Chapter Summaries

Meng Fan took the Fourth Division and Quanxi’s group to a private screening of A Nightmare on Elm Street, but the theater mistakenly began playing his private video of Makima. He used a dream to conceal the mistake and switch films, then left the screening to call Natsume Fan Zhi.

• Quanxi and her four companions joined Meng Fan and the others for breakfast before they headed to the theater.
• Meng Fan showed his Public Safety ID, and the manager escorted the group to their booked screening room.
• The screening began with an unexpectedly cheerful opening, and the group questioned whether they were watching a horror movie.
• The film showed Makima on all fours with a collar, shocking Meng Fan when he realized his private video was playing.
• Meng Fan’s third dream layer descended just before the group could see more, and he replaced the video with A Nightmare on Elm Street inside the dream.
• After the group watched the film’s bloody dream-chase opening, Meng Fan left the screening room and called Natsume Fan Zhi.

Meng Fan refused the Moore Family’s demand for the Gluttony Devil’s corpse, while Baseball Man and the revived Poppy Devil set their sights on the Fourth Division. After the division watched Meng Fan’s movie, a crowd of apparently controlled people blocked their way outside the theater.

• Natsume Fan Zhi told Meng Fan that Baseball Man wanted the Gluttony Devil’s corpse, but Meng Fan refused to hand it over.
• Poppy Devil emerged alive and called Baseball Man her brother, and Baseball Man knocked Natsume Fan Zhi unconscious before taking him away.
• The Fourth Division watched Meng Fan’s horror movie, and its members shared their reactions while Kobeni vomited after being forced to finish it.
• A motionless crowd of ordinary people blocked Meng Fan and the Fourth Division at the theater entrance, and Quanxi moved behind them.

Meng Fan and the Fourth Division fought a crowd controlled by Baseball Man's sister, who appeared wearing the Poppy Devil's face. After she took control of Aki and Kobeni, Meng Fan sent his allies into Mirror Space and confronted her alone; she demanded that he become her boyfriend in exchange for releasing his friends.

• Quanxi killed the people who had gathered near the screening room, and crowds controlled by the Poppy Devil surrounded the Fourth Division.
• Meng Fan realized Baseball Man's sister might be controlling the crowds and led the group into battle against their enhanced strength.
• Meng Fan and Quanxi cut down the attackers, but Kobeni struck Arai and Aki attacked Himeno while both were under control.
• Meng Fan trapped Aki and Kobeni in the third dream layer and sent the Fourth Division into Mirror Space before closing the gate.
• Meng Fan confronted Baseball Man's sister, who demanded that he become her boyfriend or she would keep his friends under her control until they died.

Meng Fan fought Baseball Man after killing his sister, the Poppy Devil, and discovered that Baseball Man had contracts with multiple devils, including the Wind Devil. After Meng Fan killed Baseball Man, a furious voice appeared in the restroom, threatening to destroy him.

• Meng Fan freed Aki Hayakawa and Kobeni from the Third Dream Layer, rejected the woman from the Moore Family, and froze her with his ability.
• Baseball Man accidentally struck his sister, and Meng Fan confirmed that the Poppy Devil was dead before absorbing her corpse.
• Baseball Man escaped Meng Fan's control and attacked him, using the Wind Devil's power to scatter Meng Fan's sonic blast.
• Meng Fan turned intangible to evade Baseball Man's bat, then pierced his throat, tore apart his body, and crushed his heart.
• As Meng Fan washed the blood from his hands, a furious voice burst into the restroom and threatened to wipe him from the world.

Meng Fan fought Baseball Man repeatedly to learn the secret behind his resurrections and dream powers, then enlisted Denji and Quanxi to help overwhelm him. Baseball Man continued reviving, and the three-on-one battle was still underway.

• Meng Fan killed Baseball Man and later questioned him in the second dream layer, learning that he had contracted with the Wind Devil in exchange for cutting ties with his family.
• Baseball Man vanished from the second dream layer after beginning to reveal another devil, and Meng Fan left through a different woman's dream before challenging him again.
• Meng Fan and Baseball Man fought while testing each other's limits, and Baseball Man revealed that the Dream Devil's resurrections drained Meng Fan's mental power.
• Meng Fan called Denji and Quanxi into the fight, and the three attacked Baseball Man together in the Movie Theater.
• Baseball Man repeatedly resurrected as the three continued killing him, and his resurrections became more frequent.

