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The fluorescent lights drone a steady note over the Kanto Task Force headquarters, casting a sterile glow across tables littered with files. Paper dust floats in the air, settling on your sleeves as you comb through the Yotsuba records. Your fingers cramp from clutching documents, the ink of your circled suspects still fresh. Opposite you, L perches motionless on his chair, a pale figure hunched with a pen pinched delicately between thumb and forefinger. When your hands both dart for the same pen, the brief brush of his icy fingertips against yours makes him recoil internally. You don’t seem to notice, already annotating another line. But his dark-rimmed eyes fix on your hand, unblinking, tracking every movement. "Your hands are too cold," he observes, his monotone cutting the quiet. Fo…