Shinigami Realm

"Where the hell is Grudge?" a Shinigami wearing jewels around his neck named 'Grem' asked.

The second Shinigami, named Hurte, threw a card down on the ground and mumbled to himself. "Should've been back here a long time ago."

The third Shinigami that was hanging with them was named 'Pike' and he had an answer. "He took a trip to the human world. Like Ryuk, he dropped his notebook."

Grem chuckled. "Someone else dropped their notebook? Gods of death these days are getting clumsy as they are lazy."

Pike replied, "A Shinigami in the human world is not considered lazy when you think about it."

Hurte contemplated, "First Ryuk, then Grudge. Maybe I should drop my notebook."

Pike shook his head. "Grudge dropped his notebook in the human world on purpose. Grudge, despite being a god of death, has a soft spot for humans. Maybe he wanted to be friends with a human."

Grem scoffed at that idea. "What a ridiculous idea Grudge has."

"What about that other Shinigami?" Hurte pointed out, "The one that wanted to talk to Ryuk to hear his story?"

Pike shrugged. "I don't know what his motives are; he's a new guy but I heard from Ryuk that he went to the human world."

Grem cringed. "All these Shinigamis in the human world, it's utterly ridiculous."

With Break, Roach, and Maroon

"You know guys," Grudge began, "You can still make the Shinigami eye deal. That should make things easier."

"What point would Shinigami eyes have if it'll just half my remaining lifespan?" Break asked, "I'm not using the Death Note to murder people like Kira, I'm using the Death Note within the law. Criminals' names and faces are given to me and they are criminals on death row."

"If you say so," Grudge said, "But, the deals always open."

Roach and Maroon looked at each other.

"I wonder what my lifespan is," Roach said. Maroon nodded.

Grudge looked at them. "I can see your lifespans and if I could, I would tell you but I don't think it would make a difference."

"I'm not halfing my life," Break said, "But I am still going to find Kira and I will figure out his name without the Shinigami eyes. To use our numbers to our advantage, we have to divide our resources. Counting Grudge, there are four of us in total."

"Let me guess," Roach began, "You want two of us to investigate those connected to the Task Force and SPK while the other two continue the investigation of Kira so he won't catch on."

Break nodded. "The best choice would be Grudge and me to investigate the Task Force and SPK. You two stay on top of Kira."

"Understood," Roach and Maroon nodded.

December 2, 2030

"Do you have a plan as of right now?" Gilth asked Knight as he phased into the ground beneath Knight's feet. He knew Knight could still hear him, even underground.

Knight took out his phone and put it to his ear. "Yes, I do have a plan."

"Let me hear it."

"This whole game of cat-and-mouse is one elaborate chessboard and I'm a grandmaster in chess. Break is American so he should stand out in Japan. I don't know his name nor will his name be available in Japan so I will turn to the United States to get them to cooperate."

"Cooperate?"

"Yes, I have access to Interpol's database through hacking of the SPK and Task Force network, which allows me access into any police database all over the globe. I'll give you details of the plan."

"Okay."

"I'm going to look up a list of petty criminals in America that are currently incarcerated. I'll write that they have heart attacks and before they die of heart attacks, they leave messages on the wall, asking for Break, Roach, and Maroon's real name and face. Once the petty criminals die and I have no answers, I'll move onto the more guilty ones. The police will realize that I have access to their information and this will cause them to panic. They'll hide their names and faces off the police database and that's when I'll start executing cops. The cops will be terrified for their lives and they'll investigate Break, Roach, and Maroon until they know their real name and faces. Once the police give Kira the names and faces of my three enemies, that's when I'll eliminate them and take the notebook for myself."

Gilth laughed. "Nice plan, Knight. It's a well-thought-out plan."

"And the chances of this plan working are ninety-seven percent."

"You better be careful, however," Gilth warned, "They could pick up on what you're trying to do and remove their names from the database."

"Don't worry, even if they do remove their names, I still have contingencies. It's like I said, with every chess piece I move, I think nine steps ahead. Every move I make is calculated to the 144th degree."

Boys Bathroom, Daikoku Private Academy

Knight opened a stall and locked himself in the bathroom. He sat on the toilet and opened his backpack. He took out a mini-TV and turned it on before muting it.

Gilth phased out of the ground and in front of Knight.

Knight held up the mini-TV, which was showing a live broadcast of a weather report.

Smart plan, Gilth thought, He wants me to put the mini-TV in my mouth. Once the TV is in my mouth, it'll become invisible to all around him and if I turn myself transparent, he should be able to see the screen through my semi-invisible skin and write the names of criminals whose names and faces are broadcast, therefore, maintaining his pattern of having no time pattern to kill.

Gilth opened his mouth and put the camera in. He swallowed it. He turned himself half-invisible so Knight would be able to see the mini-TV laying dormant in his stomach.

I've got to test it out first.

Knight walked out of the stall to find another teenager washing his hands. He washed his hands with him and looked at Gilth in the mirror. Even though the teen was looking in the mirror, he couldn't see Gilth, nor could he see the mini-TV through Gilth's semi-invisible skin.

Perfect, Knight thought, Now the only person who can see the mini-TV, even when he's half-invisible, is me.

