Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into A Cheng, a villager who abused Nanako and Mimiko, Gu Yanzhi realizes he is caught in the incident that drives Suguru Geto to massacre the village. He flees into the woods but Geto finds him and calls him a monkey.

• Gu Yanzhi learns that he has transmigrated into A Cheng, an ordinary villager in the Jujutsu Kaisen world.
• A villager calls A Cheng to the entrance, where a sorcerer has arrived.
• Gu Yanzhi discovers Nanako and Mimiko imprisoned in a cage and remembers that A Cheng abused them.
• Gu Yanzhi recognizes that Suguru Geto is about to see the twins and flee the village before the massacre begins.
• From the woods, Gu Yanzhi watches Geto slaughter the villagers, then encounters Geto, who calls him a monkey.

After dying as a villager killed by Suguru Geto, Gu Yanzhi chose to inherit the villager’s hardened physique and transmigrated into a Tokyo office worker. His second life began on a train in Shibuya on October 31, 2018, where masked thugs confronted him.

• Suguru Geto’s cursed spirit killed Gu Yanzhi, and the system explained that Geto’s spirits had searched the area for witnesses.
• Gu Yanzhi learned that physiques and cursed energy accumulated in a single slot and chose to inherit the villager’s hardened physique.
• The system sent Gu Yanzhi into a new life as a Tokyo office worker, with his inherited physique improving his strength and health.
• A masked man yanked Gu Yanzhi’s tie on a train, but Gu Yanzhi’s strength kept him from being pulled forward.
• The train announced its arrival at Shibuya Station, and Gu Yanzhi recognized the date as October 31, 2018.

Gu Yanzhi confronted three thugs on the train as the Shibuya Incident began, and chose to fight rather than give up on the life. After he attacked them, the Curtain fell and trapped everyone at Shibuya Station.

• Gu Yanzhi realized the date was October 31, 2018, and planned to leave Shibuya before the Curtain fell.
• Three thugs cornered Gu Yanzhi on the train and demanded money, then grabbed his briefcase when he tried to leave.
• Gu Yanzhi rejected the idea of dying to restart his run and decided to face the danger instead.
• Gu Yanzhi punched the masked thug and grabbed the other two, saying they would all go to hell together.
• The passengers discovered their phones had no signal, and Gu Yanzhi recognized that the Curtain had fallen.

Gu Yanzhi regained consciousness in a body transformed by Mahito’s cursed technique and used his newfound strength to fight the transfigured humans attacking the platform. As his stamina began to fail, someone above the platform began a Domain Expansion.

• Gu Yanzhi found the passengers on the platform turning into transfigured humans and was struck by Mahito’s Idle Transfiguration.
• Gu Yanzhi woke trapped among deformed bodies and realized the system had protected his soul while the transformation gave him the strength of six or seven adults.
• The train made an emergency stop, and Gu Yanzhi forced his way out as the transfigured humans rushed onto a blood-soaked platform.
• Gu Yanzhi resisted Mahito’s command, rescued a middle-aged woman by attacking a transfigured human, and fought off the creatures that turned on him.
• As Gu Yanzhi’s stamina ran low, a voice from above the platform began saying, “Domain Expansion.”

Gu Yanzhi died when Satoru Gojo decapitated him after Unlimited Void left him conscious but unable to move. He inherited a transfigured human physique, chose it to strengthen himself, and began another transmigration.

• Satoru Gojo expanded Unlimited Void, and Gu Yanzhi remained faintly aware as information overwhelmed his mind.
• Gojo decapitated Gu Yanzhi, whose system identified his death and began calculating inheritable abilities.
• Gu Yanzhi complained to the system about his short-lived reincarnations, then considered his resistance to information attacks and his growing physical instincts.
• The system listed a transfigured human physique, transfigured human cursed energy reserves, and no cursed technique as inheritable abilities.
• Gu Yanzhi chose the transfigured human physique, felt himself grow stronger, and started his next transmigration.

