Death Note

Rules of the Death Note

How To Use It

• 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.
• If the cause of death is written within 40 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 minutes and 40 seconds.

• This note shall become the property of the human world, once it has 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.
• The human who uses this note can neither go to Heaven nor Hell.
• If the time of death is written within 40 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 40 seconds after writing the name.
• The human who touches the Death Note can recognize the image and voice of the original owner, a god of death, even if the human is not the owner of the note.