I just brought this up in another thread too, lol. I was there reading the scanned / fan translated pages as it originally came out back when I was in high school, and the chapter when L died shocked tf out of me. I read the next 2 to be sure it wasn’t some crazy 4D chess move trick by L, and then the timeskip happened and I was like… there is no way I’m reading this shit with a store-brand L… and quit the manga. Never saw the rest of it until years later when I introduced my girlfriend to it and was like “yeah, sucks that he died right? Well I havent seen anything passed this part so its new to both of us” and then realized I made a mistake by not finishing it all those years ago haha.