Chapter Summaries

L confronted Kannazuki with evidence that he had killed innocent people to conceal his identity, forcing Kannazuki to consider killing him. With no way to learn L’s real name, Kannazuki faced Ryuk’s offer to trade half his lifespan to see it.

• L washed Kannazuki’s feet and argued that Kannazuki had once saved millions by ending wars.
• L accused Kannazuki of killing a Linhai University security guard and a foreign agent to cover his tracks.
• Kannazuki concluded that L’s findings would put him in danger and decided he had to kill L, but he did not know L’s real name.
• Ryuk urged Kannazuki to trade half his lifespan to see L’s real name.

Kannazuki accepted Ryuk’s offer to trade half his remaining lifespan for Shinigami Eyes, then used L’s real name to kill him with the Death Note. He left L’s body on the rooftop, having eliminated the detective who threatened his new world.

• Ryuk offered Kannazuki the Shinigami Eyes in exchange for half his remaining natural lifespan, and Kannazuki accepted.
• Kannazuki gained the ability to see L’s real name and remaining lifespan, then realized L had no real-time dead man’s switch protecting him.
• As L walked toward the rooftop door, Kannazuki opened a hidden compartment in his watch and used a fragment of the Death Note to write L’s name in blood.
• After forty seconds passed, L suffered a fatal heart attack and collapsed in the rain.
• Kannazuki watched L die, then covered his face with the umbrella and left him on the rooftop.

Kannazuki killed L and erased the evidence, convinced that removing the world’s greatest detective would let Kira’s rules reshape humanity. As Watari recovered L’s body, people around the world celebrated Kira’s peace, unaware that L had fallen.

• Kannazuki confirmed that L was dead, then carefully retraced his steps and left the rooftop as the rain washed away the evidence.
• Back in his dorm, Kannazuki burned the paper bearing L’s name, flushed away the ashes, and told Ryuk that trading half his lifespan for L’s death was worthwhile.
• Kannazuki vowed to make Kira’s rules a universal consensus and declared himself the god of the new world.
• Watari arrived at the rooftop with L’s private task force, learned that L had died of cardiac arrest, and watched the operatives seal his body in a black bag.
• At L’s underground bunker, monitors showed crowds worldwide celebrating Kira as global crime rates fell.

After L’s death, Kannazuki used the Death Note to kill criminals and financial elites, while Kira’s rules reshaped crime and politics around the world. Certain that no one could restrain him, Kannazuki went online without protection and exposed his real IP address.

• Kannazuki confirmed that L’s surveillance had stopped and wrote a page of criminals’ names in the Death Note.
• Within three days, crime bosses around the world died of heart attacks, serious crime rates plunged, and crowds celebrated Kira while politicians debated adopting his rules.
• Kannazuki issued a second Kira Declaration targeting corrupt officials and powerful profiteers, then killed five Wall Street fund managers who had tried to profit from Kira’s killings.
• Ryuk called Kannazuki a dictator, and Kannazuki accepted that he had become the world’s new order.
• Kannazuki connected to the campus Wi-Fi without a proxy and revealed his real IP address while reading online praise for Kira.

Kannazuki watched worldwide accusations against the powerful turn public opinion into demands for Kira’s judgment, then killed Choi Min-ho during a livestream after Lee Dong-geon refused the family’s offer of money. With L dead and the investigation crippled, Kannazuki felt untouchable, unaware of a subtle change on his computer screen.

• Lee Dong-geon posted evidence that Choi Min-ho had killed his wife and daughter and escaped justice, and people worldwide called on Kira to kill him.
• Choi Young-tae panicked at the viral accusations and arranged a livestream where he and Choi Min-ho confessed and begged Lee Dong-geon to forgive them.
• Lee Dong-geon rejected their money and pleas, recounting how the Daesung Group had mistreated him and demanding Choi Min-ho’s death.
• Kannazuki wrote Choi Min-ho’s name and cause of death in the notebook, and Choi Min-ho suffered for forty seconds before dying on the livestream.
• Viewers celebrated Kira’s execution as justice, while Kannazuki basked in his power and failed to notice a small change on his computer screen.

Worldwide protests demanded recognition of Kira’s rules as Kannazuki confronted Tanaka’s indiscriminate killings. Kannazuki used the Death Note to destroy Tanaka and his subsidiary notebook, leaving the former detective dead in a sewer.

• Three hundred thousand protesters filled Pennsylvania Avenue, while leaders around the world struggled to contain demonstrations supporting Kira.
• Tanaka used his subsidiary notebook to kill people accused of even minor offenses, including two students who had fought over sneakers.
• Kannazuki noticed Tokyo’s unusually high death toll and decided Tanaka’s indiscriminate killings undermined Kira’s deterrence.
• Kannazuki wrote Tanaka’s name in the Death Note and compelled him to burn the subsidiary notebook before walking to a sewer and dying.
• Tanaka burned the notebook, walked barefoot into an abandoned sewer, and died in the sewage.

