Chapter Summaries

Hanyu Suzu used the Tōsō Talisman to trap Choso in an illusion of his brothers’ deaths, but Choso broke free in a surge of rage. He confronted Hanyu Suzu, declaring that he had given him reason to kill him.

• Hanyu Suzu placed the Tōsō Talisman on Choso and dragged him into a deep illusion.
• Choso witnessed the events at Yasohachi Bridge, where Eso and Kechizu died fighting Yuji Itadori and Nobara Kugisaki.
• Hanyu Suzu listened to Choso’s anguish and thought about taking his points to impress Yuki Tsukumo.
• Choso shattered the illusion with a burst of cursed energy, and the backlash left Hanyu Suzu unable to move.
• Choso advanced on Hanyu Suzu with Flowing Red Scale active and threatened to kill him for mocking his brothers.

Hanyu Suzu’s Kyoka Suigetsu failed against Choso, who nearly killed him before stopping after hearing that Suzu knew Yuki Tsukumo. Suzu confessed his feelings to Tsukumo after waking, but she teased him and made clear she preferred Choso’s type; she and Choso then left for Jujutsu High, where an urgent matter awaited.

• Hanyu Suzu’s cursed technique failed, and Choso overpowered him, wounded his arm, and pinned him by the throat.
• Hanyu Suzu offered his Special Grade Cursed Tool and asked Choso to tell Yuki Tsukumo that he loved her, so Choso knocked him unconscious and called her over.
• Tsukumo recognized Hanyu Suzu as the Hanyu Family’s young master, and he confessed his feelings when he woke, believing he had died.
• Tsukumo asked Suzu to transfer his twenty-one points, then teased Choso by saying she preferred his type, leaving both men flustered.
• Guyue Qingxiao called with urgent news, so Tsukumo and Choso headed back to Jujutsu High; Choso resolved to protect Itadori and his younger brothers.

Qingxiao convened the sorcerers to plan for Sukuna’s challenge in Shinjuku one month later, assigning himself and Satoru Gojo to the direct fight. Ryu Ishigori secured permission to face Sukuna first, while Qingxiao ordered Hajime Kashimo to pursue Kenjaku and addressed him by his full name.

• Qingxiao reviewed the sorcerers’ strength rankings and announced that Sukuna had challenged them to fight in Shinjuku one month later.
• Kento Nanami suspected Sukuna’s challenge concealed a trap, while Yuji Itadori reacted painfully to Sukuna’s name and Satoru Gojo remained unusually quiet.
• Qingxiao assigned himself and Satoru Gojo to confront Sukuna directly, and no one objected.
• Ryu Ishigori asked to fight Sukuna first, and Qingxiao agreed so he could test for a trap.
• Hajime Kashimo volunteered to fight Sukuna, but Qingxiao assigned him to pursue Kenjaku instead.
• Hajime Kashimo objected that he had spent four hundred years seeking a battle with the strongest sorcerer, and Qingxiao addressed him as Hajime Kashimo.

Qingxiao persuaded Hajime Kashimo to stay alive and avoid using Mythical Beast Amber, then the sorcerers planned how to divide their forces against Kenjaku and Sukuna. The chapter ended with Yuji Itadori being told the teachers would keep the students off the battlefield.

• Qingxiao asked Hajime Kashimo not to use Mythical Beast Amber and to stay alive, and Kashimo agreed to help deal with Kenjaku.
• Satoru Gojo explained that Kenjaku occupied Nagayumi Jin's body and could copy cursed techniques by eating body parts, prompting Aoi Todo to worry that Kenjaku might use his lost hand to copy Boogie Woogie.
• Satoru Gojo assigned Suguru Geto, Yuki, Yuta Okkotsu, and Hajime Kashimo to handle Kenjaku, with orders to join the Shinjuku battlefield if Kenjaku was absent.
• Suguru Geto assigned Hana Kurusu and Kinji Hakari to support the flanks, while Takako Uro and the remaining Grade 1 Sorcerers guarded the Tombs of the Star Corridor.
• Mei Mei offered to use Black Bird Manipulation to broadcast updates between battlefields, and Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo told Yuji Itadori that the teachers would keep the students off the battlefield.

