Chapter Summaries

Araki Itsuki gave people across the world the choice to withdraw from the coming war, then watched those who stayed begin their new lives as sorcerers and curse users. At the Zenin estate, Naobito announced that Megumi should become clan head, but Ogi’s hostility toward the guests ended when Araki entered and crushed him with his presence.

• Araki Itsuki offered everyone the choice to withdraw, and people across the world either fled to safety or chose to remain and fight.
• Choso attacked Kenjaku, Yuji joined in, and Satoru stopped the others from pursuing him; Kenjaku escaped while Yuki said she would meet Tengen.
• The group split up, with Yuji and Choso hunting curses, Satoru testing his ideas, and Araki accompanying Maki, Megumi, and Kugisaki to the Zenin estate.
• Naobito announced that he intended to make Megumi the Zenin Clan Head, while Naoya, Ogi, and Jinichi argued and traded insults.
• Ogi confronted Maki and Kugisaki, but Araki entered the meeting room and overwhelmed Ogi with his pressure before taking the seat of honor.

Araki Itsuki forced the Zenin Clan to accept Megumi Fushiguro as its new head, while Maki went to the Cursed Storage and confronted her father, Ogi Zenin. Ogi mortally wounded Maki and Mai, and Mai revealed the curse binding identical twins before asking Maki to destroy everything.

• Araki Itsuki humiliated Ogi Zenin, and Naobito Zenin forced Ogi to apologize before announcing Megumi Fushiguro as the Zenin Clan's next head and transferring the clan's assets to him.
• Megumi Fushiguro accepted the position after Maki explained its benefits, and Naobito handed him the Cursed Storage key.
• At the banquet, Araki Itsuki told Naoya Zenin that he lacked the innate talent to match Toji Fushiguro and Satoru Gojo, then defended Maki against Naoya's insults.
• Maki went to the Cursed Storage, where Ogi revealed he had moved the cursed tools and was holding Mai captive; he attacked the sisters and left them among cursed spirits.
• As Mai lay dying, she explained that identical twins were treated as one person in jujutsu and that her reluctance to grow had limited Maki's strength.
• Mai gave Maki the Cursed Energy and everything else, then asked her to destroy everything.

Maki awakened her full Heavenly Restriction after Mai sacrificed herself, then began slaughtering the Zenin Clan to avenge her sister and gain enough strength to bring her back. She defeated the clan’s forces and Naoya, left Mai in Araki Itsuki’s care, and continued her hunt while Naoya lay beaten and humiliated.

• Mai removed all cursed energy from Maki and died, awakening Maki’s full Heavenly Restriction; Maki killed Ogi Zenin and vowed to bring Mai back.
• Araki Itsuki preserved Mai’s body in an ice coffin and encouraged Maki to slaughter the Zenin Clan, while Naobito Zenin promised to care for Mai.
• Maki slaughtered the Kukuru Unit and defeated Chojuro, Shinro, Ranta, and Jinichi as the Zenin Clan’s Hei forces tried to stop her.
• Naoya Zenin used Projection Sorcery to attack Maki, but she deduced his movement pattern, seized him, and beat him into the ground.
• Maki spared Naoya and left to hunt down Hei members still away on missions; Araki Itsuki departed with Kugisaki and Fushiguro as Naoya clung to life.

After Maki destroyed the Zenin Clan, Naoya chose to enter the Culling Game to grow stronger and seek revenge. Araki Itsuki gathered the others to investigate the game and Kenjaku, and Yuta Okkotsu vowed to earn a hundred points to bring Rika back.