Hans discovered that Kira had killed Tanaka and feared he would be purged next, so he cut off his network and recorded an exposé. Kannazuki realized Hans might have prepared a posthumous leak and hesitated to kill him, leaving Hans’s recording ready to reveal Kira’s secrets.

• Hans found a report linking Tanaka’s death to ashes from a Death Note page and concluded that Kira was killing his agents.
• Hans disconnected his Berlin server from the internet to prevent Kira from accessing his network.
• Kannazuki discovered that Hans had removed his Dark Web node and inferred that he had learned about Tanaka’s death.
• Kannazuki considered killing Hans but stopped when he realized Hans might have arranged to expose Kira’s secrets after his death.
• Hans recorded a video identifying Kira as a murderer, explaining how the Death Note and agents worked, and urging people to resist him.

Kannazuki used the Death Note to force Hans Gruber to erase his evidence and disable his dead man’s switch before dying. Hans’s recording and files were destroyed, leaving Kira’s secret protected.

• Kannazuki wrote that Hans would destroy his files and equipment before dying, and Ryuk laughed at his ruthlessness.
• Hans activated his dead man’s switch and challenged Kira to kill him.
• The Death Note took control of Hans, making him enter the password and shut down the switch.
• Hans formatted his drives, smashed the satellite equipment, and burned his notebook fragment.
• Hans walked into an alley in Berlin, suffered a fatal heart attack, and died.

Kannazuki explained to Ryuk how poverty and corrupt systems had shaped his hatred of the powerful, and declared that he wanted absolute control rather than wealth. After killing Hans and erasing the evidence, he prepared to target the elites through the secret forum Abyssal Throne.

• Kannazuki finished clearing the access logs after forcing Hans to destroy his equipment and die in a sewer.
• Kannazuki told Ryuk that society’s rules exploited the poor, citing illegal electric bikes and abandoned housing developments.
• Kannazuki admitted that if he had become rich, he would have used his money to take revenge and mistreat others.
• Kannazuki said money no longer mattered to him and vowed to use the Death Note to send the powerful to hell and build a world that knew fear.
• Kannazuki opened the Abyssal Throne forum and declared that Kira’s judgment had only just begun.

Kannazuki discovered that someone had stolen his target list and killed all five warlords ahead of schedule, then the intruder revealed himself as L, whom Kannazuki had believed dead. L challenged Kannazuki to explain how he could be alive, and Ryuk hinted that he had known the answer all along.

• Kannazuki found that an intruder had breached the Abyssal Throne forum, erased its logs, and altered the deaths he had planned for five warlords.
• Kannazuki concluded that another notebook user had overridden his entries by changing the targets’ death times and causes.
• The intruder sent Kannazuki taunting messages and revealed a live image of L, whom Kannazuki recognized as the detective he had killed years earlier.
• L reminded Kannazuki that he had confirmed L’s death on the rooftop and asked why he was alive.
• Kannazuki pressed Ryuk about a remark he had made after L collapsed, and Ryuk said he had already made the answer clear.

Kannazuki learned that L had written his own name in a Death Note before Kannazuki tried to kill him, making the rooftop entry ineffective. L had twenty-two days left and vowed to dismantle Kannazuki’s New World before he died.

• Ryuk told Kannazuki that L had never died after collapsing on the rooftop.
• Kannazuki deduced that an earlier Death Note entry had made his own entry against L invalid.
• A message revealed that L had used the torn page Shrimp left behind to write his own name and schedule his death for twenty-three days later.
• Kannazuki realized L had faked his cardiac arrest with drugs and used the notebook’s rules to gain temporary immunity from later entries.
• L announced that he would destroy Kannazuki’s Kira Rules, proxies, Dark Web nodes, and past killings within twenty-two days.
• L removed a sugar cube from the tower’s base, causing the entire tower to collapse.

L kidnapped Jiang Shiyu and used her as leverage to force Kannazuki into a twenty-two-day ceasefire, during which he must not use the Death Note and must cooperate with the investigation. Kannazuki agreed, but L revealed that his counterattack had already begun.

• L showed Kannazuki a video of Jiang Shiyu bound in an abandoned warehouse and concluded that Kannazuki genuinely cared about her.
• Kannazuki demanded that L target him instead and protested that Jiang Shiyu knew nothing about the Death Note.
• L offered to keep Jiang Shiyu safe if Kannazuki refrained from using the notebook for twenty-two days and cooperated fully with the investigation.
• Kannazuki accepted the terms and challenged L to explain how he could dismantle Kannazuki's New World in the time he had left.
• L confirmed that he had written his own name in the Death Note and declared that his counterattack had already begun.

Kannazuki resisted Ryuk’s temptation to use the Death Note and raced toward the abandoned Red Star Chemical Plant to save Jiang Shiyu. He remained determined to protect her while facing L’s twenty-two-day trap, though the factory was still ten kilometers away.