Qingxiao resolved to shoulder the danger of the coming battle and protect his friends while killing Sukuna and Kenjaku. After the meeting, he left with Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, and the three planned their training and a visit to a temple.

• Qingxiao reflected on his eagerness to fight Sukuna and decided that saving Megumi Fushiguro would not prevent him from making necessary choices in battle.
• Qingxiao vowed to protect everyone and take on Sukuna and Kenjaku himself, accepting responsibility for the bonds he had chosen.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto joined Qingxiao as he packed away the Shinjuku Map and left the conference room.
• Suguru Geto said he planned to clear out Cursed Spirits, while Satoru Gojo teased him about wanting Cursed Spirit Orbs.
• Qingxiao said he would train with Shoko and try the method Satoru Gojo had described for reversing Cursed Technique Burnout.
• Satoru Gojo proposed visiting Heian Ancient Temple for good fortune, and Qingxiao and Suguru Geto agreed.

Qingxiao, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko visited a temple and drew fortunes, with Qingxiao interpreting Megumi Fushiguro’s misfortune as a “mere trifle.” They left together amid their familiar banter, while Qingxiao kept Megumi’s fortune close to his heart.

• Qingxiao took the driver’s seat from Satoru Gojo, and Shoko joined him in the front while Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto sat in back.
• At the temple, Satoru Gojo drew “Free as the clouds and cranes,” Suguru Geto drew “different paths, the same destination,” Shoko drew “No effort goes unrewarded,” and Qingxiao drew “no rebuilding without breaking.”
• Qingxiao drew a fortune for Megumi Fushiguro and pulled the cylinder’s lone misfortune stick, leaving the group and the monk stunned.
• Qingxiao jokingly reinterpreted “misfortune” as “mere,” explained that Megumi had always been a “mere trifle,” and tucked the stick into his coat.
• The four descended the mountain together, and Shoko quietly told Qingxiao not to worry as he touched the fortune in his pocket.

Qingxiao tested a technique that slowed his perception of the world and discovered he could sustain it for two minutes, though it strained his nerves. After recovering, he tried Satoru Gojo's circuit-blasting method but decided it was too dangerous and unnecessary for him.

• Shoko warned Qingxiao that his brain could tolerate the technique for only one minute before risking irreversible nerve damage.
• Qingxiao used Cursed Energy to slow his perception of the world and found that his thoughts remained clear while his movements slowed.
• Qingxiao continued the technique for two minutes, felt a sharp nerve pain, and withdrew his energy, then realized the effect gave him far more time to react in battle.
• Shoko checked Qingxiao after he became dizzy and reproached him for exceeding the limit.
• After resting, Qingxiao tried Satoru Gojo's circuit-blasting method once and stopped because it was too risky and offered him little benefit.
• Qingxiao decided to practice moving in slowed time.

As December 24 approached, Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo prepared to face Sukuna in Shinjuku while their allies offered encouragement and returned to their assigned positions. After Shoko embraced Qingxiao, the two strongest sorcerers set out together, and the decisive battle began.

• The sorcerers gathered at Jujutsu High as Suguru Geto arrived and Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo prepared to leave for Shinjuku.
• Yuji Itadori told Satoru Gojo that his cursed technique was in the way, and Satoru dispelled Limitless before accepting the crowd’s encouragement.
• Hajime Kashimo urged Qingxiao to prove himself, and Qingxiao teased him about blowing himself up.
• Suguru Geto promised that the others would handle Kenjaku, while Shoko warned Qingxiao not to push himself and embraced him before departing.
• Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo exchanged a final nod with their allies, then walked together toward Shinjuku as Sukuna’s cursed energy darkened the skyline.

