Chapter Summaries

Yamagami assassinated the Prime Minister of the Cabinet under Saigō’s influence, breaking Makima’s contract and ending her immortality. Facing Saigō in defeat, Makima accepted that he had outmaneuvered her, but refused to beg for mercy.

• Yamagami approached the Prime Minister of the Cabinet during a speech in Akihabara and killed him with his devil power.
• The crowd panicked as security guards seized Yamagami, who remained calm while reporters filmed the scene.
• Makima sensed that her contract with the Prime Minister of the Cabinet had vanished and realized she had lost her immortality.
• Makima recognized that Saigō had used her fear and his knowledge of her to defeat her, leaving her unable to control him.
• Makima asked Saigō whether he had sent the War Devil and discovered her immortality secret through the attacks, and he confirmed that he had sent the War Devil.
• Makima realized Saigō had been feeding her meat made from her own flesh and refused to grovel, saying that doing so would destroy the Control Devil.

Saigō revealed himself as Zarathustra, a transcendent demon, and broke Makima’s confidence before offering her a chance to defeat him by winning his affection. Makima accepted the gamble, while Saigō’s visit to Asa Mikata’s apartment ended with the War Devil flirting with him.

• Saigō revealed his demonic identity and overwhelming power, terrifying Makima and the Weapon Humans under her control.
• Saigō warned Makima that he could erase her completely if he killed her and urged her to abandon her exhausting plans and pursue her true desire.
• Saigō challenged Makima to offer him her sincerity, claiming that genuine feelings could let her control him without her power.
• Makima recognized Saigō’s offer as an open scheme but chose to gamble on winning him over rather than submit without resistance.
• Saigō visited Asa Mikata’s apartment, where the War Devil greeted him flirtatiously while Asa watched in embarrassment.

Saigō asked the War Devil to provoke Chainsaw Man, whose growing power despite worldwide worship puzzled her, and promised her a powerful weapon. He tore out his own supernatural spine and handed it to her, claiming it could give her strength surpassing Chainsaw Man.

• Saigō brought Pawa and a cat to Asa Mikata’s home and arranged for them to live with the War Devil, offering the cat as a reason for Asa to help care for it.
• Saigō promised the War Devil a stronger weapon and information about Chainsaw Man in exchange for letting Pawa stay.
• The War Devil watched news reports showing Chainsaw Man becoming a celebrated global hero and questioned why his power kept increasing as people worshipped him.
• Saigō privately suspected that a visitor from Little Garden had empowered Chainsaw Man and was using him as a proxy.
• Saigō pulled his bloodless spine from his body and gave it to the War Devil as a weapon, promising it would make her stronger than Chainsaw Man.

Saigō ordered the War Devil to work with Makima against the Chainsaw Man, then offered Makima a contract in exchange for her help. Makima accepted, and Saigō instructed her to lure the Chainsaw Devil out so the person he was seeking would appear.

• The War Devil named her weapon Saigō's Spine Sword, and Saigō ordered her to cooperate with the Control Devil against the Chainsaw Man.
• Saigō returned to Makima's apartment with food, teased her about sincerity, and ate with her while discussing the danger posed by assassins.
• Saigō offered Makima a contract that would restore what she had lost in exchange for working with the War Devil, luring out a target, and raising more dogs for him.
• Makima accepted the contract after Saigō promised to respect her independence and grant her greater power.
• Saigō told Makima to join the War Devil in attacking the Chainsaw Devil in the Island Nation, confident that his intended target would appear when they nearly defeated him.

Saigō explained to Makima how to draw out his hidden enemy by threatening the Chainsaw Devil, then the United States decided to send the Gun Devil to kill Makima and lure Chainsaw Man to the Island Nation. Saigō waited in a coffee shop with an aged Devil Hunter as a shy foreign waitress served him, leaving the hunter's response to Saigō's warning unstated.

• Saigō told Makima that someone would protect the Chainsaw Devil and instructed her to follow his requirements without controlling the War Devil.
• Makima agreed to cooperate, and Saigō ordered her to make the War Devil obey her command.
• The United States President learned that Chainsaw Man's victims never returned and approved sending the Gun Devil to kill Makima and draw Chainsaw Man to the Island Nation.
• Spies and anti-devil agencies around the world received orders to go to the Island Nation and kill Makima.
• Saigō met an aged Devil Hunter in a capital-city coffee shop and warned him that continued drinking would soon undermine his ability to fight devils.

Saigō met with Kishibe, who warned him that Reze was a Russian assassin and that foreign Devil Hunters were targeting Makima and those close to her. Saigō later followed Reze to an empty park, where she revealed her mission to kill him and Makima and prepared to attack.

