Chapter Summaries

Kannazuki reviewed the worldwide reaction to KIRA and dismissed his growing notoriety as he continued writing names in the Death Note. As Ryuk questioned what Kannazuki had truly chosen, Kannazuki kept writing.

• Kannazuki read reports of KIRA supporters, protests, worship groups, and international investigations, then concluded that his identity remained safe for now.
• Kannazuki saw his classmates debate the deaths in their WeChat group but did not join in.
• Kannazuki told Ryuk that twelve hundred deaths were not enough and cited the many murders that went unpunished.
• Kannazuki took out the Death Note and began writing more names, briefly pausing when Jiang Shiyu sent him a good-night message.
• Ryuk asked Kannazuki what his choice really was, but Kannazuki kept writing names.

After Kira sent him a supernatural notebook page and told him he had done nothing wrong, disgraced former police officer Tanaka Ichiro used it to kill seven corrupt Tokyo police officers. He knelt in the rain, grateful to Kira, and resolved to keep writing names if given another page.

• Tanaka remembered how his superior had covered up Matsuda Seitaro’s bribery and how Tanaka had been fired after a suspect died in an allegedly tampered-gun incident.
• Tanaka recalled testing Kira’s notebook page by writing his former superior’s name and learning that the man died of a heart attack forty seconds later.
• Tanaka wrote the names of Matsuda Seitaro, Kono Junichi, and five other police officers he had connected to corruption and organized crime.
• Tanaka knelt in the rain in Shibuya and cried out that he had carried out Kira’s judgment.
• News alerts reported that all seven officers had suffered sudden cardiac arrests and died, and Tanaka vowed to keep writing names if Kira gave him another page.

L analyzed global cardiac-arrest deaths alongside Light Yagami’s library visits and concluded that Light was directing several overseas killing groups. He ordered Watari to trace Light’s campus Wi-Fi traffic, while he began investigating Light’s supernatural abilities and untraceable method of communication.

• L compared three weeks of Light Yagami’s library visits with global death patterns and found that new waves of killings followed seven of the nine visits.
• L identified a twelve-to-twenty-four-hour delay between Light leaving the library and killings in Japan, Germany, and Brazil, and treated the timing as evidence of causation.
• L ordered Watari to investigate where Light’s campus Wi-Fi traffic went, despite the risk of triggering a cybersecurity alert.
• L reasoned that Light might be using a supernatural method to communicate with overseas agents and recalled Light’s extraordinary fighting ability.
• L wrote down his hypothesis that Light was Kira and circled the unexplained source of Light’s supernatural abilities.

Robert confirmed that Darryl Grant, a trafficking-network leader, had died after Robert wrote his name on the mysterious list’s scrap of paper. He asked Kannazuki for permission to target Congressman Richard Harrison, whom he connected to his missing daughter Emily, but Kannazuki left the message unanswered.

• Robert checked the news after writing Darryl Grant’s name and learned that Grant had died; he recalled that the same method had killed Bruce Callahan and led to the rescue of the girls in Callahan’s basement.
• Robert connected Richard Harrison to the blocked investigation of the Sunshine Hands Foundation and found that Emily’s foster-care records had placed her in the foundation’s temporary care program.
• Robert read a ledger entry identifying a child as a “Living asset,” then asked the anonymous contact for permission to target Harrison, who was not on the list.
• Robert left his phone behind and walked into the night without receiving a reply.
• Kannazuki read Robert’s message after replying to Jiang Shiyu, then put his phone facedown and closed the Death Note without answering.

Kannazuki learned that Tanaka had killed Kenichi Murakami, an officer whose administrative work did not make him a criminal, and chose not to correct or reassure his proxy. L identified a likely one-way signal from Light Yagami to a proxy and began investigating Murakami while planning to catch Light in the act.

• Kannazuki read a report showing that Tanaka had killed Kenichi Murakami, a personnel officer whose colleagues described him as an office worker with a young daughter.
• Kannazuki told Ryuk that one of his proxies had killed someone who should not have died, and Ryuk warned that Tanaka might become careless and increasingly hooked on killing.
• Kannazuki left Tanaka's anxious messages unanswered, fearing that explicit limits or a rejection could push him toward something more extreme.
• L analyzed WiFi logs and concluded that Light Yagami's small, repeated data packets might trigger a proxy to act within twelve to twenty-four hours.
• L decided not to alert anyone and ordered Watari to verify whether Murakami's record was truly clean.

