Chapter Two: death note
Beika Second Apartment
This is a high-end single-person apartment located near the center of Mihua City.
After entering the room and changing into indoor slippers, Hayashi Yoshiki poured a glass of water and went to the computer desk in the bedroom.
On the desk sat a bulky old computer monitor.
The product iteration in "Detective Conan" is very interesting—although there is no specific era setting in the plot, time basically synchronizes with the real world. Therefore, starting from its initial serialization in 1994, even if only a few months have passed in the plot, the architectural styles and electronic products in the original work have been constantly changing.
Perhaps in a while, this old computer can be replaced.
However, the current focus was not this computer.
Hayashi Yoshiki opened the computer desk drawer, lifted the wooden board used as a disguise underneath, and took out the black notebook hidden within.
"DEATH NOTE"
On the deep black cover, this English string was recorded in slightly crooked, pale white characters.
It was the handwriting of a Shinigami.
Directly translated, it means death note—a person whose name is written in the notebook will die.
This is an item from another high-intelligence Detective reasoning manga.
Hayashi Yoshiki didn't know where it came from.
It was simply in his hand when he suddenly transmigrated to this world.
And a series of tests confirmed that it was genuine.
—As long as the user visualizes the target's face in their mind and accurately writes their true name in the notebook, the target will die of a heart attack forty seconds later.
Once the target's name is written, even if it is erased or altered within forty seconds, it is useless—the person whose name is written in the note will definitely die.
However, in addition to a heart attack, the user can also specify the target's cause of death and detailed time of death in the death note: whether it's death by illness, car accident, or gunshot, any physically plausible cause of death is acceptable, but the time of death must be within 23 days after the target's name is written.
"As long as it's physically possible, the death note can control any action of the target before their death."
"In other words, if the target is set to die of a heart attack an hour later, then within that hour, their actions can be controlled by the death note."
Regarding physical feasibility, for example, it's impossible to make a target currently in Tokyo, Japan, die in New York, USA, 60 minutes later—this is currently physically impossible.
So even if it's written that way in the death note, the target will simply die of a heart attack in their original location 60 minutes later because it cannot be accomplished.
"Nishikawa Shigehiko's death announcement indeed appeared on the news radio this afternoon, just as I wrote… Being able to achieve this level will certainly make things much more convenient in the future."
Hayashi Yoshiki slowly opened the death note.
The pages of the death note will never run out, but from its appearance and feel, it is a very thin notebook.
Turning to the latest page with text, the content was:
"Nishikawa Shigehiko"
"March 16th, 8:23:47 PM, encountered a Police arrest operation and died of a heart attack while attempting to flee."
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Ito Izumi
At 4:48 PM on April 1st, April Fool's Day, he was shot and killed by the Police during a routine crime.
Before his death, on March 17th, he heard the news of Nishikawa Shigehiko's death via television from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's press conference, and then the next day, on March 18th at 2:21:30 PM, he heard the news of Nishikawa Shigehiko's death broadcast on the Beika midday news radio.
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This was the content written the night before last.
Hayashi Yoshiki had no doubt about the effectiveness of killing with the death note; what he truly wanted to test were the two additions written after Ito Izumi's cause of death.
The death note can control the target's actions before death.
If this rule is reasonably utilized, what kind of social information the deceased receives before death is also categorized as "actions before death."
This is not something physically impossible.
And the result was indeed as Hayashi Yoshiki had hoped: after Nishikawa Shigehiko's death, the time of his news broadcast was exactly consistent with the record he wrote for Ito Izumi.
Hayashi Yoshiki was not sure when Nishikawa Shigehiko's death news would have been reported if it had followed the original procedure, but because he wrote that Ito Izumi would hear this news via midday news radio at 2:21 PM today, he heard the news radio broadcasting Nishikawa Shigehiko's death news at that exact time when he was just taking a taxi.
It was just like a script…
This also means that if this point is flexibly utilized, Hayashi Yoshiki can even "control" this world to a certain extent through the death note.
However, this "control" is actually still limited.
First, the necessary condition is that Nishikawa Shigehiko's death news will definitely be broadcast through the news; it's just that the original time might have been a bit earlier or later, and now it's merely controlled by the death note at the time Hayashi Yoshiki set.
If this news broadcast would not have appeared originally, then the content Hayashi Yoshiki wrote in the death note would also be nullified.
More tests are needed.
"…"
Thinking this, Hayashi Yoshiki turned on his computer.
In the year he had possessed the death note, unless absolutely necessary, Hayashi Yoshiki mostly chose to target criminals, and he happened to have channels to collect information on these criminals.
Opening the slow-reacting computer and dialing up the internet, Hayashi Yoshiki clicked on a certain website.
Enter account and password.
Adjust the external camera.
The next second after displaying a successful login, a flood of information, like a cascading waterfall, unfolded on the screen, including several sections in addition to general messages.
The most noteworthy of these was the shopping section.
Information, drugs, firearms, fake documents…
Ignoring price differences, these items on this website were as convenient as online shopping for chewing gum.
In addition, this website also contained a large amount of illegal content, but with Hayashi Yoshiki's account permissions, he could only view the more superficial parts of this website.
And during the viewing process, the computer's external camera had to be aimed at Hayashi Yoshiki's upper body the entire time; presumably, at the other end of the webpage, someone was closely watching to see if he made any movements other than operating the mouse.
Hayashi Yoshiki was well aware that any click on such a website would leave a record in the backend, so in addition to viewing the information he needed, he also looked at a lot of miscellaneous things.
It wasn't until the sky outside the window gradually darkened, making the screen's light appear dazzling, that he closed the webpage and was about to re-tape the camera with black tape.
Buzz~~ Buzz~~~!
The flip phone placed aside suddenly vibrated.
Picking it up and unlocking it, he saw an anonymous text message lying in the inbox:
"Tonight at nine, Daikoku Building top floor, "Cocktail" bar"
Gin.
Hayashi Yoshiki narrowed his eyes slightly.
After a while,
A smile appeared on Hayashi Yoshiki's face, and he slowly murmured:
"…The sun has set, I need to turn on the lights first."
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