• Kishibe told Saigō that Reze was a powerful Russian Weapon Human and warned him that she was after Makima and her associates.
• Reze gave Saigō tiramisu and left him a note asking to meet her after work.
• Saigō went to the park named in Reze’s note, and she arrived after leaving the café.
• Saigō identified Reze as an assassin, and she admitted she had been ordered to kill him and Makima.
• Reze moved her hand to the pull ring on her collar, while Saigō asked why she had not attacked him in the café.

Reze attacked Saigō but failed to harm him, then fought the War Devil before Makima captured and controlled her. Makima and the War Devil prepared to draw out and kill Chainsaw Man, while Saigō noted that Devils, Devil Hunters, and assassins were gathering in the Island Nation’s capital.

• Reze transformed into the Bomb Devil and unleashed explosions against Saigō, but he remained unharmed and redirected her attacks against her.
• Reze killed approaching Public Security guards to restore her damaged body, then fled when the War Devil attacked her with a barrage of RPGs.
• The War Devil pursued Reze, but a katana-wielding Weapon Fiend cut her in half before Makima bound and incapacitated her.
• Makima used the young Devil’s spear to pierce Reze’s heart, then controlled her into becoming a loyal dog.
• The War Devil and Makima discussed drawing out and killing Chainsaw Man, and the War Devil left with Saigō’s Spine Sword.
• Makima brought obedient Reze to Saigō, who said that Devils, Devil Hunters, and assassins had gathered in the capital and Chainsaw Man would soon appear.

Makima and Saigō prepared to use the arriving assassins against Chainsaw Man, while the Halloween Queen learned that Saigō had found a world her pantheon needed and decided she could no longer wait. At the Special Devil Division headquarters, Makima finished organizing her forces as the War Devil and Pawa watched.

• Saigō asked Makima to turn the assassins into her dogs, and she agreed before joining him for dinner and celebrating Halloween.
• The Halloween Queen received Saigō’s message about a world that could help the Celtic Pantheon and learned that the Void’s discovery made time more urgent.
• Makima and Saigō woke at her apartment, where she explained that she would expose herself at headquarters to lure the assassins into attacking.
• Saigō warned Makima that her contract could be broken and promised to protect her while he searched for an unknown enemy.
• At the Special Devil Division headquarters, Makima told the War Devil that she had mobilized everyone she could to test the path ahead.

Makima prepared the Island Nation’s Devil Hunters for the Gun Devil’s expected arrival while secretly directing her controlled devils and fiends to stir up the capital. She left Hayakawa Aki focused on the chance to confront the Gun Devil, as Pawa was ordered to accompany the main force.

• The War Devil and Makima discussed using the Gun Devil’s arrival and the resulting casualties to draw out Chainsaw Man, while Makima assigned Pawa to move with the main force.
• The Cosmic Devil repeatedly shouted “Halloween” beside Kōki, briefly shifting from vacant babbling to a lucid gaze.
• Makima instructed the Devil Hunters to patrol the Island Nation’s capital for foreign spies and assassins, then told Hayakawa Aki that the Gun Devil might appear there.
• Hayakawa Aki told Himeno about the Gun Devil’s possible arrival, and she warned him to survive and seek support.
• After the Devil Hunters left, Makima ordered the Angel Devil, Shark Devil, Violence Fiend, Spider Devil, Weapon Humans, and other controlled followers to cause unrest throughout the capital.

Makima set Devils and Fiends loose to plunge the Island Nation’s capital into chaos, while Kōki met Kishibe and revealed her plan to kill Makima. The Gun Devil and Santa Claus’s puppets attacked the city, and the War Devil watched from a rooftop, eager to join the fighting.

• Makima ordered the Devils and Fiends into action and anticipated that Chainsaw Man would appear.
• Kōki met Kishibe at a restaurant, told him she had come to kill Makima, and warned that Makima might be a Devil controlling the Island Nation.
• Santa Claus’s puppet-like victims spread through the streets, transforming people they touched as the capital erupted into panic.
• The Gun Devil appeared over the capital and devastated the city with gunfire, killing civilians as the Special Devil Division and military fought back.
• The War Devil watched the destruction from a rooftop and longed to join the battle.

Makima’s plan plunged Edo into war, drawing Chainsaw Man toward the city while Devils and Devil Hunters fought across its streets. As the Gun Devil overwhelmed its opponents, Saigō sensed that its weakness was about to be revealed, and a hero’s arrival was anticipated.

