(Heads-up: this segues straight into the film version of death note; a few middle details change, but the reversal stays the same.)
L fell, hitting the floor hard.
Light's final 'gentle' smile sent chills through everyone—this man was terrifying.
L had identified Light as Killer from the start and was one step from victory—yet now he was dead.
When L closed his eyes, everyone believed he had perished, killed by a Shinigami.
Demon Slayer Corps.
'He may still look human, but inside he's already a demon,'
Tokito Muichiro said from his sickbed, staring calmly at Light on the screen. 'If I met someone like that, I'd kill him first—evidence or no evidence.'
'He hid himself well,' Tanjiro sighed, watching Light. 'Without this video I'd have thought he was a good person.'
'...'
Tokito said nothing; Tanjiro was right. To outsiders, Light Yagami seemed the perfect saint.
Without the multiverse projection exposing him, everyone here would have smiled kindly at Light.
Now, after the reveal, they would still smile—very 'kindly'—and draw their nichirin blades to 'reason' with him.
Let's see whether your pen is faster or my sword.
Magical Girl Illya World.
'L... is dead?'
Seeing Light's 'gentle' smile, Illya felt uneasy. L had finally realized Light was Killer, yet lost because Light used Shinigami Rem.
Though Light claimed to stand for justice, after the beginning he felt like a different person—filthy tactics, seducing girls, murdering innocents, framing others.
Well... the framing was mutual (fake Killer), but Illya still found it surreal.
L had calculated everything except that last crucial point—why did he have to die?
'...Maybe...'
Miyu watched L hit the floor and close his eyes, her own heart aching.
In a sense, L had already won—yet a third party, a Shinigami's power, killed him.
"A Shinigami, huh…"
magical ruby couldn't bounce around carefree anymore; through Illya, she could feel it too.
Before the might of a god, humanity looked frighteningly fragile.
Even a death-designated god can perish if the rules demand it, just like that Shinigami who crumbled to sand.
She had been a kind Shinigami, but because of an evil man—Light Yagami—she broke the rules to protect someone dear, killing L and Watari.
magical sapphire said nothing, yet if it came to that, they could still protect Illya and Miyu.
A simple heart attack or some other "accidental" death wouldn't matter.
As Magical Girls, Illya and Miyu were far, far stronger than ordinary people.
If the kill was rule-based… there were still ways.
Both magical ruby and Sapphire were confident; they just hadn't encountered this power before and couldn't be sure the Second Magic could block the death note.
After all, it was the power of a god.
Detective Conan World.
"L is dead?!"
Kudo Shinichi stared at the fallen L, pupils shrinking as the realization hit: the victor had been decided.
It was Light Yagami—Kira—who won; with L gone, every lead in that world snapped back to zero.
Unlike L, no one else would keep hounding Light.
Unless L passed every scrap of intel to someone before dying—but the only man L truly trusted, Watari, was dead too.
That left L's side empty-handed, unless some hidden backup appeared; sadly, the video had spliced in too many tiny cuts.
Otherwise, Kudo Shinichi felt he could read the next moves from those details.
"Still… what do we do now?"
Kudo Shinichi narrowed his eyes. He knew L couldn't die in reality, yet he couldn't help wondering what contingency L might have left.
And what would Light do now that L was gone?
No—Light would wipe out every last person who knew.
Anyone aware that L had suspected Light of being Kira would die by Light's hand.
Among them was Light's own father, Yagami Soichiro!
"He… wouldn't kill his father, would he?" Shinichi's face twisted in disbelief.
Earlier, L had forced Yagami Soichiro to aim a gun at Light to test whether he was Kira.
Light hadn't killed him then because he'd briefly "reformed" and no longer held the death note.
But now L was dead, and everyone trusted Light completely.
If Light grew ruthless and silenced every insider except himself, he could sleep easy and reign as the god of the New World.
"The video's not over—let's watch."
Kudo Shinichi sighed, rubbing his temples. Even a genius high-schooler, the heisei holmes, couldn't deduce the rest without more clues.
Yet he smiled; yes, this was exactly how it should be.
He preferred this kind of countdown—battling wits with a criminal—to the earlier segments; it made him feel part of the fight.
In short, it hit the spot.
The footage rolled on.
With L and Watari eliminated, Light Yagami became the supreme voice in the facility.
The others refused to believe the two were dead; after a brief show of grief, Light gave a despairing speech: "We're all going to die."
Yagami Soichiro was first to steady himself, ordering Light to calm down and sending everyone to search for Watari—he had to be somewhere on this floor.
At the same time, Soichiro noticed the death note on the table; Rem's notebook crumbled to ash.
