Recaps

Jinichi Zenin and Ogi Zenin persuaded Naoya to help turn the Culling Game’s Ancient Sorcerers against Maki and Yuta Okkotsu. They planned to infiltrate the three colonies with Special Grade Sorcerers and deliver information that would help the sorcerers ambush their targets.

• Naoya questioned whether Ancient Sorcerers would cooperate with the Zenin Family, but Jinichi showed him a dossier Maki had gathered about them.
• Jinichi explained that Maki needed points from the Ancient Sorcerers to save Satoru Gojo and clear the Culling Game, making her their target.
• Jinichi and Ogi proposed giving the Ancient Sorcerers Maki’s abilities, weaknesses, and movements so they could ambush her.
• Jinichi asked Naoya to enter the Culling Game and deliver the information, explaining that they would focus on Tokyo No. 1 Colony, Tokyo No. 2 Colony, and Sendai Colony.
• Ogi revealed that Yuta Okkotsu had gone to Sendai Colony and proposed using the information to make its Special Grade Sorcerers attack him too.

Naoya, Jinichi, and Ogi agreed to deliver information to powerful sorcerers in the Culling Game colonies in exchange for helping Jinichi and Ogi return to the Zenin Family. Naoya headed to Sendai Colony to incite its fighters against Yuta Okkotsu, while the others set out for their assigned colonies.

• Jinichi and Ogi persuaded Naoya to join their plan by promising to help them regain their place in the Zenin Family once he became clan head.
• Naoya agreed to contact the Ancient Sorcerers in Sendai Colony, Ogi claimed Tokyo No. 1 Colony, and Jinichi took responsibility for persuading Hajime Kashimo in Tokyo No. 2 Colony.
• Naoya read the intelligence on Sendai Colony's powerful fighters and delighted in the prospect that they would kill Yuta Okkotsu.
• Jinichi and Ogi reassured Naoya that they could enter the Barriers under the pretext of saving people or gathering intelligence, and that Maki would have no proof of their intentions.
• Jinichi warned Naoya not to fight the Sendai Colony sorcerers himself, but Naoya dismissed the warning, activated Projection Sorcery, and left.

Maki struggled to master her newly awakened Heavenly Tyrant form, and Jie Jian offered to help her train by creating illusory opponents. The technique began in the dojo, where a blurry figure appeared before her.

• Maki woke after a restless night thinking about Okkotsu Iori and told Jie Jian not to call her Mom.
• Maki trained in the dojo, but Jie Jian criticized her punches, footwork, and reactions.
• Maki admitted that she had little combat experience and worried about facing Ancient Sorcerers in the Culling Game.
• Jie Jian explained that his Ghost Brain technique could create illusory enemies whose fights would build Maki's muscle memory and combat judgment.
• Maki agreed to try the technique, and a blurry figure appeared in the dojo.

Jie Jian created a realistic illusion for Maki to practice fighting with her Heavenly Tyrant, explaining how the simulation worked and how it limited her strength. Maki faced a phantom version of herself in the dojo and began trading blows with it.

• A phantom attacked Maki, and she fought back until Jie Jian told her to stop resisting because the scene was an illusion.
• Jie Jian explained that he had manipulated Maki's cursed energy and nerves to create the illusion, which would vanish if she resisted or fully calmed herself.
• Maki relaxed and let Jie Jian restore the illusion, then recognized the phantom's face as her own.
• Jie Jian said the phantom replicated her Heavenly Tyrant's physical abilities and that he was limiting her perception of her strength so she would not damage the dojo.
• Maki charged the phantom, and the two fought evenly in the center of the dojo.

Maki trained against a phantom version of herself for hours while Ranta Zenin and several family members watched from outside, mistaking her practice for a sign of mental problems. After training, Ranta told Maki that patrol members had reported someone entering the Collection Vault in the mountains behind the Zenin estate.

• Maki fought a phantom that mirrored her movements, enduring the realistic impact and feedback of their blows.
• Ranta Zenin and three other Zenin members watched Maki spar with empty air and speculated that she had a second personality or mental problems.
• Ranta told the others not to disturb Maki's training, and they left without interrupting her.
• Maki continued training for nearly two and a half hours before the phantom dissipated and she praised Jie Jian's training method.
• Maki told Jie Jian that she needed to get stronger quickly, then met Ranta outside the dojo.
• Ranta informed Maki that patrol members had reported someone entering the Collection Vault in the mountains behind the Zenin estate.

