Chapter Summaries

Qingxiao attacked Naoya Zenin after Naoya insulted Shoko, and the principals penalized them both for the confrontation. After the schools announced the event’s two rounds, Qingxiao volunteered to defend first in the wheel-style battle.

• Naoya Zenin continued provoking the Tokyo team and insulted Shoko, so Qingxiao crossed the arena and threw him to the ground.
• Qingxiao warned Naoya Zenin to stop speaking filth, while Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto reacted to the attack.
• Masamichi Yaga deducted five points from Qingxiao and three from Naoya Zenin, and ordered both to submit written reflections.
• The principals explained the Exorcism Assessment and wheel-style challenge rules for the Goodwill Event.
• Qingxiao asked to defend first in the wheel battle, and Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo agreed to let him go before Satoru.

Qingxiao, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto quickly exorcised the venue’s cursed spirit, giving Tokyo Jujutsu High a decisive win in the first assessment. During the Round-Robin Battle, Qingxiao defeated Kyoto’s competitors with ease and faced Kamo Noritsugu, whom he promised to show something worth seeing.

• Qingxiao swiftly destroyed the Semi-Grade 1 cursed spirit before Satoru Gojo could attack, then tossed its remains to Suguru Geto.
• Tokyo Jujutsu High won the first Exorcism Assessment despite a five-point deduction for its earlier fight.
• Naoya Zenin watched Qingxiao from the Waiting Area, still resentful but wary after their earlier clash.
• Qingxiao defeated Kyoto Jujutsu High’s opening competitors in single moves during the Round-Robin Battle.
• Kamo Noritsugu challenged Qingxiao over his refusal to use cursed energy, and Qingxiao said he would show him something worth seeing.

Guyue Qingxiao fooled Kamo Noritsugu into expecting a mental technique, then knocked him unconscious with a fast knife-hand strike. His win left Naoya Zenin as Kyoto Jujutsu High’s final contestant.

• Guyue Qingxiao announced his supposed move, Lure the Soul into a Dream, and made Kamo Noritsugu believe a mental technique was taking effect.
• Kamo Noritsugu raised blood defenses and focused on detecting an illusion, but Qingxiao vanished from his sight as his attention faltered.
• Guyue Qingxiao struck Kamo Noritsugu on the back of the neck, knocking him unconscious before he could use a proper technique.
• Satoru Gojo laughed at Qingxiao’s trick, while Shoko Ieiri, Suguru Geto, Yoshinobu Gakuganji, and Masamichi Yaga reacted to the victory.
• The referee declared Guyue Qingxiao the winner, and Kyoto students carried Kamo Noritsugu away as Naoya Zenin remained their final contestant.

Qingxiao defeated Naoya Zenin after overpowering his Projection Sorcery, securing Tokyo Jujutsu High’s sweep of the matches. The Kyoto students carried Naoya away as the venue reacted to Qingxiao’s strength.

• Naoya Zenin challenged Qingxiao, convinced that he could prove his strength and defend Toji’s reputation.
• Naoya activated Projection Sorcery and touched Qingxiao, but the frame lock failed to disrupt Qingxiao’s movements.
• Qingxiao caught Naoya’s face, slammed him headfirst into the arena floor, and kicked him away.
• Naoya asked Qingxiao to make peace, but Qingxiao punched him unconscious.
• The referee announced that Tokyo Jujutsu High had won every match, and Kyoto students carried Naoya away.

After Qingxiao won the competition, he explored Kyoto with Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri. He bought Shoko a silver ring, which she wore on her right middle finger, while he failed to understand the gesture’s significance.

• Qingxiao celebrated his victory by offering to treat Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri to a day exploring Kyoto.
• Shoko paused at a jewelry shop window after noticing a silver ring similar to Qingxiao’s.
• Qingxiao left the others, bought the ring, and quietly gave it to Shoko.
• Shoko explained why the ring had caught her eye and slipped it onto the middle finger of her right hand.
• Qingxiao admired the ring without understanding its meaning, and he and Shoko rejoined Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto.

By the Kamo River, Qingxiao and Shoko discussed their plans after graduation, and Qingxiao realized he wanted to stay at Jujutsu High if she did. The four friends reunited over ice cream, leaving Qingxiao content with the ordinary future he had begun to imagine.

