Not alive—not truly. A revenant. A walking death note entry with hollow eyes and a gnawing hunger for the names Ryuk whispered to him. Together, they began unraveling Near’s victory, name by name.
“The King of Shinigami never intended to keep that rule hidden forever,” reads the last line. “He just wanted to see what would happen when someone found it.”
What did that mean?
Mello’s corpse sat up.
“Bored again.”
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.”
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. Death Note Tome 13 Scan
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.
Only one copy existed. And it was never meant for human eyes. Not alive—not truly
Tome 13 ends with a photograph clipped to the final page: the SPK headquarters, silent, lights off—and through the window, two silhouettes. One tall and gaunt, with wings. The other wearing a cross necklace and a smile too wide for a dead man.
Or rather, nearly all of them.