Clearly, Rem had found a way to destroy it before dying.
"Hah…"
Under Soichiro's direction, order returned, while Light—feigning shock—shuffled out of the room.
As if mourning L. The others watched his back, unsure what to say; over the months, Light and L had bickered yet thought in perfect sync when they worked together.
"I did it, L. I never learned your name, but it doesn't matter now."
Outside, Light wore a gentle smile; eliminate the rest, and everything would be easy.
With L gone, he only needed to remove his father to take full command.
He could keep L "alive," using him to secure absolute authority over every police force on Earth.
Wonderful—just thinking of it drew another "gentle" grin.
A shame Rem's notebook had been destroyed; otherwise he could have used it for the rest.
No matter—he'd foreseen this and told Misa Amane to bring Ryuk's death note.
Soon Misa arrived, rushing in at his summons, Ryuk's death note in hand.
It might have been because L was dead, or because Watari had pressed the button to delete the files, causing the surveillance facilities in this building to malfunction.
Misa Amane was no longer locked out as she had been before and was able to enter.
"Light!!!"
Upon seeing Light Yagami, Misa Amane threw herself into his arms and said happily, "Did you succeed?!"
"Ah, yeah."
Light Yagami nodded at Misa Amane and then said seriously, "Misa, where is the death note?"
At this moment, he had no time to reminisce. After killing L and Watari, he needed to kill his own father to gain complete control over this building.
The others were easy to control, except for his father. Light Yagami knew that if given enough time, his father would even discover various inconsistencies. So for the sake of the future and himself, his father had to die.
"Here." Misa Amane took out the death note and handed it to Light Yagami.
"Did you deal with L?"
At that moment, the Shinigami Ryuk appeared and looked at Light Yagami.
"Long time no see, Ryuk." Light Yagami smiled; it had indeed been a long time since he last saw him.
Since he had given up the death note, Light Yagami had not seen Ryuk again. However, Misa Amane had, since she was the one using that death note.
So Misa Amane could see Ryuk every day.
Light Yagami, on the other hand, could not see Ryuk, which was why he was so sentimental.
Waving the death note in his hand, Light Yagami said with a hint of pride, "I have won. L is dead, but I still have things to do. Let's talk later."
After speaking, Light Yagami walked into the hall, found a seat, took out the pen he carried with him, and wrote his father's name, Yagami Soichiro, in the death note.
"?!"
Seeing this, Misa Amane showed a rather shocked expression. She looked at Light Yagami and said, "Isn't that your father's name?"
"To create a New World," Light Yagami said coldbloodedly.
"But..." Misa Amane seemed unable to accept it. She said regretfully, "He is your father."
"Don't say another word." Light Yagami looked at Misa Amane and said very seriously, "When necessary, even important people must be sacrificed."
After Light Yagami wrote his father's name, he heard rapid footsteps. Startled, he immediately hid the death note.
Several men dressed in black and holding pistols appeared, aiming at Light Yagami from various angles.
At the same time, a woman with a pistol appeared from the side and grabbed Misa Amane.
"Light!!!"
Faced with this scene, Misa Amane looked extremely confused; she didn't understand what was happening.
Light Yagami also appeared quite bewildered. He had killed L and Watari; they should have been in a state of total panic by now.
"Light, you're under arrest."
Yagami Soichiro looked at the son he had always been proud of and said with some grief, "Through the surveillance video, we have already heard and seen everything you just did and said."
"!!!!" Light Yagami's eyes widened. Hadn't Watari deleted all the data at the moment of his death?
"Light-kun."
At that moment, a familiar voice came through. A man wearing very casual clothes, with messy hair and deep dark circles under his eyes, appeared.
L stood on the floor not far away, looking down at Light Yagami, and said calmly, "It's a pity we couldn't be friends."
"Ryuzaki..." Seeing L 'return from the dead,' Light Yagami's eyes widened slightly, his face filled with shock.
Detective Conan World.
"!!!! He... he's resurrected?!"
Kudo Shinichi looked at the resurrected L with a shocked expression, because the death note is irreversible. Why would L be resurrected?
"Could it be? Did L carry some item to counter a Shinigami?" Kudo Shinichi felt it was incredible, because the moment Watari was killed,
L was destined to fall. After all, Light Yagami had always wanted to kill him.
When Misa Amane obtained the death note, Light Yagami immediately told her to kill L.
Unfortunately, at that time, Misa Amane had forgotten L's real name, so she had to use her Shinigami Eyes again to meet L and obtain it.
But it was because of Misa Amane's actions that the Shinigami Rem intervened, using the death note to kill L and Watari.
death note World.
"What is going on?"
