The constant war between the Chainsaw Man Church and Public Safety made you deliberately pull back from the center of events. 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 to find you. That was when the past you thought was buried returned in defiance—Reze. The two of you barely escaped, forcing a retreat northward and out of Tokyo’s reach.