Chapter Summaries

L engineered changes to Kannazuki’s schedule to make him interact more often with Jiang Shiyu and study whether she affected his behavior. Kannazuki recognized the manipulation but accepted Jiang Shiyu’s dinner invitation, and the chapter ended with him taking her cold hand outside the restaurant.

• L ordered Agent Four to replace Kannazuki’s Comparative Law class and move Jiang Shiyu’s class to an adjacent room so they would meet more often.
• Kannazuki noticed the schedule change was deliberately designed to put Jiang Shiyu in his path, but decided to attend the substituted class.
• Jiang Shiyu met Kannazuki in the hallway, and L watched closely as Kannazuki helped her open a bottle and appeared slightly more relaxed.
• Jiang Shiyu invited Kannazuki to dinner, and he accepted before choosing a carefully coordinated outfit.
• Kannazuki met Jiang Shiyu outside the restaurant, took her cold hand, and led her inside.

Kannazuki took Jiang Shiyu to dinner while remaining alert to L’s surveillance, and her sincere explanation of why she liked him briefly unsettled his carefully controlled thinking. After walking with her to a neighborhood park, he found himself unable to answer when she asked if she could kiss him.

• Kannazuki chose a table that avoided a suspected camera while keeping watch for L’s agents, then ordered dinner for himself and Jiang Shiyu.
• Jiang Shiyu praised Kannazuki, and he agreed to let her bring him food after she objected to his routine cafeteria meals.
• Jiang Shiyu explained that Kannazuki’s speech about law and protecting the vulnerable had made her fall for him, leaving him briefly unable to maintain his usual rational composure.
• Kannazuki held Jiang Shiyu’s hand as they walked, and the two followers behind them turned away at an intersection.
• At a neighborhood park, Jiang Shiyu asked Kannazuki if she could kiss him, and he found himself with no prepared response.

Kannazuki experienced his first kiss with Jiang Shiyu and discovered that his feelings and bodily reactions were beyond his control. Watching from above, Ryuk reflected on Kannazuki’s unexpected vulnerability and glanced toward L’s still-lit room.

• Kannazuki admitted to Jiang Shiyu that he had never kissed anyone and gave her permission to kiss him.
• Jiang Shiyu kissed Kannazuki, and he felt an unfamiliar warmth and tremor that his evolved mind could not explain.
• Jiang Shiyu noticed Kannazuki’s ears had turned red, and he gave her a natural smile instead of denying his feelings.
• Ryuk watched the pair from above and remarked that Kannazuki could not control this, then looked toward L’s lit room.

After Jiang Shiyu kissed him, Kannazuki recalled his lonely life before becoming a law student and struggled to write in the Death Note. He left the notebook untouched for the night, while Ryuk predicted that he would eventually have to choose between the notebook and Jiang Shiyu.

• Kannazuki wandered past his dormitory while thinking about Jiang Shiyu's kiss, and Ryuk asked if he had fallen in love with her.
• Kannazuki remembered his years of poverty and loneliness before obtaining the Death Note and becoming a top graduate student at Linhai University's Law School.
• Kannazuki read Jiang Shiyu's messages about their kiss and replied that he had enjoyed their time together.
• Kannazuki opened the Death Note and held his pen above a blank page, but Jiang Shiyu's cheerful sticker prompted him to close the notebook without writing.
• Ryuk told Kannazuki that the notebook would not let him hesitate forever and vowed to make him kill Jiang Shiyu himself.

Jiang Shiyu excitedly told her roommates about kissing Kannazuki, while Zhao Xiaoman warned that his restrained behavior might be more unsettling than romantic. Jiang Shiyu went to sleep believing she was special to him, unaware that Ryuk watched her and anticipated her death.

• Jiang Shiyu burst into her dorm room and told Lin Keying, Zhao Xiaoman, and Chen Yuhan that she had held Kannazuki’s hand and kissed him.
• Jiang Shiyu described Kannazuki freezing and blushing, and said he told her it was his first kiss and that he had been happy too.
• Zhao Xiaoman questioned Kannazuki’s behavior and warned Jiang Shiyu that his restraint might signal an unpleasant impulse or calculated interest.
• Jiang Shiyu rejected Zhao Xiaoman’s suspicions and said she would go to the library with Kannazuki the next day.
• Jiang Shiyu wrote in her notes that she felt special and hoped her happiness would never end.
• Ryuk watched Jiang Shiyu through the dormitory window and said Kannazuki was holding her hand while writing down her name.

