Chapter Summaries

Chiyo Shin awakened in an ancient incarnated body created by the Qin clan head, inheriting the body’s abilities and promising to fulfill the ancestor’s wish. After reading the Qin clan’s history and discovering its final legacy, he acquired two special grade cursed tools and prepared to test his cursed techniques.

• Chiyo Shin awakened in an underground chamber and learned that he had taken over the Qin clan head’s ageless, nearly indestructible body, which possessed the Collapse technique and Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Chiyo Shin discovered that he also had the innate cursed technique Vibration and resolved to fulfill the Qin clan head’s wish to address the shortcomings of Tengen’s plan.
• Chiyo Shin read the Qin clan notebook, which recounted the clan’s decline, Tengen’s plan, Kenjaku’s murder of a Star Plasma Vessel, and the Qin clan’s eventual collapse.
• Chiyo Shin found the clan’s final legacy, dressed in an old kimono, and discovered the special grade cursed tools First Generation Moon and Bone-Binding Umbrella.
• Chiyo Shin tested First Generation Moon’s sharpness and slashing attack, learned that Bone-Binding Umbrella could control five cursed spirits, and prepared to test his cursed techniques.

Chiyo Shin escaped an ancient underground chamber and encountered Satoru Gojo, who defeated him and brought him to Tokyo Jujutsu High. Gojo suspected Chiyo was an artificial creation, and Chiyo agreed to enroll while keeping his origins secret.

• Chiyo Shin used his cursed techniques to break through the stone ceiling and escape from an underground chamber in Miyazu City.
• Satoru Gojo sensed Chiyo's immense cursed energy, confronted him, and knocked him unconscious after their attacks failed to overcome Gojo's Limitless.
• Gojo brought Chiyo to Tokyo Jujutsu High, where Masamichi Yaga questioned how he had found the boy.
• After waking in the dormitory, Chiyo agreed to enroll when Gojo warned he would have no legal identity otherwise, and introduced himself as Chiyo Shin.
• Gojo told Yaga that traces in the chamber suggested Chiyo was an artificial creation, possibly like the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings.

On his second day at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School, Chiyo Shin met the second-years and demonstrated his two cursed techniques and Reverse Cursed Technique. The others were left stunned as Satoru Gojo departed, leaving Chiyo to get acquainted with his new upperclassmen.

• Chiyo Shin received his documents and uniform, discovered his student ID listed him as Special Grade, and followed Satoru Gojo to meet the second-years.
• Chiyo Shin met Toge Inumaki, then introduced himself to Panda and Maki Zenin after their sparring match ended.
• Satoru Gojo revealed that Chiyo Shin was Special Grade, and Chiyo explained that he had the Collapse and Vibration Cursed Techniques as well as some Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Chiyo Shin demonstrated Collapse by destroying the platform and Golden Repair by restoring it, then used Vibration to shake the field and Stillness to freeze objects nearby.
• Panda, Maki, and Toge Inumaki reacted in disbelief to Chiyo Shin's abilities, while Satoru Gojo praised his potential and said he could eventually stand alongside him.
• Satoru Gojo vanished to visit Kikusuian, leaving Chiyo Shin to awkwardly greet his upperclassmen.

Chiyo Shin was taken to Jujutsu Headquarters to prove his Special Grade status by fighting three Grade 1 sorcerers, who secretly used Silencing Talismans to conceal their techniques. He defeated all three, and the higher-ups acknowledged his status after Satoru Gojo challenged them.

• Panda teased Chiyo Shin about Maki, and Maki, Panda, and Toge Inumaki resumed their bickering while Chiyo Shin learned about his second-year seniors.
• Satoru Gojo told Chiyo Shin that headquarters questioned his Special Grade status and brought him underground to fight three Grade 1 sorcerers.
• Kamo Yi arranged for the three sorcerers to use Silencing Talismans so Chiyo Shin could not hear their technique explanations.
• Chiyo Shin destroyed the bald sorcerer's fireball, knocked back the mustached sorcerer, and then killed him with a strike infused with compressed vibrations.
• Chiyo Shin walked through the bald sorcerer's flames and killed him with Annihilation, then defeated the middle-aged woman after she begged to quit.
• Satoru Gojo demanded a verdict, and Kamo Yi acknowledged Chiyo Shin as Special Grade before Gojo took him away.