Maki investigated reports of a break-in at the Zenin Family's Collection Vault and learned from Jie Jian that several cursed tools were missing. She left the elders to identify what was gone and turned her attention to preparing for the Culling Game.

• Lantai told Maki that patrol guards had found disturbed dust at the Collection Vault entrance.
• Maki searched the vault but found no obvious signs of missing cursed tools.
• Jie Jian told Maki that several cursed tools were missing, though he could not remember which ones.
• Maki sent Lantai away after Jie Jian nearly called himself her son, then questioned him about his knowledge of the vault.
• Maki told Lantai to have the Zenin elders identify the missing tools and went to train before entering a Culling Game Barrier.

Jinichi Zenin entered the Tokyo No. 2 Colony wearing the stolen Thunder Scale Armor and planned to recruit Hajime Kashimo for a siege against Maki. After destroying several streets to draw Kashimo out, Jinichi was confronted by the ancient sorcerer.

• Jinichi entered the Culling Game Barrier with the Thunder Scale Armor, which he had stolen from the Zenin Family vault to protect himself from Kashimo’s lightning.
• He planned to persuade Kashimo to join the attack against Maki and decided to attract him by unleashing a destructive display of his cursed technique.
• Jinichi’s barrage of cursed-energy fists demolished buildings across several streets, but Kashimo did not appear for more than two minutes.
• A figure suddenly spoke from behind Jinichi and revealed himself as Hajime Kashimo, perched on a streetlamp.

Jinichi found Hajime Kashimo and told him that Sukuna had regained most of his strength by possessing Yuji Itadori, but still lacked five fingers. Kashimo set out to find the last finger and fight Sukuna at his peak, though he learned that the people who might know its location were out of reach.

• Hajime Kashimo realized Jinichi had come looking for him and grew angry at being lured out, but Jinichi calmed him by mentioning Sukuna.
• Jinichi explained that Sukuna possessed Yuji Itadori and had consumed fifteen fingers, while four were with Sukuna's subordinate and one had been hidden by Satoru Gojo.
• Hajime Kashimo complained that Sukuna was not at his peak and demanded to know where Satoru Gojo was so he could take the hidden finger.
• Jinichi told Hajime Kashimo that Satoru Gojo had been sealed in the Prison Realm and suggested that Yuta Okkotsu might know where the finger was hidden.
• Hajime Kashimo decided Yuta Okkotsu was worth killing and asked where he was, then grew gloomy when Jinichi said he was in the Sendai Colony.

Jinichi Zenin tried to persuade Hajime Kashimo to add a Culling Game rule allowing free movement between Barriers, offering information about powerful opponents to entice him. Kashimo suspected Jinichi was trying to manipulate him and attacked, leaving their confrontation unresolved as Jinichi challenged him back.

• Jinichi told Hajime Kashimo that spending one hundred points could add a rule allowing players to enter and exit any Barrier freely.
• Jinichi described Sukuna, Satoru Gojo, and Yuta Okkotsu, hoping Kashimo would pursue them and agree to add the rule.
• Kashimo questioned Jinichi’s motives and accused him of assuming Kashimo would follow a plan laid out for him.
• Kashimo attacked Jinichi with his iron rod, and Jinichi blocked the first blow with Thunder Scale Armor before dodging another that snapped a utility pole.
• Jinichi demanded that Kashimo listen, then angrily challenged him over his lack of Domain Expansion.

Hajime Kashimo attacked Jinichi Zenin after Jinichi mocked him for lacking a Domain Expansion, but Jinichi’s barrage of fists failed to stop him. Kashimo struck Jinichi into the ruins, then discovered a cursed tool on his arm was preventing his charged attacks from pulling Jinichi toward him.

