: Any human whose name is written in the notebook shall die, provided the writer has the person's face in their mind to avoid affecting others with the same name.
: If no cause is specified within 40 seconds, the victim will die of a heart attack. If a cause is written, the details can be further refined within the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Death Note Vol. 01 of 12 (Eng)
The story follows , an ace high school student who is profoundly bored with his life and disillusioned by a world filled with crime. His life shifts when he discovers the Death Note , a supernatural notebook dropped into the human world by Ryuk , a rogue shinigami (death god) who is equally bored with the monotony of his own realm. Volume 1 establishes the fundamental rules of the notebook: : Any human whose name is written in