After realizing his hand-to-hand combat skills were poor, Chiyo Shin asked Maki to train him. Maki arranged a month-long training plan, starting with morning combat practice and ending with cursed-tool instruction.

• Satoru Gojo brought Chiyo Shin back to Jujutsu High and warned him not to fight opponents on their own terms.
• Chiyo Shin reflected on his weak combat experience and called Maki to ask her to teach him hand-to-hand combat.
• Maki tested Chiyo Shin without cursed energy or cursed techniques, then defeated him by exploiting his unvaried attacks.
• Maki taught Chiyo Shin basic moves, while Satoru Gojo and Masamichi Yaga watched from the teaching building.
• Maki scheduled fifteen days of morning combat training followed by ten days of cursed-tool training, and Chiyo Shin agreed to arrive before eight each morning.

Chiyo Shin finished his month of training with Maki and met Megumi Fushiguro, whose Ten Shadows Technique shocked the students and whose connection to the Zenin Clan surprised him. Meanwhile, Kenjaku secured the curses’ agreement to pursue a future as the new humanity, and Chiyo Shin began his final training session with Maki.

• Chiyo Shin and Maki ended their sparring match after his powerful slash sent her flying, and Gojo arrived to introduce Megumi Fushiguro as a new classmate.
• Megumi told the students he possessed the Ten Shadows Technique, and Maki revealed that she was a Zenin who planned to return to the clan and change it from within.
• Kenjaku received Jogo’s agreement to stake their lives on becoming the new humanity while Hanami, Mahito, and Dagon were with him at a hot spring.
• Chiyo Shin showed Megumi around Jujutsu High, and the two became friendly despite Megumi thinking Chiyo Shin was a baby-faced bastard.
• The next morning, Chiyo Shin hurried to Maki’s training on time, and she began their final session by telling him she had taught him all she could.

Chiyo Shin and Megumi Fushiguro completed their first field-training mission by breaking through a barrier and exorcising a cursed spirit. The chapter ended with Kenjaku ordering Mimiko and Nanako to get Sukuna's Finger to Yuji Itadori in exchange for considering a body change.

• Megumi Fushiguro tried to wake Chiyo Shin for class, but Chiyo stayed in bed until Satoru Gojo began their field training.
• Gojo assigned Chiyo and Megumi to exorcise a Grade 2 cursed spirit and told Chiyo not to use his cursed technique.
• Chiyo and Megumi became separated by a barrier inside Tokyo Tsuchido Elementary School and realized the school’s spaces had been altered.
• Chiyo broke the barrier with a punch, and Megumi’s Divine Dogs tore apart the cursed spirit that appeared.
• Gojo lowered the Curtain, and Chiyo, Megumi, and Gojo returned to school after the mission.
• Kenjaku told Mimiko and Nanako to deliver Sukuna’s Finger to Yuji Itadori, promising to consider switching bodies if they succeeded.

Chiyo Shin and Megumi Fushiguro investigated the missing Ryomen Sukuna finger at Sugisawa High School, where they discovered Yuji Itadori had it and raced to protect Sasaki and Iguchi from cursed spirits. Chiyo Shin recovered the finger and rescued the students, while Yuji Itadori burst into the classroom at the end.

• Yuji Itadori showed Sasaki and Iguchi a wrapped object he had found, and they decided to unwrap it that night.
• Chiyo Shin and Megumi Fushiguro arrived at Sugisawa High School to locate Ryomen Sukuna's finger, but found the Stevenson screen empty.
• Chiyo Shin destroyed a cursed spirit at the rugby field, and he and Megumi Fushiguro realized the finger was likely with Yuji Itadori.
• Chiyo Shin stayed behind to fight cursed spirits while Megumi Fushiguro chased Yuji Itadori, then rushed to the classroom building after hearing a scream.
• Chiyo Shin rescued Sasaki and Iguchi, healed Iguchi, and took the finger from Sasaki before destroying another cursed spirit.
• Megumi Fushiguro reunited with Chiyo Shin, and Yuji Itadori burst through the window as they discussed the finger.

