Chapter Summaries

Eiji and Kenjaku escalated their battle from a war of attrition to close combat, each suffering severe heart injuries as the Curtain began to break. Eiji then revealed his Open Domain, Heroic Spirit Throne, leaving Kenjaku to reconsider how he could escape.

• Kenjaku armored himself with blood and exchanged attacks with Eiji until he changed tactics and charged in using the Anti-Gravity Mechanism.
• Eiji summoned Tiger Funeral, Piercing Bull, and gained the upper hand in their close-quarters fight.
• Kenjaku used his blood armor to set up an elbow strike, but Eiji dodged with a burst of gale and counterattacked from above.
• Nue battered the Curtain with Thunder as Kenjaku and Eiji struck each other's hearts at the same time.
• As the Curtain cracked, Kenjaku and Eiji began expanding their Domains, and Eiji unveiled the Open Domain: Heroic Spirit Throne.
• Kenjaku realized Eiji could summon Special Grade Heroic Spirits within his Domain and began thinking about escape.

Eiji and Kenjaku clashed across their Domains, summoning Heroic Spirits and Cursed Spirits in a fierce battle. Kenjaku survived Medusa’s charge by sacrificing his right arm, then recovered as Eiji summoned Medea and another spear-wielding Heroic Spirit entered the fray.

• Eiji and Kenjaku traded barbs as Heroic Spirit Emiya attacked Kenjaku’s Domain with arrows, while Kenjaku used gravity and Cursed Spirits to stop them.
• Emiya detonated a Broken Phantasm between the Domains after Kenjaku redirected its path with gravity.
• Eiji summoned Hundred-Faced Hassan to fight the incoming Cursed Spirits and Medusa to break through Kenjaku’s defenses.
• Medusa rode Pegasus into Kenjaku’s Domain, briefly hindered him with her gaze, and struck him after he sacrificed his right arm’s defense to protect his body.
• Kenjaku bound Medusa and Pegasus with Blood Manipulation, endured their impact, and used Reverse Cursed Technique to heal his arm.
• Eiji mocked Kenjaku for calling him crazy as Medea appeared beside him and another spear-wielding Heroic Spirit entered Kenjaku’s Domain.

Kenjaku used the Pox God’s domain to escape Eiji and the Heroic Spirits, while Mahoraga subdued Ganesha. Eiji planned to trap Kenjaku next time and went to treat Maki and Toge Inumaki.

• Kenjaku sent his Cursed Spirits to attack as he prepared to flee, but Emiya’s arrow grazed his forehead.
• Kenjaku led his Cursed Spirits toward Eiji and clashed domains with him while the Pox God concealed itself among the attackers.
• The Pox God trapped Eiji and the Heroic Spirits in its domain, allowing Kenjaku to escape before Eiji shattered the domain.
• Eiji planned to have Tengen and Medea create a Curtain that Kenjaku could not leave, then headed toward Mahoraga and the injured Maki and Toge Inumaki.
• Mahoraga knocked Ganesha unconscious with a punch after remembering Eiji wanted it captured alive.

Artoria defeated Otake the Evil King and left him for Suguru Geto, while Eiji treated Maki and Toge Inumaki after their battle. Maki had reached Toji Fushiguro's level, and Eiji offered Toge a strange way to learn Reverse Cursed Technique: let Satoru Gojo enter his body.

• Artoria overpowered Otake the Evil King, shattered his axe, and punched him more than a hundred meters away.
• Otake the Evil King opened a Domain Expansion, but Artoria broke it and badly wounded him; she told Panda to leave the Cursed Spirit for Suguru Geto.
• Eiji treated Maki and Toge Inumaki, recognized that Maki had reached Toji Fushiguro's level, and congratulated her.
• Toge Inumaki admitted he had made no progress learning Reverse Cursed Technique and refused Satoru Gojo's offer to give him a near-death experience.
• Eiji asked Toge Inumaki whether he would accept Satoru Gojo entering his body, leaving Toge confused.

Eiji tried to find someone to help Toge Inumaki learn the Reverse Cursed Technique, but Toge panicked at each candidate and begged to stop. Suguru Geto arrived to collect Pox God, and Eiji teased him about playing an American cop in a movie.

