Chapter Summaries

After dying in a hospital, Kuang Wu woke in the body of a child in the Zenin household, where Naoya Zenin confronted her as his illegitimate half-sister. Naoya ordered that she be sent away to learn manners, while Kuang Wu remained silent and tried to understand her new circumstances.

• Kuang Wu spent two years in intensive care, detached from the grief surrounding death, and died after taking sleeping pills.
• Kuang Wu unexpectedly regained consciousness in an unfamiliar room and realized she had become a small child in what seemed to be ancient times.
• Naoya Zenin entered and insulted Kuang Wu as the illegitimate daughter his father had brought home.
• An attendant warned Naoya that Kuang Wu had not yet awakened her Cursed Technique and had only just been brought back from outside.
• Naoya, confident in his own Projection Sorcery, ordered that Kuang Wu be sent away to learn proper manners.

Kamu Zenin learned that she had been reborn in the Zenin Clan and was sent to study its rules before her cursed technique appeared. When the steward whipped her for looking at him, she collapsed after two lashes, just as her shadow seemed to move strangely.

• Kamu Zenin learned that she was Naobito Zenin’s daughter and that Naoya Zenin was her half-brother.
• An attendant took Kamu to the steward for instruction in the Zenin Clan’s rules.
• The steward struck Kamu with a whip, and she resolved to kill him as she endured the pain.
• The steward whipped Kamu a second time for looking directly at a man of higher standing.
• Kamu lost consciousness, but thought she saw her shadow move strangely.

Kamu Zenin recovered from the steward’s beating and learned more about her low status in the Zenin Clan and her father Naobito’s precarious position. She remained trapped in her remote courtyard, where Naoya Zenin arrived with other children to mock her.

• A servant told Kamu Zenin that Naobito Zenin had visited and allowed her to recover before resuming etiquette lessons, but she felt no gratitude.
• Kamu Zenin learned that her mother had been an ordinary woman, that her uncle Ogi Zenin threatened Naobito’s position, and that her own place in the clan was exceptionally low.
• Kamu Zenin tried several times to leave the residence but realized that her status kept her confined to her remote courtyard.
• Naoya Zenin brought several children into Kamu Zenin’s courtyard, and they ridiculed its size and called her a worthless embarrassment.

The narrator confronted Naoya Zenin after he and his lackeys trashed her courtyard, then used the threat of political consequences to stop him from attacking. Naoya kept returning to taunt her, but she continued to shut him down without letting him strike.

• The narrator returned to find Naoya Zenin and his lackeys rummaging through her belongings in her courtyard, and briefly thought her shadow had rippled with her anger.
• She ordered Naoya to leave, then warned that attacking her could damage Naobito Zenin’s standing and give Ogi Zenin leverage against him.
• Naoya hesitated when she pointed out that Naobito had visited her after she was hurt, revealing that he cared more than Naoya expected.
• Naoya returned every few days to mock her, but her retorts made him swallow his anger rather than attack her.

After recovering from her wounds, Kuang Wu faced returning to lessons in the Zenin Clan and reflected on the clan’s cruelty and her bleak, isolated life. Staring at the snow-covered trees in her courtyard, she resolved to leave, then began hallucinating again and worried that her time there was affecting her mind.

• After her wounds healed, Kuang Wu learned she had to return to the housekeeper’s lessons, while her attendant mocked her prospects of awakening a powerful Cursed Technique.
• Kuang Wu noted that Naoya Zenin had stopped visiting and that her freezing courtyard had no charcoal.
• As she watched snow fall on the two remaining stunted trees, Kuang Wu recalled that the third tree had died and that the clan would not replace it for someone of her status.
• Kuang Wu decided she had to escape the Zenin Clan, comparing its unchanging bleakness to a world without spring.
• Kuang Wu saw shadows stirring again and wondered whether isolation and mistreatment had begun to damage her mind.

