Chapter Summaries

After dying while ranting about Jujutsu Kaisen, Araki Itsuki was transported to the series' world and awakened the power of the Death Omen Stars. He headed back toward Sugisawa Third High School as Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro arrived, then stopped a blond passerby for littering on what he declared to be his planet.

• Araki Itsuki died in his dorm room after his phone struck his face, then encountered a cosmic being that gave him a gift and sent him away.
• Araki Itsuki arrived outside Sugisawa Third High School and unsuccessfully tried to summon Chainsaw Man and JoJo abilities.
• Araki Itsuki recognized Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro and turned to leave, hoping to avoid the coming cursed spirits.
• A black-hole-like power awakened in Araki Itsuki, who identified himself as the Harbinger and decided to test his new strength.
• Araki Itsuki stopped a blond guy who tossed a cigarette butt onto the street and challenged him over his manners.

Araki Itsuki stopped Sasaki and Iguchi from unsealing Ryomen Sukuna’s finger, then unleashed his power to devour and slaughter the curses it attracted. Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro arrived to find Araki drenched in blood, and Fushiguro recognized him as a monster.

• Araki Itsuki slapped a blond student who littered outside the high school and made him pick up the cigarette butt.
• Yuji Itadori’s grandfather died after urging him to save others, and Megumi Fushiguro came to retrieve the cursed object Yuji had given to his upperclassmen.
• Araki Itsuki interrupted Sasaki and Iguchi as they tried to unwrap Ryomen Sukuna’s finger, then removed its talismans himself.
• Curses poured into the classroom, and Araki Itsuki killed them while absorbing their cursed energy and negative emotions.
• Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro arrived to find Araki tearing apart a massive curse, and Fushiguro called him a monster.

Araki Itsuki manipulated events until Yuji Itadori swallowed Ryomen Sukuna’s finger, and Sukuna took control of Yuji’s body. As Sukuna prepared to slaughter the people nearby, Araki stood in his way.

• Araki Itsuki handed Ryomen Sukuna’s pickled finger to Yuji Itadori while Megumi Fushiguro tried to retrieve it.
• A giant cursed spirit attacked, and Fushiguro was badly injured after protecting Yuji, Sasaki, and Araki.
• Araki urged Yuji to eat the finger, and Yuji swallowed it to gain cursed energy and save Fushiguro and the others.
• Yuji’s body manifested cursed techniques and destroyed the giant cursed spirit, but Ryomen Sukuna took control of him.
• Sukuna threatened to slaughter the people nearby, and Araki Itsuki confronted him at the edge of the building.

Araki Itsuki fought Ryomen Sukuna to test his strength, shrugging off a devastating slash before summoning the blood-red scythe Rhaast. Rhaast took control of Araki Itsuki’s body and began relentlessly attacking Sukuna while destroying the surrounding buildings.

• Yuji Itadori briefly fought Sukuna for control of his body, then handed control to Sukuna after warning Araki Itsuki to be careful.
• Sukuna attacked Araki Itsuki, but Araki endured his blows and struck back hard enough to send him crashing through buildings.
• Araki Itsuki let Sukuna’s Dismantle slash open his chest, then examined the wound while Fushiguro prepared to intervene.
• Araki Itsuki summoned Rhaast, whose aura terrified Fushiguro and caused Sasaki and Iguchi to faint.
• Rhaast took control of Araki Itsuki’s body and slashed at Sukuna, reducing a nearby building to rubble.

Satoru Gojo arrived as Araki Itsuki fought Ryomen Sukuna, then watched Itsuki survive Sukuna’s Domain Expansion by entering his body through Rhaast’s power. After Itadori regained control, Itsuki asked to join Jujutsu High, revealing that he wanted to find Sukuna’s fingers for the intense cursed emotions they gave him; Gojo agreed to take him in.

• Gojo arrived on campus, learned that Itadori had eaten Sukuna’s finger, and agreed to find a way to save both Itadori and Itsuki from execution.
• Itsuki launched a final attack on Sukuna, who responded by opening his Domain Expansion, Malevolent Shrine.
• Itsuki used Rhaast’s Rift Shadow to evade the domain’s slashes and injure Sukuna from within his body.
• Itsuki told Itadori to switch back, and Gojo observed that Itadori could control Sukuna and freely regain control of his body.
• Itsuki asked to join Jujutsu High and explained that he wanted to help Itadori find Sukuna’s remaining fingers so he could savor their powerful cursed emotions.
• Gojo agreed to let Itsuki join Jujutsu High.

Satoru Gojo explained Yuji Itadori’s suspended execution and convinced him to eat all of Ryomen Sukuna’s fingers before dying. The group reached Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu Technical High School, where Masamichi Yaga interviewed Araki Itsuki and accepted him.

