Chapter Summaries

Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, and Kugisaki entered Eishu Juvenile Detention Center to rescue five inmates trapped with a cursed womb. After finding three inmates dead, Itadori asked Sukuna to punish the Special Grade if they encountered it.

• Ijichi briefed the first-years on the cursed womb and warned them to flee if it became a Special Grade.
• Megumi Fushiguro agreed that Itadori could switch with Sukuna if they faced a Special Grade, then summoned the Divine Dog to guide them.
• The students entered the detention center's innate domain, and Megumi Fushiguro explained that it was an incomplete domain reshaping the building.
• Itadori found three mangled bodies and, recognizing the name Tadashi, became angry over the deaths.
• Itadori asked Sukuna to beat the Special Grade if they encountered it, and Sukuna agreed.

Sukuna took control after a special grade cursed womb appeared and Nobara was swallowed by a shadow. He sent Megumi to find her and began beating the curse with his fists, leaving it wounded in the water below.

• Sukuna sensed an attack and warned Megumi to dismiss the Divine Dogs, narrowly saving them from a fast-moving figure.
• A black shadow swallowed Nobara, and Itadori called on Sukuna to take over.
• Sukuna told Megumi to search for Nobara while he faced the special grade cursed womb.
• Remembering Yuji's request to beat the curse, Sukuna attacked it with his fists instead of using Dismantle.
• Sukuna battered the curse through several floors and sent it crashing into the water below.

Sukuna killed the special grade cursed spirit and discovered it had one of his fingers, which Itadori ate after briefly taking control. They then remembered Megumi Fushiguro and Kugisaki were still in danger and rushed to help them.

• Sukuna realized he had been excessively vicious and finished off the special grade cursed spirit with Dismantle.
• Sukuna found one of his fingers in the cursed spirit’s chest, and Itadori took over to eat it.
• Sukuna and Itadori realized they had forgotten Megumi Fushiguro and Kugisaki.
• Sukuna sensed the pair surrounded by lower-grade curses and a Grade 1 curse, then used Dismantle to clear a path and hurry to them.

Megumi Fushiguro and Kugisaki struggled against a swarm of curses until Sukuna defeated the Special Grade and joined them. Sukuna destroyed the remaining curses, recovered his third finger, and left to wash and eat it while Megumi Fushiguro tried to process his casual attitude.

• Megumi Fushiguro and Kugisaki prepared to retreat from the swarm while Sukuna fought the Special Grade above them.
• The cursed womb's domain collapsed, and Sukuna landed beside Megumi Fushiguro and Kugisaki.
• Kugisaki excitedly greeted Sukuna, who responded warmly before turning to face the curses.
• Sukuna burned away the swarm and the hidden Grade 1 curse with a burst of colorful flames.
• Sukuna showed Megumi Fushiguro his recovered third finger, then went to find water to wash and eat it.

After the mission, Sukuna fell asleep inside Itadori and dreamed of his thousand-year-old self resting in a meadow with a little white fox. He awoke to discover his inner world was a vast landscape of bones and blood, leaving him horrified by how vicious his past self must have been.

• Megumi Fushiguro, Kugisaki, and Itadori completed the mission, recovered five bodies, and returned to school with Ijichi.
• Itadori told Megumi Fushiguro that Sukuna had become sleepy after eating the finger and gone back to sleep.
• Sukuna dreamed of his ancient self lying in a meadow with a sleeping white fox curled on his stomach.
• The dream shattered, and Sukuna woke to find an immense innate domain filled with a sea of blood, a mountain of bones, and a massive spine overhead.
• Sukuna called out to Tiger and lamented that his past self had been far more vicious than he had imagined.

Sukuna woke after two days and told Itadori that his inner world had become a bloody landscape of corpses and bones, possibly reflecting his past violence. Itadori planned to visit it that night, while Sukuna ended the conversation in shock over the snacks he had missed.

