Chapter Summaries

Tokyo Jujutsu High discussed the explosive rise in curses and prepared for Suguru Geto’s threat while Wangchuan remained unreachable. The school mobilized allies and assigned defenses, and Satoru Gojo promised Masamichi Yaga they would win.

• Ijichi reported that curses had increased sharply, with registered Special Grade curses reaching dozens of times the historical total and Geto potentially controlling over a hundred thousand curses.
• Mei Mei and Satoru Gojo confirmed they could not contact Wangchuan, who had left without saying where he was going or when he would return.
• Masamichi Yaga ordered the school to contact students, graduates, the three great families, and the Ainu Jujutsu Alliance to coordinate defenses against Geto.
• Masamichi Yaga rejected Mei Mei’s suggestion to send Yuta Okkotsu to Kyoto, fearing Geto could seize his Special Grade Vengeful Cursed Spirit, and decided to keep Yuta at school.
• Mei Mei left to coordinate with the Bounty Hunter Association, and Shoko Ieiri went to prepare the medical department.
• Satoru Gojo reassured Masamichi Yaga that they would win before leaving the meeting room.

On December 23, Huojin and Dagon watched Kyoto from atop Kyoto Tower as Huojin anticipated a battle and dismissed Dagon’s fears about Satoru Gojo. The next day, Suguru Geto broke into Tokyo Jujutsu High, killed three supervisors with summoned curses, and headed toward Yuta Okkotsu.

• Huojin told Dagon that Kyoto would soon become a battlefield and looked forward to humans being corrupted by nuclear energy.
• Dagon warned Huojin not to interfere with Kenjaku’s plans and said Satoru Gojo was too strong, but Huojin insisted they would not encounter him in Kyoto.
• At Tokyo Jujutsu High, Yuta Okkotsu worried about his absent friends while Maki Zenin urged him to rest.
• Yuta sensed that someone had broken through the Veil surrounding the school.
• Suguru Geto entered Tokyo Jujutsu High and summoned three grade-one curses to kill three supervisors.
• Suguru Geto headed toward the teaching building and said he would send Yuta on his way.

Jujutsu Sorcerers battled the curses flooding Shinjuku while Masamichi Yaga ordered them to protect civilians and buildings. Satoru Gojo sensed Miguel and Manami Suda watching from a nearby rooftop, and they prepared to stop him from interfering with Suguru Geto’s plan.

• Masamichi Yaga directed the sorcerers to avoid damaging buildings and evacuate any civilians they found.
• Kento Nanami and Ino charged into the curses and began fighting together.
• Satoru Gojo noticed someone troublesome at a distant building and drew Masamichi Yaga’s attention to them.
• Miguel and Manami Suda identified Satoru Gojo, and Miguel recalled that Wangchuan had seemed not human during an earlier encounter.
• Miguel and Manami prepared to confront Satoru Gojo and keep him from interfering with Suguru Geto’s plan.

Utahime Iori directed her students against the curses attacking Kyoto while relying on Wangchuan’s protective charm. Elsewhere, Huojin killed a jujutsu sorcerer and prepared to unleash a devastating attack on the city with Dagon.

• Utahime Iori told Kasumi Miwa, Mai Zenin, Momo Nishimiya, and Kokichi Muta to work together and keep the curses occupied while she dealt with the larger threats.
• Kokichi Muta joined Kasumi Miwa and Mai Zenin, while Momo Nishimiya took to the air to watch over the battlefield.
• A giant bear-like curse attacked Utahime Iori, but Wangchuan’s protective charm activated and hurled it into a building.
• Huojin celebrated the start of the battle in an abandoned park and told Dagon he wanted to burn the humans to ashes.
• Huojin killed a jujutsu sorcerer with a dark red beam and announced that he and Dagon would destroy the city with a nuclear blast.

Maki Zenin confronted Suguru Geto over the people he had killed, but Yuta Okkotsu stepped in to face him. Yuta summoned Rika and attacked Geto’s horde of curses, leaving the two sides poised to fight.

• Maki Zenin confronted Suguru Geto, who admitted killing people she cared about and insulted her and the Zenin Clan.
• Yuta Okkotsu stopped Maki from attacking and told her to retreat while he faced Geto.
• Suguru Geto summoned more than a hundred curses and challenged Yuta to show Rika’s power.
• Yuta summoned Rika, who empowered his katana and made Geto’s curses hesitate.
• Rika called Geto a bad person, and Yuta slashed through a group of curses as he and Rika charged.