• Satoru Gojo explained that Yuji Itadori could postpone his execution by consuming all twenty of Ryomen Sukuna’s fingers, and Itadori agreed to do so to save others from curses.
• Araki Itsuki gave Itadori a jar of seasonings, and Itadori marinated and swallowed another of Ryomen Sukuna’s fingers while Sukuna threatened Araki.
• Satoru Gojo brought Araki Itsuki and Yuji Itadori to Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu Technical High School for their interviews.
• Araki Itsuki criticized the school’s senior officials and told Yuji Itadori that they had ordered his execution.
• Masamichi Yaga asked Araki Itsuki about his goals, and after hearing his blunt answers, passed him.

Yuji Itadori passed Masamichi Yaga’s entrance test and joined Jujutsu High, while Araki Itsuki and Satoru Gojo discussed their powers. As they settled into the dorms, Araki claimed Sukuna would help locate his missing fingers, provoking Sukuna into speaking through Yuji.

• Masamichi Yaga attacked Yuji Itadori with a cursed corpse and passed him after Yuji declared he would live without regrets.
• Araki Itsuki tested Satoru Gojo’s Limitless and described his own power as drawing on the negative emotions of the planet and universe.
• Satoru Gojo took Yuji Itadori and Araki Itsuki to the dorms, where Yuji chose a room near Megumi Fushiguro.
• Yuji refused to sit out the search for Sukuna’s fingers, and Araki explained that Sukuna could help him find them.
• Araki mocked Sukuna by praising Satoru Gojo and himself, prompting Sukuna to appear on Yuji’s face and threaten them.

Araki Itsuki joined Yuji Itadori and Nobara Kugisaki for their first-year curse-exorcism trial, where he used the Death Omen Star’s power to imitate cursed energy. After he effortlessly killed a curse holding a child hostage, Satoru Gojo recognized that Araki’s simulated cursed energy had reached Special Grade level.

• Araki Itsuki explained to Yuji Itadori that he had learned to imitate cursed energy’s fluctuations with Satoru Gojo’s help.
• Nobara Kugisaki arrived, introduced herself to Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, and Araki Itsuki, and the group followed Gojo to an abandoned building for a trial.
• Gojo sent Yuji and Nobara inside to exorcise curses, while Araki chose to observe without interfering.
• A curse took a child hostage, and Nobara lowered her weapon when she could not safely attack it.
• Araki unleashed a vast imitation of cursed energy that immobilized Nobara, then devoured the curse with the Death Omen Star’s power.
• Outside, Gojo and Megumi Fushiguro felt Araki’s terrifying surge, and Gojo remarked that its scale was already Special Grade level.

Araki Itsuki led Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki into the sealed juvenile detention center to rescue survivors and confront a newly born special grade cursed spirit. After Nobara vanished and the finger cursed spirit appeared, Araki struck it and charged forward, leaving Yuji and Megumi to face its oppressive presence.

• Kiyotaka Ijichi explained that a cursed womb had appeared inside the detention center, where five inmates remained trapped, and warned the students that it could become a special grade cursed spirit.
• Araki Itsuki assigned Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro to confront the special grade while Nobara Kugisaki cleared ordinary cursed spirits, then explained Megumi's Ten Shadows Technique and urged him to grow stronger.
• Inside the cursed spirit's domain, Araki destroyed several lesser cursed spirits with purple-black flames, while Yuji and Megumi argued over whether the inmates deserved to be rescued.
• Araki noticed Nobara had disappeared, and the group found one of Megumi's Divine Dogs dead before a finger cursed spirit appeared and immobilized Yuji and Megumi with its cursed energy.
• Araki punched the finger cursed spirit, summoned his monstrous scythe, and charged at it, telling Yuji and Megumi to get used to the pressure of a special grade.

Araki Itsuki brutally overpowered the finger cursed spirit, then made Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro fight it themselves. The battle continued as Araki urged them to embrace the danger and kill the cursed spirit.

• Araki Itsuki severed the finger cursed spirit’s limbs and endured its cursed energy barrage without injury.
• Araki kicked the crippled cursed spirit toward Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro, telling Fushiguro to demonstrate the Ten Shadows Technique.
• Fushiguro summoned Totality and Nue, then worked with Totality to attack the finger cursed spirit.
• Yuji Itadori rushed in and slashed at the cursed spirit’s crotch, provoking it to blast the fighters away and target him.
• Nue rescued Yuji from the cursed spirit’s projectiles and carried him back to Fushiguro.
• Araki urged Fushiguro and Yuji to enjoy the battle and kill the finger cursed spirit.

Megumi Fushiguro, Nue, Great Serpent, and Totality fought the Finger Cursed Spirit until Araki Itsuki finished it off. After revealing that Ryomen Sukuna's finger had empowered the spirit, the group realized they had forgotten Kugisaki as they left.

