Chapter Summaries

On the way to Tokyo Jujutsu High, Satoru Gojo annoyed his new classmate Shoko Ieiri with his nonstop fidgeting and chatter. Shoko revealed she had chosen Tokyo to get away from him, only to learn that Satoru had originally been headed to Kyoto before changing schools.

• Satoru Gojo fidgeted in the car beside Shoko Ieiri while she tried to ignore him with a green tea lollipop.
• Shoko teased Satoru about acting as if he had fleas and offered him rubbing alcohol or a sedative.
• Satoru asked whether Shoko was curious about Tokyo and complained about Kyoto's elders and rules.
• Shoko said she chose Tokyo because Satoru was in Kyoto, hoping for peace and quiet.
• Satoru laughed and revealed that he had originally been assigned to Kyoto before coming to Tokyo.

Shoko Ieiri and Satoru Gojo arrived at Tokyo Jujutsu High and met Suguru Geto and Yan Si in their first-year classroom. Gojo and Yan Si immediately hit it off, leaving Shoko and Geto wary of the chaos ahead.

• Shoko and Satoru Gojo reached Tokyo Jujutsu High, where Gojo explored the campus and Shoko waited for class.
• The Assistant Supervisor brought Shoko to the first-year classroom, where Suguru Geto and Yan Si were waiting.
• Gojo recognized Yan Si's cursed spirit-attracting ability, and he and Yan Si traded nicknames and jokes.
• Shoko asked Masamichi Yaga for a dorm room farther from Gojo and Yan Si, then introduced herself to Yan Si.
• Gojo asked Yan Si about attracting cursed spirits, and they discussed bringing him on missions as a cursed spirit lure for a fee.

On their first day at Tokyo Jujutsu High, Yan Si and Gojo bonded by teasing Geto about eating cursed spirits, while Yaga struggled to control the chaotic class. Gojo and Yan Si agreed to fight after class, leaving Yaga already despairing over the year ahead.

• Geto told Gojo that he had known Yan Si for less than three minutes, but Gojo introduced himself and asked whether Geto really ate cursed spirits.
• Yan Si described Geto's cursed spirits as tasting like a filthy rag used to wipe up vomit, then suggested strawberry jam as a remedy.
• Gojo and Yan Si agreed that sweets were the pinnacle of human civilization, while Shoko told them to shut up and Yaga tried to quiet the classroom.
• Yaga surveyed his four talented new students and realized that Gojo and Yan Si were already amplifying each other's disruptive behavior.
• Gojo asked Yan Si to fight after class, and Yan Si eagerly accepted after asking whether Gojo was afraid of pain.

Masamichi Yaga warned the first-year students that jujutsu sorcery carried a high mortality rate after Satoru Gojo and Yan Si turned their plans to fight into a joke. Yan Si reflected that the students from this class and the next would mostly die, leaving the story with the danger of their future missions looming over them.

• Masamichi Yaga broke his chalk as Satoru Gojo and Yan Si joked about fighting after class.
• Satoru Gojo and Yan Si blamed each other for starting the fight while Suguru Geto and Shoko watched.
• Masamichi Yaga resumed class and warned the students that jujutsu sorcerers faced curses, death, and a high chance of not graduating alive.
• Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko listened seriously to Masamichi Yaga's warning.
• Yan Si recalled that Suguru Geto, Satoru Gojo, Kento Nanami, and Yu Haibara would all die.

Masamichi Yaga introduced the new class and warned them about missions, but Satoru Gojo and Yan Si quickly turned the first-day lesson toward fighting. Their eagerness to hurt each other pushed Yaga past his patience.

• Masamichi Yaga reviewed the talents and troubling traits of Satoru Gojo, Shoko Ieiri, Suguru Geto, and Yan Si.
• Masamichi Yaga explained the students’ classes, training, and future missions, warning Satoru Gojo and Yan Si not to treat missions as fun.
• Satoru Gojo asked whether the day’s basic assessment meant beating people up, and Yan Si asked whether they could make their classmates experience pain.
• Suguru Geto tried to stop Yan Si from asking such questions, but Satoru Gojo joined in and agreed to Yan Si’s offer to try.
• Masamichi Yaga lost his patience and shouted for them to stop.

