Chapter 252: Snowball Fight
After Makima finished speaking, there was a knock at the door.
It seemed to confirm the truth of her statement.
However... Denji, who perceived the familiar scent at the door, didn't want to believe it. He laughed and said, "Haha... Are you kidding? How could that broken gun find my house...?".
But Makima's silence scared him a little.
This also made the manga fans who saw it panic. They had already predicted the truth.
But... but... they would rather it not be true!
"Makima...?".
She seemed to confirm his thoughts and said calmly and ignorantly, "...It's okay, leave it to me! He took the initiative to find the door and saved me the money for a taxi. How lucky...!".
Finally, Makima's voice was heard on the phone. She said, "Denji...".
"This time you don't have to think about anything, just fight with all your might."
Then Makima and Denji hung up the phone together.
At that moment, Power, completely unaware of the situation, said, "Hey! Why can't you open the door?".
"Ah... uh...".
Denji turned, showing a somewhat forced smile, and said, "Makima said... the person behind the door seems to be the Gun Fiend...".
"Huh? What are you talking about in your dreams?" asked Power, speechless.
"It's not me, it's Makima who said...".
"Are you an idiot?" said Power with contempt. "Hasn't Ponytail come back yet? He's ringing the doorbell!".
The smile on Denji's face turned bitter.
"Hey! It's Aki, right?" shouted Power from the door.
However... there was no response from Aki Hayakawa from the door.
Denji finally confirmed... that his idea was correct!
"Power! Take the cat and go through the balcony!" Denji told Power anxiously.
"Huh?".
"Power! Hurry up!".
Seeing Denji's anxious face, Power gave in, picked up the cat, and said, "Then I'll take him for a walk on the balcony!".
Denji didn't transform directly, but walked slowly towards the door.
"Anyway... just in case...".
Denji still harbored a ray of hope, and as he walked, he said, "The Gun Fiend shouldn't come to greet me... right?".
"It should be a joke from Makima, right?".
"Right... Aki...".
Denji opened the door with a forced smile, but... it was Aki Hayakawa who was outside! He saw a gun barrel grow from his head, and his left hand turned into a sniper rifle!
Aki Hayakawa... really became the Gun Fiend!
Everyone who witnessed this scene was overwhelmed by despair and discomfort.
"Ahhhhhhhh——"
Yuka's eyes instantly clouded over, and she kept moaning helplessly, then cried and shouted, "Wuwuwuwuwuwuwuwu, old rogue Silverhand, you have no heart!"
"Aki! My Aki!"
"I'm stupid… what!"
"Old rogue Silverhand, I'm going to kill you! Makima, I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you all! All of you!"
"It's so painful! It's so painful!"
"Bad woman! I swear I'll kill you!"
"Wuwuwuwuwu, why does Aki have to die this way…"
"So this is what the old rogue Ren said in the manga before, through the mouth of the Future Devil, that Aki will die in the most miserable way?"
"Ahhhhhhhhh, old rogue Ren, kill me too! Kill me too!!"
...
When Chainsaw Man fans saw this scene, they were all stunned.
You have to be human when you kill people!
You kill like this... you're crazy! But at that moment, some fans who had followed Edgerunners suddenly remembered that Ren in Edgerunners also stabbed people in that way.
But not as extreme as in Chainsaw Man.
To use the words of a popular manga from Ren's previous life, that day, the manga fans finally remembered the fear of being dominated by the mentally ill. And Denji in the manga was even more desperate...
He and Aki Hayakawa had been together for so long that not only did Aki Hayakawa treat them like family, but Denji and Power also considered him family.
Even in the face of this desperate reality, Denji was still in shock and hadn't recovered.
He looked at Aki Hayakawa with a crooked smile, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
"No way..."
Denji looked at Aki Hayakawa, who was still unresponsive, and said hesitantly, "Ah, that's right... then... uh... start fighting?".
But at that moment, Aki Hayakawa, turned into a gun fiend, finally spoke:
"Denji...".
Hearing the "gun fiend" call his name, Denji's crooked smile completely disappeared.
