Chapter Summaries

Kenjaku established a hidden experimental site in northern India, where he aimed to create a Special Grade Imaginary Vengeful Spirit by gathering Cursed Energy from believers. The village’s Barrier and chaotic surroundings let him conduct his experiments with little risk of interference.

• After Suguru Geto returned to the Island Nation, Kenjaku handed the Star Religious Cult over to him and became the target of a nationwide hunt for sorcerers with stitched seams across their foreheads.
• Kenjaku fled the Island Nation after the hunt made it difficult to hide, then remotely directed the Kamo Family to gather intelligence on Suguru Geto and the Island Nation’s Jujutsu World.
• Inspired by Eiji’s Special Grade Imaginary Heroic Spirit, Kenjaku began an experiment to create a Special Grade Imaginary Vengeful Spirit from the Cursed Energy of believers.
• Kenjaku chose India for its large population, widespread superstition, and weak local control, and created Barriers around villages to collect Cursed Energy for his experiments.
• Kenjaku linked the Barriers of multiple villages so their populations could supply Cursed Energy to several experimental targets at once.
• Kenjaku settled on a remote northern Indian village as his ideal experimental site, where strange events could be dismissed as drug-induced madness.

Kenjaku inspected a remote Indian village transformed by his experiment and found that its inhabitants had been driven mad or mutated by an emerging Imaginary Vengeful Spirit. He sealed the completed Special Grade Cursed Spirit into a Cursed Object and left, considering how to improve future experiments.

• Kenjaku entered the village behind his Barrier and found most residents asleep while others behaved strangely.
• Kenjaku discovered a young man carving an octopus-like figure and realized the Imaginary Vengeful Spirit had driven him to the brink of madness.
• Kenjaku inspected the basement and found villagers mutating into similar tentacled monsters.
• Kenjaku examined the enormous Cthulhu-style Imaginary Vengeful Spirit and judged the experiment a success.
• Kenjaku sealed the Special Grade Cursed Spirit in an octopus-shaped Cursed Object, then burned the mutated villagers to ash.

Kenjaku reviewed his experiments and learned that the Cthulhu-style Cursed Spirits drove villagers insane, then read reports confirming Eiji had stayed at Tokyo Jujutsu High for most of the month. With Eiji no longer pursuing him, Kenjaku decided he could return to the Island Nation, where an intelligent Special Grade Cursed Spirit had also been reported.

• Kenjaku designated the village devastated by Cthulhu-style Cursed Spirits as an experimental site and stopped using it for other research.
• Kenjaku opened a package of reports and learned that Eiji had become a teacher at Tokyo Jujutsu High.
• Kenjaku read that Eiji had stayed at Tokyo Jujutsu High for twenty-seven days, confirming he could return home without being followed.
• Kenjaku reviewed sparse reports on Satoru Gojo's missions and dessert purchases.
• Kenjaku noticed a report that the Jujutsu Management Council had encountered an intelligent Special Grade Cursed Spirit that kept evading extermination teams.

Maki, Toge Inumaki, and Panda tracked a Cursed Spirit through a sewer after several fruitless extermination missions. Toge found and defeated the creature, but the chapter ended before he rejoined his companions.

• Maki, Toge Inumaki, and Panda found a fresh slime trail leading into a sewer.
• Toge Inumaki entered the sewer alone while Maki and Panda waited outside.
• Toge Inumaki followed the slime and wet footsteps until he encountered a grotesque, many-eyed humanoid Cursed Spirit.
• The Cursed Spirit attacked Toge Inumaki, who blasted it into a wall with Cursed Speech.
• Toge Inumaki judged the Cursed Spirit weak and used Cursed Speech to make its upper body explode.

After discovering that the sewer creature could be photographed by an ordinary phone, Toge Inumaki and Maki realized it was likely human, and the remains were taken to Tokyo Jujutsu High for Shoko Ieiri to examine. The students received a new mission nearby and planned to depart the next morning.

• Toge Inumaki tested the unresponsive creature, photographed it with his ordinary phone, and showed Maki that it was likely human rather than a Cursed Spirit.
• Akari Nitta arranged for the Assistant Supervisor’s team to collect the scattered remains and transport them to Tokyo Jujutsu High for Shoko Ieiri to dissect.
• Maki, Toge Inumaki, and Panda discussed going to a hot spring while they waited for their next assignment.
• Akari Nitta gave the students a new mission from Jujutsu Headquarters, explaining that they would leave the next morning if the Window had not yet provided further details.

