Chapter Summaries

Riezel met with the group planning to rescue Gojo Satoru and Fushiguro Megumi, then demonstrated how he could enter the Culling Game without revealing his identity. He disguised himself as the foreign Curse User Erik Mozart, whom he had killed after searching his memories.

• Riezel and Okkotsu Yuta teleported to a secluded cabin and joined Itadori Yuji, Nanami Kento, and Zenin Maki.
• Riezel explained that he planned to disguise himself and enter the Culling Game, while Nanami warned that Geto Suguru could identify him by his cursed energy.
• Riezel recalled that he had once defeated a Special Grade Imaginary Cursed Spirit without cursed energy and showed that he could suppress his energy and presence with the Clear World.
• Riezel used Aromadi to transform into a platinum-blond foreign young man, making his appearance impossible to recognize.
• Riezel revealed that the disguise was based on Erik Mozart, a foreign Curse User whom he had killed and whose memories he had searched.

Riezel explained how Erik Mozart’s Heavenly Restriction made his disguise useful for entering the Culling Game without exposing his lack of cursed energy. The group agreed that he should participate, but they still had to choose which barrier to enter, and Yuji proposed an idea.

• Nanami and Yuta explained Heavenly Restrictions, and Maki described her physical-strength-focused restriction while the group wondered if Yuji had one too.
• Yuta and Nanami recalled Fushiguro Toji, whose zero cursed energy had made him powerful enough to nearly kill the young Gojo.
• Riezel confirmed that Erik Mozart had a weak body and a body-enhancement cursed technique strengthened by his Heavenly Restriction, a secret that could help conceal Riezel’s identity.
• Nanami reasoned that Geto would mistake Riezel for another Heavenly Restriction bearer, and the group agreed that Riezel should enter the Culling Game as Erik.
• Maki asked which barrier they should infiltrate, and Yuji said he had an idea he wanted them to hear.

Riezel entered the Sendai Barrier to hunt for points and pursue Geto Suguru, choosing his own approach instead of Itadori Yuji’s plan to unite peaceful players. After checking the Culling Game’s rankings, he crossed the barrier and began falling toward the ground inside.

• Riezel arrived at the Sendai Barrier, where panicked residents gathered outside its immense black curtain.
• Riezel recalled that the group had split up, with Itadori Yuji and Nanami Kento entering the Tokyo First Barrier and the Tokyo Jujutsu High third-years entering the Tokyo Second Barrier.
• Riezel rejected Itadori Yuji’s plan to stop the game through point transfers and decided to pursue Geto Suguru by gathering points himself.
• Kogane registered Riezel as Erik Mozart and showed him Sendai’s rankings, led by Duruf Rakdawara with ninety-one points.
• Riezel checked the players with at least one hundred points and saw Kashimo Hajime and Hagane Gakuto listed.
• Riezel entered the Sendai Barrier and found himself falling through the air toward the ground.

Riezel entered the Sendai Barrier and drew the attention of Duruf Rakdawara, Uro Sakurako, and nearby players seeking easy points. After a group of Curse Users attacked him, Riezel killed the first attacker with a single blow, leaving the others stunned.

• Duruf Rakdawara noticed a newcomer entering the Sendai Barrier and sent a shikigami to hunt him for points.
• Uro Sakurako spotted the newcomer falling into the barrier and flew toward him, hoping to gain points before Duruf could.
• Riezel crashed through a house, surveyed the ruined neighborhood, and reflected on civilians suffering in the Culling Game.
• Several nearby Curse Users surrounded Riezel, mistook the cursed energy in his bag for proof that he was a Curse User, and attacked him for five points.
• Riezel blasted apart the first attacker’s black mist and struck the player so hard that he exploded.

Riezel slaughtered the players who ambushed him in the Sendai Barrier, using the Special Grade Curse Tool Lotus Flower to disguise his fighting style and gain 30 points. After explaining how he selected Curse Tools that would conceal his identity, he confronted and destroyed a massive shikigami.

• Kogane announced that Riezel had killed Erik Mozart and awarded him 5 points, causing the surrounding players to flee.
• Riezel caught and killed the fleeing players in seconds, raising his total to 30 points.
• Riezel explained that Lotus Flower could store cursed energy and let him fight while disguised as Erik Mozart, and that he had selected two other concealed weapons, including a trump card.
• A giant fish-shaped shikigami descended on Riezel, who struck it with Lotus Flower and hurled rubble at it.
• Riezel caught up with the wounded shikigami and smashed its head, killing it.