Kannazuki walked with L when Jiang Shiyu joined them and openly showed affection for her new boyfriend. She welcomed L as a friend, while Ryuk wondered whether Kannazuki could still kill L if L truly came to see him as a friend.

• Kannazuki and L walked together as L asked about Kannazuki's relationship and admitted he envied him for having a girlfriend.
• Jiang Shiyu ran up, hugged Kannazuki's arm, and told him she had spent the previous night thinking about him.
• Jiang Shiyu met L, asked if he was a genius, and declared that Kannazuki's friends were her friends too.
• L quietly accepted Jiang Shiyu's offer of friendship, and Kannazuki recognized that L had responded to her kindness.
• Ryuk watched the three walk together and wondered whether Kannazuki could still kill L if L came to regard him as a friend.

Jiang Shiyu rejected Zhou Qiwen’s angry demand to explain why she chose Kannazuki, and Kannazuki tried to defuse the confrontation. When Zhou Qiwen reached for his collar, Kannazuki removed his glasses and warned him that he had three chances and would not get an easy way out.

• Zhou Qiwen confronted Jiang Shiyu and complained that she had ignored his messages and chosen Kannazuki.
• Jiang Shiyu rejected Zhou Qiwen and told him she did not owe him anything, while he challenged Kannazuki to fight.
• Kannazuki told Zhou Qiwen that Jiang Shiyu made her own choice and that violence would solve nothing.
• Zhou Qiwen moved close and reached for Kannazuki’s collar, but Kannazuki removed his glasses and warned him not to fight.
• Kannazuki brushed his hair back and told Zhou Qiwen he had already given him three chances.

Kannazuki defeated Zhou Qiwen in front of a crowd of students after Zhou attacked him over a confrontation involving someone else's girlfriend. Zhou remained curled on the pavement, unable to get up.

• Zhou Qiwen punched at Kannazuki, who dodged and used a wrist-and-elbow lock to force him to one knee.
• Kannazuki released Zhou Qiwen, but Zhou charged again with a hook and roundhouse kick.
• Kannazuki evaded the attacks and threw Zhou Qiwen onto the pavement with a shoulder throw.
• Zhou Qiwen tried to punch Kannazuki again, but Kannazuki struck his solar plexus and left him unable to stand.

Kannazuki faced four experienced sanda fighters who attacked him after Zhou Qiwen ordered them to intervene. Using his cerebral evolution and precise movements, Kannazuki defeated their coordinated assault, leaving the fight unresolved as the crowd watched in stunned silence.

• Zhou Qiwen ordered four members of the sports college sanda team to attack Kannazuki, while Jiang Shiyu urged Kannazuki to stop fighting and L watched with anticipation.
• Kannazuki analyzed the four fighters with his cerebral evolution and began tapping his toes to establish a steady rhythm.
• The stocky fighter missed his grapple, and Kannazuki dislocated the tall fighter’s jaw with a palm strike.
• Kannazuki redirected Buzz Cut’s punch and disabled his leg with a knee strike, then evaded the glasses-wearing fighter’s attack.
• Kannazuki countered the stocky fighter’s second charge with a short-range elbow that sent him crashing to the ground, ending the team’s first coordinated assault.

Kannazuki faced four men who attacked him together, using his footwork and quick decisions to take down two of them in three seconds. With his left forearm numb and the two remaining attackers closing in, he stood surrounded again.

• The crowd condemned the four men for ganging up on Kannazuki and mocked them for failing to land a blow.
• Glasses told Buzz Cut to attack with the others from all four directions so Kannazuki could not change tempo.
• Kannazuki charged Buzz Cut, grabbed his neck, and kneed him in the forehead, then used his falling body to evade the tall man.
• Kannazuki tripped the stocky man, leaving Buzz Cut and the stocky man down within three seconds.
• Kannazuki blocked the tall man's hook with his left forearm and ducked beneath Glasses's kick, injuring his arm as the two remaining men rose and surrounded him again.

Kannazuki defeated four men who had cornered him, then comforted Jiang Shiyu despite injuring his left arm. After his advisor summoned him to Office 302, Jiang Shiyu accompanied him to wait outside while he went in alone.