• Shoko Ieiri healed Naoya Zenin, who decided to enter the Culling Game after learning it offered powerful opponents and a way to gain strength.
• Jujutsu Headquarters issued a notice reinstating Suguru Geto's death sentence, clearing Yuji Itadori, and praising Araki Itsuki.
• Araki Itsuki explained the Culling Game to Yuji Itadori's group and revealed that Kenjaku had possessed Kaori Itadori's body, making her Yuji's mother and Choso's father.
• Yuji Itadori suggested they visit Tengen for information, and Araki Itsuki agreed to go with the group to Jujutsu High.
• Masamichi Yaga thanked Araki Itsuki for saving him, and Yuta Okkotsu asked whether he could bring the dead back to life.
• Yuta Okkotsu promised to earn a hundred points so he could create a world with Rika in it.

Araki Itsuki and the others met Tengen, learned why Kenjaku planned to assimilate humanity with her, and chose guards to protect her. Araki, Yuta, and Maki entered the Culling Game, where Araki warned that he would kill every opponent before they could.

• Choso led the group to the sealed storeroom holding his younger brothers' remains, then took them down to Tengen's underground palace.
• Tengen appeared and explained that Kenjaku planned to assimilate humanity with her, which could cause people who lost control to spread and throw the world into chaos.
• Tengen revealed that her evolution made her vulnerable to Kenjaku's Cursed Spirit Manipulation and described how Toji Fushiguro had broken the cycle of causality.
• Yuki Tsukumo and Choso agreed to stay behind and guard Tengen, while Araki Itsuki assigned Eso and the others to protect the brothers' remains.
• Araki asked Masamichi Yaga and Panda to accompany Yuji Itadori and Fushiguro as they went to find Hakari.
• Araki, Yuta Okkotsu, and Maki entered the Culling Game, and Araki told them he would kill all the sorcerers and cursed spirits first if they were too slow.

Araki Itsuki defeated Hanyu and Haba, then brought Kanai to Higuruma’s theater. He met Higuruma by paying him a consultation fee and defending lawyers’ right to charge for their work, leaving Higuruma moved by Araki’s words.

• Hanyu and Haba attacked Araki Itsuki, but he overpowered them with ease.
• Araki Itsuki found Kanai and asked him to guide him to Higuruma.
• Kanai apologized for his past complicity in bullying Yuji Itadori, and Araki Itsuki invited him to come along.
• At Higuruma’s theater, Araki Itsuki surprised him by bathing in a pool of blood before offering to talk.
• Higuruma joked about charging a consultation fee, and Araki Itsuki gave him a briefcase of money while rebuking him for belittling lawyers’ work.

Araki Itsuki challenged Hiromi Higuruma to use his Domain Expansion, Deadly Sentencing, and rejected the court’s authority by confessing to his crimes while declaring himself beyond the law. Judgeman confiscated his cursed energy and gave Higuruma the Executioner’s Sword, but Araki easily overpowered him and demanded that he keep fighting.

• Araki Itsuki told Hiromi Higuruma that he was interested in his cursed technique rather than his points, and Higuruma explained his hopes for the power of jujutsu.
• Hiromi Higuruma activated Deadly Sentencing, where Judgeman accused Araki Itsuki of damaging school property and killing members of the Jujutsu Higher-Ups.
• Araki Itsuki admitted to the accusations but declared that the law could not judge a sovereign, prompting Judgeman to find him guilty and confiscate his cursed energy.
• Hiromi Higuruma received the Executioner’s Sword and attacked Araki Itsuki, but Araki caught his wrist and kicked him through a row of chairs.
• Araki Itsuki taunted Hiromi Higuruma and challenged him to prove that the force upholding the law could match a sovereign’s authority.

Araki Itsuki defeated Hiromi Higuruma and tried to persuade him to keep living and grow stronger. Higuruma agreed to learn Reverse Cursed Technique, but Itsuki offered him only its basic definition, leaving Higuruma furious and disappointed.

• Araki Itsuki overpowered Hiromi Higuruma despite Higuruma's Confiscation ability and stopped his Executioner's Sword with his bare hand.
• Hiromi Higuruma raged about humanity's weakness and ugliness, then charged Itsuki in despair, but Itsuki knocked him down and urged him to grow stronger.
• Araki Itsuki told Higuruma about Mahito as an example of someone who endured suffering with a smile, then offered to introduce him to kinder people.
• Hiromi Higuruma chose to believe Itsuki's claim that his injuries would help him master Reverse Cursed Technique and agreed to begin training.
• Araki Itsuki explained only that Reverse Cursed Technique multiplied cursed energy, leaving Higuruma furious when he asked how to perform it.

