Chainsaw Man: Mangekyo Sharingan

Chapter 81: Chapter 81: The Minotaur Devil

"Huh...?"

Akane Sawatari blinked, a little dazed. "Your... your girlfriend."

"Good. Your mentor’s girlfriend will protect you later~" Reze said with a smile.

Akane did not catch the deeper meaning behind what Reze had just said, but Reze had already achieved her goal. She had made Akane understand what her relationship with Koto was.

Sitting in the car, Akane found it hard to calm down.

Unless something unexpected happened, this mission meant she would have to face a Devil head-on.

According to the mission details, the target was the Minotaur Devil. Just hearing the name was enough to tell her it definitely would not be some weak Devil.

Her mentor and his girlfriend would be watching from the side, so she probably would not be in any real danger. But the real issue was not whether her life was in danger. The real issue was how well she would perform.

What Akane was worried about now was whether she would disappoint her mentor if she performed too poorly when the time came.

Kotone Asaba noticed that Akane had been nervous the entire time, but he had no intention of saying anything to her about it.

Most rookie Devil Hunters were bound to be like this when they faced a Devil for the first time. Even if he reminded Akane not to be nervous, there would not be much point. Once she experienced this enough times, she would naturally mature.

Soon after, they arrived at the target location, a stretch of farmland.

From far away, Kotone Asaba could already see the Minotaur Devil. Judging from its appearance, it seemed to be a proper Minotaur Devil.

It had the body of a minotaur and stood nearly 10 meters / 33 feet tall. There were rings through both its ears and its nose, and one of its two horns had snapped off halfway. Each of its hands had only three fingers. Its entire body was covered in thick dark brown fur, and its muscles were especially massive. It wore a huge suit of armor made from white bone.

It held a giant ax made from trees and white bone, and it was wantonly destroying the fields around it.

Fortunately, there were no ordinary people nearby. The Minotaur Devil was enormous, so ordinary people could spot its figure from far away and would never approach it.

Kotone Asaba felt that this Minotaur Devil was a little too strong. He was not sure whether it was suitable to have Akane deal with a Devil this powerful right from the start.

However, as long as Akane could use the Snake Devil’s power normally, killing the Minotaur Devil would be well within her ability.

"Go test your Devil power. First, try to see whether you can handle that Minotaur Devil on your own," Kotone Asaba said to Akane. "Are you ready? I’ll take you over."

As soon as Reze heard that, she tacitly took Kotone Asaba’s hand.

Akane took a deep breath. "I’m ready."

Kotone Asaba then placed his other hand on Akane’s shoulder and teleported with both Reze and Akane to a spot only a little over 10 meters / 33 feet from the Minotaur Devil.

"Huh?"

Although Akane had already prepared herself mentally, she had not expected to be teleported so close all at once, and she could not help but be startled.

The Minotaur Devil quickly noticed the three humans who had appeared beside it. It stopped swinging the giant ax it had been using to destroy the farmland, and its massive body slowly turned toward the three humans.

A Minotaur Devil that stood a full 10 meters / 33 feet tall was a colossal creature that gave off an extremely intense sense of pressure.

The Minotaur Devil froze for a moment, then immediately took a throwing stance and hurled the giant ax in its hand at the three humans before it. Its massive muscles erupted with terrifying strength, and the giant ax came tearing through the air.

Akane was momentarily intimidated by such a towering Minotaur Devil. In her panic, she almost forgot how to use her Devil power.

She hurriedly raised her left hand and summoned the Snake Devil.

The Snake Devil appeared in its normal size and knocked away the incoming giant ax with its enormous tail. However, the Snake Devil’s tail was also slightly injured. After all, the Minotaur Devil’s strength was no joke.

Watching this scene, Kotone Asaba’s expression did not change at all. He had expected Akane to react this way.

If Akane had used the Snake Devil’s power the instant he teleported her here and had it swallow the Minotaur Devil, the Minotaur Devil would already have been killed instantly.

For now, Akane was still far too inexperienced. She needed to be trained slowly.

Then, all of a sudden, the Minotaur Devil transformed into a beautiful girl with horns and an absurdly large chest.

It seemed to have realized that its giant ax was useless against the humans before it, so the Minotaur Devil switched to another method.

The beautiful girl the Minotaur Devil had transformed into slowly walked toward Kotone Asaba, even throwing him flirtatious looks.

However, Kotone Asaba was completely unmoved. He knew perfectly well that the other party was the Minotaur Devil in disguise, so how could he possibly be tempted that easily?