• Ryuk urged Kannazuki to write the arms dealers’ names and sacrifice Jiang Shiyu, but Kannazuki locked the Death Note away and left the dorm to save her.
• Kannazuki recalled Jiang Shiyu’s kindness and declared that protecting her mattered more to him than ruling the world as a god.
• Kannazuki ran toward the old Red Star Chemical Plant, the location L had revealed before cutting the feed, while Ryuk followed and mocked his exhaustion.
• Kannazuki pushed on despite his failing strength, resolving to save Jiang Shiyu and find a way out of L’s twenty-two-day trap.

L kidnapped Jiang Shiyu and revealed that he believed her boyfriend, Kannazuki, was Kira, the serial killer. He presented surveillance evidence and said Kannazuki was on his way to the warehouse.

• L held Jiang Shiyu captive in an abandoned warehouse and told her that Kannazuki was Kira.
• Jiang Shiyu rejected L's accusation and defended Kannazuki as a gentle, caring boyfriend.
• L showed Jiang Shiyu surveillance and network data that he claimed linked Kannazuki to Kira's killings.
• L described Kannazuki's unexplained absence during a movie as coinciding with the deaths of five criminals in Tokyo.
• L said Kannazuki had calmly agreed to stop using the Death Note for twenty-two days when L threatened Jiang Shiyu.
• L told Jiang Shiyu that Kannazuki was heading to the warehouse, while she remained unable to accept the accusation.

L forced Jiang Shiyu to confront evidence that Kannazuki was a dangerous, inhuman killer who had used her as proof of his humanity. He told her he had secured twenty-two days of peace and planned to dismantle Kannazuki’s new world, while insisting Kannazuki would come for her.

• L questioned Jiang Shiyu about whether Kannazuki had ever forbidden her from touching something, reminding her of the locked desk drawer and his frightening reaction when she reached for it.
• L asked whether Kannazuki had predicted the future, and Jiang Shiyu remembered him saying a drug lord would die before eight that night; the man died shortly afterward.
• Jiang Shiyu recalled Kannazuki avoiding photographs and crowded places, then concluded he had been hiding from Skynet surveillance.
• L told Jiang Shiyu that Kannazuki saw her as a prop and would rescue her to preserve his belief that he was still human, not because he loved her.
• L said he had forced Kannazuki to cease hostilities for twenty-two days and threatened to send Jiang Shiyu to Maximum-Security Prison if he killed anyone during that time.
• L said he would dismantle Kannazuki’s new world and predicted Kannazuki would come for Jiang Shiyu, but would no longer be the Zuki she knew.

Kannazuki reached the warehouse and admitted to Jiang Shiyu that he was Kira, but she recoiled from him and condemned his killings. When she asked him to destroy the notebook, Kannazuki broke down and told L that he had won.

• Kannazuki freed Jiang Shiyu from her ropes, but she recoiled and begged him not to touch her.
• Kannazuki admitted he was Kira and insisted that his killings were justified and that he would keep Jiang Shiyu with him.
• Ryuk urged Kannazuki to use the notebook to kill L and the bodyguards, while L declared that Kannazuki had already lost.
• Jiang Shiyu told Kannazuki that killing L would only make her hate him more and asked him to destroy the notebook.
• Kannazuki screamed in anguish, then looked at L and admitted that L had won by using Jiang Shiyu to ruin his plan.

Kannazuki escaped the warehouse after killing L’s two bodyguards, but his gunshot wounds left him bleeding and alone on the streets. As he collapsed on a hillside, Ryuk told him that [Shen He] had decided it was time for him to die, and Kannazuki asked why the Creator had chosen an ordinary food delivery rider like him.

• Kannazuki used a hidden Death Note scrap and the Shinigami Eyes to write the names of L’s two bodyguards, who died forty seconds later.
• Kannazuki left the warehouse despite his wounds, while L let him go and Jiang Shiyu watched him leave.
• Kannazuki wandered through the city, recalling his parents’ deaths, his teenage disillusionment, and the people he had killed with the Death Note.
• Kannazuki collapsed on an uphill road as blood loss and shock weakened him, and Ryuk told him that [Shen He] had come to take his life.
• Kannazuki remembered Jiang Shiyu asking to kiss him, then asked Ryuk why the Creator had chosen him; Ryuk answered with a quiet laugh.

Kannazuki died on the steps after Ryuk revealed that the Death Note had given him hundreds of extra years to live and told him about the Creator and [Shen He]. Ryuk left the scene, remarking that humans were fascinating.

• Ryuk told Kannazuki that the people he had killed with the Death Note had added their remaining lifespans to his own.
• Kannazuki admitted that he would still fall in love with Jiang Shiyu, despite believing that love had led him to his death.
• Ryuk explained that the Creator had made seven worlds and that [Shen He] had defeated or sealed away several of their protagonists.
• Kannazuki recalled hesitating before writing Zhao Gang's name, then confessed that he had washed his hands three times afterward.
• Kannazuki died as Ryuk sat beside him, and Ryuk flew away after saying that humans were fascinating.