Chapter Summaries

After dying in a stairwell fall, Yan Si awoke in his childhood home in a younger body and was told he had transmigrated into the world of Jujutsu. He tested whether the experience was real by cutting his palm and felt genuine pain.

• Yan Si slipped on a rotten banana, tumbled down the stairs, and died after his heart failed from the pain.
• Yan Si awoke on the floor of his family's ancestral home on March 7, 2005, and heard a mechanical voice announce that he had transmigrated.
• Yan Si examined his reflection and realized he had a younger, shorter version of his former body.
• The voice told Yan Si that he had entered the world of Jujutsu, but he suspected it was a hallucination caused by mental illness.
• Yan Si cut his palm with a fruit knife and concluded that the pain and blood proved he was in the real world.

After transmigrating into a parallel world with a system that made pain points out of his suffering, Yan Si learned that he had no cursed energy and could either live safely as a mathematical prodigy or accept missions to become a jujutsu sorcerer. He chose the dangerous path, accepting his heightened pain sensitivity and cursed spirit attraction as the system bound itself to him.

• The system gave Yan Si supernatural cursed spirit attraction, senses one hundred times stronger than normal, pain immunity, and seven points after he cut his palm.
• Yan Si treated the wound and discovered that his pain earned him more points, then opened the System Shop and saw that its powerful abilities were costly.
• Yan Si checked his status and found that he had zero cursed energy, poor physical stats, and a strength stat that seemed inexplicably high.
• The system offered Yan Si the choice to reject missions and live peacefully or become a jujutsu sorcerer while retaining his dangerous constitutions.
• Yan Si chose to accept the missions, saying he wanted to use his second life to have fun, and the system completed its binding.

After arriving on the Dounuo Continent in a fifteen-year-old body, Yan Si examined his heightened senses, injury, and the missions assigned by the system. He assessed the dangers of his Jujutsu Kaisen objectives and ended by rejecting the system’s challenge to defeat Sukuna at his peak.

• Yan Si mocked the system’s welcome message and learned that his new body could endure pain without dying from it.
• Yan Si inspected his beautiful appearance and joked with the system about acting as his eunuch.
• The system revealed missions to reach Japan, join Jujutsu High, become a curse user, cause important characters pain, and defeat Sukuna at his peak.
• Yan Si checked the date, March 7, 2005, and considered the risks posed by Gojo, Geto, Shoko, Toji, Yaga, and others.
• Yan Si ridiculed the ultimate mission because his starting physical strength was 3, speed was 2, and cursed energy was 0, but the system told him to trust its judgment.

Yan Si sensed a cursed spirit in the old house and cut his palm to earn enough points to raise his cursed energy and see it. He killed the spirit with a precise strike and ended the chapter enjoying the fight.

• Yan Si sensed a cursed spirit nearby and learned he needed six points of cursed energy to see one.
• Yan Si reopened his palm wound and jabbed it repeatedly, earning points despite diminishing returns.
• Yan Si spent 18 points to raise his cursed energy from zero to nine and saw a Grade 4-Grade 3 cursed spirit.
• Yan Si dodged the spirit’s attack and struck its weak point, destroying it and earning more points.
• Yan Si called the fight fun and opened the window to the April sunlight.

Yan Si enjoyed his outing and meal before a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit attacked him in his ancestral home. After spending points to boost his speed, he dodged its next strike, but he remained badly injured and trapped in the fight.

• Yan Si fed the koi, reopened his wounded palm, and earned points from pain and other intense sensations.
• Yan Si walked through town, enjoyed grilled skewers and Sprite, and returned to the old house.
• A Grade 2 Cursed Spirit appeared on the ceiling and attacked Yan Si, smashing him through furniture and breaking his ribs.
• Yan Si gained 52 points from his injuries and spent 10 points to raise his speed.
• Yan Si dodged the cursed spirit’s next attack, but its bite shattered the wall and a flying shard cut across his face.

Yan Si endured catastrophic injuries to earn enough points to purchase Reverse Cursed Technique, then regenerated and defeated the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit. He left the wrecked house planning to shower and deal with the repairs later.

