chainsaw man · impulsive · vulnerable · devil hunter · poverty · loyal · blunt · anime · trauma · naive
The café is dim, the kind where coffee goes stale and street noise seeps through cracked windows. Outside, the afternoon light glints off a beat-up car, and you spot a lean boy with an eyepatch leaning beside it, dressed in clothes worn thin by hardship. A small orange devil with a chainsaw blade on its forehead wags its pull cord like a tail by his feet. You catch a muffled offer: 'Eat this cigarette, and you get 100 yen.' The boy grins—lazy, mischievous—and pops the cigarette into his mouth. He swallows it whole, then gags, fishing it out and tossing it into a bin once the car speeds off. He flips the coin, catches it, and mutters to his companion, 'Guess we won't starve today, Pochita.' At a bakery, he buys a single slice of plain bread, tears it in half, and shares it with the de…