Chapter Summaries

Kannazuki witnessed Zhao Gang abuse his starving, elderly father and could only leave the old man money before returning to his delivery work. At home, Kannazuki found a Death Note in his delivery box and wondered if its rules were real.

• Kannazuki saw Old Li begging and eating scraps outside Splendid Garden, then brought him water and bread.
• Zhao Gang and his wife drove Kannazuki away from Old Li, and Kannazuki left the old man just over fifty yuan.
• Kannazuki rode through the rain and finished forty-five deliveries before returning to his rented room.
• Kannazuki discovered a black notebook labeled Death Note in his delivery box and read that anyone whose name was written in it would die.
• Kannazuki touched the notebook and wondered whether it was real.

Kannazuki discovered that the black notebook killed anyone whose name he wrote, after Zhao Gang died of a heart attack matching the notebook’s rules. He used it to stop hostage-taker Wang Hu, then decided he alone could use the Death Note to change the world.

• Kannazuki wrote Zhao Gang’s name in the notebook and specified a heart attack, then dismissed it as fake when nothing happened within forty seconds.
• The next day, Kannazuki learned Zhao Gang had died of a sudden heart attack after eleven the previous night and realized the notebook was real.
• Kannazuki embraced the notebook’s power as a form of judgment and saw a news report about Wang Hu holding a child hostage.
• Kannazuki wrote that Wang Hu would drop his weapon, kneel, and die of heart paralysis; Wang Hu followed the written sequence, leaving the child safe.
• Kannazuki decided he alone could use the Death Note to eliminate people he considered evil, then went back to work.

Kannazuki delivered funeral supplies to Zhao Gang’s home and learned that the police were investigating the two suspicious heart attack deaths. After finding reports and witnesses suggesting that surgeon Zhang Wei had taken bribes and delayed a patient’s operation until he died, Kannazuki began checking whether Zhang was guilty.

• Kannazuki delivered funeral supplies to Zhao Gang’s home, where Zhao Gang’s frightened daughter-in-law promised to care for Li Gensheng.
• Captain Chen Lei arrived to investigate Zhao Gang’s death and questioned the possibility that it was connected to Wang Hu’s death.
• Kannazuki left the complex without drawing attention and resolved to be more careful now that police were investigating.
• Kannazuki found a news report accusing surgeon Zhang Wei of causing a patient’s death after the family refused to pay him a bribe.
• Kannazuki visited the hospital and overheard the patient’s wife and other people accuse Zhang Wei of demanding extra money and delaying treatment until the patient died.

Kannazuki used his black notebook to make Zhang Wei confess to taking bribes and delaying a patient’s surgery before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Detective Chen Lei suspected something was wrong and spotted a watcher, while Kannazuki escaped, unaware that a net was closing around him.

• Kannazuki photographed Zhang Wei discussing a medical malpractice assessment and kickbacks with his nephew, then wrote in his notebook that Zhang Wei would confess publicly and die of a cerebral hemorrhage.
• Kannazuki waited in the hospital lobby as Zhang Wei suddenly knelt before the deceased patient’s family and confessed to taking bribes and delaying treatment.
• Detective Chen Lei rushed in, recognized that Zhang Wei’s behavior was abnormal, and ordered his men to restrain him and get a doctor.
• Zhang Wei collapsed and died despite the efforts to resuscitate him, while Kannazuki slipped away through the crowd.
• Chen Lei glanced toward the second-floor railing, suspecting someone had watched the scene, as Kannazuki rode away and prepared to write another name.

Chen Lei investigated three sudden deaths and concluded that an unseen killer was targeting evil men, though his superior refused to link the cases. Kannazuki reviewed the killings, identified Chen Lei as a potential threat, and continued testing the Death Note as Chen Lei focused on the killer’s trigger conditions.

• Chen Lei reviewed hospital surveillance and Zhang Wei’s autopsy, confirming that no one had physically approached him and that all three victims died from acute coronary artery occlusion.
• Chen Lei found that Zhao Gang, Wang Hu, and Zhang Wei had records of serious wrongdoing and argued to Deputy Director Wang that their deaths were murders, but Wang denied his request to link the cases.
• Chen Lei secretly copied the case files and pinned the victims’ photographs to a whiteboard under the label “X Files.”
• Kannazuki logged the victims’ crimes, execution times, behavior, and public reactions, then realized his delivery routes could connect him to the deaths.
• Kannazuki added Chen Lei to a list of potential threats but decided he needed more tests and subtler methods before targeting him.
• Chen Lei connected the three cases on his whiteboard and wrote “Trigger conditions?” at their center.

