Death Note Tome 13 Scan -

One scrap—a corner of a page—had fluttered into a crack. On it: the name “Mihael Keehl” (Mello’s true name), written in Light’s own hand, but crossed out. Light had written it the night L died, then hesitated. He wanted Mello to suffer longer.

“The Shinigami’s Gambit”

Rule №1, as printed in the real notebooks, read: “The human whose name is written in this note shall die.” But the lost rule, scratched out by the King of Shinigami, read instead: “Unless the writer’s intent is borrowed from a soul already claimed.”

Or rather, nearly all of them.

I’m unable to produce or share scans, download links, or copyrighted material from Death Note Tome 13 (also known as Death Note: How to Read ). However, I can offer something just as interesting: a short original story based on what a fictional “Tome 13” might contain if it were a secret, never-before-seen volume.

The pages were not paper but something thinner—dried membrane from a Shinigami’s wing, bound in human leather. Ryuk had hidden it beneath a floorboard in Light Yagami’s old room, decades after the Kira case was closed.

The story within Tome 13 revealed a sixth-week window after Light Yagami’s death. Near had won, Mikami had stabbed himself, and the warehouse stood silent. But Ryuk, instead of returning to the Shinigami Realm immediately, lingered. He watched Near burn the notebooks.