Chapter Summaries

Tan Man accompanied Naobito Zenin and Naoya to the Three Great Families’ banquet, where the Kamo Clan head taunted Naobito about the Zenin Clan’s prospects against the Six Eyes. Naobito recognized the Gojo Clan’s overwhelming advantage but still hoped Tan Man’s hidden potential could defeat Satoru Gojo.

• Tan Man rode with Naobito Zenin and Naoya to the banquet at a mountain hotel, where staff came from the Three Great Families.
• The Kamo Clan head greeted Naobito Zenin and mocked him by calling Tan Man another remarkable child, and Naobito countered by teasing him about producing a Blood Manipulation heir.
• The Kamo Clan head admitted that his clan lacked anyone capable of awakening Blood Manipulation and said it would host a banquet if a child inherited the technique next year.
• The Kamo Clan head asked how long Tan Man could last against Satoru Gojo, and Naobito replied that the Six Eyes was the greater problem for both clans.
• Naobito noticed that few Gojo Clan members had arrived and hoped Tan Man’s hidden potential could defeat the Six Eyes.

At the Three Great Families' gathering, Tan Man struggled with the contemptuous whispers about his origins while Naoya lost to Satoru Gojo in their opening match. Satoru then faced Tan Man, whose Golden Eyes carried killing intent.

• Toji found Tan Man eating alone and urged him to leave if he disliked the gathering.
• The Gojo Clan arrived, and guests whispered about Tan Man's origins as he envisioned his charred mother urging him to kill them.
• The clan heads moved the younger generation's matches to a clearing behind the hotel, where a Curtain was raised.
• Naoya used Projection Sorcery to attack Satoru Gojo, but Limitless stopped his punch and Blue pulled him into a blow that knocked him unconscious.
• Satoru prepared to leave until the Gojo Clan head reminded him to fight Tan Man, and Satoru noticed killing intent in Tan Man's Golden Eyes.

Tan Man attacked Satoru Gojo with his improved equal lives technique, driven by envy and a desire to become the strongest. After Gojo crushed Tan Man’s four Corpses with Blue, Tan Man combined their regeneration with Black Rope and prepared another technique against Gojo’s Limitless defense.

• Tan Man’s envy of Satoru Gojo and Toji’s words pushed him to decide that killing Gojo would make him the strongest.
• Satoru Gojo asked Tan Man his name, but Tan Man instead summoned four Corpses with equal lives.
• Gojo used Blue to crush all four Corpses, astonishing the heads of the Three Great Families with his power.
• Tan Man chanted the Black Rope incantation, causing the Corpses to regenerate and merge into a gigantic Corpse bound with black flame.
• The gigantic Corpse struck at Gojo, who defended himself with Limitless, as Tan Man began chanting the Great Hell of Crushing technique.

Tan Man tried to suffocate Satoru Gojo by trapping him in a sealed cage surrounded by burning black flame, while the observers recognized that the plan might threaten even the Six Eyes. Satoru Gojo broke out with Blue and hurled it at Tan Man, who began preparing another technique as the fight continued.

• Tan Man sealed Satoru Gojo inside a cage of black rocks and Corpse, then set the Black Rope’s black flame ablaze to cut off his supply of fresh air.
• The Head of the Gojo Clan, Naobito Zenin, Ogi, and Jinichi realized Tan Man was trying to kill Satoru Gojo through suffocation, though Ogi doubted he could maintain the attack long enough.
• Satoru Gojo began breaking the black rocks, so Tan Man used Sanghata Hell to drive the cage into the earth and reinforce the prison.
• Satoru Gojo unleashed Blue at full power, drawing in the rocks, Corpse, and black flame before hurling the blackened sphere at Tan Man.
• Tan Man waited for Satoru Gojo to lower his defenses and began chanting to activate Great Wailing Hell.

Tan Man’s carefully prepared attack broke through Satoru Gojo’s Limitless and tore off his right arm, but the Gojo Clan head’s intervention disrupted Tan Man’s aim and escalated tensions among the Three Great Families. The match ended with Naobito Zenin stopping the Gojo Clan head, leaving him caught between acknowledging the threat to Six Eyes and risking war with the Zenin Clan.

• Tan Man used Evil Eye to conceal Wailing and a fissure in hell from Satoru Gojo, preparing a surprise attack that could breach Limitless.
• The Gojo Clan head recognized the danger and used Gas Manipulation Technique against Tan Man, while Naobito Zenin and Ogi noticed his intervention.
• The Gojo Clan head’s attack disrupted Tan Man’s aim, and the fissure bit off Satoru Gojo’s right arm.
• The Zenin Clan prepared to fight as the Gojo Clan rushed to protect Satoru Gojo, but Kamo Clan members obstructed them.
• Naobito Zenin seized the Gojo Clan head’s wrist and warned that continuing could mean war between the Gojo and Zenin Clans.
• The Gojo Clan head hesitated between admitting he feared for Satoru Gojo and treating his intervention as a declaration of war.