• Megumi Fushiguro coordinated his shikigami and close-range attacks to overwhelm the Finger Cursed Spirit, but ran low on cursed energy.
• Araki Itsuki grabbed the Finger Cursed Spirit as it tried to flee and crushed its head, exorcising it.
• Araki Itsuki showed Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro Ryomen Sukuna's finger and explained that it had turned the spirit into a special grade.
• Araki Itsuki warned them about the difference between the Finger Cursed Spirit and Ryomen Sukuna, then led the group toward the exit.
• Araki Itsuki stopped when he realized they had left Kugisaki behind, and Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro remembered her too.

After the mission, Araki Itsuki told Megumi Fushiguro that his father was dead and that his sister might be saved, giving Megumi and Yuji Itadori a reason to train harder. At Jujutsu High, Satoru Gojo condemned the higher-ups and explained his plan to reform Jujutsu Society through education, while Ryomen Sukuna approached Yuji in a dream and offered him power.

• In the car, Megumi Fushiguro explained why he had saved Yuji Itadori, and Araki Itsuki offered to answer two of his questions.
• Araki Itsuki told Megumi that his father, the Sorcerer Killer, had died and that Megumi's sister might recover if they found the person who cursed her; Megumi and Yuji vowed to help save her.
• At Jujutsu High, Satoru Gojo suspected the higher-ups had sent the first-years on a deadly mission to kill them, while Araki Itsuki admitted he had given Sukuna's finger to Yuji.
• Yuji and Megumi asked Satoru Gojo for special training, and Gojo said he planned to reform Jujutsu Society by educating strong allies to replace the higher-ups.
• That night, Ryomen Sukuna appeared to Yuji in a dream and asked whether he wanted power.

Araki Itsuki overheard Suguru Geto and Jogo discussing their plans, then challenged Jogo outside and revealed his overwhelming strength and ability to absorb flames. Hanami rescued Jogo from Itsuki's attack, but Itsuki broke free and turned on Hanami.

• Suguru Geto told Jogo that their plan required disabling Satoru Gojo, recruiting Ryomen Sukuna, and accounting for Araki Itsuki and Yuta Okkotsu.
• Araki Itsuki surprised Jogo in the café by plugging the volcano on his head with a glass of ice water and teasing him.
• Araki Itsuki revealed a terrifying aura outside and knocked Jogo into a mountainside with his giant scythe, Rhaast.
• Jogo engulfed Araki Itsuki in a pillar of flame, but Itsuki absorbed the fire and emerged unharmed.
• Araki Itsuki charged Jogo again, but Hanami pulled Jogo away with roots and bound Itsuki.
• Araki Itsuki tore through Hanami's roots, cut apart the attacking root spears, and challenged Hanami.

Araki Itsuki endured Jogo and Hanami’s combined attacks, then revealed his Iceborn power as the battle escalated. He emerged from the frozen wreckage with Death Omen Star Lissandra appearing over him.

• Araki Itsuki mocked Jogo’s flames, survived his attacks unharmed, and severed one of his arms with Rhaast.
• Araki Itsuki fed Jogo’s severed arm to Rhaast, while Jogo regenerated and Hanami joined the fight.
• Hanami attacked Araki Itsuki with roots and trees as Jogo unleashed a sea of fire, engulfing the battlefield for two minutes.
• Jogo declared Araki Itsuki dead, but a wave of lethal cold extinguished the flames and froze the shattered trees.
• Araki Itsuki stepped from the frozen wreckage, and Death Omen Star Lissandra appeared over him.

Araki Itsuki attacked Jogo, Hanami, and Suguru Geto with a massive icicle and hailstorm before summoning Rhaast from his scythe. Rhaast rampaged through Suguru Geto’s cursed spirits, severed Hanami’s arm, and turned toward Dagon as Jogo confronted Araki Itsuki.

• Araki Itsuki hurled a colossal icicle at Jogo, Hanami, and Suguru Geto, who combined their attacks to shatter it before Araki sent hailstones raining down.
• Araki Itsuki summoned Rhaast from his scythe and told him not to let the cursed spirits interrupt him.
• Rhaast charged Suguru Geto’s summoned cursed spirits and brutally tore through them before attacking Hanami.
• Hanami restrained Rhaast with trees and struck at his head, but Rhaast dodged, bit off Hanami’s arm, and broke free.
• Rhaast pointed his scythe at the terrified Dagon, but Araki Itsuki blocked Jogo’s attempt to intervene with a wall of ice.
• Jogo accused Araki Itsuki of threatening his family, and Araki mocked him as a beaten dog.

Araki Itsuki brutally defeated Jogo while taunting Suguru Geto, then declared that he wanted Geto to carry out his thousand-year plan and turn the world into a sea of fire. He left the cursed spirits bewildered, with Suguru Geto wondering whether Araki Itsuki knew his true intentions.

