While humans live indifferent to the forces that surround them and that govern worldly things, from outside the Earth, there are beings that observe them, analyze them and, many times, interfere in the course of the processes of nature and human destiny.

Among these mighty beings are the shinigami, or gods of death, and the scribes of life. Shinigami have notebooks where they designate human deaths in a time and format. The scribes write in their notebooks the entire record of the life of each human. Misadventures, loves, sufferings, and, finally, death. The history of each human is written containing in detail the encounters with other humans. Once completed, from birth to death, each story is stored in the archives.

On the day Ryuuk, a tall shinigami with great black wings, decides to drop his Death Note, senior scribe Tishy gives a message to her subordinates: They would have to rewrite the lives of billions of people.

"That damned one. He had to get into human affairs and just make more work for us, didn't he?" Maya, a clerk, complained. "Now we'll have to go through all the files. ALL OF THEM! How many meetings will we have to do for this? I don't even want to think."

Ryane, her colleague, nodded, eyeing the papers in her hands.

"Looks like I got the notebook of a girl named Isane... and you, Leya?"

The younger clerk looked up. She was known to enjoy playing with human lives. Her nickname was "Death Clerk" because her notebooks were often thinner than the others, as the humans in the stories written in them didn't live long. She smiled before answering:

"Someone called Light Yagami."