Chapter Summaries

In autumn 1016, Shandao, Yemenjia, and Togawa forces besieged Mount Onanjiyama and slaughtered the bandits and Barbarian People defending it. The barbarian chief died in the flames after his daughter was killed, and the allied armies claimed victory with no survivors.

• The allied armies surrounded Mount Onanjiyama, where the bandit chief and barbarian chief had fortified their stronghold.
• The barbarian chief summoned a god to suppress the attackers' flames, then led the Barbarian People in a downhill charge that was repelled by Shandao Taizhang's troops.
• The bandit chief argued with the barbarian chief, who killed him and ordered the defenders to fight on as the armies attacked with logs and boulders.
• Watanabe's soldiers infiltrated the rear and killed the tribal chief's daughter and the older girl protecting her.
• The barbarian chief's power faded as his daughter died, the stronghold caught fire, and he leaped into the flames; the allied forces killed the remaining defenders and prisoners.

After a year of war, the barbarians were wiped out, the clans returned with heavy losses, and the Emperor built an army of his own. Sukuna prepared to leave for Mount Hida and enter his thousand-year slumber, while the Emperor and clan heads faced a new struggle for power.

• Sukuna watched the aftermath of the slaughter and delayed his departure for Mount Hida so he could enjoy the farce a little longer.
• Nomen Weishi confronted Abe Jinyuan over the promised reinforcements, while the imprisoned clan leaders learned their forces had suffered devastating losses.
• Yoshiko Kawashima and the other prisoners discussed leaving captivity and voiced anger toward the Emperor and fear of Ryomen Sukuna.
• The Guardian General reported that he had raised fifty thousand troops, and the Emperor dismissed him after hearing that the allied clans had returned with sixty thousand soldiers.
• Uraume told Sukuna that the war was over and the Nomen clan had suffered the heaviest casualties; Sukuna asked Uraume to spend his final days with him before he left for Mount Hida.

The Thirteen Family Heads escaped Heian-kyo through a tunnel while Sukuna met with Tengen, who proposed a deal before he left for Mount Hida. Afterward, an unseen force killed the escaping families and the Emperor, and Japan’s timeline shifted toward a more favorable course.

• Abe Jinyuan and the other family heads followed Abe’s Death Servant through a tunnel dug by their guards to escape Heian-kyo.
• The Emperor learned the Inn was empty and ordered a search, then rushed to consult the general defending the nation.
• Tengen visited Sukuna and spoke with him privately in his domain, offering to preserve and spread knowledge of his existence.
• Tengen left after agreeing to meet Sukuna again in a thousand years, and Sukuna told Uraume to prepare their journey to Mount Hida.
• An unseen watcher turned the escaped family heads, their guards, the Emperor, and the general to dust.
• By the next morning, the timeline had shifted: the families no longer troubled the Emperor, who began reforms instead of remaining a figurehead.

Sukuna reached Mount Hida with Uraume and began dividing his soul into his fingers so they could survive across a thousand years. After Uraume guarded him through the process and died beside him, a young girl collected all twenty fingers, and Sukuna's body seemed to move.

• Sukuna and Uraume arrived at Mount Hida, where they planned to wait three months before his appointed return to modern society.
• Sukuna began splitting his soul with Cleave, while Uraume guarded his body and stored each fallen finger.
• After two and a half months, eighteen fingers had fallen, and Uraume stayed beside Sukuna during the final half month.
• All twenty fingers fell, Sukuna's body formed a layer of corpse wax, and Uraume died beside him after leaving her body.
• A young girl entered the cave and took all twenty perfectly preserved Sukuna's Fingers.
• After the girl left, Sukuna's body seemed to move again.

Kenjaku attacked the Jujutsu Academy to reach Tengen, but the Three Great Families stopped him and forced him to flee. He survived and began forming a new plan in a remote mountain village.

• Centuries earlier, Six Eyes defeated Kenjaku and drove him north, so Kenjaku planned to wait for Tengen's next evolution and find a new body.
• Two hundred years later, Kenjaku used Sukuna's Fingers to strengthen cursed spirits and launched an assault on the Jujutsu Academy as a diversion.
• Kenjaku slipped toward the Tombs of the Star Corridor, where a Grade 4 Sorcerer with an incomplete heavenly restriction blocked his way.
• The Gojo Clan sent reinforcements, and the Three Great Families joined forces against Kenjaku near the Tombs of the Star Corridor.
• Kenjaku shattered the Kamo Clan's domain and escaped, while the attackers were killed and the sorcerers seized two of Sukuna's Fingers.
• In a remote mountain village, Kenjaku destroyed his surroundings as a new idea took shape.

