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"Why do you carry this with you?" An and Subaru pressed it, but there was no response.
"Let me borrow it for a moment." Light Yagami didn't explain, and tried to take it to look at it, but he missed and grabbed An and Subaru's hands instead.
Chapter 68: Misa Amane Continues to Send Her Husband to the Middle School
It's amazing.
Light Yagami withdrew his hand.
I just lightly touched An and Subaru's bodies, and I can confirm that this is a woman's touch, even if they touch each other together.
Only their appearance and clothes have changed to resemble someone else's.
"What my grandmother looked like when she was young."
An and Subaru activated their abilities while looking at the photo.
She made a scissor shape with both hands and poked it near her ear. ()
"Is this some kind of conceptually advanced ability?"
Light Yagami couldn't bear to look at them. When they played the role of Subaru, An and Tendo were young and beautiful, but all he saw was their aged appearance.
"Why did you abandon me? Can't you forget her?" An and Subaru stretched out their hands and recited the lines with deep emotion, as if the man in front of them was a heartless man.
"Because you like to walk around the house barefoot, and your feet smell." Light Yagami replied irritably, hands on his hips.
"Clam?"
"You rascal... I'll wash myself before we go to bed."
An and Subaru tossed the pillow over, seemingly lost in thought.
"I should be able to become a character in a movie or TV show."
In the midst of their conversation, An and Subaru switched between various personas: a Qing Dynasty princess, a white policeman holding an empty gun... and even the image of Misa Amane.
Light Yagami could spot the inconsistencies through subtle clues, but he had to admit that without knowing beforehand that it was a superpower, no one would have guessed it wasn't him.
Unless she falls into a period of time where others can immediately tell something is wrong.
"I need your help," Light Yagami said, carefully choosing his words.
"I have something to do in a few days, and I need you to look like me and attend a date."
"What do you want to do to Kira?" When An and Subaru heard that the time was exactly the day Kira gave the order to assemble, they became wary. Protecting Kira's identity was an unspoken understanding among every believer who worshipped him.
Those who yearn for light will naturally adore heroes.
"The Yagami family is in charge of security at the venue. Besides, Kira usually gives orders by controlling death row inmates, so he won't be exposed to outsiders."
As a member of the ruling class, Light Yagami was not surprised that An and Subaru had such awareness. Under Kira's propaganda, almost all the lower classes realized the source of their suffering.
The people both hate these people and want to marry into them, to become one of them or to depend on them.
"I won't let you help me for nothing." Light Yagami leaned closer and told An and Subaru the reward he offered.
"This is too much..." An and Subaru were deeply shocked.
"...You've really gone all out." Her expression was complicated.
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"Great! The next step is to expose Igarashi Rencai's superpowers!"
Upon receiving the message from Light Yagami, Misa Amane learned the details of her mission to send her husband away.
It seems we don't need to control them.
It seems that Yue's moral depravity level is not high enough to do such a thing.
The higher the depravity level, the more ruthless and cold-blooded one becomes, and the less psychological burden one carries when using others to achieve their goals, even resorting to unscrupulous means.
She started eavesdropping in the opposite direction, trying to detect what was wrong next door and report it to her boyfriend.
next door.
"When will we be able to rent Taoxiang's house again?" Jingqin Rencai rolled over, almost crushing the homeless guitarist who had nowhere to go.
Having been in Tokyo for some time, her daily routine consists of adopting an idol she admires, watching her wake up yawning every day, and keeping an eye on her drinking habits.
"That might be a bit difficult, considering it's a house that's already been returned."
Kawara Momoka had just rested for a while to relieve the fatigue from her part-time job.
As if sensing what she wanted to ask, he responded in advance: "I don't want to use the Yagami family's money, nor do I want to live a better life through Yue's connections."
"Oh, I see... Momoka, you have a little belly."
Jing Qinren squatted by the bed, poked her exposed belly, and chuckled foolishly.
“I’m already a middle-aged man.” Momoka Kawahara turned over, her belly against the bed to prevent her from being naughty again.
"By the way, if Momoka could switch bodies with someone else, what would she do?"
Undeterred, Igarashi Rina reached in to tickle her idol, but her hand was held down, forcing her to pull it out.