Araki Itsuki helped Hiromi Higuruma master Reverse Cursed Technique before they watched Fushiguro confront Reiji’s group. Remi betrayed Fushiguro during the fight, and Hiromi joined the battle in fury.

• Araki Itsuki explained Reverse Cursed Technique to Hiromi Higuruma, who mastered it after experiencing its healing energy.
• Fushiguro followed Remi to Reiji, who offered him information about the Culling Game and Kenjaku in exchange for joining his group.
• Fushiguro refused Reiji’s offer and attacked him after learning that Reiji’s group had killed other players for points.
• Reiji’s allies Hazenoki and Remi attacked Fushiguro with explosive body parts and her scorpion-like hair, but Fushiguro shielded Remi from a blast.
• Remi stabbed Fushiguro in the waist, and Hiromi Higuruma leaped into the fight after Araki Itsuki condemned her betrayal.

Araki Itsuki and Fushiguro confronted Reiji, Huanglu, and Zhen Qianjun, and swiftly turned the fight against them. After Higuruma’s Domain Expansion confiscated Reiji’s receipts instead of his Cursed Technique, Itsuki explained the technique’s apparent priority order and dismissed Reiji’s dying curse.

• Araki Itsuki arrived to help Fushiguro and rejected Reiji’s offer to end the fight peacefully, declaring they had come to eliminate ancient Jujutsu Sorcerers.
• Fushiguro killed Zhen Qianjun with a rapid combination of Cursed Technique shikigami and his Cursed Sword.
• Araki Itsuki blocked Huanglu’s explosive teeth and Reiji’s weapons, then crushed Reiji through the explosions and a materialized building.
• Itsuki asked Hiromi Higuruma to use Deadly Sentencing on Reiji, and the domain confiscated Reiji’s receipts while leaving his Cursed Technique and Cursed Energy intact.
• Itsuki suggested that Confiscation prioritized instruments of the crime over Cursed Techniques and Cursed Energy, then dismissed Reiji’s dying curse.

Yuta Okkotsu arrived in Sendai Colony, protected ordinary people from Kurourushi, and fought the cursed spirit while Takako Uro and Ryu Ishigori watched. After killing Kurourushi with Reverse Cursed Technique, Yuta joined Araki Itsuki and prepared to face the other powerful players so he could reunite with Rika.

• Yuta Okkotsu defeated Dhruv, sheltered ordinary people, and summoned Rika to crush Kurourushi’s cockroach swarm attacking them.
• Kurourushi awakened and attacked Yuta, who severed its arm and struck it back but held off from revealing Rika’s full power.
• Kurourushi trapped Yuta with swarms of cockroaches and wounded him with the Festering Life Sword, causing cockroaches to erupt from his body.
• Takako Uro and Ryu Ishigori watched as Kurourushi grabbed the seemingly defeated Yuta, while Araki Itsuki arrived and challenged their assumption that Yuta would die.
• Yuta bit Kurourushi and destroyed it by injecting positive energy from Reverse Cursed Technique, then joined Araki and prepared to fight Takako Uro and Ryu Ishigori.

Inside the Sendai Colony, Yuta Okkotsu fought Takako Uro while Araki Itsuki challenged Ryu Ishigori to a battle of cursed energy attacks. Araki Itsuki survived Ryu Ishigori’s ultimate shockwave unharmed, and Ryu Ishigori died satisfied after Araki Itsuki helped him light one last cigarette.