Qingxiao and Jujutsu High’s strongest fighters entered the barrier surrounding Tokyo to confront Sukuna and Kenjaku. After Qingxiao used Hakari’s jackpot to regain his fighting touch, Sukuna unleashed a devastating wave of cursed energy as the battle began.

• Qingxiao ordered Kinji Hakari to use Idle Death Gamble on him, hit the jackpot, and then struck Hakari with a Black Flash that Hakari quickly healed from.
• Qingxiao entered the barrier with Satoru Gojo, Yuta Okkotsu, Suguru Geto, Hajime Kashimo, Ryu Ishigori, Kinji Hakari, Hana Kurusu, and the others.
• Qingxiao recognized Sukuna wearing Megumi Fushiguro’s face and identified Kenjaku as being in his real body.
• The fighters split into groups, with Yuta Okkotsu, Hajime Kashimo, Suguru Geto, and Yuki Tsukumo facing Kenjaku while Kinji Hakari and Hana Kurusu prepared to support from a nearby building.
• Ryu Ishigori challenged Sukuna, while Satoru Gojo and Qingxiao taunted him from the front line.
• Sukuna dismissed the fighters as small fry and unleashed a crushing wave of cursed energy that cracked the road and shattered nearby windows.

Sukuna confronted Qingxiao, Satoru Gojo, and the others, while Ryu Ishigori challenged him with his Cursed Energy Discharge. Sukuna overwhelmed Ryu’s beam and left him gravely wounded in the rubble.

• Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo joined forces to hold back Sukuna’s cursed energy, and Satoru warned Qingxiao not to kill Megumi.
• Ryu Ishigori fired a powerful slushy beam at Sukuna, who praised his cursed energy output before their attacks canceled each other out.
• Sukuna appeared in midair before Ryu Ishigori, who stepped forward and charged his beam for another attack.
• Sukuna chanted and sent three slashes through Ryu Ishigori’s beam, striking his chest and throwing him into the rubble.

Mei Mei reassured Takako Uro that Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo had not yet shown their full strength as Gojo prepared and fired a two-hundred-percent Hollow Purple at Sukuna. After Sukuna survived and regenerated, Qingxiao and Gojo faced him together, beginning their decisive battle.

• Mei Mei told Takako Uro that Qingxiao had held back in Sendai and pointed out that Satoru Gojo had disappeared from the battlefield.
• Qingxiao moved to rescue the badly wounded Ryu Ishigori while Satoru Gojo completed the Amplification Ritual with Utahime Iori and Yoshinobu Gakuganji seven kilometers away.
• Satoru Gojo unleashed a two-hundred-percent Hollow Purple that devastated several square kilometers and tore away Sukuna's left arm and shoulder.
• Qingxiao handed Ryu Ishigori to Kinji Hakari and ordered him to evacuate the others before joining Satoru Gojo.
• Sukuna regenerated his arm, and Satoru Gojo and Qingxiao challenged him as the Eight-Headed Dharma Wheel began adapting to Limitless.
• Sukuna and the two fighters released their Cursed Energy, officially beginning the decisive battle.

Hajime Kashimo, Suguru Geto, Yuta Okkotsu, and Yuki Tsukumo attacked Kenjaku together in Shinjuku, but his copied Boogie Woogie turned their assault into a near-friendly-fire disaster. As the fight continued, Geto seized Kenjaku’s Grade 1 Cursed Spirits, and Kenjaku used Gravity to pin down the group and stall their advance.

