"Ryuk ?!", Raito said, surprised, with a smile of joy.
"Hi, Light. I see you've been picking up my apples. Hehe."
"You're kidding me, Ryuk," said Raito. "That was going to be my first one since I got here."
-What?! Really? Oh ... I'm sorry, Raito ... but do not worry, a hundred years from now another tree is born out there, hehe.
"Only yourself, Ryuk ..." Raito said, looking down with a faint smile in a mixture of satisfaction and frustration.
And he completed:
"Ryuk, why did not you show up all this time I was alone?" I did not know where to find it, but I suppose you knew where I was.
"I knew where you were, Raito ... but you had to be alone. It's the rules. Do not get me wrong.
"I understand ..." Raito says thoughtfully.
The two began to walk together where the other shinigami are gathered. It will take a few million years to arrive if they are on foot, or a few seconds if they are winged.
But they are in no hurry of anything, and they are walking.
They talk a lot for days and days as they walk, and Ryuk explains several details ... some things that Death did not mention, and others he already knew.
"At first, when I got here, I thought you had killed me out of spite, and you did not help me because you did not, Ryuk. Raito said, still with some residual frustration.
"You were going to die that day anyway, Raito, even though I had not shown up. The fact that I gave you the Death Note did not change anything on the day you were to die, for that day is written above your head the day you are born. - Ryuk says, confirming what Death had given him to understand.
Death has already explained that shinigami never choose people who will live long, for it would be boring now, and they would be stuck with this mortal for many decades, which would make the experience boring and cloying.
Mortals who have only two or at most ten years of life are the most chosen by shinigami. And even so, the shinigami always offer the agreement of the eyes to reduce even more this time.
Death herself encourages the shinigami to do these things. And she has a lot of fun with it.
He went on:
"The only way for you to die before that time is by understanding the eyes.
Light fix it:
-Or if a shinigami kills that person ahead of time. There are two ways, Ryuk ...
Oh, yeah ... That's right, I forgot. He replies, rubbing his head, looking at Raito ... impressed by his wit, and wondering. But Raito always kept looking forward.
Ryuk continues to stare thoughtfully: "He seems to be as sagacious as before, no, he is beyond a shadow of a doubt much wiser and smarter, no longer a mere human, I think he must have realized that detail as well. ".
"What did you think of Death, boy?" Ryuk said, staring with wide, wicked eyes.
Raito understood what he seemed to be hinting at.
"Ryuuku might also have realized that very quick thoughts, rather than snapshots, can not be read by Death," Light thought.
Raito sends a firm look in response, to show that he had received the message well.
Riuk breaks the ice:
-Okay ... let's stop here. - says Ryuk, gathering some pieces of skulls, small bones and stones. "Sit down, Raito, I'll teach you a new game.
Raito was rather curious, for he knew it was no game, especially since Ryuk's wicked look indicated that there was something serious in the air.
In all, Ryuk collected 26 skulls, 26 bones and 26 stones, put them all down, and they both sat down to play. Only Ryuuku stirred the pieces. Light looked closely. Each time Ryuk took a piece, he looked at Raito, moving his iris (his gaze) in a specific direction.
In all, Raito realized after several shinigami attempts that this was a secret code, where Ryuuk moved his gaze to 26 different directions, thus adding a fourth element to the variable.
Raito understood at the same time that number 26 represented the letters of the alphabet, but it took a long time to realize that the sequence of the stones he touched represented a letter of the dominant alphabet of the Earth, a language Raito could speak, English.
It took a long time to understand that the movement of the eyes changed the real value of each piece. Until Raito fully understood this code, it took time equivalent to two years, even because they both stopped sleeping at various times, and because there were other discrete variables that Raito took too long to notice.
