Chapter Summaries

After Sukuna killed Hajime Kashimo, the cursed spirit Guixu Ying offered him a new life in an independent timeline in exchange for pursuing stronger opponents and spectacular battles. Kashimo accepted eagerly and vanished through an ancient gate, while Guixu Ying regretted not letting him test the waters first.

• Sukuna declared that Kashimo and Satoru Gojo were greedy before disappearing and leaving Kashimo facing a bizarre cursed spirit.
• The cursed spirit overwhelmed Kashimo with visions of past and future events, including the Culling Game and the deaths of Kenjaku and Sukuna.
• Guixu Ying identified itself as an unregistered special grade cursed spirit and offered Kashimo rebirth in a new timeline under a binding vow.
• Kashimo accepted the vow, demanded a worthy fight, and pushed open the ancient gate.
• Guixu Ying watched Kashimo disappear and regretted not letting him test the waters first.

Hajime Kashimo entered the juvenile detention center during the outbreak and fought the cursed spirits despite his newly reborn body's limited cursed energy. He overwhelmed the special grade Cursed Womb Must Die and prepared to continue his attack.

• Hajime Kashimo knocked out the security guard, took a restraining fork, and reshaped it into a spear.
• Kashimo killed a humanoid cursed spirit with a charged lightning strike, then estimated he would need two hits to build enough charge against a special grade.
• Cursed Womb Must Die trapped Kashimo in an innate domain as he entered the dormitory area.
• Kashimo recognized the domain's limitations, struck Cursed Womb Must Die from behind, and drove the cursed spirit into the ground.
• Kashimo plunged the restraining fork toward Cursed Womb Must Die, intent on giving it no chance to fight back.

Kashimo defeated Cursed Womb Must Die at the juvenile detention center and left Sukuna’s Finger behind to preserve the original timeline. As Kashimo left to recover, Guixu Ying’s mysterious vortex suddenly dragged him into the void.

• Kashimo used his lightning technique to paralyze Cursed Womb Must Die and tear through its body.
• Kashimo broke the restraint fork and used its pieces to deliver a final strike, leaving Sukuna’s Finger behind.
• Kashimo decided to let the cursed object hatch another Cursed Womb Must Die so Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro could still follow the original events.
• Kashimo left the detention center to recover his cursed energy and synchronize with his new body.
• Guixu Ying’s vortex rose beneath Kashimo and pulled him into the endless void.

Guixu Ying pulled Toji Fushiguro from his timeline to fight Kashimo, and the two clashed inside a sealed Curtain. Kashimo outmaneuvered Toji with a trap involving his cursed tool and lightning, leaving Toji paralyzed beneath a relentless barrage.

• Guixu Ying isolated Toji Fushiguro in a Curtain and summoned Kashimo to face him.
• Toji attacked Kashimo with the Inverted Spear of Heaven and Chain of a Thousand Miles, while Kashimo charged him with an electrically empowered punch.
• Toji recovered the chain and pulled Kashimo's black staff toward himself, believing he had won.
• Kashimo revealed that he had been storing electrical charge in the staff and unleashed a bolt of physical lightning.
• Toji's lack of cursed energy left him unable to protect himself from the lightning, and Kashimo paralyzed him before striking him with a barrage of blows.

Kashimo explained why his victory over Toji Fushiguro had been unfair: his lightning and knowledge of Toji's weaknesses gave him decisive advantages. After practicing with and storing Toji's cursed tools, Kashimo wondered how Yuji Itadori's group was faring at the Juvenile Detention Center as the cursed womb's fight began.

• Kashimo told Guixu Ying that his victory over Toji Fushiguro was unfair because lightning exploited Toji's lack of cursed energy and the Inverted Spear of Heaven could not easily stop Kashimo's technique.
• Kashimo said his knowledge of Toji's abilities and weaknesses had let him prepare a tailored trap, while Toji had mistaken him for a third-rate assassin.
• Kashimo practiced handling the Inverted Spear of Heaven and considered combining it with his lightning cursed energy and the Chain of a Thousand Miles.
• Kashimo stored the Inverted Spear of Heaven and Chain of a Thousand Miles in the Inventory Curse Worm.
• Kashimo looked toward the Juvenile Detention Center and wondered how Yuji Itadori's group was doing, believing the cursed womb had been reborn and started fighting them.

