Recaps

Xia Xia transmigrated into the Jujutsu Kaisen Culling Game with a resurrection trait and a cursed technique that lets him simulate lives and claim powers from them. His first simulation ended with Izumino killing him, and he resolved to keep trying while cursing the sorcerers.

• Xia Xia died when a truck struck his apartment, then resurrected in a white subspace with a trait that revived him after death.
• Xia Xia learned that his cursed technique, Borrowing the False World to Preclaim the True, let him simulate lives and claim exceptional abilities under certain conditions.
• Xia Xia began a reality-projection simulation and spawned in Tokyo near Izumino, an office worker who used invisible hands to tear people apart.
• Xia Xia challenged Izumino but was brutally dismembered and killed within fifteen seconds.
• Xia Xia resurrected in the subspace, saw that no rewards had carried over, and vowed to gather information through further attempts.

Xia Xia repeatedly died to Izumino’s Invisible Hand before learning that upgrades required killing a character. He finally killed Izumino with a surprise attack as they both died, then received the physical attributes and cursed energy of a standard Grade 3 Jujutsu Sorcerer.

• Xia Xia died five times while trying and failing to survive against Izumino’s Invisible Hand.
• Xia Xia learned that each character’s first death could fulfill a condition and grant a reward.
• Xia Xia feigned weakness while Izumino cut him in half, then bit Izumino’s throat and slashed his carotid artery with scrap metal.
• Xia Xia and Izumino died from their injuries, and Xia Xia fulfilled his first kill condition.
• Xia Xia received enhanced physical attributes and cursed energy equivalent to a standard Grade 3 Jujutsu Sorcerer.

Xia Xia killed Izumino, but a Grade 2 cursed spirit repeatedly killed him in the elevator shaft. Using his respawns to study the creature, he realized it could teleport only in darkness and prepared to fight it in a fully lit area.

• Xia Xia blocked Izumino’s invisible attacks and beat him to death with repeated elbow strikes.
• Xia Xia changed into clean clothes, entered an elevator shaft, and was killed by a snake-fish cursed spirit that tore out his heart.
• Xia Xia assessed the Grade 2 cursed spirit’s abilities in the respawn space and vowed to keep fighting it until he won.
• Xia Xia respawned, killed Izumino again, and died to the cursed spirit several more times.
• Xia Xia ate and drank in the shopping mall while recalling his deaths, then worked out that the spirit could teleport only in darkness.
• Xia Xia headed back toward the elevator shaft after deciding that keeping the area fully illuminated would let him fight the cursed spirit.

Xia Xia set the shopping center ablaze to keep the Snake-Fish Cursed Spirit from teleporting, then fought it while both burned. He exorcised it by tearing out its spine, but died in the fire as his respawn countdown began.

• Xia Xia struck a match and set a pile of clothes on fire, forcing the Snake-Fish Cursed Spirit out of the elevator shaft and preventing it from teleporting.
• Xia Xia wrapped the Snake-Fish Cursed Spirit in cursed-energy-infused curtains and pummeled it with punches and elbows while the flames burned them both.
• Xia Xia realized the cursed spirit’s core was in its lower body and drove his cursed-energy-coated hand through its scales to tear out its spine.
• The Snake-Fish Cursed Spirit dissipated after Xia Xia dismantled its life cycle, while its final attack slammed him into a wall.
• Xia Xia bit the fading spinal cord, then died as the fire consumed his body; a message recorded his death and started his respawn countdown.

After reaching Grade 2 and gaining the Shatter trait, Xia Xia was killed by the collateral damage from Hajime Kashimo’s lightning, but the encounter inspired him to pursue Kashimo’s power. He unlocked Cause-and-Effect Reversal and began a simulation set over four hundred years in the past, during Kashimo’s rise to fame.

• Xia Xia received Grade 2 strength, cursed energy reserves, and the Shatter trait after killing a wild Grade 2 Cursed Spirit.
• In a new reality simulation, Xia Xia easily defeated old man Izumino and the Snake-Fish Cursed Spirit, then wandered through the barrier looking for opponents.
• Xia Xia encountered Hajime Kashimo’s lightning, was killed by its fallout, and dropped his currency.
• Back in the white space, Xia Xia praised Kashimo’s strength and decided he could take Kashimo’s place by pursuing the Mythical Beast Amber technique.
• Xia Xia unlocked Cause-and-Effect Reversal and started a simulation set over four hundred years earlier, when Hajime Kashimo had become famous.

