In Death Note, Raye Penber, also known as Rei Penba, is an FBI Agent who was assigned by L Lawliet to shadow Soichiro Yagami’s Family and the family of the police chief.
APPEARANCE and CHARACTER Raye Penber
Raye has black hair with ice-blue highlights. He also wears a suit and coat, and usually has a briefcase that holds his laptop. Raye is a regular FBI agent, and he loves his fiancee Naomi Misora.
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STORY Raye Penber
Raye Penber was born in the United States. He moved to Japan to work as an FBI Agent. There, he met Naomi Misora. They were later married until his death. His mother is half Japanese. However, his father is American. Raye Penber was assigned to shadow Soichiro Yagami and his family, the police chief.
But, he found no suspicions. After Ryuk had alerted him about Penber’s tailing, Light staged a bus hijacking. He was forced to show Light his FBI ID and reveal who he was. Light arranged a date to Space Land for Light with Yuri, a girl from his class, in order to carry out his plan. Raye Penber was watching him and made a note. He decided to stay with him today because he couldn’t be Kira. Two days earlier, a bank robber climbed on the bus to threaten the driver and said that Kira would allow him to die from heart failure.
Penber believed he was having hallucinations when the hijacker grabbed a piece from the Death Note by Light. The busjacker demanded that the driver stop, and ran out onto the street where he was struck by a car. Raye Penber did not believe Kira could kill other than through heart failure, unlike his fiancee. He did not see Light as a threat and asked him to keep the story secret. Penber ran from the accident site before he could confirm that the kidnapper had died.
Light gave Raye Penber 8 days to recover from the incident. This allowed the FBI time to narrow Raye Penber’s targets to people outside the Yagami clan so that suspicion did not fall on him immediately. Just before his birthday, he suffered a heart attack. Kira had tricked him into writing down the names of his FBI colleagues using Death Note paper. He had already made his way to the subway station at 3:00 p.m., where he met Kira. Also, Kira threatened him with death if he didn’t turn around and then showed him proof of a murder.
Kira gave him an envelope containing a radio and Death Note papers. In addition, Kira directed him to board Yamanote Line trains and continued to communicate with him. After Raye Penber did what Light asked, he sat quietly until 16:41 and then he left the envelope behind. At the exact same time, he suffered a heart attack as the other 11 FBI agents. He realized that the strangely familiar voice of Kira belonged to him at the moment of his passing.
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AFTER HIS DEATH
The FBI stopped supporting the case after Raye Penber’s death (and all other agents investigating Japan). L was also accused by the Japanese police of siccing the FBI on them. Most of the agents turned against L because they didn’t trust him and considered it too risky for them to continue investigating Kira. Only 6 of the 141 former officers were left, and they put their lives at risk. Hideki Ide, however, also resigned after a short hesitation. L met the five remaining investigators in his hotel room. There, L gained complete confidence and shared with them his theories about Kira.
Naomi Misora also decided to make her own investigation and bring it to L’s attention. She noticed that Kira couldn’t kill his victims by heart failure. This was based on the information she received from her fiance. However, the information wasn’t complete. If Penber had told Misora who he was spying on during the bus theft, she might have been able to piece together the pieces and figure out that Light Yagami is Kira. Even though Naomi Misora did not pass her knowledge on to L, L still had important clues.
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