• Suguru Geto, Yuta Okkotsu, Yuki Tsukumo, and Hajime Kashimo confronted Kenjaku and launched a coordinated attack to get past him and support Satoru Gojo and Qingxiao.
• Kenjaku used Boogie Woogie to swap places with Hajime Kashimo, sending the team’s attacks past Kashimo and into the wall.
• Yuki Tsukumo warned the others that Kenjaku could use clapping to switch positions, but Hajime Kashimo kept pressing forward.
• Kenjaku unleashed a swarm of Cursed Spirits, and Suguru Geto used Subjugating Tamed Cursed Spirit to take control of them.
• Suguru Geto realized Kenjaku’s swarm contained only Grade 1 Cursed Spirits, then Kenjaku used Gravity to slow Kashimo and halt the Cursed Spirits’ advance.

Yuki Tsukumo, Hajime Kashimo, Yuta Okkotsu, and Suguru Geto pressured Kenjaku until he activated his domain, Womb Profusion. The group had anticipated the move and waited for the domain to end, when Kenjaku’s techniques would burn out and their numbers would give them the advantage.

• Rika charged through Kenjaku’s gravity field, and he used Boogie Woogie to swap Hajime Kashimo into her path and evade her attack.
• Yuki Tsukumo struck Kenjaku with Star Rage, destroying his left arm, while Kashimo and Yuta Okkotsu rushed in to attack him.
• Kenjaku swapped himself into the crowd of cursed spirits, but Suguru Geto ordered four special grade spirits to attack and Rainbow Dragon to block his escape.
• Kenjaku summoned shikigami, then expanded his domain, Womb Profusion, suppressing the four special grade cursed spirits and breaking their encirclement.
• Suguru Geto and the others revealed they had expected Kenjaku to use his domain and planned to exploit his technique burnout once it ended.

Suguru Geto, Yuta Okkotsu, and Yuki Tsukumo expanded their domains together to destroy Kenjaku’s Womb Profusion, while Hajime Kashimo protected himself with Hollow Wicker Basket. After all four domains shattered and cursed techniques burned out, Kashimo charged at Kenjaku.

• Suguru Geto expanded Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, and Yuta Okkotsu drew power from Rika to expand Authentic Mutual Love.
• Yuki Tsukumo expanded Myriad-Weight Star Sea as Hajime Kashimo raised Hollow Wicker Basket around himself.
• Geto, Yuta, and Yuki pressed their domains into Womb Profusion from three directions and shattered it in a four-domain collision.
• The backlash shattered every domain and caused cursed technique burnout for the fighters.
• Hajime Kashimo dropped his barrier and charged at Kenjaku, eager to fight while Kenjaku’s cursed technique was burned out.

Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo attacked Sukuna in Shibuya, with Qingxiao overwhelming him in close combat through repeated Black Flashes. As Satoru Gojo unleashed Hollow Technique: Purple, Sukuna was left facing the incoming attack from behind a shattered wall.

• Satoru Gojo used Blue to push Sukuna toward the ruins while Qingxiao rushed in and struck Sukuna’s chest with Black Flash.
• Sukuna healed his broken ribs and chest with Reverse Cursed Technique, but Qingxiao continued attacking and wounded him despite his Cleave.
• Qingxiao’s Black Flashes grew stronger as Mahoraga’s adaptation helped Sukuna endure the blows, leaving Sukuna on the defensive.
• Qingxiao rebounded from a broken wall and hit Sukuna with a Black Flash heel kick that sent him crashing into another wall and twisted his arms.
• Satoru Gojo formed Hollow Technique: Purple, and Sukuna saw the destructive attack approach through the dust and smoke.

Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo combined their attacks to badly wound Sukuna, while Kinji Hakari and Hana Kurusu intercepted Uraume before she could join the fight. Jujutsu High watched the battle in awe as Shoko saw a fierce, unfamiliar side of Qingxiao.

• Sukuna tried to fend off Satoru Gojo's Hollow Technique: Purple with Dismantle, but its residual force smashed him into a ruined building and left him gravely injured.
• Qingxiao shook blood from his hand and challenged Sukuna to keep entertaining him.
• Uraume moved to help Sukuna, but Kinji Hakari and Hana Kurusu blocked her and began fighting her in the ruins.
• Jujutsu High's operations room watched Qingxiao chain Black Flashes and Satoru Gojo unleash Purple, leaving the onlookers stunned by the battle's power.
• Shoko watched Qingxiao fight through his injuries and reflected that she could only observe him from a distance.

