Wammy’s University is unlike any other school. Considered the most elite institution in the world, it has produced some of the most brilliant—and most dangerous—minds alive. Those who remain become detectives, doctors, hackers, lawyers… or something stranger.For a select few, Wammy’s is more than just a university. It’s home.They were raised here. Trained here. Shaped here.

And from the moment they arrived, they were tested and ranked. Everyone knows the list:• Number One: L—the world’s greatest detective, now Wammy’s elusive part-time professor, dividing his time between cold cases and classrooms.• Number Two: Beyond—the unsettling outcast who never seems to get sick, harbors a quiet obsession with death and anatomy, and stands as Wammy’s greatest anomaly.• Number Three: Near—the brooding medical prodigy with sharp eyes, steady hands, and no tolerance for disorder.• Number Four: Mello—the beautifully unhinged rival with a temper, a choker, and a need to be seen.• Number Five: Matt—the unbothered tech genius who knows how to code, how to roll, and when to disappear.

When a string of targeted deaths begins stirring global panic, the Five find themselves tangled in the center of something far bigger than student life.L has already been assigned to the investigation—a case dubbed Kira—a mass killer with a god complex and no discernible method of murder. The case has been open for months. The killer never misses.But Kira isn’t acting alone.The killers work in sync, their murders blending into each other’s patterns, masking each other’s trails, and making it impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.Just as suspicion begins to grow, something new surfaces.A forgotten file.A sealed case buried years ago.One B thought would never be opened again.Because before Kira…There was something else.And some anomalies don’t stay buried forever.

[Author’s Note:]Seriously… why the hell did Beyond Birthday never get an actual backstory? They gave us Jealous falling in love with Misa. We got Rem caring for Misa. The phantom of canon clearly tells us Shinigami can fall for humans. But B? Nothing.They just said “he has Shinigami Eyes, no one knows why, moving on.”So I fixed it.

Content Warning: This story includes mentions of suicide and self-harm-related trauma. Please read with care.