Chapter Summaries

Naomitsu confronted Shuizhan, a Special Grade disaster cursed spirit who had returned after Sukuna killed him a thousand years earlier. After Naomitsu overwhelmed Shuizhan in a cursed-energy contest, Shuizhan expanded his domain, and the two began competing inside Naomitsu’s domain.

• Aoi Todo, Inumaki Yaki, Noritoshi Kamo, and Fujiwara Sora exorcised a cursed spirit that attacked them after they landed in Sapporo.
• Shuizhan arrived and demanded to know where Sukuna was, so Naomitsu sent the students away and faced the cursed spirit alone.
• Naomitsu tested Shuizhan with shikigami, then matched Shuizhan’s Time Resonance as the cursed spirit increased his cursed energy output.
• Naomitsu’s greater output caused Shuizhan to crack and disintegrate, but Shuizhan countered with his Earthquake Domain Expansion.
• Naomitsu expanded Three Births, All Things, replacing Shuizhan’s earthquake landscape with his own domain and challenging him to another cursed-energy contest.

After absorbing Shuizhan, Naomitsu headed toward the airport and encountered powerful ancient sorcerers and a curse user seeking Kenjaku. When ten Grade 1 cursed spirits attacked him, he used his new Open Domain to drain their cursed energy and turn them into statues.

• Naomitsu absorbed Shuizhan into Three Births, All Things, transforming his domain and leaving his cursed energy reserves low but rapidly recovering.
• Naomitsu traveled toward the airport, saw a huge explosion, and found Fujiwara, Aoi Todo, and the others hiding in the ruins before continuing alone.
• Naomitsu observed Huo Ye battling a powerful cursed spirit in a domain clash, then prepared to leave without intervening.
• Polar Day confronted Naomitsu and asked about Kenjaku; Naomitsu told her Kenjaku was in Sendai City, and she left.
• Ten Grade 1 cursed spirits surrounded Naomitsu, who opened Three Births, All Things across a five-hundred-meter area and drained them into statues.

Naomitsu returned to Kyoto with the six surviving examinees after the group survived a city overrun with cursed spirits. He reported that several other teams had been wiped out, then returned to the Zenin Clan, where he found Zhenwei fighting Megumi Fushiguro.

• Naomitsu rescued the exhausted examinees and declared that they had passed the Grade Advancement Exam.
• Naomitsu summoned a giant Nue and flew with the six examinees from Sapporo City to Kyoto Prefecture.
• Satoru Gojo, Masamichi Yaga, and Yoshinobu Gakuganji told Naomitsu that the teams sent to Shikoku and Kyushu had all been wiped out.
• Naomitsu described the many powerful cursed spirits he had encountered, while privately refusing to help Jujutsu Society exorcise them.
• Naomitsu returned to the Zenin Clan, where Zhenwei sent Megumi Fushiguro's Divine Dog flying with a kick.

After training Zhenwei for three months, Naomitsu investigated the curse users who had tried to assassinate him and hunted down several of them in Tokyo. He met Kinji Hakari at an underground casino, then left with the people behind the bounty still unidentified.

• Naomitsu finished three months of training Zhenwei, whose Heavenly Tyrant physique had transformed her, and told her to rest before the new students reported to Kyoto Prefecture.
• Yuki Tsukumo sent Naomitsu information about a curse-user dark web where he ranked second on the assassination bounty list, behind Satoru Gojo.
• Naomitsu followed the addresses to Tokyo, killed a Grade 1 curse user at a bookstore, and added the man to his domain as a statue.
• Naomitsu killed another curse user at an underground casino and encountered its owners, Kinji Hakari and Kirara Hoshi.
• Hakari recognized Naomitsu as Gojo's student and invited him to work for him, but Naomitsu declined and left to pursue the final target on his list.
• Naomitsu learned that the last target had left Tokyo and that Yuki Tsukumo could not identify who had funded the assassination contract, so he suspected Jujutsu Society's higher-ups.

Naomitsu welcomed new students to Kyoto Jujutsu High, including the mysterious Guzi Yunmeng, then trained them for six months. After his cursed energy doubled on his birthday, he began the ritual to subjugate Piercing Ox and weakened it with his domain.

• Naomitsu met Kasumi Miwa on the way to Kyoto Jujutsu High, where they waited for the other students to arrive.
• Naomitsu examined Guzi Yunmeng and was startled by her immense cursed energy, which nearly rivaled Yuta Okkotsu's Rika.
• Yuta Okkotsu arrived, and Naomitsu introduced him to the six students before arranging lessons and training for the group.
• Over the next six months, Naomitsu trained his growing group of students and waited for his birthday to double his cursed energy.
• Naomitsu's cursed energy rose to over three million before settling at 2,724,211, and he went to the mountain clearing to begin subjugating Piercing Ox.
• Naomitsu fought Piercing Ox in close combat, then expanded his domain to surround it with creatures that drained its cursed energy.