Chiyo Shin and Megumi Fushiguro faced a Special Grade cursed spirit at the school, while Yuji Itadori swallowed Sukuna’s finger to save Sasaki and Iguchi. After Satoru Gojo tested Itadori’s control of Sukuna, he knocked Itadori unconscious and agreed to handle what happened next.

• Chiyo Shin sensed danger, but a Special Grade cursed spirit burst through the stairwell, struck him outside, and then knocked Megumi Fushiguro out of the building.
• Yuji Itadori swallowed Sukuna’s finger rather than let the cursed spirit harm Sasaki and Iguchi, and Ryomen Sukuna took control of his body.
• Chiyo Shin used Stillness to stop Sukuna and the cursed spirit, then struck and exorcised the cursed spirit with Annihilation.
• Satoru Gojo arrived, confirmed that Itadori had merged with Sukuna, and asked him to switch control for ten seconds.
• Sukuna fought Satoru Gojo during the test while Chiyo Shin ate most of Gojo’s Kikufuku; when Itadori regained control, Gojo knocked him unconscious.
• Chiyo Shin and Megumi Fushiguro asked Gojo not to let Itadori die, and Gojo told them to leave the matter to him.

Nobara Kugisaki joined Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, and Chiyo Shin at Tokyo Jujutsu High and passed a test to exorcise curses. Later, Jujutsu Headquarters conspired to send the first-years against a special grade cursed womb and ordered Chiyo away, but Chiyo refused, so the elders planned another way to isolate the students.

• Satoru Gojo brought Nobara Kugisaki to meet the first-years, then took Yuji Itadori and Nobara to an abandoned, curse-infested building for a test.
• Yuji and Nobara exorcised the curses and rescued a boy, while Chiyo Shin and Satoru Gojo discussed Chiyo's strength in Sukuna's Fingers.
• Jujutsu Headquarters learned that a cursed womb had appeared at Eiki Juvenile Detention Center and agreed to send the remaining first-years there to use the special grade curse against Yuji.
• Jujutsu Headquarters ordered Chiyo Shin to exorcise a curse in Nagoya, but Chiyo shut the door on Ichiro Sato and drove him away with his cursed energy.
• Kamo Yi and Zenin Bing decided to place unusual cursed spirits from the Zenin clan's training room at the detention center instead.

Chiyo Shin, Megumi Fushiguro, Itadori, and Nobara Kugisaki entered the Juvenile Detention Center to deal with a cursed womb and search for survivors, but an innate domain separated them. After Shin rescued Kugisaki, Megumi told him that Itadori had released Sukuna to fight the special grade cursed spirit, and Shin rushed to find him.

• Ijichi explained that a cursed womb had appeared at the Juvenile Detention Center and that five people remained inside as the group entered the sealed facility.
• The group found three corpses, including Gang Qizheng, and Itadori and Megumi argued over whether to carry his body out.
• A pool of darkness swallowed Chiyo Shin and Nobara Kugisaki, while a powerful cursed spirit appeared before Megumi and Itadori.
• Shin found Kugisaki surrounded by cursed spirits, cut them down, and healed her with Golden Repair.
• Megumi reached Shin and said Itadori had released Sukuna to fight the special grade cursed spirit, so Shin went to bring Itadori back.

Chiyo Shin fought Ryomen Sukuna inside the Juvenile Detention Center, awakened his Domain Expansion, and forced Sukuna to surrender control of Itadori’s body. After rescuing the injured Itadori, Chiyo Shin reunited with Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki outside and collapsed from exhaustion.

• Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki stayed outside the Juvenile Detention Center while Ijichi left to arrange a wider evacuation.
• Ryomen Sukuna defeated the special grade cursed spirit, took another finger, and attacked Chiyo Shin when he arrived to challenge him.
• Chiyo Shin endured Sukuna’s slashes, fought back, and awakened his Domain Expansion, Stillness of Yin and Yang, which overwhelmed Sukuna and destroyed his body.
• Itadori regained control as Sukuna’s markings faded, and Chiyo Shin healed him before carrying him out of the Juvenile Detention Center.
• Megumi Fushiguro carried Itadori, Nobara Kugisaki took Chiyo Shin’s cursed tools, and Chiyo Shin collapsed and asked them to call Ijichi.

