Recaps

On Yuji Itadori’s ninth birthday, Xia Xia staged a deadly attack to force his little brother to survive, but Yuji surrendered control to Sukuna when he was cornered. Sukuna healed Yuji, failed to overpower Xia Xia, and escaped by blinding him with blood and fleeing through the rain.

• Xia Xia chased Yuji through the deserted streets, acting cruelly as Yuji pleaded for his life.
• Xia Xia caught Yuji with a kick and prepared to kill him, while Sukuna’s voice urged the injured boy to repeat an incantation.
• Yuji recited “Dragon Scales,” letting Sukuna take control of his body.
• Sukuna healed Yuji with Reverse Cursed Technique but lacked enough cursed energy to defeat Xia Xia.
• Sukuna splashed blood into Xia Xia’s eyes, swept his legs out from under him, and fled into the rain.

Sukuna escaped Xia Xia by making a binding vow that traded away his ability to use Yuji as a vessel, while Xia Xia set his plan in motion to protect his twin. Years later, Yuji killed Xia Xia in a final fight, inherited his memories and power, and became a Special Grade Sorcerer, grieving the brother who had freed him.

• Sukuna failed to make binding vows using Yuji’s body, then gained cursed energy and speed by promising never to use Yuji as a reincarnation vessel and escaped Xia Xia.
• Xia Xia arranged for Sukuna’s fingers to be destroyed and Yuji to be taken into custody, where Satoru Gojo later made Yuji his disciple.
• In the years that followed, Satoru Gojo killed Suguru Geto and several special grade curses, while Yuji grew into a powerful sorcerer under his protection.
• On December 21, 2018, Xia Xia attacked Jujutsu High and challenged Yuji, who struck him repeatedly with Black Flash.
• As Yuji’s final blow killed him, Xia Xia returned Yuji’s life, and his memories and cursed energy passed to his brother.
• Yuji became a true Special Grade Sorcerer but wept in the rain, overcome by grief for Xia Xia.

After completing a brutal simulation as Itadori Xia Xia, Xia Xia claimed powerful rewards, including the Akashic Records technique and memories infused with Kaori Itadori’s love. He resolved to use his new strength to change the main world’s tragedy and move the plot forward.

• Xia Xia opened Itadori Xia Xia’s treasure bag and obtained the Akashic Records innate cursed technique, along with major increases to his cursed energy and related abilities.
• Xia Xia opened Jin Itadori’s treasure bag and received proficient fishing.
• Kenjaku’s treasure bag gave Xia Xia Kenjaku’s memories and maternal love, plus Kaori Itadori’s modified body, which could confine the main-world Kenjaku as an ordinary person.
• Xia Xia obtained Ryomen Sukuna’s Fear, which strengthened his attacks against Sukuna and prevented Sukuna from using binding vows or making Xia Xia his vessel.
• Xia Xia assessed himself as a Special Grade Sorcerer and resolved to advance the main plot, while deciding to save Choso’s simulation for later.

Xia Xia cleared the cursed spirits from a hotel and met Yuji Itadori and Choso. He claimed that he and Yuji were brothers, leaving Yuji stunned by Xia Xia’s connection to their parents, Kaori Itadori and Jin Itadori.

• Xia Xia used Akashic Records to understand the hotel’s cursed spirits and crushed them, consumed by rage over their attacks on humans.
• Xia Xia cleared the hotel and defeated cursed spirits in an alley, where Yuji Itadori thanked him for helping.
• Xia Xia felt an unexpected tenderness toward Yuji and told him that he reminded him of a younger twin brother who had died.
• Choso clasped Xia Xia’s hand, recognized him as a brother, and prompted Xia Xia to accept the connection.
• Xia Xia told Yuji that their mother was Kaori Itadori and their father was Jin Itadori, then introduced himself as their parents’ illegitimate son.

