Re-emerging (open RP)

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After the disaster in Hogsmeade and the meeting with his God, Mikami had barely left his room for over a fortnight. The house elves had agreed to bring his food there (although some of them were still unhappy with him for lasering parts of the Great Hall), and he'd taken some books from the library on his way back from Slytherin. Most of them were first-year level spell books, but there were a couple of extremely thick volumes on wizarding law. Those also made good makeshift weights. He still hadn't found a gym anywhere.

He had to keep working, keep learning. There had to be something he could do for Kira, even here, even now. Something to atone for his failure, to make things right again. He'd been letting things slide, and this was the result, but it wasn't too late. The end hadn't come yet. It had for Near, but not for Light Yagami, and God was the only one who mattered. Surely that future could be changed.

(If not, then he'd destroyed everything. He couldn't afford to let himself think of that.)

But there was a downside to constant studying. He'd run out of books a lot sooner than expected. So now, a slightly pale, withdrawn Mikami was in the library, counting the number of pages in the textbooks and occasionally weighing two against each other.

Feel free to talk to him. He needs the distraction, poor thing.

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Mikami looks up and almost drops the books he's holding. That must be the religious fanatic who Maddie Magellan mentioned. (He tries not to think that she must think of him the same way now. He'd been so sure she understood, that she was righteous.)

He has to stand his ground. Say something to prove he's not afraid. (Not beaten. Not broken.)

"Do you ever plan to wash that thing?"

...that may not have been the most relevant comment. It's something, at least.

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"No," was his only reply before picking a random shelf to start inspecting for relevant texts.

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"I've known murderers who liked to display their crimes, but I would have expected some concern for basic hygiene, at least."

It's a relief to get angry, after two weeks of panic and despair.

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"Simply because I have nothing to hide does not mean that I am displaying my murders. As for hygiene, I saw no point to it after I died, because I didn't have to interact with people anymore other than my last ten victims."

He stops looking for books to look at the other man.

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"Most people would consider serial killing something to hide." He hesitates. "...after you died?"

He can tell Walter's dead, of course, but he couldn't have been killing at Hogwarts.

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"My religion allows for the revival of the dead. Although God's rebirth is a bit tougher, and requires sacrifices. I've been dead for ten years."

It may be a surprise that Walter hasn't even attacked anyone at Hogwarts yet.

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"The dead don't return," he says, a bit more sharply than he'd intended. "And who were these 'sacrifices'?"

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"The first ten were sinners, I took their hearts." How 8 year old twins were deemed as sinners, Walter does not know nor care anymore. "I died for number eleven, and then ten more themed deaths after my revival to complete the 21 sacraments. I still have to release The Mother Reborn and The Reciever of Wisdom from the flesh for the ritual to be complete back in my world."

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He looks disgusted. "'Sinners' in what way?" There's very little chance he'd actually approve, whatever it was. He has high standards.

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"I was not given the choice to decide the sinners, although some of them I was happy to be rid of." Walter isn't sure if he should be amused or annoyed by the man yet.

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"You don't know what sins they had supposedly committed, then?" He's not sure why he's bothering to ask, the man's obviously deranged.

("I wonder how many people you and Yagami knocked off thought the exact same thing. But they're crazy, right?")

(Stop thinking about that...)

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"No, I just did want my God needed of me." Having the valet of god telling you who to kill in your subconscious can be harsh on your conscience. Good thing Walter gave that up when he died.

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That hit entirely too close to home.

"You're insane," Mikami says, flatly, and stalks off to another part of the library. How unnerved he is can be seen by the fact that he just put his book back on the wrong shelf.

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"Don't you want to live in a world where people can be happy just by being there?" he calls after Mikami's retreating form, although not expecting a reply.

That's what they say God will do, even if they did lie to Walter and say that the ritual would wake his mom up when he was little.

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He doesn't reply. He just walks slightly faster.