Everyday Scenery

Walking toward a train, Denji notices a Pseudo-Chainsaw Man corpse, and Haruka assures him a station worker will clear it away. When Denji protests that none of this is normal, Asa tells him such corpses are simply routine now. Aboard the train, Fami rattles off sushi spots, but with the finest ones either torched or short a chef, the group settles for a cheap option called Sushishi, where Nobana likes the tea. Spotting a child seated beside his mother, whose eye is hurt, Denji asks Asa to explain again why she intends to fight him. She says winning that fight will save him, prompting Denji to ask whether the Church still has her brainwashed. Asa denies it and hands the explanation to Fami, who lays out that breaking his pact with Pochita lets them slay the devil, give him a new heart, and let him live an ordinary human life. Denji presses Fami on how she knows all this and asks Asa whether she really trusts her. Asa defends Fami, noting she helped rescue him and means well despite past wrongs, then tries to get her to confirm it, but Fami's stomach only growls as the others stare in silence.

Asked what a normal life looks like, Asa describes Denji returning to school, having a home, and perhaps reuniting with Nayuta. The idea of everything reverting unsettles him. He asks if she has ever eaten toilet paper, recalling that he had to as a small child, and now, well-fed, he cannot go back to that. Asa misreads the tale as a metaphor and asks him to speak plainly. Denji says his ordinary life is gone for good, yet Asa swears to restore it. Smoking nearby, Katana Man mocks the pair's emotion, but Asa reminds him Denji is hungry and missing family, and tells him to stop smoking on the train. He flicks the cigarette down before her and suggests skipping sushi for a soaplands he claims will lift any man's spirits.

Denji is unsettled that Pseudo-Chainsaw Man corpses are treated as ordinary. Fami explains the plan to break his contract with Pochita and grant him a new heart.

Denji insists he can no longer live an ordinary life, while Asa vows to give it back to him. Katana Man proposes a detour to a soaplands.

This Volume 19 chapter arrived May 15, 2024 and advances the Aging Devil arc from Chapter 164 to Chapter 166. Its Japanese title is Itsumo no Fūkei, spanning fourteen pages. The naming echoes Chapter 73, which similarly questioned the heroes' status quo and goals. Pochita, Nayuta, and the Debt Collector are mentioned only.