Xia Xia gave Yuji Itadori memories of their imagined twin childhood, allowing Yuji to accept him as family, before Sukuna seized Yuji’s body and attacked. Xia Xia cut off and ate one of Sukuna’s fingers, permanently weakening the King of Curses, and left Yuji and Choso stunned.

• Xia Xia used Cursed Technique Reversal to share memories of nine years with Yuji, and Yuji accepted him as his twin brother.
• Sukuna used “Enchain” to take control of Yuji’s body and attack Xia Xia and Choso.
• Choso shielded Xia Xia, but Xia Xia pulled him aside and declared that they were brothers.
• Xia Xia activated Domain Expansion: Death-Bound Curse and used the Crystal Engraving Knife to sever one of Sukuna’s fingers, badly injuring him before the one-minute control ended.
• Yuji regained control, and Xia Xia ate Sukuna’s severed finger while Yuji and Choso watched in shock.

Xia Xia destroyed Sukuna’s Finger and gathered Yuji Itadori and Choso to reveal his plan to capture Kenjaku and confine her in Kaori Itadori’s body. The three brothers swore an oath of brotherhood, preparing to work together against Kenjaku.

• Xia Xia consumed Sukuna’s Finger after stripping away its information, explaining that his technique had destroyed it and increased his cursed energy.
• Hajime Kashimo and Megumi Fushiguro both sensed hostile contempt during the night, and Megumi opened Chimera Shadow Garden.
• Xia Xia told Yuji Itadori and Choso that he intended to solve Yuji’s Sukuna problem and capture Kenjaku.
• Xia Xia explained that he would imprison Kenjaku in Kaori Itadori’s body, stripped of cursed energy and technique, and Yuji and Choso agreed to help.
• After drinking together, Choso, Xia Xia, and Yuji Itadori swore brotherhood in the hotel courtyard beneath a peach tree.

Xia Xia went on a drunken, cursed-energy-fueled rampage in a stolen semi, killing cursed spirits and rogue sorcerers as he drove through the Culling Game barrier. At daybreak, he discovered he had earned 325 points, added a rule allowing players to transfer points freely, and realized he had no idea where he was.

• Xia Xia stole a heavy-duty semi, named it Red Hare, and drove toward Sendai while Yuji Itadori and Choso watched him leave.
• Xia Xia coated the truck in cursed energy and crushed a cursed spirit and a gang of rogue sorcerers who had set up a murderous roadblock.
• Xia Xia sped through the barrier, flattening cursed spirits and destroying a building as he veered far off course.
• At daybreak, Xia Xia saw that he had earned 325 points and spent 100 to add a rule allowing players to transfer points freely.
• Xia Xia tried to add a rule letting innocent civilians leave the barriers, but Kogane said a similar rule already existed, and Xia Xia realized he was nowhere near Sendai.

Xia Xia reached the gymnasium and watched Megumi Fushiguro battle Reggie Star, whose receipt-based cursed technique let him summon objects and recover his stamina. Xia Xia intervened when Reggie’s falling house threatened Megumi, killed Reggie, healed Megumi, and captured one of his Divine Dogs.

• Xia Xia found the gymnasium where Megumi Fushiguro was fighting Reggie Star and hid in the stands to watch.
• Megumi used Chimera Shadow Garden to summon Max Elephant, crushing Reggie beneath its weight while Reggie countered with summoned cars.
• Reggie used a receipt to summon a house, but Xia Xia emerged from the shadows and killed him before it could crush Megumi.
• Xia Xia healed Megumi with Reverse Healing and forcibly stuffed one of Megumi’s Divine Dogs into his shadow.

Xia Xia teased Megumi Fushiguro by pampering his Divine Dog with a metal ingot, then returned it and brought Megumi and Hana Kurusu to meet Yuji Itadori. The group landed at the hotel in a flying truck, with Xia Xia inviting Hana to help fight Sukuna.

