Written rules
Before the series begins, Ryuk writes instructions in English inside his Death Note with the belief that English is the most popular language in the world.
DEATH NOTE
How To If
1st
The human whose name is written in this note
shall die.
This note will not take effect unless the writer
has the person's face in their mind when writing
his/her name. therefore, people sharing the
same name will not be affected.
2nd
If the cause of death is written within 10 seconds
of writing the person's name, it will happen.
if the cause of death is not specified, the person
will simply die of a heart attack.
After writing the cause of death, details of the
death should be written in the next
6 minutse and 10 seconds
3rd
This note shall become the property of the human
world, once it touches the ground of
(arrives in)the human world.
The owner of the note can recognize the image
and voice of its original owner, i.e.a god of death.
4th
The human who uses this note can neither
go to Heaven nor Hell
If the cause of death is written within 10 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 10 seconds
after writing the name.
5th
The human who touches the DEATH NOTE can
recognize the image and voice of its original
owner, a god of death,even if the human
is not the owner of the note.
This note will not take effect unless the writer
has the persons face in their mind when writing
the same name will not be affected.
6th
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.
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.
7th
A god of death has no obligation to completely
explain how to use the note or rules which will
apply to the human who owns it.
Agod of death can extend his life by putting
human names on the note, but humans cannot.
8th
A person can shorten his or her own life by
using the note.
The human who becomes the owner of the
DEATH NOTE can, in exchange of half of his/her
remaining life, get the eyeballs of the god of death
which will enable him/her to see a human's name and
remaining lifetime when locking through them.
9th
A god of death cannot be killed even if stabbed in
his heart with a knife or shot in the head with a gun.
However, there are ways to kill a god of death,
which are not generally known to the gods of death.
The conditions for death will not be realized unless
it is physically possible for that human or it is
reasonably assumed to be carried out by that human.
10ty
The specific scope of the condition for death is not
known to the gods of death, either. So, you must
examine and find out.
One page taken from the DEATH NOTE, or even a
fragment of the page, contains the full effects of the note.
11ty
The instrument to write with can be anything,
((e.g. cosmetics, blood, etc)) as long as it can write
directly onto the note and remains as legible letters.
Even the original owners of the DEATH NOTE,
gods of death, do not know much about the note.
12ty
You may also write the cause and/or details of
death prior to filling in the name of the individual.
Be sure to insert the name in front of the written
cause of death. You have about 19 days (according to
the human calendar) in order to fill in a name.
Even if you do not actually possess the
DEATH NOTE, the effect will be the same
if you can recognize the person and
his/her name to place in the blank.
13ty
The DEATH NOTE will not affect those under
780 days old.
The DEATH NOTE will be rendered useless
if the victim's name is misspelled four times.
14ty
"Suicide" is a balid cause of death.
Basically all humans are thought to possess
the possibility to commit suicide. It is,
therefore, not something"unbelievable to think of".
Whether the cause of the individual's death is either
a suicide or accident, If the death leads to the death
of more than the intended, the person will simply
die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that
other lives ate not influenced.
15ty
Even after the individual's name, the time of death, and death
condition on the DEATH NOTE were filled out, the time and
condition of death can be altered as many times as you want,
as long as it is changed within 6 minutes and 40 seconds
from the time it was filled in. But, of course, this is
only possible before the victim dies.
Whenever you want to change anything written on
the DEATH NOTE within 6 minutes and 40 seconds
after you wrote, you must first rule out the characters
you want to erase with two straight lines.
16ty
The time and condition of death can be changed,
but once the victim's name has been written,
the individual's death can never be avoided.
If you lose the DEATH NOTE or have it stolen, you will
lose its ownership unless you retrieve it within 490 days.
17ty
If you have traded the eye power of a god of death, you
will lose the eye power as well as the memory of the
DEATH NOTE, once you lose its ownership. At the same
time, the remaining half of your life will not be restored.
You may lend the DEATH NOTE to another
person while maintaining its ownership.
Subletting it to yet another person is possible, too.
18ty
The borrower of the DEATH NOTE will not be followed
by a god of death. The god of death always remains
with the owner of the DEATH NOTE. Also the borrower
can not trade the eyesight of the god of death.
When the owner of the DEATH NOTE dies while
the Note is being lent, its ownership will
be transferred to the person who is
holding it at that time.
19ty
If the DEATH NOTE is stolen and the owner
is killed by the thief, its ownership will
automatically be transferred to the thief.
When the same name is written on more than
two DEATH NOTES, the Note which was first
filled in will take effect, regard less
of the time of death.
20ty
If written the same name on more than
two DEATH NOTES is completed within a
0.06-second difference, it is regarded as
simultaneous; the DEATH NOTE will not take
effect and the individual written will not die.
The god of death must at least own one
DEATH NOTE. That DEATH NOTE must
never be lent to or written on by a human.
21ty
Exchanging and writing on the DEATH NOTE
between the gods of death is no problem.
If the god of death decides to use the
DEATH NOTE to kill the assassin of an individual
he favors, the individual's life will be extended,
but the god of death will die.
22ty
The dead god of death will disappear.
but the DEATH NOTE will remain.
The ownership of this DEATH NOTE is usually
carried over to the next god of death that
touches it, but it is common sense that
it is returned to the Great god of death.
Only by touching each other's DEATH NOTE can
human individuals who own the DEATH NOTE in the
human world recognize the appearance or voice
of each other's god of death.
23
An individual with the eye power of a gid if death
can fell the name and life span of other humans by looking at
that person's face By possessing the DEATH NOTE,
an individual gains the ability to kill and stops being a victim.
From this point, a person with the DEATH NOTE cannot see
the life span of other DEATH NOTE owners, including him/herself.
But, it is not really necessary for the individual to view the
life span of him/herself nor other DEATH NOTE owners.
The god of death must not tell humans
the names or life spans of individuals he sees.
This is to avoid confusion in the human world. |