[Is that a challenge? Mello reads it as such — as he does everything — and the shift in his seat is more readying for a verbal attack than it is for comfort. Did he get a lot of odd looks; what a joke. Mello gets odd looks everywhere he goes, no matter where. Before and after the explosion.]

[He's all but ignoring the food, now. It's something he craved, even when he knew he was coming face to face with Kira, whether or not this was a casual lunch date. And being the shit thing he is at hiding his emotions: he's definitely cracking now. He'll have to leave soon, he knows. That, or risk a confrontation that will blow this all to hell. But first.]

I've never seen the rural areas.

[The hand around his water glass is tight enough to nearly crack it, full as it is.]

I went to Tokyo.

[Is that so odd? Isn't that where most tourists go? Not a pure giveaway until — ]

The Kanto region, actually. I'd wandered away from the rest of the class. That's where the tube dropped me when I decided to get off.