• Xia Xia fed the Divine Dog a metal ingot, causing it to eagerly bond with him and leaving Megumi Fushiguro dismayed.
• Xia Xia returned the Divine Dog to Megumi and joked with him about his shikigami.
• Hana Kurusu appeared and asked whether Xia Xia and Megumi needed help after fighting an ancient jujutsu sorcerer.
• Xia Xia invited Hana to join them in fighting Sukuna, and she agreed to go with them.
• Xia Xia, Hana, and Megumi reached Yuji Itadori at the hotel in a flying Dayun truck.

Xia Xia tested the Demon Blade’s Contract Re-Creation ability, copied Megumi Fushiguro’s Divine Dog, and gained a limited Ten Shadows Technique of his own. When American troops attacked the barrier, Xia Xia fought back by cutting through soldiers, a tank, and a helicopter.

• Xia Xia discussed using Contract Re-Creation to reproduce objects from contracts and receipts, then traded Megumi Fushiguro a bottle of beer for temporary use of the Divine Dog.
• Xia Xia manifested a copy of the Divine Dog with Contract Re-Creation and changed it into Divine Dog • White while Hana Kurusu watched.
• After the copied Shikigami’s manifestation expired, it entered Xia Xia’s shadow, giving him his own incomplete Ten Shadows Technique; he named the dog Bruce and took back the beer.
• Kenjaku incited American leaders to send mechanized troops into the barrier to capture Jujutsu Sorcerers, and Xia Xia was caught in their attack.
• Xia Xia dodged bullets, killed a soldier with Round Dance Slash, and destroyed a tank with Raikiri and Dragon God's Sword.
• Xia Xia used Bruce and the Shadow Fish Demon Blade to attack from the shadows, then climbed into the sky and brought down an armed reconnaissance helicopter.

Xia Xia fought the American mechanized unit with cursed weapons and overwhelming skill, while Choso and the others tried to protect their group. After Megumi Fushiguro was shot and the hotel was bombarded, Xia Xia expanded his domain and unleashed his blades against the remaining soldiers.

• Xia Xia killed the unit commander by throwing a cursed table knife that extended its cut across the man's face.
• Xia Xia sliced a sniper bullet in half and killed the sniper, while Choso survived a shot and killed another soldier with Piercing Blood.
• A dying sniper fired again and struck Megumi Fushiguro, who was carried away by Hana Kurusu and Yuji Itadori.
• Mortars demolished the hotel as Xia Xia grew frustrated that the others could not support him.
• Xia Xia expanded Death-Bound Curse and sent his forged blades and metal ingots flying at the mechanized unit.

Xia Xia and his companions regrouped after Takaba protected them during the attack, then planned to confront Kenjaku and rescue Megumi Fushiguro’s sister. At the hospital, Xia Xia exposed Yorozu inhabiting Tsumiki and trapped her as Hana Kurusu activated Jacob’s Ladder.

• Takaba made the missiles and bullets harmless to Xia Xia and Megumi Fushiguro, while Xia Xia destroyed the attacking soldiers and checked on his companions.
• Xia Xia healed Hana Kurusu, and Megumi Fushiguro pretended to sleep while she and Xia Xia spoke.
• The group agreed to confront Kenjaku and added finding Tsumiki Fushiguro to their plans.
• Xia Xia explained that Tsumiki had been assimilated by Yorozu, then brought the group to her hospital room.
• Xia Xia held Megumi back as Hana Kurusu activated Jacob’s Ladder inside Xia Xia’s domain to attack Yorozu.

Yorozu revealed her identity and trapped Xia Xia in a Domain Expansion after Jacob’s Ladder missed. Xia Xia fought back with Raikiri, but Yorozu pierced him, triggering Mythical Beast Amber.

• Xia Xia attacked the Tsumiki Fushiguro lookalike and Hana Kurusu fired Jacob’s Ladder, but Yorozu dodged and exposed herself as an ancient sorcerer.
• Yorozu introduced herself and cast Domain Expansion: Threefold Affliction, overpowering Xia Xia’s domain.
• Xia Xia sent the others away from the clash and faced Yorozu alone with Raikiri and its automatic Hollow Wicker Basket defense.
• Xia Xia’s Demon-Repelling Edge disrupted Yorozu’s liquid metal, and he landed eight slashes, but she endured them.
• Yorozu formed a black blade and pierced Xia Xia, who survived and activated Mythical Beast Amber.

