Near, though he seldom showed it, was decently lonely. He had bad social knowledge in comparison to his intellectual knowledge. Not to mention others looked down on him because of his age. So when the Wammy House paired him up with someone his age to try to solve the Kira case, he wasn’t expecting to get along with them very well. Both sat quietly beside each other, Near stacking matches and the other kid quietly sketching next to him.

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