Recaps

Rihito joined Jujutsu High after failing to save Junpei, then passed his entrance assessment and began training with his new classmates. On a mission at an abandoned steel factory, he confronted a transformed former classmate and opened his Domain Expansion as Nanami arrived.

• Rihito accepted Mahito’s experiment, awakened Withering, and tried to protect Junpei, but Mahito transfigured Junpei and Rihito had to end his suffering.
• Rihito fought Mahito with his Domain Expansion, Static Universe, but Mahito escaped after Yuji Itadori broke through the domain, and Itadori brought Rihito to Jujutsu High.
• Rihito passed his entrance assessment by explaining to Yaga that Junpei’s death had given meaning to his desire to grow stronger and protect others.
• Rihito trained with Maki and joined Kugisaki and Fushiguro on Nanami’s mission to investigate an abandoned steel factory linked to Mahito.
• The team found a workshop of cursed spirits and a laboratory containing mutilated bodies and imprisoned transfigured humans, including Rihito’s former classmate Kaori.
• Rihito, Kugisaki, and Fushiguro found Tanaka, a badly transformed student whose bone spikes wounded them as they tried to stop him.
• Rihito refused to use his unstable domain while his friends were in danger, but after Nanami arrived, he invoked Domain Expansion: Static Universe.

Rihito learned Zero Coffin: Disintegration, joined Kugisaki on a mission to Scorpion Village, and defeated Niezaki with her. At the Goodwill Event, he overwhelmed four Kyoto students with Static Universe just as Mahito broke into the storehouse and confronted Satoru Gojo.

• Rihito trained with Maki, then defeated a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit by combining extreme cold and heat in Zero Coffin: Disintegration.
• Rihito accompanied Kugisaki to Scorpion Village, where they learned Niezaki had attacked her grandmother and was trying to break the Scorpion Mound's seal.
• Kugisaki and Rihito fought Niezaki after he swallowed a Cursed Womb, and Kugisaki disrupted his Domain Expansion so Rihito could kill him with Zero Coffin: Disintegration.
• Kugisaki and Rihito left Scorpion Village after Niezaki's death ended the poison threatening Hua and Kugisaki's grandmother.
• Satoru Gojo brought Yuji Itadori back for the Goodwill Event, and Rihito entered the forest expecting Mahito might have infiltrated the grounds.
• Rihito fought Miwa, Mechamaru, Kamo, and Nishimiya together, then used Static Universe for three seconds to defeat them.
• Mahito transformed Yamada, stole his access card, and entered the storehouse, where he took a Sukuna's Finger and began removing the Death Painting Wombs.
• Satoru Gojo confronted Mahito in the storehouse, and Mahito challenged him to a fight.