Xia Xia killed Yorozu with a binding-vow-empowered strike, though he died in the process and took Sukuna’s missing finger with him. The story then advanced to the decisive battle between Satoru Gojo and Sukuna, where Gojo defeated the weakened King of Curses.

• Xia Xia used his final attack to cut Yorozu, and she survived long enough to create a Perfect Sphere and heal herself before collapsing and dying from the critical strike.
• Xia Xia’s corpse and Sukuna’s stolen finger vanished into a scarlet vortex, leaving Sukuna weakened and one of Megumi Fushiguro’s Divine Dogs missing from his Ten Shadows Technique.
• On December 24, Satoru Gojo began his decisive battle with Sukuna by launching a two-hundred-percent Hollow Purple.
• Gojo used Mahoraga’s adaptation to Blue to outmaneuver it, then diverted Sukuna’s Piercing Blood so Blue and Red collided.
• Gojo fired Hollow Purple, and the weakened Sukuna turned to dust, making Gojo the victor.

After learning that Yuji Itadori’s future Domain Expansion had altered his thoughts through Akashic Records, Xia Xia rejected the imposed emotions and gambled his two Cursed Techniques in a fusion. A binding vow traded away his new feelings for maximum luck, and the fusion achieved great success.

• Xia Xia reviewed his rewards for killing Yorozu and Reggie, including a new trait, treasure bags, and Cursed Technique Harmonization.
• Xia Xia discovered that a special effect called “The Gaze from 68 Years in the Future” had used Akashic Records to influence his thoughts and emotions.
• Xia Xia realized that Yuji Itadori had used his future Domain Expansion to make him feel affection and trust, and he vowed to resist being controlled.
• Xia Xia ordered Cursed Technique Harmonization to consume Akashic Records and Demon-Repelling Edge, accepting that the irreversible fusion could fail and cost him both techniques.
• Xia Xia established a binding vow that sacrificed the emotions gained during the simulation in exchange for the greatest possible luck.
• The Cursed Technique Harmonization produced a great success.

Xia Xia regained his original bloodthirsty nature and received a powerful Innate Cursed Technique and Domain Expansion built around stealing power and inflicting soul damage. In a normal simulation, he killed Choso and Yuji, then killed himself before Sukuna could take control.

• Xia Xia recovered his original cruel impulses and obtained the Azure Soul Life Theft technique and Midu All-Works Body domain.
• Xia Xia entered a normal simulation at the hotel where Yuji and Choso had sworn brotherhood, then opened his domain and inflicted agony on both.
• Xia Xia killed Choso, deciding that he would spare him in a future simulation.
• Xia Xia taunted Yuji and killed him by piercing his skull, while thinking aloud about Jujutsu Kaisen power comparisons.
• Xia Xia summoned a Demon Blade and slit his own throat before Sukuna could take over Yuji's body.

After killing Choso in a simulation, Xia Xia reflected on his pursuit of immortality and settled into an “ordinary heart” free of attachment. He then began a special simulation centered on Yorozu, set in the Heian Era, with Yuji Itadori’s interference removed.

• Xia Xia opened Choso’s Treasure Bag and received Cursed Womb Affinity.
• Xia Xia accepted that he still could not defeat Sukuna and resolved to pursue immortality by becoming stronger.
• Xia Xia decided that his heart held only ordinariness and that Choso and the others could be left alone.
• Xia Xia selected Yorozu as the core character for his final special simulation.
• The simulation placed Xia Xia in the Heian Era, where Ryomen Sukuna ruled through strength, and ended on the resolve to become an asura again.

