Chapter Summaries

Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto caught Sherlock and beat a confession out of him after learning he had orchestrated the convention incident as revenge for Gojo’s lies. The three former classmates shared a brief, nostalgic outing, while the injured Sherlock woke with his plan still underway.

• Shoko waited outside the restroom with the two girls and the trophy while Gojo and Geto restrained Sherlock inside.
• After an hour of beating and healing him, Gojo and Geto made Sherlock apologize and explain how he had discovered Gojo’s deception and planned the surprise as Professor Moriarty.
• Gojo and Geto emerged, and Shoko teased them about their onstage behavior before handing them a bag of anime-print shirts.
• The three former classmates changed, took a selfie, and walked around the convention together, quietly preserving the warmth of their reunion.
• Sherlock woke bruised and swollen in a restroom stall and coldly thought that his plan had only just begun.

Rumors about Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto spread through the fanwork community, leaving Gojo unable to explain their relationship and confined to Tokyo Jujutsu High. There, Gojo began teaching Sherlock for final exams, and after a week of lessons the two were exhausted and openly disdainful of each other.

• Sherlock spread rumors about Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto throughout the fanwork community, and Shoko and Utahime helped circulate the resulting manga and gossip.
• Mei Mei quietly promoted the gossip on the forum, making Gojo and Geto popular in a shipping circle and prompting the Higher-Ups to confine Gojo to Tokyo Jujutsu High.
• Gojo blamed Sherlock for the rumors and subjected him to a packed schedule of lessons, combat training, and errands.
• Masamichi Yaga told Sherlock that final exams were a month away, and Gojo became Sherlock's academic teacher.
• Sherlock discovered that Gojo and Geto were exceptional students, while Gojo learned that Sherlock struggled with basic schoolwork.
• After a week of lessons, Gojo and Sherlock were burned out and looked at each other with disdain.

Sherlock finished his final exams at Jujutsu High, passing every subject except English with a score of 59. After Masamichi Yaga explained that students could choose any foreign language, Sherlock asked to switch to Chinese.

• Sherlock took his final exams under the watch of Satoru Gojo, Masamichi Yaga, and Shoko.
• Sherlock passed mathematics, language arts, physics, chemistry, history, geography, and Jujutsu knowledge, but scored 59 in English.
• Sherlock and Satoru Gojo glared at each other and looked ready to fight over his failed English exam.
• Shoko asked Masamichi Yaga whether English was the only foreign-language option, and he explained that any language would count.
• Sherlock asked Masamichi Yaga to change his foreign-language subject to Chinese, leaving Satoru Gojo stunned.

Sherlock asked to take the Chinese exam, expecting an easy pass, but the confusing test left him with a score of seventy-five and a humiliating collapse. Shoko revealed she knew he could read Chinese from his browsing history, and Gojo left while Sherlock lamented that his teacher no longer loved him.

• Masamichi Yaga gave Sherlock the Chinese exam after agreeing to his request, and Sherlock was shaken by its difficult questions.
• Sherlock passed the exam with seventy-five out of one hundred, then knelt on the floor in defeat.
• Gojo asked Shoko how she knew Sherlock could read Chinese, and Shoko said his browsing history had revealed it.
• Shoko scolded Sherlock for failing to clear the library computer’s browsing history before leaving with Yaga.
• Gojo reflected on Sherlock’s bizarre knack for learning things through unusual motivation, then called him rotten luck and walked out.
• Sherlock begged Gojo not to leave, but Gojo ignored him and raised a middle finger as he closed the classroom door.

After finishing exams, Sherlock began his long winter vacation expecting to relax, but found Satoru Gojo and Shoko had taken over his house. He learned they wanted to stay for the holidays just as he prepared to tell them he planned to work during his vacation.

• Sherlock celebrated the start of winter vacation by cleaning his home, buying a takeout meal, and enjoying a bathhouse visit.
• Sherlock returned home and found Shoko asleep on his sofa and Satoru Gojo eating desserts and playing video games amid a mess.
• Sherlock threatened to call the police, so Satoru Gojo took his phone and apologized to the officer.
• Sherlock learned Satoru Gojo had come to his home to avoid work and a Gojo Clan New Year's ceremony, while Shoko had skipped work to join him.
• Satoru Gojo persuaded Sherlock to let them stay for the holidays, but Sherlock revealed he planned to work during vacation.

Sherlock secretly planned to get a temporary job at sxd so he could attend a fan festival, but the work turned out to be exhausting and nothing like he expected. After quitting, he learned that sxd had ties to the Time Vessel Association, leaving him stunned that he had been working for Suguru Geto’s backers.