• Eiji suggested Satoru Gojo as Toge Inumaki's Reverse Cursed Technique teacher, but Toge refused after imagining an unsettling secret lesson.
• Eiji proposed Shoko Ieiri and Yuta Okkotsu as alternatives, and Toge rejected both while imagining the consequences of getting involved with them.
• Toge Inumaki thanked Eiji, begged him to stop the lesson, and performed a dogeza.
• Suguru Geto arrived to collect Pox God, and Eiji joked that Geto was suited to play an American cop because he often showed up after the fighting was over.
• Suguru Geto agreed to take such a movie role if one became available and asked whether that was why Eiji had summoned him in the middle of the night.

Eiji asked Suguru Geto to take several Special Grade Cursed Spirits, then explained that he wanted Toge Inumaki to learn the Reverse Cursed Technique because Cursed Speech’s side effects were severe. Suguru warned that letting Satoru Gojo practice inside Inumaki’s body could make him misuse Cursed Speech, and Eiji agreed to keep Gojo away from it.

• Eiji offered Suguru Geto Pox God, Ganesha, and Otake the Evil King as consolation for a lost SSR Cursed Spirit.
• Suguru Geto swallowed the Cursed Spirit Jade, while Eiji remembered that he had forgotten Toge Inumaki was there and handed him to Maki.
• Eiji told Suguru Geto he wanted Inumaki to learn the Reverse Cursed Technique because Cursed Speech’s side effects were too severe and Satoru Gojo was unwilling to help.
• Suguru Geto warned Eiji about the consequences of letting Gojo enter Inumaki’s body, and they imagined Gojo using Cursed Speech to torment Utahime, Mei Mei, and Kento Nanami.
• Suguru Geto advised Eiji to give up on Gojo helping Inumaki, and Eiji agreed to protect Inumaki’s body from him.

After Panda pointed out that Eiji and Artoria barely acted like a couple, Eiji asked Panda for dating advice and arranged a Summer Festival date. Artoria arrived in a kimono chosen with help from Shoko Ieiri and Rika Orimoto, and Eiji tried to follow Panda’s advice by complimenting her.

• Eiji cleared every Tokyo exorcism commission in one day, earning Tokyo Jujutsu High a week-long holiday so he could take Artoria to a Summer Festival.
• Two days earlier, Panda asked Eiji about his relationship with Artoria and pointed out that they acted more like classmates than boyfriend and girlfriend.
• Eiji admitted he did not know how couples should behave and asked Panda to teach him about dating.
• Panda agreed to help and gave Eiji advice for meeting Artoria, including complimenting her appearance and outfit.
• Artoria arrived in a pink kimono selected with help from Shoko Ieiri and Rika Orimoto, and Eiji awkwardly praised how beautiful she looked.

Rika Orimoto and Shoko Ieiri dressed Artoria for the Summer Festival, and Artoria chose a pink kimono before leaving with Eiji. Eiji invited her to a popular coffee shop, where they could spend time together before the festival.

• Rika Orimoto and Shoko Ieiri made Artoria try several outfits before she settled on a pink kimono.
• Rika Orimoto and Shoko Ieiri celebrated their successful makeover after Artoria left Tokyo Jujutsu High.
• Eiji admired Artoria's appearance and felt uneasy when he noticed her expression.
• Eiji invited Artoria to a popular coffee shop while they waited for the Summer Festival.

Eiji and Artoria enjoyed a café date, where they discovered that the café’s enormous “Full in One Cup” coffee contained creamy coffee noodles. Panda and Toge Inumaki watched them until Satoru Gojo arrived with plans to surprise Eiji using the Gojo Family’s shops, leaving the three attracting curious stares on the street.

• Eiji and Artoria ordered enormous coffees and discovered that the drinks contained noodles, which they ate while chatting and enjoying their date.
• Panda and Toge Inumaki watched Eiji and Artoria from outside the café and agreed that Eiji seemed normal.
• Satoru Gojo surprised Panda and Toge Inumaki, explaining that he had come to help his best friend Eiji on his date.
• Satoru Gojo revealed that every shop along the road to the foot of the mountain belonged to the Gojo Family and promised Eiji a street full of surprises.
• Panda and Toge Inumaki grabbed Satoru Gojo’s legs and jokingly asked to become his adopted children, while passersby mistook the trio for performers.

Eiji and Artoria entered a ramen-eating contest after discovering an unexpected Gourmet Challenge. Artoria won the competition and received a prize coupon for the shop across the street.

