Hero of Hell

A Devil Hunter feeds blood to the beheaded Hell Devil to bring it back, and as Chainsaw Man looms over the corpse a gate splits open overhead. The Hell Devil's hand shoots out, crushes him, and pulls him down to Hell. Across the way, perched in a building with Kishibe's pistol against her skull, Makima calmly assesses what just happened.

A bullet, she warns, solves nothing, since her arrangement with Japan's Prime Minister shunts any harm aimed at her onto some random citizen. Why so unbothered with the Chainsaw Devil banished, Kishibe asks; because, she answers, it will return for her, and she names herself nothing more than its fan. Visions follow of the creature carving apart Hell's Devils, who call it the Hero of Hell. Any plea for aid summons it, and it shreds whatever stands near, comrade or rival. Its deepest power, she adds, deletes the very name and being of each Devil it swallows, leaving the rest to loathe, fear, or worship it.

Kishibe scoffs, so Makima asks what he recalls of the Holocaust, exposing that humanity has lost all memory of Nazism. World War II, AIDS, nuclear arms, a human sixth sense, the four endings besides death, all of it, she says, has been eaten out of existence, beyond even her own recollection, though she retains the memory of her Devil clashing with the Chainsaw Devil. She does not want the world destroyed; her gift is dominion over anything she ranks below herself, so a victory in combat would hand her the Chainsaw Devil and a world stripped of pain, war, and death. Losing, being devoured, she calls a fan's honorable end. Then she turns to the glass: drenched in gore, the Chainsaw Devil heaves itself back through the reopened gate to Hell.

The Hell Devil hauls Chainsaw Man into Hell. Makima exposes her pact with the Prime Minister, the one that deflects attacks onto strangers, and brands the Chainsaw Devil the Hero of Hell. Its signature ability surfaces: eating a Devil erases that being's name and existence, which is why Nazism, AIDS, and other horrors have slipped from human memory. She states her aim to subjugate the Chainsaw Devil and craft a painless world, just as it crawls back from Hell.

Nineteen pages long, the chapter sits in Volume 10 within the Control Devil arc. On-panel are Kishibe, Makima, Pochita, and the Hell Devil, while a wide cast of erased-concept Devils, among them the AIDS, Nazi, World War II, Nuclear Weapons, Sixth Sense, and Death Devils, plus Yoru and the Famine Devil, surface only by reference.