Chapter Summaries

Meng Fan and the others found Nido Cafe wrecked after a gunfight, but Reze returned unharmed and concealed her involvement. A distraught man then asked Meng Fan to rescue his wife from the Church of Light in Osaka, and the location triggered Meng Fan’s memory of the apple case.

• Meng Fan arrived at Nido Cafe with Denji and Power and found the cafe riddled with bullet holes.
• Denji worried that Reze had been taken, but Reze returned with groceries and pretended she had been out shopping during the attack.
• A filthy-haired man begged Meng Fan to save his wife, claiming a devil controlled her at the Church of Light in Osaka.
• The man said several Civilian Devil Hunters he hired to retrieve his wife had disappeared, and Meng Fan recognized Osaka as connected to the apple case.

Meng Fan realized the Church of Light in Osaka might be behind the apple cases and went there with Denji and a husband searching for his wife. Inside, they found a corpse-filled church and the man's wife mutating after eating an apple, while Meng Fan prepared to interrogate her.

• Meng Fan connected the dying noodle shop owner's final word, "Ō," to Osaka and decided to investigate the Church of Light there.
• Meng Fan, Denji, and the husband traveled to Osaka, where the husband led them to the Church of Light in Ibaraki City.
• Denji forced open the locked church doors, revealing more than a hundred headless skeletons hanging inside.
• The husband recognized his wife, Ryoko, beneath the corpses, and she said she was the keeper of the corpse storage and served the Lord.
• Ryoko ate an apple and began to mutate, while Meng Fan told the husband to leave and readied his Blade Claw to interrogate her.

Denji defeated Ryoko, a woman transformed by the Wasp Devil, while Meng Fan questioned her about the devil behind the church's body-feeding operation. After Ryoko and Mitsurō shared a dream of the amusement park they had hoped to visit, Meng Fan set out to hunt the hidden mastermind, which he identified as the Fly Lord.

• Denji fought Wasp Woman, healed himself by drinking her blood, and cut off her limbs without killing her.
• Mitsurō showed Ryoko their amusement park tickets, breaking the devil's hold long enough for Ryoko to reveal that a huge, fly-like devil was feeding and hiding in another church.
• Ryoko explained that a priest had given her an apple, leading her to contract with the Wasp Devil and become the devil's apostle.
• Meng Fan let Ryoko and Mitsurō share a dream of their amusement park visit, then gave Mitsurō Ryoko's hand with her wedding ring so he could bury it.
• Meng Fan left to hunt the mastermind and told Denji that the devil was the Fly Lord, not a mere fly.

Meng Fan learned that the Gluttony Devil was likely feeding on people and hiding as a priest, so he planned to ambush the corpse transport at the Church of Light. He left the church sealed and took Denji and Power to Tsutenkaku, where they enjoyed the view and took a photograph together.

• Meng Fan explained that Beelzebub, the Gluttony Devil, was one of the Seven Deadly Sins and likely grew stronger by eating people.
• Meng Fan called Natsume Fan Zhi, who reported mass disappearances and no suspicious activity at Osaka's churches apart from the closed Church of Light.
• Meng Fan questioned Mitsurō about Ryoko's church visits and concluded that the Gluttony Devil was posing as a priest who had given Ryoko an apple.
• Meng Fan decided to wait at the Church of Light for the corpse transport that night, sealed the church doors with mirrors, and left with Denji and Power.
• Meng Fan took Denji and Power to Tsutenkaku, where they admired Osaka from the observation deck and posed for a photograph.

Meng Fan, Denji, and Power followed a delivery truck to Osaka Saint Mary Catholic Church to investigate the Gluttony Devil. After entering the church, they were trapped in a collapsing church-like space and buried beneath its rubble.

• Meng Fan waited outside the Church of Light until two masked men arrived with a truck carrying more than twenty skeletons.
• Meng Fan put the men to sleep, questioned one in his dream, and learned the bodies had been transported from Osaka Saint Mary Catholic Church.
• Meng Fan tied up the men, had Denji move the skeletons into the Church of Light, and drove with Denji and Power to the cathedral.
• The three transformed and entered the open church, but it began shaking as the doors closed and the scenery outside disappeared.
• A powerful force pulled the three back inside as the church plunged downward; Denji fell with a broken chandelier, and the church crashed, burying them in rubble.

Meng Fan, Denji, and Power were trapped inside the Gluttony Devil’s stomach, where their bodies were gradually being dissolved. Meng Fan sent Denji and Power into Mirror Space, but remained behind as his body disintegrated, promising the Gluttony Devil would be finished once he escaped.