• Satoru Gojo pulled Suguru Geto away to buy matcha ice cream, leaving Qingxiao and Shoko alone by the river.
• Shoko said she planned to become the resident school doctor at Tokyo Jujutsu High after graduation.
• Qingxiao told Shoko that if she stayed at Jujutsu High, he probably would too, and promised to return from missions without pushing through injuries.
• Shoko moved closer to Qingxiao, accepted his jacket, and suggested they both stay at Jujutsu High after graduation.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto returned with ice cream, and the four stood together by the river as Qingxiao imagined his future with them.

Naoya Zenin apologized to Qingxiao with a hundred million yen, and Qingxiao accepted the card before sending him away. Later, Qingxiao and Suguru Geto were dispatched to investigate strange activity at Suburban County No. 3 Middle School while Satoru Gojo was away.

• Naoya Zenin entered Qingxiao’s room and offered him a black bank card containing a hundred million yen as an apology for offending him and Miss Ieiri.
• Qingxiao mocked Naoya Zenin’s sudden submissiveness, accepted the card, and dismissed him.
• Qingxiao and Suguru Geto spent their free time playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and discussed the increase in cursed spirit incidents and their difficulty gathering with Satoru Gojo.
• Masamichi Yaga called Qingxiao and Suguru Geto on an urgent mission after students at Suburban County No. 3 Middle School began jumping from buildings and two investigators went missing.
• Masamichi Yaga ordered Qingxiao and Suguru Geto to investigate the school’s unusually widespread cursed spirit activity and contain the situation.

Qingxiao and Suguru Geto investigated the disappearance of two Jujutsu High investigators at County Third Middle School, where the students’ lifeless demeanor and the principal’s indifference raised suspicions. As Suguru Geto questioned Principal Satō about the missing investigators and student deaths, three dull knocks sounded at the office door.

• Qingxiao and Suguru Geto drove to County Third Middle School after learning that two investigators had gone missing there.
• Qingxiao and Suguru Geto sensed no disturbance on campus while waiting outside, then entered with Principal Satō Kenzō.
• Qingxiao saw the pale, silent students and challenged Satō, who dismissed their condition as normal academic pressure.
• Suguru Geto asked Satō when the investigators had last been seen, and Satō said they had entered the school the previous afternoon and never returned.
• Qingxiao asked about seven students who had jumped to their deaths, and Satō blamed their supposed fragility before three knocks sounded at the office door.

Qingxiao and Suguru Geto confronted the Special Grade Cursed Spirit Standing Corpse at County Third Middle School while evacuating the students. The domain trapped them inside the classroom building, and Qingxiao prepared to widen the corridor by smashing a load-bearing wall as paper duplicates closed in.

• Qingxiao recognized the knocks as Cursed Energy attacks and ordered Principal Satō to evacuate the students, forcing him to make an announcement.
• Qingxiao opened the office door to face the empty corridor, while Satō escaped through the rear window before the evacuation was complete.
• Standing Corpse expanded its domain around the classroom building, filling it with paper duplicates and echoing sound waves as Suguru Geto confirmed the students had reached safety.
• The paper duplicates surged toward Qingxiao and Suguru Geto after another round of knocks, trapping them between both ends of the narrow corridor.
• Qingxiao said he would smash the corridor wider and drove his Cursed Energy-filled Xiqu into the load-bearing wall.

Qingxiao smashed through several floors of the building and fought the endlessly regenerating Zhushi Clones, while Suguru Geto helped him despite the debilitating noise. Qingxiao lured out the hidden Zhushi True Body, but it ambushed him and inflicted another serious wound.

• Qingxiao broke the building’s central support and smashed through floors to create a hollow arena.
• Qingxiao fought waves of Zhushi Clones, which quickly reformed after he destroyed them.
• Qingxiao decided to pulverize every paper figure rather than search for the true body, and a paper blade cut his flank.
• Suguru Geto fought alongside Qingxiao and recognized that Qingxiao was feigning exhaustion to draw out the Zhushi True Body.
• Suguru Geto left an opening, and the Zhushi True Body used it to ambush Qingxiao, cutting his flank and collarbone.

