Chainsaw Man: Mangekyo Sharingan

Chapter 88: Chapter 88: The Tomoe Rinnegan Mask, the Gun Devil’s Heart

"But Dad, Mom, and the adults all went through it that way, so it should be fine."

Whether it hurt or not, in Karana’s understanding, having children was something she had to do.

And she herself also wanted to have a baby with Angel someday.

"Then we’ll see when the time comes."

Angel Devil had no real concept of human reproduction, so he was fairly casual about it.

His thoughts were actually very simple. He only wanted to live together with everyone here, especially Karana.

After that, just like yesterday, Karana taught Angel Devil the local language while Kotone Asaba helped from the side.

Over the course of the day, as Kotone Asaba interacted normally with Angel Devil, Angel Devil’s Affinity slowly continued to rise.

[Angel Devil Affinity +5%]

[Angel Devil Affinity +5%]

[Angel Devil Affinity progress has reached 50%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

Angel Devil’s Affinity had now reached fifty percent, and the ninth page of the Affinity Codex had also been unlocked.

Kotone Asaba immediately flipped to the ninth page of the Affinity Codex, only to see that the target was actually the Gun Devil.

He could not help freezing slightly. Was this a joke?

It actually wanted him to raise the Gun Devil’s Affinity?

Other Devils might have been one thing, but he really had no idea what to do with the Gun Devil.

After all, his understanding of the Gun Devil was extremely limited. In the original story, the Gun Devil’s only appearance was when the United States sacrificed one year of its citizens’ lifespans to summon it. It then killed a large number of people in Japan before losing to Makima. After that, under Makima’s control, it occupied Aki Hayakawa’s corpse and became the Gun Fiend.

To him, all of that information was useless. The only useful piece of information might be that the current Gun Devil had already lost its memories. He had absolutely no idea what the Gun Devil’s personality was like.

No matter how much memory was lost, personality would not change. Without knowing its personality, it would be very difficult to interact with that Devil.

Kotone Asaba carefully looked over the information on the Affinity Codex to see if there was anything useful to him.

It described the whereabouts of the Gun Devil’s main body. More accurately, the whereabouts of the Gun Devil’s heart.

According to this information, the Gun Devil’s main body, which had been divided up and stored by various nations, had now turned into the form of a heart.

That was because the main body itself was only a shell, just like Pochita. Pochita looked like a dog with a chainsaw on his head, but he was actually the Chainsaw Devil’s heart. When he was not especially weak, he could transform back into the Chainsaw Devil’s normal form at any time, which could also be called the black Chainsaw form.

For example, in the original story, when Pochita transformed back into the black Chainsaw form to fight Makima in the decisive battle, there was a scene where Makima used an air gun to blast the black Chainsaw out of the atmosphere. The black Chainsaw’s solution was to dig out his own heart and kick the heart straight back down to the ground. At that point, the black Chainsaw outside the atmosphere had already become a useless shell. On the way back down, Pochita, as the heart, transformed into the black Chainsaw again.

The Gun Devil worked the same way. The heart was the core, and the body could be formed at any time.

The Gun Devil’s main body had been divided up among various countries. The Soviet Union possessed twenty-eight percent, while the United States possessed twenty percent. The United States’ portion of the Gun Devil’s heart could use twenty percent of the complete body’s power, and so on.

The Gun Devil’s main body, which each nation had divided up, was actually the heart. That made much more sense.

After all, the Gun Devil summoned by the United States only accounted for twenty percent of the complete body, but in terms of form, aside from the legs, its head, hands, and torso all looked fairly complete. It could even occupy Aki Hayakawa’s corpse and become a Fiend. If it were not the heart, it should not have been that versatile.

If one went by the simple idea that they had divided up the main body, then the United States’ portion of the Gun Devil’s body included the head, both hands, and torso. How could that possibly only be twenty percent of the complete body?

Incidentally, the complete Gun Devil had legs. No one knew why they were gone later. They may have been sawed off by Pochita back then.

As for the specific whereabouts of these hearts, the Gun Devil hearts in the Soviet Union and the United States were both in their respective military secret bases. Only Germany’s Gun Devil heart was special. It was currently being transported toward a certain mafia group.

