

I'm currently watching the 16th episode of _Death Note_ , and this question is
bothering me a lot about how the story is going. Why didn't Rem kill L when
Misa was under police custody and instead chose to erase her memories? Even
Light chose to go by Rem's choice. In the 15th episode, Light chose to kill L
using Rem's help. I wonder why they didn't do this.


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Why didn't Rem kill L?


Because Rem agreed with Light that Misa should feel happy and safe. Once Rem
trusted Light with that promise, he would do it. Else, Rem would kill Light
instead.


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To put this shortly without spoilers, Rem knew Misa isn't gonna die because
she's seeing her life span. The only reason she made Misa forfeiting the Death
Note and lose all her memories, is because she couldn't see her suffering and
trusted Light to help. Misa would never say anything about the Death Note or
Light anyway.

For more detailed answer with spoilers (beware if you haven't watched episode
26):

> To answer this, there's need to remember 2 important points about Shinigami:
> 1. That Shinigami can know each person life span. 2. That if Shinigami helps
> human to extend his life span, he dies. Following that, we can surely assume
> that Rem knew that Misa lifespan wasn't in danger when she was in jail, or
> she would Kill L as you said. If it wasn't like that, we can assume
> otherwise that she would kill L and die in the process, as it happens on
> ep26. What changes the situation between when Misa was arrested and after
> then Yotsuba arc, is Misa's life span. Misa life span got shortened twice,
> one when she got the Death Note, she had done the deal of the Shinigami
> eyes. Second, after regaining memories of the Death Note and made the eye
> deal again (following Light's order to make that happen). This made Misa's
> life span shortened to quarter of what she had before gaining the Death Note
> in the first place. Rem seeing that, she understood she's gonna die very
> soon, and that what made her to kill L in that moment. Unlike when Misa had
> been arrested, when she wasn't at her end.


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