Chapter Summaries

Eiji arrived after Satoru Gojo defeated Toji Fushiguro and helped treat him, then reunited with the others aboard a cruise ship. He explained how he had used Toji and Medea to free Riko Amanai from her fate as Tengen’s Star Plasma Vessel, and the group planned to take her abroad until that connection weakened.

• Satoru Gojo awakened and defeated Toji Fushiguro with Hollow Wicker: Purple, leaving Toji alive but missing his left arm.
• Eiji arrived, treated Toji with Giant Elephant, and left with Satoru Gojo to join Suguru Geto and the others.
• Aboard a Tokyo Bay cruise ship, the group shared a fish feast prepared by Heroic Spirit Emiya.
• Eiji explained that Toji’s interference had made Riko Amanai temporarily undetectable to the Cursed Energy system, while Medea’s Barrier had allowed her to be revived in isolation.
• Eiji said Medea would take Riko Amanai abroad, where sparse Cursed Energy would weaken her binding to Tengen until Tengen’s evolution broke their causal connection.

Eiji explained how Tengen's Barrier trapped Cursed Energy in the island nation and how Toji Fushiguro's existence disrupted the karmic system, freeing Riko Amanai from the merger. He revealed that Future Sight had shown Riko's death and Suguru Geto's defeat by Toji, leaving Geto to confront what his future self had faced.

• Eiji explained that Tengen's Barrier kept Cursed Energy from dispersing and that Toji Fushiguro's lack of Cursed Energy had disrupted the system's attempt to connect the Star Plasma Vessel's death to him.
• Eiji told Satoru Gojo and the others that Riko Amanai would be free once Tengen began evolving and no longer needed a Star Plasma Vessel.
• When Satoru Gojo asked how Eiji knew so much, Eiji said he had Future Sight and described Toji Fushiguro shooting Riko Amanai in the Tombs of the Star Corridor.
• Suguru Geto remembered Toji Fushiguro's silent approach and realized he would not have been able to stop the attack, while Satoru Gojo urged him not to worry about events that had not happened.
• Eiji recounted how Toji Fushiguro defeated Suguru Geto in the future by cutting Rainbow Dragon in half, bypassing Kuchisake-onna's guaranteed hit, and exploiting Geto's failed attempt to subdue his Cursed Spirit.

Eiji teased Gojo and Geto by revealing their possible futures, including Gojo becoming a teacher and Geto leaving to lead the Star Religious Cult. The chapter ended with Gojo and Geto noticing Eiji’s brief sadness and Gojo promising to protect Geto.

• Gojo offered to help Geto take revenge on Toji Fushiguro, and Eiji suggested hiring Toji as a physical education teacher.
• Eiji claimed Geto would adopt Nanako and Mimiko, prompting Gojo to interrogate Geto before learning the twins were adopted.
• Eiji revealed that Gojo would adopt Megumi Fushiguro and become a teacher at Tokyo Jujutsu High, while Geto would leave Gojo and take over the Star Religious Cult.
• Gojo and Geto grabbed Eiji after his teasing grew wilder, then later discussed the sadness they had noticed in him.
• Gojo told Geto he would protect him, and Geto replied that he was strong enough on his own.

After the Star Plasma Vessel incident, Kenjaku avoided capture and chose a new identity within the Kamo Family. She visited young Yuji Itadori, gave him instructions under a Binding Vow, and made him forget their meeting.

• Tokyo Jujutsu High faced investigations after Tengen entered seclusion, while the Zenin and Kamo Families argued over responsibility and the Star Religious Cult took the blame.
• Kenjaku celebrated preventing Tengen's merger but decided to abandon Kaori Itadori's body because investigators were searching for her.
• Kenjaku considered potential bodies, rejected Suguru Geto as too conspicuous, and chose to infiltrate the Kamo Family.
• Kenjaku visited Yuji Itadori and explained that she had prepared him as a vessel capable of restraining Ryomen Sukuna.
• Kenjaku made Yuji forget their meeting through a Binding Vow, and he fell asleep again.

Toji Fushiguro became a physical education teacher at Tokyo Jujutsu High and sparred with Artoria, whose skill impressed him. After the students tested him, he left with a bruised face, reminded to behave like a teacher.

• Masamichi Yaga introduced Toji Fushiguro as Tokyo Jujutsu High’s new physical education teacher after the Gojo Family cleared him of responsibility for the failed assimilation.
• Toji Fushiguro sparred with Artoria and was disarmed after she countered his attacks with precise technique.
• Artoria and Toji Fushiguro resumed their fight with wooden swords while Shoko Ieiri, Eiji, and the others watched and cheered.
• Toji Fushiguro ended the spar and said he had nothing to teach Artoria, then turned his attention to Eiji and the other two.
• Eiji and the other two repeatedly beat Toji Fushiguro, who went home with a bruised, swollen face after Satoru Gojo warned him to behave like a teacher.

