Chapter Summaries

Mai Zenin finally resisted Kamo Xu by shooting him, but he declared her a failure and seemed ready to punish her until Maki and the others intervened. Kamo Xu faked a Domain Expansion to frighten everyone, while Megumi Fushiguro nearly summoned Mahoraga again.

• Mai Zenin remembered how the Zenin Clan had tormented her and decided to fight back rather than remain helpless like a defective product.
• Mai shot Kamo Xu between the brows, but he hardened his blood and the bullet only broke his skin.
• Kamo Xu declared that Aoi Todo passed and Mai Zenin failed, leaving everyone fearing he would kill her.
• Maki Zenin rushed in to shield Mai, while Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro also pleaded with Kamo Xu to spare her.
• Kamo Xu shouted “Domain Expansion” to scare them, then laughed when they scrambled to defend themselves.
• Megumi Fushiguro nearly completed the chant to summon Mahoraga, who raged in the darkness after being denied release again.

Kamo Xu unsettled the students with a grotesque joke about his romantic preferences, then left after telling Maki and Mai Zenin to meet him at his dorm. He considered using Mai’s cursed technique to create a personal cursed tool and make her stronger, leaving his plan untested.

• Aoi Todo challenged Kamo Xu by asking what kind of women he liked, but Kamo Xu’s outrageous answer disgusted Todo and stunned the students.
• Kamo Xu admitted he had been joking and said he still had burdens to deal with before finding a partner.
• Kamo Xu told Maki and Mai Zenin to come to his dorm, leaving Maki embarrassed and alarmed by what his words might imply.
• Kamo Xu vanished at tremendous speed, impressing Todo and the other students.
• Kamo Xu considered assimilating Mai’s blood and using her cursed technique to give her more cursed energy and create a cursed tool for himself.

After Kamo Xu left, Maki and Mai confronted the distance between them and reconciled in an embrace. They headed together to Kamo Xu’s dorm, while he prepared desserts and waited for their help making a Special Grade Cursed Tool.

• Megumi Fushiguro led Nobara Kugisaki away, and Aoi Todo left after retrieving his jacket.
• Maki Zenin had shielded Mai from Kamo Xu, making Mai reconsider years of resentment toward her sister.
• Mai began crying, and Maki hesitated before Mai threw herself into her sister’s arms.
• Maki comforted Mai, and the sisters let go of some of their old grievances.
• Maki and Mai headed together to Kamo Xu’s dorm to help make a Special Grade Cursed Tool.
• Kamo Xu prepared ice cream for the sisters and blamed Satoru Gojo when a chill ran through him.

Kamo Xu welcomed Maki and Mai to his dorm, where his domestic appearance surprised them and dispelled Maki’s fears that he intended to harm them. He explained that he had called them over because he wanted Mai to help him create a Special Grade Cursed Tool.

• Maki led Mai to Kamo Xu’s dorm while worrying that he might hurt them, though Mai suspected he had no romantic interest in either of them.
• Kamo Xu opened the door wearing a Cartoon Cat apron and invited them inside, startling both sisters with his unexpected domestic appearance.
• Maki asked whether Kamo Xu planned to do anything to them, and his confusion revealed that he knew little about romance.
• Kamo Xu reminded the sisters that they had agreed to help and said he needed Mai to create a Special Grade Cursed Tool.

Kamo Xu invited Maki and Mai Zenin into his home, where they enjoyed his ice cream before discussing Mai’s inability to create a Special Grade Cursed Tool. He revealed that his blood-altering ability could give Maki—and possibly Mai—vast cursed energy and blood control, leaving Mai to consider that her twin bond might make her an eligible recipient.

• Kamo Xu welcomed Maki and Mai into his home and served them ice cream, which they eagerly devoured.
• Mai explained that her limited cursed energy prevented her from making the Special Grade Cursed Tool Kamo Xu wanted.
• Kamo Xu asked whether Mai knew Riko Amanai and explained that his ability had given Riko cursed energy and blood control by altering her blood.
• Kamo Xu demonstrated his ability by shaping a drop of blood into several forms before solidifying it into a bead filled with cursed energy.
• Kamo Xu explained that his blood’s effects would last only a day in sorcerers with innate techniques, but could become permanent for Maki because of her Heavenly Restriction.
• Kamo Xu suggested that Mai’s twin bond might also make her an ordinary person in the eyes of the restriction, potentially allowing her to receive his cursed energy without conflict.