• Denji emerged from the rubble and pulled Power out while Meng Fan explained that they were inside the Gluttony Devil’s stomach.
• Meng Fan explained that the stomach would dissolve their bodies, and the Gluttony Devil revealed that it had lured them there to get Denji’s heart in exchange for a promised ten thousand people.
• Meng Fan realized that a mirror could create a way into Mirror Space, and he fashioned a large mirror from broken glass.
• Power and Denji crawled into Mirror Space, but Meng Fan explained that the stomach had added a layer of space that prevented them from returning to reality.
• Meng Fan shattered the mirror to keep Denji and Power inside, then tricked the Gluttony Devil into thinking they had dissolved and warned it that he would destroy it after escaping.
• The Gluttony Devil’s stomach shook as Meng Fan’s body was reduced to bare bones.

Meng Fan entered the Fifth Division’s dormitory through a sleeping hunter’s head and impressed the rookies and team leader with his strength. He used a stolen mirror to reach Mirror Space, where Denji and Power escaped with him, then found the Fifth Division’s women eager to meet him.

• A Fifth Division team leader woke the rookies for a morning run, but one hunter began shaking and Meng Fan flew out of his head.
• The rookies recognized Meng Fan and praised his devil-slaying record, while their team leader transformed and attacked him before Meng Fan kicked him away.
• Meng Fan asked for a mirror, and Gai led him to the women’s dormitory, where Meng Fan kicked open the door and took its full-length mirror.
• Meng Fan entered Mirror Space through the mirror, and Denji and Power escaped through its exit after recovering their bodies.
• Two Fifth Division women recognized Meng Fan and rushed to greet him, having heard Himeno’s stories about his strength.

Meng Fan and the Fifth Division confronted the Gluttony Devil in Osaka, but the Buzz-Cut Man’s attack barely scratched the monster. Meng Fan drew its attention while Denji climbed onto its back to deepen the wound, leaving their fight underway.

• Power claimed Meng Fan as hers and accompanied him and the Fifth Division through a mirror passage to a home near St. Mary's Cathedral.
• Meng Fan and the others saw the Gluttony Devil attack a hotel, pulling people out with its many hands and swallowing them.
• Meng Fan assigned most of the Fifth Division to evacuate civilians and directed the Buzz-Cut Man to strike the devil’s white neck.
• The Buzz-Cut Man transformed into the Axe Devil and hurled a giant axe at the Gluttony Devil, but it only scraped the monster and provoked its attack.
• Meng Fan proposed that Denji and Power exploit the scrape while he kept the Gluttony Devil occupied; Denji climbed onto the monster’s back as Meng Fan drew its hands away from people.

Meng Fan, Denji, and Power fought the Gluttony Devil, but its invincible mode forced them to retreat into Mirror Space. Meng Fan left to rescue nearby people as the devil rampaged through the city, and Public Safety Devil Hunters arrived to confront it.

• Denji and Power attacked the wound on the Gluttony Devil’s neck, but its growing hands overpowered and captured them.
• Meng Fan used mirror shards to injure the Gluttony Devil, which shifted its weak point and activated an indestructible invincible mode.
• The Gluttony Devil swallowed Meng Fan’s armies of rats, flies, and mosquitoes and tried to suck in Denji and Power, so Meng Fan brought them into Mirror Space.
• Meng Fan explained that the Gluttony Devil’s invincible mode would eventually run out and left Mirror Space to observe it.
• The Gluttony Devil searched the city for humans and ate people while Meng Fan rescued victims into Mirror Space.
• Public Safety Devil Hunters arrived in police cars, drawing the Gluttony Devil’s attention as its next meal.

Ito Nibu summoned the Fox Devil’s complete form to confront the Gluttony Devil, but the Fox Devil fled in terror. Meng Fan arrived just in time to catch Ito Nibu as he fell.

• Ito Nibu’s police convoy turned back, but the Gluttony Devil crushed six cars and devoured their occupants.
• Ito Nibu rejected his team’s suggestion to call Meng Fan and summoned the Fox Devil’s complete form.
• The Fox Devil saw the enormous Gluttony Devil and vanished, leaving Ito Nibu to fall from its head.
• Meng Fan caught Ito Nibu and carried him safely to the ground.

Meng Fan protected Ito Nibu and Osaka’s survivors while waiting for the Gluttony Devil’s invincibility to weaken. When the devil’s legs turned white, Meng Fan launched Denji at supersonic speed and followed with a hypersonic Iaido Slash, breaking through the devil’s back and entering its body.

