Chainsaw Man, starting contract to cut down the Demon Line

He could kill anyone who triggered a rule, so he decided to set another rule for the eternal demon.

If you use a slash to kill an enemy that triggers two rules at once, will it produce a chemical reaction where one plus one equals more than two?

Yan Liang suddenly thought of something.

Now is an opportunity. Even if he cannot kill the Eternal Demon, he can tell everyone the solution from the original story, and then wait until the Eternal Demon's body parts are below 38% before using his killing ability to steal the kill and obtain the new rules.

No matter what, he won't lose out.

Within three or four seconds, Yan Liang made his decision. With a thought, new rules were established:

Those whose income is less than 130,000 yen within 30 days will be eliminated!

Faced with the eternal devil who had no time to pay attention to him and focused all his attention on Denji and Hayakawa Aki, Yan Liang was about to snap his fingers.

Denji happened to turn around and saw this scene.

"What are you trying to prove, you man in a suit!"

"Didn't you say you couldn't use your abilities anymore? Get out of here and go to the back!"

He was about to yell that, but the next second, what happened made Denji's eyes widen. Even Hayakawa Aki stopped what he was doing and turned around in astonishment.

A sharp "snap" was heard—

Not just one, but countless tiny red lines emerged from the Eternal Demon's body, weaving into an impenetrable net that continued to advance, slicing the Eternal Demon's body, which was entrenched in the corridor, into pieces like diced mangoes!

"Aaaaaaah!"

The eternal demon let out a scream that echoed throughout the entire building, but that wasn't all.

The dense, slicing lines continued to advance, raising storms of blood and severed limbs wherever they went.

It's like being in a football stadium packed with 80,000 spectators, all rushing frantically toward the exit, with crisscrossing wire mesh between them and the exit.

The difference is that those lines never stop. Any flesh touched by that "net" is cut apart without any obstruction.

Chapter Seventy-Seven: Still Deserving of Suffering

"Awoooooo!"

"Stop! I beg you, please stop!"

Feeling its body being constantly severed, the Eternal Demon let out a mournful wail.

It could no longer afford to attack, and the surging, wave-like clumps of flesh retreated back into the guest room.

"What, what's going on..." Denji stopped what he was doing, noticing the terrifying red slash line. He subconsciously turned his gaze toward the back of the corridor.

There, Yan Liang was quietly watching all of this.

"call--"

Hayakawa Aki let out a long sigh, deftly swung the knife, and blood sprayed in the air from the blade before it was plunged back into his back.

Hayakawa Aki never doubted Yan Liang's killing ability.

This was the power he believed could kill the Gun Demon. If Yan Liang were willing to make a move, a demon of this level wouldn't even be a match for him.

But Denji couldn't resist. Seeing that Yanliang had regained his abilities, he deactivated his Chainsaw Man transformation and asked Yanliang:

"Captain, you were talking to Hayakawa Aki for so long inside just so you could come out and show off at the end?"

"..." Ji Ye acted as if she knew everything, skillfully taking out a cigarette and putting it in her mouth.

"Tap, tap..." After striking it twice, she finally lit the fire. Ji Ye took a deep breath and exhaled a cloud of grayish-white smoke. She seemed to explain with a deeper meaning:

"Don't ask so many questions. The captain has his own ideas, which are beyond our comprehension."

"Wait...you bastard." Touching the marks on his neck, Denji finally noticed Himeno leisurely standing to the side, and a nameless anger rose in his heart.

He pointed at Himeko's nose and strode over. Seeing this, Pawa, being very sensible, moved two steps to the side, making way for Denji, and disappeared gracefully.

"You shameless woman, how dare you speak?" Denji shouted at Himeno from in front of her.

At this moment, Denji's mind was working faster than anyone else's because his way of thinking was very simple: If you're good to me, I'll be good to you; if you harm me, I'll remember you for life.

Now, Denji clearly holds a grudge against Himeno.

"..." Looking at Denji standing in front of her, Himeno fell silent, a rare occurrence. She casually stubbed out her cigarette against the wall, her head lowered, and stray hairs fell from her forehead, making it impossible for Denji to see the expression on her face.

"Sorry, Denji-kun."

Two or three seconds later, when Hime looked up, her face was adorned with a kind smile. She clasped her hands together, approached Denji like a little girl who had done something wrong, and apologized to him in a somewhat playful manner:

"I was forced into this situation..."

"That's...that's it?!"

He couldn't find a single flaw in this. He grabbed his hair in frustration, his resentment growing stronger.

He couldn't understand why it always turned out this way.

He got stabbed in the back by a woman, got into a huge mess, and ended up having to deal with all the trouble himself. And what did he get in return? A half-hearted apology, as if she was treating his feelings like garbage!

However, what Denji didn't realize was that there must be a reason why the same thing kept happening to him.

Before Denji could react, Himeno suddenly stepped forward and moved closer to him, her body slightly turned to the side. The fragrance, carrying a faint scent of a mature woman, went straight into Denji's nose.

"I'm sorry, Denji-kun~ It was really my fault just now." Himeno lowered her voice.

She tilted her head back, her eyes glistening with tears as she looked at Dianci:

"To make amends, please consider that bet in the car earlier a win, okay? I was doing it for everyone's good, please... forgive me this time~"

Himeko understood Denji too well, she understood these teenagers too well, so she didn't try to reason with them.