Kannazuki placated Robert by ordering him not to kill Congressman Harrison and promised to find his missing daughter within two weeks. After seeing reports of civilian deaths in Ukraine, Kannazuki began planning to eliminate the entire military chain of command and questioned whether divine punishment could stop the war.

• Kannazuki told Robert not to touch Harrison and promised to handle the search for Emily, giving him two weeks.
• Kannazuki assessed his agents and concluded that Tanaka and Robert had become unstable, while Hans remained precise but was investigating the notebook's origins.
• Kannazuki exchanged good-night messages with Jiang Shiyu, then chose to write a name in the Death Note afterward.
• Kannazuki read reports of missile strikes in Ukraine and heard his international law professor criticize the failure to protect civilians.
• Kannazuki mapped the military command structure and told Ryuk he intended to destroy the entire chain so every link would stop at once.

Kannazuki spent three days researching the power structures behind the Carl City war and weighing how to use the Death Note without merely creating a power vacuum. He settled on making the people responsible publicly confess before forcing them to die, but Ryuk challenged his claim that he was acting differently from a butcher.

• Ryuk told Kannazuki about a past notebook user who killed a country's rulers and ministers, triggering decades of civil war, and warned that Kannazuki was more dangerous because he understood the consequences yet might act anyway.
• Kannazuki researched the military, political, and financial chains behind the war, while a viral post asking Kira to intervene in Carl City drew his attention to a widely shared list of alleged war criminals.
• Kannazuki projected the outcomes of decapitation and a broad purge, rejecting both because they would fail to stop the war or risk destabilizing nuclear command.
• Kannazuki proposed using the Death Note's twenty-three-day control period to make targets publicly confess to their actions and then die by suicide, calling his goal dismantling the structure behind the war.
• Kannazuki hid his research and wrote a note wondering whether anyone would continue the work if the notebook disappeared; Ryuk reminded him that his proxy Tanaka had killed the wrong person without Kannazuki intervening.

Kannazuki planned six deaths designed to force influential figures on both sides of a conflict to expose their secrets publicly before dying. He finished the entries and believed their revelations would have more impact than killing hundreds of people.

• Kannazuki wrote entries ordering Sergei Kozlov, Viktor Belousov, and Alexei Popov to disclose evidence of corruption and crimes on December 20 before dying of heart paralysis.
• Kannazuki explained to Ryuk that the timed disclosures would overwhelm the news and disrupt L’s existing analytical model.
• Kannazuki wrote entries for two generals and a senior Atlantic Alliance official, scheduling their public revelations and deaths for December 21.
• Kannazuki closed the notebook after completing all six entries and said their dying words would do more than killing six hundred people.

Kannazuki used the Death Note to make three powerful figures expose their crimes before dying of cardiac arrest, drawing worldwide attention to Kira. As the scandal broke through an information blockade, he watched the reaction and prepared to make his next move against L.

• Kannazuki controlled Sergei Kozlov into confessing corruption and arms diversions during a shareholders' meeting before Kozlov died of cardiac arrest.
• Kannazuki saw Kira become a worldwide trending topic and dismissed Jiang Shiyu's offer to bring him cold medicine.
• Viktor Belousov posted a video confessing to rare-metal smuggling and profiteering before dying, and investigative outlets received evidence of his crimes.
• Popov sent the Gray Wolf Mercenary Group a mass email exposing its operations, then died after repeating the information in a phone call recording.
• Kannazuki counted the three deaths and challenged L to prepare for his next move.

Kannazuki’s second wave of Kira’s forced confessions exposed military crimes on both sides of the conflict, prompting an emergency UN Security Council meeting and an unconditional ceasefire. The chapter leaves Kannazuki facing the consequences of having stopped the war through fear, while the world formally reckons with Kira.

