A hundred years ago.
The brain-swapping Jujutsu Sorcerer Kenjaku used his cursed technique to seize the body of a man named "Kenjaku." To continue researching the origins of jujutsu, he conducted experiment after experiment, turning a woman whose unusual constitution allowed her to become pregnant by cursed spirits into a pawn of his desires.
Over the course of the woman's nine pregnancies and nine abortions, Kenjaku infused the fetuses with his blood and cursed energy. Using a method similar to creating cursed objects, he transformed them into beings that were neither human nor cursed spirit.
These were the [Cursed Womb: Death Paintings].
Itadori, meanwhile, was the child Kenjaku had borne with Itadori's father after taking over the body of a woman in the modern era. Although Itadori had no blood ties to the Death Painting Wombs, on a deeper level, he was undoubtedly their younger brother.
"Even the weakest Death Painting Wombs power rivals that of a special grade cursed spirit. Granted, we're talking about the lowest tier of special grade cursed spirits, but in earlier eras, they were still a force that couldn't be ignored. That's why the Death Painting Wombs have remained sealed all these years, kept deep within the Jujutsu High Forbidden Grounds. Sukuna's Finger was once kept here, too."
Chinatsu spoke casually as she toyed with the jar containing the sealed Death Painting Wombs. By this point, Itadori understood what his teacher wanted to do.
"Are you going to unseal them, Sensei?"
"Correct, but not quite~"
Smiling, Chinatsu wagged her outstretched finger. If the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings were unsealed and brought into the modern world in their original forms, they would still be an unstable ticking time bomb, even with people around who could easily deal with them.
For one thing, they possessed formidable combat