• Jinichi Zenin’s remark about Kashimo lacking a Domain Expansion enraged Kashimo, who rushed in and smashed him into nearby ruins with an iron staff.
• Jinichi rose and attacked Kashimo with successive barrages of pink fists that blasted apart the street and filled the area with dust.
• Jinichi assumed Kashimo had been driven away and mocked him, but Kashimo appeared behind him and struck him through several buildings.
• Kashimo tried to pull Jinichi toward him using the positive charges he had placed in Jinichi’s body, but the technique did not work.
• Kashimo noticed the purple-glinting cursed tool on Jinichi’s exposed arm and realized it was interfering with his attack.

Hajime Kashimo defeated Jinichi Zenin and discovered that the Thunder Scale Armor could absorb, store, and release lightning-attributed cursed energy. He claimed the armor for himself, believing it could help him overcome his weaknesses when fighting Sukuna.

• Hajime Kashimo realized the Thunder Scale Armor had absorbed the lightning charge he planted in Jinichi and concluded Jinichi had approached him with ulterior motives.
• Hajime Kashimo uncovered Jinichi in the rubble, dismissed his warning about the Zenin Family, and took the Thunder Scale Armor from his arm.
• Hajime Kashimo tested the armor and discovered that it could absorb his cursed energy and send it back as an electric current.
• Hajime Kashimo fitted the Thunder Scale Armor onto his right arm and recognized that its ability to absorb, store, and release energy could help him in a prolonged fight against Sukuna.

Maki struggled to improve her fighting before the Culling Game, while Jie Jian told her an unbelievable story about training in Wu Family Village. Lantai then reported that two new Culling Game rules allowed Players to enter and leave Barriers freely and see other Players’ names and scores.

• Maki lost to the phantom during training and accepted that Jie Jian might possess her and fight for her in the Culling Game.
• Maki asked Jie Jian how he understood the Heavenly Tyrant, and he denied being one before describing his brutal training in Wu Family Village.
• Maki doubted that Wu Family Village existed until Lantai rushed in with news that the Culling Game had gained two rules.
• Lantai told Maki that Players could now enter and leave Barriers freely and access other Players’ names and scores.

Maki and Naoya concluded that Hajime Kashimo had likely spent his points adding rules that opened the Barriers and revealed player information. Naoya approached Takako Uro in Sendai Colony and provoked her with a warning about a Fujiwara descendant coming to kill her.

• Maki ordered Lantai to check Hajime Kashimo’s score and learned that he had zero points, leading her to suspect he had added the new rules.
• Naoya concluded that Kashimo had added the rules and left to find the Sendai Four so he could recruit them against Yuta Okkotsu.
• Takako Uro welcomed the chance to leave Sendai Colony but stopped when Naoya mentioned the Fujiwara.
• Naoya told Takako Uro that an evil Fujiwara descendant was entering Sendai Colony to kill her.

Maki suspected Jinichi and Ogi had entered the Culling Game to interfere with her plans, so she prepared to go after them. Before leaving, she ordered that Megumi Fushiguro inherit the Zenin Family if she failed to return, explaining that she wanted Mai spared the clan’s burdens.

• Maki realized Hajime Kashimo may have spent all his points to add two rules and suspected someone had told him something.
• Maki ordered Lantai to locate Jinichi and Ogi, then concluded they were behind the possible trouble when Lantai reported they had disappeared.
• Maki decided to enter the Barrier alone and told Lantai to stay behind and guard the Zenin Family.
• Mai demanded to accompany Maki, but Maki refused and ordered Lantai to keep Mai from leaving the family.
• Maki instructed Lantai to make Megumi Fushiguro the next Head of the Family if she did not return, saying Mai should not have to inherit the Zenin Family’s darkness.

Maki named Lantai as the next Head of the Zenin Family if she and Megumi died, while Naoya tried to recruit Takako Uro to kill Yuta Okkotsu. The chapter ended with Naoya promising Uro power and a place in Jujutsu Headquarters if she helped him take revenge.

• Jie Jian warned Maki that Megumi could die in the Culling Game, and Maki declared Lantai would inherit the Zenin Family leadership if she and Megumi died.
• Naoya told Takako Uro that Yuta Okkotsu was a Fujiwara descendant and a Special Grade Sorcerer who would soon arrive in Sendai Colony.
• Uro showed little interest in fighting Yuta, so Naoya claimed Yuta intended to kill her for points because she had killed ordinary people.
• Uro challenged Naoya to explain his motives, and he admitted he wanted her to kill Yuta because he blamed him for losing the Zenin Family leadership.
• Naoya promised to help Uro join Jujutsu Headquarters and become powerful if she killed Yuta and helped him reclaim his position.