• Takako Uro revealed that her technique let her grab the surface of the sky, then attacked Yuta Okkotsu after he angered her by questioning her reasons for fighting.
• Araki Itsuki invited Ryu Ishigori to test their attacks, blocked his cursed energy cannon, and countered with purple-black beams that devastated the surrounding streets.
• Ryu Ishigori rushed Araki Itsuki and landed a punch, but Araki Itsuki blocked it and hurled him through street railings.
• Ryu Ishigori unleashed increasingly powerful Slush Shockwaves, but Araki Itsuki’s darkness dispersed them and consumed Ryu Ishigori’s right arm.
• Ryu Ishigori spent his remaining cursed energy on one final shockwave that devastated the block, but Araki Itsuki walked out uninjured.
• As Ryu Ishigori lay dying, Araki Itsuki lit his last cigarette and told him, “Sorry. I'm a cheater.”

Yuta Okkotsu defeated Takako Uro and asked Araki Itsuki to resurrect Rika Orimoto, who returned to life in her human form. In the Sakurajima Colony, Naoya Zenin reached the requirements for his wish and received mastery of his domain.

• Yuta Okkotsu fully manifested Rika and used copied techniques to defeat Takako Uro, while Rika broke the domain barrier and tore off Takako's left arm.
• After the fight, Yuta Okkotsu asked Araki Itsuki to bring Rika Orimoto back to life.
• Araki Itsuki used Mordekaiser's power to resurrect Rika Orimoto, and she reunited with Yuta Okkotsu.
• Naoya Zenin reached the point threshold in the Sakurajima Colony and asked Araki Itsuki to grant him the ultimate expression of his cursed technique.
• Naoya Zenin received mastery of his domain and laughed as he declared he could kill Maki whenever he wanted.

Maki met Noritoshi Kamo in Sakurajima Colony, where he told her that Araki was a monster before returning to the Kamo Clan estate. There, Kenjaku discovered that the clan’s people had been replaced by beings with brains identical to his own, who demanded to know how he had recognized them.

• Maki reunited with Noritoshi Kamo and learned that he had been driven out of the Kamo Clan, while he warned her that Araki was a monster.
• Noritoshi Kamo returned to the Kamo Clan estate and found that Shino did not recognize him, believing Kenjaku was the clan head.
• Kenjaku told Noritoshi Kamo that he had taken over the Kamo Clan and let him leave, dismissing him as no threat.
• After Shino spoke out of character, Kenjaku suspected that he was an impostor and strangled him despite the gathered servants and guards.
• Kenjaku destroyed the room with antigravity, and the gathered people revealed brains like his own, demanding to know how he had figured them out.

Araki Itsuki’s mind games drove Kenjaku to nearly accept a false identity at the Kamo Clan, but his instincts helped him resist and escape. Later, Maki frightened Noritoshi Kamo by pretending to undo the stitches on her forehead.

• Kenjaku mistook the people around him for impostors, while they insisted he was meant to impersonate Kenjaku and take Shino’s place.
• The duplicates transformed Shino into Suguru Geto and pressured Kenjaku to become the servant, but Kenjaku stopped himself before they could switch roles.
• The young maid summoned cursed spirits with Cursed Spirit Manipulation, and Kenjaku fought back with Itadori's Mom's cursed technique before flooding the area with cursed spirits to escape.
• Noritoshi Kamo fled without finding out whether Kenjaku had died, then told Maki what he had witnessed.
• Maki pretended to undo the stitches on her forehead, terrifying Noritoshi Kamo.

Naoya Zenin attacked Maki and Noritoshi Kamo with his newly mastered Projection Sorcery and Domain Expansion, but Maki awakened after sparring in a sumo barrier and defeated him. She ended the chapter with enough points to bring Mai back to life.

