Chapter Summaries

Lu Yun was transported into the body of Hajime Kashimo and struggled against Kashimo’s attempt to erase his consciousness. As he faced death, he recited Kashimo’s history and abilities, hoping to persuade him to spare his life.

• Lu Yun argued online that Hajime Kashimo was the strongest sorcerer and chose to enter the Culling Game rather than pursue his dream girl.
• A white light engulfed Lu Yun, and he vanished from his rented apartment.
• Lu Yun awoke in unfamiliar surroundings and discovered in a mirror that he had blue hair tied into buns.
• Hajime Kashimo spoke inside Lu Yun’s mind, mistook him for the body’s lingering consciousness, and began taking over.
• Lu Yun begged Kashimo to spare him and prove his usefulness, but Kashimo said he had already seen the body’s memories.
• Lu Yun recited Kashimo’s origins, electrical cursed energy, and Mythical Beast Amber, then asked if he was right.

Lu Yun negotiated with Hajime Kashimo to preserve his consciousness by offering to find him worthy opponents. Kashimo accepted a temporary contract, giving Lu Yun five days to find a sufficiently powerful fighter.

• Lu Yun revealed secrets about Kashimo and resisted his attempt to erase his consciousness with the original owner's remaining soul power.
• Kashimo tried to choke Lu Yun, but Lu Yun proposed sharing control of the body and finding opponents in exchange for a Binding Vow.
• Kashimo demanded that Lu Yun arrange a fight with Sukuna within three days, but Lu Yun refused.
• Kashimo eased the terms, requiring Lu Yun to find a sufficiently powerful fighter within five days instead.
• Lu Yun accepted the temporary contract, and Kashimo's consciousness fell dormant.

After making a temporary pact with Hajime Kashimo, Lu Yun realized he could not control the cursed energy Hajime Kashimo had shared with him and searched for food before trying to summon a cheat ability. He found only the Culling Game’s Kogane, while Shinichi Tanaka watched him from hiding and prepared to attack.

• Lu Yun settled down after negotiating a temporary pact with Hajime Kashimo, then realized he did not know how to control the cursed energy Hajime Kashimo had shared with him.
• Lu Yun searched the empty house for food, went outside, and wondered why he had not received a cheat ability as a transmigrator.
• Lu Yun summoned Kogane, recognized it as the Culling Game’s administrator, and angrily rejected it as a system.
• Shinichi Tanaka watched Lu Yun from the shadows and considered him his next target after killing two ordinary people.
• Lu Yun repeatedly summoned and slapped Kogane, shouting for it to give back his cheat ability.

After awakening a Cursed Technique, Shinichi Tanaka killed his abusive manager and later ambushed Lu Yun with a stone projectile. Lu Yun survived and emerged from the wreckage, leaving Tanaka shocked.

• Shinichi Tanaka awakened his Cursed Technique and killed his manager with a stone projectile after the manager slapped him.
• Shinichi Tanaka calmly picked up the bloodstained documents and returned to work while his coworkers fled.
• Lu Yun argued with Kogane as Shinichi Tanaka watched from hiding.
• Shinichi Tanaka fired a charged stone projectile at Lu Yun, striking him and sending him through a shop window.
• Lu Yun emerged from the wreckage unharmed, holding a stick, and Shinichi Tanaka cried out in disbelief.

Lu Yun used Hajime Kashimo’s demonstration to master cursed energy and defeat Shinichi Tanaka, then killed him after learning he had murdered other players. Lu Yun gained five points and received a notification that his total cursed energy had slightly increased, confirming he had a cheat.

• Hajime Kashimo took control of Lu Yun’s body, demonstrated his strength by striking Shinichi Tanaka, and left him for Lu Yun to fight.
• Lu Yun reinforced himself with cursed energy, dodged and shattered Tanaka’s rock cannonballs, and advanced on him.
• Tanaka begged for mercy and offered his three points, but Lu Yun realized he had killed at least three ordinary people and struck a hole through his chest.
• Lu Yun received five points for killing Tanaka, dismissed Kogane, and saw a notification granting him a slight increase in total cursed energy.

After defeating Tanaka, Lu Yun discovered that his cheat rewarded him for defeating opponents and hoped to grow strong enough to defeat Sukuna. At the supermarket, a lost girl named Kana followed a voice into the back alley and was trapped between two monstrous figures.