• Sukuna woke in his transformed inner world and worried about how Itadori would react to its mountains of corpses and sea of blood.
• Sukuna told Itadori that he had not recovered his memories but suspected his thousand-year-old self had killed many people and animals.
• Itadori felt uneasy about Sukuna's past, then said he would switch in that night to see the inner world for himself.
• Sukuna learned from Itadori that he had been asleep for two days and lamented missing two days of snacks.

Sukuna returned to Itadori and was warmly welcomed by the other sorcerers, who sent Gojo the news. Itadori later entered Sukuna’s inner world without switching places with him, and the two sat together as Itadori cheerfully judged the eerie domain less frightening than the horror films he knew.

• Itadori announced Sukuna’s return, and Nobara, Inumaki, Panda, Maki, and Megumi welcomed him and checked on him.
• The sorcerers told Gojo that Sukuna was back, and Gojo replied to their messages before smiling to himself.
• Itadori showed Sukuna the snacks everyone had saved for him, and Sukuna was moved by their kindness.
• Itadori entered Sukuna’s inner world without switching out, realized he could keep Sukuna company there, and sat beside him.
• Sukuna explained that the domain was his inner world, but Itadori said it seemed less frightening than the horror films he had watched.

Sukuna grew reassured when Itadori told him his innate domain was not scary, then discovered he could walk through its bloody water without getting wet. He also found out his kimono was a woman's garment with a bow, and made Itadori promise not to tell anyone.

• Sukuna asked whether Itadori found his innate domain scary, and Itadori warmly reassured him.
• Itadori noticed that the bloody water had not wet his shoes, so Sukuna tested it and happily found that he stayed dry.
• Itadori spotted a bow on the back of Sukuna's kimono, and Sukuna realized he was wearing a woman's kimono that he could not change out of.
• Sukuna threatened Itadori to keep the kimono secret, and Itadori promised he would not tell anyone.
• Sukuna trusted Itadori's promise and privately imagined wearing women's clothes in Itadori's body and posting photos if the secret ever got out.

Megumi visited Itadori at night to let Sukuna pet the Divine Dog as thanks for saving it, then fled in embarrassment. The next morning, Megumi silenced Itadori before he could explain the visit to their friends, leaving them curious about the strange exchange.

• Fushiguro asked Itadori to switch with Sukuna, then summoned the Divine Dog and offered to let Sukuna pet it as thanks for saving it.
• Sukuna happily cuddled the Divine Dog and refused to let Itadori have a turn.
• Fushiguro returned to his room and agonized over how childish his thank-you gift had been.
• Fushiguro left the dorm early the next morning and ate breakfast with Kugisaki, Maki, and the others.
• Itadori started telling the group that Sukuna thanked Fushiguro for letting him pet the dog, but Fushiguro covered his mouth before he could finish.

Megumi Fushiguro dealt with the fallout from a misunderstood comment about Sukuna petting the Divine Dogs, then Sukuna tried to expand his domain with Satoru Gojo. Sukuna's attempt collapsed when he realized his domain was called Malevolent Shrine, which he interpreted as proof that his hidden cursed technique made him a chef, so he pretended he still could not expand it.

• Megumi Fushiguro spent the day denying rumors about the Divine Dogs and blamed himself for the misunderstanding involving Itadori and Sukuna.
• Satoru Gojo returned from a business trip and asked Sukuna how his fight with the special grade cursed spirit had gone.
• Sukuna asked Gojo whether a grade above special grade existed, then learned that Gojo also held special grade status.
• Gojo asked whether Sukuna could expand his domain after consuming his third finger, and they went to an open grassland to test it.
• Sukuna began a Domain Expansion, but froze at the name Malevolent Shrine and lost the cursed energy before the domain formed.
• Sukuna decided to hide the domain's name and told a bewildered Gojo that he still could not expand it.

Gojo brought Itadori to observe Jogo’s Domain Expansion, giving Sukuna an unexpected insight into how to hide his own domain’s name. After Gojo defeated Jogo, Itadori asked Sukuna to teach him a Cursed Technique, and Gojo assigned him to learn Dismantle while asking Sukuna whether he wanted to try expanding his domain again.

