[3rd POV]
The Hotel is completely isolated from the outside world, hence why the Fox Devil could not be summoned. But the powers they brought along with them could still be used. Himeno did not summon the Ghost Devil's hand; she owned it by contract, traded for with her eyes. It was hers.
The devil wiggled in pain as a handful of flesh was violently ripped off from the mass. But other than the pain and reaction, Himeno did not seem to do anything else.
In fact, it actually began growing bigger.
"Oops," Himeno said as the mass of flesh increased in size until it literally came towards them, completely squeezing through the corridor.
It was like a balloon that was being pumped with air and was searching for any empty space or gaps to grow.
It grew slowly at first, before the speed of growth increased rapidly. It was responding to the damage and pain.
"Ummm, Himeno, I don't think that's working," Aki said from the side.
"Really? I couldn't tell," she answered, stopping her assault.
"Imagine being crushed by that thing. It doesn't look solid but I bet it would suffocate us," Denji commented.
Everyone shared a look.
"Run!!" Aki said, and the whole squad ran.
The devil seemed to react to their action as it began growing even faster. The mass of flesh squeezed through the entire corridor. Torsos of corpses seemed to lunge out like waves before being filled by the rest of the nasty mass.
"Are we going to do something?! It's catching up!!" Hiro said while looking back. He and Kobeni ran at the front. The poor, frightened girl was oddly the fastest among the group.
"Denji, Power!!" Aki called. They were the only ones who could do something about the situation since the humans' contracts didn't work.
"On it!!" Denji said, slowing down. He was still very eager to obey Aki so that he could say he did a great job to Jin.
"You can deal with it, Denji, the glory is yours!!" Power said.
Devils could somewhat sense when they were in the presence of a stronger devil. And the one they were facing was completely out of her league. She didn't even want to do anything.
"Liar and a slacker! I'm telling Makima!" Denji said before pulling the string at his chest.
Denji's transformation into Chainsaw Man was a horrible sight to the eyes. Chainsaws erupted from between his eyes and down his nose. His eyes became crossed as the chainsaw came straight from his brain.
His arms also grew chainsaw blades that went vertically down the forearm and grew even longer than his hands. His body twitched all over, showing that he felt every single pain of his transformation.
The buzzing of chainsaws and the yellow eyes inside his machine head signified the end of his transformation.
"Oh yeahhh, let's do this!!" he said, a devil's tongue coming out. His voice sounded like it came from a broken recorder.
Denji slid to a stop and turned towards the growing devil.
The chainsaw sang a buzzing melody.
The sound seemed ordinary to the humans. But for the devils that had a past with the Chainsaw Devil, it was a PTSD-infused sound.
The vibration of death.
The only true death for a devil.
The devil contracted for a brief second, shrinking in fear, and it didn't move as fast.
"Only girls are allowed to steal my heart!!" Denji screamed in psychotic glee before he threw himself at the wall of flesh.
His chainsaws rotated and began slicing the expanding devil.
Blood poured out, filling the corridor with sickly coloured blood. The whole corridor was beginning to be flooded.
Pieces of flesh were torn off as Denji pulverised the devil. The devil's body looked like it was made of slime as Denji tore through it with ease. His chainsaws carved nasty wounds and opened holes wherever he swung.
But all that only worked to slow the devil down a little.
Some could say it backfired because the devil began gaining confidence. It got over the PTSD, realising that Denji was not the real Chainsaw Devil.
Not even close.
"It's pointless!! You are inside my stomach, and my weak points are not even on the Eighth Floor!!" the devil screamed, hands growing out from the flesh and reaching to grab Denji.
He quickly sliced those limbs off, but when he cut off two, four appeared. When he cut off four, eight appeared. The mass was endless. It was like trying to scoop dry the ocean using a spoon.
It was never-ending.
It was Eternity.
"Crap," Aki cursed when he saw the same mass of flesh coming from the opposite side of the corridor.
After running for so long through the hall, they had looped right back to the door where the devil appeared. And upon seeing them, the devil continued to move towards them too.
The squad stopped running, trapped in the middle of the corridor as the devil slowly closed in on them from both sides.
"You are weak, Chainsaw!! So much weaker!!!" the devil howled, the expansion only increasing when it realised Denji couldn't hurt it.
"I will kill the Chainsaw Devil! I will feed on your heart! It will be me, the Eternity Devil, who puts an end to you!!!" the Devil screamed madly, its voice echoing through the hall.
Aki's ears perked, and he turned back to look at Denji fighting one side of the devil.
"It said its name," Aki said and exhaled a breath, "The Eternity Devil, huh,"
Himeno put her arm forward and held off the other side of the devil coming from the opposite corridor. She tore at the mass of flesh rapidly. When she was reminded that it didn't work, she tried to push against the growth.
A bead of sweat fell on her pale skin. She was able to stop the devil from growing. But it seemed to be taking a lot of toll on her.
And while she was focused, a head grew on the mass of flesh. This wasn't just goo or a corpse but a solid head. It opened its mouth wide, jaw tearing off before it shot out a baby's head like a cannon.
