"": conversation

(): interior monologue

Facing the devil, aki raised his sword and took a stance ready to fight. The demon launched its attack and dozens of its arms rushed to attack aki but he was able to dodge the arms and slash them to pieces. In his right eye, images of the next attacks in the next few seconds continuously appeared, this helped Aki to avoid the demon's attacks.

The demon continued to attack, aki jumped onto one of its arms, running on it in an attempt to close in and finish off the demon. The demon continued to increase the number of arms, launching a series of punches that made him unable to dodge but had to receive the blow. His hand let go of the sword and the demon immediately strangled him and lifted him up high, bringing him to the ground. he came closer to its face.

Sawatari: "strangle him to death"

The demon obeyed the command, tightening his grip on Aki's neck. He couldn't breathe, cold sweat ran down his face, his eyes slowly closed. In Aki's mind, a series of memories were running before his eyes, memories with himeno, with his family and... even memories of the time his family was killed by gun demons.

Aki opened his eyes wide, the will to live burned within him, took out the grenade he had hidden in his body, pulled out the pin and stuffed it straight into the devil's sewn mouth. The grenade exploded, destroying the demon's lower jaw and causing aki to fly away and fall to the ground from the shock of the explosion.

He had difficulty standing up, his face had a few more wounds from grenade fragments, but they were not too deep. Aki took the sword and approached the demon, who was completely collapsed and motionless. He stood on the demon's head and lowered his sword to cut off its head.

Sawatari began to panic, she raised her hand to summon a snake demon.

Aki: "don't kill her"

He said to kobeni - who was standing behind sawatari and put the knife to her neck, sawatari stood still, did not move or had her throat cut.

Aki: "I thought you left the bureau with arai?"

Kobeni: "... I heard there will be a salary bonus soon"

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Denji, power stood in the elevator as it went up the floors, power pried off a severed zombie arm clinging to her arm, brought it to his mouth and took a bite.

Denji: "wow, that's terrible"

Power: "Huh?! What are you saying, bald guy?! Beef, human meat or your meat are all the same!"

Denji: "It's not the same at all! We have to capture that katana alive so don't eat him"

The elevator stopped on the 7th floor. The door slowly opened to reveal all the zombies. The zombies kept moving slowly but had not yet discovered the two.

Denji: "power, quiet, don't let it out..."

Power: "I AM POWER!!!"

Denji: "WHAT..!"

Power: "Don't worry, these guys are just shrimp's age!"

Power immediately jumped out of the elevator, slit his wrists in mid-air and created two daggers made of blood.

Power: "DENJI!! LET'S FIGHT TOGETHER!!"

But Denji didn't say anything and closed the elevator door and went up to the next floor. Power roared, charging at the zombies and stabbing and slashing through them.

Power: "I WILL NOT RUN, I AM NOBLE... AND BEAUTIFUL!! DENJI, TELL THE WHOLE WORLD: POWER IS THE STRONGEST!!!"

She jumped into the air, aimed at a tall zombie and beheaded it. She laughed maniacally as she tore through the zombies, bathing in blood and viscera.

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Denji stood alone in the elevator, so bored that he didn't know what to do, so he took out a hidden game console and played it.

NAIL!

The elevator stopped, the elevator door opened and outside was the katana man in human form with two of his subordinates pointing guns at him.

Katana man: "we need..."

"Wait a minute, let me turn it off" denji turned off the game console and put it back in his pocket. "Say whatever you want, hurry up"

"Depending on your attitude, we are ready..." Before Katana Man could finish his sentence, he was punched away by the bald boy and stopped when he crashed into the wall. The two juniors saw their master being attacked. So he was about to pull the trigger, but before he could do it, these two guys were defeated by Denji and collapsed on the floor.

Denji: "Oh, you talk too much, hit me!"

Katana man:" BASTARD!!!"

The katana man ripped open his hand, revealing a small katana attached to his wrist. He didn't waste time, immediately prepared to draw his sword and rushed at denji with super speed, piercing the building and flying out.

"What the hell?!" He shouted when he saw denji blocking his sword with just two fingers.

Denji: "oops, that's bad"

The two landed on the rooftop of some building, katana man was shot away from denji and away from denji. The bald boy slowly stood up without a single wound on his body, brushing off his dirty clothes. But suddenly he leaned back, avoiding katana man's horizontal slash, followed by a series of other deadly slashes, but all were easily avoided by denji. In a moment of inattention, Denji was kicked off the rooftop, the katana man chased after him and both landed on the roof of a moving train.