• Satoru Gojo distracted Panda by discussing whether he liked anyone, then slipped away with Toge Inumaki to follow Eiji and Artoria.
• Eiji and Artoria found the izakaya closed and were invited by a waitress to compete in an all-you-can-eat ramen challenge.
• Eiji chose spicy ramen while Artoria chose tonkotsu, and both began eating as the contestants were served more bowls.
• Eiji withdrew after trying several ramen varieties, while Artoria continued eating alongside a sumo wrestler.
• Artoria finished thirty-six bowls, beating the sumo wrestler's twenty-five and setting a new record.
• The waitress congratulated Artoria and awarded her a coupon for the shop across the street.

Eiji and Artoria used the eating contest prize for beauty treatments, where Artoria's makeover flustered Eiji. They left for the Summer Festival instead of taking the salon's offered room, frustrating Satoru Gojo and the others who had hoped the pair would get closer.

• Eiji questioned why an eating contest prize included beauty services, and the salon attendant persuaded him and Artoria to try them.
• Artoria agreed to the treatments, and the salon staff gave her light makeup that made Eiji blush.
• The attendant offered Eiji and Artoria a room upstairs, but Artoria reminded him they still had the Summer Festival to attend.
• Eiji and Artoria decided to keep exploring, while Satoru Gojo lamented that they had missed their chance to get closer.
• Panda compared matchmaking the pair to getting pandas to mate, and Toge Inumaki understood the comparison after watching them leave.

Gojo tried to get Eiji and Artoria together by arranging a hotpot dinner and serving them sake, while Panda questioned whether alcohol would help. The attempt remained uncertain, and Panda began wondering whether Tokyo Jujutsu High sorcerers were cursed to lose interest in romance.

• Gojo used Azure to send a prize ticket into the beauty salon, and the beautiful man gave it to Eiji and Artoria as they left.
• Eiji and Artoria accepted the one-yen hotpot coupon and went to the restaurant, where the manager seated them in a VIP room and complimentary sake was served.
• Gojo explained his Plan B to Panda and hoped the alcohol would make Eiji and Artoria more likely to get together.
• Panda warned Gojo that excessive drinking could suppress desire, and Gojo admitted he had not yet worked out Plan C.
• Panda considered how few Tokyo Jujutsu High sorcerers seemed to date and wondered whether becoming a sorcerer came with a curse against romance.

Eiji and Artoria visited the Summer Festival, where they ran into Maki and Mai carrying dozens of plush toys Maki had won at a shooting stall. After Eiji stored the toys, Maki scared off a boy who tried to approach the sisters.

• Eiji and Artoria sampled apple candies while walking through the Summer Festival.
• Eiji met Maki and Mai, who explained that Maki had won every plush toy at a shooting stall and gotten them blacklisted by the stall owners.
• Eiji stored the sisters’ plush toys in his shadow so they could enjoy the festival without carrying them.
• Maki and Mai returned from the grove with Eiji and Artoria, prompting nearby boys to realize they had only put away the toys.
• A boy tried to approach Maki and Mai, but Maki’s intimidating presence made him bow and flee.

Satoru Gojo tried to win Toge Inumaki a game console at a rigged lottery stall, then forced the shopkeeper to hand over two consoles. Panda and Toge Inumaki ended the scene holding them.

• Toge Inumaki noticed a game console marked as the grand prize, and Panda suggested that Satoru Gojo win it for him.
• Satoru Gojo took money from Toge Inumaki and spent it on lottery tickets, while the shopkeeper watched him lose repeatedly.
• Satoru Gojo calculated that the odds of winning even a fifth prize were suspiciously low and challenged the shopkeeper to sell him every remaining ticket.
• Satoru Gojo threatened to expose the shopkeeper, who agreed to refund his money and provide extra compensation.
• Satoru Gojo asked for the game console, and Panda and Toge Inumaki ended up holding two consoles.

Yuta Okkotsu and Rika Orimoto enjoyed the Summer Festival, where Yuta won a pile of water balloons for her. They exchanged matching Fox Masks and headed hand in hand to find a good place to watch the fireworks.

• Rika Orimoto asked Yuta Okkotsu to win her a water balloon, and he carefully caught the orange-red one she liked.
• Yuta Okkotsu continued fishing until he had cleared every water balloon from the stall’s tub, then carried them all to Rika Orimoto.
• Rika Orimoto chose the first balloon Yuta had caught, gave him a blue one, and sold the extras back to the stall owner.
• Rika Orimoto wiped the water from Yuta Okkotsu and gave him a Fox Mask matching her own.
• As the fireworks show approached, Rika Orimoto took Yuta Okkotsu’s hand and led him toward the mountainside viewing platform.