The narrator planned to escape the Zenin Clan during a Gojo Clan banquet celebrating the boy born with the Six Eyes, but fell ill upon arriving. The chapter ended as the boy’s blue eyes stirred an intense, confusing reaction and the narrator began seeing and hearing things in the shadows.

• The narrator skipped lessons while the Zenin Clan prepared for the New Year and privately planned to leave the clan.
• The narrator learned that the Gojo Clan’s Six Eyes heir had disrupted the balance of Jujutsu Society and had a hundred-million bounty on his head.
• The narrator’s father brought Naoya Zenin and the narrator to the Gojo Clan’s banquet, where the narrator hoped to slip away.
• The narrator developed a fever at the banquet and saw the white-haired Gojo boy in a blue dragonfly-patterned haori.
• The Gojo boy’s gaze overwhelmed the narrator, who then noticed shadows stirring and heard an animal barking from within them.

At the Gojo Clan banquet, Naobito Zenin rejected the Kamo Clan Head’s attempt to provoke him into targeting the Six Eyes. He learned that his daughter Kuang Wu had awakened the Ten Shadows Technique and hurried away from the gathering.

• The Kamo Clan Head questioned Naobito Zenin about the Zenin Clan lacking the Ten Shadows Technique, but Naobito saw through his attempt to stir up conflict.
• Naobito watched the Six Eyes make his public debut and compared the boy’s bearing with his son Naoya’s.
• A servant told Naobito that Kuang Wu had fainted after a powerful surge of cursed energy erupted from her, with dogs barking inside her shadow.
• The servant confirmed that other Zenin servants had witnessed the event, and Naobito realized Kuang Wu had awakened the Ten Shadows Technique.
• Naobito announced that he had to leave to see his daughter and hurried out of the banquet.

Kuang Wu woke from a long feverish sleep in a luxurious room and learned that the Zenin Clan had begun treating her with great deference. The maid explained that Kuang Wu had awakened the Ten Shadows Technique, leaving her to realize she had become exceptionally important to the clan.

• Kuang Wu slept through the noise around her while sick with a fever.
• Kuang Wu woke in a lavish room and recognized a maid who had served her so-called father.
• The maid knelt and begged Kuang Wu for forgiveness for looking directly at her.
• Kuang Wu lost her voice when she tried to speak, and the maid called for Lord Naobito Zenin and the family doctors.
• The maid told Kuang Wu that she had awakened the Zenin Clan's hereditary Ten Shadows Technique.

After waking from a three-day fever, the narrator recoiled from the medicine her so-called father ordered her to take. Remembering her former life, she recalled how she had reunited with and secretly ruined the business of the parents who abandoned her, and arranged her younger sister’s marriage; the chapter ended with her mother insisting that she could never understand happiness.

• The narrator learned from the doctor that she had had a fever for three days and three nights, and recoiled when a maid tried to feed her medicine.
• The narrator recalled avoiding medicine in her previous life until a lingering illness became lung cancer.
• She remembered finding her birth parents, learning why they had left her at an orphanage, and returning home with them despite knowing the full truth.
• Over two months, she used her own methods to crush her parents’ business while they remained unaware and asked her to help.
• She arranged her younger sister’s marriage to a business partner and invited the sister’s unrequited crush to the wedding.
• When her mother accused her of being unable to understand happiness, the narrator accepted that she did not know what happiness was.

The narrator summoned the Ten Shadows Technique’s Divine Dogs, delighting in the two dogs and refusing to let Naobito pet them. As the Zenin Clan prepared to keep her under guard and show her to the elders, she worried she could no longer escape and thought of Satoru Gojo.

• Naobito gave the narrator medicine and told her that the clan elders wanted to see her Divine Dogs.
• The narrator summoned a black and a white Divine Dog, both of whom eagerly nuzzled her.
• Naobito tried to pet the dogs, but they bared their teeth at him and the narrator guarded them.
• Naobito told the narrator to rest before meeting the elders the next day and left his maid and other people to watch over her.
• The narrator worried that the Zenin Clan would prevent her from leaving and wondered whether Satoru Gojo was also trapped by his status as the bearer of the Six Eyes.