• Makima released the imprisoned Devils and deployed the military and Devil Hunters across Edo to provoke Chainsaw Man, while the War Devil waited for him to arrive.
• Kishibe allied with Kōki against Makima’s private forces, but the Weapon Fiends defeated them, leaving Kōki helpless and Kishibe badly wounded as Makima approached.
• Himeno and Hayakawa Aki fought the Gun Devil; Aki stopped Himeno from fully unleashing her contracted Devil, and the Hunters prepared to face another attack.
• Pawa fled the fighting with Higashiyama Kohaku, who feared dying before she had experienced love or eaten more delicious food.
• Saigō watched from a dessert shop and remarked that the Gun Devil would reveal its weakness, while a Fiend nearby said, “Halloween.”
• The Gun Devil devastated Edo with overwhelming firepower, leaving Hayakawa Aki kneeling in blood with his left arm torn off.

Hayakawa Aki and Himeno survived the Gun Devil’s attack when Chainsaw Man arrived and slaughtered the devils ravaging Edo. The War Devil and Makima then unleashed new powers against Chainsaw Man, who was overwhelmed by their assault.

• Himeno charged the Gun Devil to draw its attention, but Chainsaw Man descended and dismembered the Gun Devil before it could kill her.
• Chainsaw Man hunted down the devils in the ruined city as survivors celebrated him, while the War Devil bombarded him with weapons created from Saigō’s body.
• Makima sent seven Weapon Humans to attack Chainsaw Man, and Saigō watched from his undamaged home while reflecting on the approaching end of the disaster.
• Civilians gave blood to Chainsaw Man after the War Devil’s artillery badly wounded him, and he recovered with a growing storm of demonic power.
• Santa Claus summoned the hell devil to send Chainsaw Man to hell, but Chainsaw Man cut through the gates and the devil.
• Makima surrounded Chainsaw Man with seven empowered Weapon Humans, whose attacks carried dangerous effects and caused his own chainsaw to turn against him.

Mahākāla intervened as Makima and the War Devil attacked Chainsaw Man, but Saigō’s Spine Sword protected them and exposed the hidden god. Saigō confronted Mahākāla in Edo, where the Indian deity recognized him as Zarathustra.

• The War Devil attacked Chainsaw Man with Saigō’s Spine Sword while Makima’s Gift overwhelmed him.
• Mahākāla descended and nearly ensnared Makima and the War Devil with a soul-hooking chain, but Saigō’s Spine Sword broke it and freed them.
• Makima and the War Devil wounded Chainsaw Man with their combined attack, forcing him to withdraw from the battlefield.
• Saigō’s Spine Sword pursued Mahākāla, split Edo with its passage, and revealed the six-armed god when it struck him.
• Saigō appeared before Mahākāla, who identified him as Zarathustra and declared surprise at finding him in the world.

Makima and the War Devil fled as Saigō and Mahākāla clashed in Edo, each limiting their divine power to avoid destroying the world. Saigō summoned Bahrām, but Mahākāla heard the entire world begin chanting Halloween as the Cosmic Devil unleashed her power.

• Makima and the War Devil left the city after sensing that Mahākāla’s divine presence made it unsafe.
• Mahākāla revealed his role in Ouroboros and warned Saigō that the White Horse had descended and the end was approaching.
• Mahākāla attacked Saigō in his demon-subduing form, but Saigō used the Treason Spirit Divinity to twist and tear off one of Mahākāla’s arms.
• Saigō countered Mahākāla’s four karmic methods with the power of the eternal sky and summoned Bahrām as a gigantic boar.
• Mahākāla and Saigō confined their battle to Edo, while the Cosmic Devil made devils and humans across the world mindlessly chant Halloween.

Saigō and the Halloween Queen joined forces to overwhelm Mahākāla, whose avatar was left on the verge of destruction. Watching their battle convinced Yukari Yakumo that Gensokyo’s youkai would agree to move to the new world, while Mahākāla wondered whether the Halloween Queen and Saigō were married.

• The Halloween Queen descended through the Cosmic Devil and used solar flames and boundary power to restrain Mahākāla.
• Saigō invoked Meher’s power and Divine Weapons, riddling the restrained Mahākāla with wounds.
• Yukari Yakumo witnessed the battle and realized that Saigō’s overwhelming power would persuade Gensokyo’s youkai to leave with her.
• Mahākāla recognized that his avatar was doomed and lamented failing Lord Shiva’s mission.
• Mahākāla saw the Halloween Queen beside Saigō and wondered if the Zoroastrian demon was her husband.

After Mahākāla’s incarnation vanished, Saigō told the Halloween Queen how he planned to repair his Spiritualities, and the two strengthened their trust as allies. Their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of Shiva and Yahweh, while Kurma explained to the Bull Demon King how the pantheons’ gods rose and fell with the eras.