Gu Yanzhi, now Junpei Yoshino’s classmate, confronted the bullies who had driven Junpei out of school and learned they were about to encounter Mahito at a movie theater. After defeating them, he decided to take them to the screening himself, bringing Tsubasa along too.

• Gu Yanzhi recalled Junpei Yoshino’s history and realized Mahito might be active nearby.
• Gu Yanzhi followed the blond bully, Buzz Cut, Brown Hair, and Tsubasa behind the school after they accused him of staring at her.
• Gu Yanzhi overpowered the three boys, breaking a brick with his body and injuring them when they attacked.
• Gu Yanzhi found a ticket for that afternoon’s screening of Earthworm Man and recognized it as the movie where the boys would encounter Junpei and Mahito.
• Gu Yanzhi invited the bullies to see the movie with him and told Tsubasa she was coming too.

Gu Yanzhi went to borrow money from Ito Shota but knocked him and his lackeys down and took Ito’s wallet instead. After leaving school, he wandered the shopping street and decided to spend time at an arcade before meeting Blondie and the others for a movie.

• Gu Yanzhi realized he lacked money for the movie tickets and went to find Ito Shota in the courtyard.
• Ito’s lackeys and two girls stayed as Gu Yanzhi asked Ito to lend him money, then Ito led him to an alley behind the gym.
• Ito grabbed Gu Yanzhi by the collar, but Gu Yanzhi knocked Ito unconscious and quickly defeated the two lackeys.
• Gu Yanzhi took Ito’s wallet and invited the group to find him that afternoon so he could treat them to a movie.
• Gu Yanzhi left school, wandered along the shopping street, and chose to visit an arcade until the movie outing.

After losing the money he borrowed from Ito at the pachinko arcade, Gu Yanzhi encountered Ito and a gang of hired thugs in an alley. He defeated them, branded and knocked Ito unconscious, took the money Ito offered, and headed to the movie theater to handle his real business.

• Gu Yanzhi left the arcade after spending all the money he had borrowed from Ito.
• Ito Shota confronted Gu Yanzhi in an alley with several hired thugs and ordered them to cripple him.
• Gu Yanzhi swiftly defeated the thugs and stopped Ito from escaping.
• Ito offered Gu Yanzhi money and a job, but Gu Yanzhi pressed Ito's cigarette butt against his forehead and knocked him unconscious.
• Gu Yanzhi gathered Ito's money and headed to the movie theater.

At the movie theater, Gu Yanzhi realized Mahito had arrived and questioned whether he could keep watching events unfold without intervening. He chose to confront Mahito, throwing a punch toward the cursed spirit’s unseen presence.

• Gu Yanzhi bought five tickets to Earthworm Man and watched the movie with the four former bullies, who were too afraid of him to move or speak.
• Gu Yanzhi sensed Mahito enter the theater, though he could not see cursed spirits.
• Gu Yanzhi reflected on how he had survived past events without changing anything and doubted the value of his growing physical strength.
• Gu Yanzhi decided to test himself against Mahito and punched toward the presence his instincts detected.

Gu Yanzhi failed to strike Mahito, who transfigured him and stored him among the other humans inside his body. After Mahito released him into the ruins, Gu Yanzhi recognized Kenjaku in Suguru Geto’s body, while Kenjaku examined him.

• Gu Yanzhi swung at Mahito but could not pinpoint the cursed spirit’s position and missed.
• Mahito abandoned the partly transfigured Blondie and touched Gu Yanzhi, turning him into a motionless transfigured human while the system preserved his consciousness.
• Gu Yanzhi remained trapped in darkness as Mahito fought someone, likely Nanami, and the space inside Mahito shook.
• Mahito released Gu Yanzhi among the ruins, where he heard Kenjaku speak and recognized Suguru Geto’s body.
• Kenjaku appraised Gu Yanzhi, and Mahito described his unusually strong muscles and bones.