Riezel destroyed Duroff Rakdawara’s shikigami and confronted Uro Sakurako, an ancient sorcerer in the Sendai Barrier. Uro spoke of living freely in Kengso’s game, then attacked Riezel with her space-manipulating technique and sent him crashing through buildings.

• Riezel assessed how his physical strength compared with the strongest sorcerers and cursed spirits, concluding that few opponents could threaten him without an overwhelming technique.
• Duroff Rakdawara realized Riezel had destroyed one of his special shikigami and set out to kill him.
• Ishiryuu saw the shikigami’s destruction from a rooftop and went to investigate, hoping the Sendai Barrier’s stalemate would break.
• Uro Sakurako appeared before Riezel and explained that the destroyed shikigami belonged to Duroff.
• Uro revealed that she was an ancient sorcerer from the Heian Era who wanted to live for herself and survive Kengso’s game, while Riezel admitted he did not know what Kengso was.
• Uro tore at the space before her and struck Riezel with it, hurling him through a wall and several buildings.

Riezel battled Uro Sakurako in the Sendai Barrier, enduring her sky-manipulating cursed technique and learning its details as he fought. Ishiryuu watched as another powerful figure arrived, and Riezel was trapped by Black Shadows before an enormous creature swallowed him.

• Uro Sakurako used her spatial cursed technique to twist Riezel's arm and smash him through buildings, but Riezel counterattacked and grievously wounded her with his physical strength.
• Uro Sakurako recognized Riezel's power as the reverse of Heavenly Restriction and disclosed that her technique let her seize and manipulate the sky.
• Riezel dodged Uro Sakurako's attacks across the rooftops while memorizing her technique and deciding it would bear the Li name.
• Ishiryuu identified Riezel as Erik Mozart, watched their battle, and noticed another powerful figure enter the battlefield.
• Several Black Shadows surrounded Riezel, stopped him with an invisible barrier, and an enormous creature descended and swallowed him.

Riezel destroyed Duroff’s shikigami and faced the ancient sorcerer as Uro Sakurako and Ishiryuu fought over who would claim him. After defeating Duroff with Black Flash, Riezel left the two remaining players stunned.

• Riezel burst out of Duroff’s colossal shikigami, and Uro Sakurako struck Duroff into a transmission tower before Ishiryuu joined the fight.
• Uro Sakurako and Ishiryuu battled over Riezel, trading attacks while Riezel watched from the sidelines.
• Duroff revealed that his shikigami’s movement paths formed his domain, then sent a swarm of shikigami to attack Riezel.
• Riezel used Clear World to dodge through the swarm and struck Duroff with Black Flash, killing him and earning five points.
• Uro Sakurako and Ishiryuu stopped fighting and froze after witnessing Riezel kill Duroff.

After Riezel killed Duroff, Higo awakened and unleashed a vast swarm of Cursed Energy-enhanced cockroaches across the Sendai Barrier. Riezel tracked the swarm to its source and found Higo, a Special Grade Cursed Spirit.

• Riezel killed Duroff with a single punch, and Uro Sakurako and Ishiryuu realized the death would awaken Higo.
• Higo awoke from dormancy and sent its cockroach army flooding through the Sendai Barrier, devouring people and raising its game points.
• Uro Sakurako and Ishiryuu fled the advancing swarm, while Riezel fought off cockroaches with bursts of Cursed Energy.
• Riezel used Kogane to identify Higo as the source of the swarm and followed the Cursed Energy he sensed toward its center.
• Riezel reached Higo and discovered that the Sendai Barrier’s Cursed Spirit Caller was a Cursed Spirit.

Riezel battled Higo, a Special Grade cockroach cursed spirit, while Uro Sakurako and Ishiryuu watched. After Lotus Flower ran out of stored cursed energy, Riezel unleashed flames from his sling bag and struck Higo.

• Riezel identified Higo as a cursed spirit and attacked it amid the cockroach swarm.
• Higo fought back with its Rotten Life Blade and insect army, but Riezel repeatedly deflected its attacks and blasted the cockroaches with Lotus Flower’s cursed energy.
• Ishiryuu praised Riezel’s fighting ability and observed that Lotus Flower’s stored cursed energy was nearly exhausted.
• Lotus Flower ran out of cursed energy, and Higo and its cockroaches closed in on Riezel.
• Riezel pulled an item from his sling bag, unleashing Crimson Lotus Flame that burned the cockroaches, then slashed Higo.