Maki, Panda, and Toge Inumaki investigated an isolated village linked to missing people and a missing Window named Sora Inoue, but found only unsettling residents and widespread Cursed Remnants. They spent the night in an abandoned house, where twisted figures began crawling out in the darkness.

• Akari Nitta warned Maki, Panda, and Toge Inumaki that the mission’s grade was unknown and told them to retreat if the situation became too dangerous.
• Maki read the report about Window Sora Inoue, who had gone missing after reporting a possible Cursed Spirit in the village.
• The three students searched the village and found no sign of Sora, but Panda sensed many disturbing Cursed Remnants.
• Maki decided they should continue investigating, and the group searched the areas with the most remnants without finding a way to track the Cursed Spirit.
• The students settled in an apparently abandoned house for the night, with Panda taking watch as darkness covered the village.
• Twisted figures crawled out from hidden corners after night fell.

Maki woke on a strange, freezing island without her cursed tool and realized she had been transported somewhere unfamiliar. After fighting off an Octopus Person, she headed toward the island’s ancient stone building, but countless footsteps approached.

• Maki woke in an eerie island landscape and realized she had been separated from her companions and lost her Thousand Machine Umbrella.
• Maki spotted a slime-covered Octopus Person and felt dizzy and nauseated as she studied its appearance.
• The Octopus Person detected Maki, but she dodged its tentacles, tripped it, and hurled it away.
• Maki chose to investigate the ancient stone building, then heard countless footsteps approaching.

Maki and Toge Inumaki found the missing Assistant Supervisor, Sora Inoue, who explained that the island’s curse may be an Imaginary Cursed Spirit born from the Cthulhu Mythos. The chapter ended with Maki learning that the Octopus People were likely humans transformed by the curse.

• Maki fled a group of Octopus People, but the slime-covered ground slowed her and their presence made her dizzy.
• Toge Inumaki used his cursed speech to make the pursuing Octopus People explode, then noticed Maki’s hand and arm had turned pallid Azure.
• Toge Inumaki led Maki to the weakened Sora Inoue, the missing Assistant Supervisor, who had been alone on the island for a day.
• Sora Inoue described the Cthulhu Mythos and warned that learning about its beings caused infection, madness, and destruction.
• Sora Inoue revealed his octopus-like skin covered in eyes and said the Octopus People were likely former humans.

Maki and Toge Inumaki investigated how to escape the island domain after Sora Inoue suspected it was a dream. Meanwhile, Eiji received a report about a human transformed into an Octopus Person and suspected Mahito, prompting him to head out with Artoria and call Suguru Geto into action.

• Sora Inoue told Maki and Toge Inumaki that the island might be a dream because he had fallen asleep before arriving there.
• Maki agreed the dream theory fit their experience, and Toge Inumaki offered to test whether dying in the dream would wake them.
• At Tokyo Jujutsu High, Eiji and Artoria reviewed documents as Eiji worked to understand the Jujutsu World's operations.
• Rika Orimoto brought Eiji a support request from Akari Nitta and Shoko Ieiri's report that the Octopus Person had originally been human and altered by jujutsu.
• Eiji suspected Mahito had transformed the Octopus Person, then set out with Artoria and told Suguru Geto to get moving.

Panda guarded Maki and Toge Inumaki as strange tentacled enemies attacked their courtyard at night. After Panda held them off with cursed tools and firearms, Maki woke and joined the fight with the Thousand Machine Umbrella.

• Panda noticed several figures approaching the courtyard and found that Maki had been cursed while she slept.
• Panda carried Maki and Toge Inumaki into the storage room, then stood guard as the enemies entered.
• Panda fought off the tentacled enemies with his fists, Tu Zuomo, and assault rifles.
• An Octopus Person grabbed Panda, but a slash cut it in two before it could attack him.
• Maki woke and attacked the enemies with the Thousand Machine Umbrella in its war scythe form.

Toge used Cursed Speech to wake Maki from the dream, and she returned to the warehouse where she and Panda fought off the Octopus People. Maki, Toge, and Panda set out to find Sora Inoue and the Cursed Spirit’s true body, while Sora spotted them and became eager to join the Jujutsu Sorcerers.