After Tan Man badly injured Satoru Gojo, the three clan heads argued over the fight before tending to the wounded. The Gojo Clan rushed away to seek treatment for Satoru, while the Zenin and Kamo Clans stayed behind, and the Kamo Clan head questioned whether Naobito had planned the confrontation.

• The Head of the Gojo Clan accused Naobito of risking Satoru Gojo's life, while Naobito defended Tan Man's right to fight back; the Head of the Kamo Clan ended the dispute by urging them to check on the injured.
• Many Zenin Clan members grew resentful of Naobito's restraint and admired Tan Man's willingness to kill Satoru Gojo.
• Naobito found Toji guarding the unconscious Tan Man, and an examiner said Tan Man had no obvious physical injuries but seemed to be in a dream state.
• Satoru Gojo's pain and uncontrolled cursed energy kept the Gojo Clan from approaching him, so the Head of the Gojo Clan knocked him unconscious with his cursed technique.
• A healing sorcerer treated Satoru Gojo, but restoring his mangled right arm required a Reverse Cursed Technique user, prompting the Gojo Clan to leave in search of treatment.
• After the Zenin and Kamo Clans remained at the banquet, the Head of the Kamo Clan asked Naobito whether he had planned the confrontation and why he had not sought the Kamo Clan's help.

After the banquet, Tan Man reflected on his attempt to kill Satoru Gojo and realized he had ignored the consequences and lacked the strength to manage them. He woke after twenty hours in his residence, where Naobito Zenin confronted him about his intent to kill Satoru.

• The Head of the Kamo Clan accused Naobito Zenin of misjudging Tan Man's strength, and Naobito stayed silent rather than explain how the boy had grown so powerful.
• Tan Man examined the influence of his mother's image and reconsidered his plan to kill Satoru Gojo, recognizing that Gojo's survival kept attention away from him.
• Tan Man concluded that he had failed to plan for the clans' interference and the aftermath of Gojo's death, so he decided to wait until he was older and stronger.
• Tan Man woke in his courtyard residence after about twenty hours unconscious and learned that the Head of the Gojo Clan had suffocated him by controlling gases in his body.
• Naobito Zenin dismissed everyone from the room and asked Tan Man whether he had truly intended to kill Satoru Gojo.

Tan Man explained to Naobito Zenin that he had attacked Satoru Gojo out of jealousy and ambition, and Naobito warned him to keep his actions from implicating the Zenin Clan. After Naobito arranged a new training plan, Toji gave Tan Man the gift he had requested: a Glock 17 and two magazines.

• Tan Man told Naobito Zenin he had wanted to kill Satoru Gojo and earn recognition as a candidate for clan head.
• Naobito warned Tan Man that his actions could represent the Zenin Clan and told him to consider the consequences before acting.
• Naobito said Tan Man would stop attending Kukuri's training and would train with Akari all day instead.
• Naobito met Toji on his way out, and Toji assured him he had only come to give Tan Man a present.
• Toji tossed Tan Man a Glock 17 and two magazines, and Tan Man thanked him.

Toji told Tan Man that a two-hundred-million-yen bounty had been placed on him, and Tan Man considered the dangers ahead as he resumed training with the Zenin Clan. He settled on four possible ways to counter Satoru Gojo’s Limitless and recognized that he still needed to learn Reverse Cursed Technique and how to resist domains.

• Toji told Tan Man that Curse Users had listed him as a target for a two-hundred-million-yen bounty, and Tan Man accepted the threat as a chance to grow stronger.
• Tan Man went to the Zenin Clan dining hall and encountered Ogi, who asked whether he had recovered and approved of his readiness to return to Akari’s training.
• Tan Man resumed Akari’s training and continued pushing himself despite knowing that his victory over Satoru Gojo had not given him a reliable way through Limitless.
• Tan Man weighed four plans for countering Limitless: obtaining a suitable Cursed Tool, learning to use a domain, unlocking more of the Eight Hot Hells, or recruiting someone with a domain.
• Tan Man identified Reverse Cursed Technique and a way to counter domains as additional combat skills he needed to master.

Tan Man and Toji used Tan Man’s Evil Eye to win money at a horse race while keeping their betting discreet. After Tan Man sensed sorcerers watching them, Jiro Awasaka and Ogami confronted him, and he challenged them over their attempt to take his life.