Kuang Wu was fussed over by the Zenin Clan’s servants before her father took her to meet the elders, who recognized her Ten Shadows Technique and celebrated the Divine Dogs’ strength. The elders’ reaction left her facing a clan eager to use her abilities to challenge the Gojo Clan.

• A maid woke Kuang Wu, and the servants spent the morning caring for her while she learned that her old attendant had been dismissed for neglecting her and withholding charcoal.
• Kuang Wu realized the clan had known about her mistreatment because its stewards kept records of supplies.
• Her father summoned her and took her through the estate to meet the elders.
• The Divine Dogs emerged from Kuang Wu’s shadow and comforted her when the elders’ room felt oppressive.
• The elders recognized the black and white Divine Dogs as proof of Kuang Wu’s Ten Shadows Technique and celebrated their grade-one strength.

Kuang Wu learned that her Ten Shadows Technique had helped Naobito Zenin become clan head, but she remained stuck attending etiquette lessons. When she asked to be named the Zenin Clan’s Young Master so she could stop, Naobito explained that the elders were still weighing her against Naoya Zenin.

• Naobito Zenin rose to clan head after elders favored him because his daughter Kuang Wu possessed the Ten Shadows Technique.
• Kuang Wu’s etiquette instructor changed to the Seventh Elder, who continued teaching her how to defer to powerful people.
• After secretly skipping class, Kuang Wu confronted Naobito Zenin and asked him to end her etiquette lessons.
• Naobito told Kuang Wu that only becoming the Zenin Clan’s Young Master might free her from the lessons, but the elders had to approve it.
• Naobito explained that Kuang Wu’s sex and Naoya Zenin’s Projection Sorcery made the elders hesitate, and Kuang Wu rejected the prospect of serving under Naoya.

After refusing to attend the Seventh Elder’s classes, the narrator escaped the Zenin Clan compound with her Divine Dogs. Outside, she encountered cursed spirits that attacked her, while her dogs tore through the smaller ones.

• The narrator refused to return to the Seventh Elder’s classes, and Naoya Zenin argued that women had to attend Etiquette Class.
• Fed up with the Seventh Elder’s repeated attempts to summon her, the narrator left the compound with her Divine Dogs.
• The Divine Dogs tore a hole in the barrier, letting the narrator escape before the alarm sounded.
• The narrator wandered along the street and discovered that cursed spirits were everywhere, though ordinary people could not see them.
• The cursed spirits attacked the narrator when she noticed them, and her Divine Dogs pounced on and destroyed most of the small ones.

The narrator explored Kyoto, bought desserts with a black card taken from her father in name only, and enjoyed the bustling streets. When the Divine Dogs rushed toward a black dome, she followed them as they entered the barrier.

• The narrator spotted a dessert shop and bought several sweets with her father's black card after assuring the shop assistant her family would not mind.
• The narrator ate the desserts, then continued walking through snowy Kyoto in the sunshine.
• The Divine Dogs barked and ran toward a huge black dome around the corner.
• The narrator caught up with the Divine Dogs, and they darted into the pitch-black barrier.

The narrator entered a Barrier and fought a powerful cursed spirit with the Divine Dogs, supplying them with cursed energy from a safe distance. When the spirit was born and badly wounded the dogs, the narrator summoned Nue.

• The narrator found a powerful cursed spirit inside an abandoned building and sent the Divine Dogs to attack it.
• The narrator stayed at the edge of the Barrier and supplied the Divine Dogs with cursed energy as they fought the spirit.
• A surge of cursed energy erupted, badly injuring the Divine Dogs as a cursed spirit was born.
• The narrator resisted recalling the dogs, fearing the spirit would attack, and summoned Nue from the shadows.

