Chapter Summaries

After Kenjaku cursed Chinatsu, she used Mirror Flower, Water Moon to separate her original consciousness from the corrupted consciousness that seized her body. Deep in her mental world, Chinatsu invoked a binding vow to confront her counterpart, then went still in reality as she clashed domains with Satoru Gojo and the others.

• As he died, Kenjaku cursed Chinatsu with overwhelming negative emotions and urged her to become the world's new Buddha.
• Chinatsu used Mirror Flower, Water Moon on herself to separate her original consciousness from the corruption before it overwhelmed her.
• The original Chinatsu faced her corrupted counterpart in the mental world, while Satoru Gojo and the others continued fighting her body outside.
• The corrupted Chinatsu argued that their power freed them from caring about the world's suffering, but Chinatsu insisted there were still beautiful things worth protecting.
• Chinatsu summoned binding vows that bound both consciousnesses, drawing on her efforts to change the tragedies of the jujutsu world.
• As Chinatsu unleashed Mirror Flower, Water Moon in a domain clash with Satoru Gojo and the others, her eyes went dark and her body stopped moving.

Chinatsu confronted the ruthless side of herself in their mental world and defeated her after realizing the binding vow had sealed both their powers. She woke in reality with one crimson eye, leaving Satoru Gojo and the others briefly fearing she had lost her memories before she confirmed she was back.

• The altered Chinatsu berated Chinatsu for accepting a fate that would sacrifice them both to protect others.
• Chinatsu realized the binding vow had sealed both versions of herself, leaving their mental strength to decide the confrontation.
• Chinatsu overpowered her other self and declared that she had won against Kenjaku.
• Chinatsu woke as Satoru Gojo and the others supported her, with one Six Eye turned crimson.
• Satoru Gojo feared Chinatsu had lost her memories, but she laughed, flicked his forehead, and said she was back.

Chinatsu recovered in the hospital after Sukuna and Kenjaku’s defeat while jujutsu became public and Masamichi Yaga addressed the nation. Yuki Tsukumo visited Chinatsu and closely examined her eyes.

• Masamichi Yaga demonstrated Puppet Manipulation at a press conference and explained that jujutsu sorcerers had secretly worked with the government for over a thousand years.
• Panda startled reporters and viewers by entering the press conference with flowers and greeting them.
• Chinatsu read messages from Shoko Ieiri, Yuta Okkotsu, and Satoru Gojo as they arranged to visit her and bring dessert.
• Yuki Tsukumo entered Chinatsu’s hospital room, introduced herself, and studied Chinatsu’s crimson eye and Six Eyes.

Yuki Tsukumo visited Chinatsu in the hospital and gave her a notebook of soul research that might help with the restraints on her other self. The others rushed into the room and found Yuki posing flirtatiously at the door.

• Yuki Tsukumo asked whether Chinatsu could still use cursed energy, and Chinatsu demonstrated that she could.
• Chinatsu considered how using her cursed energy loosened the restraints on her other self and reflected on her uneasy feelings about leaving jujutsu behind.
• Yuki Tsukumo gave Chinatsu her Soul Research Notebook, which described ways to influence souls with cursed energy.
• Chinatsu became absorbed in the notebook as footsteps approached the hospital room.
• Satoru Gojo and the others burst into the room, and Yuki Tsukumo greeted them with a flirtatious question about what kind of woman they liked.

Chinatsu entered her mental world and met her shackled other self, but chose not to destroy her with the soul interference power she had learned to use. After returning to reality, she found that her injuries had unexpectedly improved enough for her to stand and exercise.

• Yuki Tsukumo signaled for everyone to stay quiet as Chinatsu closed her eyes and entered her mental world.
• Chinatsu confronted Mutated Chinatsu and showed her the soul interference power that could destroy her.
• Chinatsu dispersed the energy and told Mutated Chinatsu, “I... will come back,” before returning to her body.
• While Chinatsu rested, Yuki Tsukumo proposed helping everyone master cursed energy, and Suguru Geto, Satoru Gojo, and Yuta Okkotsu responded.
• Chinatsu discovered she could move with far less pain, and her friends entered the room to find her standing and doing warm-up exercises.

Chinatsu recovered from her injuries, left the hospital, and went out to enjoy the city. She discovered a jujutsu sorcerer using telekinesis to steal, stopped him with a punch, and handed him to a police officer.