Takako Uro considered Naoya’s offer to help her gain a position in Jujutsu Society, but his contempt for women turned her against him. She decided to capture him and seek Maki’s help instead, leaving Naoya panicked.

• Takako Uro questioned Naoya about his family and learned that he had expected to lead the Zenin Family before Maki took the position.
• Naoya offered to help Takako Uro gain a place at Jujutsu Headquarters if she helped him take down Maki.
• Takako Uro asked whether Naoya looked down on women, and he affirmed that women should stay home and have children.
• Takako Uro attacked Naoya with Ushura Bullet, but he escaped with Projection Sorcery.
• Takako Uro decided to capture Naoya and hand him over to Maki in exchange for a favor, dismissing his warning that Maki would not help her.

Uro Takako attacked Naoya after deciding she could not trust him, and she prepared to use Domain Expansion when her attacks failed to hit. In Tokyo No. 1 Colony, Ogi searched unsuccessfully for the Four Heavenly Kings before discovering Remi hiding in a street.

• Uro Takako used repeated Ushura Bullets to attack Naoya, who dodged with Projection Sorcery.
• Naoya tried to turn Uro Takako against Maki, but she dismissed his argument and began preparing Domain Expansion.
• Ogi Zenin searched Tokyo No. 1 Colony for the Four Heavenly Kings, growing jealous that Jinichi might have succeeded in Tokyo No. 2 Colony.
• Ogi spotted someone hiding in the shadows, drew his sword, and recognized the person as Remi when they stumbled out.

Remi ran into Ogi Zenin, who mistook her for a powerful decoy based on Maki's intelligence. Meanwhile, Maki chose to head to Tokyo No. 1 Colony after Jie Jian admitted he had invented the Tokyo Four Heavenly Kings report as a joke.

• Remi fled from the shadows and encountered Ogi Zenin, who recognized her and believed Maki's report that she was a dangerous hair-controlling decoy.
• Maki asked Jie Jian which Barrier to enter, and he advised her to start with the closest one, Tokyo No. 1 Colony.
• Maki planned to wait for Yuji Itadori and Panda before entering, but Jie Jian said the colony was full of weak opponents.
• Maki questioned Jie Jian about the Tokyo Four Heavenly Kings, and he confessed he had made them up because it was fun.

Ogi Zenin mistook Remi for a powerful, undercover fighter and insisted on meeting her companions, while Remi was too frightened to correct him. She led him to Reggie’s hideout, where Ogi sensed two sorcerers inside and prepared to meet the supposed Tokyo Four Heavenly Kings.

• Ogi encountered Remi in the Tokyo No. 1 Colony and became convinced her fear and confusion were an elaborate act.
• Ogi called Remi one of the Tokyo Four Heavenly Kings and asked her to take him to her three companions to discuss a partnership.
• Fearing Ogi would attack her, Remi agreed to lead him to Reggie and guided him through the colony.
• Remi brought Ogi to a run-down Apartment building where Reggie was hiding, and Ogi sensed two sorcerers on the third floor.

Remi led Ogi Zenin to Reggie, who expected a fight but learned Ogi had come to propose an alliance. Reggie remained guarded as Ogi hinted that he needed something from him.

• Ogi Zenin forced Remi to lead him to Reggie's floor while keeping himself behind her.
• Remi found Reggie in the corridor and told him Ogi wanted to see him.
• Reggie recognized Ogi as a formidable Jujutsu Sorcerer and wondered why he had come looking for him.
• Ogi introduced himself and asked Reggie to form a partnership in the Culling Game.
• Reggie concealed his interest in the alliance and asked what Ogi needed from him.

Ogi Zenin tried to recruit Reggie Star by claiming Maki had stolen his rightful place as head of the Zenin Family. Reggie agreed to help, while both men secretly planned to abandon the other, and Iori Hazenoki questioned whether Ogi was strong enough to be their ally.

