Chapter Summaries

Yagami Jue used money from his pay-to-win system to boost his speed and rescue Asakura Yuki from armed thugs. After defeating several attackers, he began breaking the kneeling thugs’ bones, leaving their punishment underway.

• Yagami Jue revealed that his system let him buy physical attributes and spent 50,000 yen to raise his speed.
• Asakura Yuki warned Yagami Jue to run as five armed thugs charged him in the alley.
• Yagami Jue dodged the scar-faced thug’s steel pipe and broke the thug’s leg with a kick.
• One thug knelt and begged for mercy, but Yagami Jue rejected the pleas and stamped on his shoulder, breaking his collarbone.

Yagami Jue defeated the five thugs who had attacked him and found a powerful cursed spirit lurking behind Asakura Yuki. He spent all his money boosting his Strength and charged at the spirit with a supersonic punch.

• Yagami Jue incapacitated the five thugs, took their 130,000 yen, and knocked out the red-haired thug when he tried to flee.
• Yagami Jue approached Asakura Yuki and spotted a three-headed cursed spirit emerging from the wall behind her.
• Yagami Jue recognized the spirit as a Grade 3 threat nearing Grade 2 and realized the thugs' fear had accelerated its formation.
• Yagami Jue spent his entire 330,000-yen balance to raise his Strength to 52 as the cursed spirit lunged at him.
• Yagami Jue charged the spirit and struck it with a punch powerful enough to break the sound barrier.

Yagami Jue killed a Semi-Grade 2 cursed spirit, earned money and a cursed tool, then warned Asakura Yuki that she needed to grow stronger. He left her behind and tested his strength at an underground gym, where he realized his speed and constitution had to catch up.

• Yagami Jue obliterated the cursed spirit with his bare strength and received 500,000 yen and Blue Steel Knuckle Dusters from the system.
• Asakura Yuki thanked Yagami Jue for saving her, but he told her he had acted only because the thugs obstructed his earnings and warned her she would die if she stayed weak.
• Yagami Jue left Asakura Yuki to call the police and walked away, while a hint of defiance appeared in her eyes.
• Yagami Jue went to an underground gym and lifted a 300-kilogram barbell for one hundred squats, shocking the other gym-goers.
• Yagami Jue judged his speed and constitution too low for high-level fights and focused on earning more money.

Yagami Jue spent 500,000 yen to boost his physical stats and planned to grow stronger before Sukuna’s incarnation changed the plot. At school, he rejected Asakura Yuki’s lunch and intimidated a student who confronted him, while keeping an eye on Yuji Itadori.

• Yagami Jue raised his constitution to 38 and his speed to 52 by spending 500,000 yen, then decided to seek work at the underground black market.
• Yagami Jue arrived at Sugisawa Third High School and saw Yuji Itadori discussing a supernatural incident with classmates.
• Asakura Yuki offered Yagami Jue a homemade lunch to thank him, but he rejected it and told her not to bother him.
• A basketball player confronted Yagami Jue and demanded an apology, but Yagami’s killing intent frightened him into backing down.
• Yagami Jue ignored the class’s silence, rested at his desk, and planned to visit Sendai City’s underground black market after school.

Yagami Jue pursued a high-paying cursed spirit bounty and demonstrated his overwhelming strength at an underground gym. He then entered Sendai City's black-market bar to seek his next mission.

• Yagami Jue found a three-million-yen bounty for suspected Grade 2 Cursed Spirit activity at an abandoned hospital.
• Asakura Yuki offered Yagami Jue an umbrella, but he insulted her and urged her to become stronger; she resolved not to cry.
• Yagami Jue shoved a bald gym brute across the gym and lifted a 400-kilogram barbell with ease.
• Yagami Jue entered the Dark Crow bar, where patrons mocked him for being a high school student.

Yagami Jue accepted a black-market job to exorcise a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit at Ci'en Abandoned Hospital and entered the hospital grounds. After killing eight Grade 4 cursed spirits, he looked toward the dark outpatient building, still intent on earning money.

