The human who becomes the owner of the Death Note can, in exchange of half his/her remaining life, get the eyes of the Shinigami which will enable him/her to see a human’s name and remaining life span when looking through them. A person can shorten his/her own life by using the note. A Shinigami can extend their own life by putting a name on their own note, but humans cannot. A Shinigami has no obligation to completely explain how to use the note or rules which will apply to the human who owns it unless asked. Gods of Death, the original owners of the Death Note, do not do, in principle, anything which will help or prevent the deaths in the note. If a human uses the note, a god of death usually appears in front of him/her within 39 days after he/she uses the note. The person in possession of the Death Note is possessed by a god of death, its original owner, until they die. The human who touches the Death Note can recognize the image and voice of its original owner, a Shinigami, even if the human is not the owner of the note. If the time of death is written within 40 seconds after writing the cause of death as a heart attack, the time of death can be manipulated, and the time can go into effect within 40 seconds after writing the name.Ģ. The human who uses the notebook can neither go to Heaven nor Hell. The owner of the note can recognize the image and voice of the original owner, i.e. The notebook shall become the property of the human world, once it touches the ground of (arrives in) the human world. After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds. If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.

If the cause of death is written within the next 40 seconds of writing the person’s name, it will happen. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected. This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person’s face in their mind when writing his/her name. The human whose name is written in this note shall die.

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