"Why do you know my name?" said Denji with an expression that indicated he was about to cry.
Because he is Aki, Aki Hayakawa...
Denji can keep deceiving himself, this is not Aki Hayakawa, this is not Aki Hayakawa.
Aki simply hasn't returned, he is not possessed by the Gun Fiend nor has he become a Gun Fiend.
Aki must still be alive...
The Gun Fiend in front of him is just an enemy he doesn't know.
But when Aki Hayakawa called Denji's name... Denji could no longer deceive himself. If the Gun Fiend in front of him wasn't Aki Hayakawa, how could he know his name? But the next image showed Aki Hayakawa... with his childhood appearance.
Just like in the scene where the Gun Fiend first appeared and caused enormous casualties, the young Aki Hayakawa stood on the snow.
"Ouch!... It's so cold!... Why am I outside?" said Aki Hayakawa, confused, crossing his arms.
At that moment, he saw Denji's figure appear in front of him...
"Denji...".
Suddenly, Aki Hayakawa found a snowball in his left hand...
"Ah!".
He threw the ball and said, "Let's have a snowball fight!".
However, in reality, Aki Hayakawa raised his left hand, which turned into a sniper rifle.
In an instant, the house was destroyed by the powerful force of the weapon.
Denji's body was thrown from the building by the terrifying explosion, and it broke in two in the air.
"My house...".
Power hadn't left at that moment. Looking at Denji, who was knocked down by the explosion, she shouted, "Ah! Denji!?".
"Power! Hide quickly! It's the Gun Fiend! I'll take care of him!"
Denji put the engine on his chest and said.
However...
Power looked incredulous and said, "The Gun Fiend..."
"How is that possible?"
She didn't want to believe it at all, and said, "But the smell of Aki is clearly outside..."
Seeing this sentence from Power in the manga, the fans felt as if they had been stabbed in the heart again.
"Your uncle!"
Fan Siwei shouted, "Makima! Bad woman! I'll kill you, I'll kill you!"
At that moment, he suddenly remembered a phrase he learned in history class to express hatred for someone. He gritted his teeth and said, "I wish I could eat her flesh alive, drink her blood, tear out her tendons, and grind her bones to dust!"
How much they liked Makima and the character of Aki Hayakawa. How much the fans hate Makima now.
Especially when they saw Power's sentence, "But the smell of Aki is clearly perceived outside the door...", the fans couldn't help it.
"This sword technique!"
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"
"Uu..."
The perspective shifted to Aki Hayakawa.
From the perspective of Aki Hayakawa, who had become a gun fiend, he was having a snowball fight with Power and Denji.
But Power and Denji looked sad and calm.
"What? Power is here too!"
"Then you can play snowballs together!"
Then, Aki Hayakawa made a huge snowball and threw it at Denji and Power, "Take this!"
But in reality...
Aki Hayakawa attacked with terrible force, directly blowing up the ground and Denji.
"Waaaaaaa...!"
Denji was continuously thrown, but he, who had become a chainsaw man, never attacked Aki Hayakawa.
That's because... this is Aki.
Even Denji's attack that flew towards him was considered by Aki Hayakawa as if he had been hit by a snowball.
But Aki Hayakawa knew nothing of this. For him, he was just having a snowball fight.
But in reality, he was still shooting at innocent people and houses.
Hundreds of people and nearby houses were involved in this "snowball war."
Denji couldn't bear to kill Aki Hayakawa, so he could only save as many as possible.
"You bastard!"
Denji attacked Aki Hayakawa, but he kept trying to wake him up, shouting, "Aki! Aki Hayakawa! Can you hear me?!".
"Wake up! This is the last thing you want to see, right?!".
But in the eyes of Aki Hayakawa, who no longer saw reality, he was playing snowballs with his family.
"Hahahahahaha!"
Aki Hayakawa laughed happily and continued to play snowballs with Denji in his hallucination.
"This is the first time I've had so much fun...!"
"Mom and Dad are always near my brother, and they don't play with me at all..."
"Hahahaha..."