• Yan Si let the cursed spirit injure him further, earning points by enduring severe pain while the system kept him conscious.
• Yan Si stabbed himself near the heart and spent 253 points to learn Reverse Cursed Technique, boosting his cursed energy, strength, and speed.
• Yan Si used Reverse Cursed Technique to regrow his leg and heal his heart, ribs, and other injuries.
• Yan Si punched the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit repeatedly, healing his own broken hand between blows, until he destroyed it.
• Yan Si learned that personal pain earned most points, drank an undisturbed bottle of Sprite, and headed upstairs to shower.

Yan Si decided to leave China for Japan, where he planned to use his Reverse Cursed Technique to enter the jujutsu world and meet its major characters. He bought a ticket to Tokyo for three days later and prepared to leave, while Uncle Li worried about his safety and mental state.

• After testing his healed hand and admiring his appearance, Yan Si concluded that his cursed-spirit-attracting constitution made China an inconvenient place to stay.
• Yan Si chose Japan for its Jujutsu High, powerful sorcerers, and abundance of cursed spirits, and considered using his Reverse Cursed Technique to gain the jujutsu society's attention.
• Yan Si booked a first-class ticket to Tokyo for three days later and texted Uncle Li that he had damaged the ancestral home and would be going abroad.
• Uncle Li urged Yan Si to get a medical checkup and worried that his messages sounded like a farewell, but Yan Si dismissed his concern and told him how to handle his inheritance if he died.
• As he drifted off, Yan Si looked forward to arriving in Japan and meeting the major characters while earning pain points.

Yan Si explored Tokyo and used an office worker who deliberately bumped into him as a target for his superhuman strength, leaving the man badly injured with a stack of money. Later, Yan Si entered a shabby alley shop, where the owner noticed his face.

• Yan Si wandered through Shibuya, overwhelmed by Tokyo’s sights, sounds, and smells because his senses were a hundred times stronger than normal.
• Yan Si let an office worker collide with his shoulder, then kicked the man’s knee and struck him with a stack of US dollars.
• Yan Si threw the injured office worker into a utility pole and left after scolding him for sleeping in public.
• Yan Si wandered into a shabby shop in an alley, and the balding owner looked up when he saw him.

Yan Si tracked a girl’s screams to an abandoned building, where cursed spirits were attacking her. He destroyed a Grade 4 spirit and continued upstairs toward the girl and a stronger spirit.

• Yan Si tried a badly prepared pork cutlet meal, complained about it, and left the owner a ten-thousand-yen note.
• Yan Si considered buying Cursed Spirit Manipulation, rejected Limitless because the Six Eyes would draw attention, and wondered what cursed spirit orbs tasted like.
• Yan Si heard a terrified girl screaming and sensed two cursed spirits, then hurried to an abandoned building.
• Yan Si entered the building and killed a Grade 4 cursed spirit with one reinforced punch, earning 3 points and then 0.3 points for causing it pain.
• Yan Si headed upstairs toward the girl and the remaining Grade 3 cursed spirit.

Yan Si rescued a little girl from a grade 3 cursed spirit and treated her neck wounds before carrying her home. He learned she had wandered far from home while playing hide-and-seek and teased her about her parents punishing her.

• Yan Si found a grade 3 cursed spirit holding a little girl by the neck and dismissed its threat to harm her.
• Yan Si used a cursed boning knife and his fist to destroy the cursed spirit before it could hurt the girl further.
• Yan Si picked up the dazed girl, learned her address, and checked with the system that her scratches would not become infected.
• Yan Si bought iodine and gauze, cleaned and bandaged the girl's wounds, then carried her toward home.
• Yan Si learned the girl had been playing hide-and-seek in the abandoned building and teased her about getting spanked, making her cry harder.

Yan Si returned the injured Kasumi Miwa to her mother, Yoshiko, and watched their loving reunion stir painful memories of his own parents. After eating Yoshiko’s tempura and recognizing Kasumi’s future, he sensed a swarm of curses approaching and left to face them.