• Chinatsu surprised Shoko Ieiri, Yuki Tsukumo, and the others by getting out of bed and moving energetically, then asked Suguru Geto to handle her discharge paperwork.
• Chinatsu reassured Satoru Gojo that she knew her limits and left the hospital an hour later.
• Chinatsu walked through the city and reflected on how ordinary people were reacting to the growing awareness of jujutsu.
• Chinatsu sensed a masked man using telekinetic cursed energy to steal and realized her binding vow restrained her from using cursed energy.
• Chinatsu punched the man unconscious, then handed him to a patrolling police officer and asked whether the police took jujutsu sorcerers who committed crimes.

Chinatsu called Masamichi Yaga after catching an unaffiliated jujutsu sorcerer committing a crime, and Yaga arranged for the relevant department to take the offender into custody. Months later, Megumi Fushiguro met Nobara Kugisaki and brought her to Jujutsu High, where she immediately judged his looks and rejected him as a romantic prospect.

• Chinatsu asked a bewildered police officer how to handle the jujutsu sorcerer she was dragging, then called Masamichi Yaga for help.
• Masamichi Yaga told Chinatsu that someone from the relevant department would take the offender into custody and warned her not to punish the sorcerer herself.
• Chinatsu agreed to a request from Masamichi Yaga, though the chapter did not reveal what he had asked.
• Several months later, Nobara Kugisaki confronted a modeling scout on a busy street and dragged him back when he tried to leave.
• Megumi Fushiguro introduced himself to Nobara Kugisaki and offered to take her to Jujutsu High to check in.
• Nobara Kugisaki released the modeling scout, assessed Megumi Fushiguro's appearance, and told him he was out of the running.

Nobara and Megumi arrived at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High, where Megumi explained the school’s small classes and training grounds. As Yuta blasted Yuji during Reverse Cursed Technique practice, the new first years heard an explosion and Megumi reassured Nobara that it was normal.

• Nobara asked Megumi whether they were the only first years, and he explained that small classes were normal.
• Megumi thought about the Ten Shadows Technique and resolved to grow strong enough to choose his own fate.
• Nobara drew her hammer and nails after an explosion sounded, but Megumi told her it came from the training grounds.
• Yuji emerged from the smoke after Yuta hit him with a powerful blast during their training.
• Yuta fired another cursed energy blast at Yuji as Yuji tried to prepare himself.

Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro began their lessons under Chinatsu Gojo, who assessed Nobara’s strength and heard Megumi describe his powerful father. Megumi ended his introduction by declaring that he would surpass his father and become the sixth Special Grade Sorcerer.

• Nobara watched Yuta Okkotsu fire a cursed energy cannon at Yuji Itadori on the Training Ground and marveled at the students’ strength.
• Chinatsu Gojo entered the classroom and introduced herself as the students’ jujutsu teacher.
• Nobara introduced herself, described her Straw Doll Technique, and claimed her strength exceeded Grade 2.
• Chinatsu said she had read Nobara’s file and would request a grade promotion after Nobara gained team exorcism experience.
• Megumi introduced his Ten Shadows Technique and said his father, Toji Fushiguro, had knocked him out instantly during a spar.
• Megumi said he planned to defeat his father next time and become the sixth Special Grade Sorcerer.

While Satoru Gojo was away, Chinatsu supervised Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro during a field assignment, praised their progress, and offered to take them for barbecue. An urgent alert reported that dozens of meteorites could strike the outskirts of Tokyo the following night.

• Satoru Gojo left Jujutsu High for an overseas trip, leaving Chinatsu to teach the first years.
• Nobara Kugisaki exorcised a Grade 2 cursed spirit with her Straw Doll Technique, Rapid Fire, and Hairpin.
• Megumi Fushiguro used Nue and Max Elephant to defeat a larger cursed spirit.
• Chinatsu advised Nobara to strengthen her cursed energy reserves and technique, praised Megumi, and invited them to barbecue.
• Chinatsu received an alert that dozens of meteorites had veered off course and might fall near Tokyo the next night.

Chinatsu enjoyed a barbecue with Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro, celebrated Nobara's promotion, and reflected on the peaceful life she had secured. The chapter ended when the Gojo Clan reported that its satellite storing Sukuna's Fingers had lost contact after a meteor shower near Tokyo.