• Tan Man and Toji cautiously planned to use the Evil Eye to influence horse races and hide their winnings among the crowd’s bets.
• Toji put children’s sunglasses on Tan Man to conceal his conspicuous golden eyes before they went to the race.
• Tan Man sensed sorcerers observing him and Toji, but Toji decided they would go ahead with one race.
• Tan Man subtly altered the leading horses’ sense of speed, helping their chosen horse win and earning Toji tens of millions.
• Jiro Awasaka and Ogami approached Tan Man, who recognized them and challenged them for thinking they could take his life.

Tan Man used Evil Eye to show Jiro Awasaka and Ogami his overwhelming battle with Satoru Gojo and make them experience his Cursed Techniques. After the illusion ended, he gave the two Curse Users a stark choice: surrender or die.

• Jiro Awasaka and Ogami realized Tan Man knew Ogami's identity despite her séance and decided to attack him.
• Tan Man unleashed Evil Eye, trapping Jiro Awasaka and Ogami in an illusion of his battle with Satoru Gojo.
• Jiro Awasaka and Ogami watched Tan Man overwhelm Satoru Gojo, then experienced Tan Man's Cursed Techniques themselves.
• When the one-minute illusion ended, Jiro Awasaka and Ogami returned to reality, shaken and drenched in sweat.
• Tan Man demanded that Jiro Awasaka and Ogami surrender or die.

Nine years after joining the Zenin Clan, Tan Man announced he would enroll at Tokyo Jujutsu High to investigate Satoru Gojo and advance the Zenin Clan’s standing. At the school, he thanked Masamichi Yaga for helping him as a child, while the narration revealed Tan Man would bring distortion to the world.

• Tan Man told Naobito Zenin he planned to attend Tokyo Jujutsu High and explained that he wanted to confirm how to deal with Satoru Gojo and make the Zenin Clan the foremost of the Three Great Families.
• Naobito Zenin agreed to Tan Man’s enrollment, and the elders praised him as the clan’s hope for supremacy.
• Masamichi Yaga reviewed Tan Man’s student records and recalled his rise to power within the Zenin Clan.
• Tan Man thanked Masamichi Yaga for contacting Naobito Zenin nine years earlier and offered him a bank card as repayment.
• Masamichi Yaga rejected the idea that he had helped Tan Man for personal gain, but Tan Man asked him to use the money to help others.
• The narration revealed that Tan Man, whom Yaga had once saved, would become a demon king who brought distortion to the world.

Tan Man Zenin gave Masamichi Yaga money for charity and then encountered Satoru Gojo, who recognized him from their fight nine years earlier. Gojo challenged Tan Man to a special entrance test, and they prepared to spar outside while arranging to cover any damage.

• Masamichi Yaga accepted Tan Man's bank card and promised to spend the money helping people in need.
• Satoru Gojo entered Yaga's office, recognized Tan Man Zenin, and confronted him over their past fight.
• Gojo demanded to handle Tan Man's entrance test himself, insisting Tan Man would have to beat him to enroll.
• Yaga agreed to let them spar and warned both men not to go too far.
• Tan Man and Gojo each gave Yaga a bank card to cover potential damage before trading taunts about the coming fight.

Tan Man fought Satoru Gojo at Tokyo Jujutsu High and used a cursed rope, a powerful fire technique, and Evil Eye to overcome Gojo’s defenses. The fight ended with Tan Man aiming a Glock at the fallen Gojo and challenging him to guess whether its bullets could penetrate Limitless.

• Tan Man warned Masamichi Yaga to move farther from the clearing, and Yaga complied before the fight began.
• Satoru Gojo rushed Tan Man to prevent him from chanting, but Tan Man struck him with Black Rope, disrupting Limitless.
• Tan Man chanted Eight Hot Hells: Scorching Great Hell, summoning a black sun whose explosive black raindrops scorched the clearing.
• Satoru Gojo rose into the air to escape the flames, but Tan Man activated Evil Eye’s One-Minute Illusion and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Tan Man stood over Satoru Gojo with Toji’s Glock aimed at the back of his head and asked whether its bullets could penetrate Limitless.

Suguru Geto and Shoko investigated the huge disturbance from Satoru Gojo’s battle, and Masamichi Yaga revealed that Gojo was testing a prospective student who had defeated him as a child. Geto learned the student was Tan Man Zenin and began examining his cursed technique as the battle continued.

