"That doesn't make you real, babe." Mail smirked.

"Mail's friends all witnessed my existence," Near scoffed. "I am no illusion."

"Yeah, but is Near a real person or are you just out of a bad TV show?" Mail asked flatly.

"I am quite real," Near informed, calming a bit. "And your attempts to get me to tell you things with the focus of 'matching them up as examples' will not work."

"Actually, I was waiting for you to offer to go to England and find out if there even is a orphanage there." Mail stopped a traffic light- smiling smugly.

"What part of 'I doubt I'll want to meet my future self' did Mail-" Near's cold face slowly became a frown. "...Mail is going to suggest that I check and see if Matt and Mello are alive, isn't he?"

"It's almost like we have a psychic link." Mail said before driving through the intersection.

Near sighed and slowly turned back toward the window. "They die in the show, don't they?"

"...I just needed to see how you felt about the idea." Mail replied.

"Mail used my reaction to Mello being burned against me," Near sighed, closing his eyes and feeling, for the first time in a long time, out smarted.

"Yes, Mail did." Mail nodded. "But I didn't know about Matt until just now."

"It was a good assumption... it had plenty of logic behind it," Near mumbled. "There was at least a 42 percent chance that I cared about Matt just as much, or more... Mail didn't need 100 percent proof and knew I would prove or deny his theory with my reactions."

He turned to look at the other, studying him.

"But you would know better than to give me that much credit." Mail snorted. "So it's almost like you wanted me to know."

"Perhaps Mail doesn't give himself enough credit," Near sighed. "...I am curious, yes... but I doubt that Mello and Matt are still at the orphanage. I could, however, get in contact with them through there..."

"But the real question is whether or not you want to." Mail said.

"Logically, I shouldn't want to," Near whispered. "...But I do."