Masamichi Yaga took the four newcomers to the training ground and began their physical combat tests. Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto were paired first, while Yan Si and Shoko watched and shared five-spice sunflower seeds.

• Masamichi Yaga ordered the students to the training ground and announced that they would start with physical combat.
• Satoru Gojo, Shoko, and Yan Si traded jokes as Masamichi Yaga struggled to keep the class focused.
• Masamichi Yaga paired Satoru Gojo with Suguru Geto for the first test.
• Yan Si sat at the edge of the field with a bag of five-spice sunflower seeds and offered some to Shoko, who accepted.

Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto tested their hand-to-hand combat while Yan Si and Shoko Ieiri watched and traded teasing remarks. The fight remained evenly matched, with Gojo recognizing Geto's skill and Yan Si joking that Geto would have to look after him and Gojo in the future.

• Masamichi Yaga watched as Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto took their positions for a hand-to-hand combat test.
• Satoru Gojo attacked without using Limitless, and Suguru Geto blocked his strikes and showed unexpectedly strong combat skills.
• Suguru Geto countered patiently, occasionally catching Satoru Gojo off guard, while Gojo relied on the Six Eyes to track and evade his attacks.
• Yan Si and Shoko Ieiri watched the duel, discussed the fighters, and joked about Yan Si's looks and confidence.
• Yan Si said Suguru Geto would have to look after him and Satoru Gojo in the future, and Shoko called Yan Si scum.

Gojo and Geto’s spar ended in a draw, and the two became friends as Yan Si joked about their pairing. Yaga called Yan Si and Shoko Ieiri for the next assessment, but after Shoko objected to fighting Yan Si, Yaga changed it to a basic reaction test and Shoko took her position.

• Gojo and Geto stopped their simultaneous attacks and agreed that each was strong, then began calling each other Satoru and Geto.
• Yan Si congratulated the pair with wedding jokes, and Geto covered his mouth while Gojo laughed and Shoko returned Yan Si’s trash to him.
• Yaga called Yan Si and Shoko Ieiri as the next pair, but Shoko asked to forfeit because she feared Yan Si would spit on her.
• Yan Si admitted he might spit, and Yaga decided Shoko should take a basic reaction test instead of fighting him.
• Shoko stepped into the testing area, stood on the marked center point, and closed her eyes to prepare.

Shoko passed the striking-rod test with an efficient, unhurried style, then Yan Si began his own test after admitting he sometimes let himself get hurt rather than dodge. The chapter left Yan Si avoiding the faster rods with precise movements, relying on his keen hearing.

• Shoko dodged and blocked the striking rods with economical movements, earning an upper-middle score and a pass from Masamichi Yaga.
• Satoru Gojo and Yan Si teased Shoko about being lazy and a tsundere until she told both of them to shut up.
• Yan Si entered the test area, and Masamichi Yaga warned him not to use cursed tools or Reverse Cursed Technique to take the hits.
• Yan Si admitted that his file was accurate about him deliberately letting himself get hurt, then allowed the first rod to graze him.
• Yan Si dodged the next rods with quick, precise movements, using his keen hearing to anticipate an attack from behind.

Yan Si impressed his classmates and Masamichi Yaga by elegantly dodging the training field’s attacks, then turned his hair coming loose into an excuse to ask for money. Yaga judged the four new students, though he remained unsure whether Suguru Geto was as normal as he seemed.

• Yan Si dodged the wooden poles with graceful, precise movements, impressing Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Masamichi Yaga.
• An aged mechanism sent a pole off course, but Yan Si avoided it; a splinter snapped his hair tie and let his long hair fall loose.
• Satoru Gojo and Shoko Ieiri admired Yan Si’s appearance, while Suguru Geto found a spare hair tie in his pocket.
• Yan Si asked his classmates to pay to admire his beauty, and Masamichi Yaga told him not to extort them.
• Masamichi Yaga recorded an excellent test result and assessed the new students, reserving judgment about Suguru Geto’s normality because of his closeness to Yan Si.

Masamichi Yaga laid down strict rules for sparring as Yan Si and Satoru Gojo tried to find loopholes and provoke each other. He assigned Yan Si, Satoru Gojo, and Shoko to clean the training grounds, though the pair soon began plotting ways to make the chore troublesome.

