Chapter Summaries

After Dai Li became a Special Grade Sorcerer at the cost of some memories, he prepared to face Yuta Okkotsu in the Goodwill Event final. The students and staff gathered to watch as the match was set to begin, with the barrier reinforced and the audience moved indoors.

• Dai Li checked his new status and accepted that he had lost memories, while reaffirming his resolve to change the future and challenge Sukuna.
• Dai Li told Yuta Okkotsu that he would be the challenger in their upcoming battle, and Satoru Gojo left to report Dai Li's newfound strength to Masamichi Yaga.
• Yuta Okkotsu asked whether Dai Li was all right, and Dai Li checked that Okkotsu and Rika Orimoto had recovered from their fight with Aoi Todo.
• The staff reinforced the barrier and moved the referees and spectators indoors to watch through Mei Mei's Black Bird Manipulation as Gojo secured approval for the final.
• Kinji Hakari asked about Dai Li's sudden power, Mei Mei favored him because of his precise cursed energy control, and Noritoshi Kamo reflected that both finalists were beyond ordinary students.

Dai Li fought Yuta Okkotsu and Rika Orimoto while his abilities were restricted by a system challenge. After Dai Li wounded Yuta, Yuta copied Dai Li’s Projection Cursed Technique, and their weapon barrages collided with Dai Li still holding the advantage.

• Dai Li activated a challenge that reduced his cursed energy and related abilities by 25 percent, then disabled his innate cursed technique.
• Yuta summoned Rika, and he and Dai Li began a close-quarters fight using swords and projected cursed tools.
• Dai Li wounded Yuta’s shoulder, but Yuta endured the injury and prepared to continue fighting.
• Yuta copied Dai Li’s Projection Cursed Technique and projected a matching swarm of cursed tools.
• Dai Li and Yuta sent their red and pink weapon swarms crashing together, with Dai Li retaining the overall advantage.

Dai Li overwhelmed Yuta Okkotsu in a clash of projected cursed tools, revealing his superior control and efficiency. As their fight resumed, Satoru Gojo observed that both young sorcerers had grown by confronting what they lacked.

• Dai Li’s projected cursed tools repeatedly shattered Yuta Okkotsu’s weapons, turning their clash into a one-sided suppression.
• Dai Li explained that his innate cursed technique improved his cursed energy efficiency, while Yuta recognized the difficulty of controlling large numbers of projected tools.
• Yuta and Dai Li resumed fighting as Rika charged at Dai Li, and Mei Mei filmed the battle for the spectators.
• Mei Mei remarked on Dai Li’s exceptional control and the pressure of his fighting style, while Masamichi Yaga wondered how long he had been hiding his strength.
• Satoru Gojo said Dai Li had steadily worked to overcome his shortcomings and that Yuta was now accepting his own power as he charged Dai Li alongside Rika.

Dai Li and Yuta Okkotsu prepared to settle their fight with their strongest attacks as the students and faculty watched. Dai Li revealed an imaginary Soul Liberation Blade, while Okkotsu joined his strength with Rika's; the chapter ended before either side struck.

• Yoshinobu Gakuganji questioned Dai Li's concealed power, but Utahime Iori defended both students, and Mei Mei predicted the fight would soon end.
• Noritoshi Kamo, Aoi Todo, Momo Nishimiya, and Kokichi Muta assessed the fighters' abilities as Dai Li and Okkotsu clashed again.
• Dai Li judged that Okkotsu's inefficient cursed energy control gave him an advantage and decided to try to end the fight in one move.
• Okkotsu asked Rika to leave the fight to him, then merged his strength with hers as pink cursed energy enveloped him.
• Dai Li created an imaginary Soul Liberation Blade, explaining that it could partly target the soul but was currently only an exceptionally hard blade.

Dai Li defeated Yuta Okkotsu after Yuta’s body gave out, and the wounded sorcerers were taken to Jujutsu High for treatment. Dai Li claimed two rewards, mastering Projection Cursed Technique’s essence and gaining a new way to reproduce other sorcerers’ techniques, which he immediately tested with Boogie Woogie.

• Dai Li shattered Yuta Okkotsu’s projected swords and stopped his Soul Liberation Blade just before it struck Yuta’s chest.
• Yuta admitted defeat and collapsed from his injuries, while Rika appeared to protect him.
• Dai Li helped Yuta stand, and Jujutsu High’s medical staff took both fighters back for treatment.
• Satoru Gojo praised Yuta’s performance as Shoko Ieiri treated him.
• Dai Li chose rewards that granted him mastery of Projection Cursed Technique’s essence and greater understanding of Barrier Technique.
• Dai Li used his new technique to reproduce Boogie Woogie’s effect, swapping places with a pebble.

Dai Li discussed the cost of projecting another sorcerer’s technique and the memories he sacrificed to grow stronger with Satoru Gojo. Elsewhere, Suguru Geto exorcised cursed spirits for ordinary people while hiding his contempt for them.