• Meng Fan led Ito Nibu into Mirror Space, where Denji and over a hundred rescued women were sheltering.
• Meng Fan explained that the Gluttony Devil grew stronger by eating people and could only be defeated after its invincible body began turning white.
• After more than ten minutes, the Gluttony Devil had eaten over ten thousand people and destroyed much of Osaka, but its lower legs began turning white.
• Meng Fan summoned Denji, transformed him into Chainsaw Man, and placed him inside a bell to use an ultrasonic blast to launch him at the devil.
• Denji’s chainsaws broke through the Gluttony Devil’s back, and Meng Fan followed with a hypersonic Iaido Slash that opened a deep wound and sent him inside the devil.

Meng Fan killed the Gluttony Devil in Osaka, absorbed its corpse, and reunited with Denji, Power, and Ito Nibu. After revealing that he had unlocked the third dream layer, he challenged Denji and Power to attack him while he remained seated.

• Meng Fan slashed through the Gluttony Devil's insides until it died, then emerged from its corpse and helped Denji recover his arms with blood.
• Meng Fan summoned rats to draw a sigil that swallowed the Gluttony Devil's corpse, leaving onlookers confused about where it had gone.
• Meng Fan opened the Mirror Space, letting Power, Ito Nibu, and the women come out; Ito Nibu confirmed that Meng Fan had killed the Devil.
• Meng Fan declined to stay in Osaka and took Denji and Power into the Mirror Space, where he revealed that absorbing the Devil had unlocked the third dream layer.
• Meng Fan told Denji and Power to transform and attack him while he sat in a glass chair, promising to show them a miracle.

Meng Fan tested his third dream layer on Denji and Power, then returned with them to Reze’s café, where Quanxi arrived and challenged him to a three-round bet for Denji’s heart. Meng Fan accepted and wagered that Quanxi and her four Fiends would spend a day with him if they lost.

• Meng Fan trapped Denji and Power in the third dream layer, showed them frightening illusions, and explained how the ability worked.
• Meng Fan returned with Denji and Power to Reze’s café and gave Reze a Yellow Mouse souvenir from Osaka.
• Meng Fan showered at Asuka Saito’s home, where Asuka joined him, then returned to the café.
• Quanxi entered with Cosmo, Pingcui, and two other female Fiends, and Meng Fan greeted them.
• Quanxi challenged Meng Fan to three contests, with Denji’s heart as her prize, and Meng Fan agreed to count one win as her victory.
• Meng Fan wagered that if Quanxi’s group lost, all five would spend a day playing with him.

Meng Fan defeated Quanxi in a wager by trapping her in a dream, then revealed Reze’s possible fate and confronted her in the dream. After returning everyone to reality, he invited Quanxi and her companions into the cafe, where Quanxi admitted she would not have taken Denji’s heart even if she had won.

• Denji asked Meng Fan to give him a woman after winning, and Meng Fan told him to get lost.
• Quanxi fought an invisible opponent outside the cafe, lost two rounds, and transformed into the Arrow Devil for the third.
• Meng Fan showed Reze a dream in which Makima killed her, and Reze woke shaken by the imagined ending.
• Meng Fan ended the Third Dream Layer and told Quanxi and her companions that he would not kill her.
• Quanxi said she would not have taken Denji’s heart even if she had beaten Meng Fan, while Denji remained distracted by the women.

Meng Fan learned that mysterious terracotta warriors had been appearing and attacking people in Dragon Country, and agreed to help Quanxi investigate the force controlling them. After settling his bet with Quanxi, he clarified that she and her women only had to go shopping with him.

• Quanxi told Meng Fan that Makima had disappeared beneath the sea and that her country had withdrawn from the operation to seize Denji's heart.
• Quanxi showed Meng Fan photos of terracotta warriors that had appeared in S City, killed residents, and then crumbled into dirt.
• Quanxi revealed that a terracotta warrior resembling Lü Bu, riding Red Hare and wielding a Sky-Piercing Halberd, had fought her before also crumbling away.
• Meng Fan agreed to help investigate the terracotta warriors when they next appeared in five days, in exchange for the devil's corpse and one request.
• Meng Fan shook hands with Quanxi to seal the agreement, then demanded that she honor their bet.
• Quanxi and her women thought Meng Fan wanted them to spend time with him in bed, but he clarified that he meant they had to go shopping with him.

Meng Fan used a shopping trip with Denji and Quanxi as bait to draw out Devil Hunters targeting Denji, then killed Santa Claus’s true body and her apprentice. Afterward, Public Safety Devil Hunters praised Meng Fan for killing the Gluttony Devil, rekindling Aki Hayakawa’s hope of revenge against the Gun Devil.

