Chapter Summaries

Sakurada Niji and Suguru Geto traveled to San'ya for a mission involving bodies found in a dark alley. Niji entered alone and found a grotesque cursed spirit feeding beside a pile of corpses.

• Satoru Gojo pretended to be exhausted from handling Niji's missions before teleporting away, while Suguru Geto exposed that Gojo had only recently started working harder.
• Sakurada Niji encouraged Suguru Geto to rest and reminded him to add seasoning when consuming cursed spirits, then they set off on missions together.
• Sakurada Niji and Suguru Geto flew inside Rainbow Dragon to the San'ya district after receiving a report about bodies and cursed energy residue in an alley.
• Sakurada Niji entered the dark alley alone while Suguru Geto waited outside, hoping Niji would find a cursed spirit suitable for him to consume.
• Sakurada Niji sensed a grade 1 cursed spirit and found it chewing beside a pile of corpses.

Sakurada Niji tested two new cursed-energy techniques while fighting cursed spirits in an alley. After defeating them, he found a gang-related body dumping site and left the scene for the police to handle.

• Sakurada Niji used a cursed-energy arrow to pin a cursed spirit, then dispersed it from within, killing it.
• A giant centipede cursed spirit formed from rotting corpses, and Sakurada Niji created controllable Spatial Severance Lines to slice it apart.
• Sakurada Niji used Godspeed to whip the lines through the centipede's remaining body, destroying it.
• Sakurada Niji opened a garbage bin and found scattered bodies bearing tattoos, concluding that the alley was a gang's regular dumping site.
• Sakurada Niji left the bodies for the police after dealing with the cursed spirits.

Suguru Geto and Sakurada Niji arrived at a remote village where villagers had reported monsters, an assignment resembling the turning point Niji had feared for Geto. Geto insisted on handling the matter himself, while Niji followed to keep him from killing anyone, and they were led to the house where the villagers had locked up the monsters.

• Sakurada Niji practiced manipulating cursed-energy threads while he and Suguru Geto traveled between assignments.
• Geto received details about the village on Sanbon Tochi Mountain, and Niji tried to take the assignment in his place.
• Geto told Niji he would bear the consequences himself and said he would make the villagers regret their ignorance rather than kill them.
• Niji agreed to trust Geto but followed him, promising to stop him if he tried to kill anyone.
• Geto and Niji posed as aloof exorcists to a villager, who led them to the house where the monsters were being held.

Suguru Geto and Sakurada Niji entered a village house to rescue two young girls imprisoned there. After freeing Nanako Hasaba and Mimiko, Geto left to confront the villagers while Sakurada stayed with the frightened children.

• Suguru Geto exorcised a weak cursed spirit from the village guide’s shoulder and sent him to gather the villagers.
• Suguru Geto and Sakurada Niji entered the dark house and found Nanako Hasaba and Mimiko chained inside a wooden cage.
• Sakurada Niji reassured the girls, broke the cage lock, and freed Nanako from her shackle.
• Nanako trusted Sakurada Niji and comforted the frightened Mimiko as he freed her too.
• Suguru Geto went outside after hearing the villagers approach, while Sakurada Niji left the girls alone together after they were freed.

Suguru Geto used his cursed technique to relieve Komaiwa’s pain, then inflicted a punishment that prompted Komaiwa’s mother to reveal why the villagers had imprisoned the Kakehashi girls. The villagers turned against the village chief and went to find him, while Suguru Geto suspected a cursed spirit on the mountain had killed the Kakehashi family.

• Suguru Geto absorbed the cursed spirit attached to Komaiwa, curing his back pain, then summoned another spirit to make his shoulder hurt.
• Komaiwa’s mother begged Suguru Geto to spare her son and confessed that the village chief had blamed the Kakehashi family and imprisoned the two girls.
• Suguru Geto declared that the Kakehashi family had protected the village from evil spirits and that a powerful spirit had attacked after they died.
• The villagers accused the chief of causing the Kakehashi family’s deaths and setting them against the girls, then went to seize the chief and his family.
• Suguru Geto inferred that a cursed spirit might be on the mountain where the Kakehashi man had died.

Suguru Geto prepared to expose the village chief for the villagers’ persecution of Nanako and Mimiko. As the chief began confessing, he revealed that Yoshihide Hasaba was the girls’ father and that a strange exorcist had offered money for children who could see monsters.