Meng Fan, Quanxi, and Denji pursued Baseball Man after he escaped their six-hour fight, and Meng Fan uncovered the secret behind his repeated returns. Meng Fan killed Baseball Man outside the Crimson bakery, leaving his sister waiting for the cream puffs he had promised.

• Meng Fan replenished Quanxi and Denji's blood whenever Baseball Man killed them, and the three kept him fighting until he fled.
• Meng Fan tracked Baseball Man's scent to a café, where Baseball Man called his sister and promised to bring her cream puffs.
• Meng Fan, Quanxi, and Denji confronted Baseball Man outside the Crimson bakery, and Meng Fan severed his bat-wielding hand with a burst of speed.
• Meng Fan explained that Baseball Man used the Tragedy Devil's power to rewind his body, with each death shortening his rewind window.
• Baseball Man admitted defeat, but Meng Fan rejected his appeal to his father's status and killed him.

Meng Fan defeated Baseball Man, absorbed his corpse, and gained the Wind Devil and Tragedy Devil’s abilities. Meanwhile, the Reality Devil contracted with Kana Ogura and turned her against Meng Fan.

• Meng Fan brought Baseball Man’s corpse into the Mirror Space, reassured the Fourth Division members, and sent them home through Mirror Gates.
• Meng Fan absorbed Baseball Man’s corpse and gained wind control and the ability to regress his body past restraints, though he could use Regression only five times a week.
• The Reality Devil spoke to Kana Ogura about her abusive husband and exploitative manager, and she agreed to make a contract by killing everyone she hated.
• Kana Ogura killed her manager and coworkers with the Reality Devil’s power, then saw Meng Fan on the news and was ordered to kill him.

Meng Fan, Denji, and Power spent the evening at home after Quanxi left, but Aki Hayakawa was alone when strange lights and monsters appeared. The chapter ended with Aki facing a huge gecko and two Headless Corpses in the living room.

• Power and Denji wrestled over whether Power had been on TV until Quanxi arrived with four women and said they were leaving for a hotel.
• Quanxi told Meng Fan she would return to Dragon Country in two days and wait for him in P City or S City; Meng Fan said the Mirror Gate could not reach that far.
• Meng Fan and Denji went out for a late-night snack while Aki Hayakawa stayed home.
• As the lights flickered and switched off, Aki Hayakawa took the Black Blade and found what looked like Denji asleep in bed, then realized the figure had no body and slashed its head.
• A Headless Corpse appeared outside the window, then confronted Aki at the front door and kicked him back into the living room.
• A huge gecko clung to the wall as two more Headless Corpses crawled from the rooms and rushed toward Aki Hayakawa.

Meng Fan and the others discovered that the figure who had been haunting Aki Hayakawa’s room might have taken him during the night. After Aki disappeared, Meng Fan realized they needed to find the ghost and rescue him.

• Denji and Power returned home with oden, and Meng Fan noticed an extra cup in the tray before checking on Aki Hayakawa, who claimed he had a cold.
• Meng Fan left to visit Asuka after she called, while Denji went to sleep; a silent Aki Hayakawa approached Denji’s bed and frightened him before floating away.
• Meng Fan returned the next morning and found Aki Hayakawa missing from his room.
• Himeno called Meng Fan because Aki Hayakawa had not arrived at work and was not answering his phone.
• Denji told Meng Fan about Aki Hayakawa’s strange behavior and recalled his claims that someone watched him sleep.
• Meng Fan kicked open Power’s door and told her a ghost had entered the house and they had to find it to rescue Aki Hayakawa.

Meng Fan, Denji, and Power searched their apartment for the Ghost Devil, who had hidden Aki among the household objects. After the Ghost Devil attacked Denji, Meng Fan revealed he had followed invisibly and killed it, freeing Aki from one of the objects in the Mirror Space.

• Meng Fan warned Denji and Power that the Ghost Devil could disguise itself as household objects and might have turned Aki into one.
• Power found a breast pad that might be Aki, so Meng Fan sealed it in the Mirror Space; Meng Fan also stored a suspicious glass after it nearly fell and shattered.
• After Teemo reported a huge Cockroach Devil outside, Meng Fan and Power left to deal with it while Denji stayed home.
• Denji searched Power's room for Aki, but the Ghost Devil trapped him and turned him into a breast pad when it forced his eyes open.
• Meng Fan, who had followed Denji invisibly, killed the Ghost Devil and retrieved its heart; one object in the Mirror Space turned into Aki Hayakawa, while another remained unchanged.

