Chapter Summaries

Satoru Gojo barged into the Zenin Clan to meet Kuang Wu and see the user of the legendary Ten Shadows Technique. Kuang Wu welcomed him with sweets, but Gojo hated them because they were not sweet enough.

• A guard found Satoru Gojo in a tree and warned him that it was dangerous.
• Satoru Gojo jumped down and admitted he had barged into the Zenin Clan to see Kuang Wu.
• Kuang Wu sent the guard back to his post and told Gojo not to intrude without warning next time.
• Gojo explained that he wanted to get a better look at Kuang Wu and her Cursed Technique.
• Kuang Wu served Gojo sweets she had made with a dessert shop's recipe, but Gojo called them awful and said sweets should be much sweeter.
• Kuang Wu decided Gojo would not get any more of her sweets.

The narrator continued to entertain Satoru Gojo with evasive answers, but their claim of a bond of fate between them made him blush and flee. Later, the narrator followed their Shikigami’s presence into their shadow and discovered something unusual there.

• Satoru Gojo asked the narrator increasingly strange questions during his visits, and the narrator distracted him with made-up answers.
• When Satoru Gojo asked why the narrator had awakened the Ten Shadows Technique, the narrator suggested they might share a bond of fate.
• Satoru Gojo blushed, denied that they had a bond of fate, and hurried away, saying he had to finish his hand-to-hand combat lesson.
• The narrator concluded that dealing with Satoru Gojo was exhausting and wondered how to avoid him despite standing out in his vision.
• After the Divine Dogs and Nue returned from a walk and rested in the narrator’s shadow, the narrator followed their presence inside and discovered something unusual.

After discovering that all ten Shikigami were waiting in his Shadow World, the narrator resolved to train and visit them more often. He enjoyed a peaceful afternoon in the courtyard until Satoru Gojo returned and challenged him to a fight, which he refused.

• The narrator entered his Shadow World and found all ten types of Shikigami, including Rabbit Escape and Mahoraga, waiting there.
• The Shikigami crowded around the narrator with excitement, and he resolved to practice Jujutsu and summon them all.
• The narrator relaxed in his courtyard, summoned the Divine Dogs and Nue, and enjoyed the sunny weather.
• Satoru Gojo returned after a long absence and challenged the narrator to a fight.
• The narrator refused and went back to enjoying the sunshine.

After Kamu Zenin's words left Satoru Gojo flustered, a Gojo Clan elder mistakenly interpreted his reaction as evidence of a dispute and suggested settling it with a duel. Satoru took the suggestion as confirmation that Kamu wanted to fight and began training to defeat her.

• Satoru Gojo returned home early, visibly flustered after visiting Kamu Zenin.
• The Gojo Clan elders argued over what had upset Satoru and sent their least senior elder to question him.
• Satoru stammered about what Kamu had said, then angrily told the elder to stop asking.
• The elder suggested that disputes between clan juniors could be settled by a duel.
• Satoru decided Kamu had challenged him and announced he would spend the next few days practicing Jujutsu.

Kuang Wu was ordered to test her strength against Satoru Gojo, and the elders watched their hand-to-hand match to compare the Ten Shadows Technique with the Six Eyes. After Satoru easily disarmed her, she challenged him to a jujutsu match.

• The Seventh Elder told Kuang Wu that her father and the elders had ordered her to accept Satoru Gojo's challenge.
• Kuang Wu and Satoru Gojo agreed to compete in hand-to-hand combat at the Zenin Clan's training grounds.
• Satoru Gojo charged at Kuang Wu, and she struggled to block his attack with Hidden Light.
• Satoru Gojo sent Kuang Wu's sword flying and called the match boring.
• Satoru Gojo asked how Kuang Wu could take hand-to-hand lessons and remain so weak, and she challenged him to a jujutsu match.

The girl and Satoru Gojo fought until Rabbit Escape and Gojo’s Limitless technique destroyed the training grounds. She claimed victory because Gojo had exhausted his cursed energy, but he insisted their interrupted match did not count and fainted from overexertion.