After unleashing the cursed womb and dying, Xia Xia Ashiya was reborn in the past as a powerless child of the Ashiya Clan. He awakened [Cursed Spirit Manipulation] despite his faint cursed energy, leaving him poised to begin again.

• Surrounded by enemies after his battle with Sukuna, Xia Xia Ashiya released Rakshasa Hundred Demons, triggering a deadly Night Parade that slaughtered his pursuers.
• The cursed womb absorbed the surrounding fear and despair, revealed its name as Myriad Karma, and sent Xia Xia Ashiya back through time.
• Xia Xia Ashiya awoke in the Ashiya Clan as a child named Xia, while the clan held a ritual to awaken the children's Cursed Techniques.
• The clan's barrier ritual revealed that Xia had almost no cursed energy, so the elders dismissed his prospects and expected him to serve the clan.
• Xia discovered that he had regained [Cursed Spirit Manipulation], the Cursed Technique of the legendary Great Onmyoji.

Ashiya Xia Xia returned to the Ashiya family’s shrine and used his Cursed Spirit Manipulation to turn a group of young sorcerers into cursed spirits and absorb them. He left the bamboo grove the following morning with more cursed energy and a captured spider cursed spirit.

• Ashiya Xia Xia recognized a young sorcerer leading a group that demanded his monthly resources.
• Ashiya Xia killed the ringleader with a thread, and the boy’s body began transforming into a spider-like cursed spirit.
• Ashiya Xia used his Cursed Spirit Manipulation technique, Netherworld, to subdue and absorb the spider cursed spirit.
• Ashiya Xia restrained the remaining apprentices, drained their blood, and transformed them into cursed spirits despite their pleas for help.
• Ashiya Xia left the grove the following morning, picked up a jewel-inlaid hairpin, and headed home.

Ashiya Xia Xia supported his cousin Ashiya Xia Cheng as Xia Cheng joined the main house, and he continued working to strengthen himself while clinging to their family bond. After finding a jade kingfisher carved by Xia Cheng around a courtesan’s neck, Xia Xia bought her freedom as a surprise for his cousin, then fell asleep dreaming of impossible riches and power.

• Ashiya Xia Xia returned home and praised Ashiya Xia Cheng’s jade carving before learning Xia Cheng would become the clan elder’s adopted son.
• Ashiya Xia Xia congratulated Xia Cheng and took him to their favorite teahouse for sugar cakes.
• Ashiya Xia Xia reflected on how he had protected and cared for Xia Cheng through years of hardship, despite being neglected by their uncle and aunt.
• Over the following months, Ashiya Xia Xia recovered old skills, grew stronger through cursed spirit missions, and saved money while Xia Cheng settled into the main house.
• Ashiya Xia Xia spotted Xia Cheng’s carved kingfisher on a courtesan’s necklace and bought her freedom, intending to surprise Xia Cheng.
• Ashiya Xia Xia went to sleep after arranging the purchase and dreamed of wealth and authority.

Ashiya Xia Xia bought Xunko’s freedom, but his younger brother Natsunari accused him of mistreating her, prompting Xia Xia to sever their relationship. When Natsunari offered all his savings to take Xunko, Xia Xia let them leave and remained alone at the tavern.

• Xunko packed her belongings and, at Ashiya Xia Xia’s request, went to buy sugar cakes and red bean cakes.
• Natsunari confronted Ashiya Xia Xia, accused him of hurting Xunko, and knocked the cakes onto the floor.
• Ashiya Xia Xia slapped Natsunari twice, said they were no longer brothers, and offered to transfer Xunko to him for six silver ingots.
• Natsunari offered his saved silver to take Xunko, and Ashiya Xia Xia accepted the money and told them to leave.
• Natsunari took Xunko away while Ashiya Xia Xia sat alone until evening, then ordered food and wine and decided to stay the night.

Ashiya Xia Xia exterminated the Ashiya clan, went to Kyoto, and became the powerful State Preceptor Ashiya Doman. Five years later, he confronted Yorozu, a strange woman who broke into his residence, and left her bound to question her motives.

