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A flashback opens on Mikami as a boy who casts himself as guardian of the bullied, certain that everyone falls into either good or evil. By his high-school years his mother grumbles that his rescues only draw the bullies' notice, which to his mind sets her among the wicked for declining to resist them. Soon after, those same tormentors die in a reckless car crash that also claims a bystander, his own mother. The deaths leave him stunned yet convinced a divine hand wants him to keep opposing evil, and he resolves to become a prosecutor.

Long afterward, a rash of fatal heart attacks among criminals convinces the grown Mikami that God is meting out justice, so he turns up often on Kira's Kingdom to lend a hand. The exposure earns him a notebook from Light, and he gleefully starts handing down sentences in his master's name. At headquarters Light wonders whom Mikami will tap as Kira's mouthpiece, and Matsuda delivers the answer: Kiyomi Takada, once a college girlfriend he kept close to draw suspicion off Misa. Spotting the link, Light bends it to his own ends, telling the team she clearly favors Kira and that he intends to arrange a sit-down, which Aizawa insists on monitoring.

Their hotel meeting doubles as a snare wired by the investigators. As Light works to charm Takada, Mikami rings her phone, and a coded back-and-forth about a package of five pages confirms to him that he is talking with the real Kira. Mikami steers them to Sakura TV, where a gaudily dressed impostor standing in for Kira's voice drops dead on the air. With the bugs cut at Kira's supposed order, Light confesses his identity to Takada and crowns her the goddess of his coming world; she melts into his arms. He afterward tells the team he will play her boyfriend to corner Kira, as a frenzied Mikami tears through criminal names under Ryuk's gaze, muttering delete with each one. The episode first screened in Japan on May 22, 2007.