Sukuna awoke a thousand years after his death in a weakened human body and decided to attend Jujutsu High. Tengen warned the school’s principal that Sukuna’s descendant would join the incoming class, while Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri looked ahead to the new school year.

• Sukuna awoke with only a fraction of his former strength, received Dimension Slash, a Resurrection Card, and a Soul Extraction Capsule, and discovered his monstrous body had become human.
• Sukuna realized he could return to his old strongest form and set off for Jujutsu High, hoping to see Suguru Geto’s descent into darkness again.
• Tengen told Tokyo Jujutsu High’s principal that a descendant of Ryomen Sukuna with Sukuna’s Cursed Technique would attend the school.
• Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri joked and bickered in the school corridor as they prepared for the first day of classes.
• Satoru Gojo recalled how he and Suguru Geto first met and fought, then declared that he would beat any other incoming students because they were the strongest.

Sukuna gorged himself on fried chicken and cola, then attracted Jujutsu High’s attention by drawing cursed spirits to a busy area. Masamichi Yaga recruited him as a first-year student and escorted him toward the school, while Sukuna left with a phone he had taken from the chicken shop server.

• Sukuna ate several family buckets of fried chicken and drank cola at a shop, then vanished without paying and took another can.
• Sukuna released cursed energy to attract cursed spirits and get Jujutsu High’s attention.
• Masamichi Yaga identified Sukuna as a supposed descendant of Sukuna and told him the principal had ordered his enrollment.
• Sukuna accepted enrollment at Tokyo Jujutsu High, introduced himself as Sukuna, and followed Yaga after walking the wrong way.
• Sukuna made Yaga pay for the chicken and cola he had taken, then fiddled with a phone he had borrowed from the server on the way to Jujutsu High.

Sukuna enrolled at Jujutsu High and met his classmates Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri, who learned he was a descendant of Ryomen Sukuna. The chapter ended with Sukuna and Gojo introducing themselves and shaking hands after Sukuna overturned the desk Gojo had sat on.

• Sukuna discarded his keypad phone and leaped up the steps to Jujutsu High with Masamichi Yaga.
• Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri waited in class, where Shoko mistook Sukuna for someone who had swallowed Sukuna's Finger.
• Masamichi Yaga introduced Sukuna as a direct descendant of Ryomen Sukuna, startling all three students.
• Sukuna introduced himself to his new classmates and received his student ID from Masamichi Yaga.
• After Yaga left, Satoru Gojo approached Sukuna, who shoved Gojo's desk onto the floor before shaking his hand.

Sukuna settled into his room at Jujutsu High, tested his Dimension Slash, and looked forward to starting his new life there. Meanwhile, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri discussed whether Sukuna was really the King of Curses’ descendant.

• Suguru Geto stopped Satoru Gojo and Sukuna’s grip contest, and Sukuna left for his private room.
• Sukuna arranged his bedding, mused about Uraume and his incomplete soul, and admired his physique.
• Sukuna secretly tested Dimension Slash on a vase and found that the technique worked with little cursed energy.
• Sukuna went to sleep, looking forward to his first day at Jujutsu High.
• Shoko Ieiri asked Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto whether Sukuna was truly Sukuna’s descendant, then left after their teasing replies.

Sukuna met Suguru Geto for hand-to-hand practice after learning that the school cafeteria served fried chicken and cola. On the way, he explained his supposed family tradition of naming each clan head Sukuna, and the group reached the athletic field ready to spar.

• Masamichi Yaga delivered Sukuna's custom uniform and told him there were no classes, but Sukuna went back to sleep.
• Shoko Ieiri told Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo that Sukuna was a Special Grade Sorcerer, and Satoru and Suguru revealed they already knew.
• Suguru Geto tried to take Satoru Gojo sparring, but Satoru slipped away to buy Kikufuku.
• Suguru Geto woke Sukuna and invited him to practice hand-to-hand combat on the athletic field.
• Sukuna told Shoko Ieiri and Suguru Geto that Sukuna was a name passed down to each clan head, then learned the cafeteria served fried chicken and cola.
• Sukuna, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri arrived at the athletic field and prepared to practice.