The specific reason was that the German military had secretly transferred the Gun Devil’s heart, but there was a mole inside who had infiltrated on behalf of the mafia. The mafia then sent people to intercept the Gun Devil’s heart midway, and it was currently being transported back to the mafia.

Kotone Asaba suddenly realized that the Affinity Codex’s information was actually real time. He had never noticed this before.

"This is a good opportunity..."

Kotone Asaba had already decided to make a move. He could not easily touch the Gun Devil hearts stored in the secret bases of various major powers, but this Gun Devil heart that had been hijacked by the mafia was much easier to deal with.

However, before taking action, he wanted to get a mask first.

Since this involved the Gun Devil, he felt it was best not to expose his identity. Although he was not afraid of trouble, if he had the ability to avoid trouble, he naturally ought to avoid it.

"I’m going to handle a special matter next. It’s related to the Gun Devil, so it’s not convenient to take you along."

At that moment, Kotone Asaba said to Reze.

"Okay. Then take me back first."

Reze nodded.

Although Koto had not explained in detail, she did not think too much about it.

"Angel, Reze and I have something to do, so we’re going back first. But before I leave, there’s something I want to ask you. I need your power. Can you make a contract with me?"

Kotone Asaba asked Angel Devil.

"Is my power really useful to you? If you really want it, then take it. As for the contract condition, let me think..."

Angel Devil thought for a while, then said, "The contract condition is that when this place is in danger, you’ll come help us. Once the contract is formed, you can use my Devil power however you want."

"Of course. Actually, even if you hadn’t made that the contract condition, I would still help you if something happened."

Kotone Asaba smiled gladly.

This contract condition could be said to have absolutely no downside for him. Exchanging such an easy condition for Angel Devil’s power was practically a massive gain.

This was his second time making a contract with a Devil. The first time had been with Pochita, but Pochita’s contract had nothing to do with Devil power. He had exchanged his blood for Pochita’s companionship.

So this was his first time obtaining Devil power through a contract.

Making a contract with Angel Devil did not produce any special feeling. He only knew that he had gained Angel Devil’s abilities. The first was absorbing human lifespans, and the second was using those lifespans to create lifespan weapons.

He could also control whether to absorb lifespans of his own will, just like Angel Devil. That way, he would not accidentally harm others.

"Thanks. If anything happens later, call me anytime."

After making his final farewell, Kotone Asaba immediately took Reze back to Japan.

He had Reze temporarily stay at Kobeni Higashiyama’s place. Reze and Nono both went over together, which also gave Kobeni some company.

"Huh? Reze is going to stay here for a while?"

Kobeni Higashiyama was slightly surprised.

"That’s right. Does little Kobeni not welcome me?"

Reze deliberately said that.

"No, no! Of course I welcome you! I was just a little surprised..."

Kobeni Higashiyama hurriedly explained.

Reze immediately chuckled.

"Little Kobeni is so cute."

"Yeah. I have to handle a secret mission by myself, so I’ll have Reze stay here for now. It works out, since you’ll have someone to keep you company too."

Kotone Asaba explained.

"Oh, okay... Then make sure you stay safe, Asaba."

Kobeni Higashiyama did not ask more about it.

"I will. Then I’ll be going."

Kotone Asaba did not stay for long. He began preparing for his operation to deal with the Gun Devil’s heart in Germany.

He had already changed out of his Public Safety uniform into casual clothes, then prepared to go out and buy a mask.

However, most of the masks sold in shops were more toy-like. What he needed was something that could effectively hide his face. Ideally, something like the mask Obito wore.

Just then, a commotion suddenly erupted behind him.

"A Devil! A Devil appeared!"

"Help... Help! Hurry and notify the Devil Hunters!"

"..."

Clearly, a Devil had appeared.

Kotone Asaba turned back and saw an enormous human-face mask. It had no hands or feet, and it floated slightly in midair.

Was this the Mask Devil...?

An idea immediately came to Kotone Asaba, and his eyes flickered faintly.

The next moment, the Mask Devil seemed to use its ability. A similar human-face mask suddenly appeared on the faces of everyone nearby, restricting their vision and sense of smell. They could even barely breathe.

