Chapter Summaries

During the exchange event, Lin Mu stunned the students by blocking Todo’s charge with a single punch before slipping away to hunt cursed spirits. The chapter left Lin Mu heading toward the densest cursed energy, eager to exorcise as many spirits as possible.

• Lin Mu stayed near the middle of the group until Todo charged at him, then met Todo’s punch head-on and forced him back.
• Maki and the other students realized Lin Mu had matched Todo’s strength, and Lin Mu vanished from the group.
• Itadori challenged Todo and answered his question about his preferred type of girl, causing Todo to imagine that they had been best friends since middle school.
• Todo attacked Itadori with a powerful punch, and Itadori recognized how terrifying Todo’s strength was after witnessing Lin Mu stop him.
• Lin Mu activated his Sharingan and headed toward the densest cursed energy to hunt the cursed spirits.

Lin Mu abandoned the exchange event to hunt cursed spirits and raise his inheritance progress, while Maki's team realized Kyoto Jujutsu High might be targeting Itadori. The chapter left Itadori in possible danger, surrounded by Kyoto students.

• Lin Mu used the smoke to escape the crows' surveillance, and Mei Mei could not track him while Satoru Gojo expected Kyoto to underestimate him.
• Lin Mu exorcised a group of cursed spirits with shuriken, raised his inheritance progress toward 27%, and summoned six Shadow Clones to hunt in different directions.
• Lin Mu headed toward the strongest cursed presence, expecting to find the target cursed spirit there.
• Maki's team searched for Lin Mu, and Maki guessed he had gone off alone to prove himself.
• Maki noticed Kyoto's students had not appeared and realized they might be targeting Itadori; Fushiguro agreed that Kyoto's principal could have ordered them to kill him.

Itadori was surrounded by Kyoto Jujutsu High, but Lin Mu’s clone intervened and held them off until Maki and the others arrived. Meanwhile, the real Lin Mu exorcised cursed spirits elsewhere, pushing his inheritance progress past 27%, while Principal Gakuganji explained that the spirits were meant to accelerate the competition rather than endanger the students.

• Kyoto Jujutsu High surrounded Itadori and tried to kill him, but living branches and redirected shuriken disrupted their attacks.
• Lin Mu’s clone blocked Kamo Noritoshi and Mechamaru’s combined strike with flames, then struck Kamo when they attacked again.
• Maki and the other Tokyo Jujutsu High students arrived to back up Itadori and Lin Mu’s clone as the schools prepared for a melee.
• The real Lin Mu exorcised dozens of cursed spirits and learned that his inheritance progress had exceeded 27%.
• Principal Gakuganji told Utahime that he had released more than five hundred cursed spirits to speed up the competition and did not expect the students to exorcise them all.

Lin Mu used Shadow Clones to exorcise cursed spirits across the exchange event, astonishing the watching principals as talismans burned by the hundreds. After finding the target cursed spirit near a cave, he chose to rest while his clones continued clearing the forest.

• Dozens and then hundreds of talismans burned, showing that Tokyo Jujutsu High had exorcised large numbers of cursed spirits.
• Mei Mei used her crows to find Lin Mu and showed Gakuganji that several Lin Mus were active in different parts of the forest.
• The Lin Mu on-screen incinerated a group of cursed spirits, while the other copies continued exorcising them.
• Lin Mu traced the target cursed spirit to a cave but delayed confronting it so he could keep clearing the remaining cursed spirits during the event.
• Lin Mu lay down on a tree branch to nap and left the exorcism work to his Shadow Clones.

Fushiguro tried to keep Kamo from stealing Tokyo’s points as the students searched for scarce cursed spirits. Inumaki helped Fushiguro secure a Grade 3 spirit, and the reunited teams compared scores, with Tokyo totaling twenty-three points.

• Kamo followed Fushiguro and stole four points by exorcising cursed spirits before the Divine Dogs could reach them.
• Fushiguro called Tokyo’s students to his location and tried to hold off a rare Grade 3 cursed spirit until they arrived.
• The cursed spirit bolted into the open, but Inumaki used Cursed Speech to stop Kamo and let Fushiguro’s Divine Dogs exorcise it.
• Tokyo and Kyoto’s students regrouped and estimated their scores, with Tokyo tallying twenty-three points and Inumaki leading with seven.

