I needed to experiment on the functioning of the death note. Just killing people wouldn't be enough. I decided to test if the death note could do the impossible. Could the death note break the human limitation?
I ate dinner with my parents and returned to my desk after a small talk across the dinning table.
Ryuk: "So what are you doing now?"
Kira: "Deciding how to kill someone."
Ryuk: "So who's the lucky girl?"
Kira: "You."
Ryuk: "You meagre human. You realise I could kill you right now right?"
I ignored Ryuk's commentary and continued thinking. Then, all of a sudden the idea struck my mind. I opened the first page of the death note and wrote,
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'Ray Banner.
Cause of Death: Thinking.
Details: Ray Banner will die due to continuous thoughts crossing through his mind which would drive him insane. This insanity will result to his death at precisely 8 o'clock JST .'
We all use our brains to think and innovate. However, could it be possible that our thoughts could kill us? What would happen if we thought too much? Could it be possible to use terabytes worth of memories on thinking alone?
But of all questions, the one that was lingering in my mind was, 'could the death note make humans extraordinarily powerful or take away their power?'
Only time would tell.