Did Light Actually Like L (in a friendship way)?


When I watched episode 25 of Death Note (AKA the one when L, Watari, and Rem
died), I noticed that Light was strangely kind to L. Is that because he was
nice to L before he died, or because he actually thought of L as a friend?
This is something I have been pondering over ever since L said that Light was
his only friend.




This might be my personal opinion, but this does not look like the face that a
person would show his friend when that friend is dying. Light had been
pretending to be L's friend for a while, so by (over-)reacting he achieved two
things. The first would be keeping his image and the second would be giving
him a reason to go looking for the Death Note, that he knew would be laying
around somewhere.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/G8DUam.png)

