I sat on the curb looking at Ryuk. In my inebriated state, Ryuk took on a surreal quality as though some spiritual energy emanated from him.
CRUNCH
"Apples are delicious, eh. What do you think, Light?"
First this guy talks about changing the world, and now he's talking apples?
"Change the world? Hah, don't make me laugh. I'm a detective...even then, I can't put a few low level crooks off the streets."
"Hey, hey, buck up. Besides, I know what your problem is already. You spilled it all out back there," he motioned toward the pub. "So don't bore me."
Silence
"All I'm saying is that I'm giving you a choice to do something about it. I think you've got the right idea from what I heard...We should get rid of all the "filth" in the world. Right?"
Ryuk sat next to Light, "You see here: I'm immortal."
"But it comes at a price. I make a blood pact with someone, and they're able to share my inherited ability. I call it Death's Eye. If I know the person's full name and look at an unobstructed view of their face, I can control how they die."
I listened calmly.
"I just need to have a killing intent when I repeat their full name in my head four times and then say how they'd die out loud. I just can't make them kill someone else. If they tried to kill someone else, then they'd regain conciousness and be unsucceptable to manipulation again."
"If you want the power, all you have to do is pay my price through the blood pact. I haven't needed to make the pact in a while now but I need a source of life energy if I want to go on living another decade. You'd be giving me part of your life energy to use the eye. If you're lucky, you can live out half of the life you'd have lived otherwise. That's the longest someone's lasted...well that's if you take into account the life spans of their relatives and friends."
I thought about it for a moment and said, "that is only if I use the power after we make that pact."
"Hehhhehe. No need to be so serious. You're correct though. But don't worry, you'd survive a hundred uses without loosing a week, probably."
"What happened to the others?" I asked.
"I'm not one to divulge secrets, but let's say that none of them ever attained happiness using the power."