• Ashiya Xia Xia decided to leave for Kyoto after securing his position in the Ashiya clan, then exterminated the clan while sparing the town below the mountain.
• Xia Xia traveled to Kyoto and, five years later, had become the State Preceptor Ashiya Doman, while Myriad Karma remained an unborn cursed womb in his shadow.
• A woman entered Doman's residence using a letter from the Fujiwara Clan, and Doman revealed that he had detected the intruder posing as his guard.
• Doman attacked the woman and trapped her in his domain, where she introduced herself as Yorozu and declared her love for him.
• After Yorozu touched Doman's face and he pierced her with a short sword, Doman dispelled his domain, bound her with cursed-energy chains, and demanded to know why she had come.

Ashiya Xia Xia read the Fujiwara Clan’s invitation to join a coalition against Ryomen Sukuna and discovered the clan had also uncovered his identity and was holding his younger brother Natsunari and Natsunari’s wife. The letter’s threats and offer of Yorozu left Xia Xia weighing the situation, and he questioned her about when the Fujiwara Clan planned to act.

• Ashiya Xia Xia took the Fujiwara Clan’s invitation from Yorozu and read its appeal for an alliance against Ryomen Sukuna.
• The letter revealed that the Fujiwara Clan had discovered Xia Xia’s identity and that Natsunari and his wife were staying with the clan.
• Xia Xia learned the clan planned to use Natsunari’s wife and the Bloodline Severance technique to threaten him into joining its effort against Sukuna.
• The letter explained that Sukuna had arrived at the Fujiwara Clan’s seat, prompting the clan to gather forces and invite Xia Xia to join them.
• Xia Xia freed Yorozu from his chains and asked when the Fujiwara Clan planned to make its move.

Ashiya Xia Xia prepared to meet the Fujiwara Clan and agreed to support their plan against Ryomen Sukuna. He saw through the clan head’s scheme to use the festival and its people as bait, then refused to lead the attack or spare the Fujiwara members marked for sacrifice.

• Ashiya Xia Xia packed his belongings, dressed with help from cursed spirits including Tamamo-no-Mae, and prepared to leave with Yorozu.
• Yorozu admired Ashiya Xia Xia’s appearance and followed him despite his warnings to keep her distance.
• The Fujiwara Clan gathered for a banquet, expecting Ryomen Sukuna to arrive after their scouts tracked Uraume.
• Ashiya Xia Xia told the Fujiwara Clan head he would help kill Natsunari and seek Uraume if he survived, but would only provide backup against Sukuna.
• The Fujiwara Clan head revealed that the clan planned to crown Sukuna king at the Summer Festival, and Ashiya Xia Xia realized the gathering was a trap meant to sacrifice selected clan members.
• Ashiya Xia Xia refused to lead the attack or spare the people the Fujiwara Clan had marked, leaving the clan head uneasy that he had seen through the plan.

Ashiya Xia Xia negotiated to fight Uraume instead of Sukuna, then discovered the Fujiwara Clan had hidden its true formation across the entire estate. He secretly spread cursed spirits through the formation to turn its power against the clan as preparations for Sukuna’s festival continued.

• Ashiya Xia Xia agreed to release his cursed spirits for the Fujiwara Clan’s battle against Sukuna while he targeted Uraume, and he secured Yorozu’s place at his side.
• Ashiya Xia Xia questioned the ominous formation beneath them, then used a false body to buy red bean cakes while his real body surveyed the estate from above.
• Ashiya Xia Xia discovered the Fujiwara Clan estate formed a concealed ritual space and suspected the Fujiwara Clan head planned to profit from the fight regardless of its outcome.
• Ashiya Xia Xia released thousands of concealed cursed spirits and sent them through the formation’s pathways to redirect its effects.
• Preparations for the festival continued as Ashiya Xia Xia reflected on Sukuna’s cruelty, Uraume’s role, and the malice behind jujutsu sorcerers.