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In chapter 27, Misa says

> Ryuuku tricked the king of the gods of death to get the second death note
> that kira is using.

Does anybody know how Ryuk tricked the king of Gods and got his Death Note?

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How did Ryuk trick the King of Death Gods?


Pretty sure he pretended to have lost his Death Note and got a new one off the
king. However, I'm not 100% sure.


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It looks like Ryuk tricked the king of Gods by pretending he had lost his
Death Note.

# Chapter 60

Sidoh appears for the first time. Sidoh says that he thinks it is about time
to kill a human or two. This happens in 2009, 6 years after Ryuk had dropped
his/Sidoh's Death Note on earth. From this we can see that Sidoh is a lazy and
clumsy Death God, who did not realize he was missing his Death Note for at
least 6 years. Which explains how Ryuk became the owner of this Death note.
According to [How to Use:
XII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use%3a_XII),
you lose ownership when the Death Note is stolen, unless it is retrieved
within 490 days, which it wasn't.

> If you lose the Death Note or have it stolen, you will lose its ownership
> unless you retrieve it within 490 days.

![60](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9l55n.png)

# Chapter 65

Sidoh appears again. This time he realized he had lost his Death Note and had
asked the King of Gods, whether he had seen his Death Note. At which the King
replies that Ryuk had already taken that Death Note, pretending it to be his.

> When I told the King of Kings what it looked like, he said, "Oh Ryuuk said
> it was the one he'd lost, and took it with him"

![65](https://i.stack.imgur.com/e2Isa.jpg)

# Conclusion

Ryuk was bored and didn't feel alive in the Death God world. But according to
[How to Use:
XXIV](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use%3a_XXIV),
Death Gods are not allowed to stay in the human world for long periods of
time. Therefore when Ryuk found Sidoh's Death Note, he saw a once in a
lifetime opportunity to have some fun. He pretended to the Death God that the
Death Note was his, so he could obtain ownership after 490 days and at that
time the story starts.

> The god of death must not stay in the human world without a particular
> reason. Conditions to stay in the human world are as follows:
>
>   * When the god of death’s Death Note is handed to a human.
>


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Well, there is another theory, Ryuk might be the shinigami king himself
therefore as access to infinite number of notes, since the shinigami world is
in ruins there isn't any actual proof that it has any particular authority
structure, the shinigami sidoh talked to might have pretended to be the king
of the death gods to protect ryuk's identity, and since we never saw the king
of the shinigami in the manga it might have being ryuk all along, also the bag
ryuk is keeping is death note has a strange design and we never saw another
shinigami in the manga keeping is death note in a bag, which means ryuk might
have a sort of bag to keep his death note because he is the actual king.


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