Denji Fan Club

At an amusement park Nayuta enjoys the rides while Denji and Fumiko keep watch from the side. She brings up his choice to turn down the Chainsaw Man Church, and he answers that he means to follow Yoshida's orders and never shift into his other form again. When Fumiko quips that life as Chainsaw Man would unlock chances beyond an average person's reach, Denji counters that the burden hardly feels worth it. Agreeing, she lets slip that she would hate being spied on in the bathroom, accidentally exposing her own surveillance. He calls the habit stalkerish, and she shrugs it off as the right of a true devotee.

The talk turns sharp once Denji recalls that each of his former romances masked deadly intentions, and he blurts that every lover loathed him. Fumiko's face falls, and she confesses she does blame him for failing to rescue her parents. Her household, she reveals, stood in the town where the Gun Fiend battle erupted, and the fighting flattened their home; debris pinned her mother and father while the scream of chainsaws buried their cries until both died. Even so, she refuses to fault him, because watching him become an ordinary kid rather than a deity led her to pledge herself to Denji the human instead of the hero. Their exchange ends as Barem appears, calling himself an admirer of Chainsaw Man rather than the boy. He praises Public Safety's tight protection, lights a smoke with a Chainsaw Man lighter, and asks as a fan to witness another fight. Sensing it himself, he warns that a Devil will soon assault the park's ground floor, leaving crowds shrieking for rescue. The food court, packed with parents and kids, is marked as the coming battlefield, where Miri lurks together with the Whip and Spear Hybrids.

Published on September 13, 2023 within Volume 16, this Chainsaw Man Church arc entry carries the title Denji Fan Kurabu, a nod to the rival devotions of Fumiko and Barem. Her tragic history binds her sorrow to Denji's earlier rampage, while Barem's engineered ambush nudges the story toward open bloodshed.