Recaps

Sukuna negotiated a binding vow with Kenjaku, who surrendered Geto’s body after removing his brain. Sukuna healed Geto’s body, but Geto remained unconscious without a soul, leaving Gojo to decide what to do as Uraume confronted Sukuna in anger.

• Sukuna persuaded Kenjaku to agree to a one-week deadline for reviving Sukuna and to leave Geto’s body behind, and the parties established a binding vow.
• Gojo warned Kenjaku not to tamper with Geto’s body, and Kenjaku removed the grotesque brain controlling it before escaping with his cursed spirit.
• Gojo caught Geto’s body as it fell, and Sukuna used Reverse Cursed Technique to heal its brain and close the wounds.
• Sukuna told Gojo that Geto was healed but explained that he could not restore Geto’s soul or bring him back to life.
• Sukuna turned around and found Uraume glaring at him angrily.

Sukuna explained to Uraume that he intended to revive Sukuna and persuaded him to help clean up Shibuya instead of leaving Jujutsu High. Gojo tried to take Geto away but was trapped by a Curtain, so Uraume went to destroy the cursed tool sustaining it.

• Sukuna told Uraume he had lied to Kenjaku and would revive Sukuna within a week, but refused to leave Jujutsu High.
• Gojo arrived carrying Geto, and Sukuna offered to clear Shibuya with Uraume and Choso while Gojo took Geto back.
• Choso tried to explain that he had not harmed anyone and tentatively asked to see Yuji.
• Gojo returned after finding that a Curtain outside Shibuya prevented him from leaving while carrying Geto.
• Uraume explained that destroying the Curtain's cursed tool outside would dispel it, then went to handle it.

Sukuna and Choso agreed to deal with the dangers in Shibuya after Choso said he and his brothers would join Jujutsu High. Once the transfigured humans and curses were defeated, Gojo thanked Sukuna for helping save people and reunite him with Geto.

• Choso told Sukuna that he and his younger brothers had decided to join Jujutsu High, and Sukuna reluctantly accepted.
• Sukuna assigned Choso to hunt curses and used Dismantle to kill transfigured humans while protecting ordinary people.
• Uraume returned to guard Sukuna, and Gojo came back after moving Geto somewhere safe.
• Gojo and Sukuna dealt with the remaining threats, clearing every transfigured human and curse within the Curtain in ten minutes.
• Sukuna recovered with Reverse Cursed Technique, and Gojo thanked him before Sukuna slapped away his attempt to pat his head.
• Uraume glared at Gojo for touching Sukuna, while Choso privately wished he could pat Yuji's head.

Gojo asked Sukuna what his name had been a thousand years ago, and Uraume revealed that Sukuna had only ever been called “Little Fox.” Gojo and Itadori offered terrible replacement names, so Sukuna decided to keep using Sukuna until the real Sukuna returned.

• Gojo asked Sukuna what his name was before he became Sukuna.
• Uraume explained that Sukuna had never been given a name and had always been called “Little Fox.”
• Sukuna was shocked and upset to learn he had been nameless.
• Gojo suggested naming him “Snowy,” but Sukuna rejected the idea.
• Itadori suggested “Itadori White Fox,” and Sukuna decided to keep using Sukuna for now.

After the Shibuya incident, Sukuna learned that he had once been a little fox and worried about what that meant for him and Itadori’s future. The chapter ended with Sukuna putting off the difficult questions to watch television while Gojo handled the remaining business.

• Sukuna and Itadori worried that the resurrected Sukuna might share Itadori’s Inner World and living space with Sukuna.
• Gojo sent Sukuna back to Jujutsu High to rest, while Uraume and Choso exchanged contact information with him.
• Gojo lifted the Curtain over Shibuya three hours after it went up, reported that Mahito and the Transfigured Humans had been killed, and left the aftermath to the other sorcerers.
• Gojo returned to the Gojo Clan to make arrangements concerning Geto.
• Back at Jujutsu High, Sukuna switched back to Itadori and fretted about explaining that he had once been a fox.
• Sukuna and Itadori put off their worries and turned on the television to finish their palace intrigue drama.

