Chapter 202: Devil Combination

Yoru baits Denji, daring him to come kill her. When he lunges, she instead fires on the Fake Chainsaw Man, who springs upward and slashes through a chunk of falling rubble, only to find Denji had used her shot as cover. Denji lops off the imposter's right arm, and the fake asks whether their whole quarrel was an act; Denji insists the anger was real. Grumbling about the cold, Yoru tries another of her gunshots, but two stray Pseudo-Chainsaw Men intercept it. They knit their bodies back together, and more of them swarm protectively around their leader.

Denji and Yoru watch several of the duplicates get drawn toward the imposter, who raises both arms to show six of them grafted on, three per side. One arm sprouts an enormous pair of hands. The Fake Chainsaw Man jabs at how civilian deaths never weigh on Denji and dares him to cut down people begging for rescue. He then undoes the transformation on the fused bystanders so they grasp what they have become. One recognizes Denji and cries out for help, but the imposter slams that arm into the pavement. Denji curses him as another battered, bloodied face keeps pleading.

Denji turns Yoru's attack into a screen, ambushes the Fake Chainsaw Man, and severs his right arm. The imposter rallies a crowd of Pseudo-Chainsaw Men, fuses six of them into his limbs, and reverses their transformation so the trapped humans realize their plight. He weaponizes their cries by smashing a pleading face into the concrete, forcing Denji to confront the cost of striking back.

Collected in Volume 22 under the Japanese title Akuma Gattai, the chapter escalates the moral trap the imposter sets for Denji, using fused civilians as living shields. Only three figures appear: Denji, Yoru, and the Fake Chainsaw Man.