• Yagami Jue broke a one-eyed curse user's arm and knee, then demanded details about the hospital job from Spider.
• Spider told Yagami Jue that a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit had taken up residence at Ci'en Abandoned Hospital after five high school students went missing.
• Yagami Jue left for the hospital and kicked its heavy iron gate off its hinges.
• Yagami Jue killed eight Grade 4 cursed spirits in the courtyard and earned 80,000 yen from the system.
• Yagami Jue dismissed the weak spirits as too slow and turned his attention to the outpatient building.

Yagami Jue used his immense strength and Azure Steel Knuckle Dusters to exorcise a powerful Wheelchair Cursed Spirit in the abandoned hospital. After earning five million yen, he was interrupted by Kiyotaka Ijichi and several men in black suits arriving at the wrecked lobby.

• Yagami Jue spent 80,000 yen to raise his strength to 60 before entering the outpatient building.
• Yagami Jue fought the Wheelchair Cursed Spirit, shattering its leg-tentacle attack and crushing its face with an axe kick.
• Yagami Jue finished the regenerating spirit with the Azure Steel Knuckle Dusters, earning two million yen and an Advanced Taijutsu Fragment.
• Yagami Jue realized the system loot and his three-million-yen mission commission brought his earnings to five million yen, enough to buy the Toji Fushiguro experience card.
• Kiyotaka Ijichi arrived with several men in black suits to lower the Curtain, then stopped in surprise at the wrecked lobby.

Yagami Jue intimidated Jujutsu High sorcerers after destroying a cursed spirit nest, then spent two million yen to greatly increase his physical stats. At school, he challenged Asakura Yuki to meet him at an abandoned slaughterhouse, intending to use her as bait for a Grade 1 cursed spirit.

• Yagami Jue left the ruined hospital after warning Ijichi and the other sorcerers not to interfere, prompting Ijichi to report the dangerous stranger to Principal Yaga and Satoru Gojo.
• Yagami Jue spent two million yen to raise his constitution to 138 and his speed to 152, then tested his new strength by moving faster than sound.
• Asakura Yuki told Yagami Jue she had joined a strict martial arts dojo and vowed to prove she was not a useless burden.
• Yagami Jue challenged Asakura Yuki to meet him at the abandoned slaughterhouse at ten that night, planning to use her to lure out the Grade 1 cursed spirit gestating there for a ten-million-yen bounty.

Yagami Jue spent his three million yen on strength, endured the agonizing increase, and tested his new power by wrecking an abandoned scrapyard. He faced the Rabid Dog Group after destroying their turf, and the scar-faced leader ordered his men to shoot him.

• Yagami Jue used the system to spend three million yen and raise his strength to 360, triggering intense pain and smashing a hole through the school rooftop wall.
• Yagami Jue jumped from the fifth-floor roof and ran to an abandoned scrapyard outside Sendai City to test his abilities.
• Yagami Jue lifted and hurled a ten-ton truck, then spent two hours demolishing cars and steel columns until he had mastered his new strength.
• The scar-faced leader of the Rabid Dog Group arrived with armed yakuza and demanded twenty million yen for the damage to their scrapyard.
• Yagami Jue mocked the gang, and the scar-faced leader ordered his men to fire at him.

Yagami Jue shrugged off a shotgun blast, seized the Rabid Dog Group’s money, and drove the gangsters from the abandoned station. That night, he used Asakura Yuki as bait in an abandoned slaughterhouse, where Grade 3 cursed spirits attacked her before someone smashed through the roof.

• Yagami Jue’s body deflected the shotgun pellets, and he grabbed the scarred man by the throat.
• The scarred man offered ten million yen from the Rabid Dog Group’s safe, and Yagami Jue deposited the money and claimed the abandoned station.
• Yagami Jue ordered the gangsters to leave and shattered an iron anvil to warn them away.
• Asakura Yuki entered the abandoned slaughterhouse with a baseball bat while Yagami Jue watched from a tower crane.
• Several Grade 3 Livestock Curses attacked Asakura Yuki, broke her bat, and cut her neck.
• Someone smashed through the slaughterhouse’s rusted roof just as the curses were about to kill Asakura Yuki.

Yagami Jue rescued Asakura Yuki from grade 3 cursed spirits and confronted the grade 1 cursed spirit Butcher. After overwhelming Butcher in combat, Yagami spent ten million yen to raise his strength by 1,000 as the battle continued.

