
What happens
Yuji is up on the expressway when he sees transfigured humans working through a crowd below him, and he has no time to save any of them. Then Inumaki says spiced cod roe, gives him a peace sign, and takes the whole street off his hands.
At 10:10 he walks into an empty Shibuya Station and finds Choso on the stairs. Choso opens with
Piercing BloodPiercing BloodExtension TechniqueThe kill shot of Blood Manipulation. After compressing blood to extreme density through Convergence, the user fires it as a beam that moves faster than almost any sorcerer can reac... before either of them has said anything, and it goes through Yuji's arm rather than off with it, because he twisted at the last moment.
Choso asks what his brothers said at the end. Yuji tells him the truth, which is that they cried, and Choso turns on
Flowing Red ScaleFlowing Red ScaleExtension TechniqueBlood Manipulation turned inward. Instead of weaponizing blood externally, the user supercharges their own circulatory system, increased blood flow, elevated body temperature, ampl... and asks Eso and
KechizuKechizuSpecial Grade · Death Painting WombThe youngest of the three Death Painting wombs, part human and part cursed spirit. His rot technique makes him dangerous to touch and Nobara and Yuji beat him anyway, in a fight bu... to watch.
Blood Manipulation in a corridor is an unfair fight.
ConvergenceConvergenceExtension TechniqueThe loading screen before the kill shot. Convergence compresses blood into a single, impossibly dense point: a tiny sphere that contains enough concentrated force to punch through ... compresses the blood,
Piercing BloodPiercing BloodExtension TechniqueThe kill shot of Blood Manipulation. After compressing blood to extreme density through Convergence, the user fires it as a beam that moves faster than almost any sorcerer can reac... fires it,
Blood EdgeBlood EdgeExtension TechniqueChoso shapes his own blood into a blade extending from his arm, essentially giving himself a permanent, retractable melee weapon that can't be disarmed. The hardened blood holds a ... makes a knife out of it, and
SupernovaSupernovaExtension TechniqueChoso fires blood projectiles from his body in every direction simultaneously. Not forward, not in a cone, outward from his entire body in a sphere. The result is an attack with no... leaves three condensed orbs hanging behind Yuji's back to go off at once. Yuji times a jump to bait the beam, gets inside it, and takes the buckshot anyway.
He is still upright at the end of the exchange, and Choso has started to notice that every punch lands twice.
Key moments
- Debut
- Choso appears for the first time. Death Painting Womb, becomes Yuji's ally
Manga chapters adapted
- Chapter 102
- The Shibuya Incident, Part 20
Volume 12
- Chapter 103
- The Shibuya Incident, Part 21
Volume 12
- Chapter 104
- The Shibuya Incident, Part 22
Volume 12
- Chapter 105
- The Shibuya Incident, Part 23
Volume 12
- Chapter 106
- The Shibuya Incident, Part 24
Volume 12

