[Mello halts, turning to peer sharply at Beyond. It's a much less strong reaction that he would have estimated coming from his fellow obsessive and imperfect copy.]

Less - I'd been here a couple months before he arrived. Is that really all you have to say, that it's interesting? A moderately challenging crossword puzzle is interesting.

[This was L they were talking about, a larger-than-life absentee mentor they'd both been raised to emulate. And Mello had been led to believe that Beyond was more fixated on L than even Mello, who was rated closer to reaching that L-shaped objective than anyone else at Wammy's, save Near.]

You know as well as I do that L never just lets people know who he is. And you don't even question whether what I'm telling you is truth? You'll take me at my word, on blind faith?