Asa Mitaka’s current string of dangerous luck in Chainsaw Man has prolonged even additional as she comes head to head with a Primal Concern in Chapter 123. Whether or not by pure probability or some evil energy’s design, Asa finds herself being pursued by none aside from the Falling Satan — and is totally helpless after being subjected to its damning assault.
The Falling Satan is the primary harbinger of the apocalypse foretold by the Nostradamus Prophecy. If its horrifying skills seen listed below are something to go by, Chainsaw Man’s humanity may not have any hope of defeating its brethren.
The Falling Satan is humanity’s collective primal concern of heights and falling from tall locations made manifest. When it first appeared, it constructed an avatar from the useless our bodies of an residence constructing’s inhabitants, whom it had compelled to leap off their balconies. This is among the most terrifying feats a satan has achieved in Chainsaw Man; by no means earlier than have they displayed the flexibility to unconditionally manipulate people’ habits to the purpose of forcing them into suicide. Even Makima, the Management Satan, wanted to imagine herself superior to a human earlier than she may manipulate them to do her bidding.
After setting up a vessel, the Falling Satan launched itself and revealed it had come to Earth on the request of the “residents” of hell. With its new avatar, it adopted a chef motif and referred to its skill as a meal that needed to be completed. If it wasn’t, the offending diner (that means a human below its results) could be given a style of dying. Neither Asa nor Yoru got the possibility to dissect what the Falling Satan meant by this menace. With one clap of its palms, it ensnared Asa in its method, reducing off her connection to Yoru within the course of.
The Falling Satan forces everybody in its grasp to relive probably the most traumatic incidents from their previous whereas concurrently reversing gravity’s results on them, sending its victims careening into the sky. The decrease an affected particular person’s coronary heart sinks as they revel of their previous traumas, their greater their physique will proceed to “fall”. Except they get their feelings in examine, they are going to maintain floating upward till they’ve handed by way of a mysterious doorway within the sky that transports them to a distinct location — most certainly hell itself. The Falling Satan referred to this system as “hors d’oeuvre”, a mere starter dish, implying it may need much more horrifying skills up its sleeve.
The Falling Satan’s skill to make individuals relive their best traumas is very potent on Asa because of the sheer variety of unlucky incidents in her previous. On this occasion, she’s pressured to re-experience the lack of her childhood pet cat, Crambon. The caretaker of the orphanage she was dwelling at had taken offense at Asa’s attachment to her cat and, below the guise of giving it a greater residence, cruelly drowned it in a close-by river. When Asa started to suspect foul play and inquired about Crambon’s welfare, the caretaker callously replied that it wasn’t honest for her to be the one little one on the orphanage with a member of the family.
This was an particularly harrowing expertise for Asa, nevertheless it would possibly simply be one in every of many extra she is being pressured to relive whereas hanging on to a road railing for expensive life. It doesn’t assist that a lot of Asa’s horrible experiences are associated to falling itself, and all the time got here on the most inopportune moments. As she continues to panic, the Falling Satan feeds on her concern and its method is strengthened.
Since Yoru is unable to own Asa in her present state, this psychological battle is the latter’s to struggle alone. Her probabilities of victory look fairly slim, particularly towards a Primal Concern that has by no means been killed earlier than — however that’s all of the extra purpose a win could be vital for her. Conquering the literal embodiment of a curse that has plagued her since childhood ought to give Asa a much-needed confidence increase in Chainsaw Man.