Itadori told the students what happened inside the Curtain and revealed that Sukuna was actually a little fox who had once been kept by the real Sukuna. With all twenty fingers collected, the real Sukuna would be resurrected within six days, leaving everyone worried about who would control Itadori’s body.

• Choso called Itadori after finding more than fifty missed calls and arranged to meet him at seven that evening.
• Itadori gathered the first- and second-years in the dorm reception room and recounted the previous night’s events, leaving out Geto as Gojo had instructed.
• Sukuna revealed that he was a nameless little fox rather than the real Sukuna, and explained that the real Sukuna would be resurrected within six days after he ate all twenty fingers.
• Uraume woke through a mouth on Tsumiki’s hand, but Tsumiki distracted Uraume by asking about the young heartthrob from the previous night.
• Megumi Fushiguro asked whether the real Sukuna might take control of Itadori’s body, prompting Sukuna to worry about losing access to food and the others to wonder whether the real Sukuna would become their classmate.

Itadori learned that Choso and his brothers believed he was their sibling because his blood responded to Choso’s Blood Manipulation, and Choso suspected Kenjaku had created him. After Choso warned Gojo about Kenjaku’s plan to seal him, Gojo allowed the brothers to attend Jujutsu High with Itadori.

• Choso explained that Itadori’s blood had responded to his Blood Manipulation, convincing him that Itadori was his younger brother.
• Choso said Kenjaku had created the Death Painting Wombs and suspected Itadori was another of Kenjaku’s creations.
• Choso declared that Kenjaku was their enemy, and Itadori accepted the possibility that Choso and his brothers were family.
• Itadori called Gojo to ask whether Choso and his brothers could attend Jujutsu High, and Gojo agreed after meeting Choso.
• Choso told Gojo that Kenjaku had planned to seal him with the Prison Realm, and Kechizu celebrated by embracing Itadori.

Itadori apologized to Gojo for agreeing to revive Sukuna, but Gojo reassured him and accepted their decision as mutual. After renewing the Binding Vow, Itadori resolved to stay with Sukuna if the vow ever caused him to disappear, while Gojo watched over Geto and vowed to find a way to bring him back.

• Itadori apologized to Gojo for agreeing to revive Sukuna without discussing it first, and Gojo said he was not angry and had accepted the choice himself.
• Itadori proposed a new Binding Vow requiring Sukuna to deal with Kenjaku within three weeks of his revival, and Gojo agreed to renew their vow.
• Sukuna told Itadori that he could make Binding Vows on Sukuna's behalf and wondered whether Sukuna had arranged their connection a thousand years earlier.
• Itadori decided to shoulder responsibility for the Binding Vow and stay with Sukuna if Sukuna disappeared because of it.
• Gojo returned to his family estate, sat beside Geto's body, and vowed to find Geto's soul and never give up on waking him.

Choso, Eso, and Kechizu arrived at Jujutsu High and introduced themselves as Yuji’s brothers, while Yuji and Sukuna worried about what would happen when True Sukuna was revived. Megumi suggested a group trip, and after everyone enjoyed a snowy getaway, Yuji cheered Sukuna up by joking that True Sukuna might leave him stuck in the Inner World.

• Choso, Eso, and Kechizu followed Yuji into the classroom and introduced themselves as his older brothers, leaving Megumi Fushiguro and the others baffled.
• Yuji told Sukuna he would work to keep control of his body, and Sukuna suggested they take time off together before True Sukuna’s revival.
• Megumi Fushiguro proposed that everyone go on a trip, and the group chose to travel north for snow activities and a visit to Fox Village.
• At the hot spring, Yuji teased Sukuna that True Sukuna might switch Yuji out instead of him, then let Sukuna take control so he could enjoy the bath.

Itadori and Gojo returned to Jujutsu High with Uraume to revive Sukuna by having Itadori eat fifteen Fingers. The revival fulfilled the binding vow, but Sukuna fell asleep for two days instead of awakening, so Uraume stayed at Jujutsu High to wait.