Riezel killed Higo with Onikiri, a legendary cursed blade, and Uro Sakurako recognized the weapon and tried to take it. Ishiryuu attacked Uro Sakurako to claim Riezel for himself, leaving Riezel facing both players as their battle began.

• Riezel burned through Higo's cockroach swarm, severed his arm, and killed him with Onikiri.
• Uro Sakurako and Ishiryuu recognized Onikiri as a legendary cursed tool, and Riezel explained that he had found it inside a cursed spirit.
• Uro Sakurako demanded the blade, and Riezel challenged her to take it.
• Ishiryuu blasted Uro Sakurako with a Cursed Energy Shockwave and declared that he wanted to fight Riezel.
• Uro Sakurako charged at Riezel while Ishiryuu prepared another Shockwave, beginning a melee against Riezel from both sides.

Riezel fought Ishiryuu and Uro Sakurako in the ruined Sendai Barrier, overpowering them with his Sun Breathing techniques despite their combined attacks. As both opponents began Domain Expansion, Riezel prepared to answer with his own ultimate technique, Blooming Radiance.

• Ishiryuu attacked Riezel with his immense Cursed Energy Output, but Riezel blocked his blows and explained the source of his strength.
• Riezel cut apart Ishiryuu’s point-blank Cursed Energy Shockwave, kicked him away, and Uro Sakurako blasted him with Uro’s Bullet.
• Uro Sakurako attacked Riezel, who wounded her with Scorching Bone Flame Sun before cutting through her and Ishiryuu with Halo Dragon Head Dance.
• Wounded and realizing Riezel still had strength to spare, Uro Sakurako and Ishiryuu both began Domain Expansion.
• Riezel sheathed Onikiri and announced that he would show them Blooming Radiance.

Riezel destroyed Uro Sakurako and Ishiryuu’s domains and defeated them with his sword, but left them alive after the battle. He asked Uro who Kengso was.

• Uro Sakurako and Ishiryuu expanded their domains to trap Riezel, but he unleashed Secret Art: Blooming Radiance and sliced both domains apart.
• Riezel overwhelmed their counterattacks with Azure Sky and struck Uro Sakurako and Ishiryuu down with a wheel of fire.
• After the battlefield’s hazards vanished, Ishiryuu and Uro Sakurako lay badly wounded and bickered while recovering.
• Riezel found the two survivors and, after they accepted their defeat, refused to kill them.
• Riezel watched Uro Sakurako and asked her who Kengso was.

Riezel learned from Ishiryuu and Uro Sakurako that Kengso was an ancient Curse User who had survived by taking over bodies, including Geto Suguru’s, and had arranged the Culling Game. As Riezel questioned Kengso’s goals and the revival of Ryomen Sukuna, a new rule allowed players to transfer points to one another.

• Riezel asked Ishiryuu and Uro Sakurako about Kengso, and they explained that he had arranged their incarnations through binding vows and survived by changing bodies.
• Riezel concluded that the current Geto Suguru was Kengso occupying the body of the Geto Suguru Gojo Satoru had killed, and wondered about Kengso’s motives and connection to Tengen.
• Uro Sakurako reacted in disbelief when Riezel told her Ryomen Sukuna had revived, appeared in Shibuya, and been defeated.
• Riezel considered killing Ishiryuu and Uro Sakurako to reach 50 points, but Kogane announced that players could now transfer any number of points to other players.

Riezel learned that Itadori Yuji had established a rule allowing players to transfer points, then used his own points to add a rule that could designate targets as Culling Game players. He named Kengso as his target, and Kengso was ordered to enter the Sendai Barrier.

• Riezel recognized that Itadori Yuji had persuaded Hagane Gakuto to add the point-transfer rule, then accepted 77 points from Ishiryuu and 70 from Uro Sakurako.
• Riezel spared Ishiryuu and Uro Sakurako after warning them not to bring their violent habits into ordinary society.
• Uro Sakurako asked who had defeated Ryomen Sukuna, and Riezel claimed that Riezel Brihaut had done so.
• Riezel learned that Kogane administered rule changes and added a rule allowing players to designate targets for entry into specified barriers by paying points.
• Riezel spent 10 points to designate Kengso as a player who had to enter the Sendai Barrier.
• Kengso, disguised as a monk inside a cursed spirit, received Kogane's notice ordering him to participate in the Culling Game in the Sendai Barrier.

