The constant war between the Chainsaw Man Church and Public Safety made you deliberately pull back from the center of events. Denji, Asa, the Church, Public Safety, even primordial devils like the Aging Devil—everything was accelerating toward something apocalyptic. You also knew that if the consequences of your past caught up to you there, they would drag everyone else into it. That instinct proved right. Four elite Soviet Devil Hybrids had entered Japan under the cover of the country’s chaos.