Yuta Okkotsu and Rika fought Suguru Geto, who summoned Special Grade curses and explained his hostility toward ordinary humans. Geto resolved to kill Yuta and take Rika as the battle intensified.

• Suguru Geto summoned a spherical Special Grade curse, and Rika tore it apart to protect Yuta.
• Geto explained that he had chosen the side of Jujutsu Sorcerers and meant to return the curses humans produced.
• Rika overwhelmed two more Special Grade curses and declared that no one could touch Yuta.
• Rika charged Geto through three Grade 1 curses, while Yuta seized the opening to strike at him with his sword.
• Geto dodged Yuta's attack and questioned whether Yuta's power belonged to him or Rika.
• Yuta said he would not back down because Maki and the others were in danger, and Geto vowed to kill him and take Rika.

Aoi Todo cleared a street of curses in Kyoto and protected a stranded civilian before encountering the Special Grade curses Huojin and Dagon. Todo and Huojin introduced themselves and prepared to fight.

• Aoi Todo defeated a horde of curses with his bare hands and told a hidden civilian to stay put until help arrived.
• Aoi Todo sensed two Special Grade curses and confronted Huojin and Dagon at the end of the street.
• Huojin identified Dagon as a Special Grade but said he would be Todo’s opponent.
• Aoi Todo introduced himself as a student from Kyoto Jujutsu High, and Huojin gave his name before powering up.
• Aoi Todo and Huojin faced off and challenged each other to begin the fight.

Aoi Todo fought Huojin, whose scorching attacks and extraordinary durability gave him the advantage. Huojin revealed that humanity’s fear of nuclear weapons had given birth to him, then analyzed Todo’s Boogie Woogie and challenged him to continue.

• Todo attacked Huojin with punches and an elbow, but Huojin blocked them and blasted Todo backward with a scorching shock wave.
• Todo asked what fear had created Huojin, and Huojin said he was born from humanity’s fear of nuclear weapons.
• Todo used Boogie Woogie to appear behind Huojin and land a punch to the back of his head.
• Todo repeatedly swapped positions to attack from different angles, but Huojin blocked his strikes and endured them.
• Huojin inferred how Todo’s technique worked and said Todo’s chosen swaps revealed his intended attacks, then challenged him to keep fighting.

Huojin overpowered Aoi Todo until Utahime Iori arrived and struck him with a powerful repulsive force, then became fixated on the ancient power in her forehead brand. As Huojin prepared to fight them both, meteors fell toward Kyoto, and Utahime recognized Wangchuan’s arrival.

• Huojin blasted Aoi Todo into a wall with nuclear energy, leaving Todo badly burned and injured.
• Utahime Iori arrived and used a powerful repulsive force to send Huojin crashing through walls into rubble.
• Huojin healed the dent in his body and questioned Utahime about the crescent brand on her forehead, which she said Wangchuan had left behind.
• Utahime and Todo stood together to face Huojin as he threatened to keep them there and interrogate them.
• Dozens of flaming lights descended toward Kyoto, and Utahime’s brand resonated with them as she welcomed Wangchuan.

Wangchuan returned to Kyoto atop a meteorite and used a precisely controlled meteor shower to crush curses across the city. He confronted Huojin and Dagon, then asked Utahime Iori to withdraw the sorcerers while he handled the fight.

• Utahime Iori recognized that Wangchuan had returned, while Huojin and Dagon reacted to the incoming meteor shower and considered whether to flee.
• Wangchuan rode a meteorite toward the battlefield, confirmed Utahime Iori was unharmed, and realized Huojin and two other curses had appeared to restore a disrupted balance.
• Wangchuan redirected dozens of meteorites around buildings and sorcerers, crushing groups of curses throughout Kyoto.
• Yoshinobu Gakuganji watched the meteorites destroy the curses and remarked on Wangchuan's recklessness and efficiency.
• Wangchuan vanished from the hovering meteorite and appeared directly before Huojin, startling both Huojin and Dagon.
• Wangchuan thanked Utahime Iori, told her to have Gakuganji withdraw everyone from the battlefield, and said he would handle the rest.