• Dai Li recovered after projecting Aoi Todo’s Boogie Woogie and realized the process consumed vast cursed energy and briefly disrupted its flow.
• Satoru Gojo found Dai Li on the roof and told him that his binding vow had left his soul’s core altered.
• Dai Li said he had traded his memories for strength so he could protect others, and that he did not regret the choice.
• Dai Li explained that he had left a backup plan in his soul that might restore his memories when certain conditions were met.
• Suguru Geto gathered ordinary people at a remote temple and exorcised the cursed spirits that had been causing their symptoms.
• Suguru Geto watched the grateful people and silently despised them as “monkeys.”

Suguru Geto absorbed cursed spirits while Manami briefed him on Dai Li and Yuta Okkotsu, whose connection to Rika Orimoto became the focus of Geto’s plans. As Geto prepared to declare war on Tokyo Jujutsu High, he told Miguel that Miguel would face Satoru Gojo for him.

• After the worshippers left, Suguru Geto swallowed the cursed spirit orbs and continued absorbing curses at the temple.
• Manami reported that Dai Li attended Jujutsu High through Satoru Gojo’s sponsorship and had exorcised a special grade cursed spirit with Domain Expansion.
• Manami explained that Jujutsu High records listed Dai Li’s Innate Cursed Technique as Projection Cursed Technique, despite Suguru Geto recalling Dai Li had described a technique related to binding vows.
• Suguru Geto made Rika Orimoto his priority and planned to announce the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons after Yuta Okkotsu and Dai Li returned from the Kyoto Jujutsu High sister-school event.
• When Miguel questioned whether Suguru Geto would face Satoru Gojo directly, Suguru Geto said Miguel would face him instead.

Suguru Geto briefed Miguel and his Family on the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, warning them to keep Dai Li occupied while he went to Jujutsu High. In the infirmary, Yuta Okkotsu recovered from the Goodwill Event as Utahime Iori revealed that the Higher-Ups had begun taking notice of Dai Li’s Cursed Techniques.

• Suguru Geto told Miguel to use the Black Rope to hold off Satoru Gojo and reviewed Gojo’s Limitless and Six Eyes.
• Suguru Geto met with his Family and told them to keep Dai Li occupied without discovering that he was heading for Jujutsu High.
• Nanako and Mimiko wanted to kill Dai Li, but Suguru Geto and Larue told them to avoid confronting him directly.
• Shoko Ieiri checked on Yuta Okkotsu in the infirmary, and Yuta said he was worried about Dai Li after their battle.
• Utahime Iori told Yuta Okkotsu that the Higher-Ups had begun scrutinizing Dai Li, especially his Projection Cursed Technique and newly revealed Innate Cursed Technique.

Shoko Ieiri and Utahime Iori discussed the danger the higher-ups might see in Dai Li’s two cursed techniques, while Yuta Okkotsu resolved to protect him. On a rooftop, Dai Li’s projected Soul Liberation Blade proved unable to cut souls, but after Satoru Gojo demonstrated Cursed Technique Reversal: Red, Dai Li began creating a red orb of his own.

• Shoko Ieiri told Utahime Iori that Satoru Gojo had kept Dai Li’s situation private because he trusted him, and said Dai Li and Yuta Okkotsu might change jujutsu society’s future.
• Utahime Iori complained that Gojo’s secrecy had caused trouble at Kyoto Jujutsu High, and Shoko warned that the higher-ups might suspect Dai Li was an ancient sorcerer incarnated in a vessel.
• Yuta Okkotsu decided he would oppose the higher-ups if they sentenced Dai Li to death.
• Dai Li showed Satoru Gojo the projected Imitation Soul Liberation Blade, and Gojo explained that it lacked the soul-cutting power of the original because Dai Li did not understand souls deeply enough.
• Dai Li asked Gojo to demonstrate Cursed Technique Reversal: Red, then began forming a small red orb on his own fingertip, startling Gojo.

Dai Li failed to reproduce Satoru Gojo’s Cursed Technique Reversal: Red, but Gojo explained what his imitation lacked and praised his growth as a jujutsu sorcerer. After the Goodwill Event, the Jujutsu Higher-Ups summoned Gojo to answer for concealing information about Dai Li.

• Dai Li formed an unstable imitation of Red, which collapsed before he could sustain it.
• Gojo explained that Dai Li had copied Red’s outward form without understanding Limitless or achieving a true Cursed Technique Reversal.
• Gojo told Dai Li that his studies and attention to his own weaknesses showed he was growing into a jujutsu sorcerer with a path of his own.
• After the Goodwill Event, Jujutsu Society reacted to the information about Dai Li, and the Jujutsu Higher-Ups summoned Gojo over what he had concealed.
• Gojo entered a secluded room at Kyoto Jujutsu High, where the hidden Higher-Ups waited behind screens.