Chainsaw Man, starting contract to cut down the Demon Line

This is outrageous!

I trusted him so much, and yet he tricked me into doing such an embarrassing thing with such a serious expression!

Seeing Xiao Hong's expression, as if she wanted to crawl into the plate on the spot, Yan Liang finally couldn't help but laugh.

It wasn't a laugh that was made funny, but rather a laugh of relief.

To be honest, Yan Liang had a thought when the gambling was taking place in the lobby earlier, and seeing her reaction now confirmed it.

She does seem to be somewhat...not very bright...

Despite her complaints, when Xiaohong reluctantly picked up her knife and fork, cut off a small piece of shrimp, and put it in her mouth...

"Well……!"

Xiao Hong's eyes lit up, and she didn't even bother to wipe away the tears welling up in her eyes.

It's so delicious!

Is this what a lobster costing tens of thousands of yen tastes like?!

The rich aroma of butter blends perfectly with the unique sweetness of seafood, blossoming on the tip of the tongue. The meat is bouncy and firm, without any dryness, and its wonderful texture immediately conquers her taste buds.

Compared to this, the discounted bento boxes I used to eat to save money were simply pig swill!

"Captain, Captain..." Little Red's cheeks were puffed out, her mouth stuffed with food like a hamster's. She looked up, her words muffled, "You're so easy to scold..."

Seeing Xiao Hong's pathetic state, Yan Liang remained noncommittal, only replying with:

Eat as much as you like.

However, just as Yan Liang was about to pick up his knife and fork to taste the next dish that had just been served—

"Boom—!!!"

A deafening roar came from the street outside the restaurant.

Chapter Twenty-Six: The Bat Demon

The upper-class people in the restaurant all stopped what they were doing.

Yan Liang frowned, his gaze passing over Xiao Hong and looking out of the restaurant through the glass window.

People outside the street were scattering and screaming, as if they were fleeing from something terrifying. The chaotic scene made Yan Liang realize that this was definitely not an ordinary earthquake.

"Boom!!!"

Before everyone could react, there was another loud bang.

A dark shadow shot out from the distant sky like a cannonball and crashed into the restaurant, shattering the huge glass window outside.

"Aaaaaah—!"

"Help! There's a demon!"

Screams and the sound of tables and chairs collapsing rang out one after another. But before the terrifying impact was about to arrive, Yan Liang reacted much faster. He reached over the table, grabbed Dongshan Xiaohong by the collar, and pulled her off the chair.

And then—

The dark figure landed precisely on the dining table in front of Yan Liang, smashing the spot where Dongshan Xiaohong had just been sitting to pieces.

"Eeeeeee!"

Dongshan Xiaohong only realized what was happening after a while.

If Yan Liang hadn't reacted quickly, she would have been in real trouble! Startled, she instinctively huddled in Yan Liang's arms, trembling.

"Cough cough cough... Ouch ouch ouch!"

As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, a series of heavy coughs echoed from the ruins.

"You damned stinking bat... how dare you send me flying so far..."

The dark figure who had smashed the dining table crawled out of the rubble. He was covered in blood, and a bright orange chainsaw whirred and roared from the center of his forehead.

He coughed up blood as he swung the chainsaws protruding from his arms, struggling to get up from the ground.

That was Denji, who had already transformed into the Chainsaw Man!

Just then, a gust of wind swept up outside the restaurant.

"Unforgivable... How dare you injure my magnificent body!"

A huge shadow blocked out the sunlight, and a bat demon with enormous wings hovered in mid-air.

The bat demon's body, slashed by the chainsaw, was covered in wounds, its scarlet eyes blazing with murderous intent. It quickly spotted Dianci lying in the restaurant and roared at him:

"I'm going to kill you! I'm going to suck your blood dry!"

With that, the bat demon extended its thick, sharp claws and grabbed a passerby who was screaming and running away from the restaurant. Ignoring the person's cries, it lifted the person high and tightened its grip with its five fingers.