Naomitsu subdued Tiger Funeral after using the fight to improve his cursed energy attacks and land consecutive Black Flashes. The next day, he arrived late for the new students’ assessment, assigned six students to spar with upperclassmen, and left Yunmeng with himself.

• Naomitsu began Tiger Funeral’s subjugation ritual and fought the armed tiger shikigami with cursed energy blasts and hand-to-hand attacks.
• Naomitsu landed five consecutive Black Flashes, then completed Tiger Funeral’s subjugation with his domain expansion.
• Naomitsu returned to the Zenin Clan and slept late, nearly missing the new students’ assessment.
• Naomitsu rode Nue to Kyoto Jujutsu High and announced the assessment after the students had waited for hours.
• Naomitsu assigned six students to spar with upperclassmen, while Yunmeng remained with him.

Yunmeng told Naomitsu that she had swallowed one of Yamata no Great Serpent’s eight cursed-object heads, and he fought the serpent when it took over her body. After the serpent retreated, Yunmeng chose to stay at Kyoto Jujutsu High, while the first-year assessments ended with only Yuta Okkotsu passing.

• Yunmeng told Naomitsu that she had swallowed a serpent head and that the incarnated hosts were gathering the eight heads to revive Yamata no Great Serpent.
• Naomitsu invited Yamata no Great Serpent to take control of Yunmeng’s body and confronted her when she appeared.
• Yamata no Great Serpent attacked Naomitsu with water snakes and the Kusanagi Sword, but he overwhelmed her with his shikigami, Cursed Energy Cannons, and domain expansion.
• Yamata no Great Serpent retreated into Yunmeng, who decided that coming to Kyoto Jujutsu High had been the right choice.
• The first-year midyear assessment ended with only Yuta Okkotsu passing, and Zhenwei promised Naomitsu she would train for the year-end assessment.

After learning that Suguru Geto had died and his body had been taken, Naomitsu refused to leave the Zenin Clan for Tokyo Jujutsu High and privately concealed what he knew from Satoru Gojo. Kenjaku then appeared wearing Geto’s body and asked Naomitsu to look after Nanako and Mimiko.

• Naomitsu found Satoru Gojo and the two principals at the Zenin Clan estate, where Gojo reported that Suguru Geto had died and his body was taken.
• The principals offered to move Naomitsu to Tokyo Jujutsu High for protection, but he refused and threatened to leave the Zenin Clan when Ogi Zenin challenged him.
• Gojo followed Naomitsu and asked what Suguru Geto had said during their last meeting, and Naomitsu recounted their conversation while hiding his knowledge of Kenjaku.
• Naomitsu suspected Kenjaku had taken Geto’s body, then encountered Kenjaku appearing as Geto with Nanako and Mimiko.
• Kenjaku asked Naomitsu to look after Nanako and Mimiko.

Naomitsu helped Maki, Mai, Zhenwei, Nanako, Mimiko, Megumi, and Tsumiki leave the Zenin Clan and settle into a rented villa near Kyoto Jujutsu High. Their first peaceful evening ended when a huge surge of cursed energy and flames erupted from the Zenin Clan, and Naomitsu sent students to rescue the girls’ mother.

• Naomitsu told Maki, Mai, and Zhenwei about his break with Ogi Zenin and offered them the choice to leave the clan; all three chose to stay with him.
• Naomitsu rented a ten-room villa for the five girls after Utahime Iori told him the school dorms were full.
• Naomitsu met Megumi Fushiguro and Tsumiki at a supermarket, and they agreed to leave the Zenin Clan and join the others.
• Naomitsu and the girls shared a hot pot dinner at the villa, then he noticed a massive blaze and surge of cursed energy coming from the Zenin Clan.
• Naomitsu watched the battle from a safe distance as Maki worried about their mother, and he reassured her that he had asked students to bring her out.

Six months after the Zenin Clan attack, Naoya Zenin took in Yuji Itadori while Satoru Gojo continued handling the chaos spreading through Jujutsu Society. As Naoya arranged training for Yuji and Megumi Fushiguro, Sukuna appeared before him and asked to meet again.

• The Zenin Clan was nearly wiped out, and the emergence of jujutsu sorcerers from different eras plunged Jujutsu Society into chaos.
• Naoya Zenin learned that Satoru Gojo had gone to Sendai City, then welcomed Gojo and Yuji Itadori to his villa.
• Sukuna appeared on Yuji’s face and called Naoya’s cursed energy delicious before Gojo explained Yuji’s situation and left him in Naoya’s care.
• Naoya assigned Yuji to the Investigation Bureau and arranged special training for him and Megumi Fushiguro, beginning with Kasumi Miwa.
• Sukuna appeared to Naoya in a vision atop a mountain of corpses, and Naoya asked how many fingers Kenjaku had fed him.