• Mahākāla’s battered incarnation disappeared after warning that the conflict between gods and men had begun.
• The Halloween Queen asked after Saigō’s injuries and offered to help protect him from other gods and Buddhas.
• Saigō revealed that he needed the origin of worlds to repair his Spiritualities and advance to the Second Rank.
• The Halloween Queen offered to help him resist the pantheons and asked for authority over the Void so she could descend when needed.
• Saigō and the Halloween Queen sensed Shiva and Yahweh approaching.
• Kurma told the Bull Demon King that the gods’ ranks shifted with the eras and that all pantheons followed the same underlying pattern.

Shiva and Yahweh joined forces to challenge the Void beyond Little Garden, while Saigō tried to stop them with the Mother of Evil Gods’ power. Their clash left Saigō at a severe disadvantage and revealed the gap between his Third Rank and their Second Rank power.

• The Bull Demon King recognized that Kurma was troubled by Shiva’s actions and the early arrival of the Era of World Destruction, then concealed his resentment when Kurma warned him not to overstep.
• At an unknown Outer Gate, Shiva and Yahweh agreed to remain allies, prevent Zoroastrianism’s revival, and investigate the Void and the hidden source of the Good God’s power.
• Shiva and Yahweh attacked the Void beyond Little Garden, causing it and the Void Sanctuary to tremble.
• Saigō returned to the Void Sanctuary and countered their attack with a tide of Malice from the Mother of Evil Gods.
• Saigō realized that, despite wielding power of the same level, he was losing because he was Third Rank rather than a Domain Holder like the Second Rank gods.

Saigō struggled to withstand Shiva and Yahweh until a mysterious will from the Mother of Good Gods’ power took control of his borrowed divinity and repelled them. Afterward, Zeus learned that Zarathustra had blocked the two gods and was astonished by the outcome.

• Saigō found that Shiva and Yahweh were attacking through different universes and points in time, and he could barely defend himself with the Void Barrier.
• A mysterious will emerged from the Mother of Good Gods’ power, took control of Saigō’s use of the Mother of Evil Gods’ divinity, and helped him hold off Shiva and Yahweh.
• Shiva and Yahweh withdrew after failing to breach the defense, while Saigō worried that the Void Barrier might not withstand them once they fully regained their power.
• Saigō wondered who the mysterious will belonged to, then returned his consciousness to the Halloween Queen’s divine descent body.
• Zeus watched the storm over Mount Olympus subside and expressed astonishment that Zarathustra had blocked Shiva and Yahweh.

Saigō returned from the Void Sanctuary after surviving Shiva and Yahweh’s attack, with an unknown Second Rank will having helped him. He met with the Halloween Queen and Yukari Yakumo, and the Queen warned him that he had been careless in trying to wield Second Rank power.

• Zeus wondered which Second Rank had intervened to help Saigō, then decided the unknown power might signal a future ally.
• The Halloween Queen anxiously welcomed Saigō back and said she could remain in her human body for one day if she avoided battle.
• Saigō took the Halloween Queen to the Great Hakurei Barrier, where Yukari Yakumo nervously greeted them and tried to leave.
• The Halloween Queen recognized Yukari Yakamo as a weakened Sixth Rank Divinity and then listened as Saigō described the mysterious will in the Void Sanctuary.
• The Halloween Queen concluded that the will belonged to a Second Rank, rebuked Saigō for overestimating his Authority Domain, and urged him to proceed cautiously.

Saigō and the Halloween Queen deduced that Ouroboros had accelerated the Era of World Destruction by making White Horse Kalki a Mythological Text Candidate and destroying Arcadia. They planned to use the resulting upheaval to advance their goals, while the Halloween Queen warned Saigō that White Night Yaksha could be a last resort.

• The Halloween Queen told Saigō that White Horse Kalki had been born early, and they concluded that Ouroboros had used him to hasten the Era of World Destruction across the Little Garden.
• Saigō and the Halloween Queen connected Arcadia’s destruction to Ouroboros’s plan to spread disorder and help Kalki grow, though they could not understand why the Second Ranks would risk such disasters.
• The Halloween Queen saw the chaos as an opportunity, and Saigō invited her incarnation to a world where he could repair his Divine Spirit of Weakness and help her advance.
• The Halloween Queen agreed to watch over the Little Garden and warned Saigō that his position as Northern District Ruler could make him a target; she said she would seek Zeus’s aid if necessary.
• Before departing, the Halloween Queen privately advised Saigō to seek out White Night Yaksha and persuade her to reclaim her Divine Spirit if all else failed.