Kamo Xu gave Mai Zenin a huge reserve of cursed energy, freeing her from her former limits, and she used her newfound ability to create a powerful cursed tool for him. He named it False Sun God Slayer, a weapon bound to his soul that could strengthen his body and blood techniques ahead of his future fight with Sukuna.

• Mai Zenin agreed to make Kamo Xu a cursed tool in exchange for cursed energy, while Maki Zenin refused his offer and vowed to become a grade 1 sorcerer through her own efforts.
• Kamo Xu transferred cursed energy to Mai, and her energy surged until she could create piles of bullets with little effort.
• Kamo Xu and Mai began making his commissioned cursed tool, and he infused it with Red Emperor Blue Star and 49% of his soul.
• The finished tool gained extreme cold and explosive flame abilities, Blood Affinity, and the ability to act as Kamo Xu's heart while stored inside him.
• Kamo Xu named the completed, shape-shifting cursed tool False Sun God Slayer.

Kamo Xu struggled to contain his pain and urge to hunt cursed spirits while Maki and Mai noticed his suffering. A call from Gojo reported three students killed at a cinema, and Kamo Xu prepared to join the investigation.

• Kamo Xu merged the special grade cursed tool False Sun God Slayer into his blood and heart.
• Kamo Xu's suppressed killing urge resurfaced, and his agitation made Maki and Mai uneasy.
• Mai recognized Kamo Xu's pain and wondered about the source of his suffering, while Maki bluntly asked him what was wrong.
• Kamo Xu offered the sisters more ice cream, then answered a call from Gojo reporting that three students had been killed at a cinema.
• Kamo Xu told Gojo to have Nanami and Itadori stand by and prepared to go with them.

Satoru Gojo took the battered Yuji Itadori and Kamo Xu to meet grade one sorcerer Kento Nanami for a mission investigating deaths at a cinema. Nanami explained that he returned to jujutsu work because ordinary employment was even worse, leaving Itadori baffled by adult life.

• Satoru Gojo brought Yuji Itadori out of the basement and took him and Kamo Xu through a secret passage at Jujutsu High.
• Kamo Xu's brutal training had made Itadori more cautious and perceptive in combat, though Gojo found his battered condition amusing.
• Satoru Gojo explained that the mission was to investigate students' deaths at a cinema, find the culprit, and exorcise it if possible alongside a grade one sorcerer.
• Satoru Gojo introduced the grade one sorcerer as Kento Nanami, who had left office work and returned to jujutsu society.
• Kento Nanami told Itadori that he considered both sorcerer work and ordinary employment terrible, but found jujutsu work more tolerable.

Kento Nanami introduced Yuji Itadori to the contrast between Satoru Gojo, whom he trusted but did not respect, and Kamo Xu, whom he deeply respected. While Nanami taught Itadori to track cursed spirits, he explained that Kamo had once been kind and patient before an accident changed him.

• Kento Nanami listed Satoru Gojo’s irresponsible habits, and Kamo Xu confirmed the accusations were true.
• Kento Nanami praised Kamo Xu as dependable and worthy of respect, despite saying he could no longer be trusted or relied upon.
• Kento Nanami taught Yuji Itadori how to follow cursed residue while they searched the cinema for cursed spirits.
• Yuji Itadori asked Nanami what Kamo Xu had been like, and Nanami described him as strong, confident, efficient, and kind.
• Kento Nanami said that six months earlier Kamo Xu had nearly eliminated Japan’s cursed spirits, but an accident had changed him.

Nanami told Itadori how Kamo Xu’s warnings, Haibara’s death, and later tragedies shaped Kamo’s fall from Jujutsu Society. After learning that Gojo had sent him Kamo’s medical report and the Higher-Ups’ verdict, Nanami returned to take action on Kamo’s behalf.

• Nanami recounted how Kamo Xu warned him and Haibara about a mission, but they went anyway, and Haibara died in the encounter with a Land God.
• Nanami explained that Kamo later lost a close family member, awakened his domain, killed cursed spirits across two cities, and fought Gojo before leaving Jujutsu High.
• Nanami described how Kamo spent six months exorcising cursed spirits, earned the Special Grade title, and was officially branded a curse user and the second King of Curses.
• Nanami told Itadori that Kamo had saved people during Sukuna’s attack by using his domain to apply Reverse Cursed Technique, before collapsing.
• After Gojo sent Nanami Kamo’s medical results and the Higher-Ups’ verdict, Nanami decided to return and seek enough influence to improve Kamo’s situation.