• Suguru Geto deduced that Araki Itsuki could devour attacks and urged Jogo to return, but Jogo ignored him and tried to expand his domain.
• Araki Itsuki struck Jogo before he could finish, then battered him through the air with repeated blows while asking him subtraction questions to keep him conscious.
• Hanami tried to intervene, but Suguru Geto stopped them; Jogo crashed near the group, barely conscious, and realized why Araki Itsuki had asked the questions.
• Araki Itsuki told the cursed spirits he wanted their plan to become crazier and bloodier, and said they could ask him for help.
• Araki Itsuki urged Suguru Geto to set the world ablaze, called himself the Lord of the Death Star, and left with Rhaast.
• Suguru Geto was left wondering whether Araki Itsuki knew about his thousand-year plan and questioning who the real villain was.

Araki Itsuki ordered Rhaast to restrain his urge to massacre humans while he continued his plans. Meanwhile, Mahito and the other cursed spirits discussed their encounter with Itsuki and agreed to proceed with Suguru Geto’s plan to seal Satoru Gojo in Shibuya on October 31.

• Rhaast demanded permission to slaughter humans, but Araki Itsuki used his authority as Lord of the Death Star to make him yield and then allowed him to hunt cursed spirits without causing too much trouble.
• Suguru Geto returned to the cursed spirits’ seaside domain with the frightened Dagon and told Mahito about Araki Itsuki’s strange power and their violent encounter.
• Jogo, enraged by his injuries, asked how many of Ryomen Sukuna’s fingers he was worth and declared that he would kill Satoru Gojo.
• Mahito approved Jogo’s challenge while stating that the group would seal Satoru Gojo if Jogo failed, and Suguru Geto set the sealing plan for Shibuya on October 31.
• Mahito sent Hanami with Jogo, who sulked while recovering and remained determined to defeat Satoru Gojo.

Araki Itsuki left Satoru Gojo to face Jogo alone, and Gojo effortlessly survived Jogo’s attacks before bringing Yuji Itadori in to observe. Jogo expanded his domain, prompting Gojo to explain domain techniques and prepare to counter with Unlimited Void.

• Araki Itsuki refused to join Satoru Gojo against the approaching cursed spirit and left with Ijichi, while Gojo stayed behind to fight Jogo.
• Jogo bombarded Satoru Gojo with flames and explosions, but Gojo emerged unharmed and beat him while explaining Infinity.
• Satoru Gojo brought Yuji Itadori to watch the fight, and Jogo recognized him as Ryomen Sukuna’s vessel.
• Jogo expanded Coffin of the Iron Mountain, and Satoru Gojo explained domain expansions to Yuji while fending off Jogo’s attacks.
• Jogo gathered his cursed energy for a final attack, and Satoru Gojo removed his blindfold and expanded Unlimited Void.

Satoru Gojo defeated Jogo with Unlimited Void, but Hanami rescued Jogo and escaped. Elsewhere, Araki Itsuki confronted Yoshinobu Gakuganji over his blocked special grade application, and their argument escalated toward a fight.

• Satoru Gojo trapped Jogo in Unlimited Void, tore off his head, and demanded to know who had sent him.
• Hanami distracted Satoru Gojo with flowers, seized Jogo's head, and fled after Satoru Gojo saved Yuji Itadori from Hanami's roots.
• Satoru Gojo told Yuji Itadori that the gathering of powerful cursed spirits made things interesting and urged him to grow stronger.
• Araki Itsuki confronted Yoshinobu Gakuganji, accusing him of blocking his special grade application and insulting the conservative leadership.
• Miwa tried to intervene, but Araki Itsuki refused to report to the appropriate office and taunted Yoshinobu Gakuganji about his Grade 1 rank.
• Yoshinobu Gakuganji rose and released cursed energy, but Araki Itsuki stood up and challenged him.

Araki Itsuki received his special grade student ID and learned that Yuji Itadori was considering a deal with Ryomen Sukuna to gain power. Before Araki and Yuji could discuss it further, Aoi Todo beat Megumi Fushiguro during the Goodwill Event and asked who Tokyo’s strongest fighter was.

• Miwa gave Araki Itsuki his special grade student ID, and he left Yoshinobu Gakuganji’s room after taunting him.
• Satoru Gojo told Yoshinobu Gakuganji that a new era was coming and reported his encounter with a special grade cursed spirit.
• Yuji Itadori told Araki Itsuki that Ryomen Sukuna had offered him a deal, and Araki urged him to consider accepting it for power and knowledge.
• Aoi Todo asked Megumi Fushiguro what kind of woman he liked, then beat him after rejecting his answer as boring.
• Todo asked Nobara Kugisaki who the strongest fighter at Tokyo school was, and she named Araki Itsuki.