Qingxiao destroyed Standing Corpse’s first form, but the paper monster reassembled as a giant and launched a second battle. After more than a hundred exchanges, Qingxiao struck it with a second Black Flash, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Qingxiao grabbed Standing Corpse’s main body and destroyed it with a Black Flash, causing its copies to collapse.
• Paper ash and fragments gathered to form a four- to five-meter-tall giant, while Qingxiao noticed a figure outside the building.
• The giant attacked Qingxiao, and they traded blows through the collapsed building as Suguru Geto sent cursed spirits to harry its legs.
• After more than a hundred exchanges, the giant slowed and its paper armor and bones were badly damaged.
• Qingxiao launched himself at the off-balance giant and landed a second Black Flash.

Qingxiao fought the Core Entity’s swift, sound-based third phase, adapting to its vibrations and landing a heavy blow with help from Suguru Geto and the Mole Cursed Spirit. The Core Entity unleashed a devastating sonic shock wave, and Qingxiao braced himself and punched into its center.

• The Core Entity attacked Qingxiao at high speed with vibrating paper blades, but Qingxiao parried its strikes and dispersed much of the vibration with Imaginary Mass.
• Qingxiao endured the Core Entity’s focused sonic blast after protecting his skull with Cursed Energy.
• Suguru Geto identified the Core Entity’s real body while the Mole Cursed Spirit seized its legs, allowing Qingxiao to strike it into a wall.
• The Core Entity regenerated, then raced around the atrium to gather sonic energy as Qingxiao watched without moving.
• The Core Entity released a powerful shock wave that damaged the atrium, and Qingxiao reinforced his body and punched toward the blast’s center.

Qingxiao defeated the paper Cursed Spirit’s third phase and waited to see whether a fourth would appear, but the domain dissolved. After realizing the spirit had wanted to protect the students and go home, he gave its remains to Suguru Geto, who absorbed it.

• Qingxiao struck the core with Black Flash, destroying its Cursed Energy and leaving it unable to resist.
• Qingxiao sensed the area for more Cursed Energy, waited, and confirmed that no fourth phase appeared as the domain dissolved.
• The paper Cursed Spirit disintegrated, sobbing that it wanted to go home, and Qingxiao understood it had protected the students while pursuing the principal.
• Suguru Geto approached the crater, and Qingxiao told the dying spirit he would fulfill its wish before handing its remains to Geto.
• Suguru Geto turned the remains into a Cursed Spirit Orb and swallowed it, while Qingxiao teased him for being too frail.

After the domain battle, Qingxiao and Suguru Geto escaped the collapsing school building and found Principal Wang ordering the shaken students back to exams. Qingxiao seized the principal and dragged him away, while Suguru Geto remained troubled by the rule against sorcerers attacking ordinary people.

• Suguru Geto admitted that surviving to phase three and helping locate the enemy's true body had been the best he could manage, then asked Qingxiao what they should do as the building began collapsing.
• Qingxiao supported the weakened Suguru Geto as they fled down the crumbling stairs, and they escaped into the underground garage just before the building fell.
• Principal Wang called the collapse an emergency drill, ordered students back to studying and exams, and threatened to punish anyone who spoke about it.
• Qingxiao condemned Principal Wang for treating students as tools, while Suguru Geto wrestled with the rule forbidding sorcerers from attacking ordinary people.
• Qingxiao grabbed Principal Wang, carried him to a storage room, and slammed him onto the concrete floor as the principal protested and threatened to file a complaint.

Qingxiao killed Satō, the principal who had enabled the cursed spirit’s feeding, while Suguru Geto silently allowed it, leaving him shaken by his own complicity. As Qingxiao and Suguru Geto struggled over whether the killing was justified, a blade of cursed energy emerged from a slit in the air and targeted Suguru Geto’s neck.

• Qingxiao accused the principal of being a cursed spirit’s accomplice and struck Satō, killing him as Suguru Geto watched without intervening.
• Suguru Geto realized he had tacitly approved of Qingxiao’s vigilante killing and felt estranged from himself.
• In the office, Suguru Geto questioned whether Qingxiao could dismiss the killing of an ordinary person, and Qingxiao admitted he might be wrong but had acted on what his heart told him.
• Suguru Geto struggled to decide whether Qingxiao had done right or wrong while rubbing the Cursed Spirit Orb bottle.
• A slit opened in the office shadows, and a black, curse-laden blade emerged, aimed at Suguru Geto’s neck.

A masked Curse User ambushed Qingxiao and Suguru Geto, severed Geto’s arm, and escaped its removal through an ancient spatial tool before Qingxiao accidentally killed him with Black Flash. Back at Jujutsu High, Shoko restored Geto’s arm, while the group was left wondering who had targeted him and why.

