Zoostuck 3

> Have them wait in the queue to buy some time.

Queue? What queue? You're Fate and also Death, you deal with all the fates and deaths going on at once. Besides, inconvenience to the client, for lack of a better term, isn't really the issue here. You'd be perfectly happy to let them linger in this state of uncertain existence for eternity, but that would be against regulations. And you respect the regulations.

Send them back

You were just thinking about how you respect the regulations! And they definitely don't allow for just sending a dead soul back. You're not going to last long as Death if you send people back to the world of the living, and while you don't much care for being Death, you don't exactly get a retirement plan in this line of work.

Oh, wait. There is a rule that lets you send them back. If they defeat you in a game, they can return to life. There's just one problem - it's impossible for you to throw the game. And of course, being Fate, you'll come out on top in any game of chance. You won't even have to consciously try, it just happens.

Still, there's nothing stopping you from explaining the basics to them.

You are now "Nagito Komaeda". Death has just informed you that you can return to life if you defeat him in a game of skill, and you may choose the game. He warns you that his talents are incredible and that it is useless to rely on luck to defeat him.

Well, as you would be rather interested in returning to life so you can attempt to work out who shot you and who was manipulating events to put Johnsmell Madden in charge of the universe, you are obviously going to take this offer. The one question remaining is what game you will utterly humiliate Death at.