Eiji and Artoria spent the Summer Festival enjoying games and fireworks together, while Satoru Gojo arranged a spectacular confession-themed fireworks display to make them face their feelings. Artoria thanked Eiji for the wonderful day, and they watched the fireworks fade while holding hands.

• Eiji and Artoria lit sparklers together, and Eiji remembered setting off fireworks as a child in his previous life.
• Eiji and Artoria tried festival games and stalls, with Artoria delighting in experiences she had never had as an ordinary girl.
• Satoru Gojo recruited Suguru Geto and a professional team to stage a romantic fireworks display featuring Eiji and Artoria.
• Eiji recognized Satoru Gojo's plan as fireworks depicting the pair and cheesy confessions appeared in the sky.
• Artoria thanked Eiji and said she had had a great time, and Eiji took her hand as they watched the fireworks end.

Kento Nanami interviewed Reiko about a curse incident linked to Tomie, while Tomie reappeared at school and terrified Teacher Takagi. Reiko recalled how classmates’ jealousy and curses gathered around Tomie during an outdoor class, where she had secretly met Takagi.

• Kento Nanami questioned Reiko about the events surrounding the students’ suicides and mental breakdowns.
• Tomie appeared at school, and Teacher Takagi recognized her despite believing she was dead.
• Tomie embraced Takagi and reminded him of his promise to be with her after graduation, prompting him to flee in terror.
• Reiko wondered whether Tomie’s return had been a dream as the story revealed Tomie’s Demonic Charm and her relationships with Yamamoto and Teacher Takagi.
• During an outdoor class, Yamamoto saw Tomie leaning against Takagi, and classmates gathered to gossip and curse her.

Tomie told Teacher Takagi she thought she was pregnant, and Yamamoto confronted them. After Yamamoto shoved Tomie from a raised platform, Teacher Takagi and the students concealed what happened and mutilated her body, until Tomie briefly woke and Teacher Takagi stabbed her to death.

• Tomie told Teacher Takagi that she thought she was pregnant.
• Yamamoto confronted Tomie and Teacher Takagi, and Tomie admitted they had been intimate.
• Yamamoto slapped Tomie and shoved her from the raised ground, leaving her severely injured.
• Teacher Takagi stopped Yamamoto from calling an ambulance and persuaded the students to hide the incident.
• Teacher Takagi directed the students as they mutilated Tomie's body, and Tomie woke from the pain.
• Teacher Takagi repeatedly stabbed Tomie until she died.

Reiko told Kento Nanami how Tomie’s classmates created and disposed of pieces of her, after which Tomie returned and drove students insane. Nanami and Yu Haibara investigated new evidence linking Tomie to Reiko’s identity, while Tomies began growing in multiple hidden places.

• Reiko recounted how Teacher Takagi led the class in creating and hiding forty-two pieces of Tomie, and how Tomie returned to the classroom afterward.
• Kento Nanami comforted Reiko and promised to handle the case before leaving with Yu Haibara to continue the investigation.
• Nanami and Haibara learned that Teacher Takagi had escaped from the psychiatric hospital and that someone resembling Tomie had appeared along his route.
• Nanami examined photographs showing Mizukuri Reiko in two different forms and considered whether Tomie had taken her identity or could control other people’s bodies.
• Nanami concluded they could not yet tell whether Tomie was a Cursed Spirit or a living person with an awakened Technique, and he and Haibara headed to investigate.
• A lump of flesh began growing into a Tomie in a cave, as other Tomies also started growing in a forest, beside a river, and in alleyways.

Yukiko Mitsuo watched Masashi Kitayama leave the hospital with Reiko Mizutani, then faced Reiko’s demand that she stop seeing him and her claims that Yukiko was a burden. After Reiko was driven out, Yukiko ate food that would worsen her illness.

• Masashi Kitayama visited Yukiko Mitsuo, expressed regret that he could not donate a kidney, and left early.
• Yukiko Mitsuo saw Reiko Mizutani walk away with Masashi Kitayama and collapsed in despair.
• Several days later, Reiko Mizutani visited Yukiko Mitsuo and told her not to see Masashi Kitayama again.
• Yukiko Mitsuo denied Reiko’s accusations, then threw an object at her after Reiko insulted her and called her a burden to Masashi Kitayama.
• A nurse drove Reiko Mizutani from the room, and Yukiko Mitsuo ate food that would worsen her condition that night.