DEATH NOTE X―FILES
Chapter 5: The Story of the Man Who Sold His Shadow
Clara was holding the Death Note when her mother knocked on the door of her room, indicating that her friends Matilda and Epifania had arrived.
The young ebony girl hid the death notebook on her bedside table, which she locked, and then hid it inside her little pony figure.
Her two good friends knocked on the door and Clara invited them in. Since the two girls didn't suddenly want to ask Clara how she felt, they just greeted her and snooped around the room a little.
“Do you still have Jhony Deep's youth patrol poster? Boo-hoo," said Epifania, who was part of the Christian Slater "team”.”
“Don't mess with my Jhony.... What lucky Winona Ryder is,” defended her idol Clara, who felt the tension leave her body.
“My cousin, who works at Cine Mundo, showed me scenes from Interview with the Vampire film's advances.... Brad Pitt is very handsome.”
Clara and Epiphany grabbed the pillows and took her against her high friend, who could do little to defend herself because of her lack of coordination. At the end, the three girls were tired and gave short laughs.
Clara assured her friends that she was well and that they had nothing to worry about when they returned home.
Once Clara returned from dismissing her friends, Voldor, who was levitating, came in through the window and looked a little upset.
“You girls make a lot of fuss, all the time you say: "YAAAAAAA". My eardrums are gonna burst.”
“Don't be bitter, take an apple.”
Voldor neither short nor lazy tasted the apple while saying something to Clara with a full mouth but was interrumted.
“I'm not going to write the names of the FBI agents in the notebook of death," Clara said, guessing what Voldor was trying to tell her, since she couldn't understand anything with his mouth full.”
"I'm not actually going to write any more names in that damn notebook anymore.”
Voldor sat up trying to look intimidating, but had spent so much time with Clara that the girl was no longer intimidated by him.
“If you don't write any names on the Death Note in the next eighty-five days I'll have to kill you.”
“Would you really do that?” Clara asked him with huge, watery eyes.
“Well... No, I wouldn't, but I can't stay in the human world without good reason.”
“Can't you help me?”
“The law forbids us to help a human being... however, nothing prevents us from giving detailed information to the users of the death notebook about the operation of the notebook.”
Clara asked Voldor for all the information he knew about the death notebook and wrote it down below.
She had to read all the directions several times, surprised that she could kill several people in different ways other than simple heart attacks, she could also be more specific about the time of death of the victims, and they could die long after writing their names. She also learned about the shinigami's eyes and possessing them in exchange for half the length of her natural life, but what struck her most, or rather horrified her, was the fact that Death Note corrupted the souls of human users.
"Gosh, it's like the ring in the Lord of the Rings," thought Clara and understood how it became easier and easier for her to write names in Voldor's notebook.
"I almost write down the names of the FBI agents, but..."
“Voldor, did you read the story: Peter without shadow?" asked Clara with what the shinigami shook his head.
Voldor heard the story of Peter without shadow and then said:
“It's possible that a shinigami once made a deal with a human. If the shinigami did not kill the human after eighty-five days, and if the human still remembered that he had met the shinigami and had possessed the Death Note, after he had renounced the rights of possession of the death notebook...”
“It means that there is a third way to get rid of the notebook of death, without losing my life or my memories. Voldor, I don't want to forget you.”
“Really?”
“Seriously, I bet Lydia Deetz wouldn't want to forget Beetlejuice either if she had to choose between dying or forgetting her friend.”
“But I don't want you to die either," admitted Voldor, with which Clara embraced him afterwards.
"Stop it, let me go. You're very sweet," complained the shinigami, but he was purring softly at the same time.
“You're like my little pony but more gothic. The best friend a girl could ever have.”
“You know, I'm very flattered... And terribly insulted!”
Clara laughed and then, together with Voldor, they meditated on ways to save the situation.
The story of Peter without a shadow, far from resembling the story of a Death Note user, however, there were traces of it. Surely the original story changed over the years to acquire more Catholic elements and thus be more evangelizing.
“Voldor, what if I burn the notebook of death?”
“It could be, however, the ashes could have an effect on whoever found them. They can be carried by the wind and several people may be affected. But I don't know.... I don't think any shinigami thought about burning the Death Note and the effects that this might have.”
“I can't hide the ashes in my house, with my mother so meticulous about cleaning my room, I don't know what could happen.”
“So, what are you going to do?”
Clara went around her room a couple of times and finally seemed to think of something.
“I will burn the notebook of death in the grove of Pura Pura and bury the ashes in that place.”
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Mulder was reading for the umpteenth time a set of reports, which were the three most promising cases to solve the La santita case.
The first was about a Gothic girl named Fran, who was raped and who was fond of a neo-pagan religion called Wicca. Fran said in the interview that she used magic to kill her rapist, although using magic or "the art" as she called it was forbidden.
The second case involved a blonde girl who lived in the southern part of the city, her name was Casey. Daughter of a foreign businessman who was outraged by her father. Of evangelical beliefs, she said in the interview that she prayed and prayed until God heeded her prayer and made her father have a heart attack.
The third case focused on Clara, the least promising of all of them, and there were a couple of much more interesting cases, but Mulder's instinct told him that Clara should appear alongside the other two main cases, and in fact, Mulder, tired of reading the reports, looked up and looked straight at the front of a shop selling breads and Coca-Cola soft drinks, Clara's house.
CONTINUARÁ…
Mulder's on the way! I wonder what will Clara do. Vote and comment to find out.
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