• Shoko and Suguru Geto heard the commotion from Gojo’s battle and rushed to the classroom window to see a pitch-black sun and black flames.
• Geto flew toward the battlefield, then stopped outside the flames when he saw Masamichi Yaga and asked what was happening.
• Yaga explained that Gojo was conducting an entrance test for Tan Man Zenin, the person who had defeated and seriously injured him nine years earlier.
• Yaga told Geto that Tan Man had been two years younger than Gojo when he defeated him and would now be Geto’s junior.
• Geto asked whether Tan Man had inherited a Zenin Clan power capable of rivaling the six eyes, and Yaga showed him Tan Man’s record, which listed “Eight Hot Hells.”

Tan Man Zenin defeated Satoru Gojo during the Tokyo Jujutsu High entrance test, then asked to enroll. After Masamichi Yaga confirmed that he had passed, Tan Man said he wanted to be needed by everyone in a way only he could fulfill.

• Satoru Gojo realized Tan Man had tricked him with an illusion and stopped himself from using Red against him.
• Masamichi Yaga restrained Satoru Gojo while Tan Man introduced himself to Suguru Geto and offered to pay for the damage.
• Tan Man asked whether he had passed the entrance test, and Masamichi Yaga accepted him despite Satoru Gojo's objection.
• Masamichi Yaga asked Tan Man what he wanted to do at Jujutsu High, and Tan Man said he wanted to be needed by everyone in a way only he could fulfill.

Tan Man visited Toji and four-year-old Megumi, recalled his failure to save Megumi's Mother, and helped Megumi explore his early awareness of cursed energy. He told Toji that he planned to attend Tokyo Jujutsu High because of Satoru Gojo, leaving Toji to ask whether he intended to kill Gojo again.

• Tan Man visited Toji, who was watching the World Cup while Megumi read nearby.
• Tan Man remembered how Megumi's Mother had died despite his efforts to secure treatment, and how he had broken down while apologizing to Toji.
• Tan Man patted Megumi's head and asked whether he could sense cursed energy or had noticed changes in his shadow.
• Tan Man told Toji he planned to attend Tokyo Jujutsu High and admitted that Satoru Gojo was the reason.
• Toji asked Tan Man whether he planned to kill Gojo again.

Tan Man investigated the Time Vessel Association’s new job request for Toji and arranged to accompany him, suspecting the group had a larger plan involving Tengen and the star plasma vessel. Meanwhile, Ogami kidnapped Riko Amanai and brought her to Tan Man’s residence, where he approached her after she woke.

• Tan Man read a message from Shiu Kong about a high-paying Time Vessel Association job requesting Toji and decided to go with him.
• Tan Man told Megumi to report any strange changes in his shadow or connections to creatures directly to him.
• Ogami reported that she had kidnapped Riko Amanai without causing a stir or leaving loose ends, and Tan Man approved her work.
• Riko Amanai woke in Tan Man’s residence, called for Misato Kuroi, and heard a man say Kuroi was not there.
• Riko Amanai recoiled and demanded to know who the approaching man with gleaming Golden Eyes was.

Tan Man Zenin confronted Riko Amanai and revealed that her planned assimilation with Tengen could mean either losing herself or being sacrificed as bait. He left her facing a choice about whether she would accept the Star Plasma Vessel’s fate after learning that the decision might never have been her own.

• Tan Man Zenin introduced himself to Riko Amanai and used the Evil Eye to subject her to an illusion of hell when she refused to listen.
• Tan Man told Riko Amanai that her merger with Tengen had not happened yet and asked whether she truly wanted to be assimilated.
• Tan Man explained that assimilation could erase Riko Amanai’s identity, while Tengen’s plans could also use her as bait for enemies.
• Tan Man revealed that other Star Plasma Vessels existed and that Tengen could abandon assimilation even if Riko Amanai died protecting the ritual.
• Tan Man questioned whether Riko Amanai’s willingness to sacrifice herself was her own choice and demanded her answer as herself, not as the Star Plasma Vessel.

Tan Man hid Riko Amanai in his courtyard and asked Naobito Zenin to help conceal her, while preparing to alter the contest surrounding her. The chapter ended with Tan Man urging Naobito to trust him as his accomplice.

• Tan Man let Maki stay in his courtyard after she promised to keep Riko Amanai's presence secret.
• Jiro Awasaka reported that outsiders at Renjoku Girls' Academy had noticed Riko Amanai was missing, and Tan Man ordered him to keep watching without taking rash action.
• Tan Man told Naobito Zenin that Riko was in his courtyard and asked him to arrange a discreet servant to care for her.
• Tan Man said he had moved up and changed the contest for the Star Plasma Vessel to secure the greatest gains for himself.
• Tan Man promised to lead the Zenin Clan to unprecedented heights and asked Naobito to trust him as his accomplice.