• Toge stopped Maki from trying to wake herself by getting injured and used Cursed Speech to tell her to wake up, causing her to vanish from the dream.
• Maki woke in the warehouse beside Toge, joined Panda, and helped him defeat the Octopus People outside.
• Maki returned to the dream to tell Toge what had happened, then she and Toge emerged and explained that they needed to find Sora Inoue and exorcise the Cursed Spirit quickly.
• Maki, Toge, and Panda found Sora hiding among the village ruins and shot down the Octopus People searching for him.
• Sora asked whether Maki was still recruiting and became excited about joining the Jujutsu Sorcerers after seeing their firearms and Panda.

Maki, Panda, and Toge Inumaki tracked the Cthulhu-style Cursed Spirit to a cave that expanded into an Innate Domain. They fought through its minions and reached the Special Grade, whose gaze began to overwhelm Maki and Toge as Panda shielded them and attacked.

• Panda called Akari Nitta to take Sora Inoue away, while Sora continued imagining becoming a Jujutsu Sorcerer with a Panda of his own.
• Maki, Panda, and Toge followed sticky footprints north of the village and found a cave where they prepared to attack the Cursed Spirit immediately.
• The trio entered the cave, discovered its vast interior was an Innate Domain, and advanced after the sleeping Cursed Spirit awakened its kin and lesser Cursed Spirits.
• Maki led the group through the swarm while Panda and Toge conserved their strength for the stronger enemy ahead.
• The Cthulhu-style Special Grade Cursed Spirit’s eyes made Maki and Toge drowsy, so Panda stepped in front of them and fired his weapons.
• The Cursed Spirit roared and brought its tentacles down on the trio as Toge shouted, "Explode!"

Maki, Panda, and Toge Inumaki confronted a Special Grade Cursed Spirit inside the cave, but its strength and curse left them struggling to fight effectively. Maki kept battling despite being unable to safely observe the enemy, as the group remained at a severe disadvantage.

• Maki transformed the Thousand Machine Umbrella into a greatsword and severed the tentacle attacking the group.
• Toge Inumaki and Panda struck the Cursed Spirit together, but it quickly healed and revealed overwhelming Cursed Energy.
• Panda identified the enemy as a Special Grade Cursed Spirit and charged in to hold it back while Maki circled around it.
• The Cursed Spirit knocked Maki into a cave wall, and Toge Inumaki used Cursed Speech to stop its tentacles before Maki severed them.
• Maki closed her eyes to resist the enemy's curse and continued dodging its attacks while searching for a way to break the stalemate.

Panda and Toge Inumaki struggled to hold back the Special Grade Cursed Spirit while Maki discovered a new way to sense her surroundings. After awakening senses like Toji Fushiguro's, Maki took charge of the fight against the spirit.

• Panda drew the Special Grade Cursed Spirit's attention, was badly injured by its attack, and stood between it and Toge Inumaki.
• Toge Inumaki stopped avoiding the spirit's gaze, while Maki searched for a way to counter its attacks.
• Maki sensed changes in the air around her and used her heightened perception to detect and sever unseen tentacles.
• The spirit caught Panda in a tentacle, but Toge Inumaki halted its attack with Cursed Speech and helped Panda escape.
• Maki appeared beside Panda, severed several tentacles, and launched a fierce assault on the Special Grade Cursed Spirit.

Maki, Panda, and Toge Inumaki fought a Special Grade Cursed Spirit that expanded its Domain, but Maki escaped the barrier and struck the killing blow. After celebrating their victory, the group noticed a cloaked figure with stitched seams on his forehead arrive outside the village.

• Maki overwhelmed the Special Grade Cursed Spirit, which then activated its Domain Expansion and transported the fighters to an ancient city.
• Panda used a Simple Domain cursed tool to protect himself and Toge Inumaki, while Maki was struck by the curse's attack and disappeared.
• Panda and Toge fought back with cursed tools and firearms as the Special Grade Cursed Spirit battered Panda's Simple Domain.
• Panda threw a katana toward the Cursed Spirit, and Maki reappeared, caught it, and cut the Cursed Spirit's head to pieces.
• Maki explained nothing but joined Panda and Toge in celebrating, and Panda suggested they go shopping for clothes that weekend.
• A cloaked figure with stitched seams across his forehead arrived outside the village.