• L observed Kannazuki's unusual footwork and raised the probability that Light Yagami was Kira.
• Campus security arrived, and Buzz Cut and the others fled while Zhou Qiwen left with them.
• Kannazuki put his glasses back on and walked away as bystanders praised him, while Jiang Shiyu checked his bruised arm and worried over him.
• Kannazuki iced his swollen forearm, then answered a call from his advisor and agreed to meet at Office 302.
• Jiang Shiyu insisted on accompanying Kannazuki, and he agreed to let her wait in the hallway while he spoke with the advisor alone.

Kannazuki defended his actions in a campus fight before university officials, and Jiang Shiyu joined him in challenging their proposed discipline. After he threatened to expose the university with supposed evidence, he left with Jiang Shiyu and received a private meeting request from L.

• Kannazuki told the counselor and Secretary Liu that Zhou Qiwen and four sports school students had attacked him and that he had acted in self-defense.
• The counselor announced a preliminary decision to give Zhou Qiwen a demerit and issue Kannazuki a public reprimand for mutual fighting.
• Jiang Shiyu arrived, defended Kannazuki, and condemned Secretary Liu's victim-blaming argument.
• Kannazuki placed an empty USB drive on the desk and claimed he would expose the university if it disciplined him.
• Kannazuki left with Jiang Shiyu, then received a message from L asking to speak alone that night.

L told Kannazuki that he had helped defeat a university proposal to expel him after the fight, while Kannazuki questioned why self-defense was treated as mutual fighting. L offered to help him again, but Kannazuki suspected L’s support was a way to make him reveal himself, and left unsure what to do.

• L told Kannazuki he had analyzed the fight video and praised his skill, then revealed that university officials had considered expelling him.
• L explained that he spoke at the emergency meeting, argued that Kannazuki had only defended himself, and helped get the expulsion proposal rejected, though a public reprimand remained under discussion.
• Kannazuki questioned why fighting back was treated as mutual fighting, and L acknowledged the wider failures in how self-defense was handled before promising not to let Kannazuki face such trouble alone.
• L remarked that Kannazuki’s reaction speed was far beyond ordinary, and Kannazuki realized L was asking why he had that ability.
• Kannazuki told Jiang Shiyu that L had spoken up for him but closed the chat before answering her follow-up question.
• Ryuk asked whether Kannazuki believed L, and Kannazuki said L’s help made him more dangerous because he thought L wanted him to owe a favor and give himself away.

Kannazuki went with Jiang Shiyu to see the ginkgo trees, partly to create a convincing personal relationship that could distract L from his unusual fighting skills. On the hillside, Jiang Shiyu held his hand and asked whether he had ever felt all alone.

• Kannazuki told Ryuk he would accept L’s help because their growing interactions could shift L’s attention from investigating him to maintaining a relationship.
• Kannazuki agreed to meet Jiang Shiyu at the south gate and considered the outing a chance to dilute the suspicious data L had gathered about him.
• Kannazuki met Jiang Shiyu, adjusted her jacket, and talked with her about the unresolved public reprimand and her father’s plan to contact the media.
• Kannazuki and Jiang Shiyu walked beneath the ginkgo trees, and she tucked a fallen leaf into his coat pocket.
• Jiang Shiyu took Kannazuki’s hand on the uphill path, then asked whether he had ever felt all alone.

Jiang Shiyu confronted Kannazuki about how his smile hid his emotions, then confessed her feelings again and refused to be deterred by his warning that he was cold and selfish. Kannazuki accepted her confession, and they left holding hands as Jiang Shiyu promised to watch for the day his eyes smiled too.

• Jiang Shiyu told Kannazuki that his smile seemed like an act because his eyes never smiled, and Kannazuki could not bring himself to answer honestly.
• Jiang Shiyu blamed herself for the fight and Kannazuki's injuries, but he told her the rejected pursuer was responsible for his own behavior.
• Jiang Shiyu confessed that she liked Kannazuki, and he warned her that he might be selfish, indifferent, and unable to return her feelings warmly.
• Jiang Shiyu insisted that she liked him as he was and would deal with any future wrongdoing later, so Kannazuki accepted her confession.
• Jiang Shiyu clasped hands with Kannazuki and said she would watch his eyes until they smiled when he looked at her; Kannazuki's lips curved into a smile.

