Chapter Summaries

Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo began searching for Echo fragments, recovering three in Tokyo in one day. Suguru Geto planned to continue the search before Tokieda found the last portion of cursed energy, but he did not know what the Echo merger would do to his memories.

• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo agreed to leave Jujutsu High at five in the morning to follow the Echo fragments.
• Suguru Geto found and swallowed a fragment hidden beneath a nameless shrine’s stone monument in Meguro Ward.
• Suguru Geto recovered and absorbed fragments from an old well in Setagaya Ward and beneath a bridge pier in Adachi Ward.
• Suguru Geto told Satoru Gojo that he was gathering fragments to prepare to merge with Tokieda before Tokieda found the last portion of cursed energy.
• Satoru Gojo asked whether Suguru Geto would remember him after the merger, and Suguru Geto promised that he would.

Suguru Geto found the seventh Echo fragment at Zeniarai Benten and learned that its source lay in Kumano. A week later, he merged his completed Echo with Tokieda’s in an abandoned mine, then set out to take Tokieda to Chiba and Echo to its source.

• Suguru Geto found the seventh bead hidden inside a hollow coin at Zeniarai Benten, swallowed it, and read a note directing whoever gathered all seven to Kumano.
• Suguru Geto returned to Jujutsu High and waited until Tokieda called from Asama Ridge Mine, saying his Echo was failing and asking Geto to come merge them.
• Satoru Gojo drove Suguru Geto to the mine, where Geto found Tokieda and merged their Echo fragments, absorbing memories of Tokieda’s younger brother, Shigure.
• Suguru Geto found that Tokieda had survived the loss of Echo, and he and Satoru Gojo carried him out of the mine.
• Suguru Geto directed Satoru Gojo to take Tokieda to Chiba, where Hazuki said the sorcerers whose cursed energy Tokieda had drained were located, while Geto felt Echo complete within him and considered its return to Kumano.

Suguru Geto returned the echo to its source at the ancient trail in Kumano, ending the months he had spent carrying it. He and Satoru Gojo drove north in silence, their hands stopping just short of touching.

• Suguru Geto took Tokieda to the hospital, learned where the missing jujutsu sorcerers were, and sent people to retrieve them.
• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo reached the ancient trail in Kumano, where Suguru felt the echo calling from beyond a stone marker.
• Suguru Geto followed the shimenawa-lined path alone and transferred the echo from his body into a black stone.
• Suguru Geto emerged to find Satoru Gojo watching over unconscious visitors, including Hazuki, and Satoru called the Association to collect them.
• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo drove north in silence, each moving a hand one centimeter closer to the other without making contact.

Suguru Geto returned to Jujutsu High and learned that the echo had completely disappeared from his body. As he settled back into ordinary school routines alongside Satoru Gojo, he began to realize he had moved beyond the burden of his past life and fell asleep without dreaming.

• Shoko examined Suguru Geto and confirmed that the echo and its original were gone, with his cursed energy back to normal.
• Suguru Geto thanked Shoko, and Satoru Gojo prompted him to thank him too before they parted for the night.
• The next morning, Suguru Geto told Satoru Gojo that the echo was gone and that he felt lighter; Satoru Gojo said he had already seen it with the Six Eyes.
• Suguru Geto attended class with Satoru Gojo, then spent the afternoon on the rooftop reflecting on the echo’s absence until Satoru Gojo joined him.
• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo ate dinner together, returned to the dorms, and said good night.
• Suguru Geto reflected that he had reached solid ground beyond his past-life memories, then fell asleep without dreaming.

Suguru Geto spent a quiet day at school while Satoru Gojo was away, sitting with Shoko and watching the students and the campus. By night, Geto listened to the sounds around him in the silence and heard familiar footsteps pass his door without stopping.

• Suguru Geto learned from Shoko that Satoru Gojo had been called away by Yaga to meet someone from the Association.
• Suguru Geto wandered the campus, sat in the empty library, and later kept Shoko company in the infirmary while watching her plant.
• Suguru Geto watched Yu Haibara train from the rooftop and noticed that the echo was gone, leaving him newly aware of the sounds around him.
• Suguru Geto ate dinner with Haibara, who told him he looked thinner and urged him to eat more.
• Suguru Geto returned to his room, opened the window, and heard familiar footsteps pause outside his door before continuing down the hallway.

