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These are the consequences of taking a stowaway on your one man one way suicide mission.
These are the consequences of running yourself to the ground. You collide with your own tail and catch aflame, and it eats everything around you.
Shinigamis aren't gods, but whatever God is out there, it's not the one they taught you about. It doesn't matter. Maybe it never mattered from the start.
These are the things they don't mention when you're born midway of a racetrack. You have to learn yourself.
Mello doesn't hear any bells. For what it's worth.
Which is not much.