Kyoto Jujutsu High tried to secure a Grade 2 cursed spirit, but Fushiguro and an unseen attacker prevented Mechamaru from claiming it. Two identical Lin Mus appeared, and one was stunned when Mai mentioned that Tokyo had exorcised more than four hundred cursed spirits.

• Kamo assessed Kyoto's points and ordered the team to block Tokyo and steal its cursed spirits.
• A Grade 2 cursed spirit charged toward the schools, and Kyoto sent Mechamaru to exorcise it while the others held Tokyo back.
• Maki broke through Kyoto's encirclement, and Fushiguro rushed after the spirit on Nue and summoned Max Elephant against Mechamaru's blast.
• The spirit was found dead with Lin Mu's kunai in its forehead, though neither Mechamaru nor Fushiguro had exorcised it.
• A second Lin Mu arrived, and the two identical figures discussed a wave of more than forty cursed spirits as Mai scoffed that Tokyo could not have exorcised that many.
• The newly arrived Lin Mu demanded to know who had been monitoring them after Mai claimed Tokyo had exorcised over four hundred cursed spirits.

Lin Mu’s clones revealed that he had already exorcised most of the cursed spirits and found the target, securing Tokyo Jujutsu High’s victory. The final scores left Lin Mu with an overwhelming lead, while Kyoto Jujutsu High struggled to believe how thoroughly he had outmaneuvered them.

• Mai accused Lin Mu of lying, but Maki learned that neither Lin Mu present was the main body and that his clones were exceptionally strong.
• Lin Mu told Maki he had exorcised around four hundred cursed spirits and earned roughly eight hundred points, causing her to faint.
• Kamo urged his team to search for the target cursed spirit, but Lin Mu said the match was already over.
• The announcement declared Tokyo Jujutsu High the winner, stunning Kyoto Jujutsu High.
• The detailed scores gave Lin Mu 864 points and Mechamaru 12, leaving Kyoto Jujutsu High speechless.

Lin Mu’s team celebrated their exchange-event victory before Hanami, a powerful special-grade cursed spirit, ambushed them and trapped them beneath a Curtain. Mechamaru was destroyed, and as the students joined forces against Hanami, Itadori launched a surprise attack.

• Kamo, Mechamaru, and Maki reacted to Lin Mu’s overwhelming performance, and the clones vanished after Maki asked to borrow his special-grade cursed tool.
• Hanami appeared and suppressed the students, then destroyed Mechamaru when he tried to fire his energy cannon.
• Fushiguro used Nue to pull Junpei away as the students recognized Hanami as a special-grade cursed spirit and a Curtain closed around them.
• Kamo concluded the attack was premeditated, and Maki urged everyone to hold out until Gojo-sensei arrived.
• Hanami attacked with controllable spikes, and the Kyoto and Tokyo students narrowly defended themselves together.
• Itadori rushed Hanami with a cursed-energy-charged fist after a pebble transformed into a bow.

Itadori and Todo fought Hanami while a veil designed to keep Satoru Gojo out trapped the school and intercepted the responding teachers. Lin Mu finished exorcising a hidden cursed spirit, sensed the attack, and headed toward Maki as he looked forward to testing his growing strength.

• Itadori struck Hanami but failed to hurt it, and Todo used his clap to save Itadori from Hanami’s spikes before joining him in battle.
• Satoru Gojo discovered that the veil repelled him while allowing Utahime to pass, and he sent her ahead to protect the students as he considered whether Tokyo Jujutsu High had a traitor.
• A golden-ponytailed curse user ambushed Utahime, while a pig-butcher curse user confronted Principal Gakuganji, who fought back with an electric guitar.
• Lin Mu burned through a cave with Majestic Destroyer Flame and the Uchiha Fan, raising his inheritance progress to 29%, then recalled his Shadow Clones and absorbed their memories.
• Lin Mu sensed the veil descend and headed toward Maki’s location, hoping to test his strength against the attackers and reach 30% inheritance progress.

Itadori and Todo fought Hanami until the cursed spirit drained life from the surrounding plants and unleashed a vast field of spikes. As the spikes descended on the gathered students, Fushiguro organized a desperate counterattack.

