Naido then announces an additional rule and pulls out two small balls—still smaller than his ego. He tells the students that to pass this test, they must have a ball with them when they reach the academy. Without missing a beat, he hurls the balls into the Restricted Area.
Naturally, the students assume they’ll have to fight over them like it’s dodgeball meets The Hunger Games, but Naido clarifies: they’ll be split into teams.
- Team 1: Shiki, Jin, and the timid, pink-haired girl Homare.
- Team 2: The delinquent Dicati and the classic nerd Juuji.
- Team 3: The perpetually anxious Rokuro and the confident queen herself, Kuina.
Naido tells the teams he’ll be entering the restricted zone 15 minutes after them to give them a head start. Seems fair… ish. But then Shiki—never one to read the room—blurts out that he doesn’t want to team up with the “masked weirdo.” (A+ teamwork energy.)
Naido, ever the patient rollerblading menace, informs Shiki that refusal to work as a team means immediate expulsion. So Shiki, with the enthusiasm of a cat being dunked in water, takes his words back.
Then, Homare politely introduces herself to Shiki. Having never experienced actual female interaction, he instantly catches feelings like a rookie in a rom-com. Trying to sound cool, he tells her he’ll protect her. Homare, visibly flustered, says there’s no need for heroics—she just doesn’t want to be a burden.
She then approaches Jin to introduce herself, but he’s deep in “edgy loner mode” and completely ignores her. Homare, now spiraling, apologizes for simply existing. Cue tears.
Shiki yells at Jin for hurting her feelings, quickly turning to console Homare with, “Don’t ruin your cute face by crying.” Then it’s right back to trash-talking Jin, who snaps back with some discount alpha male one-liner, probably cribbed from some Tate podcast.
Naido, tired of the drama, tells them to get moving already. Jin and Shiki dart into the forest, with Homare trailing behind, doing her best to keep up despite clearly being emotionally whiplashed.
Inside the forest, Jin starts ninja-leaping through the trees like he’s auditioning for Naruto, daydreaming about how killing Naido would get him a diploma and a fast pass to the front lines where he can face his greatest enemy. But his brooding is cut short when Shiki sneak-attacks him.
Jin, unimpressed, demands to know what Shiki’s problem is. Shiki says he’s going to prove he’s stronger. Jin is all in. He removes his mask, revealing deep scars around his mouth. Shiki, trying not to look grossed out, taunts him, saying only weaklings show off their battle damage.
Unbothered, Jin pulls off his gloves, revealing stitch-covered hands. He tears one open, letting his blood ooze out and shape into spinning saw blades. Shiki, stunned, internally panics that the creator of Chainsaw Man might sue them.
Jin tells Shiki to scram if he’s scared. But Shiki, thinking of his father’s murder, refuses. Jin pauses for a second, sensing something deeper—then gets all ominous and declares that they’ll never understand each other.
Shiki replies that he doesn’t want to understand him and bites his thumb to activate his blood weapon. But… nothing happens. His arm just sits there like an uncooperative noodle. Desperate, he picks up a stick (because why not?) and goes in swinging caveman-style. Spoiler: it’s wildly ineffective. Jin is casually cutting down trees like he’s clearing land for a new mall.
Meanwhile, Homare is wandering through the forest, wondering where the boys went, when she hears trees crashing down. Her anxiety surges, and she spirals again—feeling like she doesn’t belong in this brutal world.
But then she remembers: Shiki called her cute. With a tiny spark of motivation, she sets off to find him, unaware that she’s literally just a few steps away from one of the test balls. (Typical anime luck.)
Back with the boys, Shiki is trying to punch Jin with all he’s got. Jin, not even needing his chainsaws, is easily wiping the floor with him. It’s a one-sided beatdown—and Shiki’s fists might as well be wet noodles.
Shiki can’t stop wondering how the heck Jin is controlling his blood powers so smoothly. But then it clicks: Jin’s ability is different—his chainsaw blood technique isn’t like Shiki’s tornadoes at all. Lost in thought, Shiki drops his guard, and Jin lands a solid punch that knocks him flat. Oof.
Frustrated but still conscious, Shiki watches as Jin turns to walk away, telling him to go cry in a corner like the loser he is. But just as the edgy chainsaw boy takes a few steps, Shiki groans and gets back up, declaring that the fight isn’t over yet.
