Chapter Summaries

Shen Yuanyi gathered Jujutsu High’s incoming students, including Okkotsu Yuta and Megumi Zenin, and helped Yuta begin to understand his unknown technique. The chapter ended as Yuta sensed Shen Yuanyi’s Wheel of Time and started identifying its power.

• Shen Yuanyi invited this year’s Jujutsu High students to a gathering, and Megumi Zenin joined them.
• Panda, Nanako, Mimiko, Inumaki Toge, and Zenin Maki met Okkotsu Yuta and Megumi at a restaurant, where Yuta learned about the jujutsu families and Maki’s ambition to become head of the Zenin Family.
• When the others asked about his Innate Technique, Okkotsu Yuta admitted that he did not know what it did, so Shen Yuanyi took the group to Jujutsu High’s training ground.
• Shen Yuanyi guided Yuta to release his Cursed Energy, astounding the group with its immense power.
• Shen Yuanyi used the Wheel of Time to show Yuta its Time Acceleration effect, and Yuta began to sense the technique’s power.

Okkotsu copied Shen Yuanyi’s Wheel of Time technique, impressing the first-years and spurring Maki to pursue greater strength. Shen Yuanyi then assigned the four students their first joint exorcism mission while preparing to deal with Mahito, Jogo, and Kenjaku himself.

• Okkotsu used his copied Wheel of Time technique to move behind Panda, and Megumi recognized it before Shen Yuanyi confirmed the Copy technique.
• Maki reflected on the strength of Special Grade Sorcerers, then resolved to grow stronger, while Okkotsu felt embarrassed by the group’s amazement.
• Shen Yuanyi briefed Okkotsu, Maki, Panda, and Inumaki on a remote curse site linked to local ghost stories and ordered them to exorcise the Cursed Spirits together.
• Shen Yuanyi warned the four first-years to retreat if they could not handle the mission, and they promised to complete it.
• Shen Yuanyi left the students to undertake the mission while turning his attention to Mahito, Jogo, and Kenjaku, whom he had located.

Suguru Geto found Mahito and several intelligent Special Grade Cursed Spirits while investigating curse victims whose bodies had been altered through their souls. Shen Yuanyi explained that he intended to use them as a disposable blade against the Higher-ups’ opposition to the New World Plan.

• Suguru Geto told Shen Yuanyi that he had tracked down Mahito’s group and spotted a man with stitches across his forehead.
• Suguru Geto described four intelligent Special Grade Cursed Spirits, and Shen Yuanyi confirmed that they matched the beings he had told Geto to watch for.
• Suguru Geto considered the possibility that intelligent Cursed Spirits could form a new species but concluded that humanity and curses would remain enemies.
• Shen Yuanyi explained that Conservatives in the Jujutsu Higher-ups opposed the New World Plan, while the Reformists had gained enough influence to secure a trial run.
• Shen Yuanyi said he could not openly slaughter the Higher-ups without alienating potential allies, so he planned to use Mahito and the other Cursed Spirits as an unconnected, expendable blade.

Shen Yuanyi planned to use Mahito and the other curses to purge the Higher-ups, then attacked their hidden refuge with his Domain Expansion. He destroyed Dagon’s Domain and confronted Kenjaku, Mahito, Jogo, and the others, who now faced the threat they had feared.

• Shen Yuanyi decided that the Higher-ups needed to be purged and considered using Mahito and the other curses as his blade.
• Geto Suguru led Shen Yuanyi to an abandoned building suspected of hiding Mahito and his allies.
• Shen Yuanyi raised a Curtain and erased the building with Domain Expansion: Final Void.
• Shen Yuanyi’s Domain overpowered Dagon’s Domain, sending Mahito, Jogo, and the others into the real world.
• Shen Yuanyi recognized Kenjaku and greeted him while Jogo and the other curses realized their refuge had not kept them safe from him.

Shen Yuanyi overwhelmed the cursed spirits, killing Jogo and Dagon after Jogo’s attack prompted Dagon to awaken and expand his domain. He spared Kenjaku and the survivors to have them kill the upper ranks of the Jujutsu Higher-ups, while allowing their plan to awaken Sukuna to proceed.