"Swap bodies? Then I'd definitely want to be a boy for once."
While on the bed, Tao Xiang became aroused, thinking, "I want to go outside, stand there, and wait for a cute young lady to muster up the courage to approach me, cautiously offer me money, and ask if I'd accept being kept by someone, then pretend to decline before actually doing so..."
"Is this some kind of fantasy before you die from overwork?" Izana retorted. "Shouldn't they ask if I want to date them first?"
"Those are lines from a poor high school girl. Working girls are still rich."
"Hmm...it seems that Momoka's perspective is often that of someone who has entered the workforce." Izare Nina said thoughtfully.
Upon hearing this, Misa Amane ended the recording with a hint of excitement.
She found a reason for her boyfriend to get to know this person.
"Host, are you rushing to send your husband away..." The system didn't know what to say and silently watched her send the message.
"It doesn't matter how many times I send them, I'm used to it anyway. As long as Misa wins in the end, that's all that matters." Misa smiled nonchalantly, though a hint of bitterness could be seen on her face.
Getting used to something isn't necessarily a good thing.
"That's true. After this, there will be no reason to give away superpowers, and we can gradually achieve our goal of controlling the upper echelons of humanity." It was because the system saw hope that it gave this advice, rather than trying to persuade Misa Amane to change her mind.
"This is the last time." Misa Amane held the notebook, which still smelled of him.
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What a coincidence!
Light Yagami tapped his index finger lightly on the table, his expression grave.
This week has been more eventful than the past seventeen years.
"I didn't observe that boy with the cleft lip's past. Yue, could that be your past life?"
With its enormous black wings flapping, the Grim Reaper named Ryuk gnawed on a grafted apple while revealing a sinister smile.
"That was my whole life." Light Yagami did not deny it.
Over the course of a year, the Grim Reaper, tempted by the advanced science he used to cultivate apples, almost came to obey.
Perhaps it's also because he finds divisible fun enough.
"I see. Then I can understand why you're so determined to change the world. Is it because you've been rained on and want to hold an umbrella for others?" Ryuk took a big bite of the apple. "But you're really not being fair. I knew you first, right? Yet you told Misa Amane about it."
"Why do you look like a resentful man?" Light Yagami took out a pen and twirled it with his slender fingers.
"Not entirely. Before I was hit by a car and died, I made a wish: to live in a world where women give dowries, to be Ultraman, to have a system, to have a harem, to be the male protagonist..."
"Hey, hey, hey, this isn't just one wish, is it?" Ryuk tilted his head in surprise.
"At that moment, all the thoughts that came to mind came rushing back to me, like a revolving lantern. I could recall and think of so many things at that moment."
Chapter 69: Desu, a 17-year-old female high school student
The thoughts are strongest and the desires are purest at the moment of death.
There was a being in a vast world who cultivated the Way of Wishes, and his wish was granted, thus he was reborn into this world.
“The suffering of those women arose because of my momentary thought, and I need to atone for my sins.”
"Looks like you and Yukinoshita are the same kind of people." Ryuk yawned. He was almost always outside helping to monitor the gate and rarely came back.
"However, your idea is unreasonable. The deletion of most men and the establishment of a male-dominated world was an order given by the Death King a hundred years ago. He was furious when he saw the chaos between men and women in other minor worlds up to 2024."
Ryuk chuckled and revealed the secrets of the Shinigami world.
"...The orders of the King of Death?" Light Yagami chuckled. After all, the King of Death was a man, and he was capable of doing such a thing.
Without discussing the topic further to avoid being sensed by the so-called King of Death, Light Yagami casually jotted down a few names and chatted with Ryuk without turning his head.
“When I was a child, I tried to improve the treatment of the employees of the Yagami family’s company. They basically earned 3,000 yuan a month and worked 996. Capitalism openly exploits every ordinary person in the world, and the existence of powerful families prevents them from rising up.”
"Unfortunately, I can't even raise the salaries of my own company too much. Even if I manage to suppress the doubts from other families and close relatives, my company is still confined to certain places and can't go out at all."
In a world with a polygamous system, each family occupies a city, and officials from top to bottom are all from their families. The prime minister is simply someone chosen by several families in turn.
