Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian traced Jujutsu Headquarters’ secret facilities through Kusumoto’s budget records and identified two still-operating sites funded under “sealing maintenance.” He chose the remote Sagamihara site as his next target, while learning that Kusumoto’s investigators were on their way to Tokyo and one of them remained unidentified.

• Yang Jian asked Shiu Kong to trace Kusumoto’s budget payments and report when Kusumoto’s two people arrived in Tokyo.
• Shiu Kong found thirteen suspicious shell-company payments and identified operating sites in Ichikawa and Sagamihara.
• Yang Jian judged the Sagamihara site easier to approach because it lay in the mountains, and told Shiu Kong to investigate it first.
• Shiu Kong reported that Kusumoto’s two people had not reached Tokyo and identified the tracking sorcerer as Kagekatsu Uesugi, while the other investigator remained unknown.
• Yang Jian assessed Sagamihara’s terrain and estimated that its hidden facility had four to six guards.

Yang Jian tried to steer Suguru Geto away from the doubts that would lead him toward a destructive answer, then studied intelligence on Kusumoto’s Sagamihara site and prepared to investigate it alone. He left for the night mission with Shiu Kong watching the Ichikawa site.

• Suguru Geto told Yang Jian that a school official had asked him to conceal a cursed spirit attack that nearly killed two children, and asked what they were protecting.
• Yang Jian told Suguru Geto to choose whom to protect and warned that searching for a grand reason could eventually make protecting others feel meaningless.
• Suguru Geto thanked Yang Jian for avoiding a grand lecture and returned to class, while Yang Jian resolved not to ignore the chance to change his fate.
• Yang Jian reviewed Shiu Kong’s drone images of Kusumoto’s Sagamihara site, including its buildings, underground entrance, and Jujutsu Headquarters vehicle.
• Yang Jian told Shiu Kong he would investigate Sagamihara alone that night and asked him to monitor the Ichikawa site.
• Yang Jian wrapped the Chopping Knife and tucked it inside his coat.

Yang Jian infiltrated Kusumoto’s Sagamihara site and discovered experiments involving culture dishes and sealed cursed samples. He left the evidence untouched, reported the findings to Shiu Kong, and planned to investigate the Ichikawa site next.

• Yang Jian studied the Sagamihara site’s layout and used his Ghost Domain to approach it during a shift change in the rain.
• Yang Jian entered the underground facility, switched its radio to another channel, and subdued two guards without killing them.
• Yang Jian photographed sixteen culture dishes and found three sealed glass containers, including one holding a living, proliferating sample.
• Yang Jian sent Shiu Kong details about the site and asked him to check its suppliers and compare the layout with the Ichikawa site.
• Yang Jian erased three hours of the guards’ memories, left the facility, and returned to his dorm with the evidence untouched.

Yang Jian learned that Kusumoto had another cultivation facility in Ichikawa and invited Suguru Geto to help clear it out that night. After Jujutsu Headquarters let Kusumoto escape discipline for Shibuya, Yang Jian prepared to investigate the site while Suguru Geto agreed to join him.

• Yang Jian received Shiu Kong's confirmation of a second cultivation facility in Ichikawa, with twelve culture dishes and two guards.
• Suguru Geto told Yang Jian he had covered up the deaths of ten people in his Shibuya report to prevent Jujutsu Headquarters from targeting him.
• Yang Jian challenged Suguru Geto's belief in protecting ordinary people and invited him to clear out the Ichikawa facility; Suguru Geto agreed to go without killing the guards.
• Shiu Kong sent Yang Jian detailed information about the Ichikawa site, and Yang Jian arranged to meet Suguru Geto at ten that night.
• Satoru Gojo told Yang Jian that Jujutsu Headquarters had reprimanded Kusumoto over Shibuya but had not disciplined him because someone was protecting him.

Yang Jian and Suguru Geto infiltrated Kusumoto’s underground laboratory and destroyed twelve experimental specimens, earning Yang Jian 600 points. After Geto questioned whether Yang Jian would use the Chopping Knife on a person, they returned to Jujutsu High, where Yang Jian checked his points as rain began again.

• Satoru Gojo warned Yang Jian to be careful while investigating Kusumoto and asked him to clean up after himself.
• Yang Jian took Suguru Geto to an abandoned factory in Ichikawa and used the Ghost Eye to bypass the underground entrance.
• They found twelve experimental specimens made from substance Kusumoto extracted after feeding living people to cursed spirits.
• Suguru Geto declined to absorb the specimens because their cursed energy might contaminate his cursed spirits, so Yang Jian destroyed them with the Chopping Knife and gained 600 points.
• Suguru Geto asked whether Yang Jian would use the knife to kill a living person, and Yang Jian said it depended on whether the person was strong enough to warrant it.
• Yang Jian returned to Jujutsu High, saw that his points totaled 58,260, and went to bed as rain started falling.

After cleaning up the Ichikawa site, Yang Jian learned that Kusumoto was moving the remaining sites and had blamed the Shibuya incident on a special grade cursed spirit. Suguru Geto thanked Yang Jian for letting him witness the experiment’s destruction and said he was considering putting something different on the table.