• Itadori landed a powerful blow on Hanami, which tore off its bandages and revealed its black left arm.
• Hanami drained the surrounding plants to replenish its cursed energy and raised a dense mass of spikes across the sky.
• Hanami sent the spikes crashing down, while the students panicked and Mai blamed Lin Mu for not appearing.
• Fushiguro gathered the students and directed them to focus their attacks on the incoming spikes.
• Fushiguro summoned all his shikigami, Kamo activated Blood Manipulation, and the group launched their attacks together.

Fushiguro and the others were overwhelmed by Hanami’s endless spikes, but Lin Mu arrived and shielded them with Susanoo. The injured sorcerers were safe for the moment as Lin Mu faced Hanami, confident in his superiority.

• Fushiguro, Kamo, Todo, and the others struggled to repel Hanami’s spikes as their defenses and stamina faltered.
• Hanami’s spikes wounded Maki and Panda and left Miwa and Junpei unable to fight.
• Fushiguro and the others were buried beneath the spikes after their defenses collapsed.
• Hanami found the sorcerers alive inside a fortress of Susanoo manifestations created by Lin Mu.
• Lin Mu stood before Hanami and declared that mere grains of sand could not compare to him.

Lin Mu fought Hanami alone after Todo moved the battered sorcerers to safety, relying on taijutsu when his chakra was depleted. He badly injured Hanami, but the cursed spirit absorbed the life force of nearby vegetation to heal and grow stronger, leaving their second round about to begin.

• Lin Mu sent Todo to transport the wounded survivors to safety, then faced Hanami alone.
• Hanami attacked with spikes, but Lin Mu evaded the strike and countered with a powerful punch.
• Lin Mu overwhelmed Hanami with precise hand-to-hand attacks and kunai that pierced its chest.
• Hanami formed a protective wall of spikes to block Lin Mu's assault, while the watching sorcerers realized they could not help him.
• Hanami drained life from nearby vegetation, healed its injuries, and emerged stronger as Lin Mu prepared for their second round.

With his chakra nearly depleted, Lin Mu fought Hanami and faced its devastating life-force-powered attack. He used Susanoo to block the blast, then launched himself into the air as the skeletal hand began to crack.

• Lin Mu analyzed his dwindling chakra and dodged Hanami’s attacks before striking its abdomen.
• Hanami absorbed the surrounding vegetation’s life force and gathered it into a powerful energy sphere.
• Fushiguro, Maki, and Itadori watched from a distance as Hanami prepared its attack.
• Lin Mu charged Hanami, raised Susanoo, and blocked the energy blast with its skeletal hand.
• As cracks spread across the hand, Lin Mu used it as a pole to launch himself high into the air.

Lin Mu defeated Hanami with Dragon Flame Song, ending the attack on Jujutsu High. Afterward, the teachers assessed casualties, arranged rewards and heightened security, while Gojo worried that the surviving curse users were plotting something.

• Lin Mu broke Hanami’s laser suppression and unleashed four fire dragons that scorched Hanami and devastated the surrounding forest.
• The veil shattered, and Gojo arrived, tore off the Pig Butcher’s right arm, and ordered him taken for interrogation.
• The teachers recorded the invasion’s casualties and decided to keep the stolen Special Grade cursed object’s theft from the students and curse users.
• Gakuganji promised Lin Mu a chance to choose a Special Grade cursed tool after he recovered, and the teachers agreed to keep Jujutsu High on heightened alert.
• Gojo recalled the white cursed spirit that had escaped him before and wondered whether it had survived and what the attackers intended with the stolen fingers.

After the Hanami battle, Lin Mu reached 30% inheritance progress and gained Seal-less Healing, restoring his strength and greatly improving his chakra recovery. He also unlocked Humanoid Susanoo and its long-range Yasakana Magatama, leaving him better prepared for the coming fights.

• Lin Mu checked his inheritance progress and realized Hanami had escaped the battle.
• Lin Mu absorbed the God Tree fruit and unlocked Seal-less Healing, which accelerated his chakra recovery and healing.
• Lin Mu recovered from his exhaustion and realized he could use Skeletal Susanoo more freely.
• Lin Mu discovered that Susanoo had unlocked its Humanoid form and the Yasakana Magatama attack.

