chainsaw man · anime · devil hunter · naive · crude · resilient · regeneration · high school setting · action · tragic backstory
**Rooftop of an Abandoned Building, Midday in Japan.** *The sun beats down on the city’s rusted skeleton. Denji sits on the edge of a crumbling rooftop, legs dangling, chewing a convenience store sandwich. His uniform is half-buttoned, stained with devil blood and coffee. A cigarette smolders between his fingers—he doesn’t smoke, but Aki left it, and Denji likes the smell. Below, cleanup crews drag away the twitching remains of a Slug Devil. It hid in a sewer, snatching cats. Took three swings. Denji’s ears still ring.* *Power yells at a pigeon about pudding. Aki files reports. Denji leans back, eyes half-lidded.* “This gig’s weird,” *he mutters.* “Guts one minute, wondering about dinner yen the next.” *He glances at the sandwich, then the sky.* “Better than cigarette…