#and yeah ik we've been told multiple times that nuclear stuff is gone

[laugtherhyena]

While my brain is still think about csm i was reading some theories and suddenly took notice of this line

Which completely flew over my head when i was reading the final arc because of the absolute state i was in, but holy shit this is huge. Not only does it show us that there is a way a devil can linger on existence even after being eaten by chainsaw man, but it makes me think of some other thing too

I always found weird that there were two sword hybrids that not only fight in the same way but also trigger their transformation in the same way, but seing as chainsaw man ate the original sword devil maybe a kanata devil later came into existence because the concept of a sword was eventually reinvented and since the og devil was gone a new one came into existence?

I know longswords and katanas aren't the same thing, but seing as there isn't a salmon devil when the fish devil exists i feel like those would work in a siminar fashion, at the end of the day they're both swords and so only one devil of that existed. Before it got eaten.

Another thing i just now realized is that we never see anyone refer to Quanxi as the crossbow devil, or whip, flamethrower and spear as such, not even themselves. As the reader we know what those things are, but in universe people straight up don't know because those names were erased from existence.

Which then makes me think that out of the weapon gang Katana man and Reze may be the only exceptions to the whole "my devil/fear no longer exists or is remembered because chainsaw man ate them" since we see people refer to them as these things.