• Gojo brought Itadori to meet Jogo so he could watch a practical lesson on Domain Expansion.
• Jogo expanded Coffin of the Iron Mountain, and Sukuna realized he could conceal his domain’s name by saying only “Domain Expansion.”
• Gojo knocked Jogo out with Unlimited Void, but a flower-releasing special grade curse rescued him after vines briefly lifted Itadori into the air.
• Itadori asked Sukuna to teach him a Cursed Technique, and Sukuna agreed to start with Dismantle.
• Gojo assigned Itadori to learn Dismantle and asked Sukuna if he wanted to try expanding his domain again.

Sukuna tried to expand his domain again under Gojo’s guidance, but it formed a pit that sank him ten meters underground. After Gojo laughed at the mishap, Sukuna invented fake names for his domain and cursed technique, leaving Gojo convinced he had remembered them.

• Gojo brought Sukuna to a grassland, advised him to keep his domain within ten meters, and watched from a safe distance.
• Sukuna expanded his domain, which formed a hemispherical pit and sank him ten meters below Gojo.
• Gojo laughed at Sukuna’s sinking domain while Sukuna dismissed it and decided never to use it again.
• When Gojo asked for the domain’s name, Sukuna called it “Demon-Subduing Hell Yama Heaven.”
• Sukuna told Gojo his cursed technique was “Yama Hell,” and Gojo congratulated him for remembering everything.

Sukuna analyzed his domain with Gojo, then carefully taught Itadori the difference between his two types of slashes. After Itadori completed his training, Gojo assigned him to exorcise every Grade 4 Curse in Trypophobia Forest using only slashes.

• Sukuna and Gojo concluded that Sukuna's domain was an Open Domain that unleashed endless invisible slashes, while its flames had to be activated separately.
• Sukuna considered ways to keep his domain from sinking into the ground and resolved to practice controlling it.
• Sukuna taught Itadori how Cleave and Hachi worked and when each slash was most useful.
• Itadori's training raised his cursed energy reserves close to Grade 1 level, and he became capable of killing Grade 1 Curses.
• Gojo ended Itadori's forest training and tasked him with exorcising every Grade 4 Curse there using only slashes.

Itadori mastered Sukuna’s Dismantle while exorcising curses and earned Gojo’s approval to begin taking grade 1 missions. The next morning, he proudly showed Megumi Fushiguro an apple he had peeled with Dismantle, leaving Megumi baffled and Sukuna furious at the ugly result.

• Itadori used Cleave and Dismantle to exorcise the curses in the forest, discovering that Dismantle efficiently killed the grade 4 spirits with little cursed energy.
• Itadori praised Sukuna’s Dismantle, and Sukuna warned him that it might not work as well against grade 1 curses.
• Gojo praised Itadori’s progress and told him he could start taking grade 1 missions the next day.
• Itadori greeted Megumi Fushiguro with a badly peeled apple and said he had used Dismantle to peel it.
• Megumi Fushiguro stared at the apple in disbelief while Sukuna privately fumed that Itadori’s peeling made Dismantle look bad.

Itadori struggled to master Sukuna's Dismantle and became sick of apples after practicing on too many. As the students prepared for the Goodwill Event, Itadori met Todo and fled when Todo called him his best friend and claimed they had met in middle school.

• Itadori and Sukuna recalled practicing Dismantle on apples, and Megumi Fushiguro realized Itadori had offered him an apple because he could no longer stand to eat them.
• Nobara, Maki, and the others offered Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro fresh apples, and Megumi Fushiguro claimed Itadori was allergic after Itadori retched.
• Maki explained the Goodwill Event and assigned Itadori to face Todo from Kyoto Jujutsu High.
• Itadori met Todo while buying drinks, and Todo called him his best friend after asking about his taste in women.
• Itadori ran from Todo after Todo said they had met in middle school, insisting that nobody like Todo had attended his middle school.