"Pfft!"

Like a brutally crushed, juicy orange, the passerby's screams ceased instantly, and his internal organs mingled with a cascading torrent of blood. The bat demon opened its maw, greedily catching the spilled blood below.

With the replenishment of fresh blood, its wounds began to heal rapidly.

"Damn it! Let go of that guy..."

Denji gritted his teeth, wanting to stand up and continue fighting. However, just as he turned his head, he caught a glimpse of Higashiyama Kokoro and Yan Liang standing to the side.

"Huh? Wait a minute?"

Denji suddenly froze, first looking around in a daze. After noticing the high-grade lobsters scattered around him, Denji quickly realized what had happened.

Pointing at Yan Liang, Dian Ci started yelling at the top of his lungs:

"Hey! What are you talking about!"

"I was wondering why I hadn't seen you guys at work today!"

"You suit-wearing bastard! You call yourself the captain?! I was out there getting beaten to a pulp by this stinky bat while trying to save someone, and you guys were secretly hiding from me, having a fancy meal in this fancy restaurant?!"

Denji stared at the scattered food on the ground, his eyes practically spitting fire with rage: "How cunning! Why do you get to enjoy this kind of treatment, you bastards!!!"

Why am I always the one who gets hurt?!

Hearing Denji's tearful accusations, Higashiyama Kokoro, hiding in Yan Liang's arms, suddenly felt a pang of guilt. She frantically waved her hands, trying to explain:

"No, no! Denji-kun, let me explain... The captain brought me here. I only wanted to eat ramen... I really didn't mean to enjoy myself here..."

"Damn it! I don't care! I'm so jealous! So angry!!!"

Denji roared in resentment. The next second, he actually gave up on standing up and continuing to fight. Instead, he pounced on the ground like a wild dog guarding its food, opened his mouth, and bit into the lobsters scattered on the ground, shell and all.

"Crack! Crack!"

"Ugh...Delicious! Damn it! Even if it fell on the ground, it's still a million times better than the stuff in the trash can!" Denji mumbled angrily as he chewed on the dirty lobster on the ground as if venting his frustration.

Seeing this scene before him, Yan Liang stood there in silence.

At first, he was a little confused and didn't understand why Denji was there. But soon, through Denji's words and the appearance of the bat demon, Yan Liang figured out the situation, and memories from the original work surfaced in his mind.

This is the opening scene of Chainsaw Man. Power, a Blood Demon, tricks the dim-witted Denji in order to rescue his pet cat, who has been captured by the Bat Demon.

She offered to grope his breasts as payment for Denji's help, but in reality, she had already made a deal with the bat demon to sacrifice Denji as a offering.

However, after consuming Denji's blood, the bat demon found it too unpalatable. Not only did it break its promise, it also swallowed Power and the cat whole, preparing to fly to the city to drink more human blood.

In order to touch Pava's chest and realize his great dream, or perhaps out of sympathy for the lost pet, Denji pulled the engine and became a chainsaw man, engaging in a life-or-death battle with the bat demon, eventually fighting his way from abandoned houses in the suburbs to this bustling city.

"..."

Looking at the mess on the ground, Yan Liang raised his hand to his forehead, feeling a sense of helplessness.

Unless there was a special circumstance that required his intervention, he originally didn't want to get involved in other people's messy affairs. But who knew that things would turn out so coincidentally, this bat demon actually crashed straight into the restaurant where he was.

"call--"

There was no time for him to reflect, as a violent hurricane swept through the restaurant.

The bat demon, having already sucked its fill of blood, casually tossed aside the shriveled human torso. It spread its enormous wings and descended from mid-air, its massive body blocking Yan Liang and the others' path.

"Finally back to normal... Chainsaw brat, get up, I'm going to crush you!"

Chapter Twenty-Seven: It's You, Machima?

"Ok?"

But the enraged bat demon then realized that Denji was completely ignoring him and was just lying on the ground eating lobster.

"Even when death is imminent, they still have the mind to scavenge for garbage to eat?"

