Mihael Kheel better known as Mello, the oldest of the L`s succesors, 15 at pre timeskip 19 and post skip and 20 at death, he is often seen with a bar of chocolate,and a rather “femenine” way of acting,despite all that, he has a scar on one side of his face, due to the explosion, he has a certain hate for Near, the other L succesor and at one time nearly shoots him,many fangirls pared him with Matt, another L succesor who only appears briefly, yet is a extremly famous character in the Death Note serie, Mello`s first apearence takes place in Whammys house, the same day of L`s death he joins the mafia in order to catch Kira, L`s killer, also known as Ligth Yagami.
Four years after L’s death, Mello obtains one of the Death Notes from the Japanese Task Force by having the Mafia kidnap Sayu Yagami, then exchanging her for a Death Note. Mello is then successfully able to retrieve the Death Note by fooling the police into thinking it was being transported away from the exchange via helicopter, until revealing that it had actually been loaded onto a missile, which was too fast to be tracked once launched. Having successfully outwitted Kira, Mello’s men retrieved the Death Note, and he began planning how to use it.
However, Light Yagami discovered the location of Mello’s Mafia hideout by having Misa use her Shinigami Eyes to discover the identity of one of Mello’s Mafia accomplices, and then using the remaining Death Note to make him mail Light their location. The indirect result of this is that the Shinigami Sidoh, who was the original owner of the Death Note Mello now possessed, also found out Mello’s location and was able to get there first. Sidoh briefly struck up a loose alliance of sorts with Mello, revealing to him (in exchange for some of Mello’s chocolate) that the two extra rules that Light made Ryuk write in the Death Note to fool L — particularly the one saying that “if the user does not kill once every 13 days, they will die” — were fakes. Mello begins to theorize that whoever Kira was, he probably used that rule to fool the Japanese police into thinking he was innocent.
ello appears at the home of Halle Lidner, who has been passing information regarding the Kira case to Mello. Mello forces an entry into the SPK while holding Lidner at gunpoint, intending to retrieve the one existing photograph of himself from Near. After Near states that Mello has been a big help in Near’s investigation, Mello becomes enraged and turns his gun on Near, saying that he isn’t Near’s tool to solve a puzzle. The SPK members all draw their guns on Mello, though Near orders them to lower their weapons. Lidner tells Mello that if he shoots Near, she well have no choice but to open fire on Mello. She then states that it won’t do any good for the investigation if both he and Near die, to which Mello finally lowers his gun. Near gives Mello the photograph, and Mello says that he is going to repay his debt to Near. As payment for the photograph, Mello gives Near the information from Sidoh about the two fake Death Note rules. Each wryly promises the other that the race is on to see who finds Kira first, and Mello leaves. This meeting between the two successors has a profound impact, as the information Near receives from Mello drastically sharpens Near’s suspicions on Light Yagami.
Mello enlists the help of his friend Matt to spy on Misa. After learning that Light is Kira and Near was going to attempt to apprehend him, Mello kidnaps Kiyomi Takada, by having Matt attack Takada’s motorcade with a gas grenade. Mello then drives up on a motorcycle, while wearing a helmet, and offers to take Takada to safety. In the confusion, Takada agrees, not realizing it is Mello until it is too late to get off. After a chase, Mello is able to evade Takada’s guards on his motorcycle, and lock her in a shipping truck. While driving her to a different location, Mello sees on his portable television that Matt was cornered by Takada’s guards and killed in a hail of gunfire; Mello then apologizes for Matt having been shot. Mello forces Takada to strip in order to get rid of any tracking devices, however, he allows her to cover herself with a blanket. This proves to be his undoing, as she had a piece of the Death Note hidden in her clothes, and the blanket allows her to hide it.
Takada uses the hidden piece of Death Note paper to kill Mello. This action causes Teru Mikami to expose his own Death Note to kill Takada, not realizing that Light already killed her (by having her set herself and the truck on fire, in order to destroy all the evidence), using another piece torn from the Death Note, which secretly carried with him. This alerted Near’s agents to the location of the realDeath Note, hidden by Mikami, which then leads directly to Kira’s defeat by Near. In the end, Near tells Light that Mello realized neither of them could live up to their predecessor, L, on their own. Therefore, Mello worked with Near up to his death – and after.
Near reflects on this during the final showdown and credits Mello as the single most pivotal person in discovering Light’s plans. Halle Lidner further believes that it was Mello’s plan all along that he would be killed, knowing that the only way to reveal the true location of Mikami’s Death Note was to force him to immediately need to kill someone, but Near disagrees.
Did you Know That… L` real name is L Lawliet?
Did you know that… Ligth could possibly be a Shinigami, seen in the spin off, known as “Unknown Shinigami”?
