Satoshi Taunts The Reaper and Pays the Price

From childhood, Satoshi had been told never to rant about Death. He knew that carried severe consequences.

...but he was too old and too tired to care about consequences now. How dare Grim take his beloved wife. How could he go on without her. At least if there were ramifications, he'd entrusted his child's well-being to his nephew. Haruo would take care of him and make sure that he was raised well. And in any case, Aidan was a teenager. He'd be able to take care of himself soon enough. He didn't need Dad.

He tossed down his podium, got up on the thing and started ranting...about how unfair death was, that he had taken someone so dear to him, that he didn't care any more, while the rest of the family gathered, gasping in horror. Suddenly it felt tight in his chest...and crumpled to the ground.

Out of the corner of his narrowing field of vision, he saw the Reaper standing above him saying, "I heard your rant, I don't like what you said..." before his vision went black and his spirit separated from his body. "I'm not taking you this time, but you'd better not do it again." The Reaper stated in a hollow tone. "You won't be so lucky the next time."

Well, Satoshi got right back up on that podium and pointed the megaphone directly in the Grim Reaper's face and blasted him one.

"Do you think I am afraid of you. My ancestors were samurai, they died bravely when it was their time. I dictate my time...Do YOU HEAR ME, REAPER!!!"

"Others may fear you, but to me you are nothing! Do you hear me?"

That family was surprised that Reaper didn't just immediately slay Satoshi right there and then, but the Reaper explained in his ominous emanating from the depths of a tomb voice, "Your brother found a loop-hole in the contract here, I can't take his soul unless he rants again once I'm off the property. You might do well to gag him and stuff him in a closet and take that megaphone away from him, because the next time, I will have to abide by the terms of the contract."

Well...Satoshi didn't abide by the terms of the contract, nor did he agree to give his megaphone up because the second that the Reaper was off the property...