After Kuang Wu exorcised the special grade cursed womb, Naoki Imai realized she was the Zenin Clan's Ten Shadows user and collapsed in panic. A Zenin sorcerer arrived and recognized her, leaving Naoki convinced he was in trouble.

• Kuang Wu defeated the cursed spirit with Nue, and her shikigami ate its remains as the barrier disappeared.
• Naoki Imai recalled selecting a special grade mission for the Gojo Clan and waiting anxiously at the site for the Gojo Clan head and Satoru.
• As the cursed womb's presence grew stronger, Naoki called a Zenin sorcerer for help, but the barrier vanished before he could finish explaining.
• Naoki saw Kuang Wu emerge from the rubble with the Divine Dogs and Nue and recognized her as the likely Ten Shadows user.
• A Zenin sorcerer arrived, called her Miss Kuang Wu, and Naoki sank to his knees in panic.

Kuang Wu met the Zenin Clan sorcerers after exorcising a Special Grade Cursed Womb on her own. Satoru Gojo arrived, and their first encounter ended with each asking for one of the other’s prized body parts.

• Kuang Wu complained that the Zenin Clan sorcerers had arrived too late, then confirmed she had exorcised the Cursed Spirit inside the Curtain.
• The Zenin Clan sorcerers were astonished that Kuang Wu had defeated a Special Grade Cursed Womb by herself only two months after awakening her Cursed Technique.
• Satoru Gojo arrived after delaying his mission to shop and eat, and identified Kuang Wu as the Ten Shadows Technique user.
• Kuang Wu asked Satoru Gojo to give her his beautiful eyes, and Satoru replied by asking for her hands.

Kamu Zenin returned to the Zenin Clan after a mission with Satoru Gojo and was summoned before the clan elders. She defied their demands and delighted in provoking them, leaving her eager to push their limits further.

• Kamu Zenin admitted she had considered taking Satoru Gojo's eyes, and he answered with a joke of his own.
• Zenin Clan sorcerers returned from their mission with Kamu, the newly awakened wielder of the Ten Shadows Technique.
• Naobito Zenin and the elders summoned Kamu and berated her for leaving the clan without permission.
• Kamu dismissed the elders' authority and claimed she was superior to them.
• Kamu reflected on how the Zenin Clan's prejudice made provoking them entertaining and looked forward to pushing them further.

The elders named the narrator the young heir because he possessed the Ten Shadows Technique, and his father-by-default arranged for him to enjoy the privileges of his position. After returning to his courtyard and caring for his shikigami, he went shopping again and saw how quickly the Zenin Clan acted on his casual suggestion.

• The elders told the narrator that he would become the young heir and began discussing a succession ceremony and invitations.
• The narrator summoned the Divine Dogs and Nue, checked that they had recovered, and showed affection to each of them.
• The narrator asked to go out again, and his father-by-default sent sorcerers to accompany him and gave him a new card.
• The narrator returned to the dessert shop, bought the desserts he wanted, and asked the salesgirl to use less sugar.
• A sorcerer accompanying the narrator brought in the manager and negotiated to buy the dessert recipes at a high price.

After canceling etiquette class, Kuang Wu was made to study hand-to-hand combat and jujutsu with the Seventh Elder, and spent two months improving her knowledge and skills. As spring approached, Gojo found her in her courtyard, despite the servants’ attempts to stop him.

• The Seventh Elder told Kuang Wu that she would begin hand-to-hand combat and jujutsu lessons with him instead of etiquette class.
• Kuang Wu found jujutsu practice manageable thanks to her abundant cursed energy, but focused on studying theory after the Seventh Elder’s disapproving looks.
• Kuang Wu learned about curtains, revealing cursed techniques, cursed spirit grades, cursed tools, cursed objects, barrier techniques, and Tengen.
• Two months passed while the succession ceremony remained delayed, and Kuang Wu settled into a larger courtyard filled with cherry trees.
• Gojo climbed onto a cherry tree in Kuang Wu’s courtyard and excitedly announced that he had finally found her.