• A masked Curse User struck Suguru Geto from the shadows and severed his left arm, then sent it away in a Cave-Heaven Pouch.
• Qingxiao attacked the Curse User, but accidentally triggered Black Flash and killed him before he could be questioned.
• Suguru Geto recovered the empty Cave-Heaven Pouch, and he and Qingxiao set aside their earlier disagreement to return to Jujutsu High.
• Shoko used Reverse Cursed Technique to restore Suguru Geto’s arm as Qingxiao explained the ambush and the stolen limb.
• Suguru Geto told Shoko that the attackers had used a rare paired Cave-Heaven Pouch and had specifically targeted his arm.

After the school disciplined Suguru Geto and Qingxiao over the mission, Qingxiao’s investigation into the Cursed Tool traces stalled. He shared breakfast with Shoko after her night shift, and they left one another with plans to meet again.

• Suguru Geto took responsibility for the mission report, while Shoko said the higher-ups already knew what had happened.
• The school gave Suguru Geto a demerit and Qingxiao a warning, and Qingxiao spent half a month following leads that repeatedly vanished.
• Qingxiao walked Shoko back after her night shift, and she invited him to her dorm to try her pasta.
• Shoko caught Qingxiao smiling to himself on the stairs, and he hastily switched to a serious expression.
• Qingxiao praised Shoko’s pasta, urged her to ask for more medical staff, and offered to walk her back after future night shifts.
• Qingxiao offered to cook for Shoko next time she had a day off, and she said she would look forward to it.

Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo planned a reservoir outing while Geto stayed buried in missions and Shoko had to work, though she promised to go out with Qingxiao alone another time. Gojo drove them toward the reservoir, but his car nearly plunged into a ditch, leaving it wedged at the roadside with a hole in its floor and a flat tire.

• Satoru Gojo asked Qingxiao about Geto's withdrawal, and Qingxiao recounted the events that had troubled him after the Third Middle School mission.
• Satoru Gojo invited Qingxiao on an easy reservoir mission and suggested bringing Geto, but Geto was too busy taking missions to join them.
• Qingxiao called Shoko Ieiri, who declined because accident victims needed her attention but said she would go out with him alone next time.
• Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo set off in a Jujutsu High vehicle, and Qingxiao fell asleep after Gojo drove steadily along the mountain road.
• The car suddenly skidded toward a ditch, and Satoru Gojo used Blue while Qingxiao braced the vehicle with his foot; they stopped it at the road's edge, damaging the floor and flattening a tire.

Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo reached the reservoir after their car was wrecked and finished the mission before turning to fishing. They fought a giant crocodile cursed spirit called the Henggong Fish, which appeared defeated in the shallows but suddenly shuddered at the end.

• Qingxiao dragged Satoru Gojo from the wrecked SUV and scolded him for crashing it.
• After gathering their equipment, Qingxiao carried the SUV to the reservoir while Satoru Gojo checked that no one was nearby.
• Satoru Gojo exorcised the weak cursed spirits in the inlet, and Qingxiao caught a smaller crocodile cursed spirit to bring back to Geto.
• The Henggong Fish attacked their boat, and Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo fled to shore and coordinated their counterattack.
• Qingxiao hooked the Henggong Fish’s weak spot and hauled it toward shore while Satoru Gojo struck it with Red.
• The Henggong Fish appeared to die in the shallows, but it suddenly shuddered.

Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo completed their reservoir mission, defeating a Special Grade Henggong Fish without damaging the dam. They returned to Jujutsu High with an unconscious Grade 2 crocodile and encountered Suguru Geto at dusk.

• The Henggong Fish powered up and attacked, but Qingxiao stopped Satoru Gojo from using Hollow Purple near the dam.
• The Henggong Fish vanished into murky water, then bit Qingxiao's arm and tried to crush him with its death roll.
• Qingxiao twisted with the Henggong Fish's roll, forced its teeth out of alignment, and struck its eye with Xiqu.
• Qingxiao landed a Black Flash that shredded the Henggong Fish's head and killed it.
• Qingxiao and Satoru Gojo brought the dead Special Grade and unconscious Grade 2 crocodile back to Jujutsu High.
• Suguru Geto met them at the school gates, and Satoru Gojo joked with him as the three walked together.