• Lu Yun realized defeating Tanaka had earned him a reward and resolved to strengthen himself before Sukuna revived.
• Hajime Kashimo sensed a slight increase in their cursed energy, but Lu Yun convinced him he was imagining it.
• Lu Yun headed for the supermarket to find food while worrying about hiding the reward from Hajime Kashimo.
• Kana heard a voice calling her from a dark alley beside the supermarket and followed it toward the back door.
• Kana found a flesh-covered monster eating, then turned to flee and found a thin, elongated figure behind her.

Lu Yun saved Kana from two Grade 2 cursed spirits and defeated them through a series of attacks. After receiving a reward that improved his cursed energy output and control, he was confronted by a blonde girl with a halo and wings, who questioned his concern for ordinary people.

• Lu Yun rescued Kana from two cursed spirits and evaded their attacks while fighting them in the alley.
• The ghost and the flesh-ball spirit worked together to launch the ball at Lu Yun, but he struck it with a cursed-energy-coated bicycle kick, destroying both spirits.
• Lu Yun received a reward that slightly improved his cursed energy output and control, then tested the change.
• A blonde girl with a halo and wings appeared behind Lu Yun and questioned why an ancient sorcerer who took over someone else's body would care about ordinary people.

Lu Yun met Angel and Hana Kurusu, explained his connection to Hajime Kashimo, and agreed to help Angel fight Sukuna. The Sukuna-Fighting Squad formed, though Hana remarked that Lu Yun had a nasty personality.

• Lu Yun recognized Angel, then comforted Kana and reunited her with her mother.
• Angel questioned Lu Yun about saving Kana and knowing about her, and Lu Yun explained his connection to Hajime Kashimo.
• Hajime Kashimo provoked Angel, but Lu Yun forced him offline before Angel could use Jacob's Ladder.
• Angel asked Lu Yun to help eliminate Sukuna, the Fallen, and Lu Yun teased her before agreeing to fight him.
• Angel and Lu Yun formed the Sukuna-Fighting Squad while Hana Kurusu commented on Lu Yun's personality.

After escorting Kana and her mother out of the Tokyo No. 2 Colony, Lu Yun and Hana Kurusu headed for Sendai, where Lu Yun planned to fulfill his agreement with Hajime Kashimo. Lu Yun looked forward to witnessing the powerful fighters there, while Kashimo insisted he would prove himself in battle.

• Lu Yun said goodbye to Kana and her mother, restyled his hair, and reminded them to seek help from the authorities.
• Lu Yun sensed that exorcising cursed spirits had let him separate electrical charges in his cursed energy, allowing him to use Executioner's Lightning.
• Lu Yun told Hana Kurusu they were going to the Sendai Colony and described its powerful fighters: Ryu Ishigori, Uro Takako, Dhruv Lakdawalla, and Kurourushi.
• Hajime Kashimo dismissed Lu Yun's doubts about his ability to fight Sendai's strongest, and Hana laughed at their argument.
• Lu Yun decided that experiencing Kashimo's battle firsthand could improve his own combat skills, and he set off for Sendai with renewed enthusiasm.

Lu Yun and Hana Kurusu traveled to the Sendai Colony after Angel questioned how he knew so much about it. Once Lu Yun entered the colony, Dhruv Lakdawalla’s pterosaur shikigami attacked him, leaving him facing a vast swarm.

• Angel questioned Lu Yun about his information, and Lu Yun insisted he was not working with Kenjaku and had an ability that supplied his knowledge.
• Lu Yun and Hana Kurusu drove to Sendai, where Angel warned Hana that the colony’s barrier would teleport them to random locations.
• Lu Yun entered the Sendai Colony alone and found himself falling through the air.
• Dhruv Lakdawalla’s pterosaur shikigami attacked Lu Yun, and he smashed the first one with his stun baton.
• A huge swarm of pterosaurs surrounded Lu Yun, who tried to talk his way out of the fight.

Lu Yun was attacked by Dhruv Lakdawalla’s pterodactyl shikigami and feared they would knock him out of the Culling Game barrier, where losing his cursed technique would kill him. He learned to spin his stun baton into a defensive wall and slowly descended as people below mistook the noise for a helicopter.