Sukuna unleashed Malevolent Shrine to stop Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo, destroying Gojo’s Hollow Purple and forcing both sorcerers to counter with their domains. After the domains collapsed, Gojo restored his cursed technique, while Sukuna concealed that he had already recovered from his domain burnout.

• Qingxiao pressed his attack on Sukuna despite Sukuna warning that Megumi Fushiguro would die if he did.
• Satoru Gojo fired a second Hollow Technique, Purple, down the street, but Sukuna opened Malevolent Shrine and sliced it apart.
• Qingxiao retreated from the shrine’s range while he and Gojo planned how to survive Sukuna’s open domain.
• Satoru Gojo expanded Unlimited Void, and the two domains damaged each other before collapsing simultaneously.
• Satoru Gojo destroyed and healed part of his brain to restore his cursed technique, while Sukuna hid that he had already recovered from his burnout.

Sukuna revealed his true form and used Cursed Speech, an instantaneous domain, and the Prison Realm to seal Satoru Gojo. Trapped inside the cube, Gojo accepted his defeat but told Sukuna that Qingxiao was stronger than him.

• Sukuna shed his battered appearance and transformed into his four-armed, four-eyed true form.
• Sukuna immobilized Satoru Gojo with Cursed Speech and summoned cursed spirits and shikigami.
• Sukuna expanded an instantaneous domain, overwhelming Gojo with information long enough for the Prison Realm to seal him.
• Satoru Gojo spoke to Sukuna from inside the Prison Realm and asked to show off a little longer.
• Satoru Gojo told Sukuna that Qingxiao was stronger than him as Qingxiao fought through the remaining cursed spirits.

Qingxiao failed to stop Sukuna from sealing Satoru Gojo in the Prison Realm and blamed himself for the outcome. As he prepared to face Sukuna alone, the watching Sorcerers tried to find hope in his still-unused domain, while Shoko recognized his helplessness.

• Qingxiao fought through Sukuna's Shikigami and Special Grade Cursed Spirits, but saw Sukuna seal Gojo in the Prison Realm and swallow the cube.
• Sukuna taunted Qingxiao to kill him if he wanted to save Gojo, and Qingxiao destroyed the remaining Cursed Spirits.
• Qingxiao blamed his own arrogance and selfishness for Gojo's sacrifice, then vowed to end the fight himself.
• Atsuya Kusakabe and other Sorcerers despaired at Gojo's sealing, but Naoya Zenin insisted Qingxiao could defeat Sukuna alone.
• Kento Nanami reminded the gathered Sorcerers that Qingxiao had not yet used his domain, while Shoko silently watched and worried over him.

Qingxiao relentlessly battered Sukuna with Black Flash, breaking through his layered defenses and damaging his soul. Sukuna partially adapted and used Cursed Speech to restrain Qingxiao, who retreated several dozen feet after taunting him.

• Qingxiao struck Sukuna in the abdomen with Black Flash, shattering his Blood Armor and reinforcement while damaging his soul and disrupting his Cursed Energy.
• Qingxiao broke Sukuna’s forearm with a second punch, then healed a deep Cleave wound to his neck and struck Sukuna’s face with a third Black Flash.
• Sukuna used Cursed Speech to weaken Qingxiao, but Qingxiao’s fourth punch broke Sukuna’s chest and ribs and sent him crashing into a wall.
• Sukuna tried to heal his injuries as Mahoraga’s wheel completed a turn and partially adapted to Black Flash.
• Sukuna used Cursed Speech to crush Qingxiao’s tendons and bones and destroy his spirit and soul, while Qingxiao taunted him and retreated several dozen feet.