Yuji Itadori was pursued by Aoi Todo, who declared him his best friend, and later struggled to learn smoother cursed energy control. Gojo sent Yuji on a Grade 1 mission, where a curse’s fear-inducing ability made it appear as Todo and left Yuji with even more trauma.

• Maki, Panda, and the others saw Todo chase Yuji and stepped aside until Toge Inumaki stopped Todo with his cursed speech.
• Todo left with Mai to attend Takada’s handshake event after promising to see Yuji at the Goodwill Event, while Maki refused to change Yuji’s assignment.
• Yuji asked Sukuna how to improve his cursed energy control, and Sukuna suggested he ask Gojo.
• Gojo and Sukuna could not explain how to make cursed energy control smoother, so Gojo sent Yuji on a Grade 1 mission for combat practice.
• At a Haunted House, a curse made Yuji see it as a many-armed Todo, and Yuji beat the curse to death instead of fleeing.

Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro celebrated Kugisaki's birthday with a shopping spree and dinner, where she wished for everyone to stay safe and together. Back in his room, Itadori and Sukuna decided to celebrate Sukuna's birthday on the day he came back to life inside Itadori.

• Itadori discovered it was Kugisaki's birthday and offered to celebrate however she wanted.
• Kugisaki took Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro shopping, and they carried her bags through the malls.
• Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro treated Kugisaki to dinner at her favorite expensive sushi restaurant.
• Kugisaki wished that everyone would stay safe and remain together, and the three friends toasted to her wish.
• Itadori asked Sukuna about his birthday, then suggested they celebrate on the day Sukuna came back to life inside him.

Itadori and the others surprised Sukuna with a birthday party, moving him so deeply that he struggled to hold back tears. After the celebration, Maki discovered she was the only one who had never met Sukuna and chased him for a “friendly” first meeting.

• Itadori kept Sukuna talking until he fell asleep, then arranged for Gojo and the others to surprise him with a birthday party.
• Sukuna was overwhelmed by the group's birthday wishes and learned that Itadori had kept him occupied so everyone could prepare.
• Sukuna blew out the candles on a cake marked with the number 1016 and divided it into equal slices with Dismantle.
• The group ate cake and smeared the leftovers on one another, while Nobara and Megumi Fushiguro ended up especially battered.
• Maki learned that everyone else had already met Sukuna and chased him with cake, demanding a “friendly” first meeting.

Sukuna treasured Yuji’s birthday gift and admitted that he no longer wanted to disappear, while Yuji hoped Gojo could find a way for them to stay together. The next morning, Nobara rallied Yuji and Megumi to win the Goodwill Event and help Maki overcome the Zenin Clan’s obstruction, while Sukuna encouraged Yuji from within him.

• After the birthday celebration, Itadori gave Sukuna a black scarf, which Sukuna happily put on before learning it had not been washed.
• That night, Sukuna told Itadori he was starting to hate the thought of leaving, and he privately wished that he could survive and that everyone could be happy.
• The next morning, Nobara urged Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro to win the Goodwill Event so Maki’s strength would become known and the Zenin Clan could not keep holding back her rank.
• Itadori lamented that Sukuna could not participate in the public event, and Sukuna reassured him that he would watch from inside and urged him to win.

Sukuna joined the students for a meal, but Gojo tricked him into eating chili-filled chocolates, sparking a feud and a beating. Gojo later returned with snacks and missions, leaving Itadori to face a Grade 1 curse every night.

• Sukuna joined the first- and second-years for lunch after Itadori switched with him, and Gojo appeared with chocolates.
• Sukuna ate a chili-filled chocolate, fled for water, then chased Gojo through the dorm and beat him up.
• Sukuna demanded that Gojo taste every snack he brought, and Gojo was thrown out of Itadori's room before disappearing for two days.
• Sukuna used the quiet time to give Itadori pointers on his Cursed Technique, then forgave Gojo when the lack of missions left him short on snack money.
• Gojo assigned Itadori one Grade 1 curse outing every night, leaving Itadori overwhelmed by the nightly fights.