Satoru Gojo returned from the Association and joined Suguru Geto on a mission to exorcise a cursed spirit in Saitama. Afterward, they shared ramen and returned to Jujutsu High, parting for the night before class the next day.

• Satoru Gojo told Suguru Geto that the Association had only asked him to confirm the echo had disappeared, then ate lunch with him.
• Suguru Geto agreed to accompany Satoru Gojo on a mission to a school in Saitama.
• Suguru Geto subdued the cursed spirit in a storeroom with Cursed Spirit Manipulation, though it was only Grade 2.
• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo stopped at a ramen shop, compared their meals, and drove back to Jujutsu High.
• Suguru Geto woke Satoru Gojo when they arrived, and they said good night before their classes the next day.

Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo investigated a cursed spirit inside a painting at Pheobe Hall and entered its world to rescue a guard’s trapped consciousness. They freed the guard and left the spirit’s painting intact, then drove away to write their report.

• Masamichi Yaga assigned Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo to investigate a special grade cursed spirit at Pheobe Hall after a guard was found unconscious.
• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo identified Kazuki Hashimoto’s self-portrait as the source of the curse and were pulled into the painting.
• Suguru Geto recognized the painted world’s living mountains and brightening sky, and the spirit thanked him before fading.
• Satoru Gojo recovered the guard’s consciousness, and the guard woke in the east gallery.
• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo left the museum, where Satoru Gojo said the spirit had meant no harm and had only been lonely.

Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo returned to Jujutsu High after the mission involving Kazuki Hashimoto’s cursed painting, and discussed whether the painter had been understood or merely accepted. Gojo asked Geto if he was still lonely, and Geto ended the night without knowing how to answer.

• Suguru Geto reported the mission to Masamichi Yaga, who said he would speak to the Association and asked Geto to submit the written report the next day.
• Suguru Geto joined Satoru Gojo on the rooftop, where they discussed Kazuki Hashimoto’s painting and the loneliness behind it.
• Suguru Geto said Hashimoto had once hoped to be understood but later gave up hoping, and Gojo asked whether Geto was still lonely.
• Satoru Gojo told Suguru Geto that their next mission would be together, and Geto agreed.
• Suguru Geto ate with Satoru Gojo, Yu Haibara, and Shoko, then returned to his dorm and thought about Gojo’s question before going to bed.

During a long stretch of rain, Satoru Gojo visited Suguru Geto and tried to make miso soup, but they settled for instant packets. After they shared the quiet afternoon and dinner, Satoru promised to buy soft tofu and try making soup again the next day.

• Suguru Geto listened to the rain in his dorm room until Satoru Gojo arrived with groceries and a cooking magazine, hoping to learn to make miso soup.
• Suguru Geto pointed out that Satoru Gojo had forgotten the fresh ingredients, so they made instant miso soup instead and agreed to try again when the rain stopped.
• Satoru Gojo fell asleep in Suguru Geto's room, and Suguru Geto covered him with a blanket before dozing by the window.
• After the rain stopped, Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo went to the cafeteria, where Shoko noticed a miso soup stain on Satoru's shirt and Yu Haibara asked Suguru where he had been.
• Suguru Geto reminded Satoru Gojo to buy tofu, and Satoru said he would get soft tofu for their next attempt.

After the rain stopped, Satoru Gojo brought ingredients to Suguru Geto’s room and learned to make tofu miso soup with him. They shared the meal and ended the day standing quietly together, with plans to decide what to cook tomorrow.

• Satoru Gojo brought soft and firm tofu and other ingredients to Suguru Geto’s room.
• Suguru Geto showed Satoru Gojo how to hold a knife safely while cutting scallions.
• Satoru Gojo prepared kelp, tofu, and miso soup with Suguru Geto’s guidance.
• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo ate the soup together, and Suguru Geto told him it was good.
• Satoru Gojo washed the dishes and asked what they would make the next day.
• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo stood close together by the window without speaking.