Recaps

Sherlock realized Satoru Gojo’s mission had brought them to Kabukicho, where they planned to investigate a Curse User called Loan Shark by going undercover at a host club. When Gojo tried to make Sherlock interview alone, Sherlock improvised and persuaded the manager to consider them as a pair of brothers.

• Sherlock noticed Satoru Gojo repeatedly teasing Ijichi and ignored Gojo’s attempts to mock him for sticking his hand out of the car window.
• Sherlock recognized that they were headed to Kabukicho and grew suspicious when Satoru Gojo brought him to a host club.
• Satoru Gojo explained that Loan Shark lent Cursed Energy to ordinary people, then took their lives if they failed to repay it.
• Satoru Gojo told Sherlock that their mission was to pass an interview at the host club and gather information on Loan Shark.
• Sherlock resisted being dragged inside, then clung to Satoru Gojo and asked the manager to hire them together as brothers.

Sherlock and Satoru Gojo went undercover at a host club to investigate a loan shark, but Sherlock maneuvered Gojo into becoming its star host while he made a fortune. After seven days without finding the target, Gojo dragged Sherlock back to the investigation and saw his bizarre method firsthand, realizing he had inherited the burden of teaching a student like himself.

• Sherlock talked the manager into hiring both him and Satoru Gojo, then made Gojo the host club’s star attraction while he worked as an assistant.
• Gojo Kitty became the club’s top host, and his standee drew customers and visits from Shoko, Mei Mei, Utahime, and Suguru Geto.
• Suguru Geto saw Gojo’s advertisement in Kabukicho and suspected Sherlock had led Gojo astray.
• After seven days without finding the loan shark, Gojo remembered the mission and hauled the money-counting Sherlock back to work.
• Sherlock demonstrated his unusual investigation method, leaving Gojo dismayed and thinking of the trouble Masamichi Yaga had endured with his students.

Sherlock and Satoru Gojo abducted three hosts who seemed connected to the loan shark, and Sherlock used a revolver loaded with one bullet to terrify them into confessing. Their testimony revealed deals with Masahiro Matsumoto and Yuko Aikawa, while Gojo left shaken by Sherlock’s ruthless method.

• Sherlock noticed three hosts feared Satoru Gojo and, on the eighth morning, dragged them with Gojo into a private room and tied them to chairs.
• Sherlock unloaded a revolver until one bullet remained, then threatened the hosts and pulled the trigger at their groins when they refused to talk.
• The third host confessed that Masahiro Matsumoto had magically altered his face in exchange for a million yen each month.
• The first host claimed he had made a similar deal with a woman named Yuko Aikawa and accused the third host of lying.
• Sherlock kept resetting the odds and threatening the three hosts until they scrambled to reveal everything they knew, leaving Satoru Gojo utterly shaken.

Sherlock and Satoru Gojo extracted three conflicting identities from the men who had dealt with the curse user called Loan Shark, then traced the transactions through Window’s investigation. The search led them to the surviving suspect, Shuichi Yoshimura, whose former employer was connected to Satoru Gojo’s clan.

• Sherlock used psychological pressure to make the three men reveal their transactions, though their descriptions of Loan Shark contradicted one another.
• Sherlock revealed that he had used a dummy round to frighten the men and recommended firearms for intimidation and sneak attacks, alarming Satoru Gojo.
• Satoru Gojo and Sherlock identified the three names as Masahiro Matsumoto, Yuko Aikawa, and Shuichi Yoshimura, and noticed that the transactions followed similar patterns.
• Window reported that Masahiro Matsumoto and Yuko Aikawa had died three days earlier, while Shuichi Yoshimura was still alive and wealthy.
• Sherlock recognized the conglomerate where Shuichi Yoshimura had worked as one belonging to Satoru Gojo.

Sherlock and Satoru Gojo traced Loan Shark to a warehouse, where Eiichi Kurokawa revealed his delusions of grandeur and transformed with a genuine Spark Lens. The chapter ended with Sherlock and Satoru stunned as Kurokawa became a three-meter-tall giant of light.