Katana man:(this bastard... he dodged my attack easily, not even injured)

Denji:"anything else?"

Katana man: "It's not over yet!"

He took out a paper bag from his jacket, opened it, and swallowed the pieces of meat inside. His body gradually transformed, his muscles developed, causing tears to appear on his jacket. Feeling the seemingly limitless power within him, he raised his face to the sky and roared loudly.

Katana man: "WITH THIS POWER, I WILL CUT YOU INTO PIECE!!!"

Denji:

He jumped high and kicked Denji in the stomach through the roof of the train while he didn't even bother to defend. When the passengers in the train saw the katana man, they screamed and started to run away.

"announcement: there is a demon appearing in the train, so the train will make an emergency stop soon"

The passengers all ran away, leaving katana man and denji behind. He continued to rush forward, continuing to launch a series of other slashes with a greater number of slashes and faster speeds, causing the entire train car to be slashed into many pieces, the wind from the slashes continued to cut everything in half. surrounding things and creating slashes on the ground. The bald boy remained calm in the face of the attacks, and dodged them gently. Denji stepped forward, forming a fist with his hand and pointing it at the katana man.

Denji: "normal punch many times in a row"

Denji unleashed a series of extremely powerful normal punches towards the katana man, causing his body to explode and tear into small pieces without him even having time to see those punches. The fight ended again with Denji's superficial punches.

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"I WILL KILL YOU!!!! YOU BASTARDS I WILL KILL YOU!!! YOU IMPOSSIBLE BASTARD!!!" katana man screamed, struggling while almost naked, still wearing only briefs. He was tied with rope to the train tracks.

Denji: "ok ok, let me ask, why do you hate me so much? Do I know you?"

Katana man: "YOU KILLED MY GRANDFATHER YOU BASTARD!!! YOU DON'T EVEN REMEMBER?!!!"

Denji: "Who is it?"

Katana man: "IT'S THE PERSON WHO HIRED YOU YOU BASTARD!!!"

Denji: "Oh I remember, it's true I killed him, but at that time he had already turned into a zombie"

Katana man: "Don't make excuses! Even if they become zombies, they are still human! You killed a good person!"

Denji: "What good is murder, drug trafficking, and loan sharking? I was planning on throwing him in with his gang from the beginning, but who knew he would sign a contract with the devil?" !"

Katana man then continued to curse denji but he did not pay attention to him. Denji looked into the katana man's eyes filled with hatred. He saw himself in those hateful eyes, the bald boy's face was unusually serious.

Denji: "If you want revenge on me so much... then try training to become stronger, I'm ready to welcome you at any time"

From afar, aki and himeno appeared from nowhere, starting to walk towards denji, holding aki's hand

holding a walkie-talkie and reporting that katana man had been captured.

Denji: "already here? Why is Himeno here?"

Himeno: "I'm also on this train, I came here to find a job but who would have thought..."

Denji: "Is that so, then leave it to you two, I'm leaving"

Denji patted aki's shoulder and started to leave, leaving himeno, aki and the katana behind. He kept walking until he was out of sight of both of them. Himeno looked at the katana man then turned to aki and whispered.

Himeno: "aki, do you want to take a test?"

Aki: "What exam?"

Himeno: "We'll take turns kicking him in the balls, whoever makes him scream the loudest will win!"

Aki: "but..."

Himeno: "Let's play a little, it's okay"

Aki: "Okay, let's play"

The couple started walking towards katana man while he was drenched in cold sweat, he tried to stop them both but it didn't work. And then, only miserable screams could be heard echoing.

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The sky gradually darkened, the devil angel looked up at the tall buildings and sighed, he felt suffocated in the city.

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Denji now walked along the train tracks, walking far enough so that no one could see or hear him. The bald boy suddenly stopped, lowered his head, his face wrinkled and then...tears began to roll down his face...denji...cried.

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Denji cried, but choked sobs came from his throat, only this time he felt really sad. Denji cried not because he regretted killing a villain, but because he saw his former self in those hateful eyes. Memories of his childhood appeared in denji's mind.

He used to hate the truck driver who caused the accident that killed his parents, but after he was released from prison and knelt before denji and knelt before his parents' grave, he truly repented. At that moment, denji forgave him. Unlike what katana man said, denji still has humanity

When the tears stopped falling, the bald boy continued to move forward...walking alone...his figure now looked so lonely.

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