• The girl sent her Divine Dogs and Hidden Light at Satoru Gojo, but his Limitless technique stopped her blade before it could reach him.
• Satoru Gojo gathered cursed energy for Blue, so the girl summoned Rabbit Escape, whose giant form charged into the attack and collapsed the training grounds.
• The girl used Nue to carry her above the dust while Satoru Gojo stood unharmed behind Limitless.
• The girl returned to the ground and declared victory because Satoru Gojo had run out of cursed energy, but he said the interrupted match did not count and vowed to challenge her again.
• Satoru Gojo fainted, and the Seventh Elder checked him and confirmed that he had only overexerted himself.

After Kuang Wu injured Satoru Gojo, Naobito Zenin gloated over her strength while the Gojo Clan elder defended Satoru’s limits. Meanwhile, Kuang Wu’s Rabbit Escape shikigami spread through the Zenin estate, leaving Naobito baffled by complaints when he returned from a mission.

• Naobito Zenin welcomed a Gojo Clan elder and implied that Kuang Wu had easily overwhelmed Satoru Gojo with her newly awakened Cursed Technique.
• The Gojo Clan elder protested that Satoru was young and had fainted from the strain of using Limitless and Blue with the Six Eyes.
• Kuang Wu’s Rabbit Escape shikigami multiplied throughout the Zenin estate and disrupted the clan’s daily routines.
• Zenin Clan members reported the rabbit problem to Naobito Zenin, who returned from a mission and wondered what had happened.

Kamu Zenin experimented with using her shadow as a portal by imitating Satoru Gojo’s cursed energy, but a teleportation error stranded her in Tokyo. After an awkward visit to the police station, Zenin Clan sorcerers found her and brought her home, where she resolved to demand internet access.

• Kamu Zenin discovered she could imitate cursed energy in her shadow and use the resonance to teleport between shadows, though the effect was unstable.
• A teleportation mistake sent Kamu to a Tokyo street, where she had no money and could not provide the police with a phone number or a precise home address.
• Kamu gave the police a jujutsu sorcerer’s phone number, but the call failed because he was at the Zenin estate in the mountains without signal.
• Zenin Clan sorcerers followed Kamu’s cursed residue to the police station and apologized for failing to protect her as they took her home.
• Kamu decided that her father by default had to get internet installed at home.

As the Zenin Clan prepared to announce Kamu Zenin as its heir, she enjoyed a brief break from lessons and endured a fitting for her ceremonial kimono. The chapter ended when Naobito Zenin asked whether she wanted to leave the clan.

• After Kamu Zenin defeated the Six Eyes and displayed a third shikigami, the Zenin Clan decided to announce her appointment as heir at a banquet.
• The Seventh Elder suspended Kamu Zenin's lessons for three days to prepare for the appointment ceremony.
• Kamu Zenin was made to try on an elaborate red kimono while Naobito Zenin watched.
• After the maid left, Naobito Zenin asked Kamu Zenin whether she wanted to leave the Zenin Clan.

The narrator wanted to escape the Zenin Clan but learned that Naobito Zenin could not release her from the clan’s hold over the Ten Shadows Technique. After becoming the clan’s young heir, she resolved to grow strong enough to claim her freedom and began testing her shadow teleportation.

• The narrator explained that she had always wanted to leave the Zenin Clan and resented the restrictions that came with the Ten Shadows Technique.
• Naobito Zenin told her that he could not authorize her departure and warned that becoming the young heir in three days would make leaving Jujutsu Society impossible.
• Naobito Zenin said that only reaching the pinnacle of Jujutsu Society would let her escape its constraints, and the narrator resolved to become stronger.
• Three days later, the narrator appeared at the ceremony as the Zenin Clan’s young heir and was placed under protection in her courtyard.
• The narrator practiced her shadow’s teleportation ability, then stepped into the shadow to seek out Satoru Gojo.

