L appeared to consider that, for a moment. "Yes... I suppose that I did, Light," he said softly. "It's very soon, to ask of me the compassion of a tender lover. Don't you think? Besides, you really seemed to enjoy the pain, so I didn't feel obligated to attempt gentleness." he said all this in a monotone similar to the one he'd employed throughout the Kira investigation, devoid of any feeling or any decipherable clues divulging his actual thoughts.