• Dhruv Lakdawalla’s pterodactyl shikigami swarmed Lu Yun, knocking him higher into the air despite his attempts to fight them off.
• Lu Yun summoned Kogane and learned that he had 41 points, far short of the 100 needed to add a rule.
• Lu Yun realized that leaving the barrier could cause the Culling Game to remove Hajime Kashimo’s cursed technique and kill him.
• Lu Yun recalled Sun Wukong’s staff skills and used his spinning-hands dance movements to spin his stun baton.
• Lu Yun’s spinning baton pulverized most of the pterodactyls and slowed his ascent, letting him begin to descend.
• People inside the barrier heard the baton whirring and looked up, wondering if Lu Yun was a helicopter.

Lu Yun arrived at Sendai Stadium and handed control of his body to Hajime Kashimo, who fought Dhruv Lakdawalla and his shikigami. Kashimo pressed his attack on a mole shikigami, but Dhruv completed his domain and appeared to claim victory.

• Ryu Ishigori struck Lu Yun with a Cursed Energy blast as he entered Sendai Stadium, but Lu Yun emerged uninjured.
• Hajime Kashimo awakened and took control of Lu Yun’s body after Dhruv Lakdawalla challenged him.
• Kashimo evaded a giant mole shikigami’s stomp and raced up its body toward its head.
• Kashimo fought off Dhruv’s pterosaur shikigami and refused to abandon his attack when two more mole shikigami charged.
• Dhruv Lakdawalla formed a closed circuit with the paths of his mole shikigami, activating his domain and apparently defeating Kashimo.

Dhruv Lakdawalla recalled his defeat by Hajime Kashimo and reflected on their brief battle after dying in Sendai. The fight continued as Kashimo used his thrown staff to set up an attack on Dhruv’s mole shikigami.

• After losing to Hajime Kashimo, Dhruv Lakdawalla remembered his past and spoke with his old friend about the battle.
• Dhruv Lakdawalla explained that his shikigami’s paths formed a domain that inflicted unavoidable slashes on anyone crossing them.
• Hajime Kashimo dismissed Dhruv’s confidence and hurled his electric staff through the Pterodactyl shikigami toward him.
• Dhruv Lakdawalla dodged the staff, which smashed into the stands behind him, and believed Kashimo had exhausted his options.
• Hajime Kashimo drew Dhruv’s attention, then dove toward the mole shikigami and brought his lightning-clad foot down on its head.

Hajime Kashimo killed Dhruv Lakdawalla with his Rebound Electric Shock, earning five points and ending Dhruv’s shikigami domain. Kurourushi then invaded Sendai Stadium and began eating Dhruv’s remains, bringing Kashimo face-to-face with a new opponent.

• Kashimo used Rebound Electric Shock to bisect Dhruv and won their fight, bringing his total to 46 points.
• Dhruv’s death caused his shikigami and domain to disappear, freeing Kurourushi to enter the area.
• Kurourushi attacked Kashimo with a torrent of cockroaches, but Kashimo scattered them with his electric staff and jumped back.
• Kashimo saw Kurourushi eating Dhruv’s remains and reacted with anger as the cursed spirit turned toward him.

Hajime Kashimo fought Kurourushi after the cursed spirit devoured a corpse, breaking through its cockroach swarm to pursue and batter it. As Kurourushi asked why he was angry, two poisonous insects flew toward Hajime Kashimo, and Lu Yun warned him.

• Kurourushi offered Hajime Kashimo a corpse to eat, provoking him to attack with lightning.
• Kurourushi used Dhruv Lakdawalla's cursed energy to cover the stadium with cockroaches and engulf Hajime Kashimo.
• Hajime Kashimo defended himself with his staff, pushed upward through the swarm, and reached Kurourushi.
• Hajime Kashimo struck Kurourushi through a residential building and into a wheat field, then demanded to know why it ate people.
• Two insects flew toward Hajime Kashimo, and Lu Yun warned him they were poisonous.

Hajime Kashimo killed Kurourushi after its Festering Life Sword failed to harm him, then was ambushed by Takako Uro and attacked by Ryu Ishigori. He recognized the two remaining Sendai fighters and prepared to face them both.

