Midora's second Death Note

This is the second notebook obtained by the shinigami Midora, who casts it down from the Shinigami Realm into the world of the living. Captivated by the adventures Ryuk had enjoyed alongside Light Yagami, she longs to claim a human of her own, and she earns the extra notebook by paying the Shinigami King in the apples that Ryuk had made fashionable back home.

Its covers are blank like every other notebook of its kind. Following the pattern set by Sidoh's copy, the opening rules sit in English across the inner front cover, and a further line was eventually inked onto the back. That added clause warns that anyone who buys or sells such a book will die. The five starting rules lay out the essentials: a named person perishes, the writer must picture the target's face so duplicates are spared, a cause set down within forty seconds takes hold, an unstated cause defaults to a heart attack, and the finer details may follow for several minutes after.

After landing in Japan, the notebook is recovered by an unidentified person whose age and gender stay secret. Taking up the Kira name, this figure spares criminals and instead grants death to those begging for an end, earning the label C-Kira. Near, now operating as L, talks the killer into surrendering, and C-Kira writes their own name to finish it. Midora then carries the book back home and offers it to Ryuk, who waits four years before selecting Minoru Tanaka, the choice that launches the a-Kira tale.