• Sukuna told the angry Uraume he was on a school trip and promised to return to Jujutsu High the next morning for the revival.
• Itadori quietly left his sleeping classmates and teleported back to Jujutsu High with Teacher Gojo, where Uraume waited inside a barrier prepared by Tengen.
• Itadori struggled to eat the fifteen Fingers, and Sukuna suggested freezing them into capsule-shaped popsicles to make them easier to swallow.
• Itadori swallowed all fifteen Fingers, fulfilling the binding vow as cursed markings and a surge of cursed energy appeared, but Sukuna did not awaken.
• Itadori explained that Sukuna usually slept for two days after he ate Fingers, and Gojo invited Uraume to stay at Jujutsu High until Sukuna woke.

As Itadori swallowed Sukuna’s final finger, the real Sukuna manifested in the innate domain and recognized Little Fox. Sukuna confronted the frightened fox, then pulled him into an embrace and said he had finally found him.

• Itadori swallowed the fingers, triggering a cursed energy storm that drained Sukuna and formed the real Sukuna in the innate domain.
• Sukuna recognized Little Fox and learned from his memories that he had lost his memory.
• When Little Fox considered switching places with Yuji Itadori, Sukuna threatened to kill him.
• Sukuna ordered Little Fox to approach, and Little Fox reluctantly climbed Bone Mountain to stand before him.
• Sukuna embraced Little Fox and told him he had finally found him.

The Little Fox restored his memories while Sukuna stayed by his side, and Sukuna carried him to bed after he collapsed. The chapter ended with a snow-white little fox waking in the Heian Era, a thousand years in the past.

• The Little Fox comforted Sukuna and suspected that Sukuna cared for him more than he had realized.
• Sukuna asked why the Little Fox had not restored his memories, and the Little Fox admitted he had forgotten and promised to do it if Sukuna spared Yuji.
• Sukuna agreed not to kill Yuji, and the Little Fox summoned the white orb to restore his memories.
• The Little Fox lost consciousness after the memories returned, so Sukuna carried him to the cottage and laid him in bed.
• A thousand years earlier in the Heian Era, a snow-white little fox struggled to open his eyes.

A starving snow-white fox escaped Uraume’s attempt to stew it and clung to Sukuna, then discovered it could eat Sukuna’s cursed energy. Sukuna ordered Uraume to take the fox along, while Uraume privately vowed to stew and eat it someday.

• A starving fox woke on the grassland as Uraume found it and said it would taste delicious stewed.
• The fox escaped Uraume and clung to Sukuna’s leg, hoping he would protect it.
• Sukuna stroked the fox’s tail, and the fox noticed the cursed markings on his wrist smelled like food.
• The fox licked Sukuna’s cursed markings and absorbed his cursed energy while Sukuna studied it.
• After the fox ate its fill, Sukuna told Uraume to take it with them and not eat it yet.
• Uraume carried the fox away and privately vowed to stew and eat it someday.

Little Fox tried to figure out how to get its beautiful Young Master to help find Sukuna, while Sukuna suspected the fox might be a threat. Sukuna decided to keep it and investigate its ability to absorb Cursed Energy, though he would kill it if it had been sent deliberately.

• Little Fox realized it needed to find someone named Sukuna and decided to win its Young Master's favor so he would help.
• Sukuna considered killing Little Fox as a possible cursed technique threat, but Little Fox pressed its paws against his hand as if playing pat-a-paw, and he dismissed it as too foolish to be an assassin.
• Uraume returned with rabbits and was startled to see Sukuna playing with Little Fox, then wondered when he could cook it.
• Little Fox edged closer to Sukuna while Uraume prepared the rabbit, and Sukuna distracted Uraume by warning him not to add too much salt.
• Sukuna chose to keep Little Fox so he could study how it absorbed his Cursed Energy, while vowing to kill it gruesomely if someone had sent it on purpose.

Little Fox won Sukuna’s affection and improved treatment from Uraume as the three continued wandering away from Sukuna’s family estate. Sukuna reflected on the years of persecution that had driven him to leave and hoped the distance would help him escape the ever-present smell of blood.

• Little Fox rejected the raw rabbit innards Uraume offered and appealed to Sukuna for cooked food, amusing him enough that he stroked its fur.
• Sukuna told Uraume that Little Fox could find its own food, and Uraume decided to let the fox stay because it seemed to improve Sukuna’s mood.
• Uraume made a nest for Little Fox in the carrying basket and asked Sukuna where they would go next; Sukuna said anywhere, as long as they did not return home.
• Sukuna recalled how the curse named Ryomen Sukuna had marked him at birth, how his family had neglected and attacked him, and how he became a Special Grade Sorcerer at fifteen.
• After Sukuna’s family renewed its attempts to kill him and began targeting those around him, he found his wolfdog Xuexiao dead and left the estate with Uraume.
• Sukuna remembered choosing to flee rather than fight the family and its allies, hoping to breathe freer air and escape the smell of blood.