• Sherlock confessed his holiday-job plan to Satoru Gojo and Shoko, who promised not to interfere if he brought them food.
• Sherlock interviewed for sxd’s temporary employment program and got a job, hoping it would bring him close to actresses at a fan festival.
• After half a month of venue, bus-driving, security, and other grueling work without meeting any actresses, Sherlock quit and shut himself in his room.
• Satoru Gojo told Sherlock that temporary workers in Japan could not access a company’s core business and that sxd’s board had ties to the Time Vessel Association.
• Sherlock realized he had spent half a month working for an organization backed by his master Suguru Geto’s associates.

Sherlock appeared in the Time Vessel Association and was captured and tormented by Suguru Geto, but then decided to ingratiate himself with Geto to gain access to his connections. Suguru Geto, unnerved by Sherlock’s behavior, called Satoru Gojo for help.

• Sherlock used his Cursed Technique to appear in the Time Vessel Association, where Suguru Geto struck him with a cursed spirit orb and bound him with cursed spirits.
• Sherlock accused Suguru Geto of eating shit, so Geto shoved the foul-tasting orb into his mouth and tormented him until he relented.
• Sherlock realized Suguru Geto might help him get into a fan appreciation event and began acting obsequiously toward him.
• Sherlock knelt before Suguru Geto and offered to support him and make him money, calling him “Master's Wife.”
• Suguru Geto grew alarmed by Sherlock’s apparent eagerness to be beaten and called Satoru Gojo.

Suguru Geto endured Sherlock’s outrageous request to use his connections to get him into porn, then returned to Gojo’s house battered and furious. Gojo and Shoko laughed at Geto’s plight and invited him inside, while Sherlock was left tied up in a cocoon.

• Geto rejected Sherlock’s disgusting behavior by striking him with a scroll rod, then warned him to stay back.
• Sherlock explained that he wanted Geto to use his connections to help him enter the porn industry and promised to work nonstop with reverse cursed technique.
• Sherlock gave Geto pills from a bottle labeled “Masamichi Yaga,” prompting Geto’s cursed spirits to emerge and menace him.
• Gojo and Shoko laughed over their missed calls from Geto and showed no concern when Sherlock failed to return all day.
• After sunset, Geto arrived injured and threw a rope-bound Sherlock at Gojo, then cursed at him for letting his disciple bother him.
• Gojo and Shoko teased Geto and invited him inside, while Geto fired back by mocking Gojo.

Sherlock’s home became a secret refuge for Satoru Gojo, Shoko Ieiri, and Suguru Geto, though their frequent brawling and the burden of caring for them made Sherlock miserable. He developed a powerful shikigami technique using the trio, but they were dangerously difficult to control, and he hid the incantation he used to summon Suguru Geto.

• Satoru Gojo, Shoko Ieiri, and Suguru Geto treated Sherlock’s house as a safe haven where they could set aside their roles and act like ordinary friends.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto repeatedly fought in Sherlock’s house while Shoko encouraged them and recorded their brawls.
• Sherlock accepted Satoru Gojo’s supplementary black card and called him “Godfather,” but the trio set him straight and he returned to calling him “Teacher.”
• Sherlock made Suguru Geto and Shoko his shikigami, developing the Jujutsu High Shadows Technique, though their strength could leave him badly beaten.
• Sherlock secretly used an incantation to summon Suguru Geto as a shikigami to capture cursed spirits, but feared Suguru Geto would kill him if he found out.

As New Year approached, Sherlock learned why Shoko could not return home and recognized the pain beneath her casual demeanor. He promised that he, Teacher Gojo, and Master's Wife would stay out of the infirmary.

• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto visited Sherlock's home less often as family duties and holiday preparations kept them busy, leaving Shoko to spend most of her time there.
• The Zenin Clan and Kamo Clan avoided Shoko because they feared Sherlock could secretly place undetectable beacons on them.
• Sherlock asked Shoko whether she would go home for New Year, and she explained that her parents had moved to China with Gojo's help while she remained in Japan.
• Sherlock told Shoko he understood how painful her circumstances and the future could be, and she brushed off his attempt to comfort her.
• Sherlock assured Shoko that he, Teacher Gojo, and Master's Wife would not end up in the infirmary.

Sherlock and Shoko visited the Gojo Clan’s New Year blessing ceremony to see Satoru Gojo, then Shoko told Sherlock how Suguru Geto had once been mistaken for Gojo’s future wife. The chapter ended with Gojo Tsuchi sneezing as Gojo Ki worried over him.

