Chapter Summaries

After Qin Hong died in a bizarre electric-blanket accident, the Administrator offered him reincarnation in a threatened world and sent him through a black door. Qin Hong entered eagerly, not knowing which story’s world awaited him.

• After reading Jujutsu Kaisen and going to sleep, Qin Hong woke in a ruined area and was decapitated by Sukuna.
• Qin Hong regained awareness in a white space, where the Administrator explained that he had died after an electric blanket paralyzed him under his quilt.
• The Administrator told Qin Hong that his death had become a viral news story and that the incident had led to stricter electric-blanket inspections.
• The Administrator explained that Qin Hong could reincarnate in a world about to disappear and would serve as an outside force to help save it.
• Qin Hong agreed to enter the world, and the Administrator pushed him through the black door without revealing the story it came from.

Newborn Qin Hong was reborn as Sakurada Niji in Japan, where he could see strange monsters attached to people. At eight years old, he discovered that an anger-fueled knife attack could destroy one, and he resolved to keep testing how to fight them.

• Qin Hong was born in 1991 to Yosuke and Miyoko, who named him Sakurada Niji.
• By 1999, Sakurada Niji had adjusted to life in Japan and spent years seeing monsters that seemed to drain or hurt people.
• Sakurada Niji saw a monster on Kuradama Michiko and arranged to go home with her so he could examine it.
• Sakurada Niji touched the monster and tried stabbing it with a utility knife, but his first attack barely penetrated.
• Sakurada Niji stabbed the monster again in anger, and it cried out, turned to ash, and disappeared.

On his fifteenth birthday, Sakurada Niji encountered the most humanlike monster he had ever seen and fought it at a construction site. When the monster regenerated from his attacks and raced toward his classmate Yoshioka Ryozo, Niji gave chase and narrowly escaped being crushed.

• Sakurada Niji celebrated his fifteenth birthday with classmates, then escorted Yoshioka Ryozo home after karaoke.
• Sakurada Niji spotted a humanoid monster at a construction site and sent Yoshioka Ryozo away before approaching it alone.
• The monster ambushed Sakurada Niji, who blocked its attack and countered with kicks, but its rubbery body and rapid regeneration blunted his blows.
• The monster charged toward the road Yoshioka Ryozo had taken, so Sakurada Niji pursued it and fell beneath its kick.
• Sakurada Niji rolled away from the monster's stomp, kicked its descending leg, and scrambled back to his feet.

Sakurada Niji awakened his cursed technique while fighting a cursed spirit and exorcised it before losing consciousness. A uniformed man arrived and recognized the residue as that of a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit.

• Yoshioka Ryozo called the police and ran for help while Sakurada Niji kept the cursed spirit occupied.
• The cursed spirit overwhelmed Sakurada Niji, then tried to make him watch as it pursued Yoshioka Ryozo.
• Sakurada Niji’s negative emotions surged, awakening a cursed technique that let him immobilize anything his cursed energy touched.
• Sakurada Niji pinned the cursed spirit in place and stabbed its eye and brain with a Utility Knife until it dissipated.
• Sakurada Niji collapsed unconscious, and a uniformed man arrived, identified the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit’s residue, and wondered whether Sakurada had exorcised it alone.

Sakurada Niji woke in the hospital after defeating a powerful cursed spirit and reassured his apologetic classmate, Yoshioka Ryozo. Masamichi Yaga visited, assessed Niji's abilities and resolve, and invited him to enroll at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School, which Niji eagerly accepted.

• Sakurada Niji woke in the hospital and reunited with his parents and Yoshioka Ryozo.
• Yoshioka apologized for not leaving sooner, and Niji reassured him that protecting him had been the right choice.
• Yoshioka described how a suited driver and a middle-aged man investigated the monster attack, leading Niji to suspect the man was Masamichi Yaga.
• Masamichi Yaga questioned Niji about his cursed energy, his view of cursed spirits, and whether he regretted fighting the monster.
• Niji said he wanted to destroy monsters and protect people, then accepted Yaga's invitation to enroll at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School.

Sakurada Niji told his parents about his powers and urged them to leave Japan for their safety, then Shoko Ieiri healed him and took him to prepare for Tokyo Jujutsu High. The chapter ended with Niji ready to leave the hospital with Shoko.