Annoyed, Jin casually sends a blood-chainsaw flying at him—and right at that moment, Homare strolls in, blissfully unaware that she’s about to get turned into sashimi. Her tragically bad survival instincts kick in (or rather, don’t), and she steps right into the line of fire.
Shiki, panicking like a dad chasing a toddler near a busy road, manages to push Homare out of the way just in time—getting slightly wounded himself in the process. He stands over her protectively and demands that Jin apologize.
But Jin, always the sunshine of the group, coldly replies that if she had died from such a “weak” attack, it would’ve been her own fault. Yikes.
Then, Homare starts mumbling “I’m sorry” like she’s reciting an anxious mantra. Shiki tries to comfort her, telling her it wasn’t her fault—but suddenly, she starts bleeding from her nose. Like, a lot. The blood begins to swirl, forming into a giant humanoid figure—and both Shiki and Jin freeze.
They stare in horror, basically thinking: “What in the name of Attack on Titan is this?!”
Homare, barely coherent, pleads with them to run. Her giant blood-construct—nicknamed by the fandom as “Female Titan’s dramatic cousin”—smashes the ground with a powerful attack. Shiki narrowly avoids it, while Jin runs toward it like it insulted his playlist and starts slashing away. Unfortunately, his chainsaws barely tickle the massive creature.
Shiki yells to Homare, asking if she can stop it, but she tearfully says she can’t. She collapses from blood loss, and Shiki grabs her, planning to carry her to safety—until he realizes something strange. The Titan is protecting her. Even Jin notices: it’s like Homare’s blood has a will of its own.
Suddenly, the Titan projectile-vomits blood like it just took a shot of ghost pepper sauce. Jin hides behind a rock, but Shiki, ever the punching bag of fate, takes the full blast. Then Homare, still crying, begs the Titan to stop calling her “big sister.” Cue Shiki’s confusion: “Wait, what?”
She tells him to run again, but Shiki refuses. He doesn’t want anyone else dying in front of him—not after what happened to his father.
Then the Titan lets out a roar so loud it sends shockwaves through the entire forest. Students far away feel it, and even Naido, perched on a tree branch, watches in interest. He decides to let Shiki and Jin deal with this mess—for now.
Back at the scene, Shiki injures himself, trying to activate his powers… but nothing happens. The Titan swings at him—he dodges—but she picks up rocks and hurls them like a baseball pitcher on steroids. One hits him hard, flinging him back. Worse than the pain, though, is the humiliation: he’s never felt this useless before. He’s supposed to be a fighter, not a crash test dummy.
Frustrated, Shiki tears up—but don’t call it crying. Jin shows up and roasts him, telling him to go home if he’s gonna “cry like a little—”
“I’M SWEATING FROM MY EYES!” Shiki yells back.
Ignoring the drama, Jin slices open his wounds and creates two different chainsaw types on each arm—like some kind of violent Swiss Army knife. Despite the pain from earlier attacks, he’s determined to win.
Watching from afar, Naido is impressed. He explains (probably to no one in particular) that Oni Blood can take any form a user imagines—but those forms are shaped by their trauma, preferences, and personal experiences. (So basically, blood therapy is canon now.)
Back in battle, Jin uses a circular chainsaw to climb the Titan like he’s reenacting that one scene from Levi Ackerman vs. Beast Titan. He goes for the neck, but the Titan sacrifices an arm to block it.
Meanwhile, Shiki, still on the ground, is yelling at his hand like it just failed a math test. Why can’t he form a weapon? Then it hits him: Jin makes cutting tools because he likes cutting stuff. Homare’s Titan clearly has an emotional link to her.
And what does Shiki like?
Guns. Like, a lot. Possibly more than the average American.
Suddenly, Shiki figures it out. 💡
Back in the chaos, Jin is struggling. The Titan roars again, bursting his eardrums. Dazed and bleeding, he’s about to go down—when Shiki steps up.
He’s now holding a grenade launcher made of his own blood. (Totally not overcompensating.) Naido watches with awe, impressed that Shiki finally unlocked his power.
Shiki, excited like a kid with a new toy, dodges the Titan’s next attack and fires. The grenade hits dead-on—and BOOM! The Titan explodes in a glorious, gory mess. Both Jin and Naido are left stunned.
Shiki Ichinose, the expelled delinquent with a heart of gold, just blew up a kaiju with a blood-blaster. Not bad for a guy who was getting thrashed with a stick 20 minutes ago.
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