Fool



Fool  (だます, Damasu) is the 9th chapter of Volume three and the 25th chapter overall.

Plot
An amused Light has been watching the ordeal on TV and comments that there must be a second Death Note owner. Coupled with the fact that police officers were killed as they walked into the Sakura TV station, Light believes that this person has traded half of their life for the shinigami eyes. Light is trying to see if he can take advantage of the situation that the fake Kira has created. However, he is bothered by the fact that the fake Kira has tarnished the image of the real Kira by threatening to kill police officers. Light decides to join the Kira investigation in order to keep an eye on both L and the fake Kira. If the fake Kira messes up, he will make sure to catch him before L does and get his Death Note.

At the investigation headquarters, L decides to show himself on TV, but he is curious as to how he will convince Kira that he is the real L. L says that he doesn’t want to die, either, especially at the hands of a pale imitation of Kira. He has deduced that this Kira is fake because the victims that he decided to kill were only minor criminal, unlike the hard-core criminals that Kira usually kills. Kira also never kills innocent police officers like the way the fake Kira just did. The way the video was put together was also too sloppy to have come from the real Kira. L suggest that they are in a race to find the second Kira before the real Kira does.

L asks Soichiro to invite Light to work with them in catching the second Kira. However, he doesn’t want him to reveal to Light that this second Kira is a fake.

Meanwhile, in the streets of Tokyo, a blond girl named “Misa” walks around with her shinigami determined to meet the real Kira.

Conception
When Ohba was discussing the title for the chapter "Fool," he said "Death Note finally gets a heroine in this chapter and she's called a "fool"... How rude. But that's just Death Note for you."