( backdated to Tuesday night )

( Email to Mello )

With everything else going on right now, I really don't have the time to waste with a social event.

Still - appearances are important. I wouldn't want to decline an invitation from the Princess.

... I suppose it's only a few hours. And who knows, something might even turn up while I'm there.

The Chief's gone missing.

This is a nightmare.

And with everything else going on, I can't believe it's just a coincidence.

I haven't heard from Mello in a while, either. I should check in on him soon.

So it seems there's a copkiller on the loose. Great - that's just what this city didn't need.

I'm not going to allow this to continue. I will see to it that whoever is responsible for this is brought to justice.

( Phone call to Adachi during Yaha's auction )

It's been a long time since I've had any dreams about my father, but this? Shooting me? Calling me a murderer?

I don't remember much more than that, but it was all very unsettling, to say the least. I still can't shake that awful feeling of -

I'm not a murderer. I know I'm not.

( Email to Ivan; high security; backdated to 12 February )

Never thought I would see the day

I should probably stop watching TV for a while.

what is going on

Maybe I really do need to look into taking a day off. (I did promise Eve I'd spend some time with her soon, after all.)

Don't know how much the Chief would approve of that, though, what with the city being under martial law.