Chapter Summaries

Zheng Bai was reborn as Kujo Mashiro, a silver-haired little girl formed when Mahoraga adapted to his human soul. With most of her power sealed and no cursed energy, Mashiro left an alley in Tokyo determined to grow stronger and change the tragedies she remembered; the story began in June 2018.

• Zheng Bai died when his dorm computer exploded after he chose a dating sim over facing Sukuna.
• Mahoraga's Dharma Wheel reconstructed Zheng Bai's body to accommodate his human soul, then expelled him from the shikigami world.
• Zheng Bai discovered he had become a silver-haired girl named Kujo Mashiro, with no cursed energy and greatly weakened Mahoraga abilities.
• Mashiro found the Sword of Extermination, which retained limited power against cursed spirits and the ability to cut cursed energy.
• Mashiro saw that it was June 2018 and resolved to grow stronger, save people, and confront Sukuna.

Mashiro began adapting to life in Shibuya by fighting a weak cursed spirit, discovering that her body adapted to attacks and the Sword of Extermination restored cursed energy. After being kicked out of a convenience store for having no money, she left with a bottle of water and named her sword Murasame.

• Mashiro assessed her empty pockets, lack of identification, and weak current abilities, then decided to find a cursed spirit to test her combat instincts.
• Mashiro tracked a weak cursed spirit into a convenience store and let it strike her, triggering the Dharma Wheel and her adaptation ability.
• Mashiro pierced the cursed spirit with the Sword of Extermination, which absorbed the spirit's cursed energy and replenished some of hers.
• Mashiro realized her body would take less damage from the same attack and imagined growing strong enough to fight Sukuna.
• Mashiro tried to buy water without money, was asked to leave the store, and received the bottle from the sympathetic clerk.
• Mashiro left the store with the water and named the Sword of Extermination Murasame.

Hungry and broke, Mashiro fought three cursed spirits in an alley and rescued a middle-aged man. She collected the agreed payment and left with her cursed energy strengthened, while the man learned what cursed spirits were.

• Mashiro found a middle-aged man cornered by three cursed spirits in a Shibuya alley.
• Mashiro negotiated a fee of fifty thousand yen and attacked the cursed spirits, adapting to their poisons as she fought.
• Mashiro exorcised all three cursed spirits, and absorbing their cursed energy strengthened her.
• Mashiro accepted only the agreed fifty thousand yen, explained cursed spirits to the rescued man, and left.

After recovering from her injuries, Mashiro spent her first earnings on clothes, supplies, a night at a capsule hotel, and a secondhand phone. She left Shibuya ready to hunt cursed spirits and gather cursed energy.

• Mashiro checked her wounds, reviewed how her adaptation ability worked, and decided what to buy with her first fifty thousand yen.
• She bought clothes, food, toiletries, and a sports bag, then paid extra to stay at a capsule hotel despite having no identification.
• Mashiro washed and changed, reflected on her new appearance, and slept with Murasame beside her.
• After waking, Mashiro left the hotel, ate breakfast, and spotted several cursed spirits she considered too ordinary to hunt herself.
• Mashiro bought a secondhand phone and set out to hunt cursed spirits for the cursed energy they released.

Mashiro exorcised a Grade 2 cursed spirit and then met Hiromi Higuruma, offering him advice about justice and the limits of rules. She left him with her words to ponder and continued building her strength.

• Mashiro adapted to a Grade 2 cursed spirit’s corrosive attacks and destroyed it with Murasame, gaining cursed energy.
• Mashiro considered traveling to Sendai to contact Itadori, then stopped to eat at a park.
• Mashiro recognized Hiromi Higuruma and accepted his business card after he offered her legal help.
• Mashiro asked Higuruma about flawed rules and urged him to treat rules as tools and rely on his resolve when passing judgment.
• Higuruma wondered who Mashiro was as she left the park and continued searching for cursed spirits to exorcise.

Mashiro hunted three Grade 2 cursed spirits in an abandoned apartment, gaining cursed energy and learning to copy cursed techniques through adaptation. After tending her wounds and worrying about money, she spotted Nanami in the park.

