Ch. 289Sukuna’s Caution
Akesato protected Tsumiki and the other bystanders from Sukuna’s Domain Expansion and provoked Sukuna into revealing more of his abilities. Sukuna held back because of his limited strength, then Yuji Itadori awoke and suppressed him, leaving Akesato with a vision of a skeletal throne and a king resembling Yuji.
- Sukuna’s slashes struck a black sphere that carried Tsumiki and the other two safely beyond Malevolent Shrine’s boundary.
- Akesato told Sukuna his power came from a summon-build style rather than a Cursed Technique and taunted him about losing to someone without one.
- Akesato tried to bait Sukuna into revealing the abilities inside his Black Box, but Sukuna refused to take the risk while he had only one finger.
- Akesato retreated from the domain, and Sukuna dispelled it rather than waste his limited cursed energy.
- Akesato switched to the Sabrina Template and reached Yuji Itadori’s heart, waking him and causing Sukuna to be suppressed.
- Before Akesato’s vision went dark, Sukuna looked at him, and Akesato saw a white-robed man resembling Yuji seated atop a mountain of skeletons.