"Isn't this normal? Your world claims to be equal for everyone. How can your values and the values of this world possibly align? If you're not assimilated, you can only rebel."
"I have no power to resist. Even if I watch other members of parliament reach into my family's foundation and take money that should be used to help those in need, I can only pretend I didn't see it. Even if I take out the assets of my future generations in advance, I still have to share the profits with other families." Yagami Light lovingly stroked the Death Note.
He had seen his father working on the construction site under the scorching sun, where the temperature was locked at 39 degrees Celsius. The high-temperature allowance was swallowed up by the foreman, leaving him with only a bottle of water. He also had to pay for his own work clothes, which were supposed to be provided free of charge.
He had seen his father's wife, whom he had married at a high dowry, run away with the family's money. His so-called mother only existed in the mouths of adults, and he was called a child without father or mother since he was a child.
He had met his grandmother, who had raised him, a college student, by harvesting rice pound by pound and growing grains at a price of one yuan per pound. She died before he could fulfill his filial duty because the foundation had embezzled the money for her medical treatment.
It is precisely because I have witnessed these things firsthand that I can empathize with those people.
Light Yagami opened the message history he had saved.
"This little girl's name is Elisa. She died in the war when she was ten years old. Before she died, she wrote a will, wanting to give her toys to other children and divide her savings of sixty dollars into several parts to give to the uncles and sisters who had helped her."
"The old man claimed that his college student son was just feeling unwell and was diagnosed as brain dead. No one signed the certificate. Hundreds of miles away, a wealthy family found that he was a suitable organ donor. Within half an hour, the flight application was approved, and the organ was harvested live on the plane until the surgery was completed."
"This woman embezzled the layoff subsidies of hundreds of thousands of people. That winter, many families huddled together and committed suicide by poisoning, while she and her children lived a carefree life abroad."
There are far too many examples of this. In a world ruled by powerful clans, the so-called "gangster world," there is no lack of oppression, but rather, even the voices of oppression are not allowed to be heard. They completely control public opinion and the media, and any slightly glamorous professions are occupied by members of powerful families.
Therefore, the Kimura family, the local bullies in Kumamoto, could arbitrarily bully others to the point of ordering her to jump off a building. Even after being punished by Kira, they still attacked her indiscriminately, only after asking for his opinion beforehand.
Therefore, Light Yagami doesn't want to appear on camera, so he doesn't dare to have paparazzi take photos and report on him.
Therefore, Yukino Yukinoshita was bullied when she was in sixth grade. When her father found out, he sank the whole family to Tokyo Bay instead of staying in Chiba to study. She studied abroad for three years before returning home.
"I don't understand these things. I've seen your human loves and hates, even the destruction of nations, countless times over hundreds of thousands of years." Ryuk flapped his wings, scratched his head, and grinned sheepishly.
However, his face was ferocious.
"Let me change this world, Ryuk. Don't be in such a hurry to take me away. I want to build a world where everyone is equal."
Light Yagami looked at him intently.
He didn't know when Ryuk, who had written his name in the notebook and came to the human world for fun, would get tired of him and destroy the evidence, since he was using someone else's Death Note.
He wasn't even sure if he would die, so he couldn't take responsibility for those girls after he had been with them. That's the real reason he wanted to stay away from them.
"Well, I just want to see how far you can go." Ryuk guiltily tried to turn his head away from that intense gaze.
In the end, they were defeated.
"I'll wait until you die of old age before taking you away, but you'd better make me laugh."
Light Yagami smiled with relief.
He was never arrogant or complacent; how could decades of experience possibly contend with a creature whose existence was of unknown age?
His experiences in his first life taught him a lesson: he was just an ordinary person. Even if he was more popular and outstanding in his second life, someone else with the same opportunities could achieve the same results as him.
A small ripple stirred in the room as Light Yagami watched Ryuk fly out the window, standing there for a long time.
He really wanted to change this awful world.
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"So Momoka-san is this big." Izare Jinna pinched her in surprise, but it seemed a little strange that she was using Kawaraki Momoka's body.
"That's enough!"
Silently transferred into the small body of Iori Rina, Kawara Momoka was filled with grief and indignation to discover that her voice was Rina's.
She looked down at the school uniform of Zongwu High School, crossed her legs, and gave a pinky sign.