• Naoya Zenin confronted Maki and Noritoshi Kamo, boasting that his Domain Expansion had made him powerful enough to rival Satoru Gojo and Toji.
• Naoya Zenin overwhelmed Maki, while Noritoshi Kamo urged her to spend her points to get stronger; Maki refused because she was saving them to resurrect Mai.
• Daido arrived and held Naoya Zenin back while Maki entered the sumo wrestler's barrier, where more than a thousand bouts helped her awaken.
• Maki gained the ability to perceive and use the surfaces around her, then outmaneuvered Naoya Zenin when he opened his domain because it could not recognize her without cursed energy.
• Maki stabbed Naoya Zenin, whose domain collapsed, and thanked him for giving her the final points she needed to bring Mai back to life.

In Tokyo No. 2 Colony, Hajime Kashimo attacked Panda while searching for Ryomen Sukuna, but Araki Itsuki intervened and brought Yuji Itadori and Todo into the fight. Yuji and Todo faced Kashimo as Araki identified Yuji as the Tiger of West Junior High and warned Kashimo to prepare to die.

• Hajime Kashimo discovered that Panda was a Culling Game player, punched through his waist, and demanded to know where Sukuna was.
• Panda refused to reveal Itadori’s whereabouts, so Kashimo charged up a lethal lightning strike against him.
• Araki Itsuki hit Kashimo with a purple-black shock wave, saved Panda, and healed his wounds.
• Kashimo emerged from the wreckage, mistook Araki for Ryu Ishigori, and challenged him to fight.
• Araki dismissed Kashimo as a weakling and used Boogie Woogie to bring Yuji Itadori into the fight, where Yuji struck Kashimo and Todo joined them.
• Araki introduced Yuji as the Tiger of West Junior High and told Kashimo to prepare to die.

Yuji Itadori fought Hajime Kashimo and showed how much his physical strength and combat skills had grown, but Kashimo’s sure-hit lightning attack left him badly injured. Kinji Hakari arrived to confront Kashimo as Yuji neared defeat.

• Yuji Itadori blocked Hajime Kashimo’s punch, hurled a shipping container at him, and traded close-range blows with him.
• Yuji Itadori used modern fighting techniques to overpower Kashimo physically, while Panda warned him about Kashimo’s electrically charged attacks.
• Hajime Kashimo discharged a lethal lightning strike that badly injured Yuji Itadori, but Yuji used a spinning kick to create distance.
• Hajime Kashimo moved to finish Yuji Itadori, but Kinji Hakari arrived and demanded to know what Kashimo had done to his juniors.

Yuji Itadori agreed to try learning Reverse Cursed Technique at Araki Itsuki’s urging while Hakari fought Hajime Kashimo. Hakari struck another jackpot and regained his temporary immortality, and Kashimo vowed to destroy him before the four minutes and eleven seconds ended.

• Araki Itsuki stopped Ryomen Sukuna from healing Yuji Itadori and told Yuji to learn Reverse Cursed Technique himself.
• Yuji Itadori accepted Araki Itsuki’s challenge, while Todo worried he would fall behind.
• Hakari fought Hajime Kashimo, whose electrical attack tore off Hakari’s arm before Hakari regenerated it through automatic Reverse Cursed Technique.
• As Hakari’s first jackpot ended, he expanded his domain and hit another jackpot, restoring his unlimited cursed energy and temporary immortality.
• Hajime Kashimo rejected the idea of simply waiting out Hakari’s jackpot and declared he would tear Hakari apart within four minutes and eleven seconds.

Kinji Hakari fought Hajime Kashimo through a brutal exchange, survived a lethal lightning strike, and hit another jackpot just as Kashimo believed he had won. Hakari healed completely and prepared to continue the battle.

• Kinji Hakari and Hajime Kashimo traded devastating blows, and Kashimo struck Hakari with lightning as his jackpot neared its end.
• Kashimo used a charge stored in his fallen staff to pierce Hakari's abdomen and end his unlimited cursed energy.
• Todo, Panda, and Yuji Itadori prepared to intervene, but Araki Itsuki told them to wait.
• Despite his fatal injuries, Hakari expanded his domain again and hit the jackpot against one-in-239 odds.
• Hakari's unlimited cursed energy returned, healing his body completely, and he taunted Kashimo about his luck.