Satoru Gojo staged a hunger strike to learn why the Gojo Clan had confined and sealed him, and the clan head told him it was to protect him from assassins. Satoru accepted the explanation, unaware that the real reason was to keep him from attending the Zenin Clan’s Ten Shadows Technique Succession Ceremony.

• Satoru Gojo discovered that the Gojo Clan elders had sealed his cursed energy and planned to escape so he could challenge Kamu Zenin again.
• Satoru Gojo refused to eat, prompting the attendant to report his hunger strike to the Gojo Clan head.
• Satoru Gojo demanded to see the Gojo Clan head and threatened to keep fasting and break through the jujutsu seal.
• The Gojo Clan head told Satoru Gojo that assassins had targeted him after his defeat and promised to lift the seal in a few days.
• The Gojo Clan head revealed to the Fourth Elder that Satoru Gojo had really been confined to stop him from attending the Ten Shadows Technique’s Succession Ceremony at the Zenin Clan.

Kamu Zenin visited Satoru Gojo, who had been sealed inside the Gojo Clan estate, and told him that her succession ceremony was taking place that day. After learning the Zenin Clan had invited his family, Satoru understood the clan politics behind his confinement and destroyed his courtyard and the surrounding barriers.

• Satoru Gojo wondered why his clan had not stopped the assassination attempts and felt glum that he had not returned to fight Kamu Zenin.
• Kamu Zenin entered the sealed estate through Satoru’s shadow and explained that she had discovered a new way to use shadows.
• Satoru said the elders had sealed his cursed energy because more assassins had targeted him after his duel with Kamu.
• Kamu told Satoru that her succession ceremony was that day and that the Zenin Clan had sent the Gojo Clan an invitation.
• Satoru realized the elders had concealed the ceremony from him, then blasted apart his courtyard and the estate’s barriers.

After escaping the Gojo Clan estate with Satoru Gojo, Kuang Wu walked through Kyoto with him as he searched for games and sweets. They headed out for dessert, leaving Satoru Gojo awkwardly praising the sweets Kuang Wu had served him at the Zenin Clan.

• Satoru Gojo said his Six Eyes had shown him how Kuang Wu undid the seal on his cursed energy, so the clan could not lock him up again.
• Satoru Gojo asked Kuang Wu about games and other hobbies, and Kuang Wu explained that she mostly stayed home, though she did go out for sweets and missions.
• Satoru Gojo became excited when Kuang Wu mentioned sweets and suggested they get some before shopping for a game console.
• Kuang Wu threatened to tell the Gojo Clan where Satoru Gojo was and refuse to spar with him if he called the Zenin Clan sweets bad, so he changed his answer and praised them.

Kuang Wu demanded internet access at the Zenin Clan estate, but the elders rejected her request and criticized her for defying tradition. She unleashed Rabbit Escape on their meeting room, and her next request for internet access was approved without objection.

• After spending time with Satoru Gojo, Kuang Wu returned to the Zenin estate and proposed building a signal base station, but the elders opposed it.
• Kuang Wu told Naobito Zenin she wanted internet access, challenged his authority, and was summoned to the elders' meeting room.
• The elders ordered Kuang Wu to avoid Satoru Gojo and rejected her request for internet access as contrary to tradition.
• Kuang Wu ordered Rabbit Escape to bite, and the rabbits demolished the meeting room, leaving one elder unconscious.
• When Kuang Wu asked for internet access for the third time, the Zenin Clan approved it without objection.

Kuang Wu was denied higher-level missions because the Zenin Clan considered her hand-to-hand combat too weak, and the First Elder demonstrated the strength she needed to reach. After a year of training, she finally defeated the Seventh Elder, only to learn that she had completed just the first stage of her combat lessons.

• The Zenin Clan restricted Kuang Wu to Grade 2 missions because they feared her poor hand-to-hand skills would put her in danger.
• The First Elder broke a tree with one punch and told Kuang Wu she needed comparable strength before taking higher-level missions.
• Kuang Wu accepted the First Elder's judgment and spent a year practicing hand-to-hand combat with the Seventh Elder.
• Kuang Wu caught the Seventh Elder off guard and defeated him, celebrating her progress.
• The Seventh Elder cried with relief and explained that Kuang Wu had only completed the first stage of her training.