Medea watched Artoria train with Toji Fushiguro through a Crystal Ball, then was caught indulging in her Artoria collection and fantasies. After Masamichi Yaga invited her to join an outing to Shinjuku, Medea blushed and erupted in steam.

• Medea entered her hidden Magic Workshop, filled with Artoria models, photos, figurines, and magical tools.
• Medea watched Artoria face Toji Fushiguro on the Training Ground and imagined curses to punish him if he hurt her.
• After Artoria's fight, Medea ignored the other matches and lost herself in fantasies about dressing Artoria in various outfits.
• Masamichi Yaga entered the workshop, found Medea surrounded by her Artoria collection, and invited her to meet everyone for a trip to Shinjuku.
• Medea recovered from her shock and burst into clouds of steam.

Satoru Gojo gathered his classmates to test his improved Limitless, promising Artoria a feast afterward. The test failed to splash water on him, and Satoru revealed he had automated his technique and mastered new applications as he prepared to work on Domain Expansion and long-distance teleportation.

• Satoru Gojo invited the group to play outside and promised to pay for a feast, which immediately won Artoria over.
• Shoko Ieiri remembered Artoria refusing Medea’s invitation because her intuition warned her that Medea had ulterior motives.
• Eiji stole Shoko Ieiri’s beer, poured it into a bucket, and hid it in his shadow so he could prank Satoru Gojo.
• Shoko Ieiri, Suguru Geto, and Artoria threw stationery at Satoru Gojo while Eiji emerged from his shadow and poured water over him, but Limitless blocked the attacks.
• Satoru Gojo explained that Limitless now automatically assessed threats and could run with little energy, while Reverse Cursed Technique repaired his brain.
• Satoru Gojo demonstrated activating his technique without hand signs and switching between Azure and Red, then said he would work on Domain Expansion and long-distance teleportation.

Eiji considered whether the Ten Shadows Technique could use Reverse Cursed Technique and, with Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, explored how positive energy might affect Shikigami. Their discussion led Eiji to summon Giant Elephant to test whether Reverse Cursed Technique could heal a Chimera Beast.

• Eiji wondered whether the Ten Shadows Technique could use Reverse Cursed Technique while watching Satoru Gojo demonstrate his techniques.
• Eiji asked Suguru Geto whether Cursed Spirit Manipulation could use Reverse Cursed Technique, and Shoko Ieiri noted that positive energy destroyed Cursed Spirits.
• Satoru Gojo joined the conversation and suggested that infusing Cursed Energy into the whole Ten Shadows Technique could strengthen Shikigami before they were fully summoned.
• Eiji explained that he created Chimera Beasts by fusing Shikigami, and Suguru Geto asked what Reverse Cursed Technique would do to one.
• Eiji realized he had not tried using positive energy to heal a Chimera Beast and summoned Giant Elephant.

Eiji discovered that channeling the Reverse Cursed Technique into a fused Shikigami could separate its components by restoring them from their independent cores. He then revealed that he had been keeping Mahoraga partially manifested and stored in his shadow.

• Satoru Gojo had Eiji sit on Giant Elephant and channel the Reverse Cursed Technique at full output.
• Round Deer emerged from Giant Elephant's head, tumbling off with Eiji, and Giant Elephant shrank.
• Satoru Gojo explained how Reverse Cursed Technique caused the fused Shikigami's Cursed Energy signatures to separate.
• Eiji realized that Positive Energy restored each Shikigami from its core and confirmed Giant Elephant could no longer use the Reverse Cursed Technique without Round Deer's core.
• Eiji showed Mahoraga's Dharma Wheel and explained that he kept Mahoraga partially manifested in his shadow.

Eiji used the Holy Grail and the Third Magic to explore his soul and uncover the origin of the Ten Shadows Technique. As the technique’s projection in his soul was repaired, Little White entered it, and Eiji’s shadow erupted around Medea.

• Eiji asked Medea to oversee his wish to explore his soul and the Ten Shadows Technique, then began the ritual with the Holy Grail.
• Eiji found Mahoraga and the Shikigami within the Ten Shadows Technique’s magic circle in his soul, including the blurred Michigaeri Gem representing Little White.
• Eiji followed the magic circle’s connection into the Shadow World and discovered the technique’s origin and the creatures living there.
• Eiji touched the magic circle, absorbed Shadow Cursed Energy, and repaired its projection in his soul.
• Little White sensed the change, turned into a streak of light, and flew into Eiji’s soul, leaving a golden game piece behind.
• Medea raised a Barrier as Eiji’s shadow erupted and engulfed the room.

