[ There's no attempt to twist the words or make them seem like anything less than they are. It isn't blackmailing to the exact extent so much as a warning, nearly a threat. L's silence isn't a given but something bought, thankfully only through Light being himself. He doesn't foresee any decline in his intelligence or his abilities so while it isn't something he worries about, the implication in addition to the loss he suffered by his own potion hardly has him in the best of moods. ]
We both know I wouldn't just go down that easily.
[ Another comment he likely wouldn't have offered if not for the medicine because while the statement might worry someone else, L would find the challenge fun. While he's established something here, Light acknowledges that the things L holds most dear wouldn't be something easily broken by words or plans and in spite of being called a murderer, Light isn't prone to killing people outside of self-defense or for his bigger, better plan for justice.
He considers himself better than that, even if L may not. ]
Why are you so sure you'd be able to prove it? You couldn't in a world where there was actual evidence.
[ Pride isn't always a logical thing. Don't try hold this over my head. What we have is working.]
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[ There's no attempt to twist the words or make them seem like anything less than they are. It isn't blackmailing to the exact extent so much as a warning, nearly a threat. L's silence isn't a given but something bought, thankfully only through Light being himself. He doesn't foresee any decline in his intelligence or his abilities so while it isn't something he worries about, the implication in addition to the loss he suffered by his own potion hardly has him in the best of moods. ]
We both know I wouldn't just go down that easily.
[ Another comment he likely wouldn't have offered if not for the medicine because while the statement might worry someone else, L would find the challenge fun. While he's established something here, Light acknowledges that the things L holds most dear wouldn't be something easily broken by words or plans and in spite of being called a murderer, Light isn't prone to killing people outside of self-defense or for his bigger, better plan for justice.
He considers himself better than that, even if L may not. ]
Why are you so sure you'd be able to prove it? You couldn't in a world where there was actual evidence.
[ Pride isn't always a logical thing. Don't try hold this over my head. What we have is working. ]