Hajime Kashimo recalled how his reputation as the Thunder God had grown as he defeated challengers without using Domain Expansion. He killed a young swordsman who challenged him with a domain and a cursed blade, then noticed someone had taken the boy’s body and broken sword as the domain vanished.

• Jujutsu Sorcerers repeatedly challenged Hajime Kashimo, but he countered their domains with Hollow Wicker Basket and killed them with lightning.
• A young swordsman asked Hajime Kashimo for recognition and opened their fight with Domain Expansion.
• Hajime Kashimo neutralized the domain’s sure-hit effect with Hollow Wicker Basket and praised the boy’s unusual cursed sword.
• The young swordsman’s blade nearly reached Hajime Kashimo, but Kashimo dodged and struck him down with lightning.
• As the domain dissolved, someone swiftly removed the young swordsman’s body and broken sword, and Hajime Kashimo chose not to pursue them.

Amabuki Xia Xia, the last frail descendant of a swordsmith family, unexpectedly forged a demon blade and then encountered a dying ronin. Believing the ronin to be a jujutsu sorcerer, Xia Xia abandoned his plan to kill him immediately and dragged him toward the village to find a weapon that could finish the job.

• The Amabuki family’s history revealed how its inherited demon-repelling technique faded until Xia Xia unexpectedly forged a blade that disrupted cursed energy and made wounds difficult to heal.
• Xia Xia met a badly wounded ronin and threatened to rob and kill him, even considering using his remains for food or materials.
• The ronin revealed that he was a jujutsu sorcerer and warned that dying by ordinary means could turn him into a cursed spirit.
• Xia Xia stopped short of killing the ronin, deciding he needed a cursed tool, and left to find a blade that could kill a sorcerer.
• Xia Xia returned with hemp rope, tied up the ronin, and dragged him toward the village while the ronin protected himself with cursed energy.

Isshin spared Amabuki Xia Xia and stayed with him, demanding a sword in exchange for teaching him. After half a year together, Xia Xia learned that Isshin had faced Hajime Kashimo and discovered that his own father had died challenging him; Isshin asked Xia Xia to forge a sword from his remains if he lost to Kashimo.

• Isshin spared Amabuki Xia Xia by cutting off his hair instead of his head, then demanded that Xia Xia forge him a sword in exchange for lessons.
• Isshin moved into Xia Xia’s hut, introduced himself as Isshin, and set rules that Xia Xia had to follow while he lived there.
• Over the next half year, Xia Xia continued trying to assassinate Isshin, who revealed that he was a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer with Domain Expansion.
• Isshin explained that he had gone to challenge Hajime Kashimo, but another man fought in his place and died in the battle’s aftermath.
• Isshin told Xia Xia that his father, Amabuki Dōkō, had also died challenging Hajime Kashimo, and Xia Xia said he wanted Kashimo dead.
• Isshin asked Xia Xia to forge a sword from his body and broken weapon if he lost to Hajime Kashimo, and Xia Xia agreed.

After Isshin died in his duel with Hajime Kashimo, Xia Xia reforged Isshin's broken blade into a new Demon Blade and prepared revenge. He left poisoned tea for Hajime Kashimo, who drank it without suspicion.

• Isshin gave Xia Xia his old sword and silver before leaving for a duel with Hajime Kashimo.
• Xia Xia found Isshin dead beside the broken Demon Blade Isshin and grieved his friend's death.
• Xia Xia used Isshin's corpse, the broken blade, and other cursed materials to forge a third Demon Blade, then welcomed Isshin back by name.
• Xia Xia left poisoned tea in the courtyard for Hajime Kashimo, who drank several cups after killing Isshin.

Xia Xia finally attacked the aging Hajime Kashimo after waiting more than a dozen years, but Kashimo used a binding vow to restore his strength for one last battle. The chapter ended with Xia Xia attempting Hollow Wicker Basket as Kashimo challenged him to a duel.

• Xia Xia revealed that he had waited for more than a dozen years to take revenge on Hajime Kashimo.
• Xia Xia ambushed Kashimo, piercing his chest and spine and destroying his Cursed Energy core.
• Kashimo resolved to fight back and released Mythical Beast Amber through a binding vow that guaranteed his death after the battle.
• Kashimo challenged Xia Xia to a fight, and Xia Xia began Hollow Wicker Basket.

Hajime Kashimo and Amabuki Xia Xia fought inside Xia Xia’s death-triggered Domain Expansion, trading a lethal sword attack and lightning strike. As both endured the other’s blow, Xia Xia prepared to borrow something from Kashimo.