Eiji opened the door to the Shadow World and created the Maximum Technique: Ten Shadows Wheel, which let him manifest shikigami traits and weapons. After testing his new wings and Piercing Ox Spear, he was told to repair the ceiling he had broken.

• Medea reinforced her Barrier as Eiji's growing power showed that his attempt to open the Shadow World had succeeded.
• Eiji and Mahoraga used the Ten Shadows Technique formation to create the Ten Shadows Wheel, and Eiji returned from the Shadow World with it above his head.
• Eiji used the wheel to manifest Nue's wings and a Piercing Bull weapon, then reshaped the weapon into a spear.
• Eiji flew to the Training Ground and hurled the Piercing Ox Spear through a Straw Man, burying the spear in the ground.
• Satoru Gojo told Eiji to fix the ceiling he had smashed through, then teased him about his new look and plucked at his wings.

Eiji demonstrated his newly comprehended Maximum Technique, Ten Shadows Wheel, which summoned all ten Shikigami and let him combine them into armor. He left Satoru Gojo with a Rabbit Escape paw print on his face, while Suguru Geto considered copying the trick with his Cursed Spirits.

• Satoru Gojo and Eiji argued over who was more handsome as Shoko Ieiri examined Eiji's wings.
• Eiji explained Ten Shadows Wheel and summoned all ten Ten Shadows Shikigami at once.
• Satoru Gojo joked that Eiji could open a zoo at Tokyo Jujutsu High, and Eiji agreed.
• Eiji transformed the Shikigami into Ten Shadows Armor, combining them into equipment around his body.
• Eiji used a Toad to launch Rabbit Escapes at Satoru Gojo, and one struck his face.
• Suguru Geto figured out the Toad's surprise attack and considered using a similar nested-summoning tactic.

As the Cursed Spirits’ active period waned, Naobito Zenin gave Eiji a secret mission to investigate Tengen, whose evolution could turn her into a Cursed Spirit and destabilize the Jujutsu World. Eiji accepted the assignment and planned to meet with Tengen to learn what she wanted.

• Naobito Zenin dismissed Shuji Zenin and told Eiji that Jujutsu Headquarters had assigned him a highly classified mission.
• Eiji guessed that the mission involved the fugitive Curse User who had attacked Tokyo Jujutsu High, and Naobito revealed that it also concerned Tengen.
• Naobito explained that Tengen had emerged from seclusion and might evolve into a Cursed Spirit, threatening the nation’s Barriers and the Jujutsu World.
• Naobito handed Eiji the investigation report and instructed him to observe Tengen, using Mahoraga if she had lost control.
• Eiji accepted the mission and decided to speak with Tengen about cooperating, while Naobito used a supposed school inspection as an excuse to drink with Masamichi Yaga.

Eiji visited Tengen in the Tombs of the Star Corridor and reported the Jujutsu Management Council’s findings. Tengen identified Kenjaku as the culprit and explained his plan to assimilate everyone in Japan with her, leaving Eiji aware of the threat.

• Eiji entered the Tombs of the Star Corridor and found Tengen in a white space beneath the great tree.
• Tengen asked Eiji why he had come, and he handed her the investigation report prepared by the Jujutsu Management Council.
• After reading about the stitched forehead, powerful Cursed Spirits, and other abilities, Tengen identified Kenjaku as the thousand-year-old sorcerer behind the attacks.
• Eiji asked why Kenjaku had targeted the Star Plasma Vessel, and Tengen explained that he wanted to assimilate everyone in Japan with her.
• Tengen warned that the assimilation would disrupt her will and unleash immense malice capable of drowning the world.

Eiji questioned Tengen about Kenjaku, the Star Plasma Vessels, and her plans, then asked her to explain her past. Tengen began recounting how her Barrier work spread across the country and met resistance when she connected the Barriers together.

• Eiji asked why Tengen had not eliminated Kenjaku and why she had stopped merging with Star Plasma Vessels; Tengen said evolution would happen eventually and there was no need to rush it.
• Eiji realized the souls of the Star Plasma Vessels remained within Tengen and wondered whether their suffering had influenced her decision not to merge again.
• Eiji asked whether Tengen was a valid target for Cursed Spirit Manipulation, and Tengen confirmed that she was; Eiji warned that Kenjaku could take Suguru Geto's body and target him.
• Eiji asked Tengen to tell him why she had established her Barrier across the Island Nation, and Tengen began describing her past.
• Tengen said she had initially built Barriers to help people, but they spread across the country and she later connected them; people resisted because they feared losing their interests and privacy.