• Sakurada Niji revealed his ability to see and fight monsters, demonstrated his power, and explained that he wanted to attend Tokyo Jujutsu High to protect people.
• Sakurada Niji persuaded Sakurada Yosuke and Sakurada Miyoko to move to China, and they left Japan that night.
• Shoko Ieiri visited Sakurada Niji, introduced herself as his future classmate, and healed his injuries with Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Sakurada Niji got dressed and met Shoko Ieiri at the nurses' station, and they prepared to leave for the school.

Sakurada Niji traveled to Jujutsu High, where Shoko explained the basics of Jujutsu Society and introduced him to Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto. Niji began sparring with Gojo, but his first punch stopped short because of Gojo’s Limitless.

• Sakurada Niji asked Shoko for an overview of cursed energy, cursed techniques, assistant managers, Windows, and curse users during their drive to Jujutsu High.
• Shoko led Sakurada Niji through the school grounds and introduced him to Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, who had been arguing.
• Sakurada Niji approached the boys and asked to join their training, so Gojo invited him to spar and assess his technique.
• Sakurada Niji used his fixation technique beneath his feet to accelerate toward Satoru Gojo and throw a punch.
• Sakurada Niji’s fist stopped just before reaching Gojo, and he recognized that Limitless made close combat useless.

Sakurada Niji sparred with Satoru Gojo, tested a powerful new barrier against Blue, and got Gojo blamed for the damage to the training ground. After getting lost, Niji finally reached his dorm and worried that Gojo would keep teasing him.

• Satoru Gojo attacked Sakurada Niji, who dodged while placing invisible air walls in his path.
• Sakurada Niji created Splitting Void and held it against Gojo's Blue until he ran low on cursed energy and retreated.
• Satoru Gojo gave Niji embarrassing nicknames, and Niji retaliated by calling him Satoru-chan.
• Masamichi Yaga arrived, believed Niji's claim that Gojo had caused the damage, and dragged Gojo away.
• Sakurada Niji got lost looking for the dorm, found an assistant supervisor, and reached his single room before dark.

Sakurada Niji joined Suguru Geto, Satoru Gojo, and Shoko Ieiri for dinner, where they introduced themselves and argued over their roles as jujutsu sorcerers. Niji’s views made Geto question his savior mindset, and the chapter left Geto preparing to think more deeply about his beliefs.

• Niji went to Geto’s room for oden, where he bickered with Gojo and privately resolved to find a way to defeat him.
• Geto, Gojo, and Niji introduced themselves and described their cursed techniques, then Shoko arrived and introduced herself as a user of Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Geto argued that jujutsu sorcerers existed to save the weak, while Niji said sorcerers acted according to what they could tolerate and whom they chose to protect.
• Niji’s words led Geto to recognize that he might have been treating himself as a savior and blaming ordinary people for the costs of his choices.
• Niji and Shoko cleaned up while Gojo refused to help, and Niji encouraged Geto to take his time thinking through his beliefs.

Satoru Gojo analyzed Sakurada Niji’s cursed technique and advised him on how to improve it, then Niji trained with Suguru Geto and Gojo. Their training wrecked the Training Ground, and Masamichi Yaga punished all three.

• Sakurada Niji watched Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto spar and realized how weak his hand-to-hand skills were.
• Gojo and Geto persuaded Niji to call them his seniors, then proposed that the winner of each sparring match could make the loser do one thing.
• Gojo used his Six Eyes to examine Niji’s cursed technique, explain its three weaknesses, and suggest ways to strengthen it.
• Niji asked Geto to train him against cursed spirits, while Gojo joined despite Niji’s objections.
• Niji, Gojo, and Geto left the Training Ground in ruins, and Masamichi Yaga hit each of them on the head.

Sakurada Niji, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto captured the Grade 1 cursed spirit Rainbow Dragon on Mount Takao, with Niji using his expanded technique to restrain it and Gojo beating it down. After Geto absorbed the spirit, the friends' conversation helped him question the beliefs he had been taught about saving the weak, and the chapter left them preparing to ride Rainbow Dragon back.

• Masamichi Yaga assigned all four students to investigate a reported dragon cursed spirit on Mount Takao, while Shoko stayed with the assistant supervisor near the summit.
• The assistant supervisor identified the spirit as Rainbow Dragon, a flying Grade 1 imaginary cursed spirit, and raised a Curtain around the mountain.
• Rainbow Dragon attacked the three students, but Sakurada Niji slowed it with Spatial Severance Lines and stopped it with a Spatial Barrier.
• Suguru Geto's cursed spirits pinned Rainbow Dragon while Satoru Gojo battered it, and Niji used his technique to hold it still until the accumulated injuries took effect.
• Geto absorbed Rainbow Dragon and swallowed the cursed orb; Niji gave him honey citron tea, which eased his discomfort.
• Geto reconsidered the belief that sorcerers existed to save the weak after recalling how others had instilled it in him, and Gojo suggested that they ride Rainbow Dragon back.