Light Yagami also became interested in this scene, because according to the rules, L should not have appeared now.
But since he did appear, it meant he had used some means to neutralize the effect of Shinigami Rem's death note.
Light Yagami was very interested in this method. After all, in the future, his name might also be written in a death note. If he could find a way to break it now, it would be a good thing.
The video continued to play.
"Ryuzaki... how could you... is this fake?" Light Yagami was extremely surprised; he couldn't even believe what was happening before his eyes.
Then, Light Yagami seemed to think of a possibility. He looked at Misa Amane not far away and said angrily, "Misa, did you betray me?!"
Misa Amane was completely bewildered, but facing Light Yagami's suspicion, she said sadly, "No! I would never betray you, Light! No matter what kind of person you are, I love you."
"!!!!"
Light Yagami turned his head to look at L. He seemed to realize that he had fallen into a trap.
"Misa didn't betray you." L walked down slowly and looked at Light Yagami calmly. "I never thought you would use a Shinigami."
L reached out and took out a death note, saying calmly, "But this is the real death note, the one Misa dug up."
"?!" Light Yagami seemed to realize something.
"At the same time, this is my real name." L slowly opened the death note, which had a name and a 'cause of death' written on it.
[L Lawliet, dies peacefully 23 days later.]
"Light-kun, didn't you want to know?" L looked at Light Yagami and said in a very calm voice, "Things written in the death note cannot be changed. If I write it first, I can live a little longer."
"In my remaining 20 days, the death note cannot kill me."
That's right, this was L's plan. He had long realized that Light Yagami wanted to kill him; he just didn't expect the other party to use a Shinigami.
It was also because of this... that Watari died.
Originally, in L's plan, Watari didn't have to die, and he himself was the one likely to be killed. So he wrote his own name, but he didn't expect Watari to die.
"When did you swap it?" Light Yagami hadn't expected his death note to end up in L's hands.
Misa Amane also said in disbelief, "But the criminals I judged all died."
"That was only for one day." L said calmly as he walked down, holding the death note. "At that time, we had already confirmed that Misa was the second Killer."
"It was also for this reason that I knew the 13-day rule was fake. The next day, Watari swapped it for a fake death note."
"We monitored the names you wrote and announced fake news saying the criminals had been killed by the Killer."
"The problem was, we had no evidence to prove that you, Light-kun, were the Killer."
"As expected of Light-kun, you were indeed very cautious. So I sacrificed my own life, and at the same time, I needed Mr. Yagami's assistance."
"At first, he was seriously opposed to it, but when he saw me write my own name in the death note, he understood my determination and agreed to cooperate."
Speaking to this point, L sat hunched in a chair and looked at Light Yagami. "Mr. Yagami never believed you were the Killer, remaining unshaken until the very last moment."
"..."
Light Yagami did not answer because the current situation was extremely unfavorable for him. He looked around; he had no way to escape.
L's voice carried a hint of emotion as he said, "The greatest regret is Watari. I didn't expect a Shinigami would kill him; that was my final mistake."
"Light." Yagami Soichiro looked at Light Yagami with a pained heart and said, "I don't understand what kind of New World you are picturing, but that is definitely not justice."
Looking at everyone, Light Yagami spoke up, "Before I obtained the death note, this world was full of sin, the society was corrupt, and it was full of contradictions."
While speaking, Light Yagami placed his hand on his watch. He looked at his father and said excitedly, "But after the Killer appeared, the crime rate dropped by 70%. Isn't this the beautiful world you hoped for?!"
"Click."
The moment Light Yagami opened his watch, a man in a suit holding a pistol above noticed and decisively fired.
"Bang—!!"
With a gunshot, Light Yagami's watch flew out, and a blood-stained piece of paper and a needle fell to the ground.
"!!!!"
Seeing this, Light Yagami immediately rushed toward the watch.
But with another gunshot, Light Yagami was hit in the knee and fell to the ground again, unable to move for a moment.
"Light!!!"
Misa Amane shouted.
"So you kept a small scrap of the note." Seeing this, L seemed to understand something and said calmly, "You used it to kill Kyosuke Higuchi, didn't you? This way, all the questions have their answers."
"Hahahaha, hahahahahahahahaha."
Light Yagami stood up with a pained laugh. He looked at everyone and appeared very calm as he said, "I am indeed the Killer, and also the God of the New World."
"No, you are just a murderer." L looked at Light Yagami coldly and picked up the death note nearby. "And this notebook is the most evil weapon."
"L." Light Yagami looked at L and said very seriously, "You stay in this room all day, unaware of the world's evils. Innocent people become victims of bad people; some people simply deserve to die!"