Hajime Kashimo went to Jujutsu High seeking food and shelter, but its barrier rejected him because he lacked an entry mark. He broke through the outer layer to draw attention, where Panda arrived to confront him.

• Hajime Kashimo realized he had no money for food or shelter and headed to Jujutsu High.
• Hajime Kashimo found the school's barrier blocking his way and used his senses to locate a moving node.
• Hajime Kashimo struck the node and broke through the first layer of the barrier.
• Panda arrived on Principal Yaga's orders to stop the unidentified trespasser.
• Hajime Kashimo greeted Panda as if they had met before.

Hajime Kashimo frightened Panda with his knowledge of Panda’s cores, then joined Jujutsu High and took an entrance test against Principal Yaga’s cursed corpses. Kashimo passed the five-minute challenge with ease as his new body adapted to his fighting style.

• Hajime Kashimo identified Panda’s Gorilla and Triceratops cores, leaving Panda too frightened to react until Kashimo assured him they were not enemies for now.
• Panda and Inumaki told Maki Zenin that the new student, [Yunyi], had exceptional hand-to-hand skills.
• Kashimo requested an entrance test after eating at the student cafeteria, and Principal Yaga sent one wolf-shaped and three dog-shaped cursed corpses to attack him.
• Yaga praised Kashimo’s strength, reflexes, and cursed energy control while Satoru Gojo hinted that Kashimo was holding back.
• Kashimo unleashed electrical arcs that tore apart the three dog-shaped cursed corpses and seized their cores as his new body continued adapting.

Kashimo, using the name Yunyi, demonstrated his overwhelming martial skill at Jujutsu High and decided to train Megumi Fushiguro by provoking him into a fight. He left Kugisaki warned off and marked as his next opponent.

• Kashimo introduced himself at Jujutsu High as Yunyi and explained his past with a claim of amnesia.
• Maki Zenin sparred with Yunyi but could not land a hit, and he stopped a powerful punch just short of her face.
• Megumi Fushiguro watched Yunyi outclass Maki and felt the gap between their abilities, blaming his weakness for Yuji Itadori's apparent death.
• Yunyi grabbed Megumi by the collar and threw him into the athletic field, intending to fire him up and train him.
• Kugisaki reached for her hammer to help Megumi, but Yunyi's electric arc cut a small section from her hair as a warning.

Kashimo challenged Jujutsu High’s students in a gauntlet, and Megumi Fushiguro fought him after abandoning his reliance on the Ten Shadows Technique. Kashimo defeated Megumi, but Megumi learned to use his shadow in a new way.

• Nanami worried that Kashimo was far stronger than the students, while Gojo watched and said he would intervene if needed.
• Megumi prepared to summon Divine Dog, but Kashimo urged him to stop relying entirely on shikigami and knocked cursed tools into the air for him to use.
• Megumi chose a short blade and fought Kashimo at close range, struggling against his speed and strength.
• Megumi used dust to conceal a feint, dropped his blade into his shadow, and reached for it to attack Kashimo from an unexpected angle.
• Kashimo shocked Megumi’s arm with Dis-charge, making him drop the blade and ending the fight in Kashimo’s victory.

Kashimo traded Satoru Gojo information suggesting Suguru Geto might still be alive for access to the Jujutsu Archive. Gojo gave him his student ID under threat, while Megumi went to train with Gojo and continued growing stronger.

• Kashimo's harsh sparring sessions helped Kugisaki improve her cursed energy control and Megumi develop his combat skills and tame more shikigami.
• Megumi accompanied Satoru Gojo to a secret training session focused on cursed energy control.
• Kashimo used Gojo's student ID to gain access to the Jujutsu Archive after making a binding vow with him.
• Kashimo told Gojo that Suguru Geto might be alive and described a cursed technique that could transfer consciousness between bodies.
• Gojo threatened Kashimo, then gave him the ID and said he would look forward to Kashimo challenging him.

Kashimo studied Reverse Cursed Technique and concluded he needed a dangerous but survivable fight to master it. He chose Hanami as his opponent and identified Yoyogi Park as the likeliest place to find the Special Grade Cursed Spirit.