In summer 2006, Sakurada Niji worried that Kenjaku was behind the coming Star Plasma Vessel assassination and struggled to decide how to protect Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto. The next day, Masamichi Yaga assigned Niji and his classmates to find Mei Mei and Utahime, who had gone missing on a mission.

• Sakurada Niji continued training, reached Grade 1, and bought the Cursed Tool [Skyward Support] with money borrowed from Satoru Gojo.
• After learning of Masamichi Yaga's promotion, Sakurada Niji suspected Kenjaku had arranged Toji Fushiguro's assassination mission and wondered whether Geto's convictions had been manipulated.
• Sakurada Niji dreamed of Geto with stitches and Gojo half-destroyed, then worried that fate might make Tengen's assimilation fail regardless of his actions.
• Sakurada Niji arrived at class exhausted, and Shoko, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto tried to comfort him.
• Masamichi Yaga assigned Sakurada Niji, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko to take over the mission to find Mei Mei and Utahime, who had been missing for two days.

Sakurada Niji and his classmates rescued Utahime and Mei Mei from a time-distorting barrier, with Satoru Gojo destroying the residence before Niji could explain his plan. Niji confirmed that his actions could alter fate and left wondering whether they would still be assigned to protect Riko Amanai.

• Sakurada Niji, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko flew to the haunted residence on Rainbow Dragon, arriving ahead of schedule.
• Satoru Gojo used his Six Eyes to identify an irregular looping barrier, then destroyed the residence with Blue as Sakurada Niji lowered the Curtain.
• Utahime emerged from the rubble, complained that Satoru Gojo had ruined her promotion mission, and reunited with Shoko while Mei Mei explained that the barrier had distorted time.
• Suguru Geto's Cursed Spirit captured an orange Cursed Spirit that appeared behind Utahime, and Satoru Gojo explained that its barrier had kept the women missing for two days.
• Sakurada Niji concluded that he had successfully changed events by lowering the Curtain, then left with the others while questioning whether they would still receive the Star Plasma Vessel mission.

Sakurada Niji, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko received a mission to protect Riko Amanai, the star plasma vessel, and bring her to Lord Tengen for assimilation. After reaching Riko’s building, the group split up, and an attack by Q began.

• Masamichi Yaga explained that Lord Tengen needed to assimilate with Riko Amanai to prevent his uncontrolled evolution and told the students that Q and the Time Vessel Association wanted her dead.
• Sakurada Niji, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko traveled to Riko’s building and discussed whether she should be allowed to refuse assimilation.
• The group split up, with Satoru Gojo watching outside, Suguru Geto entering the building, and Sakurada Niji waiting nearby with Shoko.
• An explosion erupted on an upper floor, and Suguru Geto caught a falling figure with his pink Manta Ray.
• Satoru Gojo fought Bain, while Sakurada Niji decided to take Shoko to check on Suguru Geto and Riko Amanai.

After Riko Amanai woke and insisted on visiting her classmates, Sakurada Niji and Shoko were sent on separate missions. Niji entered a hospital basement to exorcise a suspected special grade cursed spirit and found a black-haired woman in a pool of blood.

• Riko Amanai woke, slapped Satoru Gojo, and lowered her guard after Sakurada Niji explained that they had been sent to escort her.
• Riko declared that the merger would let her live on as Lord Tengen, then demanded to visit her school; Kuroi explained that Riko had no family and that she had raised her.
• Masamichi Yaga ordered Sakurada Niji and Shoko to leave Riko's escort and take a separate mission, leaving Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto with Riko.
• The higher-ups sent Shoko to Kyoto Jujutsu High and Sakurada Niji to exorcise a suspected special grade cursed spirit at Tokyo Adachi Eastern Hospital.
• Sakurada Niji entered the transformed basement, followed cursed residue into a blood-soaked room, and approached a sobbing woman who began to turn toward him.

Sakurada Niji exorcised a special grade imaginary cursed spirit in the hospital basement, then made preparations in Shibuya before returning to Jujutsu High. He planned to recover while considering how to save Riko and deceive Toji’s heightened senses.

