The Shibuya Incident, Part 45

As the incident nears its close, the Kyoto students head for Shibuya. Kokichi entrusted Kasumi with his last communication device to relay both a confession and a goodbye. Elsewhere, Yuji, Todo, and Mahito each strain past their ceilings as the three-way clash climbs higher.

Riding the train, Kasumi grips one of Mechamaru's devices and will not turn back, even as Kokichi's recording warns the incident is nearly settled. He admits to falsifying the records so that, of the whole group, only Todo and Arata reached Shibuya while the rest, Utahime among them, were kept elsewhere on the thirty-first of October. When Kasumi asks whether she was judged useless, Kokichi names himself the weak one and confesses he loved someone he wanted to shield even against her wishes. He asks Kasumi to seek her own happiness so that his wish may be fulfilled, then bids farewell, his reflection flickering beside her in the glass before it fades. On the train, Mai brings up the betrayal, Utahime says it hardly matters now that he is dead, Kamo regrets how little Mechamaru thought of them, and Momo seethes that he made Kasumi weep.

Within Shibuya Station, Yuji battles in step with Todo and keeps Mahito on the back foot. Mahito gauges Todo's soul as fully sound while Yuji's is shaky, yet concedes he himself runs below half power after losing his double and eating Black Flash, granting that Nobara, a nobody to him, still left her mark on the fight. When Mahito tries to bait Yuji with a transfigured human, Todo swaps with it to slip behind the curse and force him to wreck his own weapon. Unwilling to let Yuji stand alone now that Mahito wields Black Flash too, Todo delivers a perfect high kick that hits the curse with Black Flash and breaks his arm. Acknowledging that every one of the three fighters has pushed to a hundred and twenty percent of what they can do, Mahito spews up tiny transfigured humans, merges them through Soul Multiplicity, and triggers Body Repel, sending snake-like heads erupting up through the underground into the streets and driving the sorcerers to dodge in midair.

This chapter pairs Mechamaru's wrenching farewell to Kasumi Miwa with the escalating fight against Mahito. It corresponds to anime Episode 44 and ran in Weekly Shonen Jump issue 48 of 2020. Todo reaching Black Flash here locks in the synergy between him and Yuji.