Utahime Iori and Aoi Todo withdrew after Wangchuan told them to leave, trusting him to face Huojin and Dagon. Wangchuan claimed he was stronger than Satoru Gojo and treated fighting the two Special Grades as entertainment, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Utahime Iori dragged Aoi Todo away, saying Wangchuan had never made empty promises and there was no need to worry about him.
• Aoi Todo asked Wangchuan to fight him again after he healed, and Wangchuan agreed.
• Wangchuan asked Huojin whether Kenjaku was in Kyoto and how Huojin knew about him, but Huojin instead asked who was stronger, Wangchuan or Satoru Gojo.
• Wangchuan said he was stronger than Satoru Gojo because Gojo was human and Wangchuan had already seen humanity's limits.
• Huojin's nuclear core flared as he prepared to fight, while Wangchuan called facing Huojin and Dagon a way to pass the time.
• Wangchuan faced Huojin and Dagon and said the fight could begin.

Gakuganji ordered Kyoto’s sorcerers to retreat from Wangchuan’s battlefield as Wangchuan fought Huojin and Dagon. Wangchuan effortlessly dodged their attacks, and Dagon transformed into his complete form and opened his Domain Expansion.

• A supervisor told Gakuganji that Wangchuan had returned and Utahime Iori had ordered everyone to evacuate the area.
• Gakuganji ordered all sorcerers and assistant supervisors to withdraw from sectors A, B, and C.
• Wangchuan dodged Dagon’s tentacles and Huojin’s rapid attacks while commenting on their techniques.
• Huojin unleashed a circular energy wave, and Wangchuan rose above it without taking his hands from his pockets.
• Dagon transformed into his complete form and activated Domain Expansion: Horizon of the Captivating Skandha.

Wangchuan faced Dagon’s domain attacks on a tropical beach, and his Gravitational Field stopped and destroyed every Shikigami Dagon sent against him. After Dagon exhausted nearly all his Cursed Energy on a gigantic sea monster, Wangchuan survived its impact unharmed, leaving Huojin to recognize how dangerous he was.

• Wangchuan entered Dagon’s domain and challenged him to attack.
• Dagon sent sharks, octopus tentacles, and deep-sea isopods against Wangchuan, but his Gravitational Field repelled or crushed them.
• Wangchuan explained that his passive Gravitational Field could stop Shikigami from materializing even when Dagon’s sure-hit targeted him.
• Huojin urged Dagon to wear Wangchuan down, but Wangchuan said his shield did not consume stamina and would remain as long as gravity existed.
• Dagon summoned a gigantic sea monster and slammed it into Wangchuan, but the monster exploded from within while Wangchuan remained unharmed.
• Wangchuan told Huojin that Dagon was nearing his limit, and Huojin admitted he was more dangerous than he had imagined.

Wangchuan overwhelmed Huojin and Dagon, repeatedly stopping their attempts to escape and leaving them badly beaten. As Huojin tried to flee again, Wangchuan prepared to use Shendu’s domain for the first time.

• Huojin dragged the injured Dagon away, but Wangchuan appeared ahead of him and blocked three escape attempts.
• Wangchuan told Huojin and Dagon to keep fighting, then slammed Dagon into the ground and sent Huojin crashing into a building.
• Wangchuan kicked Dagon into an abandoned building and flicked Huojin into a pit, then tossed Dagon back beside him.
• Huojin picked up Dagon and tried to flee again, but Wangchuan announced his Domain Expansion: Flame Demon Burning Heaven Palace.

Wangchuan trapped Huojin and Dagon in an Open Domain that continuously raised the temperature, threatening to burn everything inside to ash. Huojin sent Dagon to escape and launched a desperate Maximum Technique at Wangchuan.

• Wangchuan opened a five-hundred-meter domain that overwrote the real world and filled it with crimson-gold flames.
• Wangchuan explained that the domain’s temperature would rise without limit until everything inside burned to ash.
• Huojin judged that he could not win by deploying his own domain and removed the barrier protecting Dagon.
• Huojin ordered Dagon to escape and warn Jogo and the others that Wangchuan was extremely dangerous.
• Huojin engulfed himself in dark blue flames, charged Wangchuan, and unleashed his Maximum Technique, Critical Nova.