• Meng Fan told Quanxi and Pingcui that the shopping trip would lure enemy Devil Hunters into an ambush, and Denji gave him a handwritten paper bearing their names.
• Meng Fan left Reze at the café and took Denji and the others through the Mirror Gate to Qian Da Plaza, where he killed Santa Claus’s true body and her apprentice at the Golden Arches.
• Meng Fan explained that Santa Claus could revive by transferring into another doll, while her German identity was an advanced doll she had created.
• Himeno and Aki Hayakawa arrived after hearing screams, and Meng Fan revealed that Quanxi and her companions were allies.
• Public Safety Devil Hunters told Himeno that Meng Fan had killed the Gluttony Devil in Osaka and saved a city, while Aki Hayakawa began to see Meng Fan as a possible ally against the Gun Devil.

Meng Fan and the Devil Hunters fought Santa Claus’s doll army at Qian Da Plaza, where Meng Fan used his mental powers to locate and defeat the Doll Devil while Quanxi cut down the dolls. After the others left, Meng Fan returned to the deserted plaza and took goods from its shops.

• A panicked Devil Hunter warned Meng Fan and the others that dolls had appeared across the streets and were killing people.
• Meng Fan sent Quanxi to fight the dolls while he searched nearby for the Doll Devil’s real body.
• Quanxi cleared the upper floors, borrowed Aki Hayakawa’s black sword, and continued fighting on the first floor.
• Meng Fan found the Doll Devil’s advanced puppet, immobilized it with his mental power, and brought it to Halloween Girl, who sent the Doll Devil back to Hell.
• Meng Fan told the group that Santa Claus and the other major threats had been dealt with, then sent the Devil Hunters back to headquarters.
• After confirming the plaza was empty, Meng Fan returned to take jewelry, watches, clothes, and other goods from its shops.

Meng Fan and Quanxi’s group looted shops and played arcade games before returning to Aki Hayakawa’s home, where Quanxi revealed she had originally come to take Denji’s heart. With Meng Fan’s strength making that plan impossible, she had chosen another way to fulfill her mission.

• Quanxi joined Meng Fan in collecting supplies, while she and her women tried on clothes and Denji and Power played Street Fighter.
• Natsume Fan Zhi arrived to clean up the battlefield, played arcade games with Meng Fan, and defeated him in nine of their ten matches.
• Meng Fan and the others returned through the Mirror Gate to Aki Hayakawa’s home, and Aki reluctantly agreed to let Quanxi and her four women stay the night.
• Aki questioned Quanxi about her purpose in the Island Nation, and she admitted she had planned to take Denji’s heart but had switched to another mission because Meng Fan was too strong.

Meng Fan broke up a fight between Quanxi's group and the others, then cooked dinner and kept everyone in line. Before bed, Aki Hayakawa revealed that he sensed someone lurking in the house, and Meng Fan turned off the lights and pretended to attack them.

• Aki Hayakawa complained that Quanxi still wanted Denji's heart, and a quarrel escalated into a fight between Power and Dragon before Meng Fan froze everyone with the third dream layer.
• Meng Fan served dinner after making Quanxi and her harem behave by showing them visions of Makima beheading them.
• Power took her five premium steaks to her room, while the others praised Meng Fan's meal and watched a bursting beef ball bounce across the floor until Denji caught it in his mouth.
• After dinner, Quanxi and her harem bathed together, and Meng Fan sent Denji back to the bedroom when he tried to spy on them.
• Aki Hayakawa told Meng Fan and Denji that he felt someone breathing near him and watching him at night, so Meng Fan invited him to sleep with them and then pretended to be a ghost in the dark.

Meng Fan spent the morning with Quanxi, Denji, and the others at Aki Hayakawa’s apartment before inviting everyone to the premiere of his horror film. The group gathered to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street, which Meng Fan had directed and starred in.

• Meng Fan talked with Quanxi about her stay in the Island Nation and his plans to return to Dragon Country and travel the world.
• Denji learned Meng Fan would return to Dragon Country in a few days and asked to go with him, but Meng Fan told him to stay with Reze and study.
• Meng Fan asked Aki Hayakawa to make breakfast for ten, then Reze arrived with coffee and Denji wondered whether she liked him.
• Power refused to flush the toilet until Meng Fan ordered her to do so, and Aki Hayakawa scolded her.
• Himeno, Arai, and Kobeni arrived after Meng Fan invited them to a movie, and he revealed that he was taking them to the premiere of A Nightmare on Elm Street.