Sukuna and Suguru Geto sparred with wooden staffs before switching to hand-to-hand combat, where Sukuna ultimately overwhelmed Geto. Shoko healed Geto and realized Sukuna had already learned Reverse Cursed Technique, leaving Geto to accept his defeat.

• Sukuna gave Suguru Geto a wooden staff, and the two traded blows as Shoko cheered and onlookers gathered to gossip.
• Sukuna blocked Geto’s attacks and kicked him through the air, but Geto recovered and insisted they continue sparring.
• Geto tricked Sukuna into turning around and landed a punch, drawing Sukuna’s praise before Sukuna stepped up his attack.
• Sukuna struck Geto in the abdomen and knocked him down, then offered to pull him up as Shoko rushed to heal him.
• Shoko noticed Sukuna’s punch wound healing and realized he had mastered Reverse Cursed Technique, while Geto accepted that he had lost.

After losing a hand-to-hand spar with Sukuna, Suguru Geto acknowledged his strength, while Satoru Gojo returned with Kikufuku and teased Geto. Masamichi Yaga then assigned Sukuna, Gojo, Geto, and Shoko their first exorcism mission, and they set off for a cursed spirit sighting on North Road.

• Sukuna left after defeating Suguru Geto, and Satoru Gojo returned with Kikufuku without realizing Sukuna had learned Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Geto told Gojo that Sukuna had beaten him in hand-to-hand combat, and Gojo vowed to test Sukuna himself.
• Masamichi Yaga informed Sukuna that cursed spirit activity had been detected on an abandoned street in the eastern scenic district and assigned the other three to join him.
• Sukuna met Gojo, Geto, and Shoko at Jujutsu High, and they discussed the mission while heading out together.
• A Window team arrived to guide them to the site, while Sukuna imagined driving a red supercar.

Sukuna, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko entered an abandoned district to exorcise a Grade 1 cursed spirit. They defeated it and left the area, with Satoru eager to buy more Kikufuku.

• A Window operative drove the four sorcerers to the abandoned streets and revealed that their target was a Grade 1 cursed spirit.
• Suguru Geto sent centipede curses ahead to scout while the group searched the dark streets, and Shoko nervously stayed close to him.
• Sukuna used Dismantle to cut apart the low-grade cursed spirits gathered in the alleys, startling Shoko.
• The Grade 1 cursed spirit attacked Satoru Gojo with corrosive pus, but his Limitless stopped it and his Blue technique struck it with a dragon of rubble.
• Satoru told Suguru to eat the weakened cursed spirit, and Suguru absorbed it as a black sphere before the group left the district.
• Satoru announced that he would buy more Kikufuku, while Suguru concealed his disgust after swallowing the cursed spirit.

After their mission, Sukuna, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko walked through the city, joking and discussing future sparring matches. They stopped for ice cream on the way to get fried chicken, leaving their plans for a rematch unresolved.

• Shoko suggested the group spend their free time together and get fried chicken, and Sukuna agreed.
• As they walked through the crowded streets, Satoru acted foolishly to attract attention, while Suguru and Shoko tried to quiet him.
• Shoko asked why Sukuna had come to Jujutsu High, and he said his family was dead and asked her not to address him like a classmate.
• Suguru proposed sparring with Sukuna, and Satoru challenged Sukuna to prove who was stronger; Shoko and Suguru stopped the argument from escalating in public.
• Satoru spotted an ice cream shop and led the group inside, where they ordered ice cream and sat down together.

Sukuna joined Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri for ice cream, liquor, and fried chicken. At KFC, Sukuna eagerly ate while Satoru avoided alcohol because of the strain the Six Eyes and Limitless placed on his brain, and Shoko drank freely.

• Satoru Gojo left most of his ice cream uneaten, and Suguru Geto scolded him before the group headed out with Sukuna and Shoko Ieiri.
• Shoko bought bottles of strong liquor, while Sukuna reflected that Satoru avoided alcohol because it could overwhelm his already strained brain.
• Shoko spotted a KFC, and the four went inside and ordered fried chicken, though Satoru Gojo ordered nothing.
• Shoko drank from the bottle, Suguru Geto forced down liquor to suppress his nausea, and Sukuna happily ate fried chicken with cola.

Masamichi Yaga summoned Sukuna, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko to explain that Tokyo Jujutsu High would hold a Goodwill Event with Kyoto Jujutsu High. He told them Kyoto’s leader was a Grade 1 sorcerer from the Zenin Clan and gave them a file with further details.