Meng Fan absorbed the Ghost Devil and fought the Cockroach Devil alongside Denji and Power, growing into an eighty-meter giant to defeat it. After the city was ravaged in the battle, the damage began mysteriously repairing itself.

• Meng Fan absorbed the Ghost Devil's corpse while Aki Hayakawa and Denji argued about Aki having been Power's breast pad.
• Meng Fan and Denji rushed to help Power fight the Cockroach Devil, and Denji attacked it with his Saw Chain.
• Meng Fan grew to eighty meters tall, covered himself with a billboard, and used his Muscle Devil power to fight the Cockroach Devil.
• Meng Fan defeated the Cockroach Devil with a point-blank sonic blast, then absorbed its corpse.
• Power pointed out that stones, glass, streetlights, cars, and roads were mysteriously restoring themselves.

After Osaka's destroyed buildings mysteriously returned to normal, Meng Fan learned that the Destruction Devil, Black-chan, had rebuilt the city while working with the Logistics Department. Black-chan revealed his fondness for human life and toys, and the chapter left him happily playing with a signed yo-yo.

• Natsume Fan Zhi and his team arrived and introduced Zeping, the Deputy Prime Minister's son, who asked Meng Fan to accept him as a disciple.
• Natsume Nijo arrived and explained that the Logistics Department worked with a genuine devil to restore damaged cities.
• Black-chan skateboarded over after finishing the restoration of Osaka and introduced himself as the Destruction Devil.
• Black-chan explained that he helped humans rebuild because he enjoyed the human world, while the Logistics Department kept his role secret.
• A woman delivered Black-chan a yo-yo signed by a famous island-nation player, and he eagerly performed tricks with it.

After Black-chan departed, Meng Fan learned more about the Destruction Devil and heard Natsume Fan Zhi warn him that the Moore Family might seek revenge over Baseball Man. Meng Fan then visited a Tattoo Shop to demand devil corpses, leaving the Fiend inside terrified.

• Black-chan challenged Meng Fan to fight next time they met, and Meng Fan accepted because absorbing the Destruction Devil could increase his strength and dream level.
• Meng Fan explained that the Destruction Devil could disassemble people into particles and reassemble them, making immortality useless against him.
• Natsume Fan Zhi warned Meng Fan that the Moore Family could identify anyone who killed a marked family member, and promised to keep Baseball Man's death concealed.
• Meng Fan suspected Natsume Fan Zhi might belong to the Moore Family, then left through the Mirror Gate for a secluded street.
• At a Tattoo Shop, Meng Fan stopped three bodyguards' bullets with the Wind Devil's Wind Wall and demanded to buy devil corpses from a frightened Fiend.

Denji visited Reze at Nido Cafe for dinner, and she invited him to study at school with her after closing. On their way there, Denji thought he saw someone on the Eighth Floor, and Reze led him toward it to investigate.

• Denji came to Nido Cafe because no one was home to cook, and Reze made him pork cutlet curry.
• Reze offered to take Denji to study at school, and he eagerly agreed after finishing his meal.
• Reze and Denji headed to school with umbrellas as a storm approached, and Denji told her about a ghost that had turned him into a bra pad.
• Denji spotted what he thought was someone on the school’s Eighth Floor during a lightning flash, but saw nothing when lightning flashed again.
• Reze suggested they go to the Eighth Floor and study with the possible third person, and Denji agreed as long as it was not a guy.

Denji and Reze entered a school to study, but Denji encountered a gruesome corpse in the bathroom and lost track of Reze. Meng Fan appeared and explained the broken mirror, then told Denji that Reze had gone after a man and urged him to listen to the sound outside.

• Reze reflected on her childhood as a weapon and how much happier she felt with Denji and Meng Fan.
• Denji mistook Reze's suggestion to do exercises for a sexual proposition, then went looking for the bathroom.
• Denji found a severed leg and head in a bathroom stall, fled through blood, and transformed when he encountered Meng Fan in a classroom.
• Meng Fan deactivated Denji's dream layer and explained that the broken mirror had alerted him to Denji's location.
• Meng Fan said Reze had encountered a man in the classroom, that the man was already dead, and that rats had eaten his corpse.
• Meng Fan told Denji that the sound outside was not thunder.