• Amabuki Xia Xia explained that his Domain Expansion would curse those inside to death if he died, unless they escaped with a Domain Expansion of their own.
• Hajime Kashimo realized the domain might threaten a powerful sorcerer who could not use Domain Expansion, then questioned what would happen to such a fighter.
• Xia Xia, angered by Kashimo’s apparent stillness, attacked with three coordinated sword slashes drawn from several swordsmanship styles.
• Kashimo admired Xia Xia’s swordsmanship, accepted him as a kindred warrior, and launched lightning that had already marked its target.
• Kashimo endured Xia Xia’s slashes and thrust lightning at his head, while Xia Xia took the strike with super armor and prepared to borrow from Kashimo.

Amabuki Xia Xia made a death binding vow, surrendering everything in his life to turn himself into a monster and gain enough power to defeat Hajime Kashimo. After Xia Xia’s final slashes and a last cursed technique struck across time, Hajime Kashimo died, and Xia Xia appeared to be dead as well.

• Hajime Kashimo tried to interrupt as Amabuki Xia Xia completed an elaborate vow to sacrifice his humanity, future, and life for overwhelming martial power.
• Xia Xia used his Maximum Technique, Maple, and became immune to Hajime Kashimo’s lightning-aspected cursed energy.
• Xia Xia hurled Demon Blade Isshin and attacked with Same Light and Clouded, cutting through space with Heavenly Origin • Boundary of Emptiness.
• Hajime Kashimo died after seeing Xia Xia’s swordsmanship and reflecting with old martial arts acquaintances in his final moments.
• As Xia Xia knelt, Cursed Execution delivered three fatal slashes across time, leaving Hajime Kashimo no chance to survive.

After completing a simulation, Xia Xia gained Grade 1 physical abilities and new powers from two treasure bags, though Hajime Kashimo’s core reward was only a master-level Hollow Wicker Basket. Frustrated but eager to test his upgrades, Xia Xia started a reality simulation to fight Uncle Izumino and the Snake-Fish Cursed Spirit.

• Xia Xia reviewed his simulation rewards and questioned why Hajime Kashimo had been rated a Grade 1 sorcerer.
• Xia Xia opened the Amabuki Xia Xia Treasure Bag and gained the Demon-Repelling Edge cursed technique, the Death-Bound Curse Domain Expansion, and improved talents.
• Xia Xia opened the Hajime Kashimo Treasure Bag and received a master-level Hollow Wicker Basket as its core reward.
• Xia Xia vented his frustration over Kashimo’s poor reward and criticized his failure to learn Domain Expansion.
• Xia Xia switched to reality simulation mode and began a new simulation, intending to test his powers against Uncle Izumino and the Snake-Fish Cursed Spirit.

Xia Xia forged cursed tools from Izumino and the Snake-Fish Cursed Spirit, then waited for a chance to meet Kinji Hakari. Hajime Kashimo arrived instead, and Xia Xia trapped him in Death-Bound Curse, where Kashimo killed Xia Xia but died to the domain’s cursed execution.

• Xia Xia used Death-Bound Curse to forge Izumino into the invisible cursed blade Toyama Izumino.
• Xia Xia killed the Snake-Fish Cursed Spirit and forged Shadow Fish, a controllable throwing knife that moved through dark places.
• Xia Xia headed toward the city center, hoping to meet Kinji Hakari and gain a new entry point into the plot.
• Hajime Kashimo confronted Xia Xia after sensing the domain commotion, and Xia Xia immediately expanded Death-Bound Curse.
• Hajime Kashimo killed Xia Xia inside the domain but failed to activate Mythical Beast Amber, so the domain’s cursed execution killed him.

Xia Xia repeatedly fought Hajime Kashimo in simulations, then asked him for a friendly lesson and received advice on his martial arts and swordsmanship. After learning that his blade was holding him back, Xia Xia used a one-time Binding Vow slash to kill Kashimo and began turning his corpse into a sword.

• Xia Xia repeatedly died fighting Hajime Kashimo in simulations, improving his martial skills and growing attached to him.
• Xia Xia asked Kashimo for a friendly spar, and Kashimo agreed to teach him after Xia praised his strength.
• Kashimo recognized that Xia Xia’s unarmed moves imitated his own and advised him to draw his blade.
• Kashimo assessed Xia Xia’s swordsmanship, crushed his inferior blade, and told him that better equipment was needed to support his skill.
• Xia Xia used a one-time Binding Vow slash to kill Kashimo by surprise, then invoked Domain Expansion: Death-Bound Curse to offer Kashimo’s corpse as material for his sword.