• Suguru Geto told Sakurada Niji that the villagers had gone to confront the village chief, then sent cursed spirits to follow them.
• Sakurada Niji checked on Nanako and Mimiko, and Nanako identified the village chief, his mother, and Komaiwa as people who had hurt them.
• Sakurada Niji reassured the girls that the villagers would apologize and led them outside with a cursed spirit accompanying them.
• The villagers returned with the village chief and his mother, and Suguru Geto silenced the crowd with Rainbow Dragon.
• The village chief began confessing that Yoshihide Hasaba was Nanako and Mimiko’s father and that a strange exorcist had offered to pay for children who could see monsters.

Suguru Geto learned that a Curse User had helped the village chief abduct Nanako and Mimiko, while Sakurada Niji treated Komaiwa's injuries. Nanako asked Geto to decide the village chief's fate, and Geto sentenced him to prison before promising to kill the real murderer.

• The village chief confessed that a strange exorcist had lured Yoshihide Hasaba away while he captured the two girls, and Suguru Geto realized a Curse User was involved.
• Suguru Geto sent a cursed spirit to alert Sakurada Niji, who emerged with Nanako and Mimiko as the villagers bowed and begged forgiveness.
• Nanako asked Suguru Geto to forgive Komaiwa, and Sakurada Niji healed Komaiwa's injured shoulder with Reverse Cursed Technique.
• The village chief admitted he had caused Nanako's father's death and begged her to spare his mother, leaving Nanako and Mimiko in tears.
• Suguru Geto sentenced the village chief to spend the rest of his life in prison and promised Nanako he would kill the real murderer.

Suguru Geto and Sakurada Niji exorcised the cursed spirits possessing the villagers and left with Nanako and Mimiko to investigate the remaining cursed residue. Niji followed the clues to a vagrant-looking sorcerer and secretly immobilized him, leaving his connection to the Hasaba sisters' past unresolved.

• Nanako fainted after Geto reassured her, and Geto summoned a cursed spirit to protect her while he reported the situation to the Assistant Supervisor.
• Geto and Sakurada Niji exorcised the spirits possessing the villagers, warned them to resist wicked thoughts, and sent them away after the ritual.
• Geto carried the unconscious Mimiko with Nanako on his ox-shaped cursed spirit as he and Niji headed toward the mountain to investigate lingering residue.
• Niji detected traces from three cursed spirits and inferred that one sorcerer had likely killed Yoshihide Hasaba during a fight.
• Niji followed the final trail to a vagrant-looking man, approached him undetected, and immobilized him with his cursed technique.

Sakurada Niji interrogated a Curse User who had come to the village, learning that he and Yoshihide Hasaba had plotted to ambush Hasaba over the purchase of children with awakened Cursed Techniques. After consulting Suguru Geto, Niji prepared to deal with the confessed killer himself.

• Sakurada Niji freed the Curse User and threatened him until he admitted he was a Grade 2 Curse User looking for Yoshihide Hasaba.
• The Curse User summoned a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit and tried to attack Sakurada Niji, but Niji immobilized him and split the Cursed Spirit apart with his Reverse Cursed Technique.
• The Curse User confessed that he and Hasaba had planned to capture a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit, but he had ambushed Hasaba after becoming greedy over the purchase of children with awakened Cursed Techniques.
• Sakurada Niji called Suguru Geto and said killing the Curse User would not trouble his conscience, while Geto offered to do it himself.

Sakurada Niji killed the curse user responsible for the girls’ suffering and brought his preserved body back to Suguru Geto. Geto took Nanako and Mimiko to Jujutsu High, while Niji reported the mission to Masamichi Yaga, who noticed that Niji seemed changed.

• Sakurada Niji immobilized the begging curse user, destroyed his brain with Reverse Cursed Technique, and preserved the corpse for Shoko to examine.
• Suguru Geto told Nanako that Sakurada Niji had killed the murderer, then comforted her as she grieved.
• Nanako recognized the curse user as someone who had visited her father, and Suguru Geto summoned the Rainbow Dragon to swallow the corpse.
• Suguru Geto invited Nanako and Mimiko to come with him, and the group returned to Jujutsu High.
• Sakurada Niji reported the mission to Masamichi Yaga, who gave him two rabbit-shaped cursed corpses for the girls.
• Masamichi Yaga watched Sakurada Niji leave and wondered whether the mission had affected him.