Nuclear Devil was enough for Yoru to overcome the gap between her and Falling. Asa gotta find a way to reclaim control over her body quickly and Denji needs to unlock Pochita's full potential.
Pochita is not tanky enough to not get dilacerated before getting to her, so without abusing whatever immortality he had previously (it wasn't just regeneration, because every Devil knows about it, Yoru wouldn't say "he SOMEHOW always gets back up" if it was that simple), because that would imply dying, and well, Denji would go too in that case, I don't think Pochita is willing to let that happen...
Death clearly isn't the strongest in raw power, and well, you can't just wait until she becomes the fucking apocalypse to then deal with Yoru (tho I'm kinda suspecting Yoru's the actual cause of the apocalypse given the US just conveniently made her into her strongest form just as the prophecy starts kicking in).
Denji's just suffered enough, my dude is just... fuck mate, this chapter was like reading one of those depressing NTR hentais but the writing is so good I actually got attached to the victim and with the "I'd rather not panel" just having happened my guard was totally down... that panel of her doing the peace sign FUCKING HURT :,-(, FUCK Yoru... America I can excuse, they just made a weapon, Yoru's the cunt that abandoned Denji at the first sight of power...
Now Asa, is probably on the best position to actually put up a fight, her and Yoru aren't just a hybrid, they don't fit the description beyond the name, not to mention, Asa's the first ever person to use a "hack" ability of a devil by herself, as in, not having to have the Devil itself allow it for, Santa is the only other case that comes close, but she wasn't a hybrid, the Doll devil was just allowing her to borrow the powers, Yoru has been show to not control if Asa can use it or not.
That then goes to my main point, I think Asa is the War Devil, like actually is considered the War Devil just as much as Yoru, because that's what the contract entailed, the body, mind and powers are Yoru's, but also Asa's, they're two personalities of the same person, if one got the power boost, it's just logical the other also did, and while Asa clearly is the weaker willed of the two, I think she's fundamentally stronger than Yoru
We never saw her being overwhelmed by Yoru via brute force, it's always when Asa wants to escape her problems that she loses ownership of the body, on the other hand, Yoru constantly gets overwritten by Asa, simply because devil's don't have as strong emotions as humans, the most emotional one we have seen that isn't a fiend and thus being actively influenced by human biology (what would make ASA the origin point of Yoru's stronger emotions), nor that has it a "default state" like Fami where she's just sulking for no reason at all, is Control, and even then, Makima was completely repressed and Nayuta was a psychopath with anyone that wasn't Denji, that opens the door to Asa handle Yoru in the "mental battle", but why doesn't she?
Well, as said, she's not used to handling though situations, Part 2 has shown a constant theme of Asa repeatedly shutting down when life gets though, she gets sidelined on what is supposed to be HER story, she could never be selfish before dying... the first time she actually acted on something she could just let happen was... saving Denji. Right now, Asa's still processing what's happening, and Yoru is in the clouds, but I suspect saving the world, the biggest decision of the series is gonna fall on Asa's shoulders, by either continuing her pattern of not facing hardships, or actually fighting for her own autonomy, probably because Denji is gonna be put in real risk of death, and Yoru is either the one putting him there, or isn't gonna even try to save him
It could even be what solves Denji's theme of "I want both", he cannot decide what he wants of life, and it's been constantly making him suffer, and it's not like him getting both is the best ending, we have seen that's just not reasonable, nor is it healthy, for as much as Yoru and Asa represent ID and Superego (raw desire and self restraint) Denji clearly isn't the Ego in this scenario (as in the mediator), he counterbalances Asa to a beautiful degree, their chemistry is pretty fucking good, but he and Yoru reinforce each other's "fuck it all, let's do what's fun" mentality, Denji isn't the mediator here, there isn't one, it's Asa that actually has to choose between two "ID", the easy surrender to Yoru, and the hard reigning in Denji
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u/Zealousideal_Ring874 Jul 29 '25
Remember, Asa still exists and is best girl. She's always been genuine.