A Way to Touch Some Boobs

Out walking their beat, Power keeps whacking Denji and demanding something to kill, while he stays fixated on engineering a chance to grope her. He remembers Makima's instructions: because Power is a Fiend who draws notice, they should stick to low-traffic areas and flash his Public Safety badge if other hunters or police appear. With no devils turning up, Power brags that her fearsome reputation is scaring them off by scent. Denji frets that they will never post results and blames Aki for the assignment. Then Power catches the smell of blood and bolts off thrilled, leaping from a rooftop and conjuring a hammer of her own blood to pulp a Sea Cucumber Devil, laughing that the credit is all hers.

Makima arrives and explains that finishing a devil a civilian hunter had already engaged counts as obstruction of justice. She rebukes both of them, telling Power to think before acting and Denji to keep her in check, and muses that Power may be ill-suited to the work given how easily she gets carried away. Frightened, Power claims Denji ordered the kill, sparking an argument in which she keeps shifting blame and he calls her a liar, until Makima silences them and freezes Power on the spot. She drops the matter of fault, saying she only wants real achievements from them. Later, Power spots a cat and confides that cats are the only creatures she tolerates, hating humans by instinct and devils because one stole her pet. She recounts that Makima captured her before she could rescue it, and offers a trade: bring the cat back and she will let him touch her chest. Enraged on the cat's behalf, Denji vows to murder the devil that took it.

This Volume 1 chapter opens the Bat Devil arc and was adapted across Episodes 2 and 3 of the anime. A note of wordplay runs through it: the man phoning in the Sea Cucumber Devil mislabels it the Nameko Devil rather than the Namako Devil, with Nameko referring to a small mushroom the creature resembles. The chapter establishes the Denji and Power dynamic and plants the motive for the Bat Devil confrontation to come.