• Yagami Jue arrived at the slaughterhouse and killed the grade 3 cursed spirits attacking Asakura Yuki.
• Yagami Jue challenged Butcher, who burst through the cold-storage door and revealed himself as a grade 1 cursed spirit.
• Yagami Jue shattered Butcher’s boning knife with a punch and battered him with a rapid series of attacks.
• Yagami Jue saw Butcher trying to flee and spent ten million yen through the system to increase his strength by 1,000.

Yagami Jue killed a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit with overwhelming physical strength, drawing Satoru Gojo’s attention, then struggled to control his enhanced body and went to Sugisawa Third High School’s Kendo Club to train. He purchased a Toji Fushiguro experience card and faced an angry upperclassman upon entering the dojo.

• Yagami Jue destroyed the Butcher Cursed Spirit with one punch and earned five million yen and two Advanced Taijutsu Fragments.
• Asakura Yuki clung to Yagami Jue and cried, while he told her to stop acting helpless.
• Kiyotaka Ijichi reported Yagami Jue’s feats to Satoru Gojo, who became interested in meeting him in Sendai City.
• Yagami Jue bought a Toji Fushiguro: Heavenly Restriction Experience Card and left home to work on controlling his strength.
• Yagami Jue entered the Sugisawa Third High School Kendo Club to train with its equipment, and an upperclassman ordered him to leave.

Yagami Jue drove the Kendo Club out of its dojo, then trained until he could control his immense strength. He ordered Asakura Yuki to run thirty kilometers a day to prepare for survival, then headed to Sendai City's underground Black Market after spending all his money.

• Yagami Jue punched through a hundred-kilogram iron-sand punching bag, then caught Kenta Sato's bamboo sword between two fingers and snapped it.
• Yagami Jue ordered Kenta Sato and the Kendo Club members out and claimed the dojo for himself.
• Yagami Jue practiced controlling his strength and, after two hours, managed to pick up a feather without breaking it.
• Asakura Yuki told Yagami Jue she had joined a martial arts dojo and run ten kilometers, but he ordered her to run thirty kilometers every day.
• Yagami Jue left school and headed to the underground Black Market in Sendai City, penniless after spending the five million he had earned.

Yagami Jue accepted a thirty-million-yen contract to kill the curse user Kyo-yu and recover a Special Grade Cursed Object, which he recognized as Sukuna's Finger. He found Kyo-yu in an abandoned building and left him crushed by a single punch before stomping on his head.

• Yagami Jue visited the Dark Crow bar, where Spider offered him a thirty-million-yen contract to kill Kyo-yu and recover a stolen Special Grade Cursed Object.
• Yagami Jue recognized the object in the case file as Sukuna's Finger and accepted the job.
• Yagami Jue found Kyo-yu on the top floor of an abandoned building, surrounded by drained corpses and holding Sukuna's Finger.
• Kyo-yu charged Yagami Jue and struck at him, but Yagami Jue broke Kyo-yu's arm with an ordinary punch and sent him crashing through walls.
• Yagami Jue approached the helpless Kyo-yu and stomped on his head.

Yagami Jue killed Kyo-yu, recycled Ryomen Sukuna's Finger for money, and spent his entire balance boosting his constitution and speed to extraordinary levels. When police and Jujutsu personnel surrounded the building, he vanished, leaving Kiyotaka Ijichi to prepare an assault as a sonic boom erupted nearby.

• Yagami Jue killed Kyo-yu and took the wrapped Ryomen Sukuna's Finger from his corpse.
• Yagami Jue rejected the chance to consume the finger and recycled it, bringing his balance to 88 million Japanese yen.
• Yagami Jue spent all 88 million on constitution and speed, reaching 4,538 constitution, 4,552 speed, and the initial stage of Heavenly Tyrant.
• Police and Jujutsu personnel surrounded the unfinished building after detecting a surge associated with Ryomen Sukuna's Finger, and Yagami Jue decided to escape.
• Kiyotaka Ijichi learned that Satoru Gojo would arrive in five minutes and ordered the police to prepare an assault.
• Yagami Jue vanished from the building, and a sonic boom erupted as the police approached its entrance.

Yagami Jue escaped the police after recovering Sukuna's Finger, then returned to school and prepared to profit from the cursed spirits drawn there. After Sasaki and Iguchi unsealed another finger, he launched himself into the swarm to begin hunting.

