Volume 31

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**Volume 31** (炎炎ノ消防隊 31, *En En no Shōbōtai 31*) is volume 31 of the *Fire Force* manga series.

## Chapter 272

Main article: Chapter 272

As Dragon unleashes a beam of fire, Arthur Boyle uses steeled of death to unleash one final attack, Violet Flash: Earth Divider to defeat Dragon and split the earth. As both Dragon and Arthur drift off to space, Dragon praises Arthur of his victory and how he was given hope. Dragon thanks Arthur for his existence and disintegrates in space. Meanwhile, Faerie realizes Dragon has lost and the hope he has seen is extinguishing the flames of the Great Cataclysm. Everyone realizes Arthur has won the fight and praises him while some are worried he won't return. In space, Arthur yells out to Shinra Kusakabe and asks the devil how much more longer will he be a devil, proclaiming he has become the Knight King. Arthur notes how he may have let Dragon give him too many hits and recovery will take a long period of time. He looks at the sun and comments how it's more brighter compared to it on Earth and releases Excalibur from his grasp, leaving everything up to Shinra.

## Chapter 275

Main article: Chapter 275

Benimaru sense the doppelgängers appears. When he is about to leave the Asakusa. Konro appears there of beni. Beni said it was like konra said the doppelgängers appears and left the asakusa. Faerie died but sho thinks of what he said about doppelgängers to him. At the time Benimaru enters the battle field. While Shinra taking a look around the battle field. Sho appears there and explains how faerie was able to summon new doppelgängers in exchange for their life’s. Sho said to shinra that he is the saviour of  earth so he should only focus on defeating Haumea and the Evangelist. Shira responded to him that he will end this. At the meanwhile Nataku falls from the adolla and thinks about how he freed from it. When he was trying to escape from that place kurono appears there and bully him with a smile. Nataku suspects him that he would be a fake because the real kurono will bully him but it was his nature. He will not bully him meanly. When he asked the one appears in front is he is a fake. The Kurono Yūichirō's Doppelgänger praise him for identifying this. The say that people always use to accept the shallow imitation. So, replacing the original one not a big deal.

## Chapter 276

Main article: Chapter 276

Nataku Son scold at Kurono Yūichirō's Doppelgänger that whatever he tries. He can’t become the real Yūichirō Kurono. His appearance is just a sham to the real Kurono. Doppelgänger Kurono replies that as long as he can do things similar to the real one, the people do not care about him being the fake him. If he wins the battle, the world will accept him as the original. Rekka appears in Nataku’s thought and says that what the doppelgänger said was correct. The doppelgänger scare Nataku of is that he fears the disappearance of the real Kurono. When Nataku run in the doppelgänger. Suddenly he was thrown out. The real Kurono appears there.Oguru asked Nataku to stand back. The real Kurono can manage his doppelgänger.

The battle starts between the Kurono doppelgänger and Kurono. The doppelgänger copies all the move that Kurono have. The doppelgänger mocks at Kurono as psycho; he loves to torture others. Kurono replied that he was not a psycho and he has permission to bully the weak. Nataku asks Kurono to finish the doppelgänger. Because he cares about the real Kurono. Where the doppelgänger said if he wins. Then he will be the original. Kurono said that if the doppelgänger is going to replace him. Then it will not leave this world.

## Chapter 277

Main article: Chapter 277

Kurono mocks the doppelgänger for behaving like the Benimaru. Oguru comments that this is how others comes to know, when a person is fully unknown. They trends to specify them in categories. Kurono asked oguru does he mean that people thinks of him as some cardboard cut-out slasher. It makes him worry that it would affect his salary. Kurono and his doppelgänger start their fight again. The doppelgänger mocks him that he is a scum who bullies the weak, so the doppelgänger is a perception of who really was. They both are same the only differences is their view point. The doppelgänger attacks him by its Black smoke. Even they both are common in one thing that they always used to think of only themselves. Kurono is different from his doppelgänger. That is he will not fight alone. He is a perfect company man. When he pushes it to his boss. He becomes stronger. If the doppelgänger is stronger than him, then he would quit his job and runaway from there. But the doppelgänger is weak for him. Kurono asks permission from oguru to fight his doppelgänger without holding back. If his doppelgänger wants to be like him for a reason like love, it does not matters him. But if it is for his perk or achievements. Then kurono will not be giving his position to his doppelgänger.  Kurono defeat his doppelgänger using his Ignition Ability. Nataku felt relief of the kurono doppelgänger defeat.  Kurono was also happy that he will be the one to bully Nataku.