:re Chapter 80

Hanbee's duel with Kurona turns against him as her reflexes and defense wear him down until she pins him to the floor. Looming over him, she asks why he keeps serving Juuzou when abandonment is all he can expect. Hanbee answers with a short list of reasons: an investigator is duty-bound to obey his superior, he is personally devoted to Juuzou, and Juuzou would never desert his squad. As he finishes, Juuzou closes in to strike Kurona, who slips the blow, and the two begin to trade attacks.

The remainder of Suzuya Squad joins the fight, but Kurona repels them and grows gleeful at the thought of showing Nashiro every bit of Juuzou's suffering. When Juuzou asks whether Nashiro survived the wounds he once dealt, Kurona bares her stomach to reveal it warped into a grotesque kagune face. Juuzou flatly calls the sight disgusting.

Kurona defeats and pins Hanbee, who justifies his loyalty to Juuzou. Juuzou intervenes and clashes with her directly, and the rest of Suzuya Squad enters the fray. Kurona exposes a deformed kagune face grown across her abdomen, hinting at what became of her sister Nashiro.

The chapter foregrounds Hanbee's steadfast faith in Juuzou against Kurona's taunts, and the disturbing kagune face sets up the fuller reveal of Kurona and Nashiro's fused state in the chapters that follow.