• Shuichi Yoshimura confessed that he had made a deal with Loan Shark to turn his dagger into a sturdier greatsword, and he provided a record of their financial transactions.
• Satoru Gojo used the transaction record and Gojo Clan resources to identify Loan Shark as Eiichi Kurokawa and locate his warehouse in Nerima Ward.
• Satoru Gojo took Sherlock to the warehouse, set up a curtain, and threw Sherlock inside to confront whoever was there.
• Eiichi Kurokawa emerged from the warehouse, declared himself the chosen protagonist, and challenged Satoru Gojo to witness his power.
• Eiichi Kurokawa raised a Spark Lens, shouted “Tiga,” and transformed into a giant of light, leaving Sherlock and Satoru Gojo stunned.

Eiichi Kurokawa transformed into Tiga with a cursed tool and challenged Satoru Gojo, who threw Sherlock into the fight. Sherlock’s first punch sent Tiga flying and made his chest light blink, while Satoru Gojo warned that Tiga was about to use a move.

• Eiichi Kurokawa used a Spark Lens to transform into Tiga and challenge Satoru Gojo.
• Satoru Gojo used Blue to lift Sherlock into his hand and threw him toward Tiga, urging him to fight.
• Sherlock slipped on brass knuckles and hurled cursed-energy ice picks at Tiga, then teleported in to punch him.
• Sherlock’s punch sent Tiga crashing into the dust and made his chest light start blinking.
• Satoru Gojo called out that Tiga would unleash a move when his light blinked.

Sherlock fought Eiichi Kurokawa after the Spark Lens rejected him and turned to stone, then shattered his Den-O Belt and battered him with cursed-energy attacks. Gojo revealed that Eiichi transferred injuries to his borrowers, but Sherlock landed a Black Flash that forced Eiichi to his knees and began trying to strike him with more.

• Tiga fired a Specium Ray and threw an Ultra Slash at Sherlock, who recognized the moves and complained that Tiga was using Ace’s attack.
• After Sherlock questioned his choice of move, Eiichi Kurokawa reverted from Tiga to human form, and his Spark Lens turned to stone.
• Eiichi mourned the loss of his transformation, then threatened to kill Sherlock and revealed a Den-O Belt.
• Sherlock broke Eiichi’s belt and pounded him with hundreds of cursed-energy-coated punches, while Eiichi transferred his injuries to his borrowers.
• Gojo identified Eiichi’s injury-transfer technique, and Sherlock struck him with a Black Flash that brought him to his knees.
• Sherlock began trying to land more Black Flashes on Eiichi.

Sherlock overwhelmed Eiichi Kurokawa with three Black Flashes before exhaustion forced him to stop. As Sherlock and Satoru Gojo celebrated, Kurokawa unleashed his Domain Expansion and revealed the power of his usury-based Cursed Technique.

• Sherlock used his beacon-based Cursed Technique to strike Eiichi Kurokawa repeatedly and landed a second Black Flash.
• Sherlock landed a third Black Flash that sent Kurokawa crashing into the warehouse, then stopped to catch his breath.
• Satoru Gojo praised Sherlock while Sherlock took candy from Gojo's pocket and ignored his teasing.
• Kurokawa emerged from the rubble, raged that he was supposed to be the protagonist, and activated his Domain Expansion, Life-Lending Workshop.
• Kurokawa explained that Nine Lent, Thirteen Repaid let him lend Cursed Energy, collect interest to strengthen himself, and control everything he reclaimed as principal.

Satoru Gojo explained domain techniques to Sherlock while defeating Eiichi Kurokawa with Unlimited Void. With Kurokawa incapacitated and Gojo experiencing Cursed Technique Burnout, Sherlock seized the chance to prank his teacher.