• Sherlock used his Cursed Technique to take Shoko to the Gojo Clan’s crowded New Year ceremony.
• Sherlock and Shoko joined the clan’s line and saw Satoru Gojo in formal robes blessing children as the Six Eyes Divine Child.
• Shoko told Sherlock that the Gojo Clan had mistaken Suguru Geto for Satoru Gojo’s future wife and sent him a marriage contract.
• Sherlock laughed at the story while Gojo Tsuchi sneezed inside a clan mansion, and Gojo Ki hurried to check on him.

Sherlock and Shoko watched the Time Vessel Association’s New Year procession, where Suguru Geto’s foxlike statue made them laugh, then returned home to prepare a New Year’s feast. Their quiet celebration became a gathering when Satoru Gojo arrived, followed by Suguru Geto and two girls.

• Sherlock and Shoko watched the Time Vessel Association’s procession and laughed at the statue of a black fox with Suguru Geto’s bangs, while Suguru Geto waved from a float behind it.
• Sherlock and Shoko returned to Sherlock’s house, where Sherlock prepared a New Year’s feast for them to eat while watching Kōhaku Uta Gassen.
• Satoru Gojo arrived at Sherlock’s house, smelled the food, and went inside without waiting for an invitation.
• Suguru Geto arrived with two indignant little girls and asked Sherlock to set out more chopsticks as payment for the afternoon’s spectacle.
• Sherlock welcomed Suguru Geto and the girls inside, turning the New Year’s dinner into a lively gathering.

Sherlock celebrated New Year with Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, Shoko, and the two girls, then gave them handmade chibi gifts that drew laughter and teasing. Satoru Gojo quietly wished the happy moment could last forever before reverting to his Dickhead Cat personality.

• Sherlock and the others shared a New Year's feast, counted down to midnight, and exchanged happy New Year wishes.
• Satoru Gojo, Shoko, and Suguru Geto gave Sherlock New Year's money, and Sherlock accepted it before handing out gifts.
• Shoko delighted in dolls of Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, whose hidden magnets made them stick mouth to mouth, while the two men joined forces to punish Sherlock.
• Suguru Geto smiled at Sherlock's gift of chibi versions of their old school trio, but blushed when Satoru Gojo revealed that the dolls Sherlock gave the girls had removable clothes and sewn-on elephants.
• Satoru Gojo was moved by Sherlock's gift depicting the trio as teachers being scolded by Masamichi Yaga, with a miniature Sherlock on Gojo's head.
• Satoru Gojo murmured that he wished time could stay as it was, then joked and meowed with the others as his Dickhead Cat personality returned.

After ending his vacation, Sherlock took missions from Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto before returning to Jujutsu High as a second-year student. On the first day of term, two love letters for Satoru Gojo arrived instead of new classmates, revealing the identities of two future students.

• Sherlock ended his lonely vacation and began taking missions from Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, handling dangerous curses and unusual exorcism jobs.
• Sherlock returned to Jujutsu High early to clean his dorm and welcome the new students, but Masamichi Yaga confirmed he was still the school's only student for the year.
• A courier delivered two pink letters addressed to Satoru Gojo, and Sherlock and the others discovered they were written by future students Kirara Hoshi and Kinji Hakari.
• Kirara Hoshi's letter praised Satoru Gojo's beauty and asked how to become as pretty, while Kinji Hakari's letter expressed earnest romantic adoration.
• Shoko, Sherlock, and Masamichi Yaga teased Satoru Gojo and warned him to keep his distance from the two boys until they enrolled.

Sherlock learned that Masamichi Yaga had recruited Kinji Hakari and another boy by using cross-dressing photos of Satoru Gojo, then discovered Yaga had also sold popular custom dolls of the Gojo/Sherlock pairing through an alternate account. The chapter left Sherlock panicking in the hallway as Shoko walked away and refused to help him.

• Sherlock questioned Masamichi Yaga about how he had recruited the two boys after seeing their unusual letters to Satoru Gojo.
• Masamichi Yaga admitted that he had used photos of Satoru Gojo cross-dressing to lure the boys into enrolling.
• Shoko dragged Sherlock into the hallway and explained that Yaga made dolls and sometimes took online commissions.
• Sherlock checked the seller of the dolls he had given Shoko and found that Yaga's alternate account had sold them.
• Shoko returned Sherlock's phone and left him calling after her for help.

Sherlock fled to Suguru Geto’s Time Vessel Association to escape Satoru Gojo and Masamichi Yaga, but Geto agreed to shelter him only if he made a Binding Vow and worked for a week. Geto sent the eager Sherlock off to perform in adult film sets, then told Gojo the plan had succeeded.