• Sakurada Niji used Godspeed and Flash Step to decapitate the cursed spirit, but its blood pool produced tentacles and more humanoid cursed spirits.
• Sakurada Niji identified the spirits’ growth points as weaknesses and destroyed them after immobilizing the attackers with Cursed Energy Diffusion and Cursed Technique Extension.
• The barrier vanished, and Sakurada Niji reported the mission complete to the assistant supervisor, noting that the fight had taken about an hour.
• Sakurada Niji ate, dyed his hair, and bought clothes in Shibuya before asking the assistant supervisor to take him to Jujutsu High and report that he needed three days to recover.

Sakurada Niji prepared with Shoko, Suguru Geto, and Masamichi Yaga to protect Riko Amanai from the Star Plasma Vessel mission's looming danger. At Mount Enzan, the man in black ambushed Satoru Gojo and killed him with a cursed tool that pierced Limitless.

• Shoko treated Sakurada Niji after his mission, and he arranged for her to prepare a Barrier Technique at Masamichi Yaga's place.
• Sakurada Niji told Suguru Geto about his plan concerning Riko Amanai and asked him not to tell Satoru Gojo.
• After the bounty on Riko Amanai expired, Suguru Geto brought her and Kuroi inside Jujutsu High's barrier, where the man in black stabbed Satoru Gojo.
• Satoru Gojo told Suguru Geto to protect Riko Amanai while he fought the man in black, and Suguru Geto hurried with Riko and Kuroi to meet Sakurada Niji.
• Sakurada Niji and Kuroi prepared to take Riko Amanai and Suguru Geto to the Tombs of the Star Corridor as Shoko awaited a message about Satoru Gojo.
• The man in black used fly heads to disrupt Satoru Gojo's perception, then pierced Limitless with a strange dagger and stabbed him in the neck and head.

Sakurada Niji and Suguru Geto fought Toji Fushiguro, then Sakurada restrained him and explained Kenjaku’s plan. The chapter ended with Toji agreeing to a wager about whether Satoru Gojo was still alive.

• Toji Fushiguro shot the person beside Suguru Geto and revealed that he had killed Satoru Gojo, prompting Suguru to attack him.
• Sakurada Niji revealed himself as Riko Amanai’s substitute and helped Suguru fight Toji using Space-Severing Lines and a Simple Domain.
• Toji broke Slit-Mouthed Woman’s domain and overpowered Sakurada Niji and Suguru, but Sakurada immobilized him by restraining the air around his joints.
• Sakurada Niji sent Suguru to call Shoko, then told Toji that Kenjaku planned to use the star plasma vessel, the Six Eyes, and Cursed Spirit Manipulation to endanger humanity, including Toji’s son.
• Sakurada Niji wagered that Satoru Gojo was alive and asked Toji to help stop Kenjaku if he was right; Toji accepted.

Sakurada Niji persuaded Toji to wait for Satoru Gojo’s recovery and fight him, while presenting his knowledge of the future as prophecy. Gojo battled Toji at Jujutsu High and unleashed a brilliant purple technique, leaving the fight’s outcome unclear.

• Shoko told Suguru Geto that Satoru Gojo had learned Reverse Cursed Technique and was recovering, so Sakurada Niji released Toji and convinced him to wait for a rematch.
• Sakurada Niji told Suguru Geto and Masamichi Yaga that he had foreseen Gojo’s near-death and recovery, then brought Toji to the Training Ground.
• Satoru Gojo arrived fully healed and attacked Toji with Cursed Technique Reversal-Red, blasting him through trees; Toji returned with only a minor injury.
• Toji attached the Chain of a Thousand Miles to the Inverted Spear of Heaven and attacked Gojo, who announced that he alone was the honored one.
• Satoru Gojo radiated purple light as Toji’s chain blade thrust toward him, and the chapter ended after the light burst and faded.

Sakurada Niji explained how he had altered the events surrounding Riko and Toji, then helped the others reenact what he predicted would happen next. He revealed that his stories would become unreliable and warned that a future conflict would end with Satoru Gojo’s death.

• Toji Fushiguro survived Satoru Gojo’s attack, admitted defeat, and acknowledged Satoru as the strongest of the modern age.
• Sakurada Niji told the Jujutsu High group that he could see stories about people and had changed events to save Riko and Toji.
• Niji predicted Yu Haibara’s death, described Toji returning Riko’s body to the Time Vessel Association, and warned that his stories would no longer be accurate.
• Masamichi Yaga sent the group to reenact Niji’s account, and the observers heard the Time Vessel Association representative say, “If we fall alongside the star, so be it.”
• Niji revealed that Kenjaku would manipulate Geto, take control of Tengen, and help set events in motion for Sukuna to kill Satoru Gojo.