Kamo Xu, Nanami, and Itadori found the aftermath of Mahito’s slaughter, and Kamo revealed that Mahito had killed his mother. After Junpei Yoshino saw Mahito’s handiwork and remembered his own abuse, he asked Mahito if he could gain the same power.

• Itadori and Nanami followed the cursed residue to a rooftop covered in the remains of transfigured humans, where they found Kamo Xu recovering from the fight.
• Kamo Xu told Nanami and Itadori that the culprit was Mahito, whose ability altered souls and who had killed Kamo’s mother.
• Nanami and Itadori agreed that Mahito had to be stopped, while Kamo Xu urged them to leave because Mahito had already escaped.
• Kamo Xu told them to watch the boy they had seen at the cinema, though his headache kept him from recalling the boy’s name.
• Junpei Yoshino confronted Mahito after finding the people who had bullied him transformed and dead, then asked Mahito if he could do the same thing.

Kamo Xu told Kento Nanami that Mahito had transformed innocent civilians into monsters, which Kamo Xu had been forced to kill while Mahito escaped. He privately endured worsening pain from the curses living symbiotically inside his body, leaving his true condition hidden from Shoko Ieiri and Satoru Gojo.

• Mahito became intrigued by Junpei Yoshino's anger and waited calmly for him to approach.
• Kento Nanami asked Kamo Xu whether the creatures he had killed were once human, and Kamo Xu confirmed Mahito had transformed them beyond saving.
• Kamo Xu explained that Mahito had left a trail to lure him, then turned civilians into transfigured humans and escaped while Kamo Xu slaughtered them.
• Kamo Xu's pain worsened as he reflected on the deaths and admitted to himself that his body was seriously deteriorating.
• Kamo Xu's swallowed curses had replaced his organs with fangs, claws, and eyeballs, but Yang Xu helped them disguise themselves as normal organs during Shoko Ieiri's examination.

Mahito manipulated Junpei Yoshino into a binding vow to kill Kamo Xu, while Kento Nanami insisted that the injured Kamo Xu rest instead of taking on the investigation. Kamo Xu left with Yuji Itadori to find Junpei as Nanami stayed behind, pleading with him to stop hiding his injuries and exhaustion.

• Mahito explained cursed energy and cursed spirits to Junpei Yoshino, then persuaded him to make a binding vow.
• Mahito asked Junpei to personally kill Kamo Xu, and Junpei accepted, believing he was protecting Mahito.
• Kento Nanami briefed Yuji Itadori on the investigation and asked him to search for Junpei alongside Kamo Xu.
• After Itadori and Ijichi left, Nanami confronted Kamo Xu for trying to take on the mission while injured.
• Nanami slammed the table and begged Kamo Xu to rest, accusing him of hiding his wounds and pushing everyone away.

Kamo Xu argued with Kento Nanami before leaving him to rest while Itadori and Ijichi tracked Junpei Yoshino. In a sewer, Nanami fought Mahito and was wounded, and Mahito prepared to use a transfigured human against him.

• Kamo Xu backed down from his argument with Kento Nanami, shoved past him, and fell asleep in Ijichi's car.
• Itadori and Ijichi spotted Junpei Yoshino, but Itadori crashed into a utility pole while catching a Fly Head before it reached him.
• Kento Nanami searched a sewer and fought through hordes of transfigured humans, struggling with the burden of killing them.
• Mahito emerged from the shadows, wounded Nanami with barbed tentacles, and revealed that he feared Kamo Xu.
• Mahito transformed a miniature human into a spiked weapon and sent it charging at Kento Nanami.

Kento Nanami fought Mahito, whose touch could reshape souls, and discovered that Kamo Xu’s dormant soul inside him could counter Mahito and lend him power. Nanami healed, invoked Kamo Xu’s Blood Manipulation, and attacked Mahito as their fight continued.

• Nanami adapted to Mahito’s shifting attacks and used Ratio Technique to strike through his defenses, smashing apart Mahito’s head.
• Mahito touched Nanami’s abdomen and began using Idle Transfiguration, but his cursed energy awakened Kamo Xu’s dormant soul inside Nanami.
• Kamo Xu’s cursed energy surged through Nanami, healing his injuries and linking his blood-manipulation control to Mahito.
• Nanami explained that Kamo Xu had never truly left and that he had stepped forward to protect the Jujutsu High students.
• Nanami entered Overtime and used modified Flowing Red Scale to make Mahito’s blood burst out and pierce his body with spikes.