Kenjaku and Mahito tested Gu Yanzhi’s modified body by ordering him to kill a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit. Gu Yanzhi defeated it despite severe injuries, and Kenjaku judged him useful for greater plans.

• Kenjaku examined Gu Yanzhi’s heavenly-restricted body, while Mahito explained that his modifications had made Gu Yanzhi able to see cursed spirits.
• Mahito’s command drove Gu Yanzhi to attack the Grade 1 Cursed Spirit Kenjaku summoned.
• Gu Yanzhi endured the centipede spirit’s blades, venom, and cursed energy beam as his wounds healed.
• Gu Yanzhi struck the centipede spirit’s exposed tissue and destroyed its human head, killing it.
• Kenjaku praised Gu Yanzhi as excellent material and told Mahito to preserve him for future use.

Mahito kept Gu Yanzhi trapped inside his body while Junpei Yoshino confronted Ito Shota at school, believing Ito might have caused his mother's death. Junpei left Ito suspended and in danger as someone opened the Gymnasium door.

• Mahito absorbed Gu Yanzhi, who realized his soul resisted being erased but he could not control his reshaped body.
• Junpei Yoshino entered the school Auditorium after an invisible force knocked the students unconscious, while Ito Shota and a teacher remained awake.
• Junpei showed the teacher the cigarette-burn scars from years of bullying, then approached Ito and asked whether he had put the object in Junpei's house.
• Ito denied knowing about the object, but Junpei decided he deserved punishment for his past abuse and lifted him into the air with Cursed Energy.
• Junpei summoned a jellyfish-type shikigami as the Gymnasium door opened.

Yuji Itadori confronted Junpei, but Mahito transformed him into a monster and Junpei died in Yuji’s arms. As Yuji and Kento Nanami faced Mahito and a powerful transfigured human, Gu Yanzhi turned on Mahito and struck him with a direct punch.

• Yuji Itadori fought Junpei at the school and chased him into the school building.
• Mahito transformed Junpei with Idle Transfiguration, and Junpei died after briefly regaining awareness.
• Yuji attacked Mahito, but Kento Nanami arrived and joined the fight against him.
• Mahito summoned the towering transfigured human Gu Yanzhi and ordered him to kill Yuji and Nanami.
• Gu Yanzhi disobeyed Mahito, spun around, and punched him into the rubble.

Gu Yanzhi attacked Mahito and gave Itadori and Nanami a chance to strike, but Kenjaku intervened by summoning Elephant God. Mahito recovered and focused on killing the transfigured human who had defied his control.

• Gu Yanzhi smashed Mahito into the floor and urged Itadori and Nanami to attack.
• Itadori and Nanami charged Mahito, but an enormous hand emerging from a spatial rift repelled them.
• Elephant God stepped through the rift and shielded Mahito as he healed.
• Gu Yanzhi recognized Elephant God and realized Kenjaku had intervened to save Mahito.
• Nanami identified Elephant God as a special grade, while Itadori braced for another dangerous fight.
• Mahito recovered and fixed his attention on Gu Yanzhi, resolving to kill the transfigured human who had resisted his control.

Mahito trapped Gu Yanzhi in his Domain Expansion and began transfiguring him, but the domain collapsed after the Elephant God was destroyed. Satoru Gojo arrived at the battlefield and confronted Mahito.

• The Elephant God lifted Gu Yanzhi, Itadori, Nanami, and debris into the air as Kenjaku urged Mahito to retreat while they were restrained.
• Mahito trapped Gu Yanzhi inside Self-Embodiment of Perfection, broke his limbs, and began using Idle Transfiguration on his head.
• Gu Yanzhi taunted Mahito as Mahito demanded to know what he was, then feared being imprisoned again when Mahito's technique started to alter his head.
• The domain collapsed, revealing that half of the Elephant God's body had been destroyed and leaving Mahito unable to use Idle Transfiguration temporarily.
• The Curtain vanished, and Satoru Gojo descended onto the battlefield and asked Mahito if he had been acting cocky.