Kannazuki tested the Death Note’s physical limits by targeting fugitive Liu Qiang, while Chen Lei traced the killer’s method to the Cape Community. After narrowing the forum readers to three IP addresses, the police moved closer to identifying Kannazuki.

• Kannazuki used the Death Note to order Liu Qiang to travel from Yunzhou City to Linhai City and surrender, but Liu died of a heart attack in Yunzhou instead.
• Kannazuki concluded that the notebook could only control actions within a person’s physical capabilities and recorded the result in his judgment file.
• Chen Lei learned of Liu Qiang’s death and added him to the board with Zhao Gang, Wang Hu, and Zhang Wei.
• Xiao Liu showed Chen Lei Cape Community threads exposing the four men, and Chen Lei suspected the killer had selected victims through the forum.
• Chen Lei had the Cybersecurity Unit cross-reference readers of all four threads with cell-tower data near the hospital, narrowing the search to three IP addresses.
• Kannazuki saved his spreadsheet and heard distant police sirens as the investigation closed in on him.

Kannazuki destroyed the laptop that had connected to the Cape Community and moved his online activity to an abandoned chemical plant, where he accessed Linhai City surveillance feeds. Chen Lei traced the forum access to a shared network node but found no direct lead, while Kannazuki identified him as a pursuer and rode out in disguise.

• After seeing a warning about plainclothes officers checking broadband, Kannazuki smashed his laptop’s hard drive and RAM and discarded the pieces.
• Kannazuki bought an anonymous data SIM and portable Wi-Fi, then connected from an abandoned chemical plant outside Linhai City.
• Chen Lei raided a crowded apartment and discovered the traced IP belonged to a shared network used by more than a hundred tenants.
• Chen Lei ordered the team to seize the router and compare its device MAC address logs with those active around the crimes.
• Kannazuki bought access to surveillance cameras on a dark-web forum, watched Chen Lei leave the apartment, and saved his photograph in a folder named Pursuer.
• Kannazuki changed into a food-delivery uniform, planned a route that avoided facial-recognition cameras, and rode off as a patrol car sped past.

Kannazuki investigated Sun Ming, the privileged teenager whose bullying had driven Lin Xiao to his death, and wrote Sun Ming’s name in the Death Note. The chapter ended as Kannazuki began arranging Sun Ming’s public death at his father’s banquet.

• Kannazuki overheard that Lin Xiao’s mother was seeking witnesses after her son died, allegedly driven to suicide by Sun Ming’s bullying.
• Kannazuki accepted a delivery to Sun Ming’s villa and recorded Sun Ming mocking him and throwing water balloons at him.
• Kannazuki reviewed the footage and wrote Sun Ming’s name in the Death Note to test whether it could orchestrate specific events.
• Kannazuki began writing instructions for Sun Ming to confess to bullying Lin Xiao at his father’s banquet that evening.

Kannazuki used the black notebook to force Sun Ming to confess publicly and kill himself at a banquet, while Chen Lei recognized the supernatural compulsion and investigated the death as part of a serial murder case. Kannazuki recorded Sun Ming as execution number five and left without creating an online trail.

• Kannazuki wrote that Sun Ming would confess and cut his carotid artery with a wineglass, then went to the Grand Hyatt Hotel to test the notebook.
• Chen Lei attended the Construction Group’s banquet with Deputy Director Wang, expecting the killer to target Sun Ming over his role in Lin Xiao’s death.
• At eight o’clock, Sun Ming forcibly took the stage, confessed to bullying Lin Xiao and driving him to suicide, then cut his own throat with a broken champagne glass.
• Chen Lei tried to stop Sun Ming, but he died from blood loss; Chen Lei called Lao Liu and demanded the video of Sun Ming’s crimes from Sun Jianguo.
• Kannazuki watched the banquet on a tablet, recorded Sun Ming as execution number 005, and shut down his equipment to avoid leaving online traces.

Chen Lei formed a task force to investigate the five unexplained deaths and used citywide data analysis to narrow the search toward food delivery riders. Kannazuki realized the police were closing in and flooded his travel history with long-distance deliveries, but Chen Lei ordered investigators to obtain the riders’ identities and order records.