• Gojo identified that Kurokawa's domain had no sure-hit effect and let him forge Cursed Tools by recovering principal.
• Kurokawa raged at Gojo and Sherlock, then began forging the Spear of Causality: Predetermined Piercing.
• Gojo taught Sherlock how to deal with domains and expanded Unlimited Void over Kurokawa's domain.
• Kurokawa survived Unlimited Void but collapsed, bleeding from his facial orifices.
• Gojo explained Cursed Technique Burnout, and Sherlock used the opening to strike him with Invincible Thousand Years of Death.

After Satoru Gojo retaliated against Sherlock for their earlier prank, Masamichi Yaga punished them both, and Sherlock turned in a deliberately misleading mission report. Gojo’s advice about imagining a domain’s form left Sherlock questioning how to develop his seemingly incomplete technique, while the Higher-Ups reviewed a file on Eiichi Kurokawa.

• Shoko splinted Sherlock’s broken fingers, scolded him for attacking Satoru Gojo, and reprimanded Gojo for wearing iron underwear to protect himself.
• Satoru Gojo left Sherlock with the mission report on Eiichi Kurokawa, and Shoko called Masamichi Yaga about the pair’s behavior.
• Masamichi Yaga gave Gojo a five-thousand-word reflection and Sherlock a ten-thousand-word reflection, while requiring Sherlock to complete the report.
• Sherlock copied a reflection and wrote a mission report that focused on Gojo’s host-club antics while barely mentioning Eiichi Kurokawa.
• Sherlock lay awake considering Gojo’s advice about imagining a domain and wondering how to develop his Flying Thunder God technique.
• The Higher-Ups received a detailed file on Eiichi Kurokawa.

Sherlock was summoned before Jujutsu Society’s Higher-Ups, who tried to accuse him over Eiichi Kurokawa’s death and recruit him to spy on Satoru Gojo. Gojo intervened and carried Sherlock away after warning the Higher-Ups, while also confronting Sherlock for claiming Suguru Geto was his spouse.

• A suited man summoned Sherlock to meet the Higher-Ups, and Sherlock followed him without contacting anyone at Jujutsu High.
• After waiting nearly an hour, Sherlock entered a dark room where the Higher-Ups demanded that he acknowledge his guilt.
• Sherlock threatened the Higher-Ups and accused them of using Eiichi Kurokawa’s death as a pretext to recruit him and make him spy on Satoru Gojo.
• When the Higher-Ups asked whether Gojo was in a relationship, Sherlock identified Suguru Geto as Gojo’s spouse.
• Satoru Gojo entered, reprimanded Sherlock for spreading rumors about his love life, warned the Higher-Ups there would not be a next time, and carried Sherlock out.

After Satoru Gojo beat Sherlock and stayed away for three days, Shoko explained that his anger came from blaming himself for nearly failing to protect his student. Sherlock invited Gojo, Shoko, and Yaga to dinner, and their meal ended with Gojo enthusiastically devouring Sherlock’s cooking.

• Satoru Gojo beat Sherlock during combat training, leaving him in Shoko’s infirmary for three days without visiting.
• Shoko told Sherlock that Gojo was angry at himself for nearly failing to protect his student, and urged Sherlock to trust him and let him help.
• After leaving the infirmary, Sherlock got Yaga’s approval and invited Gojo, Shoko, and Yaga to dinner in his dorm room.
• Gojo arrived with bags of desserts, and Yaga scolded him for kicking open the door while Shoko confiscated the sweets.
• Sherlock served eight Chinese dishes and soup, and Gojo eagerly competed with Yaga for the food while Shoko enjoyed the erguotou.

Sherlock and Satoru Gojo reconciled after discussing the Higher-Ups’ interference, then resumed training with Satoru tailoring exercises to Sherlock’s weaknesses. The chapter ended with Sherlock exhausted after a punishing day of stamina, combat, reaction, and Barrier Technique training.