Satoru Gojo defeated Mahito, while Gu Yanzhi died after urging Itadori to grow less indecisive. In the afterlife, Gu Yanzhi chose to transmigrate into a random key plot character and awoke trapped in darkness with fragmented memories and a craving for iron.

• Satoru Gojo used Cursed Technique Lapse-Blue to pull in and subdue all of Mahito’s scattered pieces.
• Itadori held Gu Yanzhi’s ruined head as Gu Yanzhi revealed his name and urged him not to hesitate when facing cursed spirits.
• Gu Yanzhi dissolved after telling Itadori he looked forward to seeing him grow, then awoke whole in the deep-blue void.
• The system offered Gu Yanzhi double settlement rewards or transmigration into a random key plot character, and he chose transmigration.
• Gu Yanzhi selected a transfigured human’s physique as his inheritance and entered his next life.
• Gu Yanzhi woke in a cramped, dark enclosure with fragmented memories and an overwhelming hunger, then said he liked the taste of iron.

A boy hiding in a sewer was found and tortured by two reincarnated players until a cockroach-headed cursed spirit appeared and killed his attacker. The spirit ate the man’s remains while the woman fled.

• A frightened boy hid in a sewer after people killed Xiaozhi and others around him.
• Two players found the boy, and the man tortured him with a cursed-energy needle.
• A cockroach-headed cursed spirit emerged behind the boy, overwhelming the man with its presence.
• The man attacked the spirit, but it crushed his head and killed him.
• The woman fled, and the cursed spirit ate the man’s remains, muttering that it liked the taste of iron.

Gu Yanzhi awoke in Kurourushi’s body and struggled against its ravenous instincts, but he devoured a player and trapped her in the sewer with a swarm of cockroaches. The woman charged him at close range, convinced she could exploit his supposed weakness, as Gu Yanzhi watched her approach.

• Gu Yanzhi’s consciousness took over Kurourushi’s body, and he fought its instinct to kill and consume.
• Gu Yanzhi crushed a man who was torturing a child, then ate the man’s remains.
• The man’s companion fled, but Gu Yanzhi sealed the exit with a swarm of cockroaches.
• The woman used her Shock Wave technique to blast through the swarm and concluded that Gu Yanzhi’s shikigami left his main body vulnerable.
• The woman propelled herself through the cockroaches and attacked Gu Yanzhi at close range, certain she had won.

Gu Yanzhi killed the two curse users but struggled against the hunger and survival instincts of Kurourushi’s cursed spirit body. After he tried to kill himself, his body kept crawling toward the dying boy, who was nearing transformation into a curse.

• Gu Yanzhi ambushed and killed the woman after she blasted the sewer, then fed on her corpse beside the dead man.
• He realized his body’s hunger for human flesh was becoming addictive and feared he would lose control again.
• Gu Yanzhi summoned the Festering Life Sword and slashed his own neck to end his life and collect his rewards.
• His body continued twitching and healing under Kurourushi’s survival instinct despite his fading consciousness.
• Gu Yanzhi crawled toward the badly wounded boy and saw the boy’s hatred as cursed energy began forming around him.

After waking in a sewer with no memory of how he got there, the boy emerged into a devastated city and searched for food. His powerful Cursed Energy frightened two men from a convenience store, and as he ate, a voice spoke from within his consciousness.

• Kurourushi's body survived by attaching itself to the unconscious Gu Yanzhi and placing a curse on the boy, then fell dormant again.
• The boy awoke in the sewer with no memory of how he had become separated from his family and left to find food.
• He emerged onto a ruined street and tried to find his way home, but familiar landmarks had been destroyed.
• At a convenience store, two men with Cursed Energy sensed the boy's overwhelming presence and fled through a window.
• The boy bought bread with his coins and ate it, then heard a voice in his head call him an interesting little brat.