[ It's not a coincidence. Light is more sure of it than ever. Of course, it's not an impossibility, but it's unlikely with everything else adding up. Even more than that, this man wants Light to know there's more. He hints at it, gives him tastes.

Is he connected to L from their world? L works with a lot of criminals, and Mello would certainly fit in there as well. It would also be fitting that he'd go by a single letter nickname. If that's the case, the name he'd been given is as real as Linden. ]

Not a lot of schools bring people to Japan to visit. It must have been an interesting place to study.

[ If Mello is this close to spilling, Light needs to bait him, but it's hard with so many blank spots. ]

I'm surprised to find you didn't get a nice welcome, then. Japan is an interesting place. When I've spoken to other tourists, they said Japan has a unique way about it. That, even if they didn't find what they thought they would, something else had a way of finding them.