Reze confessed to Denji that she was an assassin from Bear Country and the Bomb Devil, but said she wanted to stay with the Fourth Division after becoming attached to them. Meng Fan encouraged Reze and Denji to work together, then approved their spar before leaving for Dragon Country.

• Denji mistook explosions outside for thunder until Reze arrived unharmed and revealed she had come to take his heart.
• Reze told Denji she had chosen friendship over her mission, and Denji forgave her; Meng Fan explained that he had known her identity and helped her grow close to friends.
• Meng Fan taught Reze and Denji about the country mouse and town mouse, then used the equation 1 + 1 = 3 to describe their potential as the Bomb Devil and Chainsaw Man.
• Reze showed Denji the Pull Cord that let her transform, and Meng Fan asked the two devils to work together while he went to Dragon Country.
• Meng Fan approved Reze and Denji's spar, and Reze appeared naked in the rain after Denji warned her not to get her clothes wet.

Meng Fan watched Reze defeat Denji in a friendly fight, revived Denji, and prepared to leave for Dragon Country. He arrived in P City to handle the problem Quanxi had left behind and met Chen Long and A Fu of the Dragon One Team.

• Reze transformed into the Bomb Devil and fought Denji in the rain while Meng Fan recorded their battle.
• Reze blasted Denji apart, and Meng Fan revived him with blood and his Pull Cord.
• Meng Fan, Reze, and Denji returned home, where Denji and Aki Hayakawa shared a bath with Meng Fan and learned he would go to Dragon Country.
• Meng Fan left a Mirror Person to stay with Aki and Denji, then flew to P City in S City the next morning.
• Meng Fan met Chen Long, captain of the Dragon One Team, and A Fu, the vice-captain, at a soup dumpling shop.

Meng Fan met movie star Chen Long, who offered him brotherly support and explained his Monster Devil contract while driving him around the area. Meng Fan revealed his own four devil contracts and warned Chen Long and A Fu about the Corpse-Loving Devil’s influence as they prepared to discuss the Terracotta Warriors.

• Chen Long and A Fu joined Meng Fan at a bun shop, where the owner and his wife recognized Chen Long and the wife took a photo with him.
• Chen Long treated Meng Fan like a younger brother, offered to help him in Dragon Country, and posed with the bun shop couple before leaving.
• Chen Long drove Meng Fan around and said Quanxi was away, so he would tell Meng Fan about the Terracotta Warriors.
• Chen Long described his Monster Devil contract and its physical cost, while A Fu explained that his Kung Fu Devil contract drained his energy after fights.
• Meng Fan disclosed his contracts with the Dream Devil, Leopard Devil, Corpse-Loving Devil, and Bat Devil, and warned them not to stop him if the Corpse-Loving Devil made him take a devil’s corpse.

Meng Fan accompanied Chen Long and A Fu to pick up Chen Long’s niece Xiao Yu, while Devil Hunter Liu tried to charge his Ignoring Devil’s power with the parents’ attention. The parents refused to cooperate, and screams inside the school sent children running toward the gates.

• Meng Fan told Chen Long and A Fu that the Corpse-Loving Devil healed him by eating corpses, but made him lose control when he saw one.
• Chen Long and A Fu disguised themselves before heading to Xiao Yu’s school, where Chen Long said his niece was Meng Fan’s fan.
• Chen Long explained that an A Peeping Devil had entered the school, and Devil Hunter Liu needed people to look at him to strengthen his presence.
• Liu asked the parents to watch him for five minutes, but they grew impatient and demanded that the school release their children.
• Children screamed inside the school and rushed toward the gates.

Meng Fan arrived at the school and helped Chen Long defeat the Bat Devil, protecting the children and parents from its sonic attack. After the crowd recognized him, Meng Fan collected the Bat Devil’s remains and flew away.

• Chen Long transformed into a devil and attacked the Bat Devil, giving the students time to escape.
• The Bat Devil aimed an Ultrasonic Wave at the children and parents, but Meng Fan blocked it with a Wind Wall.
• Meng Fan and the Bat Devil unleashed Ultrasonic Waves that collided, after which rats, flies, and mosquitoes devoured the Bat Devil.
• Xiao Yu recognized Meng Fan and hugged his arm, while Liu and the Dragon One Team members confirmed his identity to the crowd.
• Meng Fan pretended the Bat Devil had infected him and made him want to eat children, then escaped Xiao Yu and flew away with the Bat Devil’s bones.