Sukuna and Uraume brought Little Fox to an inn, where Sukuna stopped it from watching him bathe and then gave it a separate basin to wash in. After seeing how Little Fox’s fur dried itself, Sukuna considered making durable clothes from it, leaving the fox appalled.

• Sukuna put Little Fox in the carrying basket and entered town with Uraume.
• Little Fox watched the food stalls and longed to eat the snacks but stayed quiet after Uraume warned it.
• At the inn, Sukuna ordered Little Fox to turn around while he undressed, and a Dismantle shaved hairs from its ear when it disobeyed.
• Sukuna gave Little Fox a clean wooden basin, and the fox happily bathed before its fur returned to normal without drying.
• Sukuna said clothes made from Little Fox’s fur would be durable, and Little Fox was horrified.

Little Fox tried to steal a chicken leg during dinner, but Sukuna took it first and gave the fox only half. Still hungry, Little Fox later fed on Sukuna’s cursed energy, leaving him wondering what it was before he tossed it onto the floor.

• Little Fox tried to get Sukuna and Uraume’s attention at dinner, then dragged a plate toward itself to steal a chicken leg.
• Sukuna secretly snatched the chicken leg, gave half to Uraume, and tossed the rest onto Little Fox’s plate.
• Little Fox angrily protested before eating its half, while Uraume decided to order extra meat next time.
• Sukuna lured the still-hungry Little Fox with cursed energy and made it sit before letting it feed from his wrist.
• Sukuna asked what Little Fox was, then grabbed it by the scruff and flung it onto the floor after suspecting it was thinking something strange.

Sukuna discovered that Little Fox had been using him as a bed and sneaking out to steal pastries, though it returned to pay for them when he intervened. After sharing the pastries and letting the fox coax him into petting it, Sukuna gave the remaining pastries to Uraume the next morning and explained that Little Fox had bought them.

• Little Fox climbed onto Sukuna to sleep, then smelled cake and slipped out the window to steal pastries from the shop next door.
• Sukuna caught Little Fox trying to open the pastry box, paid for the pastries, and sent it back to return the box.
• Little Fox shared two pastries with Sukuna and persuaded him to keep petting it by offering him the other one.
• The next morning, Sukuna told Uraume that Little Fox had bought the pastries for him, and Uraume eagerly ate one.

Sukuna took Uraume to exorcise a curse and restrained it with Dismantle while Uraume fought. When Little Fox panicked at seeing the cursed spirit, Sukuna held and comforted it, leaving Uraume surprised when he returned from defeating the curse.

• Sukuna accepted a curse-exorcism commission and accompanied Uraume to a wealthy household's courtyard.
• Uraume faced a nearly Grade 2 cursed spirit while Sukuna confined it with Dismantle and blocked attacks that could seriously injure him.
• Little Fox saw the cursed spirit, trembled in fear, and clung to Sukuna instead of returning to its basket.
• Sukuna cradled Little Fox beneath his sleeve and soothed it until it relaxed in his arms.
• Uraume exorcised the cursed spirit despite sustaining minor injuries and returned to find Sukuna holding Little Fox.

After Little Fox healed Uraume’s wounds by licking them, Sukuna realized it could use Reverse Cursed Technique and ordered Uraume to keep the ability secret. The discovery left Sukuna intrigued by the fox’s origins and quietly touched by Uraume’s concern for him.

• Sukuna pretended he had only caught Little Fox to keep it from running away, while Uraume suspected he had been petting it.
• Uraume collected the bounty for exorcising the curse, and he and Sukuna went to the market before returning to the inn.
• Little Fox licked Uraume’s wound, and Uraume discovered that it had completely healed.
• Uraume presented another wound to Little Fox, which healed it as well, revealing that the fox could heal others.
• Sukuna recognized the fox’s ability as Reverse Cursed Technique and told Uraume to keep it secret.
• Uraume said Little Fox could heal Sukuna if he ever got hurt, and Sukuna quietly agreed.