• Jogo considered sacrificing himself so Mahito and Dagon could escape, but Shen Yuanyi sliced his body apart before he could complete his Domain Expansion.
• Dagon forcibly metamorphosed after seeing Jogo dismembered, then used Domain Expansion: Horizon of the Captivating Skandha and unleashed Death Swarm.
• Shen Yuanyi used Wheel of Time: Spin and Ama no Habakiri to shatter Dagon’s domain and kill him.
• Geto Suguru arrived and regretted losing the chance to collect Dagon, while Mahito restrained himself from trying to flee or attack.
• Kenjaku offered to submit, and Shen Yuanyi told him to have his group kill the upper ranks of the Jujutsu Higher-ups while permitting their plan to awaken Sukuna.

Okkotsu Yuta and his companions pursued a powerful Grade 1 Cursed Spirit whose ability to possess wild animals made it difficult to corner. They worked together to hold it still and create an opening for Okkotsu, who used the Wheel of Time to destroy it before collapsing.

• Okkotsu Yuta, Panda, Maki, and Inumaki Toge encountered a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit and were forced to retreat after a difficult first battle.
• The injured Cursed Spirit fled, then possessed wild animals to evade the group as they tracked it through the forest.
• The group agreed that Inumaki, Maki, and Panda would restrain and weaken the Cursed Spirit so Okkotsu would not have to rely on the Wheel of Time alone.
• Inumaki repeatedly used Cursed Speech while Maki and Panda attacked, leaving the Cursed Spirit exposed and badly damaged.
• Okkotsu copied the Wheel of Time and slashed the immobilized Cursed Spirit until it was destroyed, then lost consciousness from exhaustion.

After Okkotsu Yuta recovered from his mission, Gojo Satoru told the students that the Kyoto Sister-School Goodwill Event would use a cooperative format and began preparing them for a Special Grade Cursed Spirit. Tokyo and Kyoto students started intensive training as Shen Yuanyi and the others planned to use the event to cover an attack on the Higher-ups.

• Okkotsu Yuta woke after fainting from exhaustion, and Gojo Satoru praised his performance while Maki, Panda, and Inumaki Toge explained what had happened after the mission.
• Gojo Satoru told the students that the Exchange Event's format had changed and that he would train them for the coming days.
• Gojo Satoru privately considered the plan to use the Special Grade Cursed Spirit as cover while Mahito and the others attacked the Higher-ups and stole sealed Cursed Objects.
• Gojo Satoru took the students back to Jujutsu High and began a rigorous schedule of combat, jujutsu lessons, and weekly missions.
• Utahime began strict training for the Kyoto students, and both schools prepared for the Exchange Event.

Tokyo and Kyoto’s students gathered for the Goodwill Event, which had been changed into a joint mission to exorcise a Special Grade Cursed Spirit. After months of training, the students met one another and prepared to begin the dangerous event under Shen Yuanyi’s guarantee of their safety.

• Gojo Satoru said Kinji Hakari was away on curse missions and used his strength to spur the first-years into more training.
• Okkotsu Yuta and the other students improved through Gojo Satoru’s drills, real curse battles, and Shen Yuanyi’s time-rewinding training.
• Kyoto’s students arrived at Tokyo, where Shen Yuanyi and Gakuganji Yoshinobu met and the students from both schools introduced themselves.
• Todo Aoi greeted Kinji Hakari and lamented that the event would involve exorcising curses rather than fighting each other.
• Maki confronted her twin sister, and Shen Yuanyi warned everyone to take the event seriously before officially opening it.

The students from Tokyo and Kyoto learned that Shen Yuanyi’s Exchange Event would involve a dangerous Special Grade Cursed Spirit, but that deaths would be reversed after the event. As they prepared to fight together, Okkotsu Yuta revealed the limits of his Copy technique, and Todo Aoi asked him to copy Improper Game before they faced the curse.

