Chapter Summaries

Dai Li was transported to the Jujutsu Kaisen world and discovered that his cursed technique, Life and Binding, let him trade vows and possessions for power at a cost. After exhausting himself with an early attempt to raise his cursed energy, he received a quest to defeat Ryomen Sukuna.

• Dai Li won a giveaway’s special prize and was transported into a rice field in Sendai City, where the system told him he had awakened Life and Binding.
• The system explained that Dai Li could use binding vows to increase his abilities, but that the technique required cursed energy and followed equivalent exchange.
• Dai Li learned he was a Grade 4 Sorcerer and failed to use his technique to sacrifice a tree because it did not belong to him.
• Dai Li vowed never to cut down a tree and slightly increased his cursed energy, then collapsed after exhausting his reserves.
• Dai Li asked for a beginner’s gift pack and a quest, and the system issued a single quest to defeat Ryomen Sukuna.

Dai Li arrived in a rural area, received shelter from the Sawada couple, and exorcised a weak cursed spirit clinging to Uncle Sawada. When he sensed a special grade cursed spirit outside, a visitor entered and greeted the couple as Mr. and Mrs. Yamada.

• Dai Li learned that his system offered no help beyond awakening his cursed technique and viewing his status, and required him to confront fully incarnated Sukuna.
• Dai Li reached a house and Mrs. Sawada welcomed him, gave him a bath, fresh clothes, and pork miso soup.
• Uncle Sawada returned home, and the couple invited Dai Li to stay while explaining that an honored Monk had helped them before.
• Dai Li spotted a weak cursed spirit on Uncle Sawada's back and exorcised it with a single strike.
• Dai Li sensed a special grade cursed spirit outside and shouted in alarm as someone opened the door and greeted Mr. and Mrs. Yamada.

Suguru Geto confronted Dai Li at the Sawadas’ home after Dai Li cured Mr. Sawada’s lingering ailment, then revealed he intended to kill the couple because they had failed to provide a valuable cursed spirit. Dai Li challenged Geto to a duel to protect them, and Geto agreed to spare everyone if Dai Li proved strong enough to interest him.

• Suguru Geto introduced himself to Dai Li and questioned him about his jujutsu training and cursed technique.
• Geto explained that he had come to check on Mr. Sawada because a special grade cursed spirit had once been attached to him, then said the Sawadas were useless and he would kill them.
• Dai Li rejected Geto’s plan to kill ordinary people and vowed not to become like him.
• Dai Li admitted he could not stand by while Geto killed the Sawadas and challenged him to a duel, wagering their safety on the outcome.
• Geto said he would spare the Sawadas and Dai Li if Dai Li proved strong enough to pique his interest, and Dai Li eagerly accepted.

Dai Li prepared to fight Suguru Geto by using Life and Binding to massively increase his cursed energy reserves at the cost of losing the ability to grow them naturally. The chapter ended as he considered another binding vow while Suguru Geto watched his uncontrolled cursed energy.

• Dai Li agreed to fight Suguru Geto on a nearby mountain, and Suguru Geto flew him there on a bird-like cursed spirit.
• On the mountain, Dai Li confirmed that ordinary binding vows would work separately from his cursed technique.
• Dai Li used an ordinary binding vow to make his next technique activation cost no cursed energy, then used Life and Binding to permanently trade away natural cursed energy growth for vastly larger reserves.
• Dai Li checked his status and learned that, despite having Grade 1-level cursed energy reserves, his overall strength remained Grade 2 because he could not control his energy and lacked combat ability.
• Suguru Geto noticed Dai Li's sudden increase in cursed energy and its uncontrolled leakage, but watched silently as Dai Li planned another binding vow.

Dai Li used Binding Vows to boost and automate his cursed energy while fighting Suguru Geto, who tested his abilities and then grew serious. The chapter ended as Dai Li’s powered-up kick struck Geto and a cloud of dust obscured the result.

• Dai Li’s cursed energy surged, and he destroyed Geto’s centipede-shaped cursed spirits with a single punch.
• Geto tested Dai Li in close combat, throwing him down before Dai Li retaliated with a surprise kick and destroyed Geto’s Worm Cursed Spirits.
• Geto used baiting spirits to land a punch and a curse-assisted attack, then kicked Dai Li into a tree.
• Dai Li tried to increase his cursed energy, but a warning said his body would burst if he exceeded its capacity, so he used Binding Vows to triple his output and replenish energy during the fight.
• Geto summoned Playful Cloud, and Dai Li launched a heavily reinforced kick that struck him as dust billowed across the battlefield.

