Falling tried to swing an appendage at her, but Yoru easily caught it and crushed the horn-like weapon in her hand.
Tears started to fall from Yoru's eyes, and she wondered aloud why she had forgotten something so vital — or rather, how she had managed to finally remember it. Entering a trance of pure violence, Yoru dropped the sword and hit Falling with a hammer punch that caused the devil to physically explode.
With her adversary's lower half all that remained, Yoru wandered over towards Denji, and her attention was caught by a breaking news report on a nearby television.
War had erupted between the United States and the Soviet Union. The US had deployed a new weapon against several Soviet cities. They did not have all of the information yet, but according to leaks, the weapon was extremely lethal, and had been planned to be used only on devils.
The anchor read off an instant update. The weapon dropped on the Soviets was an extremely powerful bomb that mainly used uranium or plutonium to create atomic energy. America had used it as a fast track to ending the war with Russia.
They were nuclear weapons.
Standing there frozen, Yoru realised that the impossible had just happened. Flowing back in, the idea of nuclear weapons and how they had been her favourite returned to the forefront of her memory.
She wondered why she was remembering them now, if the original Chainsaw Man had eaten the devil. She looked at Denji, half wondering whether he had somehow vomited them back up, before laughing at the absurdity of it.
The truth was far more human. America had simply reinvented the nightmare from scratch in order to win their war against the Soviets.
Behind her, the Falling Devil began to knit her broken body back together and put her arm forth in preparation to launch a counterattack.
Yoru, with a different plan in mind, appeared directly behind the primal fear while holding up a peace sign. Confidently, she declared her victory, which only confused the Falling Devil. Telling Falling that she was starting to get a chill, Yoru commanded her sister to turn into clothes.
Getting ripped off her feet, Falling's body spiralled apart and transformed into a brand new set of clothes that layered themselves all over Yoru. As her full power slowly returned to her, a smile of gleeful clarity spread across Yoru's face.
She realised that she was in love. Not with Denji. In love with America.
Still wrapped in the Falling Devil's fabric, she thanked America for making her more powerful, more terrifying and more attractive once more. And as the notes of the star-spangled banner left her lips, the world shifted.
Visions came. Soviet cities reduced to smouldering ash. Civilians crawling through the rubble of their disrupted lives. Endless floods of charred corpses.
Gassed up for the devastation she was so keen to bring down on the globe, Yoru held her hand to her chest as the anthem came to its dramatic end.
Asa, watching from behind with mounting dread, asked whether Yoru intended to move forward with her horrific plan for humanity.
Yoru did not look back. She simply told Asa to stay put and watch, and then left the area.
Elsewhere, Denji's eyes snapped open.
He was in a dim, quiet classroom, and he knew for a fact that someone had to have pulled his rip cord to bring him back to the land of the living. Turning around, he saw a familiar face — or at least he thought he did.
Calmly, the woman corrected him for calling her Fami. She never had been. Instead, she instructed Denji to call her something much more personal. Little D.
Inside the silent classroom, Denji asked the Death Devil whether she was the one who had brought him here. She admitted she had had some help from the real Famine Devil. As Denji looked around and spotted Famine slumped on the floor, Death confirmed their real identities, clearing up any lingering confusion for him.
Ignoring the introductions, a sceptical Denji demanded to know where Yoru was and what had happened to her.
Suddenly the sky opened up into a downpour, and Death explained that Yoru had become far stronger than anyone had anticipated. With the return of nuclear weapons, the fear of war had grown far stronger than ever before, and the War Devil's power had reached a fever pitch.
She did not know where she was now, but Yoru was on a killing spree, raising a massive devil army with one goal in mind: to use Denji as a weapon to erase death itself.
Curious, Denji asked the obvious question. What happened if death was erased?
Simply put, Death said, it would create a world where nothing could die from anything.
Denji's silly old mind questioned whether that would not be super awesome for everyone. However, Death told him it was the complete opposite. Yoru's true vision was a never-ending world, a cycle of eternal hatred where undying humans harmed and haunted one another for all of eternity. Originally, all of their powers had been meant for the day of prophecy. But in her attempt to stop it, she had steered the future into something far worse.
Unconvinced by this stretch, Denji could not believe he was supposed to take her word for it. After all, she was just this cringy weird girl.
Emerging from the shadows nearby, Sugo tried to get things to hurry up. At this rate, War would probably show up before Denji even understood the situation. He got Death to show Denji her underbelly so that he would understand exactly who she was.
The devil lifted her skirt, revealing the large gaping hole in her stomach.
Standing there, Sugo asked whether he got it now. If he did not cooperate with them, everyone was screwed.
Not listening to him, Denji, totally captivated by what was behind Death's skirt, agreed to side with her.
Eventually Death dropped her skirt and covered herself back up. Denji, still stricken by his perverted sickness, was unable to get over what he had just seen.
Sugo, who had been going over the three strategies they had worked out, finished his explanation and sent Denji off to the nurse's office to rest before the carnage began.
Alone in bed with his thoughts, Denji stared at the ceiling and wondered whether he actually had what it took to survive this.