At this point, Light Yagami shouted excitedly, "Against such people, the law is completely powerless!"
Beside him, Yagami Soichiro looked at his son and explained seriously, "In fact, the law is not perfect, and neither are the people who make it. But at the very least, it plays a role in social stability. You can't just kill people at will."
"No matter how much you say, it's useless." Light Yagami had no patience left for lectures. He looked around and shouted, "Ryuk!! Ryuk, where are you!!!"
"Here."
The Shinigami Ryuk appeared and answered Light Yagami.
"This is another Shinigami." L was not surprised by this, because he had already guessed it when there were two death notes. He continued, "You've all touched the death note, so you should be able to see him."
The men in suits standing above holding pistols nodded slightly.
"Ryuk, I'll show you something even more interesting." Light Yagami looked at Ryuk and said very seriously, "So help me kill them! Kill them all right now!!!!!"
Pushed to a dead end, Light Yagami had lost his usual composure. Now, he could only rely on the power of the Shinigami Ryuk to escape his predicament.
"Light..."
Seeing Light Yagami like this, Yagami Soichiro's expression was filled with sorrow.
"Well, hurry up and write the names in your notebook." Light Yagami said to the Shinigami Ryuk.
"..."
The Shinigami Ryuk nodded slightly and said nonchalantly, "I'll write them then."
Having said that, he picked up his pen and began to write names.
"Stop!!!"
"Stop it!!!"
Accompanied by a series of shouts, countless bullets were poured into the Shinigami Ryuk, but they didn't hit him at all.
Because he was a Shinigami, he would not be harmed by such things.
Light Yagami let out a burst of laughter and looked at the Shinigami Ryuk. "Ryuk, is it done?"
"Yeah, it's done."
The Shinigami Ryuk looked at Light Yagami and nodded.
This made Misa Amane smile, while the others showed expressions of utter despair. Was there no way left?!
"Let me see."
Light Yagami wanted to see what names the Shinigami Ryuk had written.
As it turned out, when the Shinigami Ryuk turned his death note over, the name 'Light Yagami' was written on it in large characters.
This caused the eyes of people both inside and outside the video to widen slightly. This scene was also something they hadn't expected
Because from the very beginning, the Shinigami Ryuk had been very friendly to Light Yagami, stating that he only wanted to see interesting things.
Furthermore, Light Yagami had given Ryuk apples many times, so the relationship between the two had always been quite good.
But now, who would have thought!
"It's a pity." Looking at Light Yagami's expression, Ryuk seemed to see something amusing and smiled, "Who told you to trust me? Sorry, but you're finished."
"Wait!! I have even more interesting things to show you!!!"
Light Yagami instinctively lunged forward, but he passed right through empty air and fell to the ground.
Ryuk turned his head to look at Light Yagami and continued, "I've had enough fun, and so have you."
"What are you saying, Ryuk! This is clearly just the beginning!!" Light Yagami was breaking down; he didn't understand why this was happening.
At this moment, the Shinigami Ryuk repeated the words from their first meeting. He looked at Light Yagami and said, "The users of the death note go to neither heaven nor hell; after they die, there is only nothingness."
*Thump!*
At that moment, accompanied by the sound of a heartbeat, Light Yagami felt something coming, and his whole body collapsed heavily onto the ground.
"Light!!!" Yagami Soichiro immediately rushed forward to hold his son, hoping he wouldn't pass away like this.
"Why..." Feeling his life slipping away, Light Yagami said in utter confusion, "Everything I did was for justice, the justice you taught me, Father! I can't die like this!!!"
"AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
Light Yagami screamed in agony. Finally, he slowly raised his head, looked at Yagami Soichiro, and said, "Killer is justice, Father... you have to understand me..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Light Yagami's head slumped to the side, and his heart stopped beating.
He was dead. Killer, who once decided the life and death of countless criminals, this god of the New World, had died at the hands of his own Shinigami.
At that same moment, the screen went black, signifying that No. 7, death note, had concluded.
Countless people felt strange emotions after watching the video. Especially Light Yagami himself; he never expected that his end wouldn't be from being shot full of holes.
Instead, he was killed by that seemingly friendly Shinigami, Ryuk.
After seeing such an ending, Light Yagami no longer had much obsession with the death note. Though this thing was good, it was merely 'good.'
Frequently using its power indeed made one feel like a god deciding the lives of others.
But the truth was that above that 'god,' there was another 'god'—an existence known as a 'Shinigami'—who had been watching him from the shadows all along.
"Boring."
Light Yagami casually tossed the death note onto the table and lay down on his soft bed, looking at the multiverse projection. He was looking forward to what the next video would be.