God



God (神, Kami) is the fifth chapter of Volume two and 12th chapter overall.

Plot
Light volunteers to take some clothes to his father at the NPA task force office. He takes a piece of the Death Note with him just in case. At the headquarters, Light runs into Ray Penber’s fiancée who insists on meeting someone from the Kira task force. In order to find out what’s going on and gain the woman’s trust, Light offers to put Ray Penber’s fiancée in touch with his father, the head of the Kira task force. However, Soichiro is not answering his phone, so he left a message. Light offers to let her talk to his father when he calls him back. Penber’s fiancée is grateful, but Light is still anxious to find out what exactly she knows. Light smoothly moves the conversation away from the NPA security cameras. He asks her name, and she replies, “Shoko Maki .” Ryuk chuckles to himself.

When Light gains her trust by telling her that he suspects that Kira can control people’s actions before they die, Maki reveals her thoughts on Kira. She tells him that she thinks Kira can kill his victims using means other than heart attacks. She also tells him that she thinks her fiancée who was killed by Kira came into contact with him shortly before he died. She deduces that Kira was in the hijacked bus with Ray Penber, and Kira used her fiancée to kill the other FBI agents. She knows this because she remembered her fiancée telling her that he showed someone his ID during the hijacking. Light is shocked that she has figured it all out, but is thankful that he stopped her from telling the police.

Conception
In the chapter Light discusses his luck from the coincidence that he and Naomi met each other. Ohba had considered the title "Luck." Ohba believed that "I was lucky" was "such a boring phrase" and that the proof that "the other god is on my side" was a "much more fitting" phrase, so he chose "God" as the title.