• Mashiro decided she needed more cursed energy and travel money before heading to Sendai, so she continued hunting instead of seeking commissions or a loan.
• Mashiro entered an abandoned apartment and fought three Grade 2 cursed spirits, adapting to their attacks while enduring severe wounds.
• Mashiro killed Vengeful Binding Spirit, then adapted to Gap Woman’s spatial slashes and copied her cursed technique before killing her and the Shadow Hound.
• Mashiro estimated she was close to Grade 2 and had gained resistance to spirit attacks, spatial slashes, and movement through shadows.
• Mashiro bought medical supplies and a boxed meal, treated her wounds, and worried that she had almost no money left.
• Mashiro noticed Nanami as she prepared to resume hunting.

Kujo Mashiro met Kento Nanami after exorcising three Grade 2 cursed spirits and persuaded him to bring her along on a Grade 1 mission. The two headed for an abandoned shrine to face the Blazing Inferno Monk, with Nanami leading and Mashiro agreeing to provide support for 800,000 yen.

• Kento Nanami approached the injured Kujo Mashiro in the park and offered to take her to a medical facility, but she refused.
• Mashiro told Nanami she had exorcised three Grade 2 cursed spirits alone and introduced herself as the last surviving member of the Kujo family.
• Mashiro revealed she needed money for lodging and travel to Sendai, then asked to join Nanami on his nearby mission.
• Nanami explained that he was investigating a suspected Grade 1 cursed spirit called the Blazing Inferno Monk at an abandoned shrine and warned Mashiro of the danger.
• Nanami agreed to take Mashiro along, assigned her to keep the spirit occupied while he led the fight, and offered her 800,000 yen for effective support.

Mashiro and Kento Nanami confronted the powerful Blazing Inferno Monk at a hillside shrine, where Mashiro endured its attacks to adapt to its heat and physical force. As the cursed spirit unleashed a massive fireball, Mashiro charged forward and swung Murasame into it, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Nanami and Mashiro reached the shrine and faced the Blazing Inferno Monk as it attacked them with a pillar of fire.
• Mashiro charged the cursed spirit, took a heavy punch, and was hurled into a stone lantern, but rose to face it again.
• Mashiro dodged the Monk’s attacks and adapted to its heat and blows while Nanami used his Ratio Technique to sever its right leg.
• The Monk formed a powerful fireball, and Nanami tried to interrupt it as Mashiro charged forward with Murasame to cut through the attack.
• Mashiro struck the fireball with Murasame, and searing light swallowed the scene.

Kujo Mashiro and Nanami defeated the Blazing Inferno Monk after Mashiro adapted to its cursed technique and exposed a weakness. Nanami paid her, offered future work, and took the injured minor toward the station, while Mashiro’s strength rose to Megumi Fushiguro’s grade.

• Mashiro survived the Blazing Inferno Monk’s explosion, adapted to its flames, and struck a weak point with Murasame.
• Nanami exploited Mashiro’s opening to destroy the Blazing Inferno Monk, and Murasame absorbed much of its cursed energy.
• Mashiro healed from her injuries and rose to the same grade as Megumi Fushiguro.
• Nanami gave Mashiro one million yen, warned her about her reckless fighting style, and offered his contact information and future jobs.
• Nanami insisted on helping the injured minor reach a taxi, draped his jacket over her, and led her away.

Mashiro traveled to Sendai with Nanami’s help obtaining forged identification, then rented an apartment overlooking Sugisawa Third High School so she could watch Yuji Itadori and the events surrounding the cursed finger. She planned to make contact the next day as she waited for the coming violence.

• Mashiro asked Nanami to arrange adult identification under the name Kujo Mashiro, and he agreed to leave her a driver's license and forged Resident Record at Shibuya Station.
• Nanami arranged a taxi and a room for Mashiro, and she thanked him before falling asleep on the ride.
• Mashiro collected the documents, bought a Shinkansen ticket, and traveled to Sendai with Murasame concealed in its violin case.
• Mashiro reached Sugisawa Third High School and searched the surrounding streets for a place with a view of the campus.
• Mashiro rented a furnished fourth-floor apartment overlooking the school and decided to make contact the next day.

Mashiro visited Wasuke Itadori in the hospital and revealed that Kenjaku had taken over Kaori Itadori’s body to create Yuji as a vessel for Sukuna. She asked Wasuke to vouch for her to Yuji and promised to keep him alive, leaving Wasuke to consider whether to trust her.