The bat demon extended its sharp claws and lifted Dianci, who was still wolfing down his food on the ground, into the air. Watching its comical display, it couldn't help but grin and mock:

"Since you like eating so much, then you might as well go into my stomach along with all this garbage!"

However, despite being held in mid-air and seemingly powerless, Denji did not show any panic.

"Hiccup~"

He swallowed the last bite of lobster meat and let out a satisfied burp. Far from being afraid, he even had the leisure to hurl insults at the bat demon:

"Huh? You're about to die? What nonsense are you spouting, you stinky bat?"

"So it really is a wild animal? Even I know to do my research before acting, you bastard!" Denji pointed the chainsaw on his arm at Yan Liang, who was standing motionless below.

"You idiot, you have no idea what kind of monster you've messed with!"

"Since our captain is here, then I'll reluctantly give him the chance to shine today!"

That's right, he had witnessed Yan Liang's strength firsthand. That terrifying killing ability was deeply imprinted in Dianci's mind. In fact, the moment he was thrown into the restaurant and saw Yan Liang there, his tense nerves had already relaxed.

Following the direction of the chainsaw, the bat demon's gaze fell on Yan Liang.

"Alas--!"

Sweeping over its oppressive gaze, Dongshan Xiaohong, who was hiding in Yan Liang's arms, let out a scream and immediately broke free from his embrace, hiding behind him.

"Hey! Captain! Stop standing there, hurry up and take down this stinky bat!" Denji was still yelling in mid-air, "I got this badly injured because I was trying to shine in this society, you can't just stand by and watch me get eaten!"

Faced with Denji's commotion, Yanliang glanced at Denji in mid-air out of the corner of his eye, his eyes devoid of any emotion. But as soon as Yanliang looked at him, Denji suddenly felt a chill run down his neck.

Subconsciously, he shrank his neck and wisely kept his mouth shut, no longer saying a word.

In his eyes, Yan Liang was not someone to be trifled with. If he were to offend him with a careless remark, who knew if Yan Liang might just chop him up along with him?

Seeing that Dianci had calmed down, Yan Liang withdrew his gaze. Facing the enormous, menacing demon before him, he remained standing, not making a move immediately.

His intuition told him that something unusual was lurking nearby, causing him to fall into an unusual silence.

seem……

That's too much of a coincidence.

This is a bustling city center, with restaurants of all sizes everywhere. It's one thing for Denji and the Bat Demon to be fighting to the death outside, but why did they so deliberately crash into this restaurant where he was?

Combining his memories of the original work with his mind, Yan Liang suddenly realized that Dianci's encounter with the bat demon was, on the surface, due to Pava's betrayal.

But having read the manga, he knew the inside story. In the original work, almost every crisis Denji encountered was vaguely linked to that woman.

At first, Yan Liang thought it was just a coincidence. But after calming down and thinking about it for a while, he quickly discovered the clues.

There are no truly coincidental events in the world, and once a coincidence seems unusual, it must be some kind of deliberate arrangement.

So, was it Machima who orchestrated this behind the scenes?

Just as Yan Liang was pondering to himself, the bat demon above mistook his silence for fear.

Hearing the loud shouts from the previous conversation, the bat demon was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst into a piercing, maniacal laugh.

"Hahahaha! You're counting on this guy?"

The bat demon looked down contemptuously at Yan Liang, who appeared as tiny as an ant below:

"That's hilarious! Turns out he's a useless piece of trash who doesn't even have the strength to run away!"

"..."

Yan Liang's thoughts were abruptly interrupted by the piercing noise. He frowned slightly and finally raised his head to look at the bat demon in front of him.

Throughout, Yan Liang never considered this bat demon a threat. The only thing that could affect him now was its trash talk that interrupted his thoughts.

The only rules issued by the bat demon are: bankruptcy, not wearing a suit while working, and having less than 38% of one's body part covered. These rules do not currently apply to the bat demon in front of us.