Sukuna traveled through the woods with Uraume and Little Fox, while the Fallen’s voice reminded him that the curse within him was eroding him. When a python threatened Sukuna as he rested, Little Fox tried to protect him but accidentally strengthened the snake with Reverse Cursed Technique.

• Sukuna heard the Fallen’s voice in his mind and coldly refused to discuss his Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Sukuna, Uraume, and Little Fox left town and continued toward the next settlement through the forest.
• Sukuna kept Little Fox from running off, and Uraume prepared a meal from pheasants, eggs, greens, and mushrooms.
• After lunch, Little Fox tried to sneak away while Sukuna and Uraume rested, but it came face-to-face with a hungry python.
• Little Fox stood between the python and the sleeping Sukuna, then fired positive cursed energy from its tail and accidentally empowered the snake.

Sukuna killed the Python threatening Little Fox and kept the fox close while Uraume prepared the snake for dinner. The next morning, Little Fox discovered it had grown a second tail, then made it disappear and returned to having one tail.

• Little Fox fled from the Python, and Sukuna killed it with Dismantle and brought the fox into his lap.
• Uraume prepared the Python, and Little Fox eagerly ate a large piece of snake meat.
• The next morning, Sukuna and Uraume noticed that Little Fox had grown a second tail.
• Little Fox panicked about its extra tail, and Sukuna comforted it by suggesting it might be a mythical fox.
• Little Fox slapped its tail, causing one tail to disappear, then proudly showed Sukuna its single remaining tail.
• Sukuna accepted Little Fox's return to one tail and reassured it that nothing had happened.

Sukuna hid Little Fox in his kimono while Uraume went into town, but Uraume returned with a wanted poster naming Sukuna. As Sukuna prepared to fight the family hunting him, Little Fox recognized him as the person it had been searching for.

• Sukuna tucked the sleeping Little Fox inside his kimono and waited outside town while Uraume went shopping.
• Little Fox woke and licked the cursed markings on Sukuna's abdomen, so Sukuna scolded it and warned he would train it to hide its tail.
• Sukuna sensed tension in town, spotted Uraume fleeing, and whisked him away to the woods.
• Uraume showed Sukuna a wanted poster demanding his capture dead or alive, and Sukuna resolved to fight the family pursuing him.
• Little Fox recognized Sukuna's name and portrait on the poster, celebrated finding him, and crawled over him licking him until Sukuna pulled it away.

As Sukuna and Uraume escaped sorcerers hunting them, Little Fox recovered memories of his past life and realized he had been embarrassingly clingy with Sukuna. The trio settled into life on the run, and Sukuna began planning to destroy his family so the bounty against him would disappear.

• Little Fox regained his memories and watched his past self cling to Sukuna, then worried that Sukuna would reveal his embarrassing behavior.
• Sukuna confirmed Uraume was not wanted and considered sending him away, but Uraume insisted on staying with him.
• Little Fox and Uraume both refused to leave Sukuna, and Uraume returned to town to buy supplies before the three began traveling together.
• Sorcerers of varying grades repeatedly pursued them, and Sukuna and Uraume killed their attackers while Little Fox healed them and helped keep Sukuna calm.
• As the number of pursuers dwindled, Sukuna decided to eliminate his family and end the reason for the wanted notice.

Sukuna prepared to destroy the last branch family while struggling against the Fallen’s influence, but the main family ambushed him and left him gravely wounded. Little Fox found him and exhausted itself using its Reverse Cursed Technique to heal him, hoping he would be happy when he woke.

• Sukuna resisted the Fallen’s growing influence and decided he had to live for Uraume and Little Fox.
• Sukuna returned to the cave and calmed himself by holding Little Fox, resolving to keep it by his side.
• The main family’s forces ambushed Sukuna, and he sent Uraume to hide Little Fox before luring the attackers away.
• Uraume chased after Sukuna, and Little Fox woke alone and followed Sukuna’s scent through the forest.
• Little Fox found Sukuna gravely wounded and used all its cursed energy to heal him, then curled inside his clothes to keep healing him as it drifted toward exhaustion.