• Yan Si brought Kasumi home and told Yoshiko she had fallen and cut her neck on broken glass.
• Yoshiko embraced Kasumi, blamed herself for the injury, and thanked Yan Si for bringing her back.
• Yan Si repeatedly urged Yoshiko to beat Kasumi, then accepted a container of freshly fried tempura instead.
• Yoshiko introduced Kasumi Miwa to Yan Si, who recognized her as a future Kyoto Jujutsu High student and thought of Mechamaru.
• Yan Si sensed a swarm of curses drawing near, left Yoshiko’s home, and said he was allergic to seafood despite eating the tempura.

Yan Si waited on the Unfinished Building’s rooftop as cursed spirits converged on him, and Suguru Geto followed their pull to the source. The two boys met, with Yan Si threatening Geto and offering him tempura.

• Yan Si went to the rooftop, watched the sunset, and waited for the cursed spirits drawn to him.
• Suguru Geto sensed cursed spirits across Tokyo converging on one place and followed them to the Unfinished Building.
• Geto climbed to the rooftop and saw Yan Si, whose presence made the cursed spirits inside him surge and struggle.
• Yan Si greeted Geto with a threat, then offered him the leftover tempura.

Suguru Geto met Yan Si on a rooftop, noticed Yan Si was having an allergic reaction while eating shrimp tempura, and quietly traded him a bread roll for the food. Yan Si introduced himself and teased Geto before telling him a fanciful story about why sunset clouds were red.

• Suguru Geto introduced himself to Yan Si and recognized that Yan Si's reddened skin showed an allergic reaction to the shrimp tempura.
• Suguru Geto gave Yan Si a bread roll, and Yan Si stopped reaching for the tempura while Geto ate the remaining pieces.
• Yan Si said he was from China, had finished high school, and had been accepted into a top university, then teased Geto about being less impressive.
• Yan Si asked why sunset clouds were red and claimed the sun blushed because it had failed to catch the moon; Geto gave up arguing and ate in silence.

Yan Si joked with Suguru Geto before leaping from a rooftop and swiftly exorcising four cursed spirits with a knife and Reverse Cursed Technique. After noticing a Curtain, he startled three assistant supervisors with a powerful flashlight, and Suguru introduced himself as a prospective Jujutsu High student.

• Yan Si teased Suguru Geto with absurd conversation topics, then declared Suguru to be Crazy Dave and jumped off the rooftop.
• Yan Si killed four cursed spirits with a boning knife, healing a serious shoulder wound with Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Yan Si noticed a Curtain had descended and used points to obtain a super flashlight.
• Yan Si found three assistant supervisors hiding nearby and startled them by appearing behind them with the flashlight.
• Suguru Geto joined Yan Si and introduced himself to the assistant supervisors as a new Jujutsu High student who had not yet enrolled.

Yan Si’s unusual ability to attract cursed spirits and heal others made the Jujutsu higher-ups consider him a threat, and they first tried to have him assassinated. Suguru Geto’s refusal to leave Yan Si’s side thwarted the attempt, so Tokyo principal Hatoyama Jushō arranged to meet Yan Si about bringing him into the fold.

• Yan Si’s arrival drew four cursed spirits in Hachioji, including a grade 1, alarming the Jujutsu higher-ups because he could also use Reverse Cursed Technique on others.
• The higher-ups ordered a grade 2 sorcerer to kill Yan Si, but Suguru Geto stayed with him at the hotel and prevented the assassin from acting.
• Yan Si noticed the assassin watching him and tried to persuade Geto to leave, but Geto remained, considering Yan Si a companion rather than someone weak.
• The higher-ups abandoned the assassination plan and considered recruiting Yan Si, while Kyoto’s old families objected to his foreign origins and cursed-spirit-attracting constitution.
• Tokyo principal Hatoyama Jushō called Suguru Geto and requested a meeting with Yan Si.

