Pursuit

Light Yagami explains to Ryuk that he is trying to create an ideal world where no criminals are left unpunished, and "as the god of such a world", he cannot sacrifice half his life for the shinigami eyes. Light wonders how much control he has over a criminal's death begins experimenting. In these experiments, Light tried to have prisoners escape or write messages before they died. However, Light was unable to get prisoners to draw L's face, or escape to France in an hour, learning that even the Death Note is not all that powerful.