• Kannazuki watched Kira’s worldwide attention surge after the deaths and confessions of three northern oligarchs, then learned the UN Security Council would hold an emergency meeting about Kira.
• Kannazuki timed the next confessions to reach the Security Council before its meeting began.
• Anatoly Demitrienko read aloud military orders tied to civilian deaths and falsified reports before collapsing, and a frontline commander confessed to ordering an intentional bombing over an open channel.
• Haggerty sent international media a video confessing to corruption and deliberate delays in peace negotiations, then died in his office.
• Representatives at the Security Council fell silent after news of the three new confessions spread, and the northern representative requested a temporary adjournment.
• The conflict zone authorities and the north announced unconditional ceasefires, and Kannazuki told Ryuk that no one dared risk becoming Kira’s next target.

As a ceasefire took effect, Kannazuki watched world leaders retreat from public life while public opinion increasingly hailed Kira as a hero. L analyzed the deaths and confessions that had brought the war to a halt, concluding that Kira had controlled the victims’ wills and posed a threat of global enslavement.

• Kannazuki read reports of heightened security and canceled appearances as governments avoided publicly confronting Kira.
• L spent nineteen hours studying the ceasefire and the six victims’ confessions, then asked Watari to take away his untouched cake.
• L concluded that Kira had orchestrated the victims’ public confessions and deaths as a performance that ended the war.
• L watched interviews in which civilians praised Kira, then declared that controlling people’s wills was enslavement rather than justice.

After Kira’s killings forced a ceasefire, Robert and Tanaka worshipped him as a god, while Hans recognized the danger of his absolute power. Hans began planning to expose and stop Kira, ending with a profile of Kira and a resolve to kill him.

• Robert watched the evidence behind Kira’s killings and accepted the ceasefire as proof that Kira had succeeded where the law had failed.
• Robert received dark-web intelligence about Representative Harrison and decided to wait for Kira to deal with him.
• Tanaka praised Kira for ending the wars and begged him through an encrypted chat for another notebook sheet.
• Hans concluded that Kira could control people’s actions as well as kill them, and feared the torn pages gave Kira leverage over him.
• Hans hid an encrypted journal and scheduled an email to expose Kira’s abilities if he failed to cancel it within seven days.
• Hans wrote a profile of Kira on his corkboard and resolved to kill him.

Kannazuki learned that powerful interests had ignited a new war to test Kira’s limits, forcing him to consider how to stop it without triggering an even greater disaster. He rejected killing the nations’ leaders and prepared to target the source of their confidence instead.

• Kannazuki watched news break that Y Country and U.S. forces had clashed in the Energy Gulf, sending oil prices soaring.
• Kannazuki told Ryuk that capitalists had fueled a new war because they were starving for profits after the fighting in Eastern Europe stopped.
• L explained to Watari that the war was a test of Kira’s limits: killing national leaders could cause a power vacuum, while inaction would shatter Kira’s deterrence.
• Kannazuki rejected killing either country’s leaders because their replacements would continue the war and might escalate toward nuclear conflict.
• Kannazuki told Ryuk he would kill the source of the war-makers’ confidence.

Kannazuki studied how financial interests were profiting from the escalating war and rejected a conventional strategy that would let the system recover. After three sleepless days, he chose a plan targeting commanders Richard Collins and Hassan Rahman to make them fear Kira’s presence in their command rooms.

• Jiang Shiyu told Kannazuki that cafeteria fried chicken cutlets had risen in price because of the conflict, and he predicted they would soon go on sale.
• Kannazuki explained to Ryuk that the war was a financial struggle over energy, and he discovered that investors were betting on both rising oil prices and Kira’s intervention.
• L concluded that Kira was searching for an irreplaceable point whose destruction could cripple the global capital system.
• Kannazuki rejected Plan A because authorities could suppress revelations and replace exposed figures, then wrote down Richard Collins and Hassan Rahman as targets for Plan B.

L watched the Gulf standoff and expected Kira to expose himself by forcing information through the communications blockade. Kannazuki instead stopped the conflict by controlling both commanders, crashing the oil market and demonstrating that he could decide whether the warships fired.

• L observed the rising oil futures and concluded that Kira’s power to deter the conflict had been weakened by the communications blockade.
• As the federal fleet and Gulf Defense Force prepared to fire, Kannazuki controlled Richard Collins and Hassan Rahman, who ordered their forces to stand down before dying of cardiac paralysis.
• Both sides withdrew without firing, and news of the commanders’ deaths sent crude oil prices plunging and cost a hedge fund billions.
• At Linhai University, Kannazuki destroyed the phone SIM card and explained to Ryuk that controlling the people operating the war machinery was enough to stop the conflict.

