Never heard of this one:

 Mirror Dreams

~ A Death Note Ficlet ~
mbsilvana@yahoo.com
Disclaimer: Ooba and Obata.
Spoilers: I've read 0-16.

Ah ha, Manga. I'm more familiar with anime, actually.

He could never remember his dreams, not clearly, but the fragments he
could recall in those few seconds between waking and sleeping were
enough to give anyone nightmares. Death, and people coming back to
life. Murder, and being responsible.

Well, as long as they keep coming back to life, eh.

 Dying... and being reborn.

Knowing that for him, there would be no heaven or hell,

Probably ought to be capped, there

but only

death. Then those certainties would fade, and he would be left with
nothing except the nagging certainty that one day, death would come
for him, and it wouldn't be kind.

Better sample some mermaid flesh and hope for the best, then

Most people considered him a bit morbid, a bit weird.

Judging by his solilquey, he is. :)

He had been

normal once, he recalled, while in junior high.

But then it became the focus of Boogeipop Phantom, then he turned weird.

Maybe that was why he became a coroner.

That and you primarily only deal with people who are already dead. it's hard
to kill those.

 Many people seemed to be

bothered by touching the dead,

that seems awkward. Touching the dead bothered many people (perhaps?)

 the old Shinto belief of contact with

the dead bringing impurity still resonating on some level in the
Japanese soul. He, though, had come to love the dead, because often
times no one else would.

He was strange, he knew. But

knew, but

 so was the rest of his family, twisted

by the premature deaths of their parents. He supposed that being
orphaned young would do that to anyone.

His gift at identify

identifying

 the hows and whys of death had vaulted him into

a national position at twenty-six. He was able to almost see what had
happened in those last few moments, and often times

oftenttimes (I think it's one word)

When the string of deaths began in the jails, as notorious criminals
began to die one by one, something about the style resonated on a
deep level. Even though he'd been on vacation - his first in two
years - he'd made arrangements with the police to have a look at one
of the bodies.

Sounds like this is where the manga starts

"Ryuuzaki, you need to look into these prison deaths. There's
something going on there."

Well, you have me intruiged. I like intruige. I'll have to give this one a
glance sometime

DB Sommer

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