• After dinner, Shoko and Masamichi Yaga left Sherlock and Satoru Gojo alone, and Satoru offered Sherlock one of his favorite Kikufuku while urging him to rely on his teacher.
• Sherlock joked that he would make Satoru take the lead the next time the Higher-Ups summoned him, showing that he understood Satoru’s concern.
• Satoru and Sherlock traded barbs, and their conversation strengthened their bond as teacher, student, and friends.
• The next morning, Satoru began special training focused on Sherlock’s stamina, hand-to-hand combat, and reaction speed, while stepping back from directing Sherlock’s Cursed Technique development.
• Satoru put Sherlock through exhausting reaction drills with dolls and air guns, then scheduled a Barrier Technique lesson to prepare him for opening a domain.

After Satoru Gojo was sent abroad, the higher-ups assigned Sherlock to investigate Suguru Geto’s Time Vessel Association, hoping to exploit any outcome against Sherlock and Gojo. Sherlock accepted the assignment but treated it as a chance for a publicly funded vacation, leaving Masamichi Yaga worried about what he would do.

• The higher-ups sent Satoru Gojo overseas, and he told Sherlock to refuse any suspicious assignment or run if necessary.
• The higher-ups assigned Sherlock, a Grade 2 Jujutsu Sorcerer, to investigate Suguru Geto’s Time Vessel Association as part of a scheme to divide him from Satoru Gojo.
• Sherlock recognized the higher-ups’ intentions and forwarded the assignment details to Satoru Gojo.
• Masamichi Yaga offered to help Sherlock refuse the assignment, but Sherlock happily accepted it.
• Sherlock packed his ice pick and set off, intending to turn the investigation into a publicly funded vacation.

Sherlock turned his assignment to investigate Suguru Geto into an all-expenses-paid vacation, using Photoshop to fake evidence of his whereabouts while he toured Japan. By the end of the month, he had visited destinations across the country while carefully avoiding Kyoto and Tokyo.

• Sherlock traveled to Hakone, checked into a luxury hot spring inn, and sent Shoko and Satoru Gojo photos of his vacation as an assignment report.
• Shoko forwarded Sherlock’s hot spring photo to Masamichi Yaga, who recognized the loophole Sherlock was exploiting and laughed before worrying about Gojo learning from him.
• Gojo saw Sherlock’s fabricated social media post placing student-era Suguru Geto at the inn and laughed at Sherlock’s shameless scheme, then planned to give him extra training.
• After two days in Hakone, Sherlock flew first class to Hokkaido, stayed in a presidential suite, ate luxury seafood, and sent photos and souvenirs to his colleagues.
• Sherlock used Photoshop to claim visits to destinations from Aomori to Okinawa, touring Japan for nearly a month while avoiding Kyoto and Tokyo.

Sherlock spent a month traveling around Japan while pretending to investigate Suguru Geto, prompting the higher-ups to leak his mission details and stir up trouble. After discovering Sherlock’s fabricated evidence and embarrassing photos online, Suguru Geto headed to Okinawa with Nanako and Mimiko to confront him.

• Sherlock toured Japan while avoiding Kyoto and Tokyo, and repeatedly told the higher-ups that he was still investigating Suguru Geto.
• The higher-ups leaked Sherlock’s mission records and itinerary on the Jujutsu Society’s dark web to provoke Suguru Geto and other enemies into approaching him.
• Curse Users and Jujutsu Sorcerers mocked Sherlock’s shameless investigation, questioned Satoru Gojo’s teaching, and spread jokes about Suguru Geto using Sherlock’s edited photos.
• Nanako found Sherlock’s social media account and showed it to Suguru Geto, who searched the dark web and realized what had happened.
• Suguru Geto invited Nanako and Mimiko on a beach trip and set off for Okinawa to confront Sherlock without following the higher-ups’ scheme.

Sherlock enjoyed his publicly funded trip to Okinawa until he ran into Suguru Geto, who had come to confront him. Sherlock’s teasing drove Suguru Geto to drag him into an alley and prepare to beat him with Playful Cloud.

