Recaps

Five hundred years ago, Miwa Tenba prepared the Four Great Families for war against Kenjaku after their sorcerers began disappearing. Though he kept Gojo Tatsu off the deployment roster, he found him among the fighters when the battle began.

• Miwa Tenba called a meeting of the Four Great Families after learning that Kenjaku’s followers had abducted sorcerers from every clan.
• Gojo Kazu asked Miwa Tenba to take Gojo Tatsu into battle, but Miwa Tenba refused, saying Tatsu still needed to grow.
• Gojo Tatsu challenged Miwa Tenba to recognize his strength someday, and Miwa Tenba privately believed he would.
• As curse users began slaughtering civilians, Miwa Tenba left Gojo Tatsu off the roster and led the Miwa family’s elite into battle.
• Miwa Tenba and his fighters reached the alley early and cut down curse users before the other families arrived.
• Miwa Tenba spotted Gojo Tatsu among the arriving sorcerers and wondered why he had come.

After the Four Great Families’ victory, Miwa Tenba reassured Gojo Tatsu that he fought to protect the next generation. He learned that Kenjaku had found a way to exploit the Miwa and Gojo bloodlines, and prepared to confront him while asking Tengen to protect the Miwa family if he did not return.

• The Four Great Families won their first battle, though thirteen members of the Miwa family were among the twenty dead.
• Miwa Tenba visited Gojo Tatsu and explained that he fought to protect young sorcerers like him, urging him to become stronger than Tenba himself.
• An attendant reported that a curse user with mismatched eyes could use jujutsu from both the Miwa family and the Gojo Clan.
• Miwa Tenba ordered the other three families to prepare their defenses while the Miwa family dealt with the curse user.
• Miwa Tenba told Tengen that Kenjaku had discovered the Miwa bloodline’s secret and asked him to announce the family’s withdrawal from Jujutsu Society if Tenba failed to return.
• Miwa Tenba asked Tengen to watch over the Miwa descendants and expressed hope that a future member would lead the family back to its peak.

Miwa Tenba and the Miwa family sacrificed themselves in a battle against Kenjaku, while Gojo Tatsu arrived too late to save them. Tenba entrusted Tatsu with protecting Jujutsu Society, and the chapter revealed that all ninety-seven Miwa sorcerers died when their sacrificial formations activated.

• Kenjaku ordered the heterochromatic sorcerer to capture Miwa Tenba and kill the rest of the Miwa family.
• A young Miwa sorcerer sacrificed himself to unleash the Miwa Family Sacrificial Secret Technique, and Kenjaku killed another Miwa sorcerer as he watched.
• Miwa Tenba freed his blade and killed the heterochromatic sorcerer, despite being gravely wounded.
• Kenjaku moved to capture Tenba, but Gojo Tatsu appeared and struck him down with his power.
• Gojo Tatsu grieved beside the dying Tenba, who asked him to protect Jujutsu Society and used an incantation to activate the Miwa family’s sacrifice.
• Tengen arrived to find Tenba dead and Tatsu holding the heterochromatic sorcerer’s head; the narrator revealed that every Miwa sorcerer in the battle had been sacrificed.