• Shen Yuanyi announced that the students had to exorcise a Special Grade Cursed Spirit without a time limit or teacher intervention, and Principal Gakuganji declared the Exchange Event open.
• Kamo Noritoshi and Todo Aoi explained that Shen Yuanyi could reverse time and restore students who died during the event after its conclusion.
• The students introduced their techniques as they walked to the starting point, and Okkotsu Yuta revealed that he could Copy others’ techniques.
• Okkotsu explained that he had copied Shen Yuanyi’s Wheel of Time but could use only its limited Time Acceleration, which consumed his lifespan, and that he could not use Gojo Satoru’s Limitless without the Six Eyes.
• Todo asked Okkotsu to Copy Improper Game, while Kamo Noritoshi declined to let him Copy Blood Manipulation because it concerned his family.
• Todo urged the group to finish preparing, find the unknown Special Grade Cursed Spirit, and defeat it.

Okkotsu Yuta and the others tracked down the unknown Special Grade Cursed Spirit and discovered its beauty, snow, and attacks could manipulate emotions. After Inumaki Toge disrupted its influence, Kamo Noritoshi identified it as Snow Woman, while Shen Yuanyi named it a Special Grade Imaginary Vengeful Spirit.

• Okkotsu Yuta copied Todo Aoi's technique and tested it before the group began hunting the Special Grade Cursed Spirit.
• Momo Nishimiya spotted the target, and the team approached through unnatural cold and mist.
• The group found a white-haired woman surrounded by conjured snow and recognized her beauty as a dangerous jujutsu effect.
• Todo Aoi tested a snow spear and realized the attack suppressed emotions, weakening the feelings that drove a sorcerer's Cursed Energy.
• Snow Woman's smile stirred overwhelming affection in the team, but Inumaki Toge used Cursed Speech to wake them.
• Kamo Noritoshi identified the spirit as Snow Woman, and Shen Yuanyi confirmed she was a Special Grade Imaginary Vengeful Spirit.

Shen Yuanyi revealed that Snow Woman’s power manipulated emotions, weakening the sorcerers by suppressing their Cursed Energy. Todo, Kinji Hakari, and Okkotsu Yuta tested her abilities and coordinated attacks, but Snow Woman remained dangerous as the fight continued.

• Utahime questioned whether Snow Woman could threaten the students, and Gojo Satoru argued that her appearance did not reveal her true nature.
• Shen Yuanyi and Todo identified Snow Woman’s technique as emotional manipulation that drained the group’s fighting spirit and hindered their Cursed Energy.
• Todo used Mechamaru’s Cursed Energy-infused shell to dodge Snow Woman’s attack while Kinji Hakari activated his Domain Expansion to test her technique.
• Todo and Okkotsu Yuta coordinated position swaps to land a punch on Snow Woman and test whether her attacks could harm her.
• Okkotsu continued searching for Snow Woman’s weakness as Todo attacked her, insisting that his passion could not be extinguished.

Todo deduced that Snow Woman’s snowflakes manipulated emotions and that the group would need to weaken her before Okkotsu Yuta used the Wheel of Time to test her defenses. Meanwhile, Kenjaku led Jogo, Mahito, and Hanami into Kyoto Jujutsu High to kill the Jujutsu Higher-Ups and seize Sukuna’s Finger before Gojo Satoru arrived.

• Todo recognized that Snow Woman’s snowflakes suppressed emotions, turned affection into love, and let her draw power from the emotions she absorbed.
• Todo concluded that the group needed to wear Snow Woman down and asked Okkotsu Yuta to test her defenses with Copy: Wheel of Time.
• Okkotsu Yuta agreed to try the copied technique, though its duration and intensity would determine how many times he could use it.
• Kenjaku, Jogo, Mahito, and Hanami arrived at Kyoto Jujutsu High to kill the Jujutsu Higher-Ups and retrieve Sukuna’s Finger.
• Kenjaku warned that Gojo Satoru would come if the raid took too long, and the group acknowledged that fighting him could be fatal.

Okkotsu Yuta discovered that Snow Woman’s forced affection could erode a fighter’s reason, then joined Todo in organizing a coordinated assault to overwhelm her before their minds gave way. After the group wounded Snow Woman and Kamo Noritoshi pierced her head, she began deploying her Domain Expansion.