• Mashiro checked Miyagi Prefectural General Hospital for strong cursed spirits, then went to Wasuke Itadori’s room.
• Mashiro told Wasuke that Kenjaku had possessed Kaori Itadori and that Yuji’s birth was part of a plan to make him Sukuna’s vessel.
• Mashiro said she intended to make Yuji Sukuna’s vessel to eliminate Sukuna and asked Wasuke to vouch for her to Yuji.
• Wasuke questioned whether Yuji would survive, and Mashiro promised she would make sure he lived.

Mashiro promised Wasuke Itadori not to reveal the truth about Jin and Kaori to Yuji, and agreed to help protect him. She met Yuji, exchanged contact information with him, and left the hospital ward.

• Wasuke Itadori recognized Mashiro's cursed energy and asked her not to tell Yuji the truth about Jin and Kaori, and she promised.
• Wasuke asked Mashiro's real age, and she admitted she was twelve.
• Yuji Itadori arrived at the ward and met Mashiro, whom Wasuke introduced as Miss Kujo, the granddaughter of an old friend.
• Mashiro gave Yuji her contact information and offered to help if anything happened to him or someone around him.
• Yuji and Mashiro exchanged LINE details, and Mashiro said goodbye to Wasuke before leaving the ward.

Mashiro cleared more than thirty cursed spirits from an abandoned shrine, testing her upgraded adaptation and Murasame while gaining cursed energy. She returned home expecting a larger wave to approach the school soon and found an unread LINE message.

• Mashiro went to an abandoned shrine and found dozens of cursed spirits gathered there, drawn toward the school by Sukuna's Finger.
• Mashiro attacked the spirits with Murasame, Space Cutting, and flames, discovering that her adaptation could analyze several kinds of attacks at once.
• Mashiro deliberately endured varied attacks as her resistance grew, while Murasame became more effective against cursed spirits.
• Mashiro killed the last spirit, gained nearly thirty percent more cursed energy, and left the shrine expecting Jujutsu High to handle the next wave.
• Mashiro returned to her apartment, showered, and noticed an unread LINE message from a user with a pink cartoon tiger profile picture.

Mashiro met Yuji Itadori for dessert and learned that he and the other Occult Research Club members planned to examine the sealed box containing Sukuna’s Finger. She chose not to interfere with the events she expected to follow, warned Yuji to listen to someone who would seek him out soon, and parted from him with a promise to meet tomorrow.

• Mashiro replied to Yuji’s message about strange metallic noises near the Old Shrine and agreed to meet him at Sweet Treats Komachi.
• Mashiro and Yuji shared matcha latte, an edamame milkshake, and red bean soup with mochi while discussing school and Yuji’s club.
• Yuji told Mashiro that Sasaki and Iguchi planned to study the talisman-sealed wooden box he had found, and Mashiro recognized it as Sukuna’s Finger but decided not to take it.
• Yuji explained that he joined the Occult Research Club to help people and would attend the investigation if his friends might be in danger.
• Mashiro warned Yuji that someone might come looking for him in the next couple of days and told him to listen carefully.
• Yuji said, “See you tomorrow,” and ran home as Mashiro watched him leave.

Yuji Itadori’s grandfather died after urging him to use his strength to save others and asking him to protect Mashiro. As Yuji grieved, Mashiro promised to stay by his side, and they walked on together, with Yuji offering to bake her a birthday cake every year.

• Yuji visited his grandfather at the hospital, where Wasuke asked him to protect Mashiro and urged him to save as many people as he could.
• Mashiro received Yuji’s message that Wasuke had died and went to the hospital to support him.
• Mashiro helped Yuji gather Wasuke’s belongings and complete the hospital paperwork.
• On their walk home, Yuji wondered whether Wasuke had died alone, and Mashiro reassured him that he had not.
• Mashiro told Yuji she had no family and promised to stay with him until he found a new family or could stand on his own.
• Yuji caught up with Mashiro and promised to bake her a birthday cake every year.

Yuji Itadori met Megumi Fushiguro at the hospital and rushed back to school after learning Sasaki and Iguchi were in danger from a cursed object. When Yuji swallowed Ryomen Sukuna’s finger to gain cursed energy, Mashiro watched Sukuna awaken.