Still, this thing seemed to have some special ability to charm people. Unfortunately for it, it had used that ability on him. Since he possessed the Mangekyo Sharingan, he had an extremely high resistance to abilities similar to genjutsu. He barely even felt the charm effect.

Akane failed to react for a moment and could not figure out where this beautiful girl had come from. Since her appearance was so close to a human’s, and she was basically human apart from the small horns on her head, Akane hesitated.

At that moment, the Minotaur Devil was secretly pleased, thinking it had succeeded. After all, normal people had no way to guard against its charm ability.

It even provoked Reze beside him. "I’ll be taking your man~"

Kotone Asaba had not planned to bother with the Minotaur Devil. He wanted to leave this thing for Akane to deal with personally, but it directly pressed up against him, and even tried to slam into him with its "assets."

Naturally, he would not let the Minotaur Devil have its way. He had already entered a state of phasing.

If he had not wanted to leave the Minotaur Devil for Akane, he would have killed it with Kamui long ago.

At that moment, a dangerous smile appeared on Reze’s face. Not only had she been provoked, this thing was also trying to steal her man.

She did not care about anything else anymore. She directly pulled the pin on her neck.

Boom!

The sudden explosion startled Akane. When she looked over, she discovered that her mentor’s girlfriend’s head had actually turned into something like a Devil.

So there was this kind of Devil power too...?

Akane was shocked. Although she had not personally seen many types of Devil power, she had at least spoken with others and learned about them. She had never heard of this kind of Devil power before.

In the blink of an eye, fuses shot out from between Reze’s fingers and attached themselves to that "beautiful girl."

"Hm?"

The Minotaur Devil still had not realized what was happening. It had no idea that it had already been turned into a bomb Reze could control and detonate.

The next instant, its body suddenly exploded on its own.

Boom!

Chunks of flesh flew everywhere, leaving only some severed limbs and shredded meat behind.

Kotone Asaba’s pupils contracted as he watched. Reze had really been ruthless this time. The instant she got angry, she transformed.

Akane was even more stunned. With a snap of her fingers, Reze had made someone explode outright.

However, the Minotaur Devil did not die just like that. The "beautiful girl" from before seemed to have been like an avatar of its body. Once the "beautiful girl" was gone, its original form appeared again.

"Do it, Akane Sawatari. Don’t give it another chance," Kotone Asaba reminded her.

Only then did Akane come back to her senses. She also realized she could not keep being so muddled, and immediately used the Snake Devil’s power.

"Snake, swallow it whole!"

At Akane’s summons, the Snake Devil instantly opened its huge mouth and swallowed the Minotaur Devil.

Even though the Minotaur Devil stood 10 meters / 33 feet tall, the Snake Devil was still able to swallow most of its body, leaving only a bull’s head to fall to the ground.

Seeing the Snake Devil swallow the Minotaur Devil so easily, even Akane herself was stunned.

That was because she had no clear understanding of the Snake Devil’s strength. Only now did she realize that the Snake Devil was far stronger than she had imagined.

She had successfully killed the Minotaur Devil, but Akane did not feel proud at all. Instead, she lowered her head toward Kotone Asaba and admitted her mistake. "I’m sorry, sir. I still wasn’t decisive enough."

"It’s fine. Although some trouble came up, you ultimately succeeded in eliminating the Devil," Kotone Asaba said, not intending to blame Akane at all. "As for not being decisive enough, you can fix that gradually through experience. Just try not to make the same mistake next time."

"Mm-hm!"

Akane nodded hard.

She had originally thought her mentor would be very strict, so because she was afraid of being lectured by him, she had taken the initiative to admit her own problem. She had not expected her mentor to be this easy to talk to.

Akane Sawatari Affinity increased by 5%.

By this point, Reze had already returned to her human form. There was no emotional fluctuation on her face, as though she had not done anything at all just now.

Akane did not pay too much attention to the form Reze had taken earlier either, because she had absolutely no idea that, apart from humans, Devils, and Fiends, there was also a type of being known as a Hybrid.

Rather, ordinary people had no idea Hybrids existed at all.

Because of that, Akane only assumed that what her mentor’s girlfriend had used just now was a relatively special Devil power, and she did not pay too much attention to it.

"By the way, do you fully understand the Snake Devil’s power?" Kotone Asaba suddenly asked.

"Ah..."

When she heard her mentor say that, Akane suddenly remembered that the Minotaur Devil was not actually dead inside the Snake Devil’s stomach. She could even threaten the Minotaur Devil and make it act as her muscle.