Dai Li fought Suguru Geto and his cursed spirits, using his replenishing cursed energy to withstand Geto’s attempt to wear him down. Geto then prepared to finish the fight with Maximum: Uzumaki.

• Suguru Geto attacked Dai Li despite promising to leave if Dai Li earned his acknowledgment, and Dai Li countered by pulling him close with Playful Cloud and striking him.
• Suguru Geto unleashed a swarm of cursed spirits, and Dai Li blinded the One-Eyed Cursed Spirit while targeting the Yellow-Brown Cursed Spirit.
• Suguru Geto sent the special grade Double-Pupiled General into the fight, but Dai Li’s Wind King Iron Fist shattered many of the other cursed spirits and damaged the General.
• Suguru Geto realized Dai Li’s cursed energy kept replenishing and formed Maximum: Uzumaki, announcing it would be the finishing attack.

Dai Li used a series of binding vows to face Suguru Geto’s Maximum: Uzumaki in a final clash and emerged victorious. Suguru Geto flew away, leaving Dai Li exhausted and hoping never to see him again.

• Dai Li disclosed how his cursed technique, Life and Binding, worked and used binding vows to increase his cursed energy output for the coming fight.
• Suguru Geto unleashed Maximum: Uzumaki, while Dai Li redirected his cursed energy through his feet and charged with a strike he named Night Guy.
• Their attacks collided and shook the mountain, but Dai Li remained standing while Suguru Geto lay badly injured.
• Dai Li recognized that Suguru Geto had held back and had wanted to test his limits rather than kill him.
• Suguru Geto summoned a flying cursed spirit and departed, and Dai Li slumped against a rock once he was gone.

Exhausted after fighting Suguru Geto, Dai Li fled toward central Sendai to avoid the jujutsu authorities, while investigators assigned the case to Satoru Gojo. Once in the city, Dai Li found pachinko balls and decided to use his cursed technique to gamble for money.

• Dai Li learned that winning while imposing binding vows to weaken himself could earn a daily system reward, then used his remaining cursed energy to flee toward Sendai.
• Jujutsu Society investigators found fresh cursed energy residue at the battle site and handed the Suguru Geto case to Satoru Gojo.
• Dai Li reached central Sendai after his cursed energy control loan expired and worried that he had no money or legal identity.
• Dai Li found three pachinko balls outside a pachinko parlor and planned to use Life and Binding to win money.

Dai Li used Life and Binding to win a million yen at pachinko, then tried to enjoy his new money while worrying that his cursed technique might leave a trail. Meanwhile, Satoru Gojo was sent to investigate the battle involving Suguru Geto, and Dai Li unknowingly sensed Gojo nearby without looking up.

• Dai Li used Life and Binding to hit repeated pachinko jackpots and exchanged his winnings for one million yen.
• Dai Li worried that cursed residue from his battles might lead jujutsu sorcerers to him, but decided to enjoy his money instead.
• A man in sunglasses told Satoru that the higher-ups had assigned him a case in Sendai involving two possible Special Grade Sorcerers, and Satoru set out to investigate.
• Suguru Geto returned injured and apologized to Nanako and Mimiko, explaining that he and his opponent had only sparred and that the young sorcerer could belong in his envisioned world.
• Dai Li visited Kikusuian for edamame cream Kikufuku and sensed cursed energy moving from an alley into the sky, but chose to ignore it.
• Satoru Gojo flew overhead, unaware that Dai Li had sensed him, while the chapter revealed Gojo as the strongest sorcerer in Jujutsu Society.

Dai Li met Satoru Gojo in Sendai, where Gojo questioned him about his fight with Suguru Geto. Gojo grew interested in Dai Li’s potential and arranged a ride to Ginza so they could continue talking over sushi.

• Dai Li agreed to tell Satoru Gojo about fighting Suguru Geto in exchange for a meal at a Ginza sushi restaurant.
• Satoru Gojo revealed that Dai Li’s cursed energy residue connected him to the True Vegas Pachinko Parlor and laughed at his attempt to cheat there after the fight.
• Dai Li considered Gojo a possible ally after seeing his easygoing reaction and learning that he had fought Suguru Geto to protect two elderly people.
• Satoru Gojo asked Dai Li about his background, learned he had no legal identity, and judged his cursed energy control to be crude despite his potential.
• Satoru Gojo called Ijichi to drive them to Tokyo, and the two set off to discuss the fight over sushi.