• Okkotsu Yuta attacked Snow Woman in the Timeless State, resisted her emotional influence through his memories of Orimoto Rika, and warned Todo that resisting the affection could drive the mind toward collapse.
• Todo suspected Kinji Hakari had been affected, swapped him out of the fight, and rallied the others to attack Snow Woman together.
• Maki, Panda, Kasumi Miwa, Todo, and the ranged fighters coordinated their assault, with Kasumi Miwa using New Shadow Style principles to keep fighting without treating Snow Woman as someone she had to kill.
• Inumaki Toge stopped Snow Woman with Cursed Speech, allowing Kamo Noritoshi to strike her head with Hundred Binding: Piercing Blood; Todo and the others followed with a barrage of attacks.
• As Snow Woman sensed death and could no longer heal efficiently, she formed a throne of ice and snow arms and began her Domain Expansion.

Snow Woman’s Domain Expansion trapped Okkotsu and the others in a forced love for her, while the adults learned that several unknown Special Grade Cursed Spirits had attacked Kyoto. Gojo Satoru left to defend Kyoto, and Kasumi Miwa prepared to hold Snow Woman back as Okkotsu worked to understand her technique.

• Snow Woman’s domain seized the students’ emotions, making them love her and hesitate to attack despite Todo’s command.
• Shen Yuanyi explained that the students had to face the domain through their hearts, while Gojo Satoru urged the adults to trust them.
• Ijichi reported that several unknown Special Grade Cursed Spirits had broken into Kyoto Jujutsu High’s Forbidden Repository and attacked the Jujutsu Higher-Ups.
• Gojo Satoru left for Kyoto, while Shen Yuanyi kept the Exchange Event going and ordered Suguru Geto and the sorcerers to prepare for possible attacks.
• Okkotsu told Todo he had not yet understood Snow Woman’s technique well enough to Copy it, and Kasumi Miwa stepped forward to hold Snow Woman back with New Shadow Style: Simple Domain.

Kasumi Miwa fought Snow Woman on the front line while Okkotsu Yuta analyzed the Special Grade Cursed Spirit’s technique despite its power twisting his love for Rika into love for Snow Woman. Okkotsu chose to attack Snow Woman anyway, and the chapter ended as flames appeared on her face.

• Kasumi Miwa used the Living Sword principle and Simple Domain to resist Snow Woman, while Todo praised her and helped her evade attacks.
• Okkotsu Yuta asked to approach Snow Woman to analyze her technique, and Todo agreed before using Improper Game to swap Miwa out of danger.
• Okkotsu joined the fight as Todo supported him and Miwa, but Snow Woman’s influence made Okkotsu confuse his love for Rika with his feelings for her.
• Kamo Noritoshi, Momo Nishimiya, Maki Zenin, Panda, and Kinji Hakari began to falter as the technique overwhelmed them, while Maki struggled with the pain of attacking someone she loved.
• Okkotsu accepted the ordeal as a chance to face his feelings for Rika, then switched positions and stabbed Snow Woman with his Cursed Blade.
• Snow Woman prepared to kill Okkotsu, but flames suddenly appeared on his face as the Technique: Copy activated.

Okkotsu Yuta freed his allies from Snow Woman’s emotional control, helping them defeat her before Shen Yuanyi intervened and restored them to full strength. Shen Yuanyi announced that the Exchange Event was suspended because Curse Users and cursed spirits had invaded both schools, while he and Suguru Geto watched the Tokyo attackers and turned their attention toward the greater threat in Kyoto.

• Okkotsu Yuta suppressed the group’s love for Snow Woman and restored their anger, allowing Todo, Kamo Noritoshi, Inumaki Toge, Maki, Panda, Kinji Hakari, and the others to counterattack.
• Okkotsu Yuta struck Snow Woman with Godspeed Slash, and his allies overwhelmed her until a mysterious force stopped their bodies and Cursed Energy.
• Shen Yuanyi appeared, rewound the students’ conditions to their pre-battle peak, declared that they had passed the trial, and suspended the Exchange Event because of invasions in Kyoto and Tokyo.
• Okkotsu Yuta, Maki, and Todo discussed the invasion as they returned to the main building, with Todo warning that the attackers likely had a specific objective.
• Shen Yuanyi handed Snow Woman to Suguru Geto, who absorbed her and discussed how her emotional-control technique might be useful.
• Suguru Geto pointed out the Curse Users fighting Rainbow Dragon, while Shen Yuanyi noted that Kenjaku had orchestrated invasions in both cities and focused on the threat in Kyoto.

