Lilith Frost is dead. She was one of the best they had, and she was dead. Kiyohime Ikari was born, and she remembered her past life as Lilith when she bumped into a certain raven-haired future detective, making this life much much more interesting for her. The Puppeteer, Lilith aka Kiyohime, only knows how to enjoy herself, and so she does. Slowly, twisting and turning and trapping everyone around her in her mind games, infuriating Light and L to no end. . . . "So are you saying, Kiyo, that if you had Kira's power you would do the same thing?" "Again, Sayu, I am not saying anything, but if I did have Kira's power, who's to say what I would have done? I wouldn't know myself, not until I would have gotten it before all this happened." . . . Manipulation is an art, and she treats it as such. She takes it slow and steady, as if rewiring their minds in the way to favor herself. They are the puppeteers and she is the puppet, but what they don't realize is that their fingers move with the strings being manipulated by the puppet.

wherein an artist has only 24 hours to create his final masterpiece before he dies. OR, filled with deep sorrow and grief, kim taehyung reminisces the past as he creates his final work of art. a kim taehyung short story. mystery, thriller, tragedy. © MINNIEMALIST 2020 | all rights reserved

(n.) lit. "gate-closing panic"; a sense of anxiety or fear caused by the feeling that life's opportunities are passing by and diminishing as one ages or in my case, the fear of missing out on you.