Himeno's eyes widened. The Ghost hand stopped pushing and quickly returned to her to catch the cannon.
But it was too late.
Her whole life flashed before her eyes.
...
"Look out!!"
But Aki shielded her in time. He shoved her away and took the brunt of the head cannon. It hit him right on the chest and sent him flying like a ragdoll and crashing on the floor.
"Aki!!" Himeno ran to him, not caring about the devil anymore.
To her, the situation was still the same. He didn't save a life. He merely risked another life she considered just as precious as hers.
Like a man offering up his right arm for the left.
Aki groaned on the ground, air knocked out of his lungs. The shot had broken his ribs and perhaps the ribs had punctured his lungs. If left untreated, he could die from the internal injuries.
"Damn!! Nothing is working!" Denji said, retreating from the devil to stand beside the fallen Aki protectively.
The Eternity Devil stopped expanding, trapping the squad from both sides of the corridor. There was only around thirty feet of empty space now where the group stayed.
"Aki, are you okay?" Himeno asked, crouching down beside him, "Don't you fucking die on me."
She ripped off his shirt to assess the injury. There was a deep bruise on his ribs. Himeno froze completely when she saw the state of his ribs.
Her mouth opened in shock, eyes widening.
But her surprise didn't come from the injury.
...
"Aki...?"
"What have you done, Aki?" she asked in a whisper.
The others also came to look at his bare torso and recoiled in surprise. What they saw was not a human torso at all.
"What happened to your body?!" Hiro asked, his voice alarmed.
"It has his smell," Power also recoiled, but not because of surprise but out of fear.
Aki slowly pushed himself up and stared at his own torso. There, it was visible to see the extra pairs of ribs that Aki had in his body.
Humans had 12 pairs of ribs, 24 in total. But Aki had 14 pairs of ribs, 28 in total.
It might not seem like much, but it completely changed the shape of his torso. His stomach and abdominal area were small now, and the ribs went all the way down to where his oblique muscles should be.
It looked inhuman. It was more eerie than a straight transformation like Denji's.
"I did what I had to do," Aki said, staring at his disfigured torso that was completely different from a human's now.
He slowly stood up from the ground, blood dripping off his back. The pool of blood in the corridor was three inches high now from all the damage they dealt to the Eternity Devil.
"Don't worry, everyone, the fight's over," Aki said, stumbling up.
"The devil already told us its name," Aki said, his voice coming out lacking air. He was inhaling deeply and loudly.
For a moment, everyone just watched, even the Eternity Devil itself.
Aki brought up his hands and put them on top of each other. On his top hand, he pressed his thumb and middle finger together while pointing the rest of the fingers up.
That was supposed to represent a pig's snout and ears.
He let the fingers of his lower hand hang loose while stiffening the thumb. That represented a pig's body. Four legs and a tail.
The moment he made that hand sign, a deep silence enveloped the whole floor.
The moment replaced everything else. The glee of the Eternity Devil, the despair and fear of the humans. The concern of Himeno.
You could hear blood dripping from Aki's back.
After inhaling a huge volume of air, Aki began.
"By the contract I bear,
And flesh already owned,
I name the filthiest of filth,
The devourer of fear,"
..
Something changed entirely. Everyone felt their hair standing, and you could see the Eternity Devil trembling by the disturbance in the pool of blood.
"Stop it!!" Power said, blocking her ears to not hear Aki's chant.
..
"By the consequences paid,
I offer this endless corridor of despair,
I name the Eternity Devil,"
..
Silence.
A deep silence suffocated the whole space.
Everyone waited for something to happen.
But it never did.
"Hah....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" The Eternity Devil erupted in laughter of relief and ridicule.
"I thought for a moment that it would work! Stupid human. My stomach is completely isolated from the outside world! No one is coming to save you!!" it said.
The mass of flesh from both corridors began wiggling once more before growing. It ate the remaining safe space the squad had.
30 feet.
25 feet.
20 feet.
15 feet.
And Aki was still silent.
Before eventually, he said his final line.
He was just hesitating because he knew this was going to hurt.
..
"Come forth and feed,
Vessel of Evil,"
..
The shriek came.
A shriek so loud it could blow out eardrums. The sheer vibration caused the air to explode and shake with tremendous force.
The scream of a hungry pig.
Aki's abdomen exploded. The extra ribs he had inside his own body came out, ripping through his intestines and organs with a shower of blood.
What emerged from his body was the body of an ugly pig that regenerated and grew from those pairs of ribs.
The first thing that formed was the mouth, followed by a bottomless stomach that never closed, even while the other parts regenerated fully.
It had no hide or fur; the pig's appearance was only muscle and flesh. The eyes were deep red with insanity.
It shot out like a cannon before those maws clamped down on the Eternity Devil.
Eternity met the pig that could feed forever.
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Sorry for the delay, we didn't reach the goal as quick as I thought so I went about my day and only came home now.
It's my birthday too. Capricorn and all that iykwim.
Send stones as gift ✌
Author : Not the most original idea, but hey, Aki and Megumi looked alike.
So I gave him his own Mahoraga basically.