“Um... can you stand?” Misora said, reaching out toward him. The man looked up at her, his eyes in shadow, as if two holes were staring at her.
“Thank you,” he said, and took her hand. Misora pulled him upright. “Are you injured? Does it hurt anywhere?”
“I’m fine, thank you,” the man said, not letting go of her hand. Even on his feet, he did not attempt to move away. They appeared to be shaking hands. Like warriors on a battlefield, exchanging a firm handshake after surviving yet another bloody fight.
“You are very kind,” he said, with something like a smile, and at last let go of her hand. Then he tottered away as if nothing at all had happened, slowly climbing the stairs again.
“Ah. . .w-wait! Just a second!”
Misora had almost let him go, but a moment later she ran after him, circling around in front of him again. She was an FBI agent and could not let an assault crime go unpunished. The young man was sucking his thumb. He did not appear to be at all nervous.
“If you aren’t hurt, then you’ll have to come with me. Sexual assault is a serious crime. You can’t go around throwing your arms around women. What were you thinking?”
“Don’t just stand there. Say something. This attitude won’t make things easier for you. What’s your name?”
Naomi Misora had asked his name. The young man nodded.
And answered.
“Please call me Ryuzaki,” he said, unperturbed. Just like someone else had.
And a few years after his arrest, on January 21, 2004, serving a life sentence in a California
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Kira killed BB? Wow, if only Light knew.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the fact that BB was one of Kira's victims was surprising and funny.
ReplyDelete...I F**KING LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAgreed ^^
DeleteBB had become a shinigami if u look into it
ReplyDeleteReally? Dang!
DeleteWow this was so interesting ! ..... Wish there was a sequel
ReplyDeleteBtw, thank you to whomever published this up here !
ReplyDeleteNice plot twist
ReplyDeletethis story follows in no ways the death note's story fact, certain things in this story would absolutely never happen in the manga and even the character have different personality in some cases. Has someone that closely follows the manga, this story is deceiving and would make lots of fans up to mad at some point: I was not even able to read it completely from the start to end and had to skip half of it.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I agree. It made me mad at some points, how the characters acted. Don't get me wrong it was a good read for what it is, but I almost wish the writer had an original basis for the story, not Death Note. Anyways, I won't dwell.
ReplyDeleteThis was perhaps the best book I have ever read. Mny thanks to whoever posted this. Death Note is my absolute favorite anime and this story was very well thought out and planned.
ReplyDeletegood story but it does not stick with the original attitude of characters :3 and some parts are a bit misleading (maybe I need to read this book twice or even multiple times to clear my mind XD)
ReplyDeleteoh snaaaaap
ReplyDeleteThis book is interesting, even if it falls into a lot of traps. For one, throughout the mystery the detectives find a lot of patterns that are arguably arbitrary. This is something that unfortunately a lot of puzzle-mysteries do. The root of the problem is that the detectives assume the killer is a smart puzzle-maker. Most killers in real life simply aren't, so that makes it a bit unrealistic to say the least. The original Death Note avoided this problem because Kira was killing people in smart ways (if you didn't know about the Note). Here, it looks like a slightly erratic killer from the outside. Pretty normal, considering many killers are deranged.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the patterns can be fun, and turning a crime scene into a clock is a great concept, even if I don't particularly like the execution. Some of them just seemed like a stretch.
Whereas Death Note brilliantly married grandiose themes with psychological games, supernatural with crime, and carefully balanced exposition and action, this book didn't really do any of that. There are no moral themes here, nothing supernatural aside from a reference to the shinigami eyes that has basically no bearing on the plot, and the potential for psychological games between BB and Misora that it didn't live up to, mostly because it was focused on its twist. If it had revealed Ryuzaki to be Beyond Birthday from the start, it would've been more like Death Note. A cat and mouse between killer and detective.
As it is, it's kind of fun, and a little clever, but that's about it. I don't mind there not being more to it. I just wish there was something else out there in the Death Note franchise that captured the spirit and excitement of the original story.
OddTillTheEnd, I agree that the book had its flaws but I think that the author did try his best. I would give this book a 10/10 just because I liked that you would think that the BB murderer would be L because of they would look very similar (referencing the anime version) but in fact was not which in my opinion was that it was amazing.
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