After recovering, Lin Mu considered the coming threat of the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings and went with Principal Gakuganji to claim his exchange-event prize. In Jujutsu High’s treasure vault, he rejected the ordinary cursed tools and reached a wall of special-grade tools, where one caught his eye.

• Lin Mu joked with Itadori and Fushiguro in the hospital while thinking about the Death Paintings and his likely promotion.
• Satoru Gojo and Principal Gakuganji visited Lin Mu, who had won first place in the exchange event, and Gakuganji offered him a cursed tool from the vault.
• Gojo urged Lin Mu to choose carefully, and Lin Mu decided to seek the most valuable tool for himself or his teammates.
• Lin Mu inspected the vault’s ordinary tools, rejected them as useless, and asked Gakuganji to show him the special-grade tools.
• Lin Mu reached a sealed wall of special-grade cursed tools, and one immediately caught his attention.

Lin Mu chose the cursed tool Ten Thousand Spider Threads and learned how it could extend, control weapons, and form defenses. Principal Gakuganji then promoted him to semi-special grade and offered him a special-grade mission that would determine whether he could become a special-grade sorcerer, and Lin Mu accepted.

• Lin Mu read Ten Thousand Spider Threads’ description and chose it as his special-grade cursed tool.
• The threads wrapped around Lin Mu’s body and could extend from his clothes, control weapons, and weave into defensive webs.
• Principal Gakuganji warned Lin Mu that the threads could badly injure him, but Lin Mu said he knew what he was doing.
• Principal Gakuganji told Lin Mu that the higher-ups had promoted him to semi-special grade and assigned him a special-grade mission.
• Lin Mu accepted the mission, which would determine whether he could become a special-grade sorcerer.

Lin Mu accepted a special-grade mission in Nara City to investigate years of disappearances linked to a powerful corporation, a task meant to test whether he could be promoted to special grade. Before leaving, he showed his companions how he could safely wield Ten Thousand Spider Threads and received their encouragement.

• Principal Gakuganji explained that Lin Mu’s special-grade evaluation would depend on his sustained combat ability and assigned him a mission investigating disappearances in Nara City.
• Gakuganji told Lin Mu that a veteran detective who had followed the case from its beginning would serve as his liaison.
• Lin Mu reunited with Kugisaki, Junpei, Itadori, Fushiguro, and Maki, who asked to see his special-grade cursed tool.
• Lin Mu demonstrated Ten Thousand Spider Threads by binding Itadori, then showed that his exoskeleton protected his hands from the sharp threads.
• Lin Mu told his companions he was leaving to carry out the special-grade mission, and they wished him success.

Lin Mu traveled to Nara for a special-grade mission and met veteran detective Fushimi Takumi, who was leading the investigation into the Sagara Group. The chapter left Lin Mu on the way to learn more about the case, after he spotted the group’s towering headquarters.

• Lin Mu left Itadori and the others and boarded the Shinkansen to Nara, intending to finish the mission quickly and return in time for the events in Shibuya.
• A black-robed figure bowed before a huge chained heart and warned its king that a sorcerer had arrived to hinder their operations.
• Lin Mu arrived in Nara and met detective Fushimi Takumi, who welcomed him as the newly assigned sorcerer.
• Fushimi Takumi put off discussing the case and drove Lin Mu around the city.
• Lin Mu spotted the Sagara Group building and recognized it as the mission’s main target.

Lin Mu joined Fushimi Takumi’s investigation studio and reviewed its missing-person files using his Sharingan. He concluded the team’s investigation was fundamentally misguided and erased its leads to start over, drawing resentment from the staff and serious attention from Fushimi Takumi.

• Fushimi Takumi took Lin Mu to the studio and introduced him as the newly assigned sorcerer who would command the team.
• Lin Mu ordered the clerk to bring him every missing-person file from the past three months, then requested older files and details about three women who disappeared on January 1st, March 1st, and May 1st.
• Lin Mu rapidly read the files with his Sharingan, surprising the clerk, who had doubted he would seriously examine them.
• Lin Mu erased the studio’s investigation board after deciding its leads and underlying approach were flawed, provoking an angry subordinate.
• Fushimi Takumi watched Lin Mu through the blinds as the team reacted to his forceful takeover.