41 RI - Side Story 3 (DN Fanfic)

"Shinigami? As in God of death? Are you here to take back the Death note?", Fang Yuan asked back. He was powerless to face this unknown entity right now and wanted to judge it's intentions before taking any actions.

"Yes the humans do refers us as Gods of death. However, I am not here to take back the Death note. It belongs to the person who has picked it up. And by Shinigami rules, I have to follow the owner of the Death Note around, so I came here."

Fang Yuan squinted his eyes but kept silent.

Ryuk continued, "Death note is the connection between Ryuk, the Shinigami and Light, the human. I will give you two choices. If you want to keep the death note, then I will keep following you until you die and write your name in my death note or if you can't handle the consequences of using this book, I will take the death note from you right now and erase your memories of the same and pass it to someone else. What option do you want to take?"

"So you are saying the death note will be mine if I want it.Before I choose that option, I have some questions which I need the answers to."

"Haha. Sure, ask away.", Ryuk had a horrifying smile on his face. But Fang Yuan didn't even blink his eyes. He had seen much more gruesome creatures in Gu world.

"You mentioned Shinigami rules and the Shinigami world. What are they? There are more of you?"

"Hmm. Are you sure you want to know this? This information is classified from humans. However, if you choose to use the death note, then it will be available for you. If at any point, you choose to forfeit death note, then your memories of the same will be erased. Also, you are not allowed to speak of this information to anyone. Otherwise, kekeke.", Ryuk started laughing hysterically.

Light flashed through Fang Yuan's eyes as he started considering risks and benefits of the proposal. He was not someone who will hand over his fate to someone else.

"Fine. Please proceed."

"As you wish. The Shinigami Realm is where us Shinigami live and dwell throughout our existence. It is connected to the Human World by a Portal through which us Shinigami alone are able to travel. We are only able to remain in the Human World as long as the Death Note is in a human's possession. Our world is dark and lifeless. Very little vegetation is found there."

Saying so, Ryuk picked up an apple which was at the desk and started eating it.

"So Yummy. It was a correct decision to come here."

Fang Yuan observed the scene carefully. He had earlier seen Ryuk pass through the walls and assumed that it existed in a different dimension than theirs. However, this creature in front of him could even affect things in their dimension. Fang Yuan increased his wariness.

"So where was I? Right, the Shinigami rules. There are many of them but you don't need to know all of those. Just one of them is for us to follow you in your adventures when you choose to possess the Death Note. Another is we need to constantly write names in the death note to extend our lifespan. Also yes, there are hundreds of Shinigami like me."

Fang Yuan easily took notice of all the key points. 'So even Shinigami are also restricted by lifespan and rules. They can extend lifespan using Death note. Probably by taking lifespan of their kills? How convenient. Also, more Shinigami means more Death notes. It's possible that other humans also have had the death note before. My identity as Light Yagami is very well known. This could cause issues. I need to hide this identity.'

"Are there other humans too in possession of Death notes? What do you mean by extending lifespan? Can Shinigami be killed using Death note? "

"Many humans have come into contact with Death note earlier but I am not allowed to tell you if there are any of those right now. All the memories related to Death note have been erased from the persons involved. We also get half the lifespan of humans whose name we write in Death note."

"In the Shinigami world, everyone just enjoys playing games and doing other boring stuff. If you write names in Death note, other Shinigami will laugh on us for working hard. Also, we cannot kill Shinigami using the death notes even if we write their name. It's no fun killing humans either from the Shinigami realm. Some Shinigami even tend to forget to write names down, causing their lifespan to end and they end up dead."

Ryuk observed the person in front of him for two seconds before continuing :

"Unlike Shinigami, humans cannot gain lifespan by killing other humans. Only us Shinigami can gain the lifespan by killing humans."

'So Shinigami can die if they don't write names for a long time but it's really boring that way. I can see why he had dropped the book. However, is it a coincidence that I reincarnated into the person who supposedly would have found the book? How amusing.'

"I see you have dropped this book since you are bored and want to roam the human world. But it's sad that there's no way to increase my lifespan using this book. Sigh. Such a waste."

"Hahahaha", Ryuk laughed, 'As I thought, humans are interesting.'

"No one before you has raised this point before. They are either almost too satisfied with the death note that they start using it to achieve their goals or too afraid to think of anything. Haha it won't be much use to you but I will tell you that there is one other rule for us Shinigami is that we cannot save other humans we care about if that person is about to die by their lifespan ending from natural causes, because the purpose of a Shinigami is to end life, not to give it. However, there are no absolutes in the world. If any Shinigami goes against this rule and help out a human to extend his/ger lifespan, the Shinigami will be killed. Shinigami who die are reduced to dust, and their remaining lifespan after converting to human time, is given to the human they saved."

'This guy reminds me of Bai Ning Bing during the early days we met. BNB wanted to roam the gu world freely and Ryuk wanted to roam the human world freely but both were restricted by rules/fate.'

"I see. It's assuring knowing that Shinigami also care about humans and not just consider them ants to be crushed.", Fang Yuan formed a smile on his face.

Ryuk retorted, "It differs from Shinigami to Shinigami. Some Shinigami observes a person and may help them out. It can also relieve themselves from eternal suffering in the Shinigami realm."

"That's how it is. One major disadvantage of this book is not knowing the name of the person I am supposed to kill. How would you know the names and faces of human you want to kill when you write the same in death note?"

Ryuk widened his eyes on this question. 'This human is very peculiar. He has caught on all the points which are normally told by me over months or years. The last one didn't even ask about the rules or this question.'

Ryuk pondered for a moment and then answered. "We Shinigami have eyes which can see the name and remaining lifespan of the human who we observe. It helps us in calculating the lifespan to be gained from killing that human. We can have a deal if you want. I normally only suggest this after a person suffers failure using the death note but consider yourself lucky."

"Give me half your lifespan and you will also get the Shinigami eyes. Kekeke"

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