After Sukuna was subdued, Yuji recovered at Jujutsu High while Kenjaku discussed plans with Jogo and the other cursed spirits. Jogo agreed to try to seal Satoru Gojo with the Prison Realm in exchange for keeping it.

• Chiyo Shin, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki brought the unconscious Itadori to Jujutsu High, where Satoru Gojo took him to Shoko Ieiri.
• Shoko Ieiri found that Itadori had no serious injuries and said he would wake once his brain recovered from the damage.
• In Sukuna's Domain, Yuji Itadori rejected Sukuna and disappeared; moments later he woke up in the Medical Room and left with Satoru Gojo.
• The next day, Kenjaku told Jogo, Dagon, and Hanami that their best option was to render Satoru Gojo unable to fight, preferably by sealing him with the Prison Realm.
• After Jogo accidentally set the restaurant on fire, he agreed to kill Satoru Gojo in exchange for the Prison Realm.

After Chiyo Shin revealed that he could expand his domain, the students prepared for the Kyoto Sister-School Goodwill Event through training with their seniors. Gojo began teaching Yuji how to control cursed energy, ending by assigning him movie-watching practice.

• Chiyo Shin told Gojo and the others that fighting Sukuna had helped him learn to expand his domain.
• Maki Zenin, Panda, and Toge Inumaki invited the first-years to compete in the Kyoto Sister-School Goodwill Event, and Nobara Kugisaki agreed to take part.
• Gojo explained cursed energy and cursed techniques to Yuji, then showed him that he had not used cursed energy in his punch.
• Panda and Toge trained Nobara while Maki sparred with Megumi and urged them to prepare for the event.
• Gojo told Yuji that sudden emotion wasted cursed energy and chose watching movies as his training method.

Yuji Itadori trained with a cursed corpse while the students practiced and prepared shabu-shabu. Chiyo Shin woke up worried about his dwindling money and headed to join the others, while Satoru Gojo left for a meeting with the principal.

• Satoru Gojo taught Yuji Itadori to maintain steady cursed energy while watching movies with a cursed corpse that attacked when his output fluctuated.
• Nobara Kugisaki returned with ingredients, and Maki Zenin defeated Megumi Fushiguro in staff sparring before the students went to prepare shabu-shabu.
• Megumi Fushiguro found Chiyo Shin asleep on the field, failed to wake him, and went to ask Satoru Gojo and Yuji Itadori to join dinner; both declined.
• Chiyo Shin woke up alone, realized the higher-ups had cut off his missions and taken his assets, and worried about how he would get by.
• Megumi Fushiguro and Panda prepared dinner, then Megumi warned everyone to eat quickly after Chiyo Shin called to say he was coming.
• Satoru Gojo declined Ijichi's offer to look around and continued toward his meeting with the principal.

Satoru Gojo fought Jogo, an unregistered special grade cursed spirit, and demonstrated how Limitless kept Jogo from touching him. After returning to Tokyo Jujutsu High, Gojo took Yuji Itadori and Chiyo Shin to continue their training and pursue Jogo.

• Satoru Gojo stopped Ijichi’s car, confronted Jogo, and survived Jogo’s fiery attack unharmed.
• Jogo attacked with Ember Insects and close-range flames, but Satoru Gojo’s Limitless stopped every blow.
• Satoru Gojo explained Limitless to Jogo, then punched him and blasted him through the forest with Cursed Technique Reversal: Red.
• Jogo landed in a lake, recalled Kenjaku’s warning, and decided he would have to draw Satoru Gojo into his domain.
• Satoru Gojo returned to Tokyo Jujutsu High, invited Yuji Itadori to a lesson on Domain Expansion, and brought Chiyo Shin along to find the special grade cursed spirit.
• Chiyo Shin abandoned his shabu-shabu, took the Bone-Binding Umbrella from Satoru Gojo, and left with him.