However, if she wanted to release the Minotaur Devil from the Snake Devil’s stomach and restore it to normal, she would have to pay a relatively large price. But in truth, that price was just a nosebleed, so it would not be too heavy a burden on her.

The reason Kotone Asaba had said that just now was to remind Akane.

He remembered that in the original story, after the Snake Devil ate the Ghost Devil, the Ghost Devil did not die completely. Later, Akane Sawatari was still able to summon it out.

The Ghost Devil had also not been in a controlled state. It was very clearly being threatened into serving as hired muscle. That could be seen from the way it handed Aki Hayakawa a cigarette at the end with the message "Easy Revenge!" The Ghost Devil still had self-awareness, and it had even been influenced by Himeno.

"After the Minotaur Devil is eaten by the Snake Devil, it actually won’t die right away. I can still summon it out. Or I can make it die directly and then throw it out," Akane said to Kotone Asaba without hiding anything.

"I see. Then you can choose for yourself. You can either keep the Minotaur Devil, or kill it directly and take it to the black market to sell it," Kotone Asaba said.

Akane thought for a while and made her decision, though she was a little embarrassed to say it. "I’d rather take it to the black market and sell it. I’m a little short on money right now..."

"Then let’s go exchange it for money at the black market. Do you need me to take you there?"

Kotone Asaba certainly would not interfere with how Akane wanted to handle the Minotaur Devil. He would let Akane arrange it herself.

"Yes. I’ve never been to the black market, and I don’t really understand the rules there..." Akane said.

Back when she had been in Iwasaki Denta’s team, Iwasaki Denta never brought her along whenever he went to the black market to sell Devil corpses. He probably did it so it would be easier not to give her a cut of the money.

And since she herself had never had a Devil corpse she could sell, naturally, she had never gone to the black market alone. Because of that, she barely understood the place and did not even know where the black market was.

"Fine. Then let’s go straight to the black market now."

Kotone Asaba did not actually know the exact location of the black market here in Kyoto either. After all, this was his first time in Kyoto. But all they had to do was tell the taxi driver to go to the black market.

Even taxi drivers knew where the black market was. The black market generally referred to the place where Devil corpses were traded. It was the only kind of black market that could be put out in the open.

Sitting in the car, Akane looked at the fingernails on her left hand. They were all gone. Not only was the flesh a bloody mess, there was also a piercing pain.

During the earlier battle, her adrenaline had spiked, so she had not felt much. But now...

Her face looked pained, and she forcibly endured the pain without making a sound.

Kotone Asaba noticed Akane’s condition and immediately said to the taxi driver, "Take us to a nearby hospital first. After that, take us to the black market."

"Got it."

After that, they went to a hospital first and treated the fingers on Akane’s left hand. Only then did they go to the black market.

Once they arrived at the black market, Kotone Asaba discovered that Kyoto’s black market was about the same as the black market in Chiba. The interior decoration, structure, and everything else were all more or less the same.

The black markets in every region of Japan were probably like this. After all, they were all branches.

Kotone Asaba helped Akane communicate with the black market staff. Then Akane commanded the Snake Devil to kill the Minotaur Devil and release the Minotaur Devil’s corpse.

"So it’s the Minotaur Devil. The corpse is pretty intact too. It can be worth one million yen."

When the black market staff saw that two of the three people in front of him were wearing Tokyo Public Safety uniforms, he did not find it strange. The Minotaur Devil was certainly powerful, but against Public Safety Devil Hunters, it was still somewhat lacking.

He had no idea that the one who had truly killed the Minotaur Devil was actually the most unremarkable girl there, the snake-eyed girl.

When Akane heard the amount, one million yen, a look of surprise and joy immediately appeared on her face. Fortunately, she controlled her emotions. Otherwise, she almost would have lost her composure and embarrassed herself.

In the past, she had only heard other people chat about things like killing a Devil and selling it for several hundred thousand yen. She had always felt so envious.

But back then, she had completely lacked the ability to hunt Devils. When she followed Iwasaki Denta’s team, she had not received any money either. All she could do was be envious.

Now, she had suddenly received one million yen. Such a large sum made Akane extremely excited.

Even if she split it equally with her mentor and his girlfriend, she could still receive more than three hundred thousand yen. That much money would be more than enough to pay her younger sister’s fees, and she would still have plenty left over to improve their living conditions.

And this was only from hunting one Devil. She could earn this much money from it. In the future, she could hunt even more Devils.

"Please help her open a bank account. This Minotaur Devil was hunted by her," Kotone Asaba said to the black market staff.

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