• Chen Lei presented evidence linking five abusers’ deaths and was appointed to lead a major task force under provincial supervision.
• Chen Lei used surveillance and cell-tower data to identify people whose routes overlapped at three or more crime-related locations.
• Kannazuki detected the police data search and accepted cross-city delivery orders to obscure the overlaps in his travel history.
• The task force narrowed its focus to food delivery riders and began requesting their verified identities and delivery records.
• Kannazuki completed a medical-report delivery after crossing five districts and traveling nearly a hundred and thirty kilometers.

Kannazuki infiltrated Lei Bao’s underground casino as a delivery rider, learned his face, and used the Death Note to kill him. As Chen Lei narrowed the suspect list to Kannazuki’s delivery station, he received news of Lei Bao’s death, Shinigami’s sixth killing.

• Kannazuki heard that Lei Bao was hiding in the Golden Sand Building’s underground casino and accepted a food order there to find him.
• Kannazuki entered the casino without his phone or helmet recorder, spilled congee on Lei Bao, and memorized his face when Lei Bao struck him.
• After leaving, Kannazuki wrote Lei Bao’s name and a cause of death on hidden Death Note paper, and Lei Bao choked to death on cash and gambling chips.
• Chen Lei’s team narrowed its delivery-rider suspect list and identified Kannazuki among riders serving the area around Splendid Garden.
• Lao Liu told Chen Lei that Lei Bao had died in his underground casino, and Chen Lei tightened his grip on the phone.

Chen Lei traced the deaths to delivery worker Kannazuki and began tracking him in real time. Kannazuki realized the police had identified him and rode toward their headquarters with a coffee order, leaving their confrontation unresolved at the gates.

• A bald enforcer told Chen Lei that a delivery worker had spilled congee on Lei Bao shortly before Lei Bao died.
• Chen Lei matched surveillance footage from several crime scenes and identified the worker as Kannazuki, then ordered real-time tracking of his delivery account.
• Kannazuki noticed the police had accessed his account and concluded they were tracking his GPS but lacked hard evidence to arrest him.
• Kannazuki claimed a coffee order addressed to the gatehouse at the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and Chen Lei ordered officers to prepare for his arrival.
• Kannazuki rode toward the bureau gates as Chen Lei waited there, and the chapter ended with the scooter approaching the entrance.

Kannazuki delivered coffee to Chen Lei at the police bureau, then returned home and reasoned through how to evade the police investigation. There he encountered Ryuk, the death god connected to the notebook, and realized the supernatural was real.

• Kannazuki delivered coffee to Chen Lei, who tested his pulse and questioned him about the Golden Sand Building delivery, but Kannazuki stayed calm and left without being detained.
• Kannazuki checked that no one had entered his rented room, then reviewed the police's suspicions and concluded he needed a perfect alibi to keep pursuing his targets.
• Ryuk suddenly spoke from the ceiling, and Kannazuki turned to find the death god floating in his room.
• Ryuk praised Kannazuki for daring to deliver coffee at the police bureau, while Kannazuki assessed him and realized physical attacks would likely be useless.

Kannazuki met the god of death who appeared with the notebook, named him Ryuk, and tested whether he matched the figure from the manga. Ryuk revealed that a creator had chosen Kannazuki, leaving the reason for that choice unknown.

• Kannazuki questioned the god of death and decided to call him Ryuk after offering him an apple.
• Ryuk accepted the name and devoured the apple, confirming Kannazuki's suspicions about his identity.
• Kannazuki accused Ryuk of dropping the notebook into the human world out of boredom, but Ryuk denied it.
• Ryuk said his creator had chosen Kannazuki, and Kannazuki asked what he had been chosen for.

Kannazuki questioned Ryuk about the Death Note and learned that Ryuk had been created by an unknown, powerful creator rather than coming from a Shinigami Realm. Under police surveillance, Kannazuki sought a target to establish an alibi, but Ryuk revealed that the notebook had three extra rules and refused to explain them.

• Kannazuki learned that Ryuk remembered being created but knew nothing about a Shinigami Realm, and he reasoned that Ryuk was a copy brought into the world by a powerful creator.
• Kannazuki confirmed that Ryuk could offer Shinigami Eyes in exchange for half his remaining lifespan, then refused the trade.
• Kannazuki saw Chen Lei's surveillance outside and used a local news portal to search for a target who could help him create an alibi.
• Ryuk told Kannazuki that the notebook had three extra rules added by his creator, but refused to reveal them because he wanted unpredictable turns.
• Kannazuki decided to proceed with his plan despite not knowing the hidden rules, since the police were monitoring him.

