Chapter Summaries

Sherlock’s failed film debut led to a beating and a scolding, while Shoko’s photo made Satoru Gojo the subject of a viral scandal. After learning what happened, Suguru Geto enjoyed the story and looked forward to meeting Sherlock.

• After the producers left, Masamichi Yaga scolded Sherlock, while Satoru Gojo went to confront the Gojo Clan and beat a clan member who later became his first supporter.
• Shoko posted a photo of Satoru Gojo on the Jujutsu Sorcerers’ forum, where the story spread and drew questions from his acquaintances and the higher-ups.
• Satoru Gojo recognized Shoko as the photographer and shouted her name from the Gojo Clan Compound.
• Suguru Geto found the viral post, bought Mei Mei’s account of the incident, and laughed at the story of Sherlock becoming Satoru Gojo’s first student and nemesis.
• Suguru Geto considered adding rumors to the discussion, found that the post had been deleted, and said he looked forward to meeting Sherlock.

Satoru Gojo tried to salvage his reputation by making Shoko promise not to spread rumors and confronting Sherlock, but their fight escalated into a pair of Black Flashes. The clash left both master and student injured, while Shoko faced more overtime and Masamichi Yaga erupted in anger.

• Satoru Gojo got Jujutsu Headquarters to remove the post and persuaded Shoko to stop discussing the matter in exchange for three dessert outings.
• Satoru Gojo dragged Sherlock from bed and attacked him with Misae's Secret Art: Spinning Divine Fist, prompting Sherlock to fight back.
• Satoru Gojo and Sherlock fought from the dormitory to the athletic field, where Sherlock unconsciously landed a Black Flash that sent Satoru Gojo crashing into the dormitory building.
• Satoru Gojo healed himself with Reverse Cursed Technique and returned, then copied Sherlock's Black Flash as they struck each other in the face and went flying in opposite directions.
• Masamichi Yaga and Shoko arrived at the scene, and Masamichi Yaga roared at Sherlock and Satoru Gojo while Shoko faced overtime.

Jujutsu Headquarters ordered Satoru Gojo and Sherlock to take missions together, hoping the dangerous arrangement would stunt Sherlock’s growth and drive a wedge between them. Gojo recognized the old fossils’ scheme and reassured Yaga that he would protect Sherlock, then provoked Yaga by flaunting his teaching license.

• Jujutsu Headquarters reviewed reports of Gojo and Sherlock’s fight and decided against recruiting Sherlock, instead assigning the two to missions together.
• Yaga prepared to protest the order, worried that Gojo and Sherlock would cause trouble and damage his reputation.
• Gojo stopped Yaga and explained that the old fossils wanted to use the missions to endanger Sherlock and create conflict between them.
• Yaga warned Gojo to act responsibly as Sherlock’s teacher and not let anything happen to him.
• Gojo promised to protect Sherlock, then teased Yaga about lacking a teaching license, prompting Yaga to hit him.

After waking from his fight with Satoru Gojo, Sherlock learned that his Black Flashes had made him a target of attention and that the Higher-Ups had paired his missions with Gojo’s for private training. Sherlock tried to refuse, then attacked Gojo in frustration, but Gojo left the infirmary with him still clinging on.

• Sherlock woke in Shoko's infirmary and reflected on how landing Black Flash could help him master the technique through practice.
• Shoko told Sherlock that Jujutsu Society had heard he landed two Black Flashes on Satoru Gojo because he missed the fan festival, and warned that many people were watching him as Gojo's first disciple.
• Shoko explained that the Higher-Ups had combined Sherlock's missions with Gojo's so Gojo could keep him close and train him one-on-one.
• Sherlock asked whether he could refuse, then told Gojo he would accept only if he did not have to run errands or take on Gojo's missions; Gojo stayed silent.
• Sherlock leaped at Gojo and tried to bite his head, but Limitless stopped him, and Gojo left the infirmary with Sherlock still hanging from him.

Sherlock complained to Gojo about their punishing work schedule and the Higher-Ups’ vague mission briefings, but Gojo explained that his work also involved Curse Users and other disturbing threats. Gojo, Sherlock, and Ijichi then set off for a mission, with Sherlock already waiting in the car before Ijichi noticed him.

• Sherlock told Gojo that the long workweek and inadequate mission intel amounted to exploitation, while Gojo brushed off his complaints and promised to show him what his missions were really like.
• Gojo explained that Jujutsu Sorcerers handled Curse Users and other threats as well as Cursed Spirits, and watched Sherlock for a reaction.
• Sherlock dismissed Gojo’s explanation by telling him to read more books, then went to his room to retrieve something before meeting Gojo at the school gates.
• Gojo teased Ijichi at the school gates by claiming Sherlock was already in the car, and Ijichi found Sherlock sitting in the back seat.

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.