Chapter Summaries

Ze Zenin explained Domain Amplification to his classmates, then spent the day joking and arguing with Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko. After Shoko left class and joined Utahime and Mei Mei at the dorm, she wondered what kind of person Ze really was.

• Shoko understood Ze Zenin's explanation of Domain Amplification, and Ze revealed that his own domain was incomplete but more than enough to defeat Satoru Gojo.
• Ze struck Satoru Gojo with an Iron Fist while Suguru Geto and Shoko recorded the hit, and the group joked about their dorm arrangements.
• Shoko left class early, unaware that Masamichi Yaga was watching through a doll and had seen her leave first.
• At the girls' dorm, Utahime teased Shoko about bathing together, while Mei Mei stepped in before Shoko headed to the bathroom.
• Utahime and Mei Mei discussed the handsome boys in Shoko's year, and Shoko recalled Ze's knowledge and wondered what kind of person he was.

Shoko learned that her Reverse Cursed Technique could kill cursed spirits and was paired with Ze Zenin for missions. Ze reassured her that her healing ability made her unique, leaving her flustered as he privately reflected on past losses and his wish to redeem an old regret.

• Mei Mei explained that Shoko's ability to output positive energy could destroy cursed spirits, while warning that the Higher-Ups might limit her future missions.
• Masamichi Yaga paired Satoru Gojo with Suguru Geto and Shoko with Ze Zenin.
• Satoru Gojo challenged Ze Zenin to a binding-vow bet over their evaluation scores, with the loser responsible for cleaning the boys' dorm.
• Ze Zenin told Shoko she had a unique ability and would not hold him back, prompting her to leave the classroom blushing.
• Ze Zenin recalled a past battle in Shinjuku where Shoko had failed to save her classmates, and resolved to treat their bond as a chance to redeem an old regret.
• Shoko lingered outside the classroom and wondered whether Ze Zenin was good at sweet-talking her.

As the semester ended, Ze Zenin wagered that Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto would have to dress as women and support Shoko Ieiri for a year if he beat them. On their first mission outside Tokyo, Ze helped Shoko confront her doubts about becoming a sorcerer, and she decided she might want to become a doctor.

• Shoko Ieiri watched Ze Zenin and secretly wondered whether he often said sweet things to girls.
• Ze Zenin challenged Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto to a wager: if he won, they would dress as women and cover Shoko's needs for a year; if he lost, he would do the same for them and clean the dorm for three years.
• Ze and Shoko traveled to Nagoya on Nue for a mission, while Ze planned to complete a month's work in a day.
• Seeing Shoko worry that she lacked a future as a sorcerer, Ze asked what she truly wanted and reminded her not to live by someone else's definition of success.
• Shoko remembered her father's wish that she be happy and bravely pursue love, then told Ze she might want to become a doctor.

Ze Zenin and Shoko investigated a building, where he killed a Spider Cursed Spirit and faced a Cockroach Cursed Spirit while their closeness grew. Meanwhile, Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto exorcised curses together, and the chapter ended by recalling the four young sorcerers’ days as Jujutsu High’s strongest quartet.

• Ze Zenin teased Shoko as they walked, and she asked him to teach her Chinese while her feelings for him quietly changed.
• Ze Zenin and Shoko found a man chasing Nanko in a dark office and realized both humans were empty shells linked to cursed spirits.
• A Spider Cursed Spirit burst from Nanko and lunged at Shoko, but Ze Zenin switched places with her and cut it in half with the Soul Devouring Blade.
• A Cockroach Cursed Spirit attacked Ze Zenin, and Shoko shoved him aside before he caught its fist and promised to let her watch him play the hero next time.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto met in Tokyo and exorcised curses at an abandoned house, with Gojo destroying a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit before Geto could absorb it.
• The chapter recalled Ze Zenin, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko as Jujutsu High’s strongest quartet in their youth.

Ze Zenin exorcised the cursed spirits with Shoko and grew closer to her as they acknowledged their feelings. Back at Tokyo Jujutsu High, Shoko recounted his feats to Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, while Ze teased Gojo about losing again.

• Ze Zenin unleashed his Cursed Seal, tore apart the Cockroach Cursed Spirit, and finished it with lightning and fire.
• Ze ordered Tiger Funeral and Sheng Beast to hunt the remaining cursed spirits, then reflected on his new life and let go of his past obsessions.
• Shoko pulled Ze back from the rooftop edge, and the two shared their trust and feelings before flying off together on Nue.
• At Tokyo Jujutsu High, Shoko described Ze's battles to Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, and Ze taunted Gojo for being an eternal runner-up.
• Shoko gave Gojo and Geto skirts and uniform tops to wear, and Geto dragged the protesting Gojo to change.