Hearing Himeno's answer, Denji's flames did not disappear; instead, they burned even more fiercely.

However, this time it wasn't anger that burned, but rather a burning embarrassment.

In a moment of impulsiveness, Dianci immediately forgot about her recent betrayal. He swallowed and muttered to himself:

"Ahem... Since you've come to apologize in such annoyance, I'm not one to hold a grudge! I'll reluctantly forgive you this once!"

Having witnessed this scene, Yan Liang couldn't help but shake his head.

As expected, Denji deserved to suffer so much in the original work.

If you give him a little something, this kid will forget even his own last name.

With that thought in mind, Yan Liang stopped paying attention to the electricity and turned his gaze to the eternal demon in the room.

"Sizzle—Sizzle—"

The net of red slashing lines didn't stop; it followed the body of the eternal demon in the corridor and spread deep into the guest room.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

The screams that erupted from the guest room were so loud they could pierce your eardrums.

The mountain of flesh outside is merely the tip of the iceberg of the eternal demon; its far greater true form is hidden within the infinitely looping room.

But all of this is meaningless in the face of Yan Liang's killing line, no matter how big the body is.

His kill line mechanism requires that, after activation, the line must completely pass through the target's body to complete a judgment.

The Eternal Demon is so large that it must endure the pain of being attacked by the Severing Line for a long time.

Moreover, this time the kill net was triggered by the superposition of two rules, which exponentially increased the level of pain.

Can two rules really produce this effect...?

Yan Liang thought to himself that he currently had five rules. If he could trigger all the rules against one enemy at the same time, he could probably kill even Machima.

However, such thinking is too simplistic; there is at least one rule that he has only triggered once so far.

That's the "Dead Man with Nothing" that comes with the Kill Line Demon from the start.

Yan Liang was also unclear about the definition of bankruptcy, but he could vaguely guess that it was not simply related to property.

Perhaps he will need to put in some effort to use this rule effectively.

Back to reality. Inside the guest room, the eternal demon's screams had become hoarse and distorted.

It finally understood what it meant to be "unable to live and unable to die".

No matter how hard it struggles, it can't get rid of that red net made up of slashing lines.

"Stop... I beg you, please stop!!!"

Suddenly, a cry for mercy erupted from the deformed body.

Immediately afterwards, a heart the size of a fist appeared from its body.

The Eternal Demon lifted him out of the room with his arms and hovered him in front of Yan Liang.

"I will, I will break the hotel's loop!"

"I'll give you my heart... kill me... please... give me a quick death..."

The eternal demon that once clamored to bring despair to humanity is now being tortured so much that it willingly offers its heart, only asking for a quick death.

Chapter 78 You are not Yan Liang at all, who are you?

Looking at the heart suspended in front of him, Yan Liang did not hesitate.

Having been slain by two rules, the Eternal Demon's body was now incomplete.

With a snap of his fingers, he activated the rule of "body parts below 38%" again, and a red line flashed across the heart.

Without a sound, the heart of the Eternal Demon was already split in two. The remaining corpse of the Eternal Demon was also continuously shredded into unrecognizable pieces of flesh and blood by the Slaughtering Web.

"Hey, wait!"

But just then, Dianci seemed to suddenly notice something, slapped his forehead, and asked Yan Liang:

"Captain! Didn't you just say you couldn't use your abilities anymore?!"

"How come it works again now? So you were just messing with us earlier?!"

"..."

Yan Liang remained silent for a while, straightened his suit sleeves, and glanced at Dian Ci again.

Although he usually only has one thought in his mind, his intuition is extremely sharp.

Without blushing or skipping a beat, Yan Liang thought for a moment, and the lie came out of his mouth without hesitation:

"It really couldn't be used just now, but I've already paid the price."

"Huh? Price? What price?" Dianci was stunned.

Yan Liang sighed, rubbing his chin as he gazed intently at the ceiling, as if reminiscing about the past.

"Actually, my abilities depend on constraints and limitations. In layman's terms, you gain something and you lose something. You lose something and you gain something."

"Before, due to the spatial barrier, I lost contact with the demon I had a contract with, but in fact, I did conceal part of the truth at the time."

"For example, if I really want to, I can still forcefully activate my ability..."

"Then, why didn't you use it sooner?" Dianci's eyes were wide open, completely unaware that Yanliang was trying to flatter him.

"Of course I used it if I could..." Yan Liang shrugged and continued, "I already said that I had to pay a heavy price to use it in that situation just now."

At this point, seeing Denji's silly look of "So you've sacrificed so much for everyone," Yanliang couldn't help but continue the lie.

"To give you an example, before this, my killing ability was instantaneous, and I didn't need to do anything unnecessary like snapping my fingers."

“But a long time ago, I encountered a powerful enemy. In order to break the cooldown limitation of my killing ability in that battle, I set a constraint for myself.”

“That’s right.” Yan Liang nodded seriously. “I paid the price of ‘having to snap my fingers as a casting signal before each use of my ability’ in exchange for the chance to reset the cooldown of the slash.”

"I defeated that powerful enemy by using that slash that had no forward momentum."

"Just now, in order to save you, I had no choice but to use this trump card again. This time, I also paid a price you never expected."

"Holy crap!"

Denji's eyes lit up: "So you only intervened to save me!"

"Thank you... I thank you so much, Captain!"