Kenjaku investigated the village and the Lovecraftian Special Grade Cursed Spirit’s dream technique, then discovered that Maki, Toge Inumaki, and Panda had defeated it. He watched the three leave the cave, displeased that his unfinished experimental subject had died.

• Kenjaku examined the mutated villagers and collected several Octopus Person corpses for study.
• Kenjaku prepared to seek out a Cursed Spirit with a Mount Fuji-shaped head, but the Lovecraftian Special Grade Cursed Spirit woke.
• Maki, Toge Inumaki, and Panda discussed their mission and possible rank promotions as they left the cave.
• Kenjaku noticed the Lovecraftian Cursed Spirit’s presence had vanished and glared at the three sorcerers.

Kenjaku summoned the Special Grade Cursed Spirit Otake the Evil King to attack Maki Zenin, Toge Inumaki, and Panda after discovering they had defeated his newly prized curse. As Panda stayed behind to protect the others, Kenjaku summoned another curse, while Eiji watched from above and wondered why Kenjaku had appeared instead of little Mahito.

• Kenjaku recognized Maki Zenin, Toge Inumaki, and Panda, then summoned Otake the Evil King and ordered him to kill them.
• Otake the Evil King attacked the exhausted trio, but Toge Inumaki's Cursed Speech briefly stopped him and Panda struck him.
• Panda offered to hold Otake the Evil King back, and Maki took the injured Toge Inumaki away, intending to return after getting him to safety.
• Kenjaku watched Panda and summoned another Special Grade Cursed Spirit while an unseen black bird circled overhead.
• Eiji watched from the sky and wondered why Kenjaku had appeared instead of little Mahito.

Maki and Toge Inumaki faced Ganesha until Mahoraga arrived, while Artoria rescued the badly wounded Panda from Otake the Evil King. Eiji tracked the Cursed Spirits to Kenjaku and confronted him, ending with both men preparing to fight.

• Maki attacked Ganesha but was struck by its invisible Technique, and Toge prepared to use his last Cursed Speech to help her.
• Mahoraga landed in front of Maki and Toge, while Artoria intercepted Otake the Evil King's axe and reassured the wounded Panda.
• Eiji followed Ganesha's Cursed Remnants to Kenjaku and recognized the two Special Grade Cursed Spirits as his.
• Kenjaku considered using Maki and Eiji's other adopted girls against Eiji, then fired a blood arrow at him.
• Eiji dodged the arrow and summoned a Dharma Wheel with his Maximum Technique: Ten Shadows Wheel.

Eiji used the Ten Shadows Technique and his shadow domain to outmaneuver Kenjaku, drawing him into a close-quarters fight. Eiji ended the chapter by turning the rain against Kenjaku, making it difficult for him to control external blood.

• Kenjaku attacked Eiji with Piercing Blood, but Eiji dodged and used the Ten Shadows Wheel to summon Great Serpent and Rabbit Escape.
• Kenjaku countered the Rabbit Escapes with Tsubaki, then exchanged Piercing Blood and Piercing Water with Eiji.
• Kenjaku struck what he thought was Eiji with Kari-barae, but Eiji emerged from Nue's shadow and broke Kenjaku's arms with a punch.
• Eiji pursued Kenjaku through his shadow domain, where Piercing Bull charged him and forced him to use Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Eiji made rain fall upward through the shadow domain, disrupting Kenjaku's ability to control blood outside his body.

Eiji trapped Kenjaku in his Shadow Domain and used rain from ten Max Elephants to limit his escape. Kenjaku countered with Curtains that suppressed shadows and Shikigami, but Eiji applied their abilities to himself and left Kenjaku surrounded by electricity.

• Eiji spread his Shadow Domain across the area and used ten Max Elephants to rain down water and block Kenjaku’s escape routes.
• Kenjaku revealed that he had studied the Ten Shadows Technique and had provoked the Imperial Duel to understand it.
• Eiji gathered the rain into a rotating Water Prison around Kenjaku, but Kenjaku used Anti-Gravity Mechanism to create an opening and plant a nail.
• Kenjaku raised two Curtains that restricted shadows and Shikigami, causing Eiji’s shadows and summoned creatures to vanish.
• Eiji used the Ten Shadows Wheel to apply Max Elephant’s water ability to himself and attacked Kenjaku with a Water Dragon Bullet.
• Eiji then applied Nue’s ability to himself and spread purple lightning across the water-covered ground, enveloping Kenjaku.