Masamichi Yaga’s students took a taijutsu lesson from Mei Mei and Utahime, where Mei Mei tested them without cursed techniques. Ze Zenin defeated Mei Mei with his speed and Sharingan, leaving Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto stunned.

• Masamichi Yaga announced a taijutsu lesson and explained that sorcerers needed close-combat skills when cursed techniques or cursed energy failed them.
• Mei Mei set a two-minute test with no cursed techniques, while Shoko received an exemption.
• Satoru Gojo challenged Mei Mei first but failed the test and vowed to study his family’s taijutsu manuals.
• Ze Zenin chose to fight Mei Mei with a tachi and used his speed and Sharingan to seize her axe and threaten her with his sword.
• Mei Mei declared Ze Zenin the winner, shocking Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto.

Ze Zenin, Shoko, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto skipped class to spend the day together, while Shoko briefly saw Ze vanish and recalled that he had never existed in this world. The group reached Ginza to shop, leaving Masamichi Yaga staring at their empty classroom seats.

• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto speculated about Ze Zenin and Shoko, and Ze Zenin teased Gojo until he backed down from a fight.
• Shoko briefly saw Ze Zenin disappear, panicked, and remembered that there had never been anyone named Ze Zenin in this world before finding him beside her again.
• Ze Zenin invited Shoko, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto to skip class and visit downtown.
• At an arcade, Ze Zenin lost at The King of Fighters '97, and the others teased him before they headed for Ginza.
• In Ginza, Satoru Gojo challenged Ze Zenin to see who could buy the most, while Masamichi Yaga found all four students' seats empty at Tokyo Jujutsu High.

Shoko remembered the lively summer of 2006, when Ze Zenin and their friends skipped class and traveled around Tokyo, before their lives became entwined with Riko Amanai and the Star Plasma Vessel mission. The chapter ended with Shoko looking back on her youth with Ze and thanking him for staying by her side.

• Ze Zenin gathered Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, Shoko, Mei Mei, Utahime, Kento Nanami, and Yu Haibara to skip class and explore Tokyo.
• Shoko and the others noticed a young girl at the subway station, who was Riko Amanai, and Shoko briefly met her gaze.
• Ze Zenin later defeated Toji and supported Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo in refusing the merger between Tengen and Riko Amanai.
• Hei killed those who opposed the decision, while Ze Zenin and a thousand-year-old curse user secretly maneuvered behind the scenes.
• Shoko remembered studying for her Medical License with Ze Zenin and thanked him for being part of her youth.

Satoru Gojo fought Jogo on a highway, then brought Itadori, Fushiguro, and Kugisaki into Jogo’s domain to teach them about domain clashes. Gojo expanded Unlimited Void and tore Jogo’s head off beneath the moon.

• Megumi Fushiguro, Nobara Kugisaki, and Itadori watched TV in a secret room at Tokyo Jujutsu High while Gojo was away in Kyoto.
• Kenjaku and Jogo waited in the woods for Satoru Gojo, and Kenjaku left when Gojo arrived.
• Jogo attacked Gojo with flames and Scorching Insects, but Gojo emerged unharmed and struck him with Red twice.
• Gojo teleported to Jogo with Itadori, Fushiguro, and Kugisaki, and Jogo expanded Coffin of the Iron Mountain around them.
• Gojo explained domain expansions to the students, had them touch him, and activated Unlimited Void.
• Gojo seized Jogo’s volcanic head and tore it off.

Satoru Gojo killed Jogo while Hanami escaped after using her cursed technique to distract Suguru Geto. Back in Kyoto, Ze Zenin ordered Naoya to investigate Kenjaku’s ties to the Kamo Clan and openly pressure the smaller clans as he prepared to reshape Jujutsu Headquarters.

• Satoru Gojo crushed Jogo’s head, and Suguru Geto blocked Hanami from rescuing him.
• Hanami weakened Suguru Geto’s will to fight and fled, while Geto told Satoru Gojo he suspected someone else was nearby.
• Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki joined Satoru Gojo and teased him for acting like Ze Zenin.
• Ze Zenin told Naoya Zenin to investigate the Kamo Clan’s movements and Kamo Sheng’s birth, suspecting Kenjaku had made him an experiment.
• Ze Zenin ordered Naoya to kill the higher-up who had leaked Satoru Gojo’s whereabouts and openly pressure smaller clans to join their faction.

Naoya Zenin mobilized Hei under Ze Zenin’s orders to arrest the traitor Genkawa Kamo at Jujutsu Headquarters. He and his squad entered Headquarters and confronted the people behind the shoji.

