Sword Man

Denji and his date lock eyes, and she charges only to hurl her bat at a downed man reaching for a gun. Retrieving it, she observes it is just a replica and figures real ones were beyond their budget. Baffled, Denji asks whether she is actually an enemy, since she sang while he fought; Yoshida steps in to name her as Fumiko Mifune, his 'junior.' Fumiko then discloses that she belongs to Tokyo Special Division 7 under Public Safety and, though twenty-two, has been posted as his high school bodyguard.

When Denji again raises the karaoke ambush, Fumiko confesses she simply cannot stop once a song starts. He flares up, but Yoshida explains that Chainsaw Man's renown invites threats, hinting the attackers were dispatched by someone aware of his secret. Fumiko gushes over Denji's strength even in human form; he assumes the flirting is purely professional, yet she insists her feelings are genuine, given he is the genuine Chainsaw Man. Yoshida lightly smacks her for slacking, then promises Denji his days of fighting are finished. Somewhere else, Asa and Yoru watch a news segment on their recent Devil Hunter exploits, Asa drunkenly pretending the attention unsettles her even as her worried mask slips into a grin at the coverage. Down an alley, Denji examines a recruitment poster for the Chainsaw Man Church, thrown that Asa features on it, when a stranger remarks he looked irritated by some nobody placed beside Chainsaw Man. The two have met before though neither recalls it, and the stranger announces himself as Sword Man, a combatant from the earlier clash with Makima's Tokyo Special Division 5, leaving Denji wondering who on earth Sword Man is.

Bearing the title Sōdoman, or 'Sword Man,' the chapter sits in Volume 16 within the Chainsaw Man Church arc. It unmasks Fumiko as Denji's assigned bodyguard, contrasts Denji's promised peace with Asa and Yoru's craving for attention, and reintroduces a previously beaten antagonist from the Makima conflict.