Wangchuan survived Huojin’s nuclear-like attack, killed the Special Grade Cursed Spirit, and saw his Shendu fusion progress rise to 37%. With Dagon escaped, Wangchuan left the ruined domain and headed toward the battle in Tokyo.

• Huojin unleashed Nova Rises, whose blast engulfed Wangchuan’s domain and sent a mushroom cloud over Kyoto.
• Utahime Iori and Aoi Todo, along with the withdrawn Jujutsu Sorcerers and Yoshinobu Gakuganji, watched the explosion and feared for Wangchuan.
• Huojin collapsed, believing Wangchuan had been disintegrated, but Wangchuan emerged alive with only a healing wound and burned hair.
• Wangchuan explained that he had lowered his Gravity Shield to test Huojin’s attack, then revealed that the Dragon Pillars held living dragons awakened by the heat.
• A fire dragon burned Huojin to ashes, and the system reported that Wangchuan’s Shendu fusion had advanced from 1% to 37%.
• Wangchuan noted that Dagon had escaped and left for Tokyo, wondering whether the others liked the gift he had sent.

Satoru Gojo overwhelmed Miguel in Shinjuku despite the Black Rope’s ability to disrupt Limitless. After learning that Wangchuan was heading to Tokyo, Gojo found a coffin emerging from the ground and recognized it as part of Impure World Reincarnation.

• Satoru Gojo explained that Miguel’s Black Rope had briefly pierced Limitless, but he blocked the strike with a thin shield of Cursed Energy.
• Satoru Gojo defeated Miguel with a close-range Wing Chun combination, and Miguel escaped with the Black Rope while Gojo took a phone call.
• Utahime Iori told Satoru Gojo that Wangchuan had returned, Kyoto was mostly handled, and Wangchuan was on his way to Tokyo.
• Satoru Gojo headed toward Jujutsu High, but a coffin rose from the ground in front of him, and he identified it as Impure World Reincarnation.

Yuta Okkotsu and Rika defeated Suguru Geto’s Maximum Technique, Uzumaki, and Geto fled gravely wounded. As Gojo found Geto, he was accompanied by Riko Amanai, leaving Geto stunned by her appearance.

• Suguru Geto, badly wounded by Yuta Okkotsu and Rika, unleashed Tamamo-no-Mae Incarnate’s Maximum Technique, Uzumaki.
• Yuta promised Rika that Wangchuan would find a way to bring her back to life, and they faced Geto’s attack together.
• Rika’s cursed-energy blast overpowered Uzumaki and swallowed Geto, who survived but fled the battle gravely wounded.
• Yuta chose not to pursue Geto after spotting Gojo and left the rest to his teacher.
• Geto dragged himself into an alley, where Gojo arrived with Riko Amanai, leaving Geto staring at her in shock.

Riko Amanai reunited with the dying Suguru Geto and urged him to abandon the path he had chosen, but he refused. Geto asked Satoru Gojo to care for Riko, and Gojo agreed before hinting that someone else had come to see Geto.

• Riko Amanai stepped forward and greeted Suguru Geto, who realized Wangchuan had brought her back to life.
• Riko told Geto she knew about his killings and betrayal but still remembered the person who had once protected her.
• Geto admitted his past actions and said he would not turn back, despite Riko pleading with him to choose another path.
• Geto asked Satoru Gojo to take care of Riko, and Gojo promised he would.
• Satoru Gojo told Geto that someone else might want to see him.

Suguru Geto reunited with Yu Haibara and learned that his followers had survived before choosing to die by Satoru Gojo’s hand. After his body was taken to Jujutsu High, Wangchuan told Gojo that resurrected Rika would remain the age she was when she died, leaving Gojo concerned about her age difference with Yuta.

• Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara arrived at the ruins, where Haibara told Suguru Geto that Wangchuan had brought him back to life.
• Satoru Gojo told Suguru Geto that his followers had escaped and none had died, and Geto thanked him.
• Suguru Geto agreed that Gojo should stop him from becoming a curse, and Gojo used cursed energy to kill him peacefully.
• Yu Haibara, Kento Nanami, and Riko Amanai carried Suguru Geto’s body away while Wangchuan offered to resurrect him and Gojo declined.
• Gojo asked Wangchuan about resurrecting Rika for Yuta, and Wangchuan explained that Rika would return at the age she had been when she died.