Satoru Gojo took Dai Li to Ginza, heard his account of the fight with Suguru Geto, and recruited him into Jujutsu High. The chapter ended with Gojo asking about Dai Li’s cursed technique and Dai Li explaining that he borrowed cursed energy from two months in the future.

• Satoru Gojo asked Ijichi to drive him and Dai Li to Ginza, where Ijichi questioned whether Gojo had informed the higher-ups about their private meeting.
• At a sushi restaurant, Dai Li explained that he had fought Suguru Geto after Geto threatened two people in a household where Dai Li was resting.
• Satoru Gojo invited Dai Li to join Jujutsu High as his student, and Dai Li accepted after Gojo offered to arrange his identification.
• Gojo told Ijichi to report that Dai Li would enroll as Gojo’s student to keep the higher-ups from interfering.
• Gojo asked how Dai Li used his cursed technique despite his limited cursed energy, and Dai Li said he borrowed his own energy from two months in the future.

Dai Li visited Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High with Satoru Gojo, who explained the risks of Dai Li’s unusual cursed technique. After Dai Li told Principal Masamichi Yaga that he wanted to defeat Sukuna and create a world without cursed spirits, Yaga tested him with a cursed doll.

• Satoru Gojo explained that Dai Li’s Life and Binding technique carried severe consequences if its agreements were broken.
• Satoru Gojo took Dai Li to Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High and explained that Ijichi had registered Dai Li with the school’s barrier.
• Dai Li met Principal Masamichi Yaga and said he wanted to become strong enough to defeat Sukuna.
• Dai Li told Masamichi Yaga he wanted to create a world without cursed spirits but rejected Suguru Geto’s extreme methods.
• Masamichi Yaga called Dai Li’s claims empty and sent a pink bear doll to attack him despite Dai Li’s cursed energy not having recovered.

Dai Li passed Masamichi Yaga’s test and settled into a room at Tokyo Jujutsu High, where he learned how deliveries worked and met his future classmate Panda. Panda welcomed him and encouraged him to think of the school as home.

• Dai Li knocked Yaga’s pink cursed corpse unconscious with one blow, and Yaga passed him while criticizing his cursed energy control.
• Satoru Gojo took Dai Li to the student dorms and gave him an address for receiving online orders through Window.
• Dai Li met Panda, a thinking cursed corpse who would be his classmate, and introduced himself.
• Panda told Dai Li that Jujutsu High could be his home and invited him to visit if he felt lonely.
• After Panda left, Dai Li returned to his room to shop online.

Dai Li settled into a lazy routine at Jujutsu High while waiting for his cursed energy to recover. Two months later, he met Toge Inumaki as the school term approached, and Satoru Gojo announced that all the year's students had arrived.

• Dai Li asked Kiyotaka Ijichi to order appliances online and help with purchases while he waited for identification and a credit card.
• Dai Li bought supplies in Tokyo, then spent the next two months gaming, eating, and sleeping at Jujutsu High.
• On March 30, Dai Li's cursed energy returned, and his panel listed his overall strength as Semi-Grade 1.
• Dai Li met Toge Inumaki on a school path, and Satoru Gojo explained that Inumaki spoke in rice ball fillings because of his cursed speech technique.
• Satoru Gojo told Dai Li that all the year's students had arrived as the new school term approached.

At Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High’s opening ceremony, Satoru Gojo introduced a sparring test for the first-years, pairing Dai Li with Maki Zenin. Their fight began with Maki pressing Dai Li, and the chapter ended as her sword swung toward him while he struggled to raise his cursed-energy defense.

• Masamichi Yaga delivered the opening ceremony speech, and Toge Inumaki gave his first-year representative remarks while Satoru Gojo tried not to laugh.
• Satoru Gojo brought Dai Li, Inumaki, Panda, and Maki to the training ground and announced sparring matches between Dai Li and Maki, and between Panda and Inumaki.
• Maki drew her cursed tool and charged Dai Li as Satoru Gojo began their match before Dai Li had finished talking.
• Dai Li blocked Maki’s first attack with cursed energy, then dodged her next slash and struck her abdomen with a cursed-energy-enhanced fist.
• Maki continued attacking despite the blow, and Dai Li realized he might not raise his cursed-energy guard before her sword reached him.

Dai Li and Maki sparred before Inumaki defeated Panda with Cursed Speech, and Gojo asked the students to reflect on their shortcomings. The class ended before Gojo could give his planned lecture, so he invited everyone to barbecue instead.