• Kashimo read that Reverse Cursed Technique was most likely to be mastered in desperate circumstances and reflected on how he had nearly grasped it during the Shinjuku Showdown.
• Kashimo decided to provoke a Special Grade Cursed Spirit into a fight so he could face danger without risking his life against sorcerers who would hold back.
• Kashimo compared the abilities of Jogo, Hanami, Dagon, and Mahito, then chose Hanami as a suitable sparring opponent.
• Kashimo used Jujutsu High's mission map to assess Mount Takao, Aoyama Cemetery, and Yoyogi Park as possible places where Hanami might hide.
• Kashimo concluded that Hanami was most likely based in Yoyogi Park and set out to investigate.

Hanami killed a child in Yoyogi Park after he uprooted a cherished hydrangea, but Hajime Kashimo arrived and destroyed Hanami’s flower bed. Enraged, Hanami abandoned its plan to flee and prepared to attack him.

• Hanami watched park visitors trample plants and held back its anger to avoid disrupting Kenjaku’s plan.
• After a boy uprooted Hanami’s hydrangea, Hanami attacked him with poisonous branches and killed him as his mother ran to help.
• Hajime Kashimo appeared beside the dead child, startling Hanami into considering retreat.
• Hajime Kashimo stomped on Hanami’s flower bed and burned the flowers with lightning cursed energy.
• Hanami turned on Hajime Kashimo and vowed to tear him apart.

Kashimo fought Hanami in Yoyogi Forest Park, using his lightning-charged chain to overwhelm Hanami before Hanami trapped him in the Sea of Devouring Light. Hanami’s sure-hit Flower Offering attack seemed to finish Kashimo, but a terrifying surge of cursed energy emerged as the barrier faded, revealing Kashimo’s Mythical Beast Amber.

• Kashimo used the Chain of a Thousand Miles and his electrical cursed energy to break Hanami’s plant attacks and close the distance.
• Kashimo struck Hanami twice and built up a charge, but Hanami escaped his follow-up with Binding Roots Descend.
• Hanami activated the Sea of Devouring Light and gathered the surrounding plants’ cursed energy into Flower Offering: Hollow Birth.
• Kashimo used Hollow Wicker Basket to counter the domain’s sure-hit effect, but Hanami’s golden beam engulfed the domain.
• As the light faded, Hanami sensed a powerful surge of cursed energy and saw Kashimo’s shattered barrier give way to Mythical Beast Amber.

Hajime Kashimo used the Inverted Spear of Heaven to end Mythical Beast Amber and revealed that he had mastered Reverse Cursed Technique, turning the fight against Hanami. After Hanami trapped him in an illusion and fled, Kashimo broke the domain with a Black Flash, leaving Hanami gravely wounded and doomed.

• Hajime Kashimo stabbed himself with the Inverted Spear of Heaven, deactivating Mythical Beast Amber and surviving Hanami’s attack with Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Hanami charged Kashimo, but Kashimo healed his throat and struck Hanami with a sure-hit lightning attack before beating it down.
• Hanami used Illusory Realm: Fear to trap Kashimo in a vision of Shinjuku and began escaping with its tree stumps.
• Kashimo answered the illusion with a maximum-output Black Flash that shattered Hanami’s domain and left Hanami too weak to teleport again.
• Hanami escaped badly wounded, remembered its companions, and lost consciousness as death became inevitable.

Kashimo survived Mythical Beast Amber and learned Reverse Cursed Technique, but he could only sustain the lightning transformation for ten seconds. After reporting the special grade spirits to Jujutsu High, Gojo intensified Fushiguro’s training and arranged for Nanami to take Yuji on a mission as the threat drew closer.

• Kashimo found that Reverse Cursed Technique could counter Mythical Beast Amber’s bodily disintegration, though his cursed energy output had fallen below ten percent and the transformation lasted only ten seconds.
• Kashimo let Hanami escape because Hanami still needed to play a role in future events, then used his phone to report the incident to Jujutsu High.
• Fushiguro trained with Gojo, who pressured him to summon shikigami using minimal cursed energy and punished lapses in control.
• Gojo said the Jujutsu High higher-ups might dismiss the reports of two intelligent special grade cursed spirits with domains, but he worried his students would not have time to grow.
• Gojo told Nanami to take Yuji on a mission the next day and investigate the area for signs of special grade cursed spirits, while keeping Yuji’s return from Fushiguro.