Eiji learned that Tengen had become passive and resigned after centuries of erosion, and concluded that Kenjaku was likely to defeat her. After reporting that Tengen posed no threat for decades, Eiji looked ahead to his third year at Tokyo Jujutsu High and reviewed the major events he expected.

• Eiji told Tengen that Kenjaku would defeat her because he had prepared steadily while she had made no equal effort.
• Eiji left the Tombs of the Star Corridor, having learned that Tengen was harmless unless her life was threatened, and considered gradually bringing the national Barrier under his control.
• Eiji had Shuji Zenin submit his findings to Jujutsu Headquarters, which accepted his conclusion that Tengen would not affect the balance of power for decades.
• At the Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event, the Kyoto students fled from Satoru Gojo and focused on exorcising Cursed Spirits before he caught them.
• Idzuchi Taka enrolled at Tokyo Jujutsu High, and Eiji reviewed his notebook of future events, including Yu Haibara’s death and Suguru Geto’s defection.

Eiji put Kento Nanami, Yu Haibara, and Kiyotaka Ijichi through brutal training to prepare Nanami and Haibara to survive encounters with Grade 1 Cursed Spirits. After the boys finished their laps, Eiji arranged for Toji Fushiguro to continue their combat training and explained the weapons and escape practice he had prepared.

• Eiji made Tiger Funeral chase the three boys through obstacle-filled laps, and Kiyotaka Ijichi tripped and was eliminated.
• Shoko Ieiri healed Ijichi with Reverse Cursed Technique while Eiji summoned Round Deer to heal Nanami and Haibara after they completed their laps.
• Eiji told Toji Fushiguro to train the boys in hand-to-hand combat, leaving Nanami and Haibara dreading the next stage.
• Eiji explained to Shoko that he wanted Nanami and Haibara to survive Grade 1 Cursed Spirits, not necessarily defeat them alone.
• Eiji described his preparations: Lab-made weapons, Toji's combat training, and Tiger Funeral chasing the boys to teach them to escape.

Eiji watched Satoru Gojo turn shooting practice into a chaotic game, while Nanami, Haibara, and Ijichi improved as they tried to hit him. Afterward, Eiji warned Gojo that Yuki Tsukumo would soon persuade Suguru Geto to leave, and Gojo vowed to stop her.

• Eiji took Nanami, Haibara, and Ijichi to an uninhabited place for moving-target practice, with Satoru Gojo serving as the target.
• Gojo taunted the three and attached a brightly marked wooden sign to his butt to give them something to aim at.
• Nanami, Haibara, and Ijichi coordinated their attacks and improved their accuracy, while Eiji sent Suguru Geto a photo and invited him to join them.
• Gojo told Eiji that the three had improved during practice and asked when they could play again.
• Eiji warned Gojo that Yuki Tsukumo would try to persuade Geto to leave, and Gojo promised to keep her from meeting Geto alone.

Eiji and Suguru Geto rested with Yu Haibara and discussed the recent surge in Cursed Spirits and Haibara’s Younger Sister. Yuki Tsukumo arrived at Tokyo Jujutsu High, asked whether Geto and Mr. Dongfang were present, and immediately asked what type of woman they liked.

• Eiji gave Suguru Geto Honey Tea and told him to take care of himself as they discussed the exhausting Cursed Spirit missions.
• Yu Haibara joined Eiji and Suguru Geto, shared that he was finding the missions tough but fulfilling, and said he would persuade his Younger Sister not to become a Jujutsu Sorcerer.
• Eiji and Suguru Geto encouraged Yu Haibara and discussed his Younger Sister’s wish to follow him into sorcery.
• Yuki Tsukumo approached the three, addressed Geto and Mr. Dongfang, and asked what type of woman they liked.

Yuki Tsukumo explained her goal of creating a world without Cursed Spirits and proposed using Toji Fushiguro as a model for eliminating Cursed Energy. Eiji challenged the feasibility of her plan, leaving Yuki insisting that a way must exist.

• Yu Haibara enthusiastically told Yuki Tsukumo that he liked girls with big appetites, while Suguru Geto recognized her as the Special Grade Sorcerer who avoided missions.
• Yuki said she had come to find Satoru Gojo and see Toji again, and Eiji corrected her that Toji's surname was Fushiguro.
• Yuki explained to Suguru Geto that Cursed Spirits came from leaking Negative Emotions and outlined two ways to eradicate them: eliminate humanity's Cursed Energy or make everyone a Jujutsu Sorcerer.
• Yuki described Toji Fushiguro's zero Cursed Energy and Heavenly Restriction as a possible model for a world where Cursed Energy strengthened people's bodies instead of producing Cursed Spirits.
• Eiji argued that applying Heavenly Restriction to all humanity was impractical and would provoke the Cursed Energy system and Jujutsu World, but Yuki insisted there had to be a way.