Yan Si completed his enrollment at Tokyo Jujutsu High and joined Suguru Geto as an incoming first-year. As Masamichi Yaga finalized their paperwork, Geto discovered Yan Si was only fourteen and learned his birthday was April 4.

• Yan Si agreed to enroll at Tokyo Jujutsu High, and Hatoyama Jushō assigned him to the incoming first-year class.
• Yan Si and Suguru Geto moved into the student dormitory, where Mei Mei welcomed Yan Si with a brief compliment.
• Yan Si and Geto brought their enrollment files to Masamichi Yaga, their future homeroom teacher.
• Geto noticed Yan Si's accelerated schooling and prestigious university admission listed in his file.
• Geto saw Yan Si's April 4, 1990 birth date and realized he was only fourteen.
• Yaga stamped Yan Si and Geto's enrollment forms, completing their registration.

Yan Si turned his cursed-spirit hunts into entertainment by leaving one barely alive for Suguru Geto to absorb. After Geto swallowed the spirit, the two headed back to Jujutsu High and continued their banter.

• Yan Si called Suguru Geto from an abandoned parking garage in Shibuya and invited him to eat something he had saved.
• Suguru Geto found Yan Si beside a nearly dead cursed spirit that Yan Si had chased and injured to leave fresh for him.
• Suguru Geto used Cursed Spirit Manipulation to compress the Grade 3 spirit into a ball and swallowed it, describing its taste as a rag used to wipe up vomit.
• Yan Si suggested pairing cursed spirits with strawberry jam or ketchup, while Suguru Geto noticed Yan Si had scraped his arm during the chase.
• Suguru Geto and Yan Si left for a convenience store to look for caramel pudding and joked together on the way back to Jujutsu High.

Yan Si used the boning knife to stab himself regularly, exploiting its chance to inflict double pain to earn System points. After counting his savings and considering how painful the routine was, he wondered whether he could make earning points more enjoyable.

• Yan Si calculated that he had saved 306 points and continued stabbing himself after missions, in the shower, and before bed to earn more.
• Yan Si worked out a daily stabbing quota and considered raising it from three stabs to four, while noting that Reverse Cursed Technique quickly healed his wounds.
• Yan Si endured the knife’s hundredfold pain, waited through waves of agony, and admired his tearful reflection in a mirror and in the blade.
• Yan Si decided that fighting cursed spirits earned points too slowly and relied on self-inflicted pain as a more efficient way to save for an ability in the System Shop.
• Yan Si considered whether he could make the painful point-earning routine less unpleasant or find some fun in it.

Yan Si bought a pain-sharing ability from the system after learning it could pass up to all of his pain to a designated target, with no distance limit. He ended the chapter planning to test it by provoking Gojo at Jujutsu High.

• Yan Si asked the system whether it sold a pain-sharing ability and saw the skill named “How Many Floors Can a Bag of Rice Climb?” for 50 points.
• Yan Si confirmed the skill shared a chosen proportion of his pain with a designated target, could work over any distance, and could be activated manually or under set conditions.
• The system explained that the sharing ratio began at ten percent but could be raised to one hundred percent.
• Yan Si bought the ability, reducing his balance from 306 points to 256, and absorbed its instructions and activation details.
• Yan Si considered provoking Gojo at Jujutsu High and planned conditions for activating the skill.

Yan Si and Suguru Geto took a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit mission in Minato City, then spent the afternoon sightseeing in Odaiba. They ended the chapter in a souvenir shop, where Yan Si gave Geto a mascot charm that Geto pocketed before they had paid.

• Suguru Geto invited Yan Si on a Grade 2 mission near Odaiba, and Yan Si agreed to go after changing.
• Suguru Geto carried Yan Si to Minato City on his flying Cursed Spirit, which Yan Si called the Duck Express.
• Yan Si and Suguru Geto defeated the many-legged Cursed Spirit in a construction-site parking garage.
• Yan Si persuaded Suguru Geto to visit Odaiba, where they toured the Fuji TV building and admired the view of Tokyo Bay.
• Yan Si gave Suguru Geto a spherical-building mascot charm, and Geto slipped it into his pocket before they paid.