"Sorry, forgot."
"But you are the Captain of Division 5?"
"That's right." Ito Niho quickly straightened his clothes after landing.
"Then hurry up and have your squad evacuate all the survivors nearby. Leave this place to me."
"Leave it to you?" Osaka was his turf, but now that Arata had arrived, he was directly taking command. This made Osaka's youngest and strongest devil hunter, Ito Niho, slightly displeased.
"Exactly. If you stay here, you'll only serve as snacks for the Gluttony Devil."
"Gluttony Devil?"
"Anyway, it's a very strong devil. You don't want all your subordinates to be eaten, leaving you as a commander without an army, do you?"
"You guys take people and evacuate the crowd. As the Captain of Osaka Division 5, I cannot desert my post in the face of battle," Ito Niho said to his squad members.
Hearing this, the two were beyond thrilled. They immediately agreed and fled into the distance.
Just after giving the order to his subordinates, Arata and Ito Niho were suddenly enveloped by a dark shadow. A massive black hand descended from the sky.
SMASH!!!
The palm slammed onto the ground, leaving a gigantic crater shaped like a handprint. But when the hand was lifted, there was no one inside the crater.
"Damn it!! Annoying bugs!" The Gluttony Devil gnashed its teeth in hatred for Arata, wishing it could chew on him and torture him endlessly.
At this moment, the two men had already arrived in the mirror dimension.
"Where is this?" Ito Niho asked, examining the surrounding mirror shards.
"My mirror dimension."
"Mirror dimension?"
"Don't worry, it's absolutely safe here. Let's go grab something to eat first."
With that, he grabbed Ito Niho's hand and walked through a mirror into an open clearing. It was crowded with over a hundred young women. At this time, Denji was ogling every single one of them.
The women trapped in the mirror dimension didn't know where they were, but it was clear that someone had saved them.
"Did you save all these people?" Ito Niho asked.
"That's right. These are women I saved from the Gluttony Devil in a race against time. If everyone in Osaka gets eaten by it, these women will become the main force for repopulation."
"Why aren't there any men?"
"Men? I am a man, and I have high-quality genes to create plenty of mixed-blood children," Arata joked.
"Tch, so you like women too."
"Huh?"
"Right, you mentioned the Gluttony Devil earlier. What exactly is going on?"
"It's different from the devils we've encountered before. It doesn't get stronger by feeding on fear; it gets stronger by eating people. If it manages to eat all of humanity, its size could rival the Earth."
"Is it really that exaggerated?" Ito Niho clearly didn't believe it.
"It really is that exaggerated."
"Master, have something to eat." Denji walked up to Arata carrying some pastries.
Arata picked up two and handed one to Ito Niho.
"Since it can get stronger by eating people, why aren't you going to stop it immediately? Why are you hiding in here eating?" Ito Niho took the pastry and took a small bite.
"The Gluttony Devil currently has invincibility active. After some time, when its body turns white, we can defeat it. Good thing we discovered it early, otherwise, if it hid in the shadows and kept eating to grow, no one would be able to handle it."
"Anyway, I don't know much about this kind of devil, so I can only rely on you. If you need any help, just tell me."
"Besides the Fox Devil, what other devils have you contracted?" Arata asked.
"The Hammer Devil."
"Transform and let me see?"
"I'm not here to play around. We'd better hurry out and check the situation."
"I really can't do anything with you. I'll go out."
"I'll go with you."
"No need. It's safest for you to stay here. I'm afraid you'll get eaten by the Gluttony Devil if you go out."
With that, Arata disappeared, leaving Ito Niho standing there, pondering those words. In the past, he was always the one telling his teammates to stay behind while he took on the dangerous work. After meeting Arata, the situation had reversed. It was also his first time experiencing the feeling of being protected by someone else.
When Arata got outside, the Gluttony Devil had already moved far away. It walked as it ate, its massive size slowly growing even larger. But the bigger it got, the more energy its invincible state consumed. Arata wanted to see just how long the Gluttony Devil could keep this up.
Over twenty minutes passed.
Tens of thousands of people in Osaka had been eaten. Hundreds of thousands of residents were left homeless. Thousands of buildings had been reduced to rubble. Even Osaka's most famous landmark, the Osaka Castle (Tenshukaku), had been reduced to a pile of ignored stones under the Gluttony Devil's assault.
But by now, the Gluttony Devil's feet had begun to turn white. The whiteness was creeping upward at a speed of about 1 meter per minute. When its calves turned completely white, Arata knew his opportunity had finally arrived. He quickly summoned Denji from the mirror dimension.
The two stood at a relatively distant high vantage point. If they got too close, they could easily be spotted by the Gluttony Devil, ruining the element of surprise.
"Master, it's gotten so much bigger again!!"
"That's right, but it has also exposed its weakness. Now we need a single, decisive strike. Sustained attacks will only give the Gluttony Devil time to react."
"How do we do that? My chainsaws can cut through its skin, but it would take at least 3 or 4 minutes."
"Your master has a plan. Whether we succeed or not depends entirely on this."
"What is it?"
"This."
Arata reached into the mirror dimension and pulled out a massive bronze bell.
"What is this for?" Just looking at the bell, it was definitely hard to understand.
"The Lion's Roar technique plus a giant megaphone, combined with three chainsaws. I refuse to believe we can't break the Gluttony Devil's defenses this time."
Denji scratched his head, still not getting it.
"It means you lie inside the bell, and I'll use a sonic wave channeled through the bell to shoot you out at supersonic speeds. A speed that fast will be enough to blast you straight into the Gluttony Devil's body."
"Brilliant! That should definitely work."
"If we don't succeed, we die trying. Be prepared to respawn back at base."
After speaking, he had Denji transform into Chainsaw Man and lie inside the bell. The top of the bell had already been smashed open by Arata, making it look like an oversized megaphone.
Arata then tensed every muscle in his body and hoisted the massive bell with both hands. He began to inhale continuously, his belly inflating larger and larger. This time, he prepared thoroughly, drawing out the charging time to the maximum. As he charged, he aimed the mouth of the bell squarely at the Gluttony Devil's now-whitened back.
His eyes widened. The energy brewing in his stomach erupted into a devastating sonic blast.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
BOOM!!!
A sonic boom cracked through the air. As Denji was launched forward, Arata, attached from behind by chains, was yanked along with him. The two of them rocketed toward the Gluttony Devil's back at an incomprehensible speed.
VROOOM VROOOM!!!
CRASH!!!
Denji's three chainsaws shattered the moment they slammed into the Gluttony Devil's back. But the impact successfully gouged out a deep, bloody hole.
Following right behind him, Arata executed the Knife Devil's Iaijutsu slash in mid-air. A secondary mid-air acceleration. His speed eclipsed even the flying Denji, reaching hypersonic speeds.
BANG!!!!
The blindingly fast slash collided with the Gluttony Devil's back. A massive torrent of gore erupted from the wound like a volcanic explosion. And in that instant, Arata successfully drove himself deep into the Gluttony Devil's body.
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