• Shoko picked up the Teddy Bear cursed corpse and considered dissecting it while the four students went to Masamichi Yaga’s office.
• Masamichi Yaga praised the students’ strength and healing ability before announcing the Goodwill Event between Tokyo and Kyoto Jujutsu High.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto pressed Masamichi Yaga to explain Kyoto’s strongest fighter.
• Masamichi Yaga said Kyoto’s leader was a Grade 1 sorcerer from the Zenin Clan, and Satoru Gojo said he would defeat him in one move.
• Masamichi Yaga handed the students a sealed file with the remaining details, and Shoko left looking excited.

Sukuna and his classmates reviewed Kyoto Jujutsu High’s roster for the upcoming Goodwill Event and decided how to handle the three opponents. With the event three days away, they planned to spend the time resting, while Shoko and Satoru Gojo ended up chasing each other around the classroom.

• Shoko returned the teddy bear cursed corpse to Masamichi Yaga’s collection after he caught her trying to take it.
• Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, Shoko, and Sukuna read the profiles of Naoya Zenin, Kino Noriko, and Yamagami Kuro, Kyoto Jujutsu High’s three competitors.
• Shoko agreed to provide medical support, while Sukuna agreed to participate; Satoru Gojo planned to fight Naoya Zenin and Suguru Geto claimed the other two opponents.
• Shoko told the others that Kyoto’s teachers would arrive in three days, and they decided to eat at the cafeteria before taking time off in their dorms.
• Shoko began laughing at a private thought, then punched Satoru Gojo after he teased her, and Suguru Geto stepped in to stop their chase around the classroom.

Kyoto Jujutsu High arrived at Tokyo Jujutsu High for the Goodwill Event, where Yoshinobu Gakuganji learned that Sukuna was a descendant of Ryomen Sukuna. The students reviewed the competition rules and agreed to begin the next day, while Naoya Zenin left furious after Satoru Gojo taunted him.

• Sukuna spent the three days before Kyoto Jujutsu High's arrival eating, sleeping, and playing games, while sensing six fingers shifting locations within the Tombs of the Star Corridor.
• Yoshinobu Gakuganji questioned Tokyo Jujutsu High's principal about Sukuna, then accepted his explanation that Lord Tengen had found him as Ryomen Sukuna's descendant.
• Satoru Gojo provoked Naoya Zenin, who recognized Gojo's strength and turned his attention toward the other students.
• Suguru Geto asked about the event rules, and the accompanying teacher explained the individual and team battles, with Shoko opting out as the medic.
• The accompanying teacher announced that the competition would begin the next day, and the Kyoto students hurried away as Satoru Gojo taunted Naoya Zenin.

Sukuna slept through most of the individual competition while Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto defeated their opponents. The match ended with Naoya Zenin badly injured, delaying the next competition until the afternoon.

• Sukuna entered the forest competition grounds and fell asleep on a tree branch.
• Satoru Gojo found Yamagami Kuro despite his Immovable technique and knocked him unconscious, and Shoko Ieiri healed him.
• Suguru Geto defeated Kino Noriko and confronted Naoya Zenin, who used Projection Sorcery to freeze him and land several punches.
• Suguru Geto's special grade cursed spirit struck Naoya Zenin before he could touch Geto again, and Shoko Ieiri rushed to heal him.
• Masamichi Yaga woke Sukuna and announced that the next match would be held in the afternoon because Naoya Zenin needed more time to recover.

Tokyo Jujutsu High won the Goodwill Event after Satoru Gojo, Geto, and Sukuna overwhelmed Kyoto Jujutsu High’s team. After the event ended, Sukuna prepared to roast a rabbit Shoko had given him.

• Shoko returned to the lounge exhausted from treating Naoya Zenin, while Sukuna, Geto, and Satoru Gojo waited for the next match.
• Sukuna agreed to avoid killing anyone in the team battle after Geto reminded him that the teacher had forbidden casualties.
• Geto defeated Kino Noriko by sending the Slit-Mouthed Woman after her, while Satoru Gojo beat Naoya Zenin and Sukuna slammed Yamagami Kuro across the arena.
• Masamichi Yaga stopped the fight, and Tokyo Jujutsu High’s first-years were declared the winners of the Goodwill Event.
• Masamichi Yaga scolded Satoru Gojo and Geto, after which Geto laughed at Gojo’s claim that a bitten fingernail was an injury.
• Sukuna praised the rabbit Shoko had prepared and set about roasting it on a barbecue grill.