Chapter Summaries

Naoya Zenin, Maki, and Nobara Kugisaki fought Dagon in the subway station, but Dagon overpowered Naoya and destroyed his sword. Naoya shoved Maki and Nobara toward the stairs so they could escape while he faced Dagon alone.

• Dagon blasted the three sorcerers with water, but Maki and Nobara wounded him with the Soul Devouring Blade and their cursed techniques.
• Naoya struck Dagon repeatedly and explained how cursed energy could reinforce the body’s internal organs.
• Dagon summoned fish shikigami, and Naoya used Blade Shadow to slash him before Dagon shattered Naoya’s sword and broke his hands.
• Maki and Nobara stood beside Naoya as he prepared to keep fighting, and he told them the Zenin Clan needed his cousin.
• Naoya shoved Maki and Nobara toward the stairs and told them not to die or return, choosing to stay behind against Dagon.

Yuji Itadori and his allies fought Jogo in Shibuya while Kamo Sheng battled Mei Mei. As Jogo fed fingers to Yuji Itadori, Kamo Sheng recalled his pact with Kenjaku and warned Mei Mei that they needed to move the fight elsewhere.

• Yuji Itadori, Choso, Eso, and Blood Map encountered Jogo on Basement Level 3 while Kamo Sheng arrived with Mei Mei and Ui Ui.
• Kamo Sheng attacked Ui Ui, but Mei Mei blocked his Blood Blade, and Jogo joined the fight against Yuji Itadori's group.
• Choso, Eso, and Blood Map protected Yuji Itadori from Jogo's attacks, and Yuji Itadori struck Jogo with Black Flash before being knocked into a wall.
• Kamo Sheng recalled how Kenjaku recruited him after an elder who had cared for him died following Naoya Zenin's actions.
• Kamo Sheng saw Jogo feeding fingers to Yuji Itadori and urged Mei Mei to take their fight somewhere else.

Kenjaku escaped Shibuya Station with the Prison Realm while Jogo fed Sukuna’s fingers to Yuji Itadori. Sukuna took over Yuji’s body and attacked Ze Zenin, who confronted him with his purple skeletal frame.

• Kenjaku left through a deserted subway passage with the Prison Realm and planned to take Idle Transfiguration while the others fought.
• Jogo burned Eso, Choso, and Blood Map, then isolated Yuji Itadori and Mei Mei from one another.
• Jogo forced fourteen of Sukuna’s fingers into Yuji Itadori, and Ze Zenin arrived as Sukuna took control of Yuji’s body.
• Sukuna slashed at Jogo and Mei Mei, but Ze Zenin’s purple skeletal frame deflected the attack.
• Sukuna challenged Ze Zenin and lunged at him, and Ze Zenin met him with Chidori.

Ze Zenin confronted Sukuna in Shibuya, killed Jogo, and overwhelmed Sukuna with his techniques and taijutsu. Their fight continued amid collapsing buildings as Sukuna remained eager for a real battle.

• Ze Zenin pierced Sukuna's heart, but Sukuna healed himself and launched slashes that Ze deflected with Susanoo.
• Ze Zenin sensed Kenjaku searching for a chance to absorb Mahito and demanded that Sukuna get out of his way.
• Ze Zenin used Amenotejikara and Amaterasu to kill Jogo, then blasted Sukuna from Basement Level 3 to the surface with a Great Fireball.
• Ze Zenin swapped positions with Sukuna, making Sukuna take his own slashes, then copied Sukuna's taijutsu before shocking and hurling him into a high-rise.
• Sukuna charged through Ze Zenin's Amaterasu shield as they descended to the ground, and Ze joked that Sukuna should pay for the destroyed buildings.

Ze Zenin fought Sukuna in Shibuya, using his strange eyes, Susanoo, and lightning and flame techniques to withstand and injure him. After Sukuna slaughtered nearby civilians, Ze Zenin struck him with a powerful gravity-and-black-flame attack, and Sukuna prepared to end the fight.

