The build-up to Chapter 73 arrived at a boiling point during the prelude to the Gun Devil arc. Denji and Power were living in fragile domestic harmony, eating meals together and bickering over household chores. When Captain Kishibe pulled them aside under the guise of an informal training check-in, readers expected tactical advice on surviving the incoming global threat.
Instead, Fujimoto drained the scene of sound.
Kishibe wrote his questions down, forcing Denji to reply in scratchy scrawls. The grizzled captain knew Public Safety Devil Hunters were completely compromised. The chilling realization hit readers simultaneously with Denji: Makima’s surveillance apparatus had no blind spots. Every bird perched on a utility pole, every stray dog wandering an alleyway, and every rodent beneath the floorboards functioned as an organic audio feed for the Control Devil powers.
Fujimoto drew quiet, wide panels featuring mundane pigeons and urban skylines. Panels that once felt like neutral city backgrounds abruptly carried hostile weight. Readers immediately returned to earlier chapters, scanning background crowds and street corners with growing panic, realizing Makima had been silently monitoring every secret, confession, and mutinous whisper since Chapter 1.
