A teacher says despite this fact Minoru repeatedly receives low grades and wonders if motivation is the problem.
In the room, teachers are remarking about how Minoru Tankana scored top in the IQ tests again, 3 years running. The time jumps back to 2 years in 2017 opening to a Faculty Room. Minoru then says how its been 2 years to which Ryuk responds by saying he came out of the floor like promised and says he's a shinigami that keeps his word. Ryuk emerges from the floor and taps the notebook on his head, which shows him Ryuk and receives all the memories he had on the Death Note. The Chapter then time-skips to 2019, and shows a high schooler named Minoru Tanaka sitting on his bed and leaning on the wall.
Ryuk then consumes the apple and heads down to the human world to find a human who would feed him apples and give him the same kind of entertainment as Light. Ryuk then reminds her she has something else to give him, to which she throws him an apple from the human world, remarking how she remembered. In 2013, Midora gives Ryuk the spare notebook back and informs him that she didn't succeed with creating a new Kira. The United States of America buys it for a sum that leaves every Japanese citizen under the age of 60 set for life, but the King of Death creates a new rule of the Death Note that thwarts Minoru and the U.S. With the Shinigami's help, and his own ingenuity, he auctions it off anonymously as his actions are followed and predicted by Near. Now a high school student, Minoru accepts the notebook from Ryuk, but he has no plans to use it himself. He is surprised when Minoru Tanaka returns the notebook and asks him to return in two years' time. When the Shinigami Ryuk returns to Earth more than ten years after his last visit, he gives the Death Note to the top-scoring student in Japan, hoping that he will follow in Light Yagami's footsteps. Is what was brought about by the Shinigami that came down to Earth what it seemed?