Nanami fought Mahito using Kamo Xu’s cursed energy and Blood Manipulation, but Mahito destroyed the soul fragment sustaining Nanami’s borrowed power and trapped him with Idle Transfiguration. Kamo Xu awakened and began a Domain Expansion to save Nanami.

• Nanami immobilized Mahito with Blood Manipulation, severed his limbs, and smashed his head, but Mahito regenerated.
• Nanami used Piercing Blood to cut through Mahito’s transfigured humans, then split Mahito’s body and buried him beneath a collapsing sewer wall.
• Mahito recovered and used a detached half of his body to surprise Nanami, then transfigured the Kamo Xu soul fragment inside him, causing most of Nanami’s cursed energy to vanish.
• Mahito hooked Nanami’s shoulder and interlocked their hands to use Idle Transfiguration again.
• Kamo Xu awakened, tracked Nanami through his blood, and began Domain Expansion-Desire-Sloth Truth-Seeking Vortex.

Kamo Xu remotely activated his Domain Expansion through the remnant of his soul in Kento Nanami, interrupting Mahito’s Idle Transfiguration and rescuing Nanami. Kamo Xu’s domain flooded the city with blood while Nanami escaped the sewers, realizing he could not defeat Mahito alone.

• Kamo Xu closed his eyes in his parked car, then his Domain Expansion triggered an earthquake and sent torrents of blood surging through the city.
• Mahito interlaced his hand with Kento Nanami’s and began using Idle Transfiguration, believing he had finally defeated Kamo Xu.
• Kamo Xu used the remnant of his soul inside Nanami as an anchor to activate his Domain Expansion, shredding Mahito’s hand and interrupting the transfiguration.
• The domain’s blood torrent blasted Mahito deeper into the sewers and swept Nanami out through the sewer outlet.
• Nanami assessed that he could not defeat Mahito alone and retreated, worrying that he had failed to spare Kamo Xu concern.

After Nanami’s battle with Mahito left a blood-soaked street, Kamo Xu healed Nanami’s hidden injury and reprimanded him for concealing it. Satoru Gojo teased the pair as they left, while Nanami was left standing in confusion.

• Satoru Gojo arrived at the devastated street and asked Ijichi what had happened.
• Nanami claimed responsibility for the bloodshed, and Gojo joked about his unusually red appearance.
• Kamo Xu ordered Nanami to show his injured hand, then healed it with Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Kamo Xu told Nanami he would deal with him later and returned to Ijichi’s car.
• Gojo teased Kamo Xu and Nanami about their gay vibes, and both told him to get lost.

Yuji Itadori questioned Junpei Yoshino about the theater deaths, then bonded with him over their shared love of movies. In the sewers, Kenjaku revived Mahito and waited for Kamo Xu, who arrived and immediately cut Mahito apart again.

• Yuji Itadori failed to reach his supervisors, asked Junpei Yoshino about the theater deaths, and accepted Junpei’s claim that he knew nothing about the cursed spirits.
• Yuji asked Junpei to wait for his supervisor, and the two began chatting about movies while they waited.
• Junpei discovered that Yuji also liked Worm Man 3 and eagerly discussed the movie with him.
• Kenjaku gathered Mahito’s scattered flesh and restored him, then waited in the sewers to meet Kamo Xu and fulfill their binding vow.
• Kamo Xu arrived, sliced Mahito apart again, and greeted Kenjaku.

Kamo Xu met Kenjaku to return the Prison Realm, but tormented Mahito and provoked Kenjaku along the way. He left Mahito restored in a badly damaged body, promising that worse punishment still awaited him.

• Kamo Xu found Kenjaku and repeatedly shredded Mahito's regenerating remains while refusing to kill him.
• Kamo Xu warned Kenjaku not to smile with Suguru Geto's face, then continued destroying Mahito's flesh whenever Kenjaku reacted.
• Kamo Xu returned the Prison Realm fragments by having cursed spirits carry them to Kenjaku, fulfilling the binding vow.
• Kamo Xu ignored Kenjaku's expectation that he would leave and reassembled Mahito from the remaining flesh.
• Mahito cursed Kamo Xu, who relished his anger and promised that his punishment would continue.