Xia Xia forged a Special Grade Cursed Tool, Raikiri, from Hajime Kashimo after killing him in repeated simulations. In a new encounter, Xia Xia used the blade to overwhelm Kashimo and taunted him inside his domain, leaving the Thunder God stunned by how far the era had surpassed him.

• After 140 deaths, Xia Xia killed Hajime Kashimo and forged his corpse into the Special Grade blade Raikiri, which granted lightning immunity and automatically activated Hollow Wicker Basket in other domains.
• Xia Xia restarted the simulation, encountered Hajime Kashimo, and challenged him to fight while wielding Raikiri.
• Hajime Kashimo's lightning attacks failed against the blade, and Xia Xia demonstrated that he could defeat him while pretending to be an ordinary Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer.
• Xia Xia insulted Kashimo's strength and the limits of his era, then trapped him in Domain Expansion • Death-Bound Curse.
• Xia Xia pointed out that he could use Domain Expansion while Kashimo could not, and mocked Kashimo's ambitions to fight Sukuna after becoming a Cursed Object.

Xia Xia and Hajime Kashimo discussed their goals before adding a rule that let players leave the colonies. After escaping Tokyo No. 2 Colony, they split up and headed toward separate encounters.

• Hajime Kashimo spoke about his fear of aging and his desire to fight Sukuna, while Xia Xia said he sought immortality and dismissed love as false.
• Xia Xia and Hajime Kashimo agreed to leave the colony together, then part ways and meet again if they survived until the fight with Sukuna.
• Xia Xia explained that Hajime Kashimo could spend points to add a rule allowing players to enter and leave colonies freely.
• Hajime Kashimo spent 100 of his 117 points to add the ninth rule, which Kogane announced to every player.
• Xia Xia and Hajime Kashimo left Tokyo No. 2 Colony, noticed a strong cursed energy signature nearby, and went in different directions.

Xia Xia survived the Culling Game by sleeping inside his Domain and turning cursed spirits into tools, then encountered Yuji Itadori and Choso. He lured them into his hotel room and left Yuji frightened and sworn to secrecy.

• Xia Xia slept safely in a hotel room by using Domain Expansion to immobilize nearby intruders, then killed a cursed spirit that ambushed him in a mirror.
• Xia Xia killed a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit in the hotel stairwell and transformed its remains into a nail clipper.
• Xia Xia met Yuji Itadori and Choso outside the hotel, offered them bread, and invited them to take supplies from a supermarket.
• Yuji and Choso accepted Xia Xia’s invitation to stay at the hotel, and Xia Xia got them drunk.
• Xia Xia took Yuji into his bedroom and used Domain Expansion, then threatened him into keeping what happened secret.

After Sukuna killed Xia Xia, Xia Xia collected rewards for his encounters with Yuji Itadori and Choso and chose Yuji as the core character for a special simulation. The simulation revealed that Xia Xia was Yuji’s twin brother, raised by Kenjaku, and left him facing an uncertain new timeline.

• Sukuna took over Yuji Itadori and killed Xia Xia with Cleave, sending him back to the Pure White Space.
• Xia Xia received stat increases and two Cause-and-Effect Reversal uses after killing cursed spirits and contacting Yuji Itadori and Choso.
• The system offered Yuji Itadori and Choso as core characters, then warned that Yuji’s simulation could include Sukuna and a special environment tied to the future.
• Xia Xia chose Yuji Itadori as the core character and checked his status, which rated his overall combat strength as a strong Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer.
• The simulation revealed that Xia Xia had been born as Yuji’s twin brother and raised alongside him by Kenjaku.

Itadori Xia Xia remembered his infancy and childhood with his twin brother Yuji, treasuring the warm family life they shared with their parents and grandfather. The chapter ended with Xia Xia recalling an ordinary afternoon of caring for Yuji, unaware that it would later become a painful memory.

• Xia Xia was born moments before Yuji and first saw his father, mother, and grandfather together, while his grandfather warned Jin to stay away from a woman.
• Xia Xia grew attached to his family and treasured his mother's bedtime stories and his parents' care for him and Yuji.
• Xia Xia asked his mother why their hair colors differed, then agreed to watch over Yuji while she made dinner.
• When Jin came home, Xia Xia shared his hamburger steak with Yuji and promised to beat him at games after dinner.
• Xia Xia washed the family's drinking glasses while Yuji set up Aeroplane Chess, and he gently asked his younger brother to wait for him.

