Alright, now it's fixed. It was a pain but it was fixed...
People, this is the real chapter. I wouldn't have noticed the problem if it weren't for Alice!
Great job, Alice! You saved this story's life. Couldn't thank you enough!
Anyway, enjoy the story! :)
I went to my room and plopped the Death Note on my desk, I sat down and continued reading the rules.
"These rules are really specific... Either these are done by some genius writer or some crazed lunatic." I muttered as I finished reading the rules.
So. Does this thing actually work or is it just a cool custom notebook?
"Well, only one way to find out." I said as pulled a pen from my pencil holder next to the lamp. Then I started to write the first person that came in mind.
Light Yagami.
But before I did that, I froze. If this thing actually works, then Light would die.
"Ok, let's not do that." I told myself as began think of another person to test it on.
Then I thought of the perfect person, that asshole that lives just a block away. It was no secret that he was an asshole, he beats his kids for no reason and humiliates them in public. Everyone knows him but are just too scared to do anything because what he has done to the past people who tried to help.
He was the perfect test subject and no one is going to miss him once I'm done with him. I wrote his name down then began to wait for sixty seconds, then something hit me.
He was just going to die of a heart attack. That's not right. That's like an act of mercy, so why not test other things too.
I wrote the cause of death before the sixty seconds were up and quickly wrote down the details.
If this thing doesn't work then whatever, I can just imagine him dying the way I imagined him to die in the notebook. But if it does work.
I smirked as I thought of the many things that I could do with this notebook.
But I'm not going to wait for a few more minutes just to see if it works, I'm just gonna watch the news tomorrow to see if he did die.
So I'm just gonna play my brand new game for now. I went to the living room, boothed up the console and started playing.
I played the game until I was sleepy, damn that boss was tough but look at all the cool loot that I got!
I saved the game, turned off the console then went to bed.
I woke up late in the morning then got up to living room to watch the news. With Death Note in hand, I decided that I'm not going to have breakfast until I see the news segment of a man dying in an accident. If it's not the guy I wrote down then I'll just have breakfast knowing that this notebook doesn't work.
Finally they went to the segment of a man dying in an accident, I quickly opened my Death Note to compare some notes.
"43 year old Tohou Yamamoto died last night in a brutal accident while he was shopping at a local supermarket." Right man, right place.
"He was outside the store when suddenly a speeding car lost control and hit him, sending him to the other side of the road only to get run-over by another car and getting pinned in between that said car and a bus." Right cause of injury.
"It took four hours to get him out and onto an ambulance to be brought to a hospital, unfortunately, he was dead on arrival." Right time and cause of death.
I double checked my Death Note and saw that what the reporter on the tv said was exactly identical to what I wrote in the Death Note.
"Then, that means that. I'm a murderer..." I trailed off as I looked from the Death Note then glanced at the tv then they flashed a greyed out photo of the body in between car and the bus.
I quickly turned it off and threw the Death Note to the other side of the room. I held my head and my body shook.
I killed someone! I just fucking killed a man!
... Ok, ok. Deep breaths, calm down, you can work this out.
I slowly calmed down. My mind became conflicted but I finally made a conclusion.
I slowly approached the Death Note then picked it up.
I can neither go to heaven nor hell, as long as I play it safe, there's no gameover.
A smirk slowly crawled its way onto my face.
There's no turning back, the game has begun!