• Ze Zenin pierced Sukuna's arm with Chidori Sharp Spear, and Sukuna healed it before charging at him.
• Ze Zenin summoned Susanoo and used Blaze Release and Amenotejikara to counter Sukuna, whose Hachi slash failed to damage Susanoo.
• Ze Zenin briefly summoned Mahoraga and Agito to taunt Sukuna, then dismissed them and declared that Sukuna was the challenger.
• Sukuna's slashes still failed to harm Susanoo, while Ze Zenin sent electricity through the ground and struck Sukuna with Susanoo.
• Sukuna killed the people hiding in an office after Ze Zenin knocked him into it.
• Ze Zenin used Flame Thunder God to pull Sukuna into Amaterasu, leaving him with a hole in his abdomen and burning black flames; Sukuna vowed to end the fight.

Ze Zenin overwhelmed Sukuna in their Shibuya battle, forcing the King of Curses to recover from severe injuries and finally unleash his full strength. Meanwhile, Suguru Geto prepared to fight Mahito, and Nanami's group encountered Yugao again.

• Sukuna used a cursed energy mark to strike Ze Zenin through Susanoo, but Ze dismissed it and evaded the slashes.
• Sukuna landed a Black Flash, but Ze transferred its force and struck Sukuna with it before cutting off parts of his body and smashing him into the street.
• Sukuna regenerated, acknowledged that he had underestimated Ze Zenin, and vowed to show him his full strength.
• At the Shibuya Fukutoshin Line entrance, Suguru Geto summoned Yaksha and Smallpox Hag and challenged Mahito.
• Nanami and the others encountered Yugao again near Shoto Bunkamura.

Ze Zenin overwhelmed Sukuna in their Shibuya battle, trapping him with Planetary Devastation and destroying the meteor with Susanoo, Chidori, and Amaterasu. Sukuna survived the blast, while an alternate outcome revealed that Ze had defeated him with genjutsu.

• Sukuna and Ze Zenin opened their domains, but Sukuna's Malevolent Shrine failed to break through Susanoo.
• Sukuna unleashed Furnace, and the explosions cracked Susanoo's shell.
• Ze Zenin summoned Complete Body Susanoo and used Planetary Devastation to trap Sukuna inside a rising mass of rocks.
• Ze Zenin combined Chidori and Amaterasu with Planetary Devastation, detonating the meteor above Shibuya.
• Sukuna fell toward the Inokashira Line with only his head remaining, but survived because Ze Zenin had applied Reverse Cursed Technique energy.
• In an alternate outcome, Sukuna stood in a Shibuya Station restroom under Ze Zenin's genjutsu.

Ze Zenin defeated Sukuna and restored Yuji Itadori, then confronted Sukuna in his life review and explained how love awakened the Sharingan. At the Shuto Expressway toll plaza, Shoko and Masamichi Yaga reflected on Ze’s reliability as Shibuya’s destruction continued.

• Sukuna lost consciousness inside Yuji Itadori after admitting defeat to Ze Zenin.
• Sukuna recalled his birth, his rise to power in the Heian Era, and his past as the King of Curses.
• Ze Zenin appeared in Sukuna’s life review, rejected his contempt for love, and explained that love and loss gave rise to the Sharingan.
• Ze Zenin warned Sukuna that Gojo or Ze would kill him if he escaped from Itadori’s body, then finished healing Yuji Itadori.
• Shoko and Masamichi Yaga watched the aftermath in Shibuya and discussed Gojo’s sealing, their memories, and Ze’s dependability.

Kento Nanami, Yu Haibara, Panda, and Junpei fought Yugao in Shibuya, but Yugao trapped them in its Clear Sky Domain. Yu Haibara took the greatest share of the domain’s damage and collapsed, leaving Nanami and the others facing Yugao’s attack.

• Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara recognized a familiar cursed energy presence, then confronted Yugao with Panda and Junpei.
• Yugao overwhelmed the group as Nanami, Haibara, Panda, and Junpei coordinated attacks that wounded and restrained it.
• Yugao sensed Jogo had been exorcised, flew into the sky, and opened its Clear Sky Domain around all four sorcerers.
• Nanami and Haibara admitted they could not use Simple Domain as Yugao’s sure-hit feathers struck them.
• Yu Haibara took the greatest share of the domain’s damage, thanked Nanami, and collapsed while Yugao declared that they would all die.

Yuta Okkotsu rescued Kento Nanami’s group by defeating Yugao and healing Yu Haibara, while Naoya Zenin faced Dagon and mastered Reverse Cursed Technique under pressure. The chapter ended with Naoya resisting Dagon’s domain and preparing to counter it with one of his own.

• Yuta Okkotsu broke into Yugao’s domain, expanded Authentic Mutual Love, and used a copied technique to pin and behead the cursed spirit.
• After the domain shattered, Yuta Okkotsu apologized to Kento Nanami and used Reverse Cursed Technique to pull Yu Haibara back from the brink of death.
• At the Inokashira Line, Naoya Zenin recalled Ze Zenin’s advice about Round Deer and began to grasp Reverse Cursed Technique while fighting Dagon.
• Dagon expanded Horizon of the Captivating Skandha and sent its sure-hit fish shikigami after Naoya Zenin.
• Naoya Zenin healed his shattered hands, repelled the shikigami with Falling Blossom Emotion, and resolved to counter Dagon with a domain of his own.

Naoya Zenin fought Dagon and, despite his severe injuries, gained the advantage with his Domain Expansion, Time Cell Moon Palace. He exorcised Dagon, then collapsed, thinking of his cousin Ze Zenin and the time he had served as his right-hand man.

• Naoya Zenin used Falling Blossom Emotion to defend against Dagon’s shikigami, then counterattacked but was badly wounded.
• Facing death, Naoya Zenin activated Domain Expansion: Time Cell Moon Palace, clashing with Dagon’s Horizon of the Captivating Skandha.
• Dagon lost focus after sensing that Jogo had been exorcised by Ze Zenin, allowing Naoya Zenin’s domain to overwhelm his.
• Naoya Zenin struck Dagon’s head apart, exorcising him, then collapsed from his injuries.
• As he lost consciousness, Naoya Zenin remembered serving Ze Zenin and wondered whether he had finally become his cousin’s right-hand man.

Megumi Fushiguro fought Zenin Shin, who revealed how Kenjaku had manipulated him into pursuing Mahoraga’s power and explained Kenjaku’s failed plan to turn Ze Zenin against Satoru Gojo. The confrontation ended with Toji appearing to protect Megumi from Shin.

• Megumi asked Shin why curse users had brought him back, and Shin explained that they had turned him into a weapon and asked who led the Zenin Clan.
• Shin attacked Megumi with purple lightning and recognized the distant cursed energy as belonging to the current clan head.
• Megumi told Shin that Ze Zenin had tamed Mahoraga, prompting Shin to explain how a stitched-headed man had persuaded him to pursue the shikigami and led to his downfall.
• Shin recalled that his obsession with power and rivalry with the Six Eyes bearer had made him trust Kenjaku’s manipulation.
• Kenjaku’s plan to make Ze Zenin and Satoru Gojo die together had failed, as Ze tamed Mahoraga alone and Gojo mastered Hollow Purple.
• Toji appeared behind Shin, blocked his attack with the Chimera Beast, and told him to stay away from his son.

Toji Fushiguro joined Megumi Fushiguro in battle against Zenin Shin, defeating his shikigami before Zenin Shin summoned Mahoraga. As Megumi began to respond, a huge meteor appeared over Shibuya.