Kannazuki learned that the university had cleared Light Yagami of wrongdoing in the campus altercation, and wondered whether L had influenced the decision. In Berlin, Hans investigated the supernatural notebook and questioned why someone in Tokyo had given it to him, while the chapter ended with Kannazuki asking his advisor whether L had spoken at the second review meeting.

• Jiang Shiyu celebrated the advisor’s message that the university’s decision was not bad news, while Kannazuki suspected L’s influence had affected the review.
• Hans reviewed the seventeen deaths caused by the notebook and learned from a laboratory report that its paper was ordinary.
• Hans traced the notebook’s delivery to a Japanese sender and wrote that he feared being asked to kill an innocent person.
• Kannazuki read the university decision clearing Light Yagami through reasonable self-defense and disciplining Zhou Qiwen and the other attackers.
• Kannazuki asked his advisor whether L had spoken at the second meeting.

Kannazuki learned that the school had decided not to discipline him, then joined L and Jiang Shiyu for dinner. When L asked whether he was satisfied with the outcome, Kannazuki acknowledged that L had helped secure it and said he owed him a favor.

• The counselor told Kannazuki that the school had issued no disciplinary action after reviewing L's detailed analysis.
• Kannazuki messaged L the decision, and L invited him to dinner at the cafeteria.
• Jiang Shiyu celebrated the outcome and insisted on joining Kannazuki and L for dinner.
• At dinner, Kannazuki observed how L adjusted his conversation around Jiang Shiyu while she chatted freely with him.
• L asked whether the decision came from clear facts or someone's influence, and Kannazuki said both mattered and told L he owed him a favor.

Hans connected the worldwide sudden cardiac arrest deaths of criminals to multiple people using pages from the same notebook, and concluded they were agents of a single holder. He resolved to kill the holder if he threatened innocents, while Kannazuki tracked the Berlin investigation from China.

• L judged Light Yagami’s offer to repay his favor as evidence of a social debt and slightly increased the probability that Light was Kira.
• Hans compared news reports from several countries and concluded that notebook users were killing criminals in the same pattern.
• Hans used the identical paper fibers and the international deaths to infer that one holder had distributed notebook pages to multiple agents.
• Hans wrote that he would kill the holder if he ordered the deaths of innocents, then began planning to act first if necessary.
• A shinigami watched Hans and predicted that he would turn against his master.
• Kannazuki saved a report about Berlin’s sudden deaths to an encrypted album containing similar reports from around the world.

Kannazuki hid his identity as KIRA while caring for the sleeping Jiang Shiyu, but Ryuk warned him that she might discover his killings. Kannazuki vowed to keep her ignorant and eliminate anyone who threatened her peace, even Ryuk.

• Kannazuki recalled that he had killed 1,743 people in 142 days and gently covered the sleeping Jiang Shiyu with his coat.
• A high-priority alert announced that KIRA had appeared, startling Jiang Shiyu and causing a dictionary and flask to fall, which Kannazuki caught without spilling anything.
• Ryuk teased Kannazuki for protecting Jiang Shiyu and asked what he would do if she discovered he was KIRA.
• Kannazuki declared that Jiang Shiyu would never learn his identity and threatened to kill anyone who threatened her, including Ryuk.
• Ryuk laughed and vanished into the darkness as Kannazuki returned to studying his French dictionary.

Kannazuki confronted Ryuk’s warning that the notebook was changing him and that he would eventually have to choose between Jiang Shiyu and the notebook. After walking Jiang Shiyu back to her dorm, he reviewed reports showing that the killings had become a global phenomenon and that many people supported KIRA.

• Ryuk warned Kannazuki that he cared less about other people and would eventually have to choose between Jiang Shiyu and the notebook.
• Kannazuki told Ryuk not to ask him about the choice again while Jiang Shiyu slept nearby.
• Kannazuki walked Jiang Shiyu to her dormitory and waited until a light came on before leaving.
• Kannazuki reviewed reports of more than 1,200 criminals dying of sudden cardiac arrest across forty-one countries and regions.
• Kannazuki saw that Japan had opened a KIRA investigation and that the name had spread from an online forum into global news coverage.
• Kannazuki read social media posts supporting KIRA, including a Brazilian mother’s message thanking Kira for her son’s killer dying.