Chainsaw vs. Bat

The clash sends Denji and the Bat Devil smashing through a structure after Denji severs one of the creature's arms. Spotting a woman caught in the chaos, Denji shouts for her to flee before she becomes a meal. The Bat Devil finds this baffling, demanding to know why a devil would spare a human, but Denji brushes the question off and answers with a fist, vowing to split the monster open and reach the chest he is after.

When the Devil hurls a parked car at him, Denji learns on the spot that he can pull his blades back in, letting him snatch the vehicle from the air and lob it straight back. The Bat Devil counters with a sonar blast powerful enough to flatten the building looming behind Denji. It moves to devour the man it had grabbed from the car, only for Denji to climb back out of the wreckage. Drawing his chainsaws again, he tears into the creature and reduces it to pieces.

Denji discovers he can retract and redeploy his chainsaws at will, a control over his transformed body he had not used before. The Bat Devil demonstrates a destructive sonar attack that levels nearby architecture. Despite the firepower thrown at him, Denji recovers from the collapsed building and finishes the fight, killing the Bat Devil by slicing it to shreds.

The installment runs nineteen pages and belongs to Volume 2, falling within the Bat Devil arc. Only Denji and the Bat Devil feature in the chapter, with the latter dying in its closing pages. The chapter is later adapted as part of the anime's third episode.