Kenjaku questioned the injured Hanami and Jogo about the unknown sorcerer who had defeated Hanami, then sent Mahito out to confront Sukuna’s vessel. As Mahito set off eagerly, the jujutsu world’s balance continued to shift around Hajime Kashimo’s emergence.

• Kenjaku lounged on the beach as Hanami and Jogo returned badly injured and accused him of withholding information about their opponent.
• Hanami described the battle, and Kenjaku suspected the unknown sorcerer was an heir to an ancient jujutsu clan after hearing about Hollow Wicker Basket.
• Kenjaku dismissed the threat posed by the new sorcerer and turned his attention to Mahito, urging him to take part in the growing conflict.
• Mahito left Dagon’s innate domain to seek out Sukuna’s vessel after Kenjaku told him to go ahead if he could kill him.
• Mahito eagerly anticipated tasting humans and cursed spirits as new forces formed around Hajime Kashimo’s disruption of the jujutsu system.

Megumi Fushiguro and Kugisaki entered Central Park to locate survivors after a powerful special grade cursed spirit appeared. They found the spirit and attacked it, but it swiftly wounded Megumi’s Divine Dog: Totality, leaving the sorcerers in grave danger.

• Ijichi told Megumi Fushiguro and Kugisaki that a new special grade cursed spirit had emerged in Central Park, where sorcerers and civilians were already missing or injured.
• Megumi and Kugisaki entered the Curtain and found a mutilated sorcerer beside the pond, then used Nue to spot fighting near the banyan tree.
• Megumi and Kugisaki reached the clearing and saw the shadowy special grade cursed spirit kill a wounded sorcerer.
• Megumi and Kugisaki coordinated an attack that damaged the spirit, with Max Elephant’s water and Kugisaki’s Hairpin striking its unstable body.
• A hidden sorcerer warned them not to approach the spirit, and Megumi tried to recall Divine Dog: Totality as the spirit solidified its claws.
• Kugisaki detonated three nails to divert the spirit’s strike, but it still tore open Divine Dog: Totality’s back and left it unable to rise.

Megumi Fushiguro and Kugisaki faced a special grade cursed spirit that killed a panicked sorcerer, then trapped them inside its innate domain. Outside illumination revealed the spirit’s form as a snake.

• The special grade cursed spirit killed the Semi-Grade 2 sorcerer as he described its abilities, and Megumi used Max Elephant to help himself and Kugisaki retreat.
• The spirit engulfed the park in darkness and formed an innate domain filled with bones and animal skulls.
• Megumi and Kugisaki realized the spirit had evolved, and Megumi warned that it now had intelligence and a physical form.
• Nue struck at a moving shadow, but the attack had no effect, leaving only scattered black scales behind.
• The Assistant Supervisor arranged for illumination flares, and the light revealed that the special grade cursed spirit was a snake.

Megumi Fushiguro and Kugisaki fought a special grade cursed spirit that transformed into a giant bear, but its attack nearly killed them. Hajime Kashimo rescued them, drove the spirit off, and suspected it was an intelligent new Calamity capable of shapeshifting and possession.

• The cursed spirit shed its serpent form and became a giant bear as Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro attacked it.
• The bear used swarms of hornets to disrupt Kugisaki’s technique, then struck Megumi Fushiguro and Kugisaki, leaving Megumi gravely injured.
• Hajime Kashimo appeared and punched the bear through its guard, realizing his blow had not harmed its core.
• Hajime Kashimo countered the spirit’s wind blades with the Chain of a Thousand Miles, but the spirit vanished from the park.
• Hajime Kashimo told Megumi Fushiguro the spirit might possess objects and recommended placing it in the highest category of the special grade registry as the Fifth Calamity.

A newborn special grade cursed spirit disguised itself as a cat and attacked Kenjaku, but he subdued it and brought it home. There, it found three other companions waiting behind the door.

• The newborn discarded a human limb and hid its cursed energy while scouting people near an apartment building.
• The newborn spotted Kenjaku and attacked him in the form of a massive tiger.
• Kenjaku stopped the tiger’s strike with summoned Centipedes and punched it into a pile of discarded goods.
• The cursed spirit transformed into a giant mantis, but Kenjaku called forth two beings of its kind and made it submit.
• The cursed spirit turned into a meek cat and followed Kenjaku inside, where three companions were waiting.