Intro:

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Death Note.

Ok. So…

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Someone posted a huge spoiler on some fanart site, and I was prematurely exposed to the fact that yes, L would die. In chapter 58.

Call this… denial if you will, but this is an alternate ending. There's no second arc. The first one just ends a little differently.

I use American money terminology because I have no idea how yen conversions work. Sorry about that. -;;