Kuang Wu struggled with hand-to-hand combat, leading the Zenin Clan to suspect she had a Heavenly Restriction and shift her training toward defense and escape. When she began taking high-level missions, Toji Zenin was assigned to accompany her, and she realized his lack of cursed energy had given him an extraordinarily powerful body.

• The Seventh Elder despaired at Kuang Wu's poor hand-to-hand skills, and they considered whether she had a Heavenly Restriction.
• After a meeting, the Zenin Clan eased Kuang Wu's combat drills and focused her training on defense and running away, which she learned quickly.
• Three months later, the clan allowed Kuang Wu to take high-level missions but insisted on assigning her a protector.
• The Seventh Elder's pleas persuaded Kuang Wu to accept one companion, Toji Zenin, chosen by her father.
• Kuang Wu read Toji Zenin's file and learned that his lack of cursed energy had granted him an ultimate Heavenly Restriction and a powerful body.

The narrator arrived at the training ground and refused to take the side of a Zenin clan member who had provoked Toji Zenin. After having the noisy man dragged away, she invited her cousin Toji to talk outside.

• The narrator watched Toji Zenin defeat people who mocked and provoked him during training.
• A beaten clan member threatened Toji Zenin and demanded that the narrator give him justice.
• The narrator refused to help the man, and her guards dragged him away.
• The narrator told Toji Zenin she had come to see him and invited him outside to talk.

Kamu Zenin arranged for Toji Zenin to protect her on an upcoming mission, then taunted Naoya Zenin for being jealous that she would get to watch Toji fight. Naoya was left frustrated after Kamu pretended to invite him along, then threatened to tell the elders he was too weak to go.

• Kamu Zenin told Toji Zenin that they would leave for a mission the next day and said she wanted to see the strength of his fully realized Heavenly Restriction.
• Naoya Zenin confronted Kamu Zenin, accused her of threatening or bribing Toji, and insisted she would hold him back.
• Kamu summoned her Divine Dogs and teased Naoya about secretly admiring Toji Zenin.
• Kamu told Naoya that Toji had been assigned to protect her and taunted him for not receiving the same treatment.
• Naoya appeared eager when Kamu offered to let him come, but she said she would tell the elders he was too weak to go.

On the way to a Tokyo school to exorcise a Grade 1 cursed spirit, the narrator and Toji Zenin discussed the missing children and Toji’s offer to protect her. They arrived with the driver still uneasy after Toji casually asked whether he should be killed for overhearing their conversation.

• The narrator left with Toji Zenin for a mission at a Tokyo school, where a Grade 1 cursed spirit had killed four students and a teacher, and three students were missing.
• The driver said Jujutsu Headquarters wanted the missing children rescued before the cursed spirit was exorcised, and Toji asked how long they had been missing.
• The narrator suspected the children were probably dead and pitied how vulnerable ordinary people were to cursed spirits.
• Toji warned the narrator not to risk her life trying to save others, and she explained that Rabbit Escape had let her overhear Naobito Zenin offering Toji terms to protect her in exchange for leaving the Zenin Clan.
• Toji asked whether the driver, who had heard their conversation, needed to be dealt with, but the narrator said he did not matter.

The narrator and Toji Zenin entered a domain created by a near-special-grade cursed spirit and discovered survivors inside. After rescuing two children, the narrator faced Suguru Geto, who asked to stay and help.

• The narrator led Toji Zenin into the classroom building after sensing a near-special-grade cursed spirit on its top floor.
• The narrator sent Rabbit Escape into the spirit's domain and heard survivors calling for help.
• The narrator entered the domain, leaving Toji outside to guard the Divine Dogs and the rescued children.
• The narrator found Suguru Geto with two terrified children and sent the weaker children outside through the shadows.
• Suguru Geto asked the narrator to let him help, but the narrator made no comment on his request.