• Chinatsu treated Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro to an expensive barbecue and told them the Shibuya Incident was unlikely with Kenjaku, Sukuna, and Mahito gone.
• Chinatsu announced that Nobara's promotion to Grade 2 Jujutsu Sorcerer had been approved, and Nobara excitedly hugged her.
• Chinatsu spoke with her other self in her mental world, who dismissed her peaceful life as boring but privately began to question that judgment.
• Chinatsu drove Nobara and Megumi to their destinations after dinner, and everyone spent the following day relaxing.
• In the middle of the night, a Gojo Clan member woke Chinatsu with news that the clan's satellite carrying several of Sukuna's Fingers had lost contact, possibly after being struck by a meteor shower near Tokyo.

Tokyo and Kyoto Jujutsu High searched for four missing Sukuna's Fingers, whose return could threaten the effort to integrate jujutsu into ordinary society. Chinatsu, Yuta Okkotsu, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara joined the search, but no one had found a finger by the chapter’s end.

• Chinatsu ordered both Jujutsu High schools to recover the four missing Sukuna's Fingers before cursed spirits or curse users could obtain them.
• Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara volunteered to search, and Chinatsu armed herself with cursed tools before joining the search party.
• Chinatsu quickly cut down a cursed spirit that crossed her path, then continued searching for the fingers.
• Yuta Okkotsu knocked out a curse user who tried to attack him and checked the Jujutsu High group chat for news of any recovered fingers.
• Megumi and Nobara searched the outskirts together, with Megumi summoning Nue as Nobara stayed alert with her hammer and nails.

Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki encountered a special grade cursed spirit and fought back, drawing on Chinatsu’s advice about seizing the right opportunity to grow. They resolved to exorcise the spirit themselves.

• Nobara sensed something strange nearby, and a hidden canine cursed spirit ambushed Megumi.
• Megumi used Rabbit Escape to escape its attack, while Nobara’s cursed-energy nails struck the spirit without causing much damage.
• Megumi recognized the opponent as a special grade and wondered whether it had consumed Sukuna’s Finger.
• Megumi remembered Chinatsu telling him and Nobara that they were working hard and needed an opportunity to transform.
• Megumi summoned the Divine Dogs and prepared to fight at close range as Nobara moved behind the spirit.
• Megumi and Nobara resolved to exorcise the special grade cursed spirit themselves.

Megumi Fushiguro pushed beyond his limits and expanded an incomplete Chimera Shadow Garden, turning the battle against the special grade cursed spirit in his favor. As Nobara finished the weakened spirit with Black Flash, Sukuna watched from within it and imposed a binding vow.

• Megumi Fushiguro faced the special grade cursed spirit and abruptly attempted a Domain Expansion while Nobara rushed to protect him.
• Megumi Fushiguro successfully expanded the incomplete Chimera Shadow Garden, which let him summon multiple shikigami and move through shadows more freely.
• Megumi Fushiguro used Nue, Tiger Burial, Piercing Ox, and a cursed energy-infused punch to batter the special grade cursed spirit.
• The special grade cursed spirit tried to counterattack Megumi Fushiguro, but Nobara struck it from behind with Black Flash.
• As the special grade cursed spirit disintegrated, Sukuna watched from inside it and appeared to force a binding vow upon it.

Sukuna seized control of a special grade cursed spirit that had swallowed four of his fingers and returned in a monstrous body. After Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara fled, Sukuna intercepted them, and Megumi prepared to summon Mahoraga.

• Sukuna judged the cursed spirit's power and became interested in Megumi Fushiguro as a potential vessel.
• Sukuna made a binding vow with the dying cursed spirit, took control of its body, and transformed into a four-armed, two-faced form.
• Sukuna used Dismantle to cut down a tree, then pursued Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara as they tried to escape.
• Sukuna blocked their path with another Dismantle, and Megumi considered summoning Mahoraga while hoping Nobara could get away.
• Megumi taunted Sukuna about Gojo-sensei and Chinatsu-sensei, then began the Mahoraga summoning ritual by chanting, "Furube, Yura Yura."

