Chapter 4
The snow was falling thickly, as I floated through the frosty air.
The moon hung suspended in the sky by invisible wires, shining like a large flashlight, minus the glare.
I floundered around in agitation. Where were the Police?
Japan was extremely disorganized, everything was everywhere. The neon sign for a nightclub, shone next to the neon sign for the supermarket, that in turn, shone next to the neon sign for something else totally unrelated. It was extremely inconvenient for entities such as me. Life, as an example, could spread himself over the whole world, he didn't have to look for anything. But me? I had to search, because if I spread myself out like Life did, another powerful entity(Time, Space, Logic) would probably consume me.
That's how I intend to destroy Life. Although he's the strongest now, he'll be weak by the time thousands begin dying due to increased amounts of murders, serial killers, etc... Then I'll simply overtake his consciousness. That doesn't mean life itself will end. Just that I'll be pulling the levers.
Now, here's why I can't just snuff out Birthday kid's consciousness and control the body. I already told you he had a large amount of life, but his will is also strong. In the spirit realm, all that counts is your spiritual pressure, and your will. You can be the most willful worm in the universe, but you won't accomplish anything worth mentioning. You can have an enormous spiritual pressure and just sleep all day, you won't accomplish anything. Birthday kid has both, but doesn't know how to use either. I assume, however, that if he got pissed at me and wanted to kill me, he could; easily.
At the moment I have the upper hand.
Why?
I'm commanding him. Duh …
I skirted through another building and a person by accident, he yelped and spilled coffee all over himself.
I laughed evilly for a bit, then riveted my attention to the task at hand.
Hovering over the sprawling mess of a city, I looked deeply onto the ants(people, they are people who look like ants because they're so small.). And cursed every one of them, flipped a few cars, and was careful to keep my spiritual energy sharp. Life could attack at any minute.
I sighed, this was getting tedious.
Why couldn't there be one section for homes, listed in alphabetical order by last names, one for stores, and small businesses, large corporations, and National/Global/Community organizations. It would make it much easier to find a person or place.
But Life wanted to preserve itself and made everything hard. Nevertheless, I managed.
I swept into a building, that to my embarrassment clearly stated that it was the Police Headquarters.
I quickly analyzed the building and found a horrible dispute taking place in an auditorium-sized room.
The room was packed with men in their forties arguing with each other about who was killing criminals. I didn't see the point. They were criminals, why were the Police worried that they were dying. The air was full of sweat and rage, a fight was going to break out, how amusing. Someone made a rash remark that blames either the CIA, or FBI.
More sweat and rage, and perhaps some blood.
The men were all blaming each other in what to do about this 'Kira'. I personally wasn't too interested, didn't matter to me. Well, unless that involved the death of my puppet, that would be bad.
I was about to leave; nobody important was here. All these people were a good part of the government. The part which interacts with the people the most. All these people worked for their own benefit/paycheck and had no real attachment to life. They didn't hold it especially precious and never would say more than a few words to life's benefit. Their life could be summed up by hoarding trashy little trinkets in their homes.
That's how it was with people. If the government was bad, people became self righteous and overthrew the corrupted powers. They then set something else up with changes. When that government rose to power and did whatever the public wanted it to do, people were happy until a foreign country came and wiped half of it out.
People would then involve itself into a huge war, scrap the government and put a military commander into the presidents place. The 'president' would then enforce laws, and became corrupt. The cycle would then start itself over again.
Don't deny it, I've seen it happen too many times.
In summary, The government is something that comes with a price, social unrest. And is most always unreliable and bound to corrupt. It would then be obliterated by the people and started anew.
To summarize the summary: The government is a vicious cycle, that won't ever end and will always make people unhappy.
In conclusion, people are a problem.
These people were a problem, and a bother.
I floated toward the window, about to leave.
"This is another one for L..."
I froze.
"L is already involved."
I turned and floated back.
A very detective-looking person was standing in front of the podium. He was swathed completely in a crisp brown trench-coat, and low rimmed hat that obscured his face. He was holding a computer,the computer was addressing the crowd via a small speaker, the computer had a black 'L' printed into the center of it.
This was all very mysterious and interesting.
L told the crowd that this killer was evil, and he must be stopped at all costs; that they needed to launch a tremendous campaign against Kira costing billions etc... rousing the 'fighting' spirits of the forty-year-old-men who yelled at each other and sweat a lot.
I assumed he, was the one who would save the most lives, and therefore, is my first target.