• Shiu Kong told Yang Jian that Kusumoto’s people had changed shifts early, possibly noticed a red light at the Ichikawa site, and would likely clear the Sagamihara site within days.
• Satoru Gojo told Yang Jian that Kusumoto had blamed Shibuya on a special grade cursed spirit, explained away the lack of cursed residue, and suggested screening outsiders without naming Yang Jian.
• Satoru Gojo said retired higher-up Miyamura had questioned why the Shibuya scene lacked the cursed residue a special grade spirit should leave behind.
• Suguru Geto thanked Yang Jian for not questioning his decision to come along and said watching Yang Jian destroy the experimental creatures had made him feel their existence and his role in protecting people were pointless.
• Suguru Geto told Yang Jian he was considering putting something different on the table, then ended their conversation.

Yang Jian discussed Suguru Geto’s changed approach to sorcery, then concluded that Kenjaku was behind Kusumoto’s investigation into the Ichikawa laboratory. He chose not to pursue Kenjaku yet, instead ordering Shiu Kong to monitor Kusumoto’s people while Jujutsu Headquarters prepared to investigate anomalous individuals.

• Yang Jian bought two cans of cola and spoke with Suguru Geto, who decided to keep saving people while no longer ignoring the problems he encountered.
• Suguru Geto told Yang Jian that Kusumoto was returning to Ichikawa with a trace-tracking sorcerer and an unidentified person whose records were highly encrypted.
• Yang Jian connected Kusumoto’s activities and several experimental sites to Kenjaku, then told Shiu Kong to stop pursuing Kusumoto and maintain routine surveillance.
• Suguru Geto reported that Kusumoto had requisitioned surveillance footage and requested a task force to investigate anomalous individuals outside the cursed energy system.
• Yang Jian told Suguru Geto he would deal with anyone who opposed him and paid Shiu Kong to closely watch the people Kusumoto sent out.

Yang Jian talked with Suguru Geto about killing and Geto’s plans to change the way things were, then used information from Shiu Kong to plan his next move against Kusumoto’s operation. He decided to let the Ichikawa inspection pass before striking the Sagamihara site, where sealed containers held suspected Sukuna’s Fingers and an unidentified sample.

• Yang Jian met Suguru Geto at the playground bleachers, answered his questions about killing, and told him he would not eat spoiled food if Geto changed the menu.
• Suguru Geto invited Yang Jian on a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit mission in Chiba, but Yang Jian refused and heard Geto ask whether he would join him if he changed everything.
• Shiu Kong told Yang Jian that Kusumoto’s people, including Kagekatsu Uesugi, were heading to Tokyo and that a Kyoto branch sorcerer had a sealed personnel file.
• Yang Jian told Shiu Kong to stop investigating the sorcerer, then calculated that Kusumoto’s people would inspect the cleared Ichikawa site before they could move the Sagamihara stock.
• Yang Jian reviewed the Sagamihara site’s layout and guards, noting three sealed containers underground that held two suspected Sukuna’s Fingers and an unidentified active sample.

Yang Jian confirmed Kusumoto’s transfer schedule and planned to take the three sealed containers from Sagamihara before the move began. He decided to destroy the unknown active specimen and waited for Kusumoto’s people to investigate Ichikawa first.

• Yang Jian learned from Shiu Kong that Kusumoto’s refrigerated truck had reached Sagamihara, but the guards were waiting for orders before starting the transfer.
• Satoru Gojo told Yang Jian that Kusumoto’s people would reach Tokyo Station at eleven, while he still could not identify the Kyoto sorcerer.
• Yang Jian planned to enter the Sagamihara site through his ghost domain, remove the guards’ memories, and destroy the unknown active specimen.
• Yang Jian drank cola and spoke with Shoko, who warned him that Kusumoto’s people were coming to Tokyo.
• Yang Jian checked his chopping knife and decided to wait until Kusumoto’s people finished their Ichikawa inspection and turned their attention back to Sagamihara.

Yang Jian raided Kusumoto's facility in Sagamihara, taking two Sukuna's Fingers and destroying an experimental specimen before returning to Jujutsu High. With Kusumoto's facilities emptied or ruined, Yang Jian left the person backing him for a later confrontation.

• Yang Jian infiltrated the Sagamihara facility using his ghost domain and erased the two guards' memories of the previous four hours.
• Yang Jian took the two Sukuna's Fingers from sealed containers and stored them in a lead box.
• Yang Jian cut the A-3 specimen with the Chopping Knife and imprisoned its fragments in his fifth-layer ghost domain, earning 200 points.
• Yang Jian told Shiu Kong that he had cleared Sagamihara, and Shiu Kong reported that Kagekatsu Uesugi had visited Kusumoto's private residence after leaving Ichikawa.
• Yang Jian returned to Jujutsu High, joked with Satoru Gojo and Shoko Ieiri in the group chat, and decided Kusumoto's losses were already complete.