• Sherlock rejected calls from Satoru Gojo and Masamichi Yaga and escaped to Suguru Geto’s Time Vessel Association.
• Suguru Geto agreed to let Sherlock stay for one week, provided he worked without using his Cursed Technique and made a Binding Vow.
• Suguru Geto offered Sherlock work as a male performer, and Sherlock eagerly vowed not to use his Cursed Technique to run away unless his life was in danger.
• Suguru Geto called his contacts to arrange Sherlock’s work on Teacher Aka’s and Sensei Kimishima’s sets.
• Sherlock thanked Suguru Geto extravagantly and rolled away when Geto ordered him out of sight.
• Suguru Geto messaged Satoru Gojo that the plan was done, and Gojo replied, “OK!”

After seven days on a film set, Sherlock returned to Jujutsu High devastated by the humiliating roles Suguru Geto had arranged for him and the trap of a billion-yen contract. Satoru Gojo taunted him with advance copies of the films, and Sherlock responded by unleashing his Domain Expansion.

• Sherlock spent seven days playing minor and humiliating roles in Sensei Kimishima's, Teacher Aka's, and Teacher Aoi's productions, while his dream of attending a fan event collapsed.
• Sherlock learned that breaking his seven-day contract would cost one billion yen, and he found nowhere safe to flee from Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo.
• Sherlock returned to Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High and spent the night brooding over how Suguru Geto had tricked him and Satoru Gojo had retaliated so effectively.
• Satoru Gojo entered the classroom and mocked Sherlock with advance copies of the films, praising Xia-chan's acting.
• Sherlock attacked Satoru Gojo, who blocked him with Limitless, then Sherlock formed Taoist Lingguan Seals and activated Domain Expansion: Endless Corridor.

Sherlock unlocked an unfinished Domain Expansion after taking part in several humiliating film roles, but Satoru Gojo overwhelmed him with Infinite Sand Sculpture. Masamichi Yaga and Shoko arrived to find Sherlock incapacitated and learned how Gojo had provoked the breakthrough.

• Sherlock expanded a domain that showed a sky-blue expanse of water and a distorted, noose-hung figure, but he could not imbue it with a Cursed Technique.
• Satoru Gojo mocked Sherlock's unfinished domain, making him furious enough to try to attack.
• Satoru Gojo used Domain Expansion: Infinite Sand Sculpture, swallowing Sherlock's domain and leaving him drooling on the floor.
• Masamichi Yaga and Shoko entered after the barrier detected a powerful source of Cursed Energy, and Gojo proudly announced Sherlock could use Domain Expansion.
• Shoko questioned Gojo about his methods, and he explained that Sherlock had taken roles such as an incompetent husband and cowardly child before unlocking his domain.
• Masamichi Yaga began taking medication as Shoko looked at the incapacitated Sherlock with pity.

Sherlock’s incomplete domain and bizarre history made him famous across Jujutsu Society, while the resulting scandal dragged Tokyo Jujutsu High’s reputation down and sparked questions about its teachers. Suguru Geto lashed out at forum users and was banned, while Satoru Gojo practiced a brief version of Unlimited Void he called “Infinite Sand Sculpture.”

• Jujutsu Society learned Sherlock had deployed an incomplete domain and began treating him as a future Special Grade sorcerer.
• Forum users uncovered Sherlock’s outrageous past and fell silent, with one highly liked comment asking whether he was human.
• The revelations led Jujutsu Society to question Satoru Gojo’s and Masamichi Yaga’s teaching, and to scrutinize Suguru Geto’s character.
• Suguru Geto saw the forum discussion, argued with users under his main account, and got banned.
• Satoru Gojo repeatedly practiced deploying Unlimited Void for a fraction of a second, aiming to perfect his “Infinite Sand Sculpture” technique.

Brain targeted Sherlock after his incomplete domain and influence on Suguru Geto threatened her plans, while the jujutsu higher-ups sent him on a Grade 1 promotion mission in Tomioka Town. Sherlock went to hunt a newly born earthquake curse, unaware that the town concealed a deeper, older threat.

• Brain resolved to prevent Sherlock from disrupting her plans after hearing about his domain and Suguru Geto’s possible reversal.
• The higher-ups assigned Sherlock a direct Grade 1 assessment mission, and Masamichi Yaga warned him against taking reckless risks.
• Sherlock traveled with Ijichi to Tomioka Town, where the target was a Grade 1 curse born from fear of the March 11 earthquake.
• Sherlock used a beacon to reach the mountain search area and prepared to test the cutting power he had added to the Eight-Mirror Sword.
• Sherlock and Jujutsu High remained unaware that Tomioka Town also hid an older cursed spirit near the Fuku-X Nuclear Power Plant.