[Mikami's eyes flickered to the image on the screen. Knowing the name upon seeing the face, if the face belonged to a living person, wasn't even a choice; that writings were there meant the mind processed them. Pulling the Note back into place on top of his briefcase still held in his arm, he stopped only when the second question came. He stopped, but he did not look up. He continued looking down at the first character of the person's name, putting matters together.
Of course if God were attempting to play ignorant, and he was to some degree, he would have to pretend not to know of the trade. However at the same time, he was telling Mikami to write names, openly aware of the Note as the means through which Kira worked, and that he would be an accomplice in the deaths he'd acknowledged would be the result of the first name written.
This boy was cautious, but he'd already thrown his lot in with Mikami--if only because Mikami himself was a potential threat on more fronts than the legal one, so long as he held a Note. Mikami Teru was a name he might have had interest in writing in his own Note.
His eyes lifted from the paper, considering the boy to whom he'd given a scrap. He wouldn't do it here. First of all, because he couldn't be positive of the spelling of Mikami's name; it would be like engaging in a stand off with only one bullet in his chamber, without knowing if it was the one at the barrel. Secondly, because he would want to dispose of him more conveniently than for his corpse to be found lying in an abandoned building not terribly far from his daily school route.
In order to put the other at ease--not for any type of self preservation, not to buy trust, but out of the simple and sincere desire to soothe, Mikami closed the Note and hooked the pen clip into the cover. He couldn't quite make himself hand it over, as comfortable as that may have made the boy. Even if his motivation was not to seek trust to protect his own life but to be of service, the fact remained that if he did not curry more faith from God before they departed, Mikami Teru--maybe both of them--would be dead not long after they parted. And as much as Mikami wanted to continue living, even more than that he wanted to be of service. He couldn't do that as a corpse.
Making a high school boy, God in training or not, feel a little better did not count as meaningfully being "of service."]
I see. The information you had passed on to me was the result of your own research and development.
[The second Note, the one soon to belong to Amane Misa years before it would come to him, didn't come with a convenient front page set of instructions in a common human language. Of course, there were some details one surely couldn't experiment to discover; one of which was the Shinigami eyes. The Shinigami was necessary for such, and short of making the offer, how could a human know? Was the human to ask? Ryuk had not been very forthcoming with information when questioned, though with the notations granted to him, a personal Revelations text, by God, his had been decidedly more about the man, about matters he was not entitled and did not need to know in order to serve him. Likely, the Eyes became known through a Shinigami. Least of all because the Sakura TV Kira did not seen to possess an experimental or scientifically inquisitive capacity and yet had obtained them without making contact with God for instruction.]
Then the Shinigami hasn't made the offer. Or has it not appeared to you yet at all?
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Of course if God were attempting to play ignorant, and he was to some degree, he would have to pretend not to know of the trade. However at the same time, he was telling Mikami to write names, openly aware of the Note as the means through which Kira worked, and that he would be an accomplice in the deaths he'd acknowledged would be the result of the first name written.
This boy was cautious, but he'd already thrown his lot in with Mikami--if only because Mikami himself was a potential threat on more fronts than the legal one, so long as he held a Note. Mikami Teru was a name he might have had interest in writing in his own Note.
His eyes lifted from the paper, considering the boy to whom he'd given a scrap. He wouldn't do it here. First of all, because he couldn't be positive of the spelling of Mikami's name; it would be like engaging in a stand off with only one bullet in his chamber, without knowing if it was the one at the barrel. Secondly, because he would want to dispose of him more conveniently than for his corpse to be found lying in an abandoned building not terribly far from his daily school route.
In order to put the other at ease--not for any type of self preservation, not to buy trust, but out of the simple and sincere desire to soothe, Mikami closed the Note and hooked the pen clip into the cover. He couldn't quite make himself hand it over, as comfortable as that may have made the boy. Even if his motivation was not to seek trust to protect his own life but to be of service, the fact remained that if he did not curry more faith from God before they departed, Mikami Teru--maybe both of them--would be dead not long after they parted. And as much as Mikami wanted to continue living, even more than that he wanted to be of service. He couldn't do that as a corpse.
Making a high school boy, God in training or not, feel a little better did not count as meaningfully being "of service."]
I see. The information you had passed on to me was the result of your own research and development.
[The second Note, the one soon to belong to Amane Misa years before it would come to him, didn't come with a convenient front page set of instructions in a common human language. Of course, there were some details one surely couldn't experiment to discover; one of which was the Shinigami eyes. The Shinigami was necessary for such, and short of making the offer, how could a human know? Was the human to ask? Ryuk had not been very forthcoming with information when questioned, though with the notations granted to him, a personal Revelations text, by God, his had been decidedly more about the man, about matters he was not entitled and did not need to know in order to serve him. Likely, the Eyes became known through a Shinigami. Least of all because the Sakura TV Kira did not seen to possess an experimental or scientifically inquisitive capacity and yet had obtained them without making contact with God for instruction.]
Then the Shinigami hasn't made the offer. Or has it not appeared to you yet at all?