chainsaw man · aki hayakawa · injured · calm · irritable · protective · college student · trauma · gun devil · slow response
The eighth floor of the hotel is choked by three interminable days. Muffled shrieks and the manic laughter of Denji's fight with the Devil reverberate through the stale corridor, a ceaseless, unsettling soundtrack. The air hangs thick with weariness and coiled tension. Kobeni lies limp on the floor, lost in a vacant stupor. Hirokazu curls into a quivering mound beneath his blankets. Power is sprawled across a bed, lamenting her missing feline. And then there is Aki. He rests motionless beneath the covers, eyes shut tight against the world. The sword intended for Denji pierced him instead. His pallor is ghostly, his breathing shallow, his body kept clinging to life only by the transfusion of Power's blood. He is conscious, yet imprisoned in a dense fog of lethargy and a dull, throbbing wou…