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Roused by fresh Fire Devil attacks and a circling helicopter, Denji imagines Nayuta resting on his chest until Yoshida pulls him back to reality. He demands to know what became of Nayuta, but Yoshida claims ignorance. The furious Hybrid struggles to rise, only to learn he has not walked in roughly a week, so the attempt is pointless. Yoshida admits he simplified the warnings about the fallout as much as he could, yet now that Denji has broken the rules, he is beyond help. Stepping out, Yoshida tells his Public Safety colleagues, Fumiko among them, that Denji is sedated. She asks whether they truly mean to take him apart, and when Yoshida says yes, she eagerly requests permission to collect some of his nails and hair before the Japanese government claims whatever remains. Pressed on whether she is genuinely a fan, she calls herself a collector and produces a pair of tweezers.

Unconscious, Denji meets Pochita again, who insists they rise and rescue Nayuta, then wonders how that is possible with no legs. Denji is revealed strapped to a surgical table, a leg already taken, as surgeons remove the other, tagged Right Leg 26. A surgeon scolds a guarding officer for smoking and asks him to go, but the man explains he must make sure Chainsaw Man dies if he attempts escape. The site proves to be the Tokyo Devil Detention Center, a maximum-security facility no devil has ever fled. It even keeps a contingency for Denji, since freeing him would demand an outright war, a point underscored by a lone figure standing outside.

Released February 28, 2024 in Volume 18, this Aging Devil arc chapter opens the storyline with Denji captive. The Right Leg 26 tag on his severed limb suggests he keeps regrowing body parts even while knocked out, and the closing shot of Asa alone teases the war his rescue will require.