"Yes, I can."
The words echoed straight into Ryuk's head, and he watched as the little girl's expression slowly turned from a gleaming smile into a sad one.
Then came the tears, gushing from her eyes, their color strangely the same multicolor as her hair, raining down onto Ryuk below.
'Did talking to her make her cry?' he thought, confused.
But his expression quickly changed when she suddenly buried her face in his chest, staining it with tears and wiping her nose directly onto him.
"Eugh!"
"Can someone get this girl off me!" he roared in exasperation, but all he got in return was their forced-down laughter, as none of them moved an inch from where they stood.
In the end, he could only turn back to her, silently waiting for her tears and sniffles to stop.
It did, after ten long minutes, one of the most helpless ten minutes of his entire life, before she finally rose, her beaming smile returning.
"I'm sorry," she said, rubbing off her tears.