• Naoya Zenin ordered Ranta Zenin to prepare Hei for open action against minor clans and told him they would go to Jujutsu Headquarters to remove a traitor.
• Sawa's Mother brought food to Ogi Zenin in his dungeon, but left after he rejected her attempt to persuade him.
• Jinichi Zenin reflected on Ze Zenin’s reforms, which had strengthened the Kukuru Unit and changed the Zenin Clan’s leadership.
• Naoya Zenin told Jinichi Zenin that Ze Zenin had ordered him to take a squad of Hei to Jujutsu Headquarters.
• Naoya Zenin led Jinichi Zenin and Hei into Headquarters, struck a guard who challenged them, and announced he had come to arrest Genkawa Kamo.

Naoya Zenin took an elderly man away while Conservative Faction leaders discussed Ze Zenin’s reforms and revealed they had used a curse user to pressure neutral members and push Ze out of Tokyo. Meanwhile, Kenjaku and the cursed spirits regrouped on a beach, where they prepared for a plan centered on Shibuya and awaited their final piece.

• Naoya Zenin ordered Hei members to drag an elderly man away and passed Yoshinobu Gakuganji in the corridor.
• The Conservative Faction condemned Ze Zenin’s proposed reforms and told Gakuganji to keep monitoring him at Kyoto Jujutsu High.
• The Jujutsu Headquarters Director and other leaders revealed they had used a curse user to obtain compromising information and force neutral members to vote against Ze Zenin.
• Yoshinobu Gakuganji questioned the faction’s motives but left without calling Ze Zenin.
• Jogo told Hanami and Kenjaku that Kenjaku had restored him using a portion of his soul he had given beforehand.
• Kenjaku declared that his preparations were complete and that Shibuya would be the stage for Ze Zenin and Satoru Gojo, as he awaited his partner.

Junpei Yoshino recognized Mahito at a cinema, watched him kill four delinquents, and followed him to an alley before meeting him again in the sewers. Mahito used Idle Transfiguration on Junpei, while Kenjaku revealed that Sukuna’s vessel would arrive shortly.

• Junpei Yoshino spotted Mahito at the cinema and followed him into the same screening, where Mahito transformed four noisy delinquents before leaving.
• Junpei caught up with Mahito in an alley and told him he thought he was special rather than confronting him over the killings.
• The next morning, Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara investigated the cinema crime scene and set out to track the cursed spirit.
• In the sewers, Mahito used Idle Transfiguration on Junpei, who sensed the cursed technique within himself but left without attacking Mahito.
• After Junpei departed, Mahito asked Kenjaku when Sukuna’s vessel would arrive, and Kenjaku said it would be there shortly.

Mahito attacked Kanagawa Tatsuri Sakura High School, while Kento Nanami brought Yuji Itadori to investigate the school. Yuji arrived to help Junpei Yoshino, who agreed to fight alongside him.

• Kenjaku told Mahito to feed Sukuna's vessel a cursed finger and noted that Ze Zenin had taken out one of his pawns.
• Kento Nanami set out with Yuji Itadori and Yu Haibara for Kanagawa Tatsuri Sakura High School to find a young sorcerer before he hurt anyone.
• Mahito cast a Curtain over the school and unleashed transfigured humans on its occupants.
• Junpei Yoshino protected Shota from a transfigured human, but Mahito caught Shota outside and transformed him.
• Junpei used Moon of the Marsh's poison mist against the transfigured humans, leaving his shikigami weakened.
• Yuji smashed through a window and saved Junpei from an attack, and Junpei asked if they would fight side by side.

Junpei Yoshino, Yuji Itadori, Kento Nanami, and Yu Haibara fought Mahito and Yugao at the school. Mahito began to lose ground against Junpei and Yuji, then opened his Domain Expansion.

• Yuji rescued Junpei from a transfigured human, but Mahito ambushed Yuji and Nanami and Haibara while moving behind Junpei.
• A Transcription Seal implanted by Ze Zenin activated, burning Mahito with Amaterasu and letting Junpei attack him with Moon of the Marsh.
• Yugao arrived to support Mahito, who ordered it to fight Nanami and Haibara while he went after Junpei and Sukuna's vessel.
• Junpei and Yuji attacked Mahito together, and Yuji's punch injured him despite Mahito's belief that Yuji posed little threat.
• Haibara used his Iron Condensation Technique to defend against Yugao's feathers and attack it with iron weapons while Nanami supported him.
• As Mahito fell behind in his fight with Junpei and Yuji, he opened Self-Embodiment of Perfection.

Mahito's domain collapsed when Sukuna slashed his soul, while Nanami and Haibara fought Yugao to protect Yuji and Junpei. Yugao fled with Mahito when warned that someone was approaching, and Noriaki Sugiyama arrived to save Nanami and Haibara.

• Mahito trapped Yuji Itadori and Junpei Yoshino in his domain, but Sukuna wounded Mahito and shattered the domain.
• Nanami struck Yugao with his Ratio Technique while Haibara backed him up, and they urged Yuji and Junpei to keep fighting Mahito.
• Yuji and Junpei advanced on Mahito as Yugao unleashed its Maximum Technique, Feathers, against Nanami and Haibara.
• Haibara raised an Iron Wall to shield Nanami, leaving himself defenseless as Yugao sent feathers and birds raining down.
• After a voice warned Yugao that someone was approaching, it grabbed Mahito and fled, and Noriaki Sugiyama appeared before Nanami.

Ze Zenin dealt with Sukuna’s provocation, then joined the others at Junpei Yoshino’s home, where he asked Nagi Yoshino to let Junpei attend a school in Tokyo. Junpei learned he could become a jujutsu sorcerer, while Yu Haibara was left behind after Ze forgot to arrange treatment for him.

• Ze Zenin absorbed Yugao’s attack, searched for the fleeing cursed spirits, and met Yuji Itadori, Junpei Yoshino, and Kento Nanami.
• Ze Zenin entered Sukuna’s Innate Domain, mocked him, and defeated him with a Rinnegan illusion.
• Junpei Yoshino invited everyone to his home, and Ze Zenin called Ijichi to clean up the cursed residue before the group left.
• Ze Zenin realized that Yu Haibara had been left behind, while Haibara waited optimistically for someone to take him for treatment.
• At the Yoshino House, Ze Zenin reflected on his feelings for Shoko and discussed Junpei’s schooling with Nagi Yoshino.
• Ze Zenin told Junpei Yoshino he could become a jujutsu sorcerer and attend a school in Tokyo.

Ze Zenin learned that the Higher-Ups had arranged to keep him in Kyoto during the Goodwill Event, where Jian Xiaxia planned to challenge him. Yoshinobu Gakuganji revealed his support for Ze Zenin’s effort to transform jujutsu society, and Ze left with their alliance understood.

• Ze Zenin canceled Kyoto Jujutsu High’s special training and urged the students to prepare to defeat Tokyo at the Goodwill Event.
• Mai agreed to share stories about Ze Zenin with Riko Amanai, Kasumi Miwa, and Momo Nishimiya back at the dorms.
• Yoshinobu Gakuganji told Ze Zenin that Jian Xiaxia would challenge him at the event and that the Top Three Seats had ordered him to remain in Kyoto.
• Ze Zenin recognized Kenjaku’s scheme and explained to Yoshinobu Gakuganji why he had not simply purged the Higher-Ups and smaller families.
• Yoshinobu Gakuganji tacitly agreed to support Ze Zenin, who toasted their cooperation before leaving and passing Kamo Sheng.

Naoya Zenin investigated Ogi Zenin’s escape while Toji Fushiguro agreed to help uncover a traitor and returned to the Zenin Clan. Seeing the clan’s changed treatment of people without cursed energy, Toji felt relieved and thought of Ze Zenin’s influence.

• Naoya Zenin ordered Ranta Zenin to kill a captive who refused to talk and told Jinichi Zenin to find Ogi Zenin before the clan head learned of the situation.
• Toji Fushiguro learned from Naoya Zenin in the “A Loving Family” group chat that Ogi Zenin had escaped and might have fled to Kenjaku.
• Toji promised Naoya Zenin he would investigate, then decided to contact Shiu Kong.
• After Tsumiki fell asleep, Toji took the Inverted Spear of Heaven and went to the Zenin Clan to meet Naoya Zenin.
• Toji saw that the clan’s young members without cursed techniques trained alongside sorcerers and were treated respectfully.
• Naoya Zenin led Toji into the forbidden storehouse, where Toji saw that the cursed spirits once used to torment him were gone and credited Ze Zenin with changing the clan.

Satoru Gojo, Kento Nanami, Shoko, and Suguru Geto discussed Sukuna’s Fingers and the approaching Goodwill Event, while Geto continued to struggle with memories of his past. After a vision of four young sorcerers, Geto wondered whether his friendship with Zenin belonged to a summer he could never return to.

• Kento Nanami told Satoru Gojo that Senior Zenin had asked him to retrieve the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings and find vessels for their incarnation.
• Suguru Geto explained why Gojo was feeding Itadori Sukuna’s Fingers gradually, and Gojo said Zenin would soon return for the Goodwill Event.
• Shoko asked Gojo when Geto would remember the past, and Gojo’s teasing nearly provoked her into attacking him.
• Suguru Geto went to the rooftop with Nanako and Mimiko, where a breeze brought him a vision of four young sorcerers.
• Nanako and Mimiko reminded Geto that he and Master Zenin had saved them twelve years earlier, but Geto said he remembered nothing.