• Kurourushi cut Hajime Kashimo with the Festering Life Sword, but Kashimo's electric cursed energy destroyed the cockroach eggs inside his wound.
• Hajime Kashimo pinned Kurourushi's arm, battered the cursed spirit, and crushed it beneath his foot, earning five points.
• After noting his injuries from fighting Dhruv Lakdawalla and Kurourushi, Hajime Kashimo wondered which opponent to pursue next.
• Takako Uro appeared beside Hajime Kashimo and struck him with Thin Ice Breaker, sending him flying.
• Ryu Ishigori fired his Cursed Energy Cannon at Hajime Kashimo, who split the blast with his staff and welcomed a fight against both opponents.

Hajime Kashimo and Ryu Ishigori fought fiercely until Ryu recognized Kashimo as the legendary sorcerer from their era. They set aside their rivalry long enough to bond over their shared past, then prepared to fight again so Ryu could test himself against Kashimo.

• Hajime Kashimo attacked Ryu Ishigori, and the two exchanged powerful blows through a collapsing building.
• Ryu Ishigori struck Hajime Kashimo with a Cursed Energy Cannon, blasting him out of the building and leaving him battered.
• Ryu Ishigori asked Hajime Kashimo's name and realized he was the famous god of lightning he had wanted to meet centuries earlier.
• Ryu Ishigori asked Hajime Kashimo to teach him, and Kashimo agreed to give him the fight he had long wanted.
• Hajime Kashimo and Ryu Ishigori readied themselves and faced each other again.

Takako Uro interrupted Ryu Ishigori and Hajime Kashimo's reunion, then fought Ryu before Kashimo and Ishigori began battling each other. Uro rejoined the fight, and the three faced off as Ryu gathered cursed energy to unleash a powerful move.

• Takako Uro ambushed Ryu Ishigori and Hajime Kashimo, and Ryu turned his Cursed Energy Cannon back on her.
• Ryu Ishigori tricked Uro with a feint, appeared behind her, and punched her into an apartment building.
• Hajime Kashimo attacked Ryu, and the two exchanged blows until Kashimo's electrified staff helped him land a punch to Ryu's chest.
• Takako Uro returned and used Thin Ice Breaker to push Kashimo and Ryu apart, positioning the three fighters in a triangle.
• Ryu Ishigori declared he was done talking and gathered a vast amount of cursed energy to unleash a powerful move.

Ryu Ishigori and Takako Uro expanded their domains while Hajime Kashimo protected himself with Hollow Wicker Basket. Kashimo attacked Uro before his defense failed, but Uro gained the advantage by using her spatial manipulation to keep him away and wait out the technique.

• Ryu Ishigori and Takako Uro expanded their domains, and Hajime Kashimo used Hollow Wicker Basket to resist their sure-hit effects.
• Ryu Ishigori and Takako Uro questioned Kashimo for not expanding a domain, and Ryu attacked Uro with a Cursed Energy Cannon.
• Hajime Kashimo charged at Takako Uro after judging that Ryu Ishigori’s body was already charged with enough electricity to no longer be a threat.
• Takako Uro redirected Kashimo’s attacks by manipulating space, while Ryu Ishigori fired blasts to disrupt her retreat.
• Hajime Kashimo released his hand sign and attacked Uro, but she warped space to deflect his blows and then shook the plane he occupied.
• Takako Uro forced Kashimo away and planned to outlast Hollow Wicker Basket so her domain’s sure-hit effect could strike him.

Hajime Kashimo and Ryu Ishigori joined forces to defeat Takako Uro, then resumed their duel. Kashimo detonated charges he had planted in Ishigori’s body and emerged as the only fighter still standing.

• Takako Uro crushed Ryu Ishigori between planes of space, and Hajime Kashimo kicked her away to save him.
• Uro concealed herself by rippling space while Kashimo and Ishigori resumed their fight and prepared to lure her out.
• Uro ambushed the two with Thin Ice Breaker, but they dodged and Ishigori’s cannon blasts forced her into the open.
• Kashimo grabbed Uro as she dodged the blasts and detonated the charges in her body, knocking her unconscious.
• Kashimo struck Ishigori with a small electric current that detonated the charges he had planted in Ishigori’s body, collapsing their domains and leaving Kashimo the winner.