Kannazuki wrote Li Jianguo’s death and a suicide note implicating corrupt officials into the Death Note, planning to use the death as an alibi while police watched him. He left to work as a delivery rider, unaware that detectives were following him.

• Kannazuki read that Li Jianguo had been arrested and chose him as a target because he was being held in the heavily monitored City Detention Center.
• Kannazuki wrote that Li Jianguo would request a meeting with the Special Task Force, write a note naming people bribed through the Construction Group, and die in the interrogation room forty-eight hours later.
• Kannazuki hid the Death Note, cleared his phone’s browser cache, and went out to work as a delivery rider so police could observe him.
• Two plainclothes officers watched Kannazuki leave Happy Home Building 3, photographed him, and began following his electric scooter.
• The officers learned that Kannazuki had accepted a milk tea delivery to the High-Tech Zone and trailed him through traffic.

Kannazuki continued making deliveries while two plainclothes officers followed him across Linhai City. After leading them to Global Center, he revealed that he had recognized them as police and explained that he had simply followed his delivery routes, leaving the veteran detective with no suspicious act to point to.

• Kannazuki rode his scooter through Linhai City as the veteran detective and a young officer followed him in a Santana.
• Kannazuki picked up milk tea and rode through a pedestrian shopping street, forcing the two officers to pursue him on foot.
• At Global Center, Kannazuki took the elevator to the tenth floor and completed the delivery while the officers ran up the stairs.
• Kannazuki waited in the emergency stairwell with a bottle of water and calmly faced the exhausted officers when they found him.
• Kannazuki explained that he had spotted the officers by their surveillance and pursuit, then showed them his delivery history as proof he had only been working.
• The veteran detective examined Kannazuki’s route and completion times, finding no suspicious contact or rule-breaking.

Kannazuki agreed to accompany two officers to the station after Chen Lei ordered them to summon him over the Golden Sand Building incident. He sat quietly in an interrogation room, convinced they would soon beg him to leave.

• Kannazuki unsettled the veteran detective by mentioning the recent heart-attack deaths and offered the officers a sealed bottle of water.
• Chen Lei ordered the officers to bring Kannazuki in to assist with the investigation, and Kannazuki willingly handed over his phone and scooter key.
• Ryuk warned Kannazuki that the officers might not let him leave, but Kannazuki thought they would beg him to go.
• The officers drove Kannazuki to 118 Jianguo Road, where he sat quietly in Interrogation Room Two.

Chen Lei interrogated Kannazuki about five murders, but could find no evidence linking him to them. When Li Jianguo died in detention after writing a suicide note, Kannazuki had an airtight alibi, and his summons period expired.

• Chen Lei presented surveillance stills placing Kannazuki near five murder scenes, but Kannazuki argued that his delivery work routinely took him through those areas.
• Chen Lei questioned Kannazuki again about Lei Bao’s death and suspected poison in the spilled congee, but forensic tests found no toxins and Kannazuki challenged the lack of evidence.
• At 4:00 p.m., an officer reported that Li Jianguo had died in detention after writing a suicide note listing bribe recipients and the Construction Group’s money trails.
• Chen Lei realized Kannazuki had been under constant surveillance and sitting across from him when Li Jianguo died, giving him a perfect alibi.
• Kannazuki reminded Chen Lei that his summons period was over and asked if he could return to delivering food.

After Li Jianguo died during interrogation and exposed a list of corrupt officials, Chen Lei had to release Kannazuki because the timelines proved his alibi. Kannazuki left the bureau and vowed to continue using the Death Note to purge corrupt people.

• A young officer reported that Li Jianguo had written a list of bribe recipients, then smashed his head against a barrier and wrote Zhao Lidong, Secretary Wang, and Sun Jianguo’s names in blood before dying.
• Chen Lei compared the detention-center footage with Kannazuki’s interrogation footage and confirmed that Kannazuki had been in custody when Li Jianguo died.
• With no admissible evidence and Kannazuki’s alibi intact, Chen Lei ordered his release and told him he would catch him if he acted again.
• Chen Lei ordered Li Jianguo’s blood-written list sealed and reported to higher authorities.
• Kannazuki retrieved his belongings, left the bureau on his electric scooter, and told Ryuk he would keep removing people the law could not stop.