• Ogi told Reggie that Maki had taken the headship he believed was his and promised the Zenin Family's support in exchange for help removing her.
• Reggie doubted Ogi's story but accepted after Ogi insisted that family rules prevented him from attacking Maki himself.
• Iori Hazenoki appeared, followed by Zhen Qianjun, and Ogi recognized the members of Reggie's group.
• Reggie and Ogi shook hands, each privately planning to use the other and then sever their alliance.
• Iori asked Reggie whether he knew Ogi and whether the old man was strong enough to work with them.

Iori Hazenoki tested Ogi Zenin’s strength with an explosive tooth, and Ogi blocked the blast with Falling Blossom Emotion. Impressed, Reggie proposed that he and Ogi become sworn brothers, leaving Ogi insulted by the suggestion.

• Iori Hazenoki challenged Ogi Zenin to prove his strength before the group would consider cooperating with him.
• Iori explained that he could turn parts of his body into bombs, then threw an explosive tooth at Ogi.
• Ogi used Falling Blossom Emotion to repel the explosion and emerged with only a small cut from flying debris.
• Reggie praised Ogi and proposed that they become sworn brothers and fight together in the Culling Game.
• Ogi inwardly resented Reggie’s proposal, believing Reggie was beneath him.

Ogi Zenin accepted Reggie's offer to become brothers while securing the Tokyo Four Heavenly Kings' cooperation. In the Sendai Colony Barrier, Naoya encountered Ryu Ishigori and realized the sorcerer’s destructive power matched or surpassed Takako Uro’s.

• Reggie persuaded Ogi Zenin to accept him as a younger brother, and they happily called each other brothers in the corridor.
• Iori Hazenoki and Zhen Qianjun left Reggie and Ogi Zenin to their brotherly exchange, while Remi watched in bewilderment.
• Naoya escaped Takako Uro’s Domain Expansion with Projection Sorcery and complained about women and ancient sorcerers.
• Ryu Ishigori attacked Naoya with repeated Cursed Energy Cannon blasts, and Naoya dodged them with Projection Sorcery.
• Naoya recognized Ryu Ishigori as one of the Sendai Four Heavenly Kings and judged his destructive power to be at least equal to Takako Uro’s.

Naoya tried to recruit Ryu Ishigori but was forced into a fight when Ryu attacked. After Ryu exploited the weakness of Naoya’s Projection Sorcery and defeated him, Naoya pleaded for his life by promising to lead Ryu to a strong opponent.

• Naoya weighed how to recruit Ryu Ishigori, whom he considered difficult to persuade, while Ryu prepared to attack.
• Ryu fired a barrage of Cursed Energy Cannons, and Naoya activated Projection Sorcery to dodge and close in.
• Ryu adapted his Cursed Energy Cannons into a circling barrier, trapping Naoya in the technique’s forced one-second freeze.
• Ryu’s barrage battered Naoya and left him injured on the ground, unable to continue fighting.
• Ryu aimed a final cannon at Naoya’s forehead, and Naoya begged him to wait, claiming he knew where to find someone strong enough to satisfy him.

Naoya tried to recruit Ryu Ishigori to fight Yuta Okkotsu, but Ryu eagerly welcomed the prospect of battling Jujutsu Society’s strongest sorcerers. Meanwhile, Maki arrived at the Tokyo No. 1 Colony and chose not to risk more Zenin Family members gathering information there.

• Naoya told Ryu Ishigori that Yuta Okkotsu would soon enter Sendai Colony and spun a story about Maki Zenin stealing his rightful place as head of the Zenin Family.
• Ryu Ishigori learned that Yuta was a special grade sorcerer who could defeat Naoya in one attack, and he became excited by the prospect of fighting him.
• Naoya offered to help Ryu establish himself in modern Jujutsu Society in exchange for his help, but Ryu demanded that Jujutsu Society send both of its special grade sorcerers to fight him.
• Maki arrived at the Tokyo No. 1 Colony and learned that the Zenin Family had no confirmed information about what was happening inside.
• Maki refused to send more Zenin Family members into the colony, explaining that she valued their safety more than gathering information.