• Yuji left his grandfather’s urn at the hospital and followed Megumi Fushiguro back to school to stop Sasaki and Iguchi from unsealing the cursed object.
• Mashiro secretly protected Sasaki and Iguchi from cursed spirits and cleared a path for Yuji and Megumi to reach them.
• Yuji burst into the clubroom and kicked a cursed spirit away from Sasaki and Iguchi, while Megumi exorcised it and identified the object as Ryomen Sukuna’s finger.
• A stronger cursed spirit attacked Megumi and threw him out of the school, leaving Yuji to confront it.
• Yuji swallowed Sukuna’s finger, unleashing a surge of cursed energy as Mashiro watched Sukuna awaken.

Kujo Mashiro confronted and fought Ryomen Sukuna after he manifested in Yuji Itadori’s body, while Satoru Gojo approached. The battle ended when Itadori regained control, leaving Sukuna to promise he would kill Mashiro next time.

• Ryomen Sukuna resurrected in Yuji Itadori’s body and prepared to attack the nearby residential district, but noticed Kujo Mashiro watching from a rooftop.
• Mashiro revealed herself and challenged Sukuna, then vanished from the rooftop and wounded his arm with Murasame.
• Sukuna repaired his wound and attacked Mashiro, who dodged his strikes and countered with sword attacks and flames.
• Sukuna prepared a powerful attack against Mashiro, but Yuji Itadori fought back from within and disrupted his control.
• Sukuna lost control of the body and threatened to kill Mashiro when they met again.

After Sukuna’s attack, Satoru Gojo arrived and arranged for Yuji Itadori to join Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High under supervision. Mashiro claimed the role of Yuji’s older sister, and the chapter ended with Gojo suspecting her copying ability concealed a more unusual power.

• Yuji Itadori regained control of his body after Sukuna receded, while Megumi Fushiguro remained injured and Mashiro stood unharmed.
• Satoru Gojo arrived, questioned Yuji and Mashiro, and learned that Mashiro claimed to copy cursed techniques and had come to see Yuji.
• Mashiro told Gojo she was Yuji’s older sister, and Gojo agreed to let her visit Yuji at Jujutsu High.
• Mashiro revealed she was twelve, insisted Yuji treat her as his older sister, and left after Yuji happily called her “Big Sis Mashiro.”
• Satoru Gojo took Yuji and Megumi away, then privately concluded Mashiro’s cursed energy could not be explained by simple copying and decided to keep watching her.

Mashiro brought Yuji Itadori his grandfather’s ashes in Tokyo and visited Jujutsu High, where she decided not to live in the dorms. She agreed to keep in touch with Yuji and take missions from the school as needed.

• Mashiro collected Yuji Itadori’s grandfather’s ashes from Miyagi Prefectural General Hospital and traveled from Sendai to Tokyo.
• Yuji met Mashiro at Jujutsu High and took the ashes from her, then placed them in his dorm room and prayed.
• Satoru Gojo sent Yuji to meet Principal Yaga about his enrollment and asked Mashiro whether she planned to return to Sendai.
• Mashiro told Satoru Gojo she would move to Tokyo but refused his offer of a dorm room because she did not want to live under the school’s restrictions.
• Mashiro agreed to keep in touch with Yuji and take Jujutsu High missions when needed.

Mashiro met Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro at Jujutsu High, where her claim to be a twelve-year-old Grade 1 sorcerer startled Nobara. After moving into her new apartment, Mashiro prepared for Yuji and the others to visit by asking Yuji to cook and planning to buy supplies.

• Yuji introduced Mashiro to Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki, who questioned Mashiro about her age, her relationship with Yuji, and her sorcerer rank.
• Mashiro told Nobara she was twelve and barely Grade 1, and Fushiguro said her survival against Sukuna made the rank plausible.
• Nobara invited herself to Mashiro's apartment, and Yuji said he would join her and Fushiguro the next day.
• Mashiro inspected her new apartment near Jujutsu High, unpacked her belongings, and hung Murasame by the entryway.
• Mashiro told Yuji she could not cook, so he offered to make sukiyaki while she bought the ingredients.
• Mashiro washed her new pots, figured out how to light the gas stove, and added bowls, chopsticks, seasonings, and cake supplies to her shopping list.