• Yagami Jue tore through the police cordon with his speed and vanished before Satoru Gojo arrived and noticed the unusual physical force he had used.
• Asakura Yuki told Yagami Jue she had run thirty kilometers, and he harshly warned her to train for survival rather than praise; she resolved to run forty kilometers that night.
• Yuji Itadori told the class that a monster had broken through the police cordon, reminding Yagami Jue that Sukuna's Finger was hidden at the school and cursed spirits would soon gather there.
• Sasaki and Iguchi removed the talismans from Sukuna's Finger, releasing cursed energy that drew cursed spirits toward Sugisawa High School.
• Yagami Jue jumped from the rooftop into the swarm, killing nearby cursed spirits and earning money for the kills.

Yagami Jue massacred the cursed spirits attacking the school and seized Sukuna's Finger, while Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro watched in shock. As Ryomen Sukuna's soul tried to devour him, Yagami remained confident that his constitution could resist the curse.

• Yagami Jue slaughtered the cursed spirits swarming the school grounds with his immense physical strength.
• Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro watched Yagami's rampage from the fourth floor, then rushed to protect Sasaki and Iguchi from a Semi-Grade 1 Cursed Spirit.
• Yagami crashed through the school wall, broke the Semi-Grade 1 Cursed Spirit's spine, and killed it for a loot drop of 2.5 million Japanese yen.
• Yagami charged toward Sukuna's Finger and cleaved through Megumi's Great Serpent shikigami when Megumi tried to stop him.
• Yagami seized Sukuna's Finger, prompting Ryomen Sukuna's soul to attempt to devour him, but Yagami trusted his powerful constitution to withstand the curse.

Yagami Jue recycled Sukuna's Finger, then spent all his money on strength to kill an incomplete special grade cursed spirit with one punch. The system rewarded him with a fragment of the Eight Gates Formation, and he was thrilled by the prospect of learning its first gate.

• Yagami Jue recycled Ryomen Sukuna's Finger and received 50 million yen from the system.
• A crocodile-like incomplete special grade cursed spirit crashed into the corridor and targeted Yagami Jue.
• Yagami Jue spent his entire 52.5 million yen balance to raise his strength to 6,610 points.
• Yagami Jue punched through the cursed spirit's chest and killed it, leaving Megumi Fushiguro and Yuji Itadori stunned.
• The system awarded Yagami Jue 20 million yen and a Taijutsu Fragment for the Eight Gates Formation's first gate, which excited him.

Yagami Jue unlocked the Eight Gates Formation’s first gate and easily defeated the curse user Butterfly Poison, who had come for Sukuna’s Finger. She revealed that an anonymous 500-million-yen bounty had been placed on his head, and Jue greeted the news with excitement.

• Gojo arrived at Sugisawa Third High School, inspected the physical destruction, and learned from Megumi that the one responsible was Yagami Jue.
• The next morning, Jue used the system to acquire the Gate of Opening and unleashed its power, confident he could challenge Gojo’s Limitless.
• Butterfly Poison confronted Jue at an abandoned building and demanded Sukuna’s Finger, but he mocked her and shattered her venomous snake attack with a shock wave.
• Jue broke Butterfly Poison’s ribs with a single kick and stopped short of killing her when she revealed that an anonymous source had posted a 500-million-yen bounty for his head.
• Butterfly Poison warned that Curse Users and assassins were heading to Sendai, but Jue laughed and welcomed the bounty.

Yagami Jue killed Butterfly Poison, spent his money to raise his speed, and faced the bounty hunters gathered in Sendai City. After Gojo set out to find him, Yagami Jue slaughtered the first attackers and opened the First Gate as the battle escalated.

• Yagami Jue killed Butterfly Poison and collected fifty million yen, then spent all seventy million yen he had on increasing his speed.
• Satoru Gojo told Masamichi Yaga that Yagami Jue had no cursed energy but immense physical strength, and left to find him in Sendai City.
• More than a hundred curse users and assassins gathered in Sendai City to claim the five-hundred-million-yen bounty on Yagami Jue.
• Yagami Jue arrived at the alley and killed more than a dozen attackers with his speed before the remaining assassins could react.
• Yagami Jue appeared in the crowd, declared that the slaughter had begun, and opened the First Gate of the Eight Gates Formation.