Kenjaku decided to remain with Xia Xia and Yuji until they turned ten, while Xia Xia learned that his mother had chosen Yuji as Sukuna’s vessel and discovered his own Cursed Technique. He hid the truth from his family and began preparing for the three years before Kenjaku planned to leave.

• Kenjaku resolved to stay with Xia Xia and Yuji until their tenth birthday, despite his plans to leave sooner.
• Wasuke Itadori told Xia Xia and Yuji stories about Ryomen Sukuna, while Xia Xia dismissed his warnings about their mother.
• As Wasuke recounted Sukuna’s legend, Xia Xia saw Sukuna’s Finger inside Yuji and learned that his mother had made Yuji the vessel for Sukuna’s resurrection.
• Xia Xia awakened a Cursed Technique that let him uncover information and glimpse fate, but the vision caused his eyes to bleed.
• Xia Xia concealed what he had seen, asked Wasuke for water, and privately resolved to prepare for the three years until he turned ten.

After his Cursed Technique awakened, Xia Xia resolved to kill Kenjaku and his own family to prevent Sukuna’s resurrection, though he knew he needed to understand his mother better first. While playing with Yuji, he concealed his fears and ended by saying he wanted to become a champion of justice.

• Xia Xia learned that his Cursed Technique could kill anything he fully understood and decided to sacrifice his family, himself, and possibly Yuji to stop Sukuna’s return.
• Xia Xia recognized that killing Kenjaku would require him to learn more about her past and planned to use her genuine maternal love to get close to her.
• Yuji found Xia Xia in the park and asked why his brother had been spending so much time with their mother.
• Xia Xia told Yuji he had been studying history and legends, then asked what kind of person Yuji wanted to become.
• Yuji wished for an ordinary job that would let him spend time with his family, while Xia Xia said he wanted to become a champion of justice.

Xia Xia spent a quiet day with his family while concealing that he knew Kenjaku had taken over Kaori Itadori’s body. After shopping with his mother in the rain, he felt the warmth of their closeness and feared losing it.

• Xia Xia woke early and joined Kaori in the kitchen, hiding his awareness of the stitches on her forehead and the truth about Kenjaku.
• Kaori invited Xia Xia to the market after breakfast, and he woke Yuji before the family ate together.
• Xia Xia accompanied Kaori to the market, where they bought food and secretly added fruit gummies to the cart.
• Rain began on the walk home, and Kaori sheltered Xia Xia in her arms while she got wet beneath the umbrella.

In 2012, nine-year-old Xia Xia struggled with the knowledge of Kenjaku’s plans and his fear that he might have to kill his mother to stop them. As his birthday approached, he promised Yuji he would do anything to keep him alive, even as Xia Xia believed his own future was already ruined.

• Xia Xia pieced together Kenjaku’s preparations, including Tengen’s transformation, the births of Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and the Itadori twins, and the events that would let Kenjaku take over Geto’s body.
• By March 2012, Xia Xia felt unable to wait another year for Kenjaku to leave, but doubted that his incomplete knowledge or his resolve would be enough to kill Kenjaku and his mother, Kaori Itadori.
• As Xia Xia’s parents asked what he wanted for his ninth birthday, they worried about his distant mood, while Yuji tried to cheer him by asking him to spend time together.
• Yuji noticed Xia Xia studying ancient writing and asked why he liked reading; Xia Xia explained that stories helped him understand their authors and feel as though he had lived their lives.
• When Yuji asked what Xia Xia would do if the world ended, Xia Xia said he would try everything to keep Yuji alive and silently resolved that his brother must live, even if Xia Xia had to sacrifice himself.

Xia Xia used his fully charged carving knife to kill Kenjaku, who was living as Kaori Itadori, believing it was necessary to save the world and Yuji. His father and grandfather accepted his choice and died by his hand as well, and Yuji arrived home to find the family dead.

• After learning about Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, Riko Amanai, Toji Fushiguro, and Tengen, Xia Xia completed the knowledge needed to use his cursed technique against Kenjaku.
• On his ninth birthday, Xia Xia left school early and returned home, where his family was preparing a celebration.
• Xia Xia embraced Kaori Itadori, told her he loved her, and stabbed her with the carving knife, killing Kenjaku as he died in her arms.
• Jin Itadori and Wasuke Itadori told Xia Xia they supported his choice, then died after he turned the knife on them.
• Yuji Itadori came home and found Xia Xia beside the cold bodies as a blood moon rose outside.