• Toji Fushiguro arrived to help Megumi Fushiguro and fought Zenin Shin, destroying his Rabbit Escape shikigami and a Chimera Beast.
• Megumi Fushiguro summoned Piercing Ox, but Zenin Shin's enormous elephant shikigami blasted it away; Megumi later defeated Max Elephant.
• Toji explained that he had once helped Ze Zenin tame nearly all the Ten Shadows shikigami.
• Zenin Shin combined eight shikigami into one creature, then summoned Mahoraga despite saying he did not want to fight Toji.
• Megumi began forming a hand sign to summon Mahoraga, but Toji told him not to; at that moment, a huge meteor appeared above Shibuya.

Toji and Megumi Fushiguro struggled against Zenin Shin’s Mahoraga and Chimera Beast as the battle turned against them. Toji realized he could not defeat Mahoraga with his available weapons, while Shin began to recognize the talent of his descendants.

• Ze Zenin’s Complete Body Susanoo unleashed black-flamed meteors across Shibuya, stunning Zenin Shin and Toji.
• Toji battered Mahoraga with Dragon Bone, but Mahoraga survived, healed, and began adapting to the weapon.
• Toji used the Chain of a Thousand Miles to keep attacking Mahoraga while maneuvering through the surrounding buildings.
• Zenin Shin admired Toji’s strength and Megumi Fushiguro’s talent, and regretted that both had been lost to the Zenin Clan.
• Megumi Fushiguro’s fused Shikigami was driven back by the Chimera Beast as his Cursed Energy dwindled, while cracks spread across Toji’s Dragon Bone.
• Zenin Shin considered joining the Chimera Beast against Megumi Fushiguro to distract Toji, though he had begun to cherish their potential.

Ze Zenin found Naoya Zenin dead and, after carrying his body away, killed Ogami and Jiro Awasaka. He then reached the battle against Zenin Shin and summoned Mahoraga, leaving Zenin Shin alarmed by the second shikigami.

• Ze Zenin found Naoya Zenin dead, healed his body as best he could, and carried him away while vowing to kill Kenjaku and the cursed spirits.
• Ogami and Jiro Awasaka celebrated the jujutsu sorcerers’ losses and planned to reclaim their freedom, but they panicked when they sensed Ze Zenin nearby.
• Ze Zenin appeared on S Tower’s rooftop, killed Ogami and Jiro Awasaka, and threw their heads toward Zenin Shin’s Mahoraga and Chimera Beast.
• Ze Zenin laid Naoya Zenin down and asked Zenin Shin why he remained conscious after Ogami’s death; Zenin Shin said he did not know.
• Ze Zenin summoned Mahoraga, easing Toji and Megumi Fushiguro’s tension, while Zenin Shin noticed something was wrong.

Ze Zenin defeated Mahoraga’s assault with Kirin, while Zenin Shin accepted his death after seeing the Zenin Clan’s future strength. At the Fukutoshin Line entrance, Suguru Geto and Riko Amanai fought Mahito, who remained under pressure from Hanami and Riko’s cursed technique.

• Ze Zenin ordered Mahoraga to protect Megumi Fushiguro and fought Zenin Shin, while Toji revealed that Ze had tamed Mahoraga as a teenager and had defeated Ryomen Sukuna.
• Ze Zenin summoned Kirin to strike Mahoraga, and Zenin Shin walked into the lightning after entrusting the Zenin Clan to Ze.
• Kirin’s attack destroyed much of Shibuya, and Zenin Shin and Mahoraga vanished as Ze accepted that freeing his predecessor was right.
• At the Fukutoshin Line entrance, Suguru Geto and Riko Amanai battled Mahito, with Geto summoning Hanami to fight him.
• Mahito created a clone to attack Riko, but she summoned a flamethrower and burned it, leaving Mahito struggling against both her and Hanami.