Knight smirked. He headed to class and was in his seat by the time the bell rang. His teacher was going over a lecture and he called upon Knight to translate a sentence in English. Of course, because he is a Japanese-born English, he could speak Japanese and English fluently.

His teacher praised him.

Knight took out his pencil as Gilth positioned himself in front of his desk so he could see the mini-TV.

"Knight," a voice called to him.

Knight turned to his girlfriend, "Hello, Hina."

Gilth studied her.

"Good work on translating the sentence into English," she said. "Since when did you become fluent in English?"

"I was born in Japan but I moved around some orphanages before I settled in England for a short while. That's when Aunt Sayu adopted me and took me home."

"You're amazing, Knight," she blushed, "You've been a student here for two weeks starting this Friday and you're already at the top of the class. You're at the top of every class."

Why does every girl I come across have a crush on me for some reason? Am I really THAT handsome?

There was a crime on the mini-TV.

Knight smirked. He wrote down the names of the three criminals being broadcast in his red composition book, which is where he hid several pieces of the Death Note.

This is just too easy.

"I know it's the first day of the school week but do you want to make plans sometime this weekend?" she asked.

Knight looked at her. "I'm pretty busy all week, got a lot of work to do."

Another news report. He writes down the name of the criminals.

"You're always busy," Hina complained, "I really want to hang out with you this weekend."

If I keep on turning her down then she might get suspicious and even stalk me. Women are obsessed with their loved ones after all.

"Let's go to Space Land this weekend, how does Saturday sound?"

Hina blushed again. "I would love that."

And I'll bring Gilth and several pages of the Death Note while I'm at it. If Break's Shinigami decides to follow me to Space Land, I can easily lose him in the crowd with Gilth's help.

December 5, 2030

With Roach and Maroon

Roach and Maroon sat in an empty room with the lights turned off and files and documents containing everything they gathered on the Kira investigation.

"Day in, day out, nothing unusual from Kira," Roach complained to Maroon. "I'm growing impatient and wanting to hear results from Break."

Maroon put his feet up on the couch he was sitting on and took a bite out of a donut. "I can't agree more but even if there is nothing unusual from Kira, we still have to investigate."

Roach sat on the floor with his legs crossed. He looked at the names of criminals who died. "The media has to stop releasing these criminals' names and faces otherwise they'll keep dying." He froze. "Wait a second." He goes over the list one more time.

"What did you find?" Maroon asked.

Roach held up a file. "I just noticed it but, in the last three days, the majority of criminals dying had their identities released on TV."

Maroon took an interest. "Explain."

"Kira has access to criminals worldwide so why is he targeting criminals who are being broadcast on the news?"

"Is there a pattern to the people he's killed?" Maroon licked his lips. "Because this could benefit the investigation."

"There is no pattern. Criminals whose names are being broadcast, regardless of their crime, die."

Maroon smiled. "Interesting."

Roach looked at the ground. "Why would Kira go through the trouble of targeting criminals regardless of their crime? I don't think that bike snatching or stealing tires from a car qualifies as punishable by death." He pauses. "Unless…"

"He's killing criminals whose names are being broadcast so he doesn't look suspicious. Previously, before we came onto the case, there was no pattern at time at which Kira killed his victims. They were all throughout the day at unpredictable times but now that he's killing criminals whose names are being broadcast, even though he doesn't need to look at the TV screen to kill people?"

"I'll look up the time at which these criminals' names were being broadcast and see if I can narrow it down."

He stood over the files and sorted them carefully. "The names of these criminals were broadcast between eight a.m. and three p.m. After three p.m., the killing times once again became erratic. This pattern has been consistent for three days."

Maroon touched his lower lip. "Given the time of death for the victims, Kira could be a student."

"High school and cram school," Roach said, "There are also criminals who are being broadcast between eight p.m. and twelve a.m. midnight. The killings are erratic between the time of four to five-thirty before they're back to broadcast kills. And there's this other pattern, not sure it helps but Kira doesn't kill people within an eight-hour time span, which is between eleven p.m. and seven a.m. Anyone can guess that's when he goes to sleep."

"You need at least eight hours of sleep every night if you want to keep up your mental performance in school," Maroon agreed, "So our list has been narrowed down. If we can narrow down the list to which news station was broadcasting the criminals and how many viewers they had each day, that would help with the Kira investigation."

Roach smirked. Kira, in an attempt to appear as a student, you gave yourself away by killing criminals as soon as their identities are broadcast.

Those with the eye power of the god of death will have the eyesight of over 3.6 in the human measurement, regardless of their original eyesight

The individuals who lose the ownership of the Death Note will also lose their memory of the usage of the Death Note. This does not mean that he will lose all the memory from the day he owned it to the day he loses possession, but means he will only lose the memory involving the Death Note.

Whenever an individual with ownership of more than two Death Notes loses possession to one of the Death Notes, he will not be able to recognize that Death Note's god of death's appearance or voice anymore. The god of death himself will leave, but all the memory involving that Death Note will remain as long as he maintains ownership of at least one other Death Note.

Humans that have traded for the eye power of a god of death will see a person's primary life span, and will not be influenced by the Death Note. If the victim is killed using the Death Note, the remaining lifetime of that victim will be provided to the god of death.