Aki Hayakawa looked at the snowball in his hand and said, "But it's finally getting interesting."
He threw the snowball again and hit Denji.
In reality, Denji was hit by his weapon and fell into a pool of blood.
"Surrender?" said Aki Hayakawa in the hallucination.
However, Denji was still standing...
"If you don't surrender..."
The "snowball" in Aki Hayakawa's hand hit Denji again, directly tearing his left abdomen.
Denji pounced and fought with Aki Hayakawa, but he kept shouting, "Come back! Come back! Come back!"
"Become the original Aki!"
However, the gun barrel on Aki Hayakawa's head exploded with a destructive attack. "Boom!"
Denji was hit directly and was dragged a long way across the ground before stopping.
However, his legs and right hand broke and fell on the ruins.
At that moment, the surrounding people spontaneously approached and saw Denji, who looked extremely miserable.
But at that moment... a woman approached Denji with a knife and raised it high.
It seemed she wanted to kill him.
After all... Denji obviously looked like a devil.
But surprisingly... this woman pierced her palm with a knife and then hung it over Denji's head.
The blood dripped onto his forehead, and Denji stuck out his tongue, swallowing it in large gulps.
"Save us... please...".
It turned out that the woman was helping Denji regain his strength, letting him save them! "I don't want to die...".
"I saw it on TV!".
"There are still many children here...".
"Save them!".
Countless people gathered spontaneously, helped Denji up, and then used their own blood to try to recover him.
This behavior... moved the fans.
Denji had already earned everyone's trust... Everyone believed in him...
This feeling... was really good.
And with the help of the people, Denji finally recovered.
But... Aki Hayakawa also slowly approached at that moment.
The battle... continues!
However, the next scene was cut to Aki Hayakawa's illusion.
"Wow!"
"Wow! Hahahahaha!"
"What a fierce attack!"
"Take this move of mine!"
Aki Hayakawa was still excited as if it were a snowball fight, but just as he wanted to throw another snowball...
"Huh?" he made a sound of bewilderment.
Then he saw Denji in the distance, who had regained his childhood appearance... crying.
"Why are you crying?" asked Aki Hayakawa, who stood where he was.
He was hit by the snowball Denji threw at him, but he didn't care at all. Instead, he said, "This is the first time... I've seen you cry...".
Suddenly, Aki Hayakawa sighed and fell on the snow.
"I know..."
He looked at the sky and said, "Then let's say I lost...".
"And I don't really like snowball fights... I just feel like my hands are cold."
But at that moment, Aki Hayakawa looked around and discovered that Denji had disappeared.
"Huh?" he asked, confused. "Denji?".
However, there was no trace of Denji in the empty snow.
At that moment, a young figure appeared in Aki Hayakawa's house in the distance and shouted at him, "Brother!".
"I brought the ball and gloves!".
At that moment, Aki Hayakawa suddenly realized and said, "Ah, yes... I wanted to play... It turned out to be a game of catch."
However, the next manga image was...
Denji's two-handed chainsaw completely pierced Aki Hayakawa's body.
This means that Aki Hayakawa died again.
This also means that this is his definitive death, a farewell forever...
And this is because he didn't want to see Denji cry, and he finally gave up the attack and was killed by Denji himself.
"Aki... died like that..."
Fan Siwei observed the scene and hugged his head. The tears completely flooded him and he shouted loudly, "Woo woo woo woo woo--!".
Denji also regained his original appearance, revealing his expression from then...
Empty, desperate, dead, unacceptable...
It's extremely sad...
The Future Devil, who was watching all this from a distance, laughed strangely, "Hehehehe--".
"Aki Hayakawa... It's the most tragic way to die...".
"For that chainsaw boy."
Aki Hayakawa fell to the ground and gradually lost signs of life.
In his last illusion, he played catch with his brother in the snow of memories.
"At least in peace..." said the narration at the end of this chapter in the scene where Aki Hayakawa catches a snowball.
"End of this chapter."
However, after the end of this chapter, no one could be so calm.
Anger and sadness have overflowed!
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