• Sherlock lounged on the beach, ate at an izakaya, and returned to his hotel for a nap before heading out again.
• Sherlock collided with Suguru Geto outside his room and accidentally called him “Mistress.”
• Suguru Geto sent Nanako and Mimiko to their room, then hauled Sherlock into an alley and raised a Veil.
• Suguru Geto accused Sherlock of tracking him, exposing his past, and editing a photo to damage his reputation.
• Sherlock asked whether Suguru Geto had a Cursed Spirit that could make men give birth, and Suguru Geto prepared to beat him up.

After Suguru Geto beat up Sherlock in Okinawa, Satoru Gojo turned Sherlock’s complaint into a chance to prank his best friend. He left Sherlock set on confronting Geto while Gojo returned to work, pleased with himself.

• Sherlock called Satoru Gojo and described how he had met Suguru Geto in Okinawa and been beaten up.
• Satoru Gojo reassured Sherlock that Geto would not kill him and persuaded him to use his Cursed Technique to return to Jujutsu High for Shoko’s treatment.
• Satoru Gojo told Sherlock to go back to Okinawa and beat Geto using the weaknesses he would explain.
• Satoru Gojo texted Shoko, who agreed to play along and sent him a photo of Sherlock’s swollen face and Buddha-like hairstyle.
• Satoru Gojo laughed at the photo and prepared to return to work, confident that Geto would not retaliate against Sherlock with lethal force.

Sherlock repeatedly challenged Suguru Geto to duels on Satoru Gojo’s advice, driving Geto to the brink with surprise attacks and relentless persistence. After Geto called Gojo in fury, Gojo laughed and began plotting with Sherlock to provoke him further.

• Satoru Gojo told Sherlock how to counter Suguru Geto’s fighting techniques, and Sherlock repeatedly challenged Geto, losing each time and reviewing the fights with Gojo.
• On the eighth day, Sherlock ambushed Geto in bed, and Geto beat him so badly that Sherlock skipped the next day’s challenge.
• Sherlock continued appearing at all hours to demand duels, even interrupting Geto on the toilet, until Geto broke down after fifteen days.
• Geto called Satoru Gojo to complain, but Gojo mocked him, prompting Geto to hang up and plan a counterattack.
• Satoru Gojo called Sherlock and helped him devise another scheme to drive Geto mad, promising to bring Sherlock a present when he returned.

Suguru Geto waited two days in a remote forest for Sherlock, only to discover Sherlock had taken a vacation instead. After using his tour of Japan to map his technique’s range and improve his fighting skills, Sherlock was relaxing in Okinawa when Satoru Gojo arrived.

• Suguru Geto prepared a forest ambush for Sherlock, but Sherlock never appeared, leaving Geto furious and exhausted.
• Satoru Gojo warned Sherlock that Geto had lost his temper, so Sherlock avoided him and enjoyed a vacation in Okinawa.
• Sherlock used his tour to place technique beacons across Japan and learned that his Cursed Technique had a maximum range of 1,500 kilometers.
• Sherlock improved his close-combat skills through his repeated fights with Suguru Geto and recorded his vacation to show Geto later.
• Satoru Gojo landed in Okinawa and headed by taxi to Sherlock’s hotel, while Sherlock watched television over instant noodles.

Satoru Gojo returned from his overseas trip and surprised Sherlock with the Thunderfire Prayer Beads, a Cursed Tool meant to boost his attacks. Sherlock compared it to a Rasengan, then went out with Gojo to eat, still bickering with him.

• Gojo surprised Sherlock in his room, stole his instant noodles, and joked around until Sherlock challenged him to reveal himself.
• Gojo gave Sherlock the Thunderfire Prayer Beads and explained that they could produce directional blasts when infused with Cursed Energy.
• Gojo said Sherlock could attach the beads to his brass knuckles to improve his damage while practicing Black Flash.
• Sherlock called the Cursed Tool a Rasengan, and Gojo encouraged him to develop it further once he mastered Black Flash.
• Gojo revealed that the hotel belonged to the Gojo Clan, then persuaded Sherlock to take him out for a proper meal.