• Dai Li countered Maki's attacks and struck her wrist, but Gojo stopped their spar before either could win.
• Inumaki used Cursed Speech to immobilize Panda and end their match.
• Maki blamed her loss on insufficient strength, while Dai Li claimed he had performed perfectly and argued with her.
• Gojo explained that the sparring matches were meant to reveal the students' abilities and weaknesses, not determine a winner.
• When the students prepared to leave after class, Gojo invited them to a meal, and they agreed to go for barbecue.

Satoru Gojo took Dai Li to an abandoned factory to exorcise a special grade cursed spirit that had swallowed one of Sukuna's fingers. They entered the curtain and sensed the spirit's powerful cursed energy, leaving the confrontation ahead.

• Satoru Gojo received Masamichi Yaga's mission to exorcise the cursed spirit and recover Sukuna's finger, then asked his students to accompany him.
• Maki, Inumaki, and Panda declined, while Dai Li agreed after Satoru Gojo threatened to reveal an embarrassing story about him.
• Satoru Gojo and Dai Li left the others and traveled to the abandoned factory where the cursed spirit had appeared.
• Satoru Gojo explained that he had told the assistant supervisors to leave, and he and Dai Li passed through the curtain.
• Dai Li sensed the immense cursed energy of the cursed spirit that had swallowed Sukuna's finger.

Dai Li and Satoru Gojo exorcised the special grade cursed spirit guarding Sukuna's Finger, and Dai Li's system offered him three powerful rewards for sacrificing it. After weighing his options, Dai Li leaned toward awakening a second innate cursed technique.

• Dai Li and Satoru Gojo tracked the special grade cursed spirit to Factory Building No. 2, where it was absorbing Sukuna's Finger.
• Satoru Gojo destroyed the cursed spirit with Hollow Purple, leaving Sukuna's Finger behind in the crater.
• Dai Li recovered Sukuna's Finger and learned that his system could exchange its cursed energy for a reward without stopping Sukuna from gaining strength from the finger.
• Dai Li activated his cursed technique to sacrifice the finger and received a choice between special-grade cursed energy control, enhanced physical strength with weapon mastery, or a second innate cursed technique.
• Dai Li considered the three rewards and realized he wanted to choose the second innate cursed technique.

Dai Li awakened the Projection Cursed Technique and demonstrated it to Satoru Gojo by projecting a Cursed Tool. Gojo agreed to handle the missing cursed power in Sukuna's Finger and advised Dai Li to conceal his other techniques from Jujutsu High.

• Dai Li chose to awaken a second Innate Cursed Technique, and the system engraved the Projection Cursed Technique onto his soul.
• Dai Li learned that Projection Cursed Technique created temporary Cursed Energy constructs and differed from the Construction Technique by not producing permanent physical matter.
• Satoru Gojo returned to the crater and asked Dai Li about Sukuna's Finger, whose cursed power had disappeared because of Dai Li's technique.
• Dai Li revealed that he had awakened a second technique and projected Maki Zenin's Long-Handled Blade with its Red Ribbon for Gojo to inspect.
• Gojo recognized the technique's combat potential and promised to explain Sukuna's Finger to Jujutsu High.
• Gojo warned Dai Li that the higher-ups might execute him if they learned he had two techniques, and advised him to present Projection Cursed Technique publicly while hiding Life and Binding.

Satoru Gojo refused to let the Jujutsu Higher-Ups question Dai Li about Sukuna's Finger, then took Dai Li to the Cursed Tool storeroom so he could analyze its weapons. After projecting and studying the tools, Dai Li asked Gojo to teach him how to improve his cursed energy control.

• The Jujutsu Higher-Ups confronted Satoru Gojo about Sukuna's Finger losing its curse, but he denied knowing how it happened.
• When the Higher-Ups proposed questioning Dai Li, Satoru Gojo warned them not to interfere with his students and left the meeting.
• Dai Li met Satoru Gojo outside, and they drank sparkling orange juice while discussing the Higher-Ups.
• At Jujutsu High's Cursed Tool storeroom, Dai Li projected a silver longsword and explained that his technique gave him memories of how its previous wielder handled it.
• Dai Li analyzed the storeroom's Cursed Tools and learned he could summon around twenty at once, though controlling them separately was difficult.
• Dai Li asked Satoru Gojo to teach him to improve his cursed energy control, and Gojo agreed.