• Masamichi Yaga announced that classes would officially begin the next day and prohibited sparring outside the training grounds unless a teacher was present.
• Satoru Gojo asked whether fighting in the bathrooms was allowed, and Yan Si asked about the woods and mountain path; Masamichi Yaga forbade all of them.
• Satoru Gojo asked how the rules applied during a cursed spirit encounter, and Masamichi Yaga explained that missions and emergencies followed different rules.
• Yan Si suggested Satoru Gojo might attack him first, and the two joked about their planned fight as a loving sparring session.
• Masamichi Yaga ordered Yan Si, Satoru Gojo, and Shoko to clean the training grounds, threatening to extend the punishment if they protested.
• Yan Si and Satoru Gojo whispered about whether they could sweep the leaves into the shape of Masamichi Yaga.

Yan Si, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri received their textbooks and discovered Yan Si could rapidly absorb difficult material. Yan Si and Satoru Gojo dumped their books on Suguru Geto, but the ensuing fight ended with the books returned and Yan Si gaining two points.

• Satoru Gojo complained about the number of theory textbooks while Shoko Ieiri explained that schools held classes and Suguru Geto organized his books.
• Yan Si rapidly read a difficult Jujutsu theory textbook, surprising Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri with his knowledge and speed.
• Yan Si handed his books to Satoru Gojo, who passed his own and Yan Si’s books to Suguru Geto.
• Shoko Ieiri and Yan Si each removed a book from Suguru Geto’s stack, though Yan Si kept one because he liked its cover.
• Satoru Gojo, Yan Si, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri broke into a fight, and the books returned to their owners as Yan Si earned two points.

The first-years received their customized Jujutsu High uniforms, and Yan Si, Satoru Gojo, Shoko, and Suguru Geto traded jokes while finishing their classroom duties. They reached the dormitory, where third-year Mei Mei greeted them and remarked on their liveliness.

• The first-years collected their uniforms, and Yan Si called his black outfit perfect for nighttime murder.
• Satoru Gojo urged Yan Si to scare Masamichi Yaga, who overheard them and assigned them three days of training-ground cleanup.
• Shoko, Satoru Gojo, and Yan Si got Suguru Geto's cursed spirit to handle the sweeping before the group left the classroom building.
• Satoru Gojo teased Suguru Geto about carrying hair ties, while Shoko and Yan Si called Gojo an ass.
• Mei Mei met the four first-years outside the dormitory and called them a lively bunch.

Mei Mei’s warning to Yan Si about cleaning up leaves Suguru Geto and the others wondering what she knows about him. That night, Suguru cannot focus on his studies as he keeps replaying her words.

• Suguru Geto, Yan Si, Satoru Gojo, and Shoko met Mei Mei, who called Satoru good-looking and valuable.
• Mei Mei told Yan Si to take care of himself and clean up, prompting the others to question what she meant.
• Yan Si said he used reverse cursed technique and did not worry about getting hurt while fighting cursed spirits, then teased Satoru Gojo and Shoko for more concern.
• Suguru Geto urged everyone to unpack and rest before classes began, while Yan Si and Satoru called him Mama Geto.
• That evening, Satoru Gojo rearranged his room, Shoko read quietly, and Suguru Geto struggled to study because he kept wondering what Yan Si was doing.

On Tokyo Jujutsu High’s first day of classes, Suguru Geto got Yan Si out of bed and urged him to hurry to class. Satoru Gojo waited alone in the classroom after spending the night awake, and the chapter left the students about to begin their first day.

• Suguru Geto knocked on Yan Si’s door, found him buried under the covers, and opened the curtains to wake him.
• Yan Si resisted getting up, but Suguru Geto laid out clothes and gave him a strict three-minute deadline.
• Suguru Geto told Yan Si there was breakfast on the bedside table, and Yan Si thanked him by calling him “Mommy Geto.”
• Satoru Gojo arrived first at the classroom after wandering around campus all night because the Six Eyes kept him from sleeping.

Yan Si arrived late to class with a red bean bun, ignored Masamichi Yaga’s ban on eating, and joined the lesson on cursed energy. As Satoru Gojo joked around and Yaga began teaching, Yan Si quickly skimmed the textbook beside Suguru Geto.

