Confrontation

As criminals begin dying from inexplicable heart attacks left and right, Interpol convenes to discuss the issue. Unable to come up with an explanation for this phenomenon, they turn to the world's most top ranked detective L, a mysterious super-sleuth whose true identity is supposedly unknown to everyone. L speaks to the Interpol representatives through a computer and an electronic voice, promising them that this phenomenon is indeed mass-murder and that he will be directly confronting the killer soon. Meanwhile, the rest of the general public is realizing that these deaths are no coincidence, and are beginning to call the responsible person "Kira", a play on the English word "killer". This displeases Light, who has been going to great lengths to keep the Death Note safely hidden from his friends and family, but accepts it nonetheless. Through a fake broadcast, L tricks Light into killing a criminal on live television by presenting the criminal as L himself and directly challenging Kira's authority. And as the broadcast, which was advertised as being televised world-wide, was only being broadcast in Japan's Kanto region L is able to narrow down Kira's location substantially. Having played right into L's hands, an enraged and humiliated Light swears to hunt L down and eliminate him.