Suguru Geto took his adopted daughters to Dorogawa for a hot-spring getaway, but Sherlock and Satoru Gojo followed him to carry out a prank. The plan turned into Sherlock getting beaten by Gojo while Shoko reluctantly treated him, and Geto remained at the neighboring inn.

• Suguru Geto left the Time Vessel Association with his adopted daughters and brought them to Dorogawa in Nara Prefecture.
• Sherlock and Satoru Gojo tracked Geto there using the beacon Sherlock could sense and secretly followed him.
• Sherlock teased Satoru Gojo by suggesting he was attracted to Geto's motherly appearance, so Gojo dragged Sherlock away and beat him behind a curtain.
• Shoko used Reverse Cursed Technique to keep Sherlock alive at a nearby inn while Satoru Gojo ate dessert.
• Shoko complained that Gojo had involved her in his romantic entanglements with Geto, then left to enjoy the hot springs.

Suguru Geto discovered that Satoru Gojo and Sherlock had pranked him at the hot spring, but his anger faded when he unexpectedly reunited with Shoko. They set aside their present roles and shared a drink like old classmates from Jujutsu High.

• Suguru Geto soaked in a red, spice-filled hot spring, then discovered the water had dyed his skin and his yukata had been replaced with a meme-covered women's one.
• Suguru Geto found an action camera and realized Satoru Gojo and Sherlock had arranged the prank, then sent Cursed Spirits to search for them.
• Suguru Geto followed Cursed Energy residue to a room where Satoru Gojo and Sherlock had already fled, and Shoko arrived soon after.
• Shoko invited Suguru Geto to drink with her, and he accepted despite knowing their association was dangerous.
• Suguru Geto and Shoko reminisced through familiar jokes and habits, treating each other as old classmates for the evening.

Shoko got drunk while telling Suguru Geto stories about Satoru Gojo and Sherlock, and Geto left before she woke. Sherlock later arrived badly injured, and Shoko treated him and urged him to learn Reverse Cursed Technique.

• Shoko complained to Suguru Geto about the old fossils, Satoru Gojo, and Sherlock while drinking until she passed out.
• Shoko revealed in her sleep that she had used Reverse Cursed Technique to cheat at drinking, leaving Suguru Geto stunned.
• Suguru Geto thanked Shoko for looking after him and Satoru, apologized that he could not turn back, and flew away on a Cursed Spirit.
• Shoko muttered “Idiot!” as Suguru Geto left, then went back to sleep beneath the yukata he had draped over her.
• Sherlock arrived through his Cursed Technique with his face swollen, and Shoko treated him with Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Shoko urged Sherlock to learn Reverse Cursed Technique because his reckless behavior might get him killed.

After returning Shoko to Jujutsu High, Sherlock exposed Satoru Gojo’s trick to avoid Masamichi Yaga’s punishment and was dragged into brutal training. Shoko tried to teach Sherlock Reverse Cursed Technique, but her explanation left him baffled and she declared he had no talent.

• Shoko returned to Jujutsu High with Sherlock and found Masamichi Yaga confronting Satoru Gojo, who knelt with lumps on his head.
• Sherlock told Masamichi Yaga that Satoru Gojo was leaving his injuries untreated to avoid further punishment, prompting Yaga to resume beating Gojo.
• Shoko healed Sherlock in the infirmary while he dismissed her warning that Satoru Gojo might kill him.
• Satoru Gojo made Sherlock endure hand-to-hand training with Black Flash while Shoko repeatedly healed him.
• Sherlock begged Shoko to teach him Reverse Cursed Technique, but her explanation of making cursed energy go “whoosh” and “hoo” confused him.
• Shoko called Sherlock untalented after he failed to understand her explanation.