• Suguru Geto arrived early and moved a desk beside Satoru Gojo, who teased him about Meat Bun and made room beside him.
• Shoko entered at the bell and chose the seat behind Suguru Geto, relieved not to sit next to Satoru Gojo.
• Masamichi Yaga began class, and Satoru Gojo complained that he had already memorized the textbook before noticing Yan Si was late.
• Yan Si arrived chewing a red bean bun, asked whether he could eat in class, and ate it after Masamichi Yaga said no.
• Satoru Gojo copied Yan Si’s casual attitude toward class and was struck by Masamichi Yaga, earning Yan Si two points.
• Masamichi Yaga started teaching the fundamentals of cursed energy, while Yan Si rapidly turned through the textbook pages.

Yan Si attended Masamichi Yaga’s theory lesson with Satoru Gojo, showing that he had memorized nearly all of the material despite seeming distracted. During the break, he watched an ant carrying a crumb and briefly reflected on Suguru Geto before joking with his classmates about lunch.

• Masamichi Yaga taught the class about cursed energy while Yan Si recited the lesson from memory and Satoru Gojo teased him.
• Yan Si claimed he knew ninety-nine percent of the textbook, prompting Satoru Gojo to laugh at his confidence.
• During the break, Yan Si watched an ant carry a crumb and described its steady effort to Satoru Gojo.
• Yan Si privately thought that Suguru Geto might not defect if he never questioned his burdens, then joked that he had been thinking about the cafeteria menu.

Yan Si, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko tested their cursed energy control in class, revealing Yan Si’s unstable output and his fabricated explanation that his constitution attracted cursed spirits. The group rejected Gojo’s ideas for releasing Yan Si’s cursed energy, and Suguru felt that everything was going well until lunchtime.

• Satoru Gojo’s cursed energy overwhelmed the testing device, while Shoko demonstrated precise control and Suguru Geto produced a high but slightly fluctuating reading.
• Yan Si’s cursed energy made the device’s needle jump irregularly, and he told Masamichi Yaga that his cursed-spirit-attracting constitution caused the instability.
• Yan Si’s system explained that his cursed energy came from the system because he was a transmigrator, and Yan Si decided to keep using his constitution as an excuse.
• Satoru Gojo proposed releasing Yan Si’s cursed energy from Tokyo Tower and then from the Jujutsu High mountaintop, but Suguru Geto, Shoko, and Masamichi Yaga shut down both ideas.
• Yan Si laughed at Gojo’s frustration, and Suguru Geto enjoyed the group’s easy camaraderie until lunchtime.

Yan Si, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko shared lunch at Jujutsu High, where Yan Si’s casual description of his seafood allergy made Satoru laugh and Suguru worry. The meal ended with Yan Si flirting with Shoko, who dismissed him as a scumbag.

• Satoru Gojo noticed Yan Si had avoided seafood and asked about his allergy.
• Yan Si described severe allergic reactions as helping him sleep better and joked that he could test seafood for authenticity, making Satoru laugh.
• Suguru Geto called Yan Si’s testing idea not very useful, and Yan Si insisted it was accurate.
• Suguru warned Yan Si that he would get what was coming to him, prompting Satoru to laugh again.
• Shoko called Satoru and Yan Si mentally ill, and Yan Si flirted with her before she called him a scumbag and continued eating.

Satoru Gojo dragged Shoko away to explore the mountain, then returned to carry Yan Si off over his shoulder. After Yan Si smashed his nose against Gojo’s back and started bleeding, Suguru Geto confronted Gojo while Yan Si decided to play along.

• Satoru Gojo pulled Shoko from the cafeteria to explore the mountain, while Yan Si and Suguru Geto watched them leave.
• Yan Si joked that Shoko was walking an energetic dog, and Suguru Geto warned him that Gojo had the Six Eyes.
• Satoru Gojo returned, scooped Yan Si over his shoulder, and dodged Suguru Geto’s attempt to stop him.
• Satoru Gojo jumped with Yan Si over his shoulder, causing Yan Si to smash his nose against Gojo’s back and bleed.
• Suguru Geto confronted Satoru Gojo, who apologized, while Yan Si decided not to heal himself yet.