After an attack on both Jujutsu Highs, Shen Yuanyi ordered the captured Curse Users interrogated while Gakuganji suspected the invasion might be tied to the Reformists. News from Kyoto revealed that Gojo Satoru had repelled the enemy, but the attack had also killed several Higher-ups, leaving the Jujutsu World facing a major upheaval.

• Ijichi reported that thirteen invading Curse Users had been defeated, with nine dead and four injured, and Shen Yuanyi assigned Geto Suguru to interrogate the survivors.
• Gakuganji considered whether the invasion was a Reformist purge, but Shen Yuanyi reassured him that Kyoto was protected and that the captured attackers would be judged.
• Shen Yuanyi arranged for neutral figures, including Mei Mei, to participate in the interrogations as evidence of his sincerity.
• News from Kyoto confirmed that Gojo Satoru had killed one powerful enemy and driven the others away, though the battle had heavily damaged Kyoto Jujutsu High.
• The attackers had stolen some sealed Cursed Objects and killed several Higher-ups trapped at Kyoto Jujutsu High, threatening a major shift in the Jujutsu World.

Gojo Satoru reported that intelligent Cursed Spirits had attacked both jujutsu schools, stolen Sukuna’s Finger, and killed Kyoto’s Conservative higher-ups. As suspicions fell on the Reformists and Shen Yuanyi, he denied being able to revive the dead while privately revealing that he intended to use the crisis to clear the way for the coming generation.

• Gojo Satoru told the jujutsu leaders that Jogo, Mahito, and Hanami were intelligent Cursed Spirits who recognized him, and that Hanami had died while the others escaped.
• Gojo Satoru said the attackers had breached Kyoto’s Forbidden Repository and likely stolen Sukuna’s Finger, and he suspected they planned to revive Ryomen Sukuna.
• Gojo Satoru described how Jogo’s fire and magma technique had killed people at the schools, including Conservative higher-ups gathered at Kyoto Jujutsu High, prompting suspicion that their deaths were no coincidence.
• Gakuganji Yoshinobu wondered whether Shen Yuanyi could restore the dead, but Shen Yuanyi said his technique needed a surviving target.
• Shen Yuanyi privately acknowledged that he could have reversed the destruction, but chose not to and planned to use Kenjaku and Sukuna to reshape the Jujutsu World and remove the old power structure.

After the Exchange Event, Shen Yuanyi left the political aftermath to his allies and focused on plans for the New World. In Sendai, Itadori Yuji and the Supernatural Phenomena Research Club opened a talisman-wrapped object and discovered a dried finger.

• The Curse Users captured after the attack revealed that Kenjaku had hired them to distract Gojo Satoru and reach the Forbidden Repository or the Tombs of the Star Corridor.
• The Conservatives abandoned thoughts of retaliation and began considering changing sides, while Shen Yuanyi and the Reformists made no move to exploit their weakness.
• Shen Yuanyi left the aftermath and negotiations to his people and turned his attention to the plan to usher in the New World.
• At Sugisawa Third High School, Sasaki invited Itadori Yuji to investigate an occult object she had obtained, and Yoshitake Keiji joined them.
• Sasaki opened the object’s wooden box in the club room, and the students unwrapped a dried, eerie finger.

Itadori Yuji volunteered to examine a strange, talisman-wrapped finger, sensing that it might finally lead him to a real supernatural encounter. As Iguchi spotted a pair of eyes at an impossible height beyond the classroom door, Itadori realized the source of his fear was behind him.

• Itadori Yuji stepped forward to investigate the finger after Iguchi voiced his fear about being alone in the school.
• Itadori reflected on his extraordinary physical strength and his persistent desire to encounter supernatural beings.
• Sasaki suggested that Itadori pick up the finger, and he reached into the box to examine it.
• Iguchi felt a faint draft and saw a pair of eyes watching through the high windows above the classroom door.
• Iguchi collapsed in terror, and Itadori recognized that his gaze and body pointed toward whatever had frightened him.