Some people fell to their knees from lack of oxygen. Others fell heavily to the ground because they could not see anything. People slammed into walls, trampling incidents broke out, and chaos followed one thing after another.

"Hahahahahaha!"

The Mask Devil laughed mockingly, seemingly very happy to torment humans. It was not in any hurry to drink human blood.

Only Kotone Asaba used phasing to avoid the Mask Devil’s ability. While the Mask Devil was being arrogant and pleased with itself, he carried Pochita and teleported behind the Mask Devil, then stabbed straight into it.

"Urgh...?!"

The sudden intense pain left the Mask Devil unable to react for a moment.

A moment later, it realized that behind it stood a Devil Hunter holding a strange chainsaw.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts! Don’t, don’t, don’t! Don’t kill me! I surrender, I surrender!"

The Mask Devil could sense that the chainsaw stabbed into its body was only a tiny distance away from its heart. If its heart were destroyed, it would die.

It had an inexplicable fear of Hell. It would rather surrender to a human than return to Hell after death.

Kotone Asaba immediately stopped moving the manual chainsaw and said calmly, "Make a contract with me, and I can spare your life and let you cooperate with Public Safety."

"Wh-what kind of contract?"

The Mask Devil endured the severe pain as it spoke.

The chainsaw was still inside its body. It had simply stopped moving.

"Let me use your Devil power however I want. Then obediently cooperate with Public Safety, and you may not expose my identity."

Kotone Asaba spoke in an ordering tone.

"Fine! I accept this contract! Hurry up and let me go!"

The conditions the other party demanded were honestly rather excessive, but in order to survive, the Mask Devil agreed without hesitation.

Kotone Asaba then obtained the Mask Devil’s ability, and only then did he release the Mask Devil.

After that, the Mask Devil removed the masks from the faces of the people around them and obediently went to Tokyo Public Safety to "turn itself in" according to Kotone Asaba’s contract condition.

When those people regained their vision, Kotone Asaba had already disappeared, so none of them knew who had acted just now.

At that moment, Kotone Asaba was in an unoccupied alley, trying to use the Mask Devil’s ability.

The Mask Devil’s ability was fairly simple. It could only create masks. However, forcibly putting a holeless mask on a human was also extremely torturous.

In other words, now that he had the Mask Devil’s ability, Kotone Asaba could freely create masks for himself.

All he had to do was imagine them, and he could create all kinds of masks at will.

In that case...

A little while later, a white tomoe Rinnegan mask appeared out of thin air on Kotone Asaba’s face.

That was right. It was the same style as Obito’s. Obito had used this tomoe Rinnegan mask during the Shinobi World War.

Among the four masks Obito had worn in his life, this mask was the most suitable for Kotone Asaba. There were three tomoe-shaped holes on the mask, two of which could expose his eyes, so it would not interfere with him using double Kamui.

And because of the special nature of Devil power, his eyes could use Kamui through the two tomoe holes in the mask, but other people could not see his eyes through the tomoe holes from the outside.

A tomoe Rinnegan mask, paired with a white trench coat. He was almost fully prepared.

Kotone Asaba immediately entered the Kamui dimension.

However, the instant he entered the Kamui dimension, the mask on his face disappeared.

This was because the Kamui dimension was completely isolated from the real world. The abilities he had gained through Devil contracts could not take effect here. By the same logic, other Devil Hunters’ contracts would also become invalid inside the Kamui dimension, unless they brought their contracted Devils in with them.

But if they were Devils, Fiends, or Hybrids, they would not be affected, because those were their own Devil powers, not abilities obtained through contracts.

At that moment, Kotone Asaba used the direction provided by the Affinity Codex’s information and transferred himself near the Gun Devil’s heart.

It was not extremely precise, but the margin of error was not very large either. He was already within Germany’s borders, and in the distance, he could see several armed trucks moving at high speed, as small as ants. The Gun Devil’s heart was definitely inside one of those armed trucks.

The mask on his face had also reappeared.

Although the distance was very far, it was still within Kotone Asaba’s field of vision.

His gaze focused on one of the armed trucks, and he immediately teleported over.

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