Kengso learned that he had been compelled to enter the Culling Game and discussed Sukuna’s revival plans with Uraume before going to the Sendai Barrier. There, Riezel confronted him and demanded the Prison Realm, threatening to kill him if he refused.

• Kengso reviewed reports on the Sendai Barrier and learned that Riezel had defeated several powerful players.
• Uraume told Kengso that preparations for Sukuna’s return were complete, and Kengso said he would leave Sukuna’s side to Uraume while he went to meet Riezel.
• At the Sendai Barrier, Kengso approached Riezel and offered him a suspicious drink after Riezel’s vending machine failed.
• Riezel used the Clear World to see the living brain inside Geto Suguru’s body and confirmed that Kengso was not Geto Suguru.
• Riezel demanded that Kengso hand over the Prison Realm and threatened to kill him if he refused.

Riezel and Kengso fought through a ruined plaza, with Kengso revealing several techniques and Riezel proving resistant to his attacks. As both men recovered from the clash, Riezel asked Kengso what his goal was.

• Riezel cut down Kengso’s cursed spirits with Onikiri, but Kengso used Anti-Gravity Mechanism to pin him down and punch him.
• Riezel endured the blow and severed Kengso’s wrist, then learned Kengso could use techniques taken from bodies he had occupied and regenerate with Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Kengso’s hidden cursed spirits bound Riezel, but Riezel used Sun Breathing: Fourth Form - Mirage Sun Rainbow to escape and attack from behind.
• Kengso crushed the plaza with Anti-Gravity Mechanism and fired his Ultimate Technique, Vortex, but Riezel survived the explosion.
• Wounded and recovering, Kengso asked why Riezel had saved Gojo Satoru, and Riezel asked Kengso what his goal was.

Kengso explained that he planned to assimilate all humanity with Tengen, creating a higher existence so he could study its cursed energy and techniques. Riezel condemned Kengso as a curse, and Kengso declared that Riezel had to be eliminated before gathering darkness in his hand.

• Kengso told Riezel that he wanted to optimize cursed energy by evolving all humanity through assimilation with Tengen.
• Kengso explained that the Culling Game’s ten barriers would gather cursed energy from the deaths of sorcerers and non-sorcerers to fuel the assimilation ritual.
• Kengso revealed that his true motive was to research the new existence and discover whether its cursed spirit, cursed technique, and cursed energy could be controlled or used with Vortex.
• Riezel called Kengso a curse that had to be exorcised.
• Kengso said Riezel’s lack of cursed energy made him unfit for the new world and raised a hand filled with darkness to kill him.

Uraume helped Ryomen Sukuna transfer from Itadori Yuji into Fushiguro Megumi, then brought him the final five fingers to restore his complete power. Meanwhile, Riezel attacked Kengso with Circular Dance Flash, leaving Kengso struggling to survive.

• Uraume prepared Fushiguro Megumi as Sukuna’s new vessel while Megumi’s consciousness sank in the black pool.
• Sukuna tore off a finger containing his soul and power, fed it to Fushiguro Megumi, and revived in his body; he knocked Itadori Yuji into the pool.
• Uraume gave Sukuna the five remaining fingers, including the one Kengso had recovered, and Sukuna swallowed them to complete his return.
• Sukuna turned his attention toward the Sendai Barrier after considering going to Itadori Yuji.
• Riezel attacked Kengso with Circular Dance Flash, cutting him repeatedly and nearly severing his head before Kengso’s Anti-Gravity Mechanism deflected the slash.

Riezel defeated Kengso’s Domain and devastating Vortex without revealing enough power to collapse the Culling Game barriers, but an unseen attacker interrupted his final strike. Kengso escaped as a severed head, and Ryomen Sukuna arrived with another figure to confront Riezel.

• Kengso summoned two powerful cursed spirits to buy time, then opened his Womb of the Universe Domain and attacked Riezel with a massive Vortex.
• Riezel realized Kengso intended to use the collapse of the Culling Game barriers to trigger humanity’s assimilation with Tengen, so he restrained his power and unleashed Secret Art: Blooming Radiance.
• Riezel’s slash destroyed Kengso’s Domain and body, but Kengso abandoned Geto Suguru’s body and fled as a head while his techniques were burned out.
• Riezel caught up to Kengso and moved to kill him, but an invisible Dismantle struck his blade and forced him to retreat from further slashes.
• Two figures descended before Riezel, and one of them praised his swordsmanship before declaring his dislike of fiery people.