Chiyo Shin fought Jogo inside the cursed spirit’s domain while Satoru Gojo taught Yuji Itadori about domain expansion. Shin overpowered and subdued Jogo with his own domain and maximum technique, while Kenjaku and Hanami watched from afar and withdrew.

• Satoru Gojo returned to the lake with Yuji Itadori and Chiyo Shin, and Jogo opened his domain, Coffin of the Iron Mountain.
• Satoru Gojo explained domain expansion to Yuji Itadori as Chiyo Shin blocked Jogo’s attacks and struck him with a seismic punch.
• Chiyo Shin expanded Lin You Zhen Dang Ping, overwrote Jogo’s domain, and damaged Jogo with vibrations that bypassed his defenses.
• Chiyo Shin hit Jogo with Maximum Technique: Level Ten, then used the Bone-Binding Umbrella to subdue him while keeping him alive.
• Kenjaku concluded that Jogo had been exorcised, restrained Hanami from attacking, and left with him.

After Jogo's death, Kenjaku and Mahito agreed to carry out their plan in Shibuya on October 31, while Chiyo Shin taught Megumi Fushiguro about Domain Expansion. Kyoto students arrived at Tokyo Jujutsu High for the Goodwill Event, and Megumi spotted Zenin near the vending machines.

• Ijichi told Masamichi Yaga that Satoru Gojo would arrive soon, then relayed Gojo's instructions to him.
• Hanami told Dagon and Mahito that Jogo had been exorcised, and Dagon attacked Kenjaku when he returned.
• Kenjaku urged Mahito to wait until they had an overwhelming advantage, and they set the plan for Shibuya on October 31.
• Chiyo Shin showed Megumi Fushiguro his Domain Expansion, letting Megumi study its cursed energy and technique.
• Momo Nishimiya, Aoi Todo, Noritoshi Kamo, Kasumi Miwa, Mechamaru, and Mai Zenin arrived at Tokyo Jujutsu High, where Todo set out to find Chiyo Shin.
• After Chiyo Shin, Megumi Fushiguro, Yuji Itadori, and Nobara Kugisaki reached a vending machine, Megumi noticed Zenin nearby.

Chiyo Shin confronted Mai Zenin after she insulted Yuji Itadori, then used his domain to defeat Aoi Todo and make him fight Megumi Fushiguro. Megumi mastered Domain Expansion during the fight and opened Chimera Shadow Garden.

• Maki Zenin and Panda worried that the Kyoto students might cause trouble while Chiyo Shin and the first-years were away on an errand.
• Mai Zenin insulted Yuji Itadori, prompting Chiyo Shin to unleash his cursed energy and force her to apologize.
• Chiyo Shin expanded Stillness of Yin and Yang, shattered Aoi Todo's Simple Domain and limbs, and healed him with Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Chiyo Shin arranged for Aoi Todo to fight Megumi Fushiguro, who struggled against Todo's close-combat attacks.
• After Chiyo Shin urged him to draw on his understanding of domains, Megumi Fushiguro expanded Chimera Shadow Garden.

Megumi Fushiguro expanded his domain and fought Aoi Todo to a draw, while Chiyo Shin reunited with Maki Zenin, Panda, Toge Inumaki, and Nobara Kugisaki outside. At Tokyo Jujutsu High, Satoru Gojo confronted Yoshinobu Gakuganji about the Juvenile Detention Center plot and warned that the old leadership could not control the coming generation.

• Megumi Fushiguro trapped Aoi Todo in his domain and sent waves of shikigami after him, but the two eventually emerged battered and agreed to call their fight a draw.
• Maki Zenin, Panda, and Toge Inumaki arrived to check on Chiyo Shin, and Nobara Kugisaki teased him while the group reacted to Megumi's domain.
• Satoru Gojo told Yoshinobu Gakuganji that the Conservative Faction had arranged the Juvenile Detention Center incident and targeted Yuji Itadori and Chiyo Shin.
• Satoru Gojo warned Yoshinobu Gakuganji that a special grade cursed spirit had accomplices and that the rising strength of the younger sorcerers would overwhelm the old leadership.
• After Satoru Gojo left, Yoshinobu Gakuganji sent Kasumi Miwa to buy tea, and she privately looked forward to asking Gojo for a photo.