Editing Death Note (section)

=== ''a-Kira'' (one-shot sequel) ===
Another ten years later, Ryuk returns to Earth and gives the Death Note to Minoru Tanaka, the top-scoring student in Japan, hoping that he will follow in Light Yagami's footsteps. On explaining the rules to Minoru, Ryuk is surprised when he returns the notebook and tells him to return it and his memory of their encounter to him in two years' time. Two years later, on receiving the notebook back from Ryuk, Minoru reveals he has no plans to use it himself but rather he plans to auction it off to the governments of the world, with Ryuk's help sending his offer out as "a-Kira", having waited two years until he was old enough to have a bank account to allow his plan to work. Elsewhere, Near (as L) is revealed to be developing technology meant to track Shinigami, although it is not yet advanced enough to be useful. After selling the Death Note to [[U.S. president]] [[Donald Trump]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Elfring|first=Mat|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/death-note-short-stories-brings-one-shots-to-print-including-that-infamous-trump-story/1100-6502665/|title=Death Note: Short Stories Brings One-Shots To Print, Including That Infamous Trump Story|magazine=[[Gamespot]]|date=April 20, 2022|access-date=February 23, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220514091818/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/death-note-short-stories-brings-one-shots-to-print-including-that-infamous-trump-story/1100-6502665/|archive-date=May 14, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Colbert|first=Isaiah|url=https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-death-note-manga-election-2024-2000520605|title=That Time Donald Trump Got the ''Death Note''|magazine=[[Gizmodo]]|date=November 5, 2024|access-date=February 23, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250110130033/https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-death-note-manga-election-2024-2000520605|archive-date=January 10, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Collins|first=Hannah|url=https://www.cbr.com/what-death-note-says-donald-trump/|title=What Death Note's New One-Shot Has to Say About Donald Trump|publisher=[[Comic Book Resources]]|date=February 7, 2020|access-date=February 10, 2025|archive-date=September 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901072742/https://www.cbr.com/what-death-note-says-donald-trump/|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Efn|The text does not call him Trump, though Hannah Collins of [[Comic Book Resources]] stated "the uncanny likeness to the divisive political figure is hard to miss."<ref>{{cite web|last=Collins|first=Hannah|url=https://www.cbr.com/death-note-every-cameo-in-the-new-one-shot/|title=Death Note: Every Cameo in the New One Shot|publisher=[[Comic Book Resources]]|date=February 7, 2020|access-date=February 10, 2025|archive-date=October 1, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241001232402/https://www.cbr.com/death-note-every-cameo-in-the-new-one-shot/|url-status=live}}</ref>}} for a sum that would ensure every Japanese citizen under the age of 60 would be financially set for life, Minoru relinquishes his ownership and memory of his plan to Ryuk, assuring his own anonymity, while Trump is left unable to use the Death Note after the King of Death creates a new rule disallowing the Death Note to be sold, and he secretly returns it to Ryuk. Minoru collapses to the ground in the bank after withdrawing his savings. It is revealed that Ryuk wrote his name in the Death Note next to Light's. He longs for a human who will use the notebook for a longer period of time.