Misaki Yomiyama didn't expect this to happen after he died. He expected to go to Heaven or Hell. But this... this was much worse than hell. Watching children getting killed every year, because he died. He was so relieved when they came up with a way to prevent the calamity, but... he could never stop himself from remembering the beginning. The first calamity was most definitely the worst. They had no idea what was happening. He had to beg the personification of death to allow him to appear to the children, and explain what was happening. Death finally agreed after thirteen people died. How was it, that Death found children perishing amusing? Yomiyama would never understand.
If only his fellow classmates accepted his death. Then Death wouldn't have become angry at him, and wouldn't have started the calamity. Yomiyama would never understand why Death blamed him for that. Maybe he was having a bad day? Or maybe Death was one of those people- no beings that blamed people for things they were barely involved in. Yomiyama once heard one of the other ghosts talking about how she died. Her father blamed her for her mother's death which happened when she was six. They were walking home during a storm, when the girl's hat was blown away. It landed in the middle of the road. Seeing this, her mother told her daughter to stay put, and went to fetch the hat. While this was happening, the wheels on a van went haywire, so the driver couldn't stop the van in time to prevent her mother's death. The girl's father blamed the girl, so he abused her, mentally and physically. Even after he remarried, he didn't stop. He only stopped when he killed her when she was sixteen. Yomiyama couldn't even begin to fathom how her father could do such a thing. Death's mind was unknown to all. The elders, the one's who've been there since the golden age, always said that Death was spontaneous. They predicted his actions, and no one's prediction came true.
And now, Yomiyama found a way to stop the calamity, for as long as she lived anyway.
Maybe it was a bad decision, but Yomiyama had to do it. He had to bless that girl. Perhaps Death would put him in the torture room for blessing Misaki Mei with the power to tell if someone was dead, but Yomiyama couldn't care less. He was viewing the town, when he noticed a woman making a doll's eye. He was curious, since he was interested in dolls as a child, but he never told anyone. To his surprise, the eye was not for a doll, but a little girl. Unknown to most, some of the dead had an ability to bless mortals or mortal objects. Yomiyama had this ability. He had an internal debate on wether or not to carry out his plan. If he blessed this eye with the ability to see the dead, it could spare the children this torture for another year in her future. If this girl is placed in class 3-3, she could try to kill the extra, and maybe she would continue to kill the dead teenager for the rest of her life. It was a fifty-fifty chance. No. More like a one out of a hundred. But he'd never know unless he tried.
Maybe it was a stupid decision. Maybe Death would torture him for the next century and a half, but what else could he do? If Death found out, he'd most likely kill her. Yomiyama had always hated himself for causing this curse. Indirectly, yes, but maybe if he wasn't so popular they would have accepted his death. Or if he didn't die at all. He didn't know. How could he? But maybe this was his chance at redemption. If this girl killed the extra and continued to do so, even when she left the class, perhaps he wouldn't blame himself so much.
"Misaki Mei, the future of the town Yomiyama depends on you." He whispered, watching the girl with a doll's eye.