Kannazuki publicly declared Kira’s rules, threatening death for anyone who ordered a war and exposing their secrets to the world. The declaration halted the immediate escalation and bought Kannazuki time to prepare for L’s investigation and his next steps toward godhood.

• Kannazuki destroyed the secret lists that could have sparked war and explained to Ryuk that he would stop following conflicts and establish rules for the world.
• Kannazuki used a global botnet to broadcast Kira’s declaration across screens and online platforms worldwide, warning that war-makers would confess their secrets and die of cardiac paralysis.
• The declaration terrified military leaders and financial elites, while ordinary people celebrated Kira and a soldier in the Gulf refused to follow an order to storm a civilian district.
• Kannazuki concluded that the declaration would deter open conflict for at least six months, giving him time to deal with L’s investigation and refine his path to godhood.
• Jiang Shiyu messaged Kannazuki to ask what kind of person Kira was, and Kannazuki replied that she should rest before turning off his phone.

Kannazuki’s Kira forced governments and armed groups around the world to end or suspend conflicts, triggering fierce debate over whether his intervention had brought peace or imposed a reign of terror. At Linhai University, Kannazuki calmly watched the world react to the new order he had created.

• The president signed an agreement requiring an unconditional withdrawal and a pledge not to initiate armed conflict, and the opposing forces agreed to a temporary ceasefire.
• Rebel forces, civil-war factions, and drug cartels in several countries laid down their weapons or made peace, and worldwide military conflicts fell sharply within a month.
• At a World Alliance press conference, the secretary-general refused to assess Kira’s role and answered a reporter with “No comment.”
• People around the world argued over “Kira Peace,” while world leaders avoided discussing Kira publicly.
• Kannazuki ate at Linhai University’s cafeteria and reflected that fear had let him forcibly reshape world politics and end wars.

L analyzed Kira’s limits and linked Light Yagami to the killings through surveillance footage and a timeline of events. He declared Light was Kira, while Watari prepared to alert authorities, but L stopped him.

• L argued that Kira’s public declaration concealed his inability to overcome the financial and political systems protecting his targets.
• L studied surveillance footage of Kannazuki researching international law at Linhai University during the Middle East crisis.
• L connected the footage to Raye Penber’s death, a surge in campus network traffic, and Kira’s declaration, then identified Light Yagami as Kira.
• Watari prepared to contact INTERPOL and the CIA, but L ordered him to put down the phone.

L confirmed that Light Yagami was Kira but refused to arrest him, fearing both global chaos and his own inability to let Kannazuki die. He decided to meet Kannazuki in person, confident Kira could not kill him without knowing his real name.

• Watari prepared to send an order to capture Light Yagami, but L told him to put the phone down despite confirming Light was Kira.
• L argued that arresting or killing Kira could provoke global unrest because millions viewed him as a savior.
• Watari accused L of making excuses because he did not want to arrest Kannazuki, and L admitted to himself that he could not bear to see his rival die.
• L ordered Watari to ready the car so he could meet Kannazuki in person.
• L told Watari that Kira could not kill him because he had erased his real name from every system and file.

Kannazuki met L on the unfinished Golden Sands Center rooftop, where L used his own life to pressure him over the Kira investigation. The confrontation ended with L removing Kannazuki’s shoes and carefully drying his wet feet beneath the umbrella.

• Kannazuki accepted L’s invitation to meet alone and prepared a hidden strip of notebook paper and a concealed needle before leaving for the rooftop.
• Kannazuki found L waiting barefoot on the roof’s edge, and L confronted him with circumstantial evidence linking him to Kira.
• L explained that his death would trigger an encrypted email naming Light Yagami and exposing his deductions, making Kannazuki unable to attack him safely.
• Kannazuki accused L of gambling with his life because he feared he had identified the wrong person, and L stepped back from the ledge.
• L approached Kannazuki beneath his umbrella, removed his shoes and shirt, and used the shirt to wipe the muddy water from Kannazuki’s sock-clad feet.