives and the guilty still hunting the vulnerable. The monsters still coming out dark to do what they've always done, that's how the world would've been for the last several years without you. I'm not excusing what you've done and I'll never be okay about how you went about trying to perfect the world like a God according to your ideology. But I see why you did it. There are some really sick people in this world who cannot be rehabilitated. You wanted change, you saw how our world needed to change and you knew that for as long as you lived if you weren't the one to step up no one else would. What you did was depraved not to mention reckless but you did it. Crime rates have never been lower and though you've taken many, you've also saved countless lives by ceasing evil. So some will argue that you did us all a great favor, others will disagree. I just wonder, you almost succeeded, you were so close, why decide to tell me the truth now?"