Suguru Geto and Riko Amanai battled Mahito in the Ukawada Ruins, where Geto’s cursed spirits and reversal technique kept Mahito under pressure. Mahito unleashed Polymorphic Soul Isomers to turn the fight around, but his attack ended with his hand touching one of Geto’s summoned cursed spirits.

• Mahito released transfigured humans as weapons and attacked Suguru Geto, but Riko Amanai fired at him and Geto’s cursed spirits struck him back.
• Suguru Geto used Cursed Technique Reversal-Release to blast Mahito and then fought him at close range, blocking Mahito’s attempts to touch him.
• Riko Amanai struck Mahito with a rocket while riding the Demon Flying Fish, and she and Suguru Geto exchanged jokes as Mahito grew furious.
• Mahito created five powerful Polymorphic Soul Isomers, which attacked Suguru Geto and Riko Amanai.
• Riko Amanai was sent flying while protecting herself, and Mahito reached toward Suguru Geto before his elongated hand touched a summoned cursed spirit.

Suguru Geto and Riko Amanai fought Mahito and his Transfigured Humans, using Hanami and Shiranui to turn the battlefield against him. Mahito was poisoned and burned, but he reappeared beside them with a Black Flash as they lowered their guard.

• Riko Amanai used a rocket launcher to blast Mahito’s Transfigured Humans while Suguru Geto fought Mahito with Playful Cloud.
• Suguru Geto and Riko Amanai traded taunts with Mahito as Shuten Doji cut a giant Transfigured Human in half.
• Suguru Geto directed Hanami to grow trees that bound the Transfigured Humans and drained their cursed energy.
• Suguru Geto used Shiranui’s flames to ignite pollen from Hanami’s trees, poisoning Mahito and burning him.
• Mahito suddenly reappeared beside Suguru Geto and Riko Amanai, his hand surrounded by black lightning as he struck with Black Flash.

Suguru Geto and Riko Amanai faced Mahito after his Black Flash caused him to evolve into a powerful new form. Geto defeated him by overwhelming his domain with his own and his cursed spirits’ domains, then draining his cursed energy.

• Mahito evolved after striking Suguru Geto with Black Flash, while Riko Amanai’s attempt to help left her exposed to his taunts.
• Geto fired miniature Uzumaki attacks, then summoned Hanami, Shuten Doji, Tamamo-no-Mae Incarnate, and the Buddha Statue to fight Mahito.
• Geto’s cursed spirits coordinated attacks that damaged Mahito and helped Geto close in, but Mahito quickly regenerated and expanded Self-Embodiment of Perfection.
• Geto countered with Binding of a Hundred Demons and stacked the domains of his cursed spirits, overwhelming Mahito’s domain.
• Geto’s cursed spirits drained Mahito’s cursed energy, and Geto declared that Mahito had lost.

Ze Zenin and Xuan'an battled over Kenjaku's plan as Kenjaku absorbed Mahito and launched the Culling Game. Ze Zenin killed Kenjaku, but Kenjaku's plan had already succeeded, and Xuan'an vanished from Shibuya.

• Kenjaku arrived in a Suguru Geto clone and stopped Suguru Geto from reaching Mahito as Xuan'an's Uchiha Flame Formation began breaking apart.
• Ze Zenin destroyed the formation with Susanoo and attacked Xuan'an, who raced to Suguru Geto and Kenjaku instead of fighting him directly.
• Xuan'an told Kenjaku to absorb Mahito, and Kenjaku used Cursed Spirit Manipulation to turn Mahito into a cursed spirit orb.
• Ze Zenin and Suguru Geto tried to stop Kenjaku, but Kenjaku unleashed a tide of cursed spirits; Ze Zenin protected Suguru Geto and Riko Amanai with Susanoo and blasted the spirits apart with Mini Kirin.
• Ze Zenin killed Kenjaku with Black Chidori, but realized Kenjaku had already succeeded in starting the Culling Game, while Xuan'an had disappeared.