Megumi Fushiguro summoned Mahoraga, who turned on Sukuna and proved able to adapt to Sukuna’s slashes. Sukuna used Malevolent Shrine and then Furnace: Open, but Mahoraga survived the flames and kept charging with the Sword of Extermination.

• Megumi Fushiguro summoned Mahoraga, who knocked him away and focused on Sukuna.
• Sukuna attacked Mahoraga with Dismantle and Cleave, but neither did enough damage.
• Sukuna expanded Malevolent Shrine and concentrated its slashes on Mahoraga, who adapted and rose again.
• Sukuna realized Mahoraga could adapt to attacks and summoned a flaming arrow with Furnace: Open.
• Mahoraga emerged from the flames and charged at Sukuna with the Sword of Extermination.

Mahoraga defeated Sukuna, who regressed into four fingers, then attacked Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara. Toji Fushiguro arrived to protect his son and faced Mahoraga as other reinforcements headed to the scene.

• Sukuna reverted to finger-shaped cursed objects to avoid being erased, and Mahoraga split the cursed spirit apart, leaving four fingers behind.
• Mahoraga grew stronger after fighting Sukuna, then charged Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara as they prepared to defend themselves.
• Nobara struck Mahoraga with Hairpin, and Megumi summoned Tiger Funeral and Nue, but Mahoraga knocked the shikigami away and nearly caught Megumi.
• Toji Fushiguro arrived and blocked Mahoraga's Sword of Extermination with the Soul Liberation Blade, then tested the Inverted Spear of Heaven against him.
• Toji checked that Megumi was uninjured and stood beside him as Mahoraga faced them, while other Jujutsu High reinforcements were still on their way.

Toji fought Mahoraga with his cursed tools while Megumi and Nobara watched, and Chinatsu arrived to join the battle despite her binding vow limiting her cursed technique. The chapter ended with Toji and Chinatsu preparing to attack Mahoraga together as it charged at Chinatsu.

• Toji clashed with Mahoraga using the Inverted Spear of Heaven, the Chain of a Thousand Miles, and the Soul Liberation Blade, but he sensed Mahoraga adapting as the fight continued.
• Megumi berated himself for being unable to stand on his own, then warned Nobara to keep her distance while Mahoraga remained focused on Toji.
• Mahoraga hurled Toji through the air, but Toji emerged from the dust unharmed and noticed someone approaching on a motorcycle.
• Chinatsu arrived on her motorcycle, assessed Mahoraga, and chose the Gojo Clan cursed tool Hundred Changes because her binding vow restricted her cursed technique.
• Chinatsu told Toji to fight alongside her, and Mahoraga shifted its target to Chinatsu and charged at her with the Sword of Extermination.

Chinatsu and Toji fought Mahoraga, with Chinatsu using her sword and repeated Black Flashes despite being unable to use Limitless. As Mahoraga grew stronger and Chinatsu was wounded, she healed with Reverse Cursed Technique and prepared to keep fighting; a flashback showed her other self had warned her not to go, but Chinatsu chose to rescue her students.

• Chinatsu and Toji attacked Mahoraga together, but his wounds quickly regenerated and their damage had little effect.
• Chinatsu struck Mahoraga with Black Flash and followed with several more, while her other self warned that she could not win in her current state.
• Mahoraga hit Chinatsu as she landed a Black Flash, and Toji caught her before she fell.
• Chinatsu healed her wound with Reverse Cursed Technique and stood with Toji to face Mahoraga again.
• Ten minutes earlier, Chinatsu ignored her other self's warnings and rode toward the battlefield to save her students.

After her binding vow weakened her power, Chinatsu realized the corruption inside her might be a cursed spirit and let Mahoraga’s Sword of Extermination strike her to purge it. The vow’s shackles broke, and Chinatsu regained her strength as the strongest.

• Chinatsu reflected on why she had given up her power and realized she still needed to protect her students and work alongside them.
• Chinatsu fought the swelling Mahoraga while the corrupted version of herself heard voices urging her to seize control.
• Chinatsu told Toji Fushiguro she had a possible plan, then let Mahoraga stab her with the Sword of Extermination.
• The sword’s positive cursed energy clashed with the corruption